What Are You Reading Now?

[Benderino]

Originally posted by archer_007


I forgot how to spell consciousness. Those books seem silly to me.

So far this year, we've gotten to choose books and I've read:

1984
Typee
All Quiet on the Western Front

Neat stuff. I remember last year (when I took American Lit.) we read things like The Scarlet Letter, The Crucible, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, A Farewell to Arms, The Great Gatsby, The Catcher in the Rye, and a few others, but those were the highlights.

 

[Ville]

I'm reading Talvisota (Winter War)
It's like 105 days in Finnish front in WW2

 

[cgannon64]

I had to read That was Then This is Now for school. It was OK, it felt a little childish for me.

I've read the Great Gatsby. Good book. I liked it.

I see someone else (as usual) is reading Atlas Shrugged. I finished that not too long ago. It was OK, but it doesn't feel real to me. None of the characters are human.

Oh, and the more I read For Whom the Bell Tolls the more I liked it. The interactions between Pablo and teh rest and the stories that Pilar tells are great...

 

[ShiplordAtvar]

Originally posted by Volum
Something Tom Clancy wrote, cant remember the name thouhg.

Well, a plane crashed in the Congressbuilding i belive and made this guy president.
Yeah, not much to go on there. I could go into my room and get it, but thats so far.

Debt of Honor is the title, right?

 

[Singularity]

I've just finished reading book two in 'The hidden Empire' saga by Kevin Paul Anderson. It'll be my last though as his science fiction is much more fiction than science.

Still waiting impatiently for the next installment in G.R.R. Martin's 'Fire and Ice' saga. Brilliant fantasy for the more adult reader.

 

[Affirmative]

Books I am reading or finished in the last week.

Matarese Circle by Robert Ludlum
LOTR for the third time by Tolkein
Speaker for the Dead- Orson Scott Card
Edit: Sum of all Fears- Clancy
Netforce- Clancy

Books I hope to be reading.

Xenocide- Orson Scott Card
Blind Man's Bluff- can't remember

 

[CivCube]

Rabbit, Run by John Updike. I'm also finishing the fifth Harry Potter.

 

[Perfection]

Mike Shermer's "Why People Believe Wierd Things"

 

[FredLC]

Mein Kampf.

Trying to figure out the head of a true madman.

 

[Amenhotep7]

Tryin to look for a good book on Roman History (not too hard to find ) but otherwise, I'm considering picking up Tom Clancy's "The Hunt for Red October". Anybody read it? Do you recommend it? Saw it the other day, was able to read about 10 pages before I had to leave, and it seems real solid.

 

[Ohwell]

Originally posted by IceBlaZe
Just started "Catch 22". Everyone told me it is a must read before I enlist..

My last book was "The Stranger" by Albert Camus. I loved it.

I'll add that reading "The Stranger" was also part of a small essay (about 3 pg.) I wrote about Albert Camus and Existentialism, which made it all the more interesting.

Catch-22 is a pretty good book, I think you'll enjoy it.

Currently, I'm reading Clifford the Big Red Dog.

 

[luiz]

The Damned Kings, by Maurice Druon(I don't know if the translation is correct).
It's actually a series, and a damn good one. It's about the the french kings from Phillippe, The Fair untill the One Hundred Years War. The kings are called damned because of the curse that the Templar Great Master, Jacques de Molay, cast upon them while he was burning at the stake.
The amazing thing is that the curse apparently worked: He promissed thet King Phillippe, the Knight of Nogaret and Pope Klement would die in less then a year, what happenned, and said that their race would be damned for 13 generations, what also occured, in a way.
The books are incredibly accurate, even the important dialogues are real(as are ALL characters).

The books of the series are:

1- The Iron King
2-The Strangled Queen
3-The Venoms of the Crown
4-The Law of Men
5-The *Feminim of Wolfe* of France
6-The Lis and the Lion
7-A King Loses France

 

[gael]

Originally posted by FredLC
Mein Kampf.

Trying to figure out the head of a true madman.

Thats the next one i want to read.

 

[Pangur Bán]

I'm currently reading Mission to Asia, which features the travels of William of Rubruck, John Pian de Carpine, Benedict the Pole and the letters of men such as John of Monte Corvino and Andrew of Perugia.

I'm also reading The Cave Temples of Mogao, Norse Myths by Crossley-Holland, the Loeb Historia Augusta, Vol. III and Michael Grant's biography of Jesus.

My current novel is The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera!

 

[aaminion00]

"History of Germany" - Hermann Pinnow
"Inescapable Questions" - Alija Izetbegovic
"Julius Ceaser" - Shakespeare

I don't have much time to read. If I did, I'd like to read a history book on every nation in Europe. So far I'm done with 1 1/2 . If you Europeans have any suggestions, feel free to give them to me.

 

[Maj]

The Cold War: A Very Short Introduction
American Cold War Strategy: Interpreting NSC 68
For Better or For Worse: Canada and the United States To the 1990s
A Noble Cause? America and the Vietnam War

School related stuff. I supplement the rest of my reading time with magazine and newspaper articles/essays.

 

[Vancouver 2010]

Isaac Asimov's Foundation.

 

[Karl Lenin]

Plato's Theaetetus.

 

[The Person]

Originally posted by Vancouver2010
Isaac Asimov's Foundation.

You have a good one there. Have read all of them, even the ones in the Second Foundation trilogy. A pity I've read all of them now.

Now I'm working on Eon by Greg Bear (one of those who wrote the SFT).

 

[Pangur Bán]

Originally posted by aaminion00
"History of Germany" - Hermann Pinnow
"Inescapable Questions" - Alija Izetbegovic
"Julius Ceaser" - Shakespeare

I don't have much time to read. If I did, I'd like to read a history book on every nation in Europe. So far I'm done with 1 1/2 . If you Europeans have any suggestions, feel free to give them to me.

You should read - if you have time - Norman Davies's History of Europe. It's one of the few original general histories out there. Gives good coverage for the East, since that is Davies's field.

In the unlikely event you're interested in Scotland's history, the one I'd recommend is the new Short Oxford History of Scotland by Christopher Harvie. Harvie is Professor of British and Irish Studies at Tuebingin. It's short, and very much balanced to the modern period, where the guy's speciality is, but his coverage of medieval Scotland lacks the naivity possessed by other short general histories. It covers right up to the present, so you'll learn about politics too. If you want to be less scholarly, books by John Prebble are the funnest way to learn about Scottish history...but, of course, they only cover certain parts.