What Are You Reading Now?

[vbraun]

I to am reading:
The Elegant Universe
by Brian Greene

 

[WickedSmurf]

Röde Orm (Red Snake) - by some Swedish writer whose name I cannot remember. It's about a viking's adventures at the end of 900 AD.

 

[SideshowBob]

I just finnished Conrad's "Hart of Darkness". I'm feeling a bit tired of "intellectual reading" so I think I'll hopp over to Tarzan or something before I'll read something for my studies again. And no offence to Borroughs. I'm sure you can read Tarzan intellectually, but I'm at least not going to

 

[rilnator]

Cold Mountain. Saw the Movie and hoped the book would be better (even if it didn't have pictures of Ms Zellwegger and Ms Portman in it).

 

[bobgote]

Originally posted by ComradeDavo
At work (and at home when not reading any other books) I am working my way through the Tom Clancy books, currently on Rainbow Six.

I'd suggest you stop at the end of that.
you've already gone too far, clancy hasn't made a decent book in some time. maybe cos he's churning them out like a machine.

@Amenhotep7: but red october was very good, i suggest you read it.

 

[SSG Paul]

The Israel Wars by Chaim Herzog. (or maybe it's The Middle East Wars)

Reading the posts on this site got me interested in this subject, so I got a book about it.

 

[Ozz]

kipling's three soldiers

 

[IglooDame]

Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson and The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody by Will Cuppy (pub around 1960). I've read the latter several times, it gets better every time. He describes some of the famous people in history (a couple of which show up as leaderheads in Civ3) giving a more balanced take on them rather than history textbooks' focus on how wonderful they are.

 

[Suppersalmon]

Tes of the Durberviles - Thomas Hardy
War of the worlds - H.G.Wells
Dude weres my country Micheal Moore

 

[newfangle]

The Psychology of Romantic Love- Nathaniel Brandon.

edit: I'm glad to see so many people reading the Elegant Universe. Theoretical physics is tha shnit.

 

[SanPellegrino]

just read first part of the "Fafhrd and Grey Mouser" series by Leiber. wonder why Tolkien and not Leiber is credited as "inventor" of Fantasy

 

[Raijer]

Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser - It's facinating, and a bit scary!

 

[cgannon64]

Catch-22 is a good book. I didn't get to finish it, but its good and cynical and funny.

 

[cgannon64]

Blah. Double post.

 

[Saga of Gemini]

Ive just finished " The universe in a nutshell" by Sthephen Hawkins, and "The First three minutes" by steven weinberg. And Im currently reading "100 years of solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, "Tales of love,of crazyness and death" by Oracio Quiroga and Yukio Mishimas "Golden Pabellion".

Oh and of course the last calendar of Harumi Nemoto, and Miwa Oshiro

 

[Global Nexus]

I'm currently halfway through the second book in Harry Turtledove's "Worldwar" series, "Tilting the Balance". Highly enjoyable. I can't wait to find the third book! ^^

 

[CIVPhilzilla]

The Da Vinchi Code.

 

[cgannon64]

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[cgannon64]

For Whom the Bell Tolls is a great book. Just finished it.

Very good ending, especially how he ties it in with the poem which inspired the title. He says his blowing the bridge is like a ripple, spreading outward and affecting everything else, but so is his death...

 

[Shadylookin]

i just started reading catch22, could someone give me a quick description on what it's about(the back of the book didn't give the little description thing