What book are you currently reading?

[Specialist290]

Just finished: Furies of Calderon, by Jim Butcher.

Now reading: Storm Front, by Jim Butcher; Ad Infinitum, by Nicholas Ostler.

I consider myself a bit of an avid speculative fiction fan, and I've heard good things about Butcher's books, so I decided to check out the first of each of his main series. So far I like what I've seen, and I'll definitely be trying to fill out my collection later.

As for the other: I just finished two years of studying Classical Latin, and I've always been something of a Romanophile (which also helps explain why I wanted to read Furies).

 

[Kyriakos]

I started reading "Aesthetic oddities", a collection of articles by Baudelaire regarding Poe, Flaubert, Hugo and others.

 

[Plotinus]

I am currently dividing my time between Excession by Iain M. Banks and All Things Considered by G.K. Chesterton. I'm wondering, once again, why I bother reading anything that isn't by G.K. Chesterton.

 

[SuperJay]

I'm re-reading James Clavell's Noble House.

Yes it's trashy and sensationalist but who cares? Once in a while my brain needs junk food.

 

[Kyriakos]

I found a copy of the Greek translation of Maupassant's "Old things". I do not have this particular story in my large Maupassant collection. I would have bought the very small book, which also contained something by Russel, but it cost 7 euro. 7 euro is not a good price for 20 pages...

However i found a bookstore that sells old books, which have been used. It would have been my paradise if it was not some scary vast basement with only one thin stairway as an exit. I did not feel comfortable walking past the ancient corridors of the basement.

 

[BuckeyeJim]

Absalom, Absalom! - Faulkner

 

[Grisu]

just started the third book of Robin Hobb's Soldier Son trilogy: "Renegade's Magic"

 

[holy king]

soft apocalypse

http://www.amazon.com/Soft-Apocalypse-Will-McIntosh/dp/159780276X

reasonably well written, interesting premise, characters you care about.
gruesome read at times, but finished it in two goes.

 

[Boundless]

Quite literally right now I'm reading - "Political Shakespeare: Essays in cultural materialism" which is fascinating, but not really a read I'd recommend.
My more lighthearted read at the moment is "Bright Shiny Morning" by James Frey.

 

[Communisto]

Helmet for My Pillow - Robert Leckie

 

[Kyriakos]

I am currently reading The Walker (not sure if that is the title of the English translation though) by Fernando Pessoa.

 

[_random_]

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. You can never go wrong with Mark Twain.

 

[sophie]

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. You can never go wrong with Mark Twain.

Dude, this book was amazing!

 

[GoodSarmatian]

Currently re-reading A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin.
Dammit, whenever Tyrion says something I hear Peter Dinklage's fake british accent in my head.

 

[SuperJay]

On a renewed Palahniuk kick now - re-reading Fight Club currently (it's been years, I'd forgotten how good he is) and I'm moving on to Lullaby or Choke next.

On the nonfic side, I just finished a book about beer and the brewing called Beer is Proof God Loves Us by a British professor / chemist / brewer. Made me really want to try a pint of mild in a traditional English pub.

 

[Smellincoffee]

Jared Diamond, The Third Chimpanzee.

 

[cardgame]

Just finished World War Z...

oh my god...

so awesome...

 

[Traitorfish]

Age of Capital by Eric Hobsbawm

 

[Glassfan]

Picked up The Warren Report at a local antique shop for $1.25. Can't wait to see how it turns out!

 

[Boundless]

I've just started 'Iris: A Memoir of Iris Murdoch' by her husband John Bayley. It's wonderful.