What book are you currently reading?

[Wolfbeckett]

Listening to The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins on audiobook right now. My afternoon work is so easy-yet-time-consuming that I can easily listen to books and follow them while still getting my work done fast. Yay for multitasking.

 

[resmoplus]

The Bible.

 

[holy king]

any good?

 

[Arakhor]

It's been redone so many times, quoted out of all proportion and is really starting to show its age, even with a radical new reprinting in 1611. I think you should read something more modern.

 

[GoodSarmatian]

Finished A Clash of Kings yesterday and now I'm ~2,9% (32 pages) into A Storm of Swords.
I doubt that I'll be able to read through 2000 pages until tomorrow...

 

[SuperJay]

I finished the book about beer and brewing (and whatever the hell else the author felt like talking about) - it was decent but only because I got it for free from Amazon. Also finished Fight Club in a couple of days, now I'm about done with Survivor, another book by Chuck Palahniuk. It's definitely different, but follows a lot of the same themes that Fight Club does.

After this, I think it'll be time for something a little less bleak and nihilistic. Maybe some Terry Pratchett?

 

[GoodSarmatian]

I'm a bit surprised that no one here has mentioned A Dance with Dragons yet. I'm halfway through my re-read of A Storm of Swords, and I think when I'm finished I'll buy Dance and alternate every chapter between it and A Feast for Crows until it catches up to the timeline. ThEn I'll quickly finish Feast and go back to Dance.

 

[Whiskey_Lord]

The Politics of Aesthetics - Marc Redfield.

 

[KaiserElectric]

Red Storm Rising -Tom Clancy

 

[Cutlass]

Last Call. by Daniel Okrent.

Wilderness at Dawn. by Ted Morgan.

 

[Kyriakos]

I bought two books. A collection of short stories by Hermann Hesse, and Lovecraft's "The silver Key" which up to now i hesitated to read because (i think) it was written in co-operation with Derleth. The book contains four other stories too though.

 

[Red Door]

Going After Cacciato - Tim O'Brien. About 100 pages in and really loving it so far.

 

[Yeekim]

I'm a bit surprised that no one here has mentioned A Dance with Dragons yet. I'm halfway through my re-read of A Storm of Swords, and I think when I'm finished I'll buy Dance and alternate every chapter between it and A Feast for Crows until it catches up to the timeline. ThEn I'll quickly finish Feast and go back to Dance.

Finished ADWD yesterday.
I suggest you don't alternate between AFFC and ADWD chapters the way you plan to.
They work decently the way they were published. It was done so for a reason.

 

[Dachs]

I'm violating a personal rule and reading Matt Stover's Heroes Die and Blade of Tyshalle on the grounds that I really wanted some metafictional fiction.

 

[sophie]

Ashamed as I am to admit it, I'm reading Bernard Cornwell's Azincourt

I generally tend to shy away from historical fiction, but damned if it doesn't make time move faster at work.

Also I needed something easy to take a break from Cien años de soledad and rerererererererereading Harry Potter simply didn't interest me at the time.

 

[Traitorfish]

Ashamed as I am to admit it, I'm reading Bernard Cornwell's Azincourt

Aw, I like Bernard Conrwell. He doesn't ask you to think very hard.

Anyhoo, just finished Hobsbawm's Age of Empire and started Insurgent Mexico by John Reed. That Pancho Villa is one interesting chap!

 

[sophie]

Aw, I like Bernard Conrwell. He doesn't ask you to think very hard.

Yeah, which is exactly why I'm reading him. Cien años is a very disheartening read as I spend 4 hours glued to the book, only to find I've managed to read about 40 pages, and I feel completely drained afterwards. Therefore I wanted something easy and breezy to pick up on to take a break and pass the time at work. I tried reading through Harry Potter, but I got bored, so I decided to try something I haven't read like 600 times.

I actually rather like Cornwell too. It's one of my guilty pleasures. His stories are simple, and there are some things he puts in there that really don't make any sense to me, but he tells decent stories. I rather liked his Arthur series, and his Anglo-saxon one is pretty damned fun too.

 

[Traitorfish]

I actually rather like Cornwell too. It's one of my guilty pleasures. His stories are simple, and there are some things he puts in there that really don't make any sense to me, but he tells decent stories. I rather liked his Arthur series, and his Anglo-saxon one is pretty damned fun too.

Yeah, he hits a good line between not asking you to turn your brain above a low hum, but at the same time not actually trying to shut it off for you, like a lot of other action-historical fiction writers. Good bus reading, as I like to think of it.

 

[SuperJay]

Hocus Pocus, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Just finished Slaughterhouse 5 before that.

Chuck Palahniuk's Survivor was good, but reading two of his books in a row was pretty bleak. Vonnegut always makes me laugh, though it's not exactly light humor.

 

[Thorvald of Lym]

Finally finished First Among Sequels, by Jasper Fforde. As ever, it's a literary tour de force with an eye toward the bibliophiles. Aside from the obvious issues (reality TV... but with books!), it also slides in some slick allusions to current crises; in that sense, Fforde's a gritter Pratchett. For some reason, the first edition Hodder print completely omitted the footnotes used for 'footnoterphone' conversation, but Fforde posted them on his website.

I was pleasantly surprised to discover that First Among Sequels wasn't the last of the series as I had been led to believe, but the first of a new four-part arc. For now, though, I'll turn to Shades of Grey.


In about 24 hours, I also read The Pirates! in an Adventure with Communists, by Gideon Defoe. It's not a long book, nor is it especially deep, but it is a barrel of fun. Very few comedies can keep me smiling the whole way through. My only regret is that this is the third book, and I do not have the second.