What book are you currently reading?

[Meteor Man]

And she dragged Rowling to court! Then she changed her name to N.K.! This keeps getting better and better.

EDIT: I must say that after reading the complete review, I feel strangely better. That review just made my day! I strongly recommend reading it (the review, not the book).

 

[ComradeDavo]

Just started 'Titanicus' by Dan Abnett.

 

[Jan H]

I just finished The solitude of the prime numbers. Beautiful but rather depressing book ...
Next on the list: Congo, a history by David Van Reybroeck, the book that during the past year has won almost every literary prize in Flanders or the Netherlands.

 

[Perfection]

The History of Christian Thought

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Isn't that Plotinus' book?

 

[Plotinus]

Goodness! That still seems to be my most well known one... although if I were writing it today I think it would be very different.

 

[Cutlass]

Is that the Justo L González version or the Jonathan Hill version?

 

[Left]

Discipline and Punish by Foucault

 

[Perfection]

Goodness! That still seems to be my most well known one... although if I were writing it today I think it would be very different.

How so?!

 

[Traitorfish]

Chomsky on Anarchism by Noam Chomsky

The Affinity Bridge by George Mann

The first is, as the name suggests, a collection of essays on Anachism and Anarcho-Syndicalism by Noam Chomsky. The second is a steampunk detective story. Something to even out the political heaviness, y'know?

 

[JRD]

The hydro boys by Emma Wood.

About scotlands hydro schemes. Reading it because i'm studying civil engineering, and also because my grandpa was a civil engineer involved in some of the later schemes.

 

[Cashie]

Antony & Cleopatra by Colleen McCullough
A Million Wild Acres by Eric Rolls
Y: The Last Man book 7 Paper Dolls by Brian K. Vaughan

I finished reading Looking for Jake by China Miéville last night
I'll probably begin The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami soon, too

 

[SuperJay]

Patrick O'Brian's Master and Commander, the first book in the Aubrey-Maturin series. Twenty incredible books, perhaps the best historical fiction ever written.

Within the first 10 pages, I was already laughing with pleasure. Starting this series again is like coming home to visit your oldest friends.

 

[W|M]

Harry Potter 4 and 7 (at home and at school respectively.)

 

[Meteor Man]

Patrick O'Brian's Master and Commander, the first book in the Aubrey-Maturin series. Twenty incredible books, perhaps the best historical fiction ever written.

Within the first 10 pages, I was already laughing with pleasure. Starting this series again is like coming home to visit your oldest friends.

Good books. I'll take another look at them.

I'm now reading A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage. Very interesting informative novel on the history of the world as told through the discovery and usage of various drinks: coffee, tea, beer, wine, spirits, and Coca-Cola.

 

[Cashie]

The last book I read was The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and awesome book and I highy recommend you guys give it a try.

That's a great book.Couldn't agree more.

 

[SuperJay]

Good books. I'll take another look at them.

Absolutely do so! They're incredibly immersive - richly detailed, great escapist fiction.

I was thinking of starting a separate A&E thread to discuss the whole series - I'd love to hear from others, especially those more versed in the history of the French Revolution, the Napoleonic War, and the War of 1812 - but I'd probably be the only person posting. For some reason, it seems these books remain relatively unknown, though I could be wrong.

 

[Supr49er]

The Malazan Book of the Fallen series by Steven Erikson
I'm just finishing book 3 of 10.

 

[Meteor Man]

Absolutely do so! They're incredibly immersive - richly detailed, great escapist fiction.

I was thinking of starting a separate A&E thread to discuss the whole series - I'd love to hear from others, especially those more versed in the history of the French Revolution, the Napoleonic War, and the War of 1812 - but I'd probably be the only person posting. For some reason, it seems these books remain relatively unknown, though I could be wrong.

I'd be there mostly for the history. Very interesting time period.

 

[Dachs]

I was thinking of starting a separate A&E thread to discuss the whole series - I'd love to hear from others, especially those more versed in the history of the French Revolution, the Napoleonic War, and the War of 1812 - but I'd probably be the only person posting. For some reason, it seems these books remain relatively unknown, though I could be wrong.

You can probably count on privatehudson to be well versed in the naval history - if he's around. I'm mostly a landlubber during that period and can't really discuss the books (heard about them, heard about the movie, never read 'em) :3