Which book are you reading now? Volume X

[Smellincoffee]

Just knocked off Packing for Mars: the Curious Science of Life in the Void and have started the third book in Will Durant's Story of Civilization series, Caesar and Christ.

 

[Azale]

Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche finally came in. I have GRAND EXPECTATIONS!

 

[Cutlass]

Obama's War

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Going for a 180 degree change of pace, I will begin Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights tomorrow.

Halfway through, this is the silliest book I've ever read. It requires more suspension of disbelief and has more plot holes than Star Wars Episode 1, and every character is a horrible person who deserves a good smack across the face at least twice a page. The racism against Heathcliff for being a gypsy hardly helps make the book palatable. That women have obsessed over this book for a hundred and fifty years is further testament to the complete and utter insanity of the female race.

That book sounds awesome Cheezy. Its a crying shame that the library here has astonishingly bad taste...

It was very cool. And with any luck, by this time next year I will be studying under its author!

 

[Moss]

Reading Candide by Voltaire

and then starting Songs of Blood and Sword by Fatima Bhutto

 

[Camikaze]

Read Angels & Demons again.

Hey, it's fun.

 

[Arakhor]

His books are page-turners, definitely, but I have more self-worth than to buy them at full price.

 

[Atlas14]

The Glass Castle

 

[Smellincoffee]

Just finished Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life and am probably going to move onto The Roman Way by Edith Hamilton.

 

[cardgame]

The Number Of The Beast by Heinlein

Completely nonsensical thus far

 

[Whiskey_Lord]

Silas Marner by George Eliot.

 

[Camikaze]

His books are page-turners, definitely, but I have more self-worth than to buy them at full price.

It was $1 at a church fete. Protestant church fete, I might add.

 

[Agent327]

The Number Of The Beast by Heinlein

Completely nonsensical thus far

Then it´s not one of his best. (Don´t know this one, I´m afraid; Heinlein wasn´t my fav SF writer.)

 

[Masada]

It was very cool. And with any luck, by this time next year I will be studying under its author!

You go Chi-Com-Cheezy!

 

[Japanrocks12]

I'll probably take a stab at The Autumn of the Patriarch again

 

[Glassfan]

The World Set Free by H. G. Wells. This is often praised as a seminal work, influencing much of 20th century SciFi. But it sure seems to me as if the future is dreadfully English.

 

[Masada]

For pleasure.

Tohunga: Hohepa Kereopa - Paul Moon
The Tohunga Journal: Hohepa Kereopa, Rua Kenana and Maungapohatu - Paul Moon
A Tohunga's Natural World: Plants, Gardening and Food - Paul Moon
Capturing Asia - Bob Wurth

Work.

Economics: E6 - McTaggart, Findlay & Parkin

Work of a kind.

European Economic History: The Economic Development of Western Civilisation - Shepard B. Clough
The Rise of the Western World: A New Economic History - Douglass North & Robert Thomas
Essays in Medieval Indian Economic History - Satish Chandra

 

[Dachs]

But it sure seems to me as if the future is dreadfully English.

The worst kind.

 

[FriendlyFire]

Obama Wars - Woodrow wilson
The Evolutionart Void - Peter F. Hamilton
Mechanicum - Graham McNeill
"Himmlers Black Order 1923 - 1945" by Robin Lumsden 2005

 

[Cutlass]

Obama Wars - Woodrow wilson