What book are you reading right now?

[ElstonGunn]

I'm reading The Shack. It's a novel about a guy who has a conversation with God after his young daughter gets abducted and murdered. It's got a lot of interesting ideas on several of the standard questions relating to God (and specifically, Christianity).

[Rudy]

"Bad things happen in the name of Religion, therefore Religion is Bad" "If you aren't an atheist, you are an ignorant pathetic loser who should bow before his awesome 'rationality' "

A better summary of his thesis is: "Bad things happen because of religion, therefore religion cannot be justified based on its positive effects." Not necessarily a valid thesis, but not the weak caricature you've presented either.

[Shoeless]

I'm reading The Shack. It's a novel about a guy who has a conversation with God after his young daughter gets abducted and murdered. It's got a lot of interesting ideas on several of the standard questions relating to God (and specifically, Christianity).

I googled what the book is about, and I have to say, it has captured my interest. I will try to look for it at my local bookstore.

Back to the topic. The book I am currently reading is 'The Reason Driven Life' by Robert Price, a former pastor who's now a humanist. This book is a criticism to Rick Warren's bestselling 'The Purpose Driven Life', and I have to say, some of the points raised are quite valid.

[Synapse]

"Cat's Cradle", by Vonnegut. I like his writing style and the humor he possesses, so I also got "Slaughter-House Five" and started reading that as well. :laugh:

[Squirelznflight]

"In Shade and Shadow" by Barb & J.C. Hendee. It's more of the Noble Dead saga that I'm currently obsessed with.

[Cocoa]

The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850

by Brian Fagan :toff:

[JohnDoe]

Its amazing how old that book is but how much can be learned from it.

I love this book (The art of war)

[jikin]

Dragonflight - Anne McCaffrey

[Arcani]

"Confessor" by Terry Goodkind
Since I'm tearing through that one at a breakneck pace, I will be following it shortly with "The Ancient" by R.A. Salvatore

[Cthulhu]

"Choke" by Chuck Palahniuk. Hilarious.

"On Shakespeare and Modern Culture" by Marjorie Garber is on deck.

[Wapiti]

Don't Care (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

[jazziejazzay]

The Bible.

[Littlelambofgod]

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, the foundational book for Blade Runner. The book is better than the movie. Haahaa. (I like the movie very much too, though).

[Cocoa]

A Year in the South 1865: The True Story of Four Ordinary People Who Lived Through the Most Tumultuous Twelve Months in American History

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By Stephen V. Ash

LOL, that is the entire title!

[Prunesquallor]

The Psychiatrist and Other Stories -- Machado de Assis

Really very good.

[idem]

I just finished Speaker for the Dead, by Orson Scott Card.

[Matty37]

What Color is your Parachute, 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, Why I am not a Christian, and my old standby Jefferson Bible.

[Flamethrower]

I am reading:
Why People Believe Strange Things by Michael Shermer
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
PHP book
The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene

[Bobert]

The Complete Peanuts boxed set/s

[Cyr]

Au secours pardon by Frédéric Beigbeder. That's the follow-up to the excellent 99 Francs. I hate it. Hoooooowww can the author ruin such a great book with such a shitty follow-up? HooooTo view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. :irked:

If you do speak French, 99 Francs is a great book! :thumbsup:

[Maayan]

Hyperspace by Michio Kaku.

[Cocoa]

Alice in Wonderland
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[Homini Lupus]

Bury my heart at Wounded Knee, by Dee Brown.

[theunstrungharp]

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[Storm]

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Draw conclusions about me as you will.

[rflki3]

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

[Flamethrower]

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

I have a copy of that in German to read sometime.

[jikin]

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Great choice!

Currently I'm on Dragonquest and will be moving on to White Dragon next. Anne McCaffrey for both.

[zibber]

Ishmael.

[Emperor045]

I'm reading a book called "Ik was gestoord" by Cathy Van Gorp. It means "I was crazy". It's about stories from people recovering from their mental illness and how other people judged them because of their illness.

[Only Forward]

On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins, Sandra Blakeslee

[Cyr]

Ditching F. Beigbeder's "Au secours pardon" and starting Anneli Rufus' "Party of one: The loner's manifesto".

Anyone already read The loner's manifesto? What do you think? It has both excellent and very bad customer reviews on Amazon.

[thiagofralves]

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

This book is great, I loved it.

As of now I'm reading Mary Shelley's Last Man. The title is the biggest spoiler in a book ever.

[Trenchant1]

Nineteen Eighty-Four. Again.
Animal Farm. Again. Reading it to my younger daughter. She's thirteen and very intelligent but she still enjoys me reading to her.
The Islamist - Ed Hussain. Very interesting.
Reckoning With Risk -Gerd Gigerenzer.
Freakonomics - Levitt & Dubner
The Undercover Economist - Tim Harford
The Class War, The State Of British Education - Chris Woodhead.
Dr. Riemann's Zeroes - Karl Sabbagh.

I always have several books on the go at the same time. It's rare for me to read novels these days though I read a lot when I was young and should have been studying.

[Krazy P]

I haven't had any spare time to read for pleasure.

Last thing was probably either History of the World (JM Roberts) or a western pulp novel set in Wyoming.

[JTG1984]

Im reading two. When one becomes boring I switch to the other until one of them is finished. Both non-fiction.
Outliers-Malcolm Gladwell
Why We Buy- Paco Underhill

[Flamethrower]

Mind Over Mood by Dennis Greenberger and Christine Padesky

Someone mentioned it in a post on here and I thought it sounded interesting.

[thiagofralves]

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (yes I'm on a Mary Shelley streak now).

[Cocoa]

Ishmael.

OOOH, tell me how that turns out. I hear it's a really good book! :)

[Gazelle]

Let The Right One In, a Swedish novel involving vampires. I am usually more of a zombies-over-vampires girl, but this book was made into an incredible movie recently. I fell in love with the whole thing, and am now reading the book ...

[Thievs]

Behind my computer - Osuma Dazai 'Selfportraits'
At college - A.M. Homes 'The End of Alice'
In the train - Judith Viorst 'Necessary Loss'
In bed - Sartre 'Nausea'

I always read several books at the same time, since different circumstances ask for different reading materials.

[Megalomania]

Of Human Bondage and Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.

[BostonIan]

The Art of Worldly Wisdom, Baltasar Gracian

[Hasway]

Eleanor of Aquitaine by Alison Weir. It's a biography on her life. I found it in the back closet the otherday, and started reading it. Eleanor's always been my favorite historical figure.

[Airius]

The Case For Christ by Lee Strobel

[ElstonGunn]

I'm reading a collection of Nikolai Gogol's short stories. When I'm done with that, I'm not sure if I should read something lighter, or start the second half of Don Quixote.


Ditching F. Beigbeder's "Au secours pardon" and starting Anneli Rufus' "Party of one: The loner's manifesto".

Anyone already read The loner's manifesto? What do you think? It has both excellent and very bad customer reviews on Amazon.

I read it. I haven't read many books about introversion. Just this one, parts of Kiersey's Please Understand Me, and one by Marti Laney Olsen (I think that's her name). I liked Party of One a lot. Although she points out that she's talking about "loners," not "introverts." There's some kind of difference with a lot of overlap between them, there.

It's not using the term "manifesto" lightly. A lot of it is basically "Where the hell do people get this idea that loners are bad? We kick ass, dammit." It definitely has some good and interesting points, but thematically, it's more like a big rant. My only caution is that it made me dislike extraverts for a while afterward (well, dislike them more than I usually do).

[SRVcardsfan27]

Joseph Stalin and Communist Russia - Wyatt Blassingame

[Brittle]

Dynasty - Donald Spoto (biography of the English royal family from Queen Victoria to Charles & Diana)

Making Your Home Sustainable - Derek Wrigley (a very practical guide on the subject)

[pure potential]

Animal Farm. Again. Reading it to my younger daughter. She's thirteen and very intelligent but she still enjoys me reading to her.


I think that is wonderful, Trenchant1!

[Charly]

I'm reading Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.

[Estelore]

I just finished Intensity by Dean Koontz and Paper Towns by John Green (phenomenal!!). I plan to maybe start some Margo Lanagan or Garth Nix soon.

[quiet intensity]

Daniel J. Levitin - This Is Your Brain On Music: The Science of a Human Obsession.

[Americano]

Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I'm nearly finished with The Black Swan, which is great.

[Goethe]

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

This is a great book; if you enjoy it, I recommend reading Wilde's letter from jail, "De Profundis"...It is under a hundred pages, and is an incredibly well- titled work.

[Tragic Hero]

The black and white movie of the same name is great also. Wotton is one of the greatest characters I've ever came across in fiction. He produces such conflicting thoughts. Infinitely funny and brilliant but utterly dispicable.

I'm just started 'The Crying of Lot 49' by Thomas Pynchon & thus far I've quite liked it.

[Deadgod]

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A nice balance of scientific non-fiction with fictitious literature. Generates ideas while also giving me some real facts. Can't get any more NT than that.

[gestalt]

Effective Interviewing and Interrogation Techniques 2nd. ed. (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

I have 20 pages left in this. A MUST-READ for anyone interested in psychology. Incredibly cogent and powerful information. If you are an INTJ and can't afford Amazon, order it through inter-library loan.

Sitting on my butcher block are two others.
Counter Hack Reloaded (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.), and The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.).

What fun.

[llBradll]

Effective Interviewing and Interrogation Techniques 2nd. ed. (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)


I like the sound of interrogation techniques. The dark side of me is getting ready to jump out here.

[integratedvelocity]

On Liberty - Mill
Republic - Plato
Metamorphoses - Ovid

Can anyone tell that I'm a college student?

[INTJoe]

Finished Fooled by Randomness, now onto Mortgages for Dummies.

[idem]

Breakfast of Champions and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

[Saint Alexander]

Gotrek & Felix: The First Omnibus

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[ElstonGunn]

I just started A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn.

[ElChe]

Erich Maria Remarque - Three Comrades

[integratedvelocity]

The Aeneid - Virgil

[zibber]

Joan Jacobs Brumberg - The Body Project
Ariel Levy - Female Chauvinist Pigs

(Also, still trying to wrestle my way through De Beauvoir!)

[Bobert]

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Starting and Running a Winery

[ProgFusionRoman]

Hal Spacejock free ebook.

[gestalt]

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[Anders]

Brian Herbert - The battle of Corrin
I'm trying to finish it ASAP so I can read Frank Herbert's Dune.

[idem]

For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway

[mvyonline]

The Art of Deception - Controlling the human element of security
Kevin D. Mitnick

[lys]

I'm reading 2 books:
Le petit prince (the little prince)- St Ex
and
The Satanic Verses- Salman Rushdie

[Merle]

Stories, Volume 1 - Ray Bradbury

and just finished Let the Right One In - John Ajvide Lindqvist (Which was really rather good)

[vervox]

The World Without Us by Alan Weisman

[Hitorijime]

Kokoro by Natsume Soseki

[searcher]

Whitethorn, By Bryce Courtenay

Very very similar to The Power of One, which is a bit disappointing.

[Doki]

Rides a Dread Legion, by Raymond E. Feist.

[jikin]

Princess Bride

I figure the movie was great, hopefully the book is just as good.

[Spitefulserpent]

Enjoying No Ordinary Time by Doris Goodwin

[Cthulhu]

The Jesuit and The Skull by Amir Aczel

[scout5]

I'm reading God Emperor of Dune now, finishing up the 4 book Dune series.

My new years' resolution is to not buy any new books (except business books) but to instead read and re-read those that I already have. There are a lot that are my wife's or my father's that I may not even get to!

[DewFuel]

Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan

In The Year Of The Boar and Jackie Robinson - Betty Bao

Been so long since I read them. They're coming of age / coming to terms with America stories.

[Merle]

Self Made Man - Poppy Z. Brite

[2obvious]

(Who reads a book a time?)

Guns, Germs, Steel, for intel.

Miss Wyoming, for levity.

[floramacivor]

Waverley by Sir Walter Scott
The Fellowship of the Ring

[metamagnet]

Spent all day yesterday outside reading Shadow Puppets.
I think today I'll do the same with Shadow of the Giant.

[intellael]

Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell -the excessive wordiness is making it difficult to retain my interest.

Next - Michael Crichton

[Gordon Gates]

The Keep -F. Paul wilson

[Winterstorm]

"The Picture of Dorian Gray" Oscar Wilde (in English, I read it a year ago in Polish) and "The Heart of Man. Its genius for good and evil" by Erich Fromm.

[darynthe]

I am in like the first 30-40 pages or so of Atlas Shrugged. (So far it looks like a mystery book. I have concluded that Galt is stalking the Taggart girl and he is different from Anconia. With such a long book I expect to be wrong. Is anyone else reading this book right now? Maybe we can share impressions as we advance)





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"The Picture of Dorian Gray" Oscar Wilde (in English, I read it a year ago in Polish)

I only read it in Spanish. Up to now, many years later I have this feeling it is one of the best books ever written.

[blossom]

Anna Karenina (it took me 500 pages before I really enjoyed it and now I'm in love with it and wishing I had more than 150 pages left)

The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian (it isn't as good as Midwives, but an easy read)

[Geodess]

the fat lady next door is pregnant - M. Tremblay

and

voluntary madness - N. Vincent

[raharu]

I was reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. I was really liking it, but now I can't find it.

A friend of mine gave me King Rat by China Mieville and The Gone Away World to read, and my grandfather gave me A Game As Old As Empire... if I don't find Motorcycle Maintenance soon I guess I'll get started on those :p.

[thiagofralves]

Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung by Lester Bangs. Quite chaotic, but indeed good.

[DewFuel]

Spent all day yesterday outside reading Shadow Puppets.
I think today I'll do the same with Shadow of the Giant.

Good series. It panned out much better than the Ender series.

Genocide / Children of the Mind was just weird as hell

[Nikita]

The Lonely Planet Central Asia

[LaoTzu]

The Second Book of the Tao-Stephen Mitchell (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

It's okay...
I've heard all this stuff from other sources, and the commentary can be disconcerting....

but it still puts my head in the clouds for an hour or two :)

[Cocoa]

Dead Until Dark, by Charlaine Harris
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[Jantei]

I've almost finished up How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler. And I plan to re-read it again once I'm done. Recursiveness is fun.

I'm reading God Emperor of Dune now, finishing up the 4 book Dune series.

My new years' resolution is to not buy any new books (except business books) but to instead read and re-read those that I already have.

I should re-read the Dune series also. It was something like a Bible to me during my teenage years. I developed a great fondness for God Emperor in particular, even though I hated it the first time I read it (I was probably too young and inexperienced to appreciate it that first time around).

[CaffeineHeretic]

Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

[LaoTzu]

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[rewhu]

His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik. A really fun book so far. The author brings together fantasy and history in a believable and entertaining way. The historical focus, the Napoleonic Wars, is definitely secondary to the fantasy, dragons being used as an Air Force of sorts, but this is the first book I've read that has dragons as main characters that's actually holding my interest. Very well written.

This book is available as a free download. Use this (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.) and then click the link "a shiny new PDF..."

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I recently finished reading Patriot Witch by C.C. Finlay. Another book in which the author mixes fantasy with history. This time the historical focus is the American Revolution and the fantasy is witchcraft. What I found really interesting is the author's distinction between good and bad witches. The good witches don't think of themselves as witches. They believe they are good Christian people who just happen to have special God-given abilities that should be used to honor the Lord. Neat. That point of view was a totally new concept to me and I think it works perfectly with the story.

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[gedreosan]

A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir

[Cthulhu]

Feynman's Lost Lecture: The Motion of Planets Around the Sun

[idem]

Sophie's World.
Xenocide is up next.

[Plane Stress]

I just read the Bartimeus trilogy. Don't know what it'll be next.

[sgn]

I just finished Dark Angels. It's historical fiction that takes place in seventeenth century courts of Charles II of England and Louis XIV of France.

[Jantei]

I've also started reading Please Understand Me by Keirsey and Bates a few days ago. A book I have no doubt many of you are no doubt familiar with. I've found it very illuminating so far.

Sophie's World.

I've read this one also, based on a past recommendation. How do you like it so far?

[Homini Lupus]

"The complete Roman army" by A. Goldsworthy

[Alcestis]

Now, finally, starting my foray into the massive Discworld series with The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett.

[Alchemy]

Maximum Ride by James Patterson.

[Valielen]

A Dog Year by Jon Katz.
I thought it was going to be a fluff book, but once I read the intro I could not put it down. Any dog owner will be laughing along as they read through it (and maybe cry a little too...). The author has a very funny way of expressing himself and also there is a little bit of emotional honesty in it. Also the fact that his surname is Katz and he is writing about dogs always makes me giggle.

[Muse09]

The Atheist Manifesto- Michel Onfray and when l'm a little sleepy
1001 Buildings You Must See Before You Die: The World's Architectural Masterpieces.....Yeah you have to love the pictures.

Ticking off the buildings.......

[Zhen]

for leisure, Nausea Jean-Paul Sartre

[zibber]

Also went back to Slavoy Zizek - Welcome to the Desert of the Real!

Crazy good stuff. God dammit I love that guy.

for leisure, Nausea Jean-Paul Sartre

Hahah, for leisure?

What do you read on the john, Baudelaire's Fleurs du Mal? :)

[reb]

'Hill Country' by Janice Woods Windle. kind of a 'too emotional' book for me, but lots of history-relatively nearby history-in it.

[acyckowski]

Mr. Murder, Dean Koontz.

After that, only one more and I've run out my library's collection on Koontz! I'm thinking I'll finish off Crichton next.

[sam988]

I'm virtually never only reading one book. Currently i'm reading "The Longevity Diet", "The CR Way", "Crime and Punishment", and "The Alchemy of Finance".


Of course it takes a while to finish all books, that is, when i do finish them, but i tend to get bored if i'm reading just one book and it doesn't happen to be brilliant and inspiring, as most books aren't.

[Rho1334]

just finished gilgamesh and the hitchhickers guide to the galaxy. Now im reading Resurrection by Paul Kemp

[Since 1986]

(Who reads a book a time?)


Good question because I definitely don't read one book at a time.

Currently reading:

The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious - Carl Jung
The Interpretation of Dreams - Sigmund Freud
Collected Aphorisms, Notebook and Letters to a friend (not a book but a pdf) - Otto Weininger
Enneagram Pattern Series (pdf) - Susan Rhodes
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon

and um... many others which I haven't finished.

[rewhu]

I just finished His Majesty's Dragon. I'm surprised at how much I like this. There is an excellent chance I'll read at least one more book in the series.

I'm rereading The Seville Communion by Arturo Perez-Reverte. This could very loosely be compared to Angels and Demons in the sense that it involves priests, ancient Catholic structures, murder and other nefarious activities.

And I just started Stealing Buddha's Dinner: A Memoir by Bich Minh Nguyen. I'm a couple chapters in and am really enjoying the author's storytelling style - part fragmented recollections and part concrete narration.

[LaoTzu]

Ender's Shadow....



The comic book series :P

[qwerty123]

It's been 4 years since I first read "Guns, Germs, and Steel," so I'm re-reading it.

[Storm]

Gone with the Wind. I must say - it is as good as it's made out to be.

[Dragontongue]

Just finished Heir Apparent by Vivian Vande Velde and am now near the end of The Stainless Steel Rat Goes to Hell by Harry Harrison. I'm also reading デスノーと８　的。

[Cocoa]

Reading "The Ministry of Fear" by Graham Greene
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[Shorgenfunkel]

The Darwin Awards 4

[jikin]

The Hole in Our Gospel - Richard Stearns
and
Dragonsong - Anne McCafferty

[ohmetalheart]

"Secret Ceremonies" by Deborah Laake.

An autobiography of a Mormon wife exposing Mormon secret temple ceremonies and her experience of being a woman in the church. Very interesting to me because I was raised in a very strict Mormon household and I enjoy hearing other ex-Mormons' stories. It's funny because the Mormon church is currently shitting a brick over the secret temple ceremonies being exposed in a recent episode of Big Love.

[Daimai]

"Lord of the Flies"
Stephen Golding

Awesome book this far.

[DanteFalling]

2666 is being read to me.
I'm re-reading some Akhmatova, Nabokov, and David Foster Wallace.
And I'm reading Margaret Atwood.

[Mistress Corvidae]

Cat's Eye by Margaret Attwood. It really looks at what goes on in an introvert's head.

[LaoTzu]

Mostly Harmless - Douglas Adams
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[Winterstorm]

"One Hundred Years of Solitude" G. G. Marquez
"The Horse And His Boy" C. S. Lewis.

[Plane Stress]

I am reading a book called "The World Without Us"

[DRog]

The Tommyknockers, by Stephen King. Interesting, but unsurprisingly long. I'm stuck in the never ending middle of the book.

[Farmer Joe]

I am currently reading The Iliad, by Homer, and in twenty more pages I start The Twelve Caesars, by Suetonius.

[Cthulhu]

Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks. Good stuff.

[Merle]

Trouble With Lichen - John Wyndham

[Tenacious B]

Finishing off Anna Karenina, haven't had enough reading time lately.

[IfThenElse]

The Black Swan - Nassem Nicholas Taleb
The Open Society and Its Enemies - Karl Popper
The Ascent of Money - Niall Ferguson

[spiritdetectivegirl]

H.G. Wells - The Time Machine

Jane Austen - Pride & Prejudice

And plenty of drawing books.

[ShiroAqua]

"The Count of Monte Cristo" by Alexandre Dumas.
This book was really thought provoking, although the long descriptions did tend to bog me down now and then.

"The Assassins of Tamurin" by S.D. Tower.
I just started this one, so I don't have an opinion on it yet.

[gedreosan]

A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir

[Cocoa]

The Graveyard Book
by, Neil Gaiman
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[DewFuel]

Just finished 5 minutes ago:
Love Is A Mixtape - Rob Sheffield :(

this is the saddest book i've read in my life

Next up:
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini

[Zhen]

Not reading "perusing"...Human, Not Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits (Nietzsche)

[axolotl]

The Divine Comedy - Volume I: Inferno - Dante

[Winterstorm]

"Nineteen Eighty-four" (in English) by George Orwell.
"The Silver Chair" (in English too ;)) C. S. Lewis.

[Cocoa]

The return of Martin Guerre, by Natalie Zenon Davis
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Amazon Review
A fascinating reconstruction of a famous incident of impostorship and love in sixteenth-century rural France. Davis delicately deploys historical fact to suggest what is singular about the modern individual.
--Todd Gitlin (The Nation )

[Geodess]

Joshua Then and Now - M. Richler...

I am only a chapter in but it seems promising.. My opinon of him as an author was tarnished by a forced read of Duddy Kravitz

[Latro]

Just finished A Game of Thrones, will probably pick up A Clash of Kings pretty soon.

I haven't read this thread (it's long!) but I imagine someone else has probably posted this or something else involving A Song of Ice and Fire already.

[Tenacious B]

Ben Franklin's autobiography.

[Quite8the8bell]

A biography of George Washington

[ezri89]

I've just started reading The Reality Dysfunction by Peter F. Hamilton.

[Valielen]

Gravity by Tess Gerritsen
Single cell organism multiplies uncontrollably in a space station. People start to die... Starts to get interesting.

[Cthulhu]

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin

[DewFuel]

Organic Chemistry - Cram and Hammond (1969 edition)

i can't believe someone threw this away...

[Jantei]

Just finished A Game of Thrones, will probably pick up A Clash of Kings pretty soon.

I haven't read this thread (it's long!) but I imagine someone else has probably posted this or something else involving A Song of Ice and Fire already.

I haven't posted about it, but I did read the first three books of the series a few years back. Great stuff.





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"The Count of Monte Cristo" by Alexandre Dumas.
This book was really thought provoking, although the long descriptions did tend to bog me down now and then.

There is a free version of this book available on books.google.com, which is where I read it to kill some time during my old job. Unfortunately I started with the second half of the book, and I did not realize this until the end, by which time I had already put the missing pieces of the plot together. I hope to one day get the chance to give this a proper re-read :)

Alexandre Dumas is pretty awesome. I grew up on him because my parents were huge fans.

[gedreosan]

The Federalist Papers, for fun. I think I need help . . .

[tntblaster]

Surgical Speed Shooting, New American Bible, Rock Blasting and Engineering, Twilight, and a travel guide to Mexico ;)

[Orion79]

Victory by Joseph Conrad. The main character, Axel Heyst, is an INTJ to the core.

"Are you interested in...."
"Facts," broke in Heyst in his courtly voice. "There's nothing worth knowing but facts.
Hard facts! Facts alone, Mr. Tesman."

[integratedvelocity]

Perpetual Peace by Kant, trying to decide if I want to put in the time to attempt it in German for fun.

[DewFuel]

My System - Aron Nimzovich

(chess book, don't know why i never got to it.)

[echo]

Just read: Habeas Corpses by Wm. Mark Simmons
Up next: White Witch, Black Curse by Kim Harrison

[idem]

Just finished: Foundation, Isaac Asimov and The Color of Magic, Terry Pratchett.
Currently reading: Children of the Mind, Orson Scott Card.
Up next: The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury.

[Mikko]

Edward de Bono: "I am right - You are Wrong"

How the brain works and why it is next to impossible to introduce new ideas to people.

[mar412]

I'm reading the Economic Naturalist by Robert H. Frank. It's so cool b/c it applies general economic theories to every day life (why does it cost more to rent a tuxedo than a car, etc.) I love it! I'm also re-reading Persuasion by Jane Austen.

[burke]

Delta Force

[TemperateSloth]

Just finished "The Shack," by William P. Young

[Briggy]

Rereading: "The Dosadi Experiment' - Frank Herbert
Just started: "Guns, Germs and Steel" - Jared Diamond

[phej]

A Conflict of Visions by Thomas Sowell (Author of Black Rednecks and White Liberals; I haven't read this one, but the title alone is priceless. Just like Cracker Culture: Celtic Ways in the Old South by McWhiney. Haven't read that one either.)

[intellael]

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Stephen Covey

[Winterstorm]

"Mort" Terry Pratchett
"Changeling" Roger Zelazny
"The Last Battle" C. S. Lewis - excellent ending, one of the best I've ever read.

[Pride]

I'm rereading the Harry Potter series for the umpteenth time.

[Carinthian]

Das Kapital and is disgusted by it.

[Trenchant1]

The Great Deception - Christopher Booker and Richard North.

This is a very important book explaining the European Union, its history, structure and way of doing things. It is frightening if you are British and it should serve as a warning to the peoples of the USA, Canada and Mexico. Check how the countries of Europe were taken over by an unelected bureaucracy. Look at what is happening with the North American Union. The same thing will happen there if it is not stopped. I recommend this book very highly.
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[SongofSeptember]

Hemingway's A Farewell To Arms.

[Kronos]

Just recently started reading Anne Rice.... working my way through the Lives of the Mayfair Witches trilogy. "The Witching Hour", "Lasher", and now "Taltos".
They've been really good so far.

Will probably revert back to Terry Pratchett's Discworld before much longer tho ;)

[SequorVeritas]

The Well-Grounded Rubyist by David Black (Manning)
Such an intriguing programming language....

[zief]

I'm reading deathnote again.

[Winterstorm]

"Narrenturm" Andrzej Sapkowski.

[pure potential]

"Essential Sufism (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)" edited by James Fadiman & Robert Frager - its humbling in its beauty.

[blossom]

George Eliot's Middlemarch--great book

[ReasoningMind]

The creating brain: The neuroscience of Genius
Nancy Andreasen

[Cincinnatus]

Do What You Are: Discover the Perfect Career for You Through the Secrects of Personality Type by Paul D. Tieger & Barbara Barron
The Federalist by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli (revisiting)

[Nemesis]

Notes from the underground- Dostoevsky

[ElstonGunn]

Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.

[Tenacious B]

Liberty and Tyranny - Mark Levin

[zief]

You guys should read Improbable by Adam Fawer, its amazing.

[Doppelbock]

Currently re-reading the Harry Potter series, also working my way through Jim Butcher's "Harry Dresden" series (good stuff), and just started Frank Delaney's "Shannon" (I LOVED his "Ireland" and highly recommend it).

Books are the only thing at which I can multitask.

[rahdam]

"Basic Economics" Thomas Sowell

[Trenchant1]

Do you think it would be possible to put up a link to a review of the book that you are recommending - Amazon perhaps? If they are recommended by someone on here, I'm sure they must be good, but it would be nice to see what they are about. It's a lot of trouble to copy and paste every title into Amazon. Just a thought.

[pure potential]

Done! ;)

[Stratego]

The Plucker / Brom

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[phej]

Finished w/ A Conflict of Visions by Sowell.

Reading (1) One with Nineveh: Politics, Consumption, and the Human Future by Ehrlich and Ehrlich and (2) Basic Economics: a Citizen's Guide to the Economy by Sowell

[Pseudonimum]

The Steppenwolf, by Hermann Hesse.

[jazziejazzay]

George Eliot's Middlemarch--great book

OOoh! I love that book! Ever seen the episode series adapted by Andrew Davies? I love it! But the book is soo much more fun to read and imagine. I adore Mr. Ladislaw, something about him. Can't put my finger on it.

Anywho... excellent book! I'm reading " The Hound of the Baskervilles" - Sir Authur Conan Doyle.*jazzie skips away happily*

[Deliberator]

Just finished listening to "A Brief History of Nearly Everything", very interesting, highly recommend it.

Now listening to Huckleberry Finn.

[JustMel]

Wicked Snow

Just finished a biography on Joan of Arc and wanted something lighter

[Cocoa]

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[Latro]

I'm rereading the Harry Potter series for the umpteenth time.
Maybe I'll do this when I finish A Song of Ice and Fire in its entirety (which will hopefully be before the end of the summer, though I don't have my hopes up, with about 3000 pages to go). I read the series over such a long span of time, and read the individual books over such short spans of time (for the most part) that there are a vast swath of little subtleties that I don't remember.

I probably wouldn't start with The Sorcerer's Stone or even The Chamber of Secrets, though. A bit simple for my tastes (I mean...those two books ARE addressed at 10-12 year olds), I guess.

Unfortunately I seem to have lost The Order of the Phoenix, which in addition to The Half-Blood Prince would probably be the main one I'd want to re-read (since those two are probably the most complicated of the bunch overall, in addition to getting into so many little details about the world compared to the other 5).

[rsurland]

Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the Word Learns by Clayton M. Christensen





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Maybe I'll do this when I finish A Song of Ice and Fire in its entirety (which will hopefully be before the end of the summer, though I don't have my hopes up, with about 3000 pages to go). I read the series over such a long span of time, and read the individual books over such short spans of time (for the most part) that there are a vast swath of little subtleties that I don't remember.

I probably wouldn't start with The Sorcerer's Stone or even The Chamber of Secrets, though. A bit simple for my tastes (I mean...those two books ARE addressed at 10-12 year olds), I guess.

Unfortunately I seem to have lost The Order of the Phoenix, which in addition to The Half-Blood Prince would probably be the main one I'd want to re-read (since those two are probably the most complicated of the bunch overall, in addition to getting into so many little details about the world compared to the other 5).

I loved those books, but could never get my kids to read them.

[Stratego]

Something I found whilst idling in the stacks:

American Nerd: The Story of My People / Benjamin Nugent

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For those of you interested in the Natural History of the Nerd. :nerd:

[PortInStorm]

Stuart Woods- The Short Forever. I was just saying to Kym that the Stone Barrington novels are smart and snide with great dialogue.

[Winterstorm]

Martin Scott "Thraxas"
George R. R. Martin "A Game Of Thrones"

[Wapiti]

Currently reading:

Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures
Software Developer’s Manual
Volume 2A:
Instruction Set Reference, A-M

Some great reading!

[Jantei]

Psychological Types - Carl G. Jung

The Emotion Machine - Marvin Minsky

[Jonathan Brewer]

Philosophic Classics, Volume 1: Ancient Philosophy - Forrest E. Baird and Walter Kaufmann

[Phoenix rising]

Last week I read Anthem, Ayn Rand (1st time) and Apache dawn (lent it to a friend and can't remember the author, but it's about a unit of British army apache helicopters in Afghanistan), now reading think and grow rich by Napoleon Hill.

[ambrosia]

Armageddon in retrospect- Vonnegut (Iv read most of this guys stuff. Hes very funny)

You Can Read Anyone. - David J Lieberman.

Mixing non-fiction with a little bit of easy reading is something iv always enjoyed.

[Winterstorm]

Guy Gavriel Kay "Ysabel"

[DewFuel]

My System - Aron Nimzovich

[Latro]

Kind of an obvious continuation of my last post, but I just started A Clash of Kings.

[idem]

The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury.

[The Maelstrom]

The Introvert Advantage:How to Thrive in an Extrovert World
Paid to Play: An insider's Guide to Video Game Careers
Teach Yourself: Your Toddler's Development
The Secret Live of Toddlers

All ongoing :p

[Jonathan Brewer]

Please Understand Me II - David Keirsey

[Tenacious B]

Two Years Before the Mast - Richard Henry Dana

[JohnDoe]

Currently reading:

Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures
Software Developer’s Manual
Volume 2A:
Instruction Set Reference, A-M

Some great reading!

Those were good, but I thought that Volume 3 (Systems) and the optimization book were the best.

[gluontheferengi]

A biography of Byron and Shelley.

Just got done with Young Stalin.

[Amphorian]

Like five at a time.... mainly fantasy (R.A. Salvatore and other forgotten realms). One is realistic ficition and another Slaughter House 5.

[phej]

Currently reading:

Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures
Software Developer’s Manual
Volume 2A:
Instruction Set Reference, A-M

Some great reading!

Oh dear! I hope you're not debugging some disassembled yuckiness...

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[idem]

The Once and Future King, by T.H. White.

[JTG1984]

Lance Armstrong, It's Not About the Bike

[Trenchant1]

The Great European Rip-Off.

Goes into detail about the astounding amount of money wasted on and by the European Union. I recommend this book highly to all EU lovers. I love Europe but I hate the EU.

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[rewhu]

King Solomon's Carpet by Ruth Rendell, whose main character are all concerned with the London Underground to varying degrees. Some of the characters are unusually obessed with the system. Some are afraid of it and some see it as a means to an end.

I'm halfway through and am enjoying the book.

[Merle]

Re-reading J.G. Ballard's Complete Short Stories Vol.2

and

Memories, Dreams, Reflections - Jung

Both to get my mind in gear in case they interview me for my MA application. (the course is on Literature and the unconscious ... and I want to write on Ballard for my thesis)

[Ither]

Willa Cather, A Lost Lady.

She, and Wharton, are underestimated.

[phej]

The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities by Mancur Olson

[Ither]

Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne

[Antares]

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo. Try # 13.

[CuriousOne]

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

[Cthulhu]

The Player Of Games by Iain M. Banks

[PortInStorm]

Michael Kimmel's "Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men"

[HeyZeus]

Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll

Cold War gamesmanship, pawns & proxies, double and triple crosses, and the no-notice abandonment after the USSR folded. Then the real ultra-violent radical islam movement found a nice, cozy nest.

Any CIA forum members want to de-bunk? I shall listen with open mind.

[Merle]

Earth Abides - George R. Stewart

[rara avis]

The Bird Artist - Howard Norman

[True Rune]

I found Howard Gardner's "Multiple intelligences" at my school's bookstore so I'm reading through that. :D

[Ither]

Hendrik Conscience, Het Goudland (The Land of Gold).

As a novel, it's a disaster. More or less a boy's adventure story, it is the first 'Western' ever written in Dutch (oops, Flemish) and predates Karl May. Although to my knowledge Conscience never did see the US, the book is worth reading for the description of San Francisco and the Mother Lode country during the Gold Rush.

[Caedus]

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies By Jared Diamond. Just finished rereading Angels and Demons by Dan Brown. Tom Hanks should stop while hes ahead..

[Infinite Grey]

The Brothers Karamazov-Dostoevsky

[Bluemax]

I notice several threads about books and favorite authors and series. What I want to know is what are you reading now?

I just finished Andrew Piper's "lost girls" A lawyer who lives by "there are no such things as lies only misperceptions" His first murder trial with ghosts and a haunted lake. Nice read.

I just started Clive Cussler/Jack Du Brul's "Skeleton Coast" The Oregon Files series returns. Very fast paced thriller started it this morning around 8:00 am and will probably finish it tomorrow it's just that good.
Frog and Toad are Friends (unabridged)

[Americano]

Outliers-Malcolm Gladwell

I need to go back to Barnes & Noble to finish it.

[altoid]

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

I'm finally picking it up. :rolleyes:

[Winterstorm]

"The Shining" S. King.

[Maayan]

Italo Calvino's If on a winter's night a traveler just came in the mail. I can't wait to crack it open!

[sorenlaw]

Ernest Becker's "Denial of Death" soooooo insightful, connects various philosophical and psycological and even theological themes. Heavy reading though...been reading it for a while...

He won the Pulizer for nonfiction with it...

[Sxq]

Mark Z. Danielewski's Only Revolutions

[Ither]

Nicholas Blake, Head of a Traveller, 1949.