What book are you reading right now?

[mrStevens]

"The Fountainhead" by Ayn Rand. It's okay. Started out great then got a little heavy-handed by the halfway point. The last 100 pages are taking me just as long to finish as the first 400. It's getting harder to find the motivation to keep picking it up.

Finished "Anthem" previously. "The Fountainhead" is much better.

I also picked up a soft-cover copy of "Atlas Shrugged." Hope it's better than "The Fountainhead."

[Jism]

I'm in the middle of a pretty thick biography of Einstein. I don't remember who it's by, but the author does a nice job of balancing his life with his theories. It's nice to read about someone who doesn't accept any of society's conventions.

[wunder]

David Feldman - Do Penguins Have Knees?

[drydenxenvik]

Just finished reading "Time Traveler's Wife", Audrey Niffenegger. It is definitely one of my favorites now, despite a few structural problems of handling scene changes within scenes.

As much as I loved the plot, characters, emotions, etc, I cannot see myself ever watching and enjoying a movie of it. Kind of like with Cormac McCarthy's "The Road".

[Merle]

The Modernist City: An Anthropological Critique of Brasilia - James Holston

[BrooklynBoy]

"Benjamin Franklin - The Autobiography And Other Writings"

[Calica]

Jawaharlal Nehru~ The discovery of India

it makes me wonder what Mbti type he was...

[cheerbear]

The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World, by AJ Jacobs.

[HereticForLife]

Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov.
God-Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert
The Gathering Storm by Winston Churchill

[Merle]

Wittgenstein Reads Freud: The Myth of the Unconscious - Jacques Bouveresse

[Mohammad]

My client's SAS70 report. At 9 pm. Over dinner. Oh, the fun.

[albi92]

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

[lurk]

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
America's Secret War by George Friedman

[BrooklynBoy]

The Mysterious Stranger And Other Short Stories by Mark Twain

[DewFuel]

The Yanti - Christopher Pike (Book 3 of the Alosha trilogy)

prepping myself for the 4th book WOOP WOOP

[Edd Nigma]

Anything about NLP that I can get my hands on. Right now, it's Patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton H. Erickson, M.D. Great read.

[Ither]

Julian Barnes, A History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters, 1989.
People generally seem to like Barnes: I couldn't stand the book.

Shashi Tharoor, The Great Indian Novel, 1989.
This is a history of India in the twentieth century in the form of a satirical novel whose historical characters and plot are poured into the framework that is the Mahabharata. It's very, very clever and hilarious. The author, co-incidentally, was forced to resign as a junior Foreign Minister from the government of India the day before yesterday due to a financial scandal.

[Maker]

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

[BrooklynBoy]

Notes From Underground, The Double, and Other Stories by Fyodor Dostoevsky

[froggalliard]

Smiley's People

[Stratego]

I'm currently reading:

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The Blue Girl / Charles de Lint
New at her high school, Imogene enlists the help of her introverted friend Maxine and the ghost of a boy who haunts the school after receiving warnings through her dreams that soul-eaters are threatening her life.

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The Butcher: Anatomy of a Mafia Psychopath / Philip Carlo
Carlo traces the rise of Pitera, born in 1954 into a modest Brooklyn family, to an honored place with the Bonannos, whose reputation for widespread drug peddling and bloody rubouts struck fear in their rivals. After spending two years in Japan, Pitera returned home with mastery in martial arts, efficiency in killing and a love for drama...

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A Great and terrible Beauty / Libba Bray
After the suspicious death of her mother in 1895, sixteen-year-old Gemma returns to England, after many years in India, to attend a finishing school where she becomes aware of her magical powers and ability to see into the spirit world.

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The Line / Teri Hall
Rachel thinks that she and her mother are safe working for Ms. Moore at her estate close to The Line, an invisible border of the Unified States, but when Rachel has an opportunity to Cross into the forbidden zone, she is both frightened and intrigued.

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Tithe / Holly Black
Sixteen-year-old Kaye, who has been visited by faeries since childhood, discovers that she herself is a magical faerie creature with a special destiny.

[lurk]

Smiley's People
One of my all time favorites! I'm a LeCarre fan, at least some of his earlier stuff. I have the PBS version of Smiley's People on DVD and usually watch it at least once a year.

[Derek]

Swing Trading for Dummies

[admittedheretic]

I'm currently listening to many lectures from the teaching company about human development.

[zmo]

At the time being:

-My uni's texbook on logic design.
-Finishing Atlas Shrugged.

Books waiting for me in my nightstand:

-The Romantic Manifesto
-100 Years of Solitude
-Crime and Punishment
-My Name is Red
-A book about Warren Buffet's strategies
-Influence: The Science of Persuasion
-A Brief History of Time

I could go on and on, I usually buy more books than I could read at the time...

[Nikita]

It's not technically reading, but I'm working my way through a Sudoku book.

[Triglav]

Niall Ferguson's 'Empire:The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global power'

[Ither]

H.R.H.Keating, Inspector Ghote Breaks an Egg, 1970.

[LordCorbin]

Niall Ferguson's 'Empire:The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global power'

In a similar vein, Ive been reading Amy Chua's 'Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance and Why They Fall'

[Daj]

Fool Moon by James Butcher

I usually read non-fiction, but this series is a nice break.

[Kisai]

Third novel of the Mistborn trilogy: The Hero of Ages. By Brandon Sanderson.

[BlackMita]

Ways Of Seeing by John Berger

And I'm starting

The Invisible Man by H.G Wells

tomorrow.

[Sgrynd]

I am reading 3 currently:

Atheism: The Case Against God by George H. Smith
The Birth of Tragedy & The Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche (Author), Francis Golfing (Translator, Introduction)
Neuromancer by William Gibson

[baal]

contemplating reading for the first time the hp Lovecraft series and american gods should i or should i just reread the art of war and the prince

[LoquaciousNinja]

A Wizard of Earthsea, by Ursula K. Le Guin. Haven't read it in ages and it sounded like fun.

Also reading a couple from Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, and considering starting Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy again. More or less, I'm reading fluffy things because I'm getting enough of a mental workout with course material. I have... lordy, some forty-odd books scattered around waiting for summer to come. Yes. It will be a good summer.

Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond

Good read, interesting material about the development of mankind, but so thorough it can drag.

I'd actually like to read that. I've read his other book, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, and I liked it, but I have to agree with you. Very detailed, very interesting, but so thorough as to become a bit repetitive or self-explanatory at times. Still, fascinating and very instructive.

[Ither]

P.G.Wodehouse, Something Fresh, 1915.

The first Blandings novel.

[dontmesswithme]

"The Oxford Paperback Dictionary". The only book I've found consistently fascinating since childhood. It's from the late seventies and it's interesting because some of the words have changed so much since then. For instance, the word "avatar". The only definition in this dictionary is "(in Hinduism) the descent to earth of a deity in human, animal, or superhuman form." No mention at all about computers/internet. I've got to get an up-to-date dictionary. I really want to get a big-assed unabridged one, with swear words and everything. I would never stop reading it.

[Dinah]

I'm about to crack open The Empathic Civilization by Jeremy Rifkin.

Currently reading an American History textbook. (Texas edition, sadly.)

[NoStoneUnturned]

The Brain That Changes Itself, by Doidge

[admittedheretic]

The Brain That Changes Itself, by Doidge

Great book. I try to recommend it whenever opportunity knocks.

[AnotherNormal]

Outliers: The Story of Success

It's about why some people are successful. Reading it on kindle.

[BrooklynBoy]

No Second Chance by Harlan Coben

[yondyr]

The Crest of the Wave - Willard Bascom (autobiography of a self taught mining man through to oceanographer), Oh and BrooklynBoy, Coben has some great turns of phrases, some of his witty asides deserve framing and posting on the wall.

[DewFuel]

just finished:
The Yanti - Christopher Pike

starting tomorrow:
Thirst - Christopher Pike

[ArtistTyrant]

The Fall of The Dynasties, by Edmond Taylor (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts./n9/mode/2up)

[agkazama]

the books that i am working on are:
changes that heal
9 things you simply must do
every day for every man
promises to keep
God's daily promises for students
God's daily promises for leaders
the power of man
the purity principle
the sayings of the desert fathers

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one of my favorite book is zen mind beginner's mind

[Serendip]

contemplating reading for the first time the hp Lovecraft series and american gods should i or should i just reread the art of war and the prince

I read American Gods fairly recently and found I really enjoyed it. Well written and not run of the mill - and I then went searching for other Neil Gaiman books. But if Sun Tzsu's Art of War is your thing you may not like it??

[Celeborn]

"The Amber Spyglass" by Phillip Pullman, "A Bawdy Language" by Howard Richler, "The Kalevala Pt. II" anonymous, an a collection of the short stories of Sherlock Holmes.

[flower]

The Borne Identity by Robert Ludlum

I was curious to see how diferent or similar it would be to the movie.

[Doppelbock]

"Galileo's Dream" by Kim Stanley Robinson.

[Onigumo13]

Wizard and The Glass By Stephen King :)

[Carol]

Ordered this one because my Buddhist boyfriend ordered tickets to see the author:
Joyful Wisdom: Embracing Change and Finding Freedom
Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche (Author), Eric Swanson (Author)

[Latro]

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Awesome book.

[BrooklynBoy]

Gone For Good by Harlan Coben

[XFire35]

The Prose Edda
The Time-traveller's wife

[s4nder]

"Judas Unchained" by Peter F Hamilton. It's part of the Commonwealth Saga, brilliant massive space opera.

[yondyr]

I'm waiting on the third Void of his, sadly not til September, so I started back with Alistair Reynolds, loathe to leave the genre.

[Merle]

A Godless Jew: Freud Atheism and the Making of Psychoanalysis - Peter Gay

Religion, Society, and Psychoanalysis: Reading in Contemporary Theory - Janet Liebeman Jacobs and Donald Capps eds.

On the front cover of the first one, you can only see the first bit of the title which is in massive letters - I have been getting the weirdest looks on trains while reading this book haha.

[FeeLyX]

Eye of the world - Robert Jordan

I really like it, but I'm progressing slowly, as I have trouble finding time to read.

[starlight87]

Just finished Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

Currently reading A Brief History Of Time by Stephen Hawking and One Hundred Years Of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

[floramacivor]

The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot; everyone said I wouldn't like it, but it's not so bad.

[Miryr]

The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

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Outliers: The Story of Success

It's about why some people are successful. Reading it on kindle.

Great book, read it about a month ago. Although the conclusion may be a little off especially if you're an INTJ.

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Nineteen forty eight George Orwell

I'm pretty sure it's Nineteen eighty four.

[floramacivor]

I'm pretty sure it's Nineteen eighty four.

Maybe it's a prequel? ;D

[just a user]

I am reading "A fire upon the deep" by Vernor Vinge after I had picked up Vinge's "A Deepness in the Sky".

I liked "A Deepness in the Sky" for the well-written characters and the cool and "realistic" space opera feeling. I hope to find the same things in "A fire upon the deep" but I just started reading it and it is too early to tell.

[reb]

J. Frank Dobie, "Longhorns"

[Adoniax]

"Quintessence" by W. V. Quine

(this book is not for most people, but meh... I enjoy it)

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oh, concurrently reading "Game Theory for Political Scientists" By David Morrow

I like learning-type books ;]

[LoquaciousNinja]

Thomas Paine's "Common Sense." It's interesting.

[Elena]

One flew over the cuckoo's nest, Ken Kesey

[DewFuel]

Cuckoo's Nest is a great book.

I did my senior year research paper on Cuckoo & Brave New World. I was such a slacker back then that I ended up reading both books in a span of 24 hours and writing the paper 8 hours before it was due. That C+ never felt so good.

Eventually I went back to read both books and I enjoyed them thoroughly.

[Autodidact]

I see some really good books being read. Though I normally read two or three at a time, right now I'm trying to finish off Aristotle's "Nichomachean Ethics", a task which, I must confess, I'm finding difficult. I can't help but feel that 60% of the book is a dry and unenlightening justification for an obsolete morality (i.e. the ancient Greek) and another 20% consists of a kind of philosophical contortionism in which the old guy attempts to marry his disparate conceptual structures in order to maintain a semblance of integrity, but in fact he's just leaving the whole thing full of holes... luckily the remaining 20% is interesting and very thought-provoking.

[floramacivor]

Currently re-reading Northanger Abbey. This is the year I'm limiting myself to only reading books I've read before. Starting now.

[think]

I just finished "The Sparrow" it was AWESOME I think most of y'all would like it.

[yondyr]

Mary Doria Russell - The Sparrow. Please excuse my adding the authors name, think, but I was stunned also at the book, and would highly recommend it too,specially to INTJs as it dealt very logically with mysticism allied with science fiction.

[Night Runner]

Confession of a Buddhist Atheist by Stephen Batchelor

[realJim]

Heretics Of Dune, Frank Herbert

One of the notable quotes was
"statements such as 'the letter of the law must be observed' were dangerous to his guiding principles. Being fair required agreement, predictable constancy and, above all else, loyalty upward and downward in the hierarchy. Leadership guided by such principles required no outside controls. You did your duty because it was right. And you did not obey because it was predictably correct. You did it because the rightness was a thing of this moment. Prediction and prescience had nothing whatsoever to do with it."

love it!

[floramacivor]

Jane Eyre, again.

[Shifter]

Ubik, Philip K. Dick

[Leg]

Operation Drumbeat, Micheal Gannon

[VagrantChord]

The Greatest Show on Earth - Richard Dawkins
A Year of DX - Bob Locher
Fretboard Logic - Bill Edwards

[altoid]

The Road - Cormac McCarthy

[alighieri]

Cosmos- Carl Sagan
The Selfish Gene- Richard Dawkins
On Liberty & Utilitarianism- John Stuart Mills
Psychopathology in Everyday Life- Sigmund Freud

[trilian]

Getting to YES: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In

[Titus Alone]

Occasionally Ulysses - ongoing effort...

And I just found a copy of the God Delusion on the shelf and read a few pages before throwing it away in disgust.

[floramacivor]

And I just found a copy of the God Delusion on the shelf and read a few pages before throwing it away in disgust.

In disgust? Was it faulty logic?

[Latro]

Of late I've been on an Italo Calvino binge. I read If on a winter's night a traveler (which is basically about you, the reader, trying (and struggling, for various reasons) to read If on a winter's night a traveler), Cosmicomics (a collection of short stories with a common narrator, a being that has existed since before the Big Bang, which are basically about humanizing specific scientific facts), and now Invisible Cities (Marco Polo tells Kublai Khan about the cities he has visited as the Khan's empire collapses).

[Carol]

Just finishing _Start Where You_ Are by Pema Chodron. And will read it once more.

[arpeggio]

Chrysanthemum and Sword

[papkan]

War and peace - Leo Tolstoy

[LoquaciousNinja]

Neuromancer, by William Gibson, and The Things They Carried, by Tim O'Brien.

[BrooklynBoy]

Runaway Heart by Stephen J. Cannell

[yondyr]

Kevin J. Anderson - Saga of the Seven Suns. Book two of at least seven and still engrossed.

[lambpox]

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone!

[Merle]

I'm also reading Neuromancer
as well as:
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory - Brian Greene
and
Thalassa: A Theory of Genitality - Sandor Ferenczi

[fourtines]

Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh

[JulietCapulet]

The Narcissism Epidemic by Jean M. Twenge and the The Mirror Effect by Dr. Drew Pinsky and S. Mark Young

[Il Prodigio]

Thus Spoke Zarathustra be Friedrich Nietzsche.................still
and
The Annal of the American Association of American Geographers.

[Imperator]

The Narcissism Epidemic by Jean M. Twenge and the The Mirror Effect by Dr. Drew Pinsky and S. Mark Young

Any good? It sounds awesome, I just haven't bought it yet.

Recently Finished:
Jim Butcher- Dead Beat (book 7 of Dresden Files)
Machiavelli- The Prince

Current:
Jim Butcher- Proven Guilty (book 8 of series)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky- Crime and Punishment
Cicero- In Catilinam Oratio Prima (Latin)
Herodotus- Histories (book 1: Greek)

[Mohammad]

'the seven habits of highly effective people'.

i've gone through about half of it, and i have yet to be enlightened.

[Alima]

The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide

[Firebrand]

Nintendo Magic: Winning the Videogame Wars (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

[ModernLit]

Of late I've been on an Italo Calvino binge. I read If on a winter's night a traveler (which is basically about you, the reader, trying (and struggling, for various reasons) to read If on a winter's night a traveler), Cosmicomics (a collection of short stories with a common narrator, a being that has existed since before the Big Bang, which are basically about humanizing specific scientific facts), and now Invisible Cities (Marco Polo tells Kublai Khan about the cities he has visited as the Khan's empire collapses).

loved invisible cities!

im reading "what the dickens" and some advance reader edition of some weird sounding book i cant remember the title of.
finished "anthropology of an american girl" and liked it a lot :)

[MortalWombat]

Currently: The Rapture of Canaan by Sheri Reynolds.

Next: The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Everything's Eventual by Steven King
The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown

[Feral]

Watership Down again :)

[vbobarikin]

Now: "The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath"
Next: "Night" by Elie Wiesel
"Satanic Verses" by Salman Rushdie (curious as to what the hype is all about)

[thea]

Sigmund Freud ''The interpretation of dreams''

[Night Runner]

Veeps: Profiles in Insignificance by Bill Kelter and Wayne Shellabarger

[Ither]

Robert Irwin, The Limits of Vision, 1986.
Ruth Prawar Jhabvala, To Whom She Will, 1955.

The Irwin is one of the most irritating books I've read in months. At 120 pages it was mercifully short. Even so, struggling through it took hours. The Jhabvala, her first novel and a comedy of manners set in Delhi in the fifties, made up for it.

[MrDudu]

Previous: Pride and Prejudice
Now: Romeo and Juliet

I'm a sucker for satire + romance

[PRBori]

Establishing a System of Policies and Procedures
Achieve 100% Compliance of Policies and Procedures

and

Windows 2008 Server PKI and Certificate Security

[MortalWombat]

The Kite Runner is somewhat hard to get into.

[Ither]

G.K.Chesterton, The Napoleon of Notting Hill, 1904.

He writes well, but much of what he writes seems to be in reaction to the more trenchant and cosmopolitan insights of H.G.Wells's futuristic novels.

[katrin]

Semiotics, The Basics (2nd ed.) by Daniel Chandler. It's the next best thing to Semiotics for Dummies, which hasn't actually been written.

Reading books like this--about systems--takes me much longer page for page than reading fiction or other nonfic. I wish I could borrow an INTJ brain for a few hours to make the reading go more quickly!

[Iria]

"The Social Contract" It is one of the random books I picked up from a thrift store.

[xibkia]

Currently reading "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

[coffeeforme]

The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic by Steven Johnson

Kind of slow in the beginning but it's gradually getting better.

[phoboser]

Best of Best New Horror: Two Decades of Dark Fiction.

[ModernLit]

Currently reading "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

one of my favorite books ever.

i'm now reading something interesting called "the book of getting even" which isn't what it sounds, but it was endorsed by philip roth and has a pretty cover. it's about a rabbi's son coming of age in college and meeting twins, the boy whom he is in love with and the girl whom is in love with HIM. fun.

[BuShinJu]

"the Recognitions" - William Gaddis, tis a mighty tome, I wonder if I will make it through.

Just picked up "The King of Elflands Daughter" - Lord Dunsany, high fantasy to read with a cup o' tea.

[Ither]

K.V.Madhavan Kutty, The Village Before Time, 1991 (< the Malayalam).

You could call it a fictionalized autobiography or a literary ethnography. In any case, it's set in the environs of Phalgat, a town in Kerala State, India, in the 1930's. If you can get hold of a copy, it's well worth the read.

[Merle]

Poems - J.H. Prynne

An enormous collection of all Prynne's work, which has often been published in very small numbers and is hard to get hold of... so the big book is nice :)

Here is a sample:


The clouds are white in a pale autumn sky.
Looking at the misty paths I see this stooping
figure seeming to falter, in a thick compound
of adjustments, sublimed in white flakes. Then
it clears down, she turns or round her
the sweet breath goes about, at midnight
murmuring. Extremities flexed and cold.
A light wind crosses the fragrant waters;
deaf to reason I cup my hands, to
dew-drenched apricot flowers and their
livid tranquillity. It has the merit
of being seen to hurt, in her dream,
and then much further on, it does.

[runoverazebra]

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith
Too Many Curses by A. Lee Martinez

[Ither]

William Hale White, The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford, 1881.

A novel in the form of an autobiography. It's about the loss of faith of a Methodist preacher. The language is Victorian, the sentiment astonishingly 'modern'.

[MrFlaneur]

Dreams From My Father : Barack Obama

A deeply conflicted, calculating, ideological, confused and ordinary man if ever I saw one.

[Nikita]

All of my books are gone. :(

[Teaist]

As soon as exams are over, I'll be finishing Crime and Punishment. So far, it's an excellent book. I'm particularly impressed by how well Dostoevsky presents the dialogues. (Although, I wonder how much of the credit should go to the translator.)

[CWC]

"Simple Formal Logic" by Vander Nat
"Advance Formal logic" by Martin Cothran
"Astrophysics in a Nutshell" by Maoz

I'm looking forward to read "The Physics of Christianity" once I'm done with the above books which are pushing my mental cognitive abilities to the limits already.

[Synamon]

The Road - Cormac McCarthy

[Night Runner]

Aquarium by Viktor Suvorov

[yondyr]

Having read Bourdains hilarious 'Kitchen Confidential' some years ago, a chef friend suggested lately I read 'Waiter Rant' by 'The Waiter' so I bought a few copies though waiting tables while stoned might not be a good idea. :laugh:

[kijkje13]

Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie. Next on the list is Wizard of the Crow by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

[BrooklynBoy]

Personality Type - An Owner's Manual by Lenore Thomson

[Ither]

Rex Stout, In the Best of Families, 1950.

[thirtiesgirl]

Drood (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.) by Dan Simmons. A fictional retelling of the last 5 years of Charles Dickens' life as told by his friend and sometime writing collaborator, Wilkie Collins (Salieri to Dickens' Mozart, so to speak). Collins details the experiences that lead to Dickens' supposed obsession with a mysterious, possibly fictitious character named Drood who eventually becomes the subject matter for Dickens' last, unfinished novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood. There are lots of details of the seamy underside of London's underworld, and the seamy underside of the lives of both these historical authors, their affairs (both romantic and personal) and how they treated the women in their lives. Collins, a known opium and laudanum user in the 1800s, is an unreliable narrator at best, and as the story continues, you can't be sure if what he's telling is truth or a product of his opium-steeped imagination.

[Ither]

Charlotte Smith, The Old Manor House, 1793.

A masterpiece it is not, but still... The author was of the circle that also included Godwin and Wollstonecraft. It shows.

[Samoan Corleone]

'Travels with Charley' by John Steinbeck. Reb recommended it so, after putting off paying my $20 fee at the library, I got it out a few days ago. It's a great read so far.

[LordCorbin]

The Gift of Valor - A War Story (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.) by Michael M. Phillips
Marine sacrifices himself to save his unit.

[DewFuel]

The Cold One - Christopher Pike

horror at its finest

[lupinskitten]

Right now I'm reading "Going Postal" by Terry Pratchett (it's hilarious!) and George Sanders' autobiography.

[Merle]

Space in Theory: Kristeva, Foucault, Deleuze - Russell West-Pavlov

Futurenatural: Nature, Science, Culture - Various authors and too many eds to name.

The Moral Authority of Nature - Lorraine Daston, Fernando Vidal eds.

[delilah]

Dubliners - Joyce.

[MortalWombat]

Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
The Da Vinci Deception - Erwin W. Lutzer
Vietnam, a History - Stanley Karnow

Hooray for multitasking.

[lurk]

Flags of Our Fathers - James Bradley

[Ither]

Penelope FitzGerald, The Golden Child, 1977.

Set in a museum, one of her nine novels. When one is read, regret that there is one less to read follows.

[khrome]

The Electronic Arts of Sound and Light - Pellegrino (suddenly had an interest in analog synths again)

Draping for Fashion Design - Jaffe

Battle Angel Alita, Last Order Vol 1 - Kishiro (manga)

[alphavictor]

Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
The Black Swan - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Just finished Maverick - Ricardo Semler

[Night Runner]

Xenocide by Orson Scott Card

[Ither]

Rhys Bowen, Evan’s Gate, 2004.
Georgette Heyer, They Found Him Dead, 1937.

The Bowen is a "cozy" set in Wales. Heyer is much better known as a writer of Regency Romances, but she wrote about a dozen mysteries -- all excellent. They seem neglected compared to Sayers et al.

[Epictetus]

Cosmos by Carl Sagan.
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgearld.

[Bluesea]

'Anatomy of an epidemic' by Roger Whittaker

[katrin]

The Kind Diet by Alicia Silverstone

[LoquaciousNinja]

The Road - Cormac McCarthy

I just finished that the other day. I quite liked it.

As for what I'm reading, just finished The Magicians, by Lev Grossman, and I'm starting on Frankenstein and The Invisible Man. Also reading a Terry Pratchett book, Soul Music.

[BellaBianca]

A collection of short stories by Lovecraft.
The Renaissance by Walter Pater.

[Beryl]

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

[akela]

Current: Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

Last 5:
Henderson The Rain King - Saul Bellow
The Fall - Albert Camus
Exile and The Kingdom - Albert Camus
Pygmy - Chuck Palahniuk
Local Anasthetic - Gunter Grass

[Ither]

Reginald Hill, Pictures of Perfection, 1994.

It's a treat.

[MetricalNoir]

Inside the Wire: A Military Intelligence Soldier's Eyewitness Account of Life at Guantanamo - Erick Saar and Viveca Novak.

Quite fascinating.

[Merle]

Deleuze/Guattari & Ecology - Bernd Herzogenrath ed.

Cracking the GRE Literature in English Subject Test - fun, fun, fun.

Snow Part - Paul Celan

[zimtgeschmack]

I just read excerpts of 'The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon' a few weeks ago. Lovely! Generally I do not really have the patience for fiction these days (do other INTJs feel/think that way ?) so I'm reading an anthology (I just love them!) about methodology in religious studies (from cover to cover).Much more interesting than it sounds

[Teaist]

Generally I do not really have the patience for fiction these days (do other INTJs feel/think that way ?)
Quite the opposite. Good fiction is one of the things I most treasure in my book life. Nothing else engages the imagination in quite the same way. It can be rather depressing to go without it for too long.

Having finished Crime and Punishment on the weekend (and being quite teary by the end), next on my agenda are:

The Goldsworthy Trilogy (Graeme Goldsworthy) - Three books on biblical interpretation.
The Children of Hurin (JRR Tolkein)

And, if I get a chance, some more of The Enjoyment of Tea (Sen Genshitsu). So far it informs me that:
Tea rooms are the very space that allows one to become one with the universe through a bowl of tea.

[Ither]

Rex Stout, Might As Well Be Dead, 1956.

Dorothy Sayers, Murder Must Advertise, 1933.

In some ways these are opposites. Stout’s Nero Wolfes are deadpan. Sayer is more interested in social elaborations, Whimsical asides, and sub voces. Neither book is particularly strong in plot. With prose this good, who cares?

[Kricket]

Binging on Terry Pratchett for the last few weeks. In order:

-Going Postal (my favorite book)
-Making Money
-Wintersmith
-Guards! Guards!

Pratchett consistently makes me laugh out loud, even on my fourth or fifth read through. I like how he exaggerates everything (setting, plot, character) to call attention to basic human behavior. It's like looking at a caricature that calls attention to someone's most memorable features.

[akela]

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
The Penguin Collected Essays of George Orwell

[Mind Marauder]

Stranger in a Strange Land by: Robert A. Heinlein

[HereticForLife]

The Plague and The Stranger by Albert Camus
The Things They Carried by Tim O´Brien

[Rohsiph]

Asimov's Foundation and Empire, with Alasdair Gray's Lanark, Anthony Burgess' The Wanting Seed, The Prose Edda, Second Foundation, and short story collections by H. P. Lovecraft and Lord Dunsany on deck (probably not in that order, but who knows).

[Veracity]

More Sex is Safer Sex: The Unconventional Wisdom of Economics by Steven Landsburg
The House of Morgan by Ron Chernow
The Law of Success by Napoleon Hill
Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Peter Bernstein

[Thinker]

The Slap - by CHRISTOS TSIOLKAS (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

[Ither]

Margery Allingham, Black Plumes, 1940.

Imagine Ivy Compton-Burnett slightly tipsy.

[XFire35]

Anatomy and Physiology
Criminal Law
The Painted Man (sort of)
TYS Esperanto

[albi92]

The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli

[Sipak]

Veronika decides to die - Paulo Coelho

[HesterP]

Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams

[Onigumo13]

Conjure 165 card tricks & stunts By master magician Jean Hugard :)

[s4nder]

Next time a similar thread is made, I think it would be a good idea for people to include a short abstract to give others an idea of what the book is about. I'm sure I'd be interested in reading many books listed here but googling a review on each of them is going to take too much time.

[Ither]

Nicholas Blake, Head of a Traveller, 1949.

In 'real' life the author, under a real name, was professor of poetry at Oxford. He wrote about two dozen of these detectives. I don't think they wear as well as those of Innes or Crispin.

[PRBori]

Not necessarily a book, but guidance on CP

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[Mahgol]

The Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare

[Paul Siraisi]

Herodotus.

[operatorfivetwo]

Argumentation and Rhetorics - Aristotle
World War Z - Max Brooks
The House of Leaves - Mark Danielewski (Re-reading I get obsessed with the hidden messages in the sidenotes..)
Being No One - Thomas Metzinger.

[Ither]

Hanif Kureishi, Gabriel’s Gift, 2001.

A disappointment after The Buddha of Suburbia, but maybe this is just a question of age. The hero of the book is a fifteen year old with a lapsed rock musician as father and former groupie as mother. Perhaps if born between, say, 1970-1985 the novel may make sense. It didn't to me.

[HAL 9000]

Dr. Zhivago, it is taking far longer than I had expected. My ADD has been on overdrive lately.

[Bloody Annoyed]

Reading was my favorite past time, and it has been long neglected. So to get the ball rolling again in quick succession (as in last couple of weeks) I've read:

-The Light of Other Days, Arthur C. Clark & Stephen Baxter

-Map of Bones, James Rollins
-Black Order, James Rollins (only at this point did I realize I missed the first in the series- Sandstorm will have to go back and read later)

-Kiss the Girls, James Patterson

And now trying a little Clive Cussler on for size with Atlantis Found

[tabiris]

The Blade Itself, Joe Abercrombie. Read 150 pages for now, seems very promising.

[Ither]

W.J.Burley, Wycliffe and the Beales, 1983.

It's too hot and humid to read anything serious.

[Smokescreen]

The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls by Emilie Autumn

[Americano]

Cien Años de Soledad by Gabriel García Márquez

The Path Between the Seas by David McCullough

[Teaist]

I found Notes From Underground (a selection of short stories by Dostoevsky), and finished reading "White Nights" two minutes ago. It is rare to encounter such a charming, delightful, and sorrowful story that fits on so few pages.

[Kricket]

Margery Allingham, Black Plumes, 1940.

Oh my word, an Allingham reader. I never thought I'd see one except in a mirror; now I'll be in a good mood all day.

[taciturn]

Resurrection-Tolstoy

[Elwood92]

Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy by Noam Chomsky

and

The Art of War by Sun Tzu

[Ither]

Arnold Bennett, The Grim Smile of the Five Towns, 1907.

It's a shame that Bennett isn't read more. These stories are as good as Maugham's, which they resemble. More accurately, it's the other way around.

[InfiniteLoop]

The Pleasure Police, David Shaw. Interesting sociological read...

And are we condemned to books? Because I actually just finished reading Batman: R.I.P - surprisingly much better than I thought it would be...

[HumbertHumbert]

Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett

[Ither]

Angela Thirkell, The Brandons, 1939.

Trollope updated.

[panzom]

The Greatest Show on Earth - Richard Dawkins

[Desmond Linus]

Catch A Wave: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of The Beach Boys' Brian Wilson

A schoolfriend of mine lent me this almost 2 years ago, and I've been reading it on and off since, but now I'm determined to finish it.

It's a very well-written book. Brian dealt with some mental illness as well as terrible substance abuse. Definitely a tortured genius.

I shouldn't have watched the documentary. It took out some of the motivation since I know his life ends up. Nonetheless, I'll keep reading.

[Night Runner]

Blackjack Secrets by Stanford Wong

[masterpeach]

"The Magic Mountain" by Thomas Mann
"The Alphabet versus the Goddess" by Leonard Shlain

[Imagineering]

Some book by Hulk Kogan.

[Night Runner]

Ken Uston on blackjack: secrets of winning at '21' by the $5,000,000 man

[cheerbear]

Ken Uston on blackjack: secrets of winning at '21' by the $5,000,000 man

ahaha, what's with all the gambling books lately :p

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Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk

[Ither]

Arnaldur Indridason, Tainted Blood, 2000 (< the Icelandic)

It's a best seller, but save for place-names one learns little about Iceland. The plot is only adequate, the approach a police procedural modeled after Sjowall and Wahloo, who did it better.

[HereticForLife]

Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science by Charles Wheelan

[LifesEcstasy]

Seth Godin's Linchpin.

Most fascinating book I've read in the past 5yrs. It perfectly explains to me why people persist in maintaining the status quo at all costs and why they end up hating their life over it. I've known forever that careers are a con and here in print someone has explained to me why.

[sixpoint8]

Pragmatic Thinking and Learning
Letter by Letter: An Alphabetical Miscellany

[Margot]

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell.

[Miryr]

Some book by Hulk Kogan.

HE CAN WRITE?!?!

[Il Prodigio]

Bradshaw on: The family

[Dante]

Open by Andre Agassi
In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan

[MadMonk]

The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano

[deconspire]

The Pillars Of Hercules -Paul Theroux

[ElstonGunn]

Marx's Das Kapital - A Biography by Francis Wheen. It's part of that series of mini-books about big, important books ("Books that Changed the World," is the name of the series). That's my primary book right now.

Also:
Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Myths of the Norsemen by HA Guerber

[Grendl]

Two at the moment:
The Black Hills by Dan Simmons. Anything by Simmons is amazing.
One Second After by William Forstchen.

Just finished Altar of Eden by James Rollins. Very good as well.

[8iii8]

Just finished: The Definitive Book of Body Language by Allan and Barbara Pease
Currently Reading: How To Win a Fight With a Conservative by Daniel Kurtzman, (comical, yet kind of serious)
Up next: Super Freakonomics

[RedOrange823]

The Wall by Jean Paul Sartre

[AlbanyDude]

A Demon Haunted World - Carl Sagan

[Ither]

Caroline Finkel, Osman's Dream: The Story of the Ottoman Empire 1300-1923, 2005.

David Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East, 1989

These should get me well into August.

[Pride Battery]

Man And His Symbols by Carl Jung
The Shape Of Space by Jeffrey R. Weeks
The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart

[Merle]

Re-reading Mille Plateaux, by Deleuze and Guattari; the Three Ecologies by Guattari; and Creative Evolution by Henri Bergson, all for thesis research.

For relaxation I'm reading a book of short stories which I suspect will interest a few here:

When it Changed: Science into Fiction, an Anthology (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.) (link to a review)

the book is a project conceived by the Science Fiction writer Geoff Ryman who organised putting writers in contact with research scientists in the hope that cutting-edge, real science would inspire the writers to write science fiction stories with more scientifically plausible bases built upon the research of those scientists, and also just to foster a collaboration between science and the Arts.

[MortalWombat]

1984 by George Orwell.

[lurk]

The Brass Verdict - Michael Connelly
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo - Steig Larsson

i.e. "brain Doritos"

[N0c7urn3]

Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky

I wonder how long that will take me ...

[LoquaciousNinja]

Guns, Germs, and Steel, by Jared Diamond. Greatly looking forward to it. Loved Collapse.

And am I the only one who thinks the guy's name sounds like a country singer's rather than a physiology professor's?

[ssrprotege]

Nuremberg Diary by G. M. Gilbert.

[wongfoo]

The Boy Detective Fails by Joe Meno

[JulietCapulet]

Girl with Glasses

[LordCorbin]

Just finished Philip K. Dick's 'The World Jones Made'
A world where proselytizing absolutists are forced to back up their claims with evidence or be sentenced to life in a 'work camp'? Yes, please. How soon can you drop me off?

[TacocaT]

lolita

[Elwood92]

Democracy and Education by John Dewey

[masterpeach]

Portraits and Observations - The Essays of Truman Capote

[oldspice]

Generation Kill

[Night Runner]

Fighting my way through Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse. Some of the ideas are quite thought-provoking, but ye gods, it's so fraking bland and tedious! :irked: Or maybe it's just a really bad translation...

[MortalWombat]

Catch-22

[Desmond Linus]

I just finished Catch A Wave: The Rise, Fall and Redemption of The Beach Boys' Brian Wilson by Peter Ames Carlin.

I just started Something Happened by Joseph Heller. It's good so far. Wombat, when you finish Catch-22, give this one a look.

[gestalt]

The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of The Learning Organization
The Essential Drucker
Deep Survival
21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership
A Game of Thrones
Afghanistan: Where Empires go to Die

[DarkPassenger]

C.S. Lewis - Mere Christianity.

[Merle]

Collapse, Volume III: 'Unknown Deleuze'

[nat]

Speaker of The Dead - O. S. Card

I know I'm late.

[s4nder]

I started reading Iain M. Banks' "Consider Phlebas" while waiting for Peter F. Hamilton's "Evolutionary Void" to come out. It's a much faster paced and denser read than Hamilton's books but I'm liking it this far.

[shesgeekyweird]

1984 George Orwell

[BuShinJu]

A Voyage to Arcturus - David Lindsay

This book has some crazy stuff going on, easy to read and very entertaining. It may also interest those who like looking at personality profiles, as the characters are all archetypes and the main character's personality actually changes throughout the book.

[Condo]

The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand.

[Dathmar]

Chainfire - Terry Goodkind

[Artio]

Claudia Gold's Queen, Empress, Concubine: Fifty Women Rulers from the Queen of Sheba to Catherine the Great

[Night Runner]

Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded by John Scalzi

[MortalWombat]

Animal Farm - George Orwell.

Pretty funny little satire.

[GouldFan]

The Greek Myths by Robert Graves

[INTroJect]

Empire - Orson Scott Card

Cheap cookie cutter action thriller novel.

[WhereIsNovember]

I'm currently reading Dracula by Bram Stoker, mostly so I can do a "Let's Play" of Dracula Resurrection.

It's a lot easier to read and is far more interesting than I thought it would be.

[HereticForLife]

Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek
Chapterhouse: Dune by Frank Herbert
Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov