What book are you reading right now?

[DarkPassenger]

Animal Farm - George Orwell.

Pretty funny little satire.

One of my favorites.

Just picked up Suck it, Wonder Woman! by Olivia Munn from the library. Pretty damn hilarious so far. This is my "when I don't want to think book".

[Night Runner]

Vernye vragi (faithful enemies) by Olga Gromyko

[Seraphim]

Just finished rereading Terry Pratchett's 'Unseen Academicals'. Arguably, his best work.

[DarkPassenger]

God and Philosophy by Antony Flew, 2005 reprint with revised introduction.

[masterpeach]

Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby

[DarkPassenger]

Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby

That takes me back, great book from what I remember.

[Mary Clare]

visions- michio kaku, offers a broad scientific glimpse into the future

[katrin]

I'm reading Fever Crumb by Phillip Reeve. It's a science fiction story featuring a teenage girl who is an engineering apprentice, the only female one. She's been raised to be rational, like all the engineers, who sound like they all are INTJs. Too funny.

[DarkPassenger]

visions- michio kaku, offers a broad scientific glimpse into the future

I love that guy! Used to love watching him on the Science channel. I'll have to check this book out, thanks for the tip!

[Sigrave]

House of Leaves.

An unusual thing about it however is that I haven't felt compelled to sit down and devour it as fast as possible which is my usual M.O. when I find an enjoyable book. I've been savoring it for almost two weeks now, only reading a little in the evenings or on breaks at work.

[QuietConfidence]

Finished "Marco Polo Didn't Go There" which is a compilation of travel stories written by Rolf Potts.

On page 60 on On the Road by Kerouac. Amazing stuff.

[Ral3l3it]

Red Mars: by Kim Stanley Robinson.

Next I will read Green Mars then Blue Mars. Great books if you like astronomy and the concept of terraforming.

[INTroJect]

Red Mars: by Kim Stanley Robinson.

Next I will read Green Mars then Blue Mars. Great books if you like astronomy and the concept of terraforming.

ooo. That sounds like a fun read. Any interesting insights?

[Firebrand]

Original Law of Success (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)
Meg : Primal Waters (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)
Tricks of the 3D Game Programming Gurus (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

[ModernLit]

strange bedfellows. it's a book about the science of monogamy.

[Galactica]

I like to juggle several books at once because I hate when a book is done!
In the pile is an interesting one that reads like a textbook @ times- This Is Your Brain On Music
Daniel J. Levitin

[Findley]

Catch-22.

[DarkPassenger]

Catch-22.

Great book.

[JustMel]

Lee Child 61 Hours

[Night Runner]

Nochnoy Dozor (Night Watch) by Sergey Luk'yanenko

[masterpeach]

That takes me back, great book from what I remember.

I loved it! I read it in a one night's session. I am always amazed at how similar characters and soceties are regardless of the time they live in (I have a knack for stories playing somewhere between the 1830s - 1920s).

Currently, I am reading


Truman Capote: Portraits and Observations.
Kuijper, Michiel Pieter: Knowledge engineering for usability: Model-mediated interaction design of authoring instructional simulations.
Chris Rupp: Requirements Engineering.

[intellael]

Coraline --> Neil Gaiman
21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership --> John Maxwell

[chaostheory]

Solipsist by Henry Rollins
Contact by Carl Sagan

[nat]

Xenocide - Card.

Wonder whether I really have to continue finishing Ender's series. Kind of don't.

[Rohsiph]

Halfway through Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, with Alasdair Gray's Lanark on-base.

[Jobo]

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

and

Existentialism From Dostoyovsky to Sarte Selected and Introduced by Walter Kaufman

[Imagineering]

precalculus by sullivan It's a fine read. There is a lot of rising action with the slope.

[Ven]

I've just begun Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. I hope I'll reach the end, size of this book scares me.

[grr]

blood meridian... it's just so. gruesome.

[nabokov]

The Master & Margarita

[Xanthippe]

Assorted Ionesco plays. Just finished The Rhinoceros, which was great fun :)

[Sazeriel]

The Zahir by Paulo Coelho

[Taste of peat]

The burning souls (Les âmes qui brûlent) by Léon Degrelle.

Simply amazing. A few words and everything, a principle, a situation, a feeling, a profund truth, all in the same time, is said. There is a spanish version but no english translation for now.

[alt lit]

Neuromancer by William Gibson

The Encantadas by Herman Melville

[chaostheory]

Just finished Solipsist by Henry Rollins...it's rather depressing.

Next up, The Intention Experiment by Lynne Maggart

[Night Runner]

The Magicians by Lev Grossman

[Rachminov]

I'm beginning Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell. The cashier at Books a Million said that it's a great read. We'll see.

[OhTheHorror]

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.

[BellaBianca]

De Profundis by Oscar Wilde.

[LoquaciousNinja]

The Magicians by Lev Grossman

I just finished that. Quite liked it, too. Despite paying such heavy homage to so many big works, it has a very distinctive flavor, and it's not quite like anything else I've read.

Currently, I'm reading A Wrinkle in Time. Children's books are about all I seem to have the attention span for these days. Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel is next on my list, whenever I work up the courage.

[Night Runner]

Elvis, Jesus & Coca-Cola by Kinky Friedman. Great writer! :thumbsup:

[Thinker]

The patient from Hell - Stephen Schneider

[IAMME]

Just finished, PD James, "An Unsuitable Job for a Woman".

Now reading, Agatha Christie, "Curtain".

Nothing like a rural English setting to bring out the murderer in one.

[Reanne]

The latest i've finished (had read thru for the 3rd tme) is Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. The Lost symbol is next on my list.

[Firefawn]

Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson

[Rachminov]

The Defender - Vladimir Nabokov

[Tito]

The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould and J.P. Morgan Invented the American Super-economy

By: Charles R. Morris

[Merle]

I handed in my thesis yesterday - woop!!

So now I can read for fun again :)


Have started with:

The Complete Cosmicomics (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.) - Italo Calvino

[brdmadgrl82]

every patient tells a story- by dr. lisa sanders, m.d. (good stuff!)

[katrin]

I handed in my thesis yesterday - woop!!

So now I can read for fun again :)

When I finished my master's degree (for which I wrote a paper that wasn't a thesis), all I wanted to do was read fluff. I tore through about 20 mystery series. It was awesome. :laugh:

I just finished Nothing by Janne Teller. What a depressing book. Sort of similar in tone and theme to Lord of the Flies but not as good.

[Night Runner]

Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins. Not the most intellectually challenging book I've ever read, but the writing is damn good. Just look at the first line! "I clasp the flask between my hands even though the warmth from the tea has long since leached into the frozen air." :smart:

[rika]

Lovelife by Zeruya Shalev
Am thoroughly enjoying this book and some parts are ecxellent. Highly intuitive author.

[Insomey]

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

and

Existentialism From Dostoyovsky to Sarte Selected and Introduced by Walter Kaufman


Good call, reminds me that I have some Dostoevsky lying around at my place that I should pick up again when I'm calmer.

Right now I need some relaxing material--so finishing Douglas Coupland's Generation A, and This is Your Brain on Music--Daniel J. Levitin

[Antares]

The Symposium by Plato
The Aeneid by Virgil
The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel
What to Listen for in Music by Aaron Copland

[zsfym]

Ivan the Terrible - Henri Troyat

[katrin]

I read Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins. So disappointing.

[MortalWombat]

Rapture of Canaan by Sheri Reynolds.
It's a pretty easy read, but the materials it deals with are so screwed up.

[AdmiralJack]

Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger and Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (bracing for shitstorm?) I'm 70 pages or so deep in the Qur'an, but I had to put my "reading about stuff people around me only pretend to know anything about" project on hold after classes started in August.

The Qur'an bit was specifically included to sound pretentious. Worked?

I've just begun Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. I hope I'll reach the end, size of this book scares me.

No worries, it's actually really simple reading. Are you choosing to think of it as purely a story or as philosophy?

[Doppelbock]

"The Road to Serfdom," by F. A. Hayek. This is a must-read book for anyone interested in capitalism versus socialism.

[OhTheHorror]

I read Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins. So disappointing.

Did you enjoy the previous two books? I personally dislike the whole series, though it's funny that so many people can be captivated by kids killing each other.
--
Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco.
Julian Comstock by Robert Charles Wilson.

[RyanREV]

"The End of Food" by Thomas Pawlick

[Pool Guy]

1. "Plan B 4.0" by Lester Brown
2. "Collapse" by Jared Diamond
3. "Games People Play" by Eric Berne

[Elena]

Home Book of Taxidermy and Tanning
By Gerald Grantz

[plushbug]

Seeker's Bane, P.C. Hodgell. Read and enjoyed her preceding books God Stalk and Dark of the Moon decades ago (offbeat 'youth' fantasy) so a real pleasure to discover two more in the same series packaged together.

[Rachminov]

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

[alt lit]

Would you believe I went to two different bookstores today to pick up All is Forgotten, Nothing is Lost (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.) and neither of them had it in stock? No wonder brick and mortar stores are failing...

So I am between books at the moment and will update soon, hopefully with All is Forgotten, Nothing is Lost.

[INiTeJer]

I am in the middle of a few books of short stories:

Dave Eggers - How We Are Hungry. Dave is not a writer I would have come across by myself, and I while I love his stuff I never like it as much as I feel like I 'should'. I suspect it will grow on me though :D

Daniel Handler - Adverbs. I picked up a second hand copy over the weekend. I read this a few years ago in a pivotal period of my life that continues to reverberate in my psyche. I am collecting the books I remember loving in that period and this is one of the last ones on the list.

[vilijaba]

The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus. That's quite a challange for me.
Introduction to Philosophy by Evaldas Nekrašas. I don't have an opportunity to study philosophy in school therefore I decided to study it on my own.

[alphawolf]

The Psilocybin Solution: Prelude to a Paradigm Shift, Simon G. Powell


Full PDF version available from this link:

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[JustMel]

Die For You by Lisa Unger

[Night Runner]

Suzanne Collins' final book in the Hunger Games series, Mockingjay, was a huge disappointment... On to Boneshaker by Cherie Priest.

[mana]

Good call, reminds me that I have some Dostoevsky lying around at my place that I should pick up again when I'm calmer.

Right now I need some relaxing material--so finishing Douglas Coupland's Generation A, and This is Your Brain on Music--Daniel J. Levitin


I'm slowly working my way through The Brothers Karamazov, slowly becuase I'm also reading Under the Dome by Steven King, and Atlas Shruged By Ayn Rand.

Karamazov is supose to be the begining of the pycological crime novel only Im half way through the book and I just finished reading the murder! I'm joking really, not about the time of the murder it really did take over 400 pages to get there, but it was worth it.

The reviews for Under the Dome say its on par with The Stand which was one of my favorit novels, I'm excited to find out if it is.

I finished Rand's Fountinhead over the summer and adord it, completly ignoring her phiolosophy she's an amazing writer, I was almost disapointed when I realized a good way in to Atlas its alot less about the story and Alot more about the phiolosophy. I'm reading Galts speach right now and I wont say she's wrong but I really would rather jump ahead and read the story.

[Merle]

Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco.


ooh, I love Foucault's Pendulum, it's a fun book :)


I am reading- To the Ends of the Earth: a Collection of the Finest Writing on the Arctic and the Antarctic by various people.

[INiTeJer]

I have just finished Andy Warhol - The Philosophy of Andy Warhol on the train this morningt (just got to work) and am about to re-read William S Burroughs - Junky.

I am slowly over time making my way through the beat poets et al, just feel like I'm up to that. I have also slowly been making my way through some Dostoyevsky. What I haven't started working my way through yet is William Blake's poetry, which has been on my coffee table for about six months.

I like to intersperse (is that even a word?) the deeper ones with a lot of generic, un-rememerable books. I don't know why, but this helps me assimilate and give more meaning to the deeper ones. Kind of like, joining the dots and connecting the flashpoints on a book-level scale.

[aladdin]

In my whole life I can name the novels I liked. I don't like them in general, I prefer reading a book that talks about a theory, or a about history, etc.
Now, I'm reading psychopathologie de la vie quotidienne by Freud "it's the french version"

[ModernLit]

make no law, anthony lewis.
about the sullivan case and the first amendment.

[vampyroteuthis]

The Birth of the Clinic - Michel Foucault

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe - Charles Yu

The Pirates! In An Adventure with Ahab - Gideon Defoe

[Merle]

I just bought a copy of Heart of Darkness (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)as a graphic novel - drawn by one of my best friends... so everyone go out and buy it!

and Zero History by William Gibson.

So, I'll be starting in on those tonight.

[gcgarza]

I think a better question would be 'What book am I NOT reading right now?'

[INiTeJer]

I have just finished re-reading William S Burroughs - Junky. l I have read a lot of his stuff, but I am nowhere near assimilating his stuff.

I have just started on Marcus - Clarke - For the Term of His Natural Life. It is set in Tasmania, Australia in the years of early Australian settlement. This book came from my maternal grandma's. She is recently diagnosed with an aggressive cancer and is cleaning out some of her stuff, and wanted to give me whatever books she had lieing around. A memory of four years ago, living in a small, dingy apartment in the inner city, and getting a box full of books from my paternal grandather's garage after he passed away, and reading Catcher in The Rye that was falling apart in my hands as I turned the pages.

[KittenCaboodle]

I am currently reading Nabakov's Lolita.

[georgiana]

I just finished "First Lady Chatterley" by D. H. Lawrence and loved it! It's a great story about sex and love and I strongly recommend it. And it's not at all boring, it's very entertaining!

[dnbstep]

I'm reading the Bread Bible.

[peter]

Marie-Louise von Franz, Shadow and Evil in Fairy Stories

[Artio]

Bukowski: Factotum

[INiTeJer]

nadine gordimer - beethoven was one-sixteenth black and other stories

[CWC]

Principia of mathematica and not going well.

[altoid]

World War Z - Max Brooks

[alt lit]

Would you believe I went to two different bookstores today to pick up All is Forgotten, Nothing is Lost (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.) and neither of them had it in stock? No wonder brick and mortar stores are failing...

So I am between books at the moment and will update soon, hopefully with All is Forgotten, Nothing is Lost.

Finally got a copy. The first 30 pages were very disappointing. I'm at about p. 80 now, and it's starting to get better. I think I'm beginning to see why the first 30 were written how they were, but I'm not certain yet. I'll let you know the final evaluation.

[INiTeJer]

currently flicking through on the train: Stephen King - The Green Mile; Stephen King - Froma Buick 8.

[tracemhunter]

I just finished reading Confessions of an Economic Hitman. It was okay but a little too "whiny" for my taste.

[MortalWombat]

Not yet, but when they get here in the mail:
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Great Gatsby
Great Expectations


I'm excited.

[altoid]

Lolita

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

Good book!

[psykhe]

The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope

[Wittshell]

On the geneaology of morality - Nietzsche

First chapter was good... Two left.

[katrin]

I'd just about kill to get my hands on a copy of Connie Willis's All Clear or Lois McMaster Bujold's Cryoburn. But they don't drop until October 19th. Argh. 2 days before I go back to work.

Right now, I'm reading Crossing Over by Anna Kendall, a first time novelist. So far, so good.

[Squeenix]

The day of the Triffids by John Wyndham

[Margaret32]

The Curious Incident...is a great book, and accurately portrays the thinking, words and actions of an adolescent boy with Asperger syndrome. It's time for me to read it again. Enjoy it!

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For my fiction book I am reading the first Louise Penny (Montreal author) mystery/crime story, "Still Life." I had finished the 3 Tana French books (outstanding!) and a friend recommended the Penny books. I am enjoying the book.

For my nonfiction book--reading some books on trees. I love trees.

[Anima Mundi]

A Young Man Without Magic - Lawrence Watt-Evans

[Findley]

The Histories -- Herodotus
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test -- Tom Wolfe

[Firebrand]

"How to Get Rich" - Felix Dennis (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)
"Meg 4 : Hell's Aquarium" - Steve Alten (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

[Rationality]

Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion. It's not a novel but rather a collection of essays.

[think]

"How Evil Works" by David Kupelian
"American Conspiracies" by Jesse Ventura
"Mind Programming" by Eldon Taylor

[alt lit]

Finally got a copy. The first 30 pages were very disappointing. I'm at about p. 80 now, and it's starting to get better. I think I'm beginning to see why the first 30 were written how they were, but I'm not certain yet. I'll let you know the final evaluation.

Largely underwhelming. It had its moments but not very many. From a technical craft standpoint, very disappointing coming from the director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

All is Forgotten, Nothing is Lost (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

[Dasein]

Dworkin's Taking Rights Seriously. And Henry VI.

[JustMel]

You guys are all reading serious stuff. I had to take a break from that and am currently enjoying Lisa Jackson's Running Scared. Good book.

[flower]

The earth's Children Series I'm on the 3rd book now. I can't get my INTJ mind out of some situations that to me, make it less believable. Meh, but it's entertaining in general.

[marlique]

What is the What, by Dave Eggers.

Love that guy. I'm writing my master's thesis in literature on his first book, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. But the one I'm currently reading is about the war in Sudan, and the personal account of one man (then a 7 year old boy) whose family was killed and who had to walk for weeks and cross the desert to make it to Ethiopia. Quite heartbreaking in its content but full of wisdom and as lighthearted as one can get about these things.

[LoquaciousNinja]

The Birth of the Republic, by Edmund S. Morgan.

[Megalomania]

Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion. It's not a novel but rather a collection of essays.


An allusion to "The Second Coming" by Yeats?

[Toad]

Physics of the Impossible by Michio Kaku. I just finished Breaking the Spell by Daniel Dennett.

[Yardy]

The Moral Life of Children - Robert Coles

[Megalomania]

I'm slowly working my way through The Brothers Karamazov, slowly becuase I'm also reading Under the Dome by Steven King, and Atlas Shruged By Ayn Rand.

Karamazov is supose to be the begining of the pycological crime novel only Im half way through the book and I just finished reading the murder! I'm joking really, not about the time of the murder it really did take over 400 pages to get there, but it was worth it.

The reviews for Under the Dome say its on par with The Stand which was one of my favorit novels, I'm excited to find out if it is.

I finished Rand's Fountinhead over the summer and adord it, completly ignoring her phiolosophy she's an amazing writer, I was almost disapointed when I realized a good way in to Atlas its alot less about the story and Alot more about the phiolosophy. I'm reading Galts speach right now and I wont say she's wrong but I really would rather jump ahead and read the story.

Under the Dome is very good, but definitely not on par with The Stand. As for The Brothers Karamazov I enjoyed it a lot, more so than Crime and Punishment. Nietzsche called Dostoevsky the only psychologist from whom he had something to learn.

[Rationality]

An allusion to "The Second Coming" by Yeats?

Yes, it is. The poem is printed in the beginning of the book and she mentions it in the preface.

[INiTeJer]

What is the What, by Dave Eggers.

Love that guy. I'm writing my master's thesis in literature on his first book, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. But the one I'm currently reading is about the war in Sudan, and the personal account of one man (then a 7 year old boy) whose family was killed and who had to walk for weeks and cross the desert to make it to Ethiopia. Quite heartbreaking in its content but full of wisdom and as lighthearted as one can get about these things.

Have you read any Nick Flynn? Strongly recommended if you're an Eggers fan, or anyone at all for that matter.

I am currently re-reading Ron McClarty - The Memory of Running.

[Angelos]

On War, by Carl von Clausewitz.

[Firefawn]

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clarke

[vilijaba]

Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut. I'm pretty much into Vonnegut lately but I still cannot decide whether I like him or not. However, I love his style of writing.

[gdh8tsu]

I started to get into a book called "The Diamond Age" by Neal Stephenson. It basically is about the human race where everything is done through nanotechnology its pretty good.

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[sergeev]

I often read books from Reslib library. Now I read Physics Demystified on reslib.com/book/5969

[lupinskitten]

"Pride & Prejudice," and "The Forsyte Saga" (which is three books in one).

[SShack]

Under the Dome is very good, but definitely not on par with The Stand. As for The Brothers Karamazov I enjoyed it a lot, more so than Crime and Punishment. Nietzsche called Dostoevsky the only psychologist from whom he had something to learn.

I am reading "Under the Dome" as well. What a coincidence.

Unfortunately, I don't feel that impressed. It's "vintage" Stephen King, and I don't mean that as a compliment. I feel like all the characters and behaviors are pretty much the same as other characters from his other books. There's a sameness to the storytelling and no sign of growth as a writer after all these years.

And I've really gotten tired of his religious nuts in his books.

[RedHead8808]

The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand

[Megalomania]

I am reading "Under the Dome" as well. What a coincidence.

Unfortunately, I don't feel that impressed. It's "vintage" Stephen King, and I don't mean that as a compliment. I feel like all the characters and behaviors are pretty much the same as other characters from his other books. There's a sameness to the storytelling and no sign of growth as a writer after all these years.

And I've really gotten tired of his religious nuts in his books.


It's a good story though. Anytime I finish an 1100 page book in less than a week I can't hate on the book too much. And yes, religious nuts are definitely a recurring theme in the world of Stephen King, but I never cease to find them entertaining. I don't know that you can really blame him for recycling some of the same ideas. The guy has written 49 novels (from wikipedia).

[GouldFan]

Wondrous Strange: The Life and Art of Glenn Gould by Kevin Bazzana

[Homini Lupus]

My last one was "Storm of Steel" by Ernst Jünger

[alt lit]

Starting The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud tomorrow.

[Sviptyr]

Currently reading Zones of Thought by Vernor Vinge.

[Anachronist]

I am on the verge of finishing Lois Lowry's The Giver for the n-teenth time.

[Faarkrog]

I am currently reading:
"How to lead" by Jo Owen,
"The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins,
and "The Greatest Show On Earth" by Richard Dawkins.

[CaesAug]

The Count of Monte Cristo

[KennyIs2Grif]

Dante Alighieri's Purgatory

[JTG1984]

Unmarketable: Brandalism, Copyfighting, Mocketing, and the Erosion of Integrity

[LOGIC]

A discourse on the method by Rene Descartes.

[sixpoint8]

On a whim, I read "Calculating God (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)" and enjoyed it.

I just started book 1 of "Dune". I'm several pages in and I like it so far.

[Kamiokande]

Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi

[Rishki]

Outcast by Aaron Allston

[escapist11]

House (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.) of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski

My favourite book...reading it again

[SaturnEternity]

Small is Beautiful by EF Schumacher.
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[vilijaba]

I've just started reading Ninteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell.

[Anima Mundi]

Finally getting around to reading The Master and Margarita.

[pileodust]

I'm in the middle of Little, Big by John Crowley, but lately all my reading time has been going toward mindless crap for school.

[ScarletDusk]

The Odyssey.

[bigcat39]

Kill the Dead by Richard Kadrey

[WoodsWoman]

Tinker, Taylor, Soldier, Spy by John Le Carre

[aok]

Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco

[psykhe]

Men's Relational Toolbox by Smalley

[callalilly]

Life after death.Deepak Chopra

[WhereIsNovember]

The Illuminati Trilogy Part 1: The Eye of the Pyramid by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson

and

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

[Latro]

Just started Xenocide by Orson Scott Card this week.

[runoverazebra]

I started The Break Up Club by Melissa Senate a couple of days ago. It's light and fluffy reading, but it's enjoyable.

[darynthe]

L'enfance du crime. It is a book about serial killers and mass killer's childhood. I don't think it is very good to be honest. All the conclusions drawn by the writer are totally forced in light of the evidence he has brought up. Not sure he is wrong though, just his conclusions are in the air.

It makes look psychiatry as a wishy-washy discipline.

[Onigumo13]

Level 26: Dark Origins by Anthony E. Zuiker

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Almost near the end :)

[Merle]

Re-reading Language of Landscape by Anne Whiston Spirn (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

[INTJoe]

Random walk down wall street

[JTG1984]

Atlas Shrugged By Ayn Rand

[Seriously]

"A Reliable Wife" by Robert Goolrick

[pyramidheadrock]

"The wind-up bird chronicle" by Murakami

[LonelyHero]

The Black Swan. Seems interesting :)

[areyaaradi]

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[SimplyOtter]

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[maddel]

everythings eventual by Stephen King
hitchhikers guide to the galaxy by Douglas Adams
good books( the only books in this godforsaken place in the mountains)

[Lestat]

Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco.
And a book about medieval philosophy for my history of medieval philosophy course at university.

[INiTeJer]

( the only books in this godforsaken place in the mountains)

that sounds like absolute heaven to me at the moment, except for the part about only two books.

currently reading: catherine o'flynn - what was lost

[DoomHammer27]

I'm currently reading Sojourn by R.A. Salvatore.

I'm reading the series for the second time. The Legend of Drizzt is just too badass.

[Izzy]

Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook by Anthony Bourdain

[MrDoom]

Trying my hand at Heinz Guderian's "Achtung -- Panzer!".

[escapist11]

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And to contrast the heaviness that this book is...
something light and super easy to read

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[INiTeJer]

Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook by Anthony Bourdain

one of my favourite writers. I think his non-fiction is great, and his fiction mindlessly entertaining at best but worth a look at.

currently re-reading: Nick Flynn - The Ticking is the Bomb

[pawn23]

"The wind-up bird chronicle" by Murakami
What do you think about it so far

[RaccoonLove]

The Color of Water..

[exist]

The Moral Landscape by Sam Harris

[FeeLyX]

The Dragon Reborn by Robert Jordan. I really like the Wheel of Time series.

[mrStevens]

Just finished 'Space Prison.' Working on 'His Majesty's Dragon.'

[Turambar]

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. It's wonderful! Read it immediately! Next up, Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (got it from a sale for 2 €, nice one).

[nhillson]

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn (somewhat dry, but very enlightening).

[miche001]

Just finished Shanghai Girls, now reading Sarah's Key

[Bioplasmoid]

"The Brain that changes itself" ( "Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science" ) by Norman Doidge, MD. Publisher :Penguin. - A bit watered down, but nevertheless one of the best ever books I have read on discoveries in neuroscience. So good that I only let myself read a chapter a month...So good that if I had the money I would buy copies for everyone I know.

"Self Hypnosis - The complete manual for health and self-change" 2nd Edition, by Brian M Alman PhD and Peter Lambrou PhD. Publisher: Brunner-Routledge. - Dry,Slightly Academic but has a fairly straight forward attempt at the HOWTO side of things. Good for reference purposes.

[Izzy]

Child of the Northern Spring by Persia Woolley...it was a free ereader book but has actually turned into an interesting King Arthur/Gwen story.

[areyaaradi]

'Decision Points' by George W Bush

[Cockswoggle]

'The Third Chimpanzee' by Jared Diamond.

[afoolsprogress]

Starlight and Storm by Gaston Rebuffat.

[Donuts]

Angelology -Danielle Trussoni

[MortalWombat]

Hamlet - Shakespeare.

Also, I have but have not started yet due to lack of time:
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri
and The Great Gatsby (to reread) - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Want:
Night - Elie Wiesel (reread)
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
The Lord of the Flies - William Golding

[Rishki]

Abyss by Troy Denning

[adeane]

Spider Bones by Kathy Reichs. She's the author behind the TV show Bones. Sometimes her stories are predictable. But nonetheless, good author.

[Arcanist]

Wizard's First Rule.

[lupinskitten]

Red Dragon.

[sixpoint8]

Last Wish, by Andrzej Sapkowski
A collection of fun short stories about the same character. Elves/Swords/Monsters

www : Wake, by Robert J. Sawyer
I recently finished reading the book "www : wake" by Robert J. Sawyer. I think it is made of win. I cried (one tear slid out of my right eye), I laughed, I got excited, I felt inspired. :D
It's a science-fiction novel that covers topics like cellular automata (the computer science kind), the internet, artificial intelligence, psychology, blindness, mental development, neurobiology, Network topology, also, the Hal 9000 was mentioned. :thumbsup:

[Traverser]

Against Intellectual Monopoly, by Boldrin & Levine.

[jasper077]

Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut

[icepick method]

Just finished Zero History by William Gibson. It was ok, nothing special.

[altoid]

Invitation to a Beheading by Nabokov

[Tito]

The Mystery of Banking

[Ilara]

天は赤い河のほとり
"sora wa akai kawa no hotori"
-The Sky is by the Red River (volume 8)
[Yes, I'm reading it in Japanese; hence the Japanese title]

Technically a manga, not a book.

[Night Runner]

Gift of Fury by Richard Jackson. Not bad for the first novel.

[brdmadgrl82]

"Eat, Pray, Love" by elizabeth gilbert


I normally don't read stuff like that but i loved it! so much better then the movie.

also just finished two more great reads:

"how doctors think" by dr. groopman

"every patient tells a story" by dr. sanders

[CBILL7]

Currently:
Richard Dawkins - The God Delusion

I would like to read:
Sam Harris - Letter to a Christian Nation
God Delusion --- cool book ...

[Theophilus71]

I'm currently reading

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

just finished Nicholas Nickleby by the similar author.. Next in line, War & Peace by Leo Tolstoy, its a fattie book :P

[Nonsuch]

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[1st]

Just finished "The Code Book" by Simon Singh. Great read if you're interested in cryptography!

[CBILL7]

Kieth Richards' autobiography ... very entertaining ...

[jasoncox]

Currently (re)reading Book 4 of the Malloreon (The Sorceress of Darshiva) by David Eddings. Once I'm done with the Malloreon, I intend to read Matched by Ally Condie.

[masterpeach]

Just finished "The Code Book" by Simon Singh. Great read if you're interested in cryptography!

I loved it. It was a gift of my best friend - she holds a PhD in mathematics and physics...

I just finished "The Mythical-Man Month (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)" by J. Brooks.

At the moment I am reading Dale Carnegie's "How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)".

[Calica]

The second Parrish Plessis book from Marianne de Pierres is waiting for me to pick it up.

[alt lit]

Tropisms by Nathalie Sarraute

[Venom]

"How the Mind Works" by Stephen Pinker.

Really opens your eyes to the beauty of the mind, and gives a lot of food-for-thought.

[Haumea]

Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior

[Night Runner]

Infoquake by David Louis Edelman. The main character is a boring, unsympathetic sociopath, but there are some pretty fun sci-fi concepts.

[Ral3l3it]

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card.

[Leg]

Il cimitero di Praga - Umberto Eco

[gestalt]

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
Warrior Mindset: Mental Toughness skills for the Nation's Peacekeepers
House of War
CLEP Principles of Management
And a couple of SERE guides...

[psykhe]

Down The River Piedra I Sat Down And Wept - Paulo Coelho

I read an e-book actually, had been dying to read it for a year or so. Expectations unmet :disappointed:

'Love lost and found'. I just hate it's spirituality issues.

[Alanas]

F. A. Hayek - "The Road to Serfdom"

[Charly]

T.E. Lawrence - "Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph"

Yeah I watched the trailer for uncharted 3 and got bored.

[Dover]

Last evening I read The Dewey Color System. It's a nice quick read that tells you about your personality based on colors you gravitate towards.

[contemplative1]

Just finished Predictably Irrational. I picked it up at the airport in London back in August but only got around to finishing it this week.

[masterpeach]

Robert Heinlein: The Man Who Sold The Moon (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

C. G. Jung: Psychological Types (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

[matty]

Just finished reading "The Art of Loving" By Eric Fromm

It was thought provoking and actually felt quite on the point about love.

[mcnickname]

Let the Great World Spin - Colum McCann (amazing!)

[EricJ]

I'm about to start Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexulity by John Boswell. I recently became interested in the topic of queer life during the Middle Ages.

[ElstonGunn]

The Lunatic Express by Carl Hoffman. It's about a guy who travels on dangerous conveyances, like ferries that frequently sink.

I'm also reading A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies by Bartolome de las Casas. It's about the Spanish Empire's treatment of the Indians.

[booksorcerer]

Currently Reading: EDGE by Jeffrey Deaver. Anything by this author is a mind game, and this one is more direct one than most (with board games and concepts of rational moves, and rational irrationality).

Recently Read: Ice Cold (Tess Gerritsen), The Fourth Estate (Jeffrey Archer), Mr. Monk is Cleaned Out (Lee Goldberg), Instant Genius, Magellan RoadMate User Handbook

[AnotherNormal]

My Inventions

The autobiography of Nikola Tesla

[HereticForLife]

Market Wizards by Jack Schwager

[InTheFlesh]

I'm reading 5 at the moment.
1.Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Nietzsche
2.The Liberal Way of War: Killing To Make Life Live by Michael Dillon & Julian Reid
3.Politics of Security by Michael Dillon
4.DMT: The Spirit Molecule by Rick Strassman
5.Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Thus Spoke Zarathustra is one of the best books I've read in a long time. Nietzsche just oozes INTJ magic.

Has anyone else here read any Dillon? I'm pretty sure he's either INTP or INTJ, but I need a voice beside those in my head to help verify.

[stiletto]

Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse

[Dover]

I read Integrity: The Courage to Meet the Demands of Reality (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.) today. It got pretty good reviews on Amazon but I didn't really enjoy it. :(

[labyrinth10]

"The Prestige" by Christopher Priest

[Capitaine]

Andrew Carnegie by Nasaw.

[MiaoPurrington]

The Trial- Franz Kafka
The Idiot- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
A Clockwork Orange- Anthony Burgess
The Origin of Species- Darwin
Atlas Shrugged- Ayn Rand

[ShuTheDoor]

The Loner's Manifesto by Anneli Rufus
Becoming a Therapist: What do I say, and why by Bender & Messner
Dark Nights of the Soul by Thomas Moore

[MeThinks]

Just finished Unbroken (#1 on Amazon right now).

Epic.

[Dannie]

Sex At Dawn by Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha

It's a sociology book on the nature of human sexuality.

[John01]

The Checklist Manifesto....................Atul Gawande
Another Day in the Frontal Lobe.........Katrina Firlik

Books about the medical field.

[davai]

Plato: The last days of Socrates

[Il Prodigio]

Machiavelli The Prince

[Dung]

Il Libro dell' Arte,
Cennini d'Andrea Cennini

[priestofsyrinx]

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller. It's pretty funny once you get all the characters straightened out in your mind. :)

[stiletto]

Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse

^So. Good.

Fuck

There goes my old rating scale. I didn't know there were novels like this...

...and now I'm reading:
The Journey to the East by Hermann Hesse
and Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

[Huruma]

I'm reading Watership Down by Richard Adams, Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay and The Living Blood by Tananarive Due. The last one is so good, I haven't been keeping up with the other two as much.

[Autumnleaf]

I'm reading Ender's Shadow, after reading Ender's Game thanks to you guys referring them. I started reading The Book of the New Sun but it just doesn't keep my interest in long stretches.

[Rishki]

Plato by Bernard Williams
Star Wars: Red Harvest by Joe Schreiber
Star Wars: Fate of The Jedi: Allies by Christie Golden

[Huruma]

I'm reading Ender's Shadow, after reading Ender's Game thanks to you guys referring them. I started reading The Book of the New Sun but it just doesn't keep my interest in long stretches.

I liked Ender's Game and Ender In Exile. I have Speaker for the Dead but haven't gotten around to reading it.

[dyankov]

Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers - a fascinating book full of interesting research.

[antistu]

"The People Look Like Flowers At Last: New Poems" by Charles Bukowski
"Anarchy Evolution: Faith, Science, and Bad Religion in a World Without God" by Greg Graffin
"Joan Miro: 1893-1983" by Janis Mink
"The Way of True Zen" by Taisen Deshimaru (I continuously read this book over and over)
"horse mEdicine" by M.C. Dalley

[Tito]

"The State in the Third Millennium" by Prince Hans-Adam II of Liechtenstein

[OJIScudbone]

The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions by Karen Armstrong

Caesar A Biography by Christian Meier

[Latro]

Shadow of the Hegemon by Orson Scott Card. I finished the His Dark Materials trilogy recently as well.

[EricJ]

I am currently reading Making Globalization Work by Joseph Stiglitz.