What book are you reading right now?

[Thinker]

The Australian Book of Atheism , edited by Warren Bonett (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

[Doppelbock]

A Fatal Conceit, by F. A. Hayek

and

Drood, by Dan Simmons

[dunechka]

Unmasking the Face, by Paul Ekman

Journey to the Center of the Earth, by Jules Verne

[Elena]

Its a play but
Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel.

[Maker]

The Emperor's New Mind, by Roger Penrose

[Merle]

Margaret Atwood - The Year of the Flood

and

Robert Pogue Harrison - Forests: The Shadow of Civilization

[lumin]

Untimely Meditations by Nietzsche. I've been reading it since September. :book:

[level]

The Count of Monte Cristo, and Dick's The Man in the High Castle.

[wrongjargon]

Towers of Midnight, Robert Jordan/Brandon Sanderson; Darwinia, Robert Charles Wilson

[alt lit]

Finished Steppenwolf by Hesse yesterday.

On to Mad Love (L’Amour fou) by Breton today.

[BobbitSneazer]

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath.
It's about a woman who goes completely insane.

[lumin]

Tao Te Ching.

[DuB]

Think & Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

[Chickenhead]

Tao Te Ching.

when you done with this one, may i recommend the next taoism tome, The Chuang Tzu by Chuang Tzu (alternatively written as Zhuangzi by Zhuangzi). it is the second generation of Taoism. more parables etc than the esoteric nature of Lao tzu's work but very rewarding.

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[peter]

well....I was ABOUT to start Upton Sinclair's The Jungle but thought I'd research it a bit and came across some extracts .....

so now it's dinner time and I've got, yes, minced beef in the fridge and nothing else and the shops are a long way away...

Maybe just some cereal for now...

[jkatra]

Think & Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

I'm convinced that book was written by an ESTJ personality type and written for ESTJ personality types. The ESTJ manager of our business unit unfortunately loves it.

[chaostheory]

Bhagavad Gita
Nothing I See Means Anything: Quantum Questions, Quantum Answers by David Parrish

[ald]

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen -- it's actually surprinsigly fun to read
I Am A Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter -- I like to read fiction and non-fiction in parallel; just started it though

[Merle]

Kraken - China Mieville (fun urban fantasy about the disappearance of a giant squid specimen from London's Natural History Museum, and ensuing eschatalogical happenings)

Strangers to Ourselves - Julia Kristeva (a cultural and psychoanalytic history of the figure of the stranger or foreigner/ alien)

[Izzy]

The Man In My Basement by Walter Mosely

[Luciferus]

The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

[LoquaciousNinja]

The Windup Girl, by Paolo Bacigalupi. Sci-fi. It's interesting.

[Chickenhead]

several as per usual...

masanobu fukuoka 1978 (2002 10th impression) the one straw revolution: an into to natural farming (japanese permaculture)

reese palley 2010 concrete: a seven thousand year history

isao yoshikawa 1996 japanese gardening in small spaces

and...

eric van lustbader 1994 flaoting city (5th instalment of ninja series, also author continuing ludlum's bourne series)

[BellaBianca]

I am about to finish Dickson Carr, Nine plus Death Equals Ten.

That's the title translated from Norwegian. I don't know if it is the same as the
original title.

It is an entertaining crime novel with some original ideas, an interesting choice of setting and some amusing character portraits.

[Organic Radical]

Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training by Mark Rippetoe

[dandylion]

Lolita. So poetically written. Only half-way done but I think this is one of those books I'll have to reread to fully appreciate.

[driveblind]

I just finished Atlas Shrugged, about to start The Mote in God's Eye.

[Casper]

Just finished Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley. I thought it was pretty good. Won't elaborate too much for fear of being a spoiler :)

Any suggestions for what to read next?

[Tito]

The Story of Man: An Introduction to 150,000 Years of Human History by Cyril Aydon

[Izzy]

Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
It had high reviews but to me it appears to be written by someone with a very disorganized brain.
I'm not sure if I am enjoying it or not.

[RBM]

The Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot.

From an online editorial review by an employee of the Lawrence Livermore National Lab:

Author Talbot writes that ". . . there is evidence to suggest that our world and everything in it. . . are also only ghostly images, projections from a level of reality so beyond our own it is literally beyond both space and time." Hence, the title of his book. Beginning with the work of physicist David Bohm and neurophysiologist Karl Pribram, both of whom independently arrived at holographic theories or models of the universe, Talbot explains in clear terms the theory and physics of holography and its application, both in science and in explanation of the paranormal and psychic. His theory of reality accommodates this latest thinking in physics as well as many unresolved mind-body questions. This well-written and fascinating study is recommended for science collections.

[Geodess]

chipmunk seeks squirrel - david sedaris

not as good as his other stuff, but still a few belly laughs... but to be fair i am comparing it to dress your family in corduary which i read while polishing off a bottle of wine in an extra large tub at a fairmont mountain resort...

[Reddkatz]

Just finished the last book of the Night Angel trilogy by Brent Weeks. I can have a normal sleep schedule again, for now.

[Samoan Corleone]

Currently in the middle of 'To Be The Man' by Ric Flair nameless ghostwriter.

[Izzy]

The Reader by Bernhard Schlink (the English translation)

[Aklis]

The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart (Psuedonym for George Cockcroft).

[ShuTheDoor]

Dark Nights of the Soul by Thomas More

[Dusk]

The Cold Six Thousand by James Ellroy.

[antistu]

6 textbooks - anyone want to trade?

[BellaBianca]

Biography on Whistler.

[Merle]

Landor's Tower: Or, the Imaginary Conversations - Iain Sinclair

[LoquaciousNinja]

Wise Man's Fear, Patrick Rothfuss. Been waiting ages.

[envirodude]

"Emotional Intelligence" by some complete fucking asshole

[driveblind]

I just finished Atlas Shrugged, about to start The Mote in God's Eye.

Finished that last week, it was gripping and easy to read but not as good as people have made it out to be. IMO, at least.

Now I'm reading After Many A Summer.

[ModernLit]

still pride and prejudice. it's long. i havent read it before.

[s4nder]

Terminal World by Alastair Reynolds. It's better than I expected.

[irini]

Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco-I have just started it. It seems interesting.

[Dinah]

I just finished The Kingdom of This World by Alejo Carpentier. New favorite work of fiction!

Working on Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels. This one's a keeper, too.

[psykhe]

Sense and Nonsensibility

[ModernLit]

anne of green gables, again. i'm on an old book kick? or i've discovered project gutenberg...

[Leg]

A passo di gambero; Umberto Eco

[Case]

"Around the World in 80 Days" by Michael Palin. Yes, that Michael Palin, for you Python fans.

He did a travel documentary for the BBC where he recreated the journey Philieus Fogg took in he novel of the same name. The book is an expanded companion piece.

[chaostheory]

The Upanishads - Translated by Eknath Easwaran

[dahlia]

Re-reading The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson... a beautiful Canadian book

[John01]

Another Day in the Frontal Lobe: A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside.

by Katrina Firlik

[HAL 9000]

We're Doomed by John Derbyshire

[DKnife]

Audiobook on my iPod for going to/from work - Dracula by Bram Stoker, the original unabridged version
Kindle - Dresden Files 4 Summer Knight by Jim Butcher, for when I have to participate with the rest of the household
An actual book - The Disappearing Spoon by Jim Kean

[Tito]

OMG!!!! I just came back from my nearest Border's store and saw the greatest thing ever!!!!! Ron Chernow's newly published biography of George Washington. I'll be back on Saturday to buy my copy. Now you know what book I'll start reading soon!!!

I just re-read this post and I sound like such a geek! I'm not a geek per se, trust me. :nerd: ;)

[Reddkatz]

Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey. It's really good if you like courtesans and spies.

[alt lit]

Oxford Revisited by Justin Cartwright

[Calica]

Marianne de Pierres~ Code noir (Parrish Plessis #2)
gotta find #3 next:nerd:

[Meplin]

I'm re-reading Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris.

[Kisai]

I sneak reads of Neal Stephenson's Anathem when I'm not busy. So far, so good.

[FictionTrek]

What if it's not the apple but the barrel that is bad?
The Lucifer Effect by Philip Zimbardo.

[chalice]

The Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis

[s4nder]

Killing of Worlds by Scott Westerfeld. A fast paced space opera.

[Malkavia]

Rereading the Game of Thrones series.

[John01]

Rereading the Game of Thrones series.
I just started reading A Game of Thrones for the first time. I'm not far into it. I like it so far.

[Grimace]

I'm re-reading Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris.



The part in that book where he's describing the ridiculous artsy speed addicts he was hanging out with in new york is SOOO funny. I'm not sure what page, but the "and then he crawls through the concertina wire that represents the Mother/Destroyer, etc" while describing one of their plays. I die every time I read that.

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Rereading the Game of Thrones series.

Dance of dragons JULY 12. You know, I'm sure, but I had to exclaim it.


Also, the HBO series is looking sexy.


What a great series really. Now all he has to do is survive long enough to finish it.

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Just finished Robertson Davies' Deptford trilogy. What a great set of novels. And he's canadian, too. I was certainly--in the hip hop sense--sleeping on him. He just oozes class and insight. Brilliant characters. A couple of them are INTJ's I'm sure, and I'd recommend it to anyone. The 2nd book "The Manticore" won the governor generals award a while back.

Here's a little paragraph from it that I loved, and certainly could relate to, to some degree.

"Please notice that I say egoism not egotism, and I am prepared to be persnickety about the distinction. An egotist is a self-absorbed creature, delighted with himself and ready to tell the world about his enthralling love affair. But an egoist, like Sir John, is a much more serious being, who makes himself, his instincts, yearnings, and tastes the touchstone of every experience. The world, truly, is his creation. Outwardly he may be courteous, modest, and charming--and certainly when you knew him Sir John was all of these--but beneath the velvet is the steel; if anything comes along that will not yield to the steel, the steel will retreat from it and ignore its existence. The egotist is all surface; underneath is a pulpy mess and a lot of self-doubt. But the egoist may be yielding and even deferential in things he doesn't consider important; in anything that touches his core he is remorseless"

[Merle]

Postmodern Geographies: the Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory - Edward Soja

The Word for World is Forest - Ursula K. Le Guin

[Apotheosis]

The Red Queen It's about how the evolution of sex has shaped gender differences and how these differences, in essence, shape our human nature. It stems from Dawkinian concepts of gene-centered "panselectionist" evolution.

[Cortex]

The Mind's Eye by Oliver Sacks

[chaostheory]

Men Like Gods by H.G. Wells

[nelsonm360]

I've just finished reading PLAGUE by Micheal Grant which is the fourth book in a science friction series. The next book i'm reading is FREEDOM the sequel to a called DAEMON by Daniel Suarez, great book by the way.

[Tleilaxu]

Just finished Economic Facts and Fallacies by Thomas Sowell.

Currently reading Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 by Marx, Prodigal Genius: The Life of Nikola Tesla by John O'Neill, The Rolling Stones by Heinlein, and A History of the Arab Peoples by Albert Hourani.

[alt lit]

White Egrets by Derek Walcott

[Reddkatz]

Stiff, The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roarch.

A few of the passages she writes actually made me LOL despite the morbid subject.

[Meursault]

Re-reading 'The Monk' by Matthew Lewis. Quite possibly one of the most salacious and shocking novels ever written. Absolutely great though

[ari]

Beyond Good and Evil -- Frederich Nietzsche
The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos -- Brian Greene
How To Win Friends And Influence People -- Dale Carnegie
Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shaman-ism -- Daniel Pinchbeck
The Prince

I read multiple books at once ;)

[DS Lovecraft]

I'm still reading the best of H.P Lovecraft. Been a month and still not finished. I am not an avid reader unfortunately.

[Karneval]

I´m re-reading The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde and The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje and have started reading On the Art of War by Sun Tzu.

[Shagrath]

Flowers for Algernon.

[Calica]

Jennifer Fallon~Medalon (Demon child#1)

so far so good

[MortalWombat]

I´m re-reading The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde and The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje and have started reading On the Art of War by Sun Tzu.

Ooh, The Picture of Dorian Gray is a lovely book. You may like The Importance of Being Earnest by Wilde, too.

I recently finished The Ice Queen by Alice Hoffman and Looking For Alaska by John Green. I'm about to go to the library, now. The Burn Journals seems good; I've heard nice things about it.

[fireandicecat]

The Truth by Terry Pratchett

[Karneval]

Originally posted by MortalWombat
Ooh, The Picture of Dorian Gray is a lovely book. You may like The Importance of Being Earnest by Wilde, too.


I bought The Importance od Being Earnest some weeks ago, now I´m really looking forward to read it :cheesy:

[OwenF]

No Two Alike: Human Nature and Human Individuality, by Judith Rich Harris
The Law and the Profits, by C. Northcote Parkinson
Socialism (A Brief Insight), by Michael Newman
Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors, by Nicholas Wade
The Crystal Cave, by Mary Stewart (rereading)

I usually don't read quite this many books at the same time. Oh, well.

[MortalWombat]

I bought The Importance od Being Earnest some weeks ago, now I´m really looking forward to read it :cheesy:

I'm in love with the man's sense of irony and satire. I did an analysis for one of my classes on that book. Good stuff.

[rbc]

Hannibal's War: A Military History of the Second Punic War (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.) by J. F. Lazenby

[MortalWombat]

Nowhere Is A Place by Bernice McFadden

[katrin]

A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin. Re-reading to see how true the TV show is to the book.

[LadySpock]

World War Z.

You all must read this book.

[HereticForLife]

A Clash of Kings by G.R.R. Martin
Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

[xRedSunflowerx]

I just bought a slew of reference/self-help books that I'm reading in parallel:

Goodbye to Shy: 85 Shybusters That Work! by Leil Lowndes

Conversationally Speaking : Tested New Ways to Increase Your Personal and Social Effectiveness by Alan Garner

The Shy Single: A Bold Guide to Dating for the Less-than-Bold Dater by Bonnie Jacobson and Sandra J. Gordon

Self-Promotion for Introverts: The Quiet Guide to Getting Ahead by Nancy Ancowitz

The Successful Introvert: How to Enhance Your Job Search and Advance Your Career by Wendy Gelberg

Networking for People Who Hate Networking: A Field Guide for Introverts, the Overwhelmed, and the Underconnected by Devora Zack

The Introverted Leader: Building on Your Quiet Strength by Jennifer B. Kahnweiler

I'm also reading Atheist Universe: The Thinking Person's Answer to Christian Fundamentalism by David Mills.

[sixpoint8]

I am currently reading Volume 4 of the writings of Thomas Paine.

[n8ey]

Dracula by Bram Stoker - I'm working through all those classics that were never on reading lists in school, but should've been.

[Riversticks]

Girschler's Go Go Girls of the Apocalypse

For me it was a page turner, I'm not and avid reader, usually takes a month for me to get through a novel, finished that in about 2 days. Entertainment value was excellent.

[Reddkatz]

Finished stiff a couple of days ago, now reading The Ommivore's dilemma.

[Fuego]

Beyond Good and Evil -- Frederich Nietzsche
The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos -- Brian Greene


Nice! How do you like The Hidden Reality? I've been meaning to pick it up.

I'm currently in way over my head in The Birth of Tragedy - Nietzsche

[Merle]

White Egrets by Derek Walcott

Nice :)

He ran a poetry workshop at my university recently for a select few students and made about 80% of the attendees cry by being exceptionally mean about their writing. It was all a little bit horrible. I feel now like I've seen the tawdry, real side of poetry - a bit like the end of the wizard of Oz : "pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!".


I'm reading:

Dark Matter - a Ghost Story by Michelle Paver. It is a really excellent (so far), old fashioned gothic horror about a 1930's expedition to the Arctic.

[MortalWombat]

Vietnam: A History by Stanley Karnow
A Race to Splendor by Ciji Ware
Iodine by Haven Kimmel
Solomon's Oak by Jo-Ann Mapson

[Ad Infinitum]

Physics of the Future by Michio Kaku

[altoid]

The Gun Seller - Hugh Laurie

[chalice]

Strata - Terry Pratchett

[QuiteContrary]

Currently reading "The Unincorporated Man." Holy crapsticks, this book makes me oscillate wildly between outrage and profound contemplation. I highly recommend.

Physics of the Future by Michio Kaku

I have this on my Kindle rt now. It's next in queue.

[antiihero]

Ark by Stephen Baxter

Very good book, it is the sequel to Flood

Also reading The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, also very good.

[joliee]

A Brief History of Time-Stephen Hawking

[Calica]

Starting on Terry Pratchett`s Reaper man. Looks promising.

[Jalex]

The Emerald City of Oz - Frank Baum

[Thinker]

Wisdom - Stephen S Hall
I pick this book up every so often and devour a chapter.
It's 5am and I'm about to start reading.

[Reddkatz]

I'm currently waiting for the Time Traveler's Wife to come in. Looks promising like a cute, funny twisted version of Dr. Who.

[s4nder]

Axis by Robert Charles Wilson. Its prequel, Spin, is probably the best book I've ever read.

[Brodirt]

The Rational Optimist by Matt Ridely
127 Hours by Aron Ralston
The Constitution of Liberty by F.A. Hayek

[TheCapitalist90]

"Business Calculus Demystified" by Rhonda Huettenmueller

"MBA Fundamentals: Accounting and Finance" by Michael Griffin

"The Effective Executive" by Peter Drucker

[sixpoint8]

Halo: Cryptum: Book One of the Forerunner Saga — Greg Bear
Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible — Bart Ehrman

[venuspop]

Dan Spanley

[Coralaisly]

Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell

370 pages in. I'm going to be sad when I finish it. Trying to pace myself. I love it.

[psykhe]

20 Something, 20 Everything by Christine Hassler

[Huruma]

Blood Colony by Tananarive Due and Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card.

[Denizen]

Christopher Hadnagy: Social Engineering
Gary Noesner: Stalling for time

[Taste of peat]

Inside Out—an Insiders Account of Wall Street by Dennis Levine.

[lightningbolt]

Bossypants by Tina Fey

[Defenestration]

"The Ascent of Money" by Niall Ferguson

[oj287]

David Brin: "Startide Rising"

[Malkavia]

Rereading "A Feast For Crows"

[Merle]

Embassytown (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.) - China Mieville (it's amazing, I'm loving it sooooooo much)

[UnrulyR3d]

A Widow's Story:A Memoir-Joyce Carol Oates
The Match-Mark Frost

[INTroJect]

A biography on Malcom X

[Yardy]

120 Days of Sodom, Marquis de Sade, prefaced by Must We Burn Sade? by Simone de Beavoir.

[vermeer]

Asfa-Wossen Asserate. Manieren. ("Manners".)
- commentary on German/European manners in a culture-historical context; quite interesting so far :)

[MortalWombat]

Improbable - Adam Fawer

[s4nder]

Currently reading a novella, Troika by Alastair Reynolds, before moving on to Fuzzy Nation by John Scalzi.

[LoquaciousNinja]

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

[Anemoi]

The art of travel
by Alain de Botton.

I plan on reading all his books.

[vermeer]

The art of travel
by Alain de Botton.

I plan on reading all his books.

I really enjoyed How Proust Can Change Your Life. :)

Reading: Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky - the circumstances under which it was written & published so many years later intrigued me.

[Anemoi]

I really enjoyed How Proust Can Change Your Life. :)


:book:

I started reading it yesterday. I think he is a brilliant philosopher and a true visionary. His documentaries are great as well. I'm starting to think that I like more essay and science than fiction for reading. I have a narrow selection for fiction which is mostly occupied by Jules Verne and J.K Rowling.

[vermeer]

I'm starting to think that I like more essay and science than fiction for reading.

I have the same tendency I guess, although I also read many classics. I love reading scientific essays. Despite that, I also think a vast amount of modern literature (fiction) is blatant rubbish and I sometimes can't be bothered searching for a good read.

----
I also had a closer look at Go the F**k to Sleep yesterday. Guess I'm not the target audience, but it's interesting how a leak helped making it so popular.

[peppermint]

I just finished readingPhilosophy and Social Hope by Richard Rorty yesterday. Currently I'm reading some essays on the history of physics.

[masterpeach]

"Extreme Programming explained" (Kent Beck) - almost finished.
"The Future of Complexity. Conceiving a Better Way to Understand Order and Chaos" (Peter Baofu) - about to read.

[Merdstein]

1984 - George Orwell.

Big Brother is watching you!

[jkatra]

Obliquity: Why Our Goals Are Best Achieved Indirectly, by John Kay.
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life, by Alice Schroeder.

[ppu6502]

Einstein biography he dies

[Huruma]

Stranger In A Strange Land by Robert Heinlein

Living Blood by Tananarive Due (I haven't been giving this much attention because I can't stand one of the main characters)

[John01]

A Clash of Kings - George R.R. Martin

[peppermint]

Aspects of the Theory of Syntax - Noam Chomsky

[Monte314]

I am reading my second book in final format (post-copyedit "galleys") before it is shipped to the publisher for production.

[Eridal]

Laurell K Hamilton - Anita Blake Vampire Hunter Book 20 - Hit List

[Ninetime]

Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

[vermeer]

Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Good decision. :)

The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You by Eli Pariser.

"Your filter bubble is this unique, personal universe of information created just for you by this array of personalizing filters. It’s invisible and it’s becoming more and more difficult to escape."

[Hypnotica]

Quiverfull - Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement by Kathryn Joyce.

[dontmesswithme]

The Dictionary by Suede McGarrett

[Merle]

The Kristeva Reader - Julia Kristeva et al

All Families are Psychotic - Douglas Coupland

[MortalWombat]

Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

[vermeer]

Paradise Lost by John Milton.

[chalice]

Last Watch by Sergey Lukyanenko

[Calica]

Carolyn Crane~Mind games

Edit: light fiction, not too bad, but won`t read more of the series.

[thelemontree]

I'm currently reading On the Road (Kerouac)

[Autumnleaf]

Game of Thrones and The 50th Law.

[JulietCapulet]

Im reading Maria Shriver's book "Ten Things..."

[vermeer]

The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (R. Dawkins)

[Calica]

Marianne de Pierres~Crash Deluxe (Parrish Plessis#3)

[thebodyeclectic]

I've got three going right now- FDR by Jean Edward Smith, Ain't I A Woman by bell hooks, and Public Enemies by Bryan Burrough. I can recommend them all heartily. It's very unlike me to not be reading any fiction, but there you go.

[SimplyOtter]

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I bought it on a whim in Gatwick Airport, without knowing anything about the author; it turned out to be some of the best writing I've read in years.

[Dusk]

Paradigms Lost, an insightful, well researched book, even if some of it is outdated.

[EvilGeniusMC]

Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl

I found it particularly enjoyable.

[enviouslemur]

Currently: The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
It's very good so far, and I live in Wisconsin (where it's set) so that's fun.

Next on the list: Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien
Definitely looking forward to that one!

[vermeer]

Seven Types of Ambiguity by William Empson.

[Reddkatz]

Still working on Sense and Sensibility. Jane Austen takes time for me to read. She loves run on sentences.

[memory]

In the middle of One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

A more appropriate title would have been "One Hundred Years of Boredom." I expected better results by its reputation.

[Icristhus]

The Dragon Reborn (R. Jordan), How to Solve it (G. Polya), and The Selfish Gene (R. Dawkins).

So far, the fiction book is the most boring of the lot.

[UnrulyR3d]

Bel Canto (Ann Patchett)

[s4nder]

Inversions by Iain M. Banks. I wasn't a big fan of the previous two works in the series, Use of Weapons and Excession, but this one seems to be back on track.

[Eye on Earth]

Conflict Resolution is the topic. Several books by several authors.

[UnrulyR3d]

Conflict Resolution is the topic. Several books by several authors.

You should also peruse The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart o Conflict.

[peppersasen]

Bel Canto (Ann Patchett)

Is it any good? Me interested in that one. :wacky:

[TheStranger]

Einstein biography he dies

Dude, you ruined it for me! :P Here's to me hoping it was obvious I was joking...

Anyway, I'm currently reading Mirage by Pauline Gedge, eh, not many people seem to read her stuff. And it is a departure from her other egyptian historical fiction novels due to the fact that curses and spells play a prominent role. But, I like how it touches upon the theme of Academic Arrogance and the consequences. Poor Prince Khaemwaset, what is really chilling is the slow corruption of a family of royal blood. I guess Thoth is really a cold-hearted bastard!

[Yuri]

I just re-read The Perks of Being a Wallflower.

[WindUp]

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami. Hence my sn, lol.

Next on my list is Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahnuik.

[EnglishWolf]

I just finished reading Animal Farm. Great little book. I was reviewing it this summer because I plan to cover it with my freshmen students. I like it a lot. Next up, I'm gonna read another book for class: The Catcher in the Rye. I love this one. No harm in reading it again.

[Cepheid]

The Eye of the World- Robert Jordan.

Oddly enough, being a huge fantasy reader, I never got around to reading any of this series. I tried once but never got into it.

Now Ive found myself in possession of the first two books and plenty of time to read without distractions.


I get a *Two Towers* sense from this book. Im almost halfway and there has been very little progression as far as the story. Its definitely working more towards building the world and the characters than building the actual story.

[antistu]

Weaveworld - Clive Barker

[Eridal]

The Eye of the World- Robert Jordan.

Oddly enough, being a huge fantasy reader, I never got around to reading any of this series. I tried once but never got into it.

Now Ive found myself in possession of the first two books and plenty of time to read without distractions.


I get a *Two Towers* sense from this book. Im almost halfway and there has been very little progression as far as the story. Its definitely working more towards building the world and the characters than building the actual story.

The Wheel Of Time series is fairly large and each book is over 600 pages so be prepared for the long haul. You won't really start getting a lot of story progression till you get to about book 3 then things will ramp up for awhile then slow back down to a crawl in book 8 and pick back up in book 12.

Overall though it's a great series too bad the original author Robert Jordan, his pen name, died before completing the final book. Luckily though the series is being completed by a very competent author who I also like, Brandon Sanderson. The final book should be published sometime next year.

As for what I am currently reading that would be the Corean Chronicles series by L.E. Modesitt Jr. I'm just about to start book 2 Darknesses.

[storm eyes]

The Druggist of Auschwitz - Dieter Schlesak.

It is a shattering book to read.

[Calica]

Garth Nix~Sabriel

[NovXI]

A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson

[Seablue]

Right now, The Catcher in the Rye.

Before that I read Look me in the eye by John Elder Robison, who is an aspie. Interesting.

[astronerd]

The Critique of Practical Reason - Immanuel Kant
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. 1 - Edward Gibbon

[runoverazebra]

Along Came A Spider by James Patterson

[OwenF]

Just finished Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors, by Nicholas Wade. Am rereading The Coming of the Third Reich, by Richard Evans.

[programmer780]

Memories, Dreams, Reflections by C. G. Jung. Wow

Man and His Symbols by Jung, also.

[Bobsama]

Just Good to Great by Jim Collins.

[MartinH]

Managing with power - Jeffrey Pfeffer (for my MBA)
Neuromancer - William Gibson (rereading via iBooks)
Halting State - Charle Stross
Bright Young Things - Scarlett Thomas (rereading)

I usually read 3-6 at a time so there's something that suits my mood / alertness level.

[HesterP]

Losing Battles - Eudora Welty

[Merle]

Seven Types of Ambiguity by William Empson.

An excellent book. It was my bible as a first year undergrad :)


I'm reading: the lastest volume of Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, an academic journal I subscribe to.

[Imagineering]

Ragged Dick by Horatio Alger

[epox]

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[TheSpiralAim]

The Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E. Lawrence.

Read it.

I'm about halfway through... and the way Lawrence thinks is amazing... I'm not sure what personality type he is, a rational at the very least. It is wonderfully written and described very well. It's not the movie, that's for sure!

[Cepheid]

The Wheel Of Time series is fairly large and each book is over 600 pages so be prepared for the long haul. You won't really start getting a lot of story progression till you get to about book 3 then things will ramp up for awhile then slow back down to a crawl in book 8 and pick back up in book 12.

Overall though it's a great series too bad the original author Robert Jordan, his pen name, died before completing the final book. Luckily though the series is being completed by a very competent author who I also like, Brandon Sanderson. The final book should be published sometime next year.

As for what I am currently reading that would be the Corean Chronicles series by L.E. Modesitt Jr. I'm just about to start book 2 Darknesses.


Luckily I'm a fast reader. I just started into book 2 (about chapter 9 right now).

The way you describe it makes it sound like the The Sword of Truth series by Goodkind. It definitely picked up around book 3 and dropped off about book 7. Still a good series, and Goodkind did state it was supposed to be more of a philosophy wrapped in a fantasy book than the other way around.

As for Sanderson, I greatly enjoyed his Mistborn series (although his most recent addition has me a little skeptical from the synopsis). I am glad he took over the last few books, I can't wait to get to them.

I read the Lord-Protectors Daughter, it was good but I kind of felt unsatisfied in the end. It seems to be a stand-alone in the Corean Chronicles though.

Anyone ever though of starting a book club on the forums? I love my fantasy and would love to talk about it all day, but I would like to do the same about anything literary.

[Eridal]

Luckily I'm a fast reader. I just started into book 2 (about chapter 9 right now).

The way you describe it makes it sound like the The Sword of Truth series by Goodkind. It definitely picked up around book 3 and dropped off about book 7. Still a good series, and Goodkind did state it was supposed to be more of a philosophy wrapped in a fantasy book than the other way around.

As for Sanderson, I greatly enjoyed his Mistborn series (although his most recent addition has me a little skeptical from the synopsis). I am glad he took over the last few books, I can't wait to get to them.

I read the Lord-Protectors Daughter, it was good but I kind of felt unsatisfied in the end. It seems to be a stand-alone in the Corean Chronicles though.

Anyone ever though of starting a book club on the forums? I love my fantasy and would love to talk about it all day, but I would like to do the same about anything literary.

I've read and liked The Sword of Truth series as well and it's very much philosophy wrapped into a fantasy novel. I so need to catch up on the Mistborn series I've slacked a bit on it :p

As for the Lord-Protectors Daughter actually it's not a standalone there is a new book that's been released back in March of this year called Lady-Protector.

[Merdstein]

Essays on Economics and Economists by R.H. Coase

[vermeer]

On What Matters by Derek Parfit

[DoubleEntendre]

I'm reading a guide for rock climbing (need to improve my technique), Sun Tzu's Art of War, 1984, and Catch-22

[rollingstone15]

I'm almost finished reading Crime and Punishment. The next books on my list are Zeitoun and The Grapes of Wrath.

[zibber]

Walden III

[OwenF]

Boxing: A Cultural History, by Kasia Boddy.

[Vaishali]

The Picture of Dorian Gray- Oscar Wilde

[Case]

The Girl Who Played With Fire by Steig Larssen.

[Encryp]

A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson. Makes me want to go hiking :)

[ModernLit]

abundance of katherines by john green

[chalice]

'Thud!' by Terry Pratchett

[logicaster]

I Am a Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter

[Calica]

Alison Goodman~Eona :wideeyed:

[Rachminov]

I'm reading Ishmael by Daniel Quinn for an English Language class.

[s4nder]

Vortex by Robert Charles Wilson was just released. I'm rushing to finish Iain Banks' Inversions to get my hands on it ASAP.

[volt]

Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

Then Slaughterhouse-Five by Vonnegut and The Lucifer Effect by Philip Zimbardo.

[runoverazebra]

7th Heaven by James Patterson. I've gotten hooked on the Women's Murder Club series.

[GhostlyENTJ]

David Copperfield-- C. Dickens

[Silverity]

We Need to Talk About Kevin -- Lionel Shriver

Haunting.

[Kris42]

I'm reading a book named "ABC of art" (not in English, but i took the liberty of translating its name). It's an 350-page book that promises it's readers a better understanding of art.

[mypyjamas]

We Need to Talk About Kevin -- Lionel Shriver

Haunting.
It's one of my favorites.

Le Vol des cigognes By Jean-Christophe Grangé

[Malkavia]

Fevre Dream - George R. R. Martin

[MrFlaneur]

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, by John le Carré.

Very VERY classy and well done.

Ive found a new favourite author, and im quite pleased because that only happens once every 3 years or so. Highly recommended.

[Zodd]

A song of ice and fire 2: A clash of kings

A lot of people are reading this after seeing the first season of ASOIAF: A game of thrones and needing to wait till April 2012 for the release of the second season of the second book.

[vaeran]

William Faulkner's Light in August, and my last piece of the Faulkner famous foursome!

[delfigre]

The man who folded himself... he goes back in time and fucks himself... pure love!!

[dahlia]

History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell... an amazing run-through of the great philosophers and written incredibly. I'm high-lighting almost every page... twice.

[Merle]

Chronique des Rivages de l'Ouest - Ursula K. Le Guin

Which is the French translation of Annals of the Western Shore - the first in the Gifts young adult series. I'm trying to improve my French for grad school and so picked a writer I know writes with astonishing clarity and simplicity and hoped the translation tried to maintain that!

Or the other way around - Gifts is the first book in the Annals series, blah. My head isn't working.

[seeyouatx]

The Holy Qur-an

[Cepheid]

The Fires of Heaven - Robert Jordan (Book 5)

[UnrulyR3d]

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

[Reddkatz]

Survival of the Sickest, Why We Need Disease by Dr. Sharon Moalem.

[mastermind23]

INTJ galore - Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand + Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (I have a tendency to read several books at the same time).

[SShack]

Just started "House of Leaves" today.

[Foxglove]

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea. It's one of my new favorite books. It tells the true stories of North Korean defectors, but it reads like a novel. It keeps me up late into the night.

[s4nder]

Finishing up on Vortex by Robert Charles Wilson before moving on to Flashback by Dan Simmons.

[RoseSkyheart]

Bram Stoker's Dracula, then Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy.

[runoverazebra]

A Dance with Dragons - George R.R. Martin

It's about time!

[Defenestration]

Just started reading "Parasite Rex" by Carl Zimmer.

[BellaBianca]

Song of Ice and Fire - A Storm of Swords.

[Malkavia]

Dance with Dragons!

The 5th is finally out!

[Merle]

Graduate Study for the Twenty-First Century: How to Build an Academic Career in the Humanities (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.) - Gregory Semenza

I never read self-helpy type books, but I've been told this is indispensable.

[Imagineering]

I just read Memoris of an Invisible Man by H.F. Saint. You know he sold the rights to this book for 2.5 million to blockbuster and it was his first book.

Now I'm attempting to read Lord of the Flies by William Gooding or Golding? but it's hard to get into.

On deck is Flatland, A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin Abott. It's a good read if you like mathematically visual things :)

[Meat Bargain]

About one sentence from Atlas Shrugged before I vomited in my own mouth and threw it into a vat of acid.

[Reddkatz]

Finally finished Sense and Sensibility, and now I am on the Accidental Tourist. Was written in 1985 and I snickered with the description of running a credit card. But the main character is an INTJ, though too much into his systems for my taste.

[The Prince]

On War by Carl von Clausewitz and the book on counterinsurgency by the DOD

[Kris42]

The Civilizing Process, Vol.II

Good reading material for people, who like history.

[Malkavia]

Fevre Dream

[staticjenn]

I've been reading alot of nonfiction lately. Currently I'm reading Freakonomics.

[JulietCapulet]

The Help

Kathryn Stockett

[The Prince]

The Counterinsurgency Field Manual