What are you reading right now?
 

I did a search and didnt see any threads on this, so I figured I would start one and see where it goes.

What book(s) are you reading right now?

Personally, I am reading Hemingway's For Whom The Bell Tolls. I really enjoy Hemingway, and figured that I need to read some more of his work.

I've been on a Terry Pratchett binge for the past month or so. Currently reading the Lost Continent. Its a hoot, just like all his other works.

The Art of Deception by Kevin Mitnick

Finally decided to grind out 'The Stand' by Steven King.

'Quicksilver' by Neal Stephenson. Took me a while to make it past part I and now I'm really engrossed.

Thoureau's "Walden"

Insomnia by Stephen King

'Quicksilver' here too.
Damn that is a great piece of work.
I'm also working on "The living Torah' and 'Seven questions people ask about Judaism".

Edward W Said - Orientalism

so good I love that book.
I'm reading Zen in the Art of Archery by ummmmmmmmmmm the books all the way across to room, I'll check back with the auther later.

The Prometheus Deception - Robert Ludlum

Sometimes you just need a good spy novel...

GOLD- Asimov short story collection very nice

"The man who mistook his wife for a hat" by Oliver Sacks.

Very interesting read. The author is a neurologist, describing a number of his most interesting patients. It is written in a very humane tone, with a real sense of caring about his patients, not just describing their symptoms in a "textbook" style.

Just read "Talon of the Silver Hawk" by Raymond E. Feist

It's a part of his Midkemia series started in "Magician"

At this moment I'm reading the latest in a comic book series called "Promethia"
An Esner award winner - comic based on the philosophies of Qaballah, Tarot, and the Book of Thoth by Aleister Crowley
(yes...that is the feminine derivative of "Prometheus" who brought light down to man)
It's very deep, very symbolic...takes forever to get through a page,
and think about the aspects embedded within the comic story & pics.

And next I'm going back to simple fantasy...
"The Lone Drow" by R.A. Salvatore (the latest in the Drizzt sagas)

Who knows what I'll do after that,
Computers, New Age, History, Physics, Philosophy, Comics, Fantasy, Horror...
My tastes vary too much...as long as I'm reading something.

Just finished "Angels and Demons" by Dan Brown minutes ago. Great book, it was a lot of fun. Gotta pick up "The Da Vinci Code" next....

The Ride Of My Life by Mat Hoffman

This thread....

Well-said.

I'm currently reading "Animal Farm" by George Orwell, I think, for class...but I'm also reading "The Brimstone Journals" by Ron Koertge on the side. I've read them both before, but they're good reads (plus I need to refresh my memory on "Animal Farm" so I can possibly pass English 4, ha).

Thats something I have been meaning to get all the way through for a long time. It takes a lot of time to read; it is one of those books where you really have to sit and digest nearly every sentence, but what I have read of it was pretty insightful. One of these days...

James Clavell's "Shogun"

I don't plan on reading his entire Asian Saga since his books are over 1,000 pages long and there are at least 5 or 6 of them, but Shogun has really grabbed my interest. I like the setting (feudal Japan) and I particularly enjoy the way that Clavell dives into all of his character's thoughts so fluidly.

I've been reading a few at the moment, including:
Dirt Magic - Tim Winton. A great story that has been sitting in my library for nearly a year now and I've finally just started.

Singo (Mates, Wives, Triumphs, Disasters) - Gerald Stone. Tale of a great Aussie bloke and marketing genius.

You Don't Have To Be Born Brilliant (How to design a magnificent life) - John McGrath. I loath self help books but this one is something very different. Combines tips and advice with an autobiography about an Aussie high school dropout who went on to become a very successfully Real Estate manager at 24, with clients ranging from mate Russel Crowe to the Kerry Packers son (James).

I just finished Robin Hobbs "Fools Fate". I managed to squeeze it in while i was reading Chaz Brenchleys "Outremer" series. Both are fantasy. Both are very good....even though Hobb is much much better than Brenchley :)

I really have never been much of a reader, but my roommate just loaned me his copy of Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci Code." Has anybody read it? I've heard good things, but don't really know at all what it's about. I'm just about to sit down to chapter one right now.

"Where are they buried? How did they die?"

by Tod Benoit

i just finished lullaby by chuck pahlaunauk (sp?) fight club author.

really weird. interesting stuff.

"Bloody Bones" by Laurel K. Hamilton

"Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal" by Christopher Moore

Wizard and Glass, the 4th Dark Tower book by Stephen King

How is this series? I have always been curious but haven't heard anything about it, good or bad.

I'm re-reading Stephen King's Skeleton Crew.

It is beyond excellent....Better than 10 SuperBowls! But i don't want to oversell it. Buy it, borrow it, or steal it, just get these books and judge for yourself.

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will do, as soon as I finish 'The Stand' :)

Yeah, when you have read a lot of Stephen King, The Dark Tower series is even better because it ties everything together. All of his recurring characters and storylines all merge into one Stephen King Universe. You beging to believe that maybe he has been telling one giant 30+ volume story and has filled in his universe with all sorts of side stories and characters. And he has been working on this for thirty years.

Sweet, you are making it sound very appealing...and best of all, I have read a ton of his books so I might enjoy this series even more.

The Monkey Wrench Gang - Edward Abbey

QED (Quantum-electro dynamics) by Richard Feynman.

A great introduction the theory of QED by one of its main contributors.

/Nerd.

Angels and Demons by Dan Brown. I am hooked.....

<i>River God</i>, by Wilbur Smith.
The owner of the bookstore told me that Wilbur Smith is , to his knowledge, the only author who has seriously and thoroughly researched ancient Egypt and wrote (historically accurate) novels about it.
I already read the sequel - <i>Warlock</i>.

Good reading.

White Oleander. So far so good.

this doesn't come out in the states until february. how did you get your hands on it? color me jealous ;)

and on topic, just finished Angels and Demons and i'm now working on Robert Ludlum's "Bourne Ultimatum"

I am a Clive Cussler fan. I am currently reading Atlantis Found.
I like the way Cussler writes with a hook at the beginning of the book that later comes to a conclusion. Lots of suspense and action.

Seabiscut. Then another Dan Brown book...

I finished The Di Vinci Code... I was very entertained by it. Although there was one time where they spent a few pages pondering over something that I figured out the instant I looked at it.

Most of the riddles kept me pretty baffled though.

Just finished "Angels and Demons" by Dan Brown and am currently reading "The Lone Drow" by R. A. Salvatore... If you have read "Angels and Demons" or plan to read it or "The Da Vinci Code" then check out Dan Brown's web site. Very Interesting...

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Hienlen - Gotta love Mike the computer!

"The Great Thoughts" by George Seldes

Most the great ideas, quotes since the beginning of recorded time, I can't recommend this enough.

I just finished Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny. Brilliant. It transcends science fiction, deep into religious and metaphysical territory, plus fully realized characters and engrossing dialogue.

A choice quote: "If the world were all city, he had reasoned, the dwellers within it would turn a portion of it into a wilderness, for there is that within them all which desires that somewhere there be an end to order and a beginning of chaos."

Ninety-eight reviews on Amazon averaging five stars.

Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung - Lester Bangs

I'm finally getting around to reading The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien.
I never read any of his books (wasn't a big reader when I was younger) ... but am looking forward to them, and others.

Since I really enjoyed The Da Vinci Code, I went out and bought Angels & Demons. I'll probably start reading it shortly.

I just finished Two Towers.... oh man o' man o' man I soo want to read Return of the King, but I'm waiting...... I wanna see the movie first... The books are so awesome, FOTR is kinda slow after they leave Hobbiton, there's lots of eating and sleeping, but you gotta make it past that.... so very worth it.

Yeah, the LOTR books are incredible... I have read them twice now, but am holding off on reading them again until I finish seeing all of the movies. If the books are too fresh in my mind (as they were for the first movie), I find that I try to make too many comparisons between the book and the movie and it takes away from the experience.

The Stand is great, awsome was my all time favorite King work UNTIL I read the Gunslinger series. I have read it twice, vloumes 1 thru 4 just finished #5 and you won't believe what else he works into the ending it is Great.
I am also currently into Tad Williams' War of the Flowers hasn't really grabbed me yet but I still have hope.
But, Read the Gunslinger series it is a freaking Tapestry that weaves (and this is listed in the front of Vol 5) elements of 'Salems Lot, The Stand, The Talisman The Eyes of the Dragon, Insomnia, Rose Madder, Desparation, Bag of Bones, Black House, From a Buick 8, The Regulators, Skeleton Crew, Hearts in Atlantis, and Everything's Eventual. It is crazy. It's ka...

Mimi gave me a book for my birthday that is just the best book I can imagine on this. It’s called “The Body Language of Horses.”

Here’s a link to it:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...lance&n=507846

I'm a big fan of the Fantasy/Sci-Fi genre. I took a break from reading <i>Children of Dune</i> by Frank Herbert to read <i>Polgara the Sorceress</i> by David Eddings, something I should have read a long time ago.

Carpal, Redraven.

Almost done with Quicksilver, did you read Cryptonomicon? Which one did you enjoy more?

SabrinaFair

What are your opinions on it? I'm a total romanticist at heart, so a lot of what he says clicks with me on a very personal level (as did Whitman's "Leaves of Grass"). I'm about midway through it myself, and while I thoroughly appreciate some parts of the book, other parts seem to drag on. It's especially hard to leisure-read in a college dorm, when the people next to you are blaring rap music at 200dB...

Itchy93

Silence - a 13th century french romance. No aknowledged author

Im reading the uncut version of The Stand. About half way through. I have read the original version several times.

the 2nd book of the Beauty series by Anne Rice

gotta start the 'ender' series by scott orson card after exams

I am too. What do you think of Dirk Pitt's retirement? Do you like Paul Kamporos (sp?) writing? It is obvious Clive is overseeing a bit of it. There seems to be another writer working with Clive as well on another series/spinoff.

Someday I too will come out from 30 minutes underwater with my grandfather's .45 and blast away the guy who is just about to do in the beautiful chick. :)

I just finished Angels & Demons and loved it. The whole illuminati thing was fascinating as was the info on papal succession. I can't wait to dig into Da Vinci Code next.

I am also working on the Horatio Hornblower series and enjoying that very much as well. I read Master and Commander by O'Brian but found it difficult to follow given all of the early 19th century slang used.

I am also reading Fortress Malta, a non-fiction about the veritable seige of Malta during WWII. Great read if you like contemporary historical authors. Not a lot of footnotes but imparts a sense of being there.

Yeah, I really enjoyed Angels & Demons as well. It seemed to start off a bit slower, but like others have posted (in another thread, I think), the payoff in Angels & Demons is better at the end. I never could have seen it coming.

Just started 'Dark Towers I: The Gunslinger' by Steven King.

haha.

also, the Bible..i'm a history guy, and i realized i should probably read it...not religious at all, just to know the facts...ugh i don't mean to start a debate by calling them "facts"...i just mean so i understand more biblical allegories, etc. moses is about to tell everyone about the ten commandments...

just finished steinbecks grapes of wrath. it was a very powerful yet sober book. i am am starting the last angry man by gerald green. have never heard of it before but it sounds interesting. still want to get around to walden also.

Diary

Right now, reading the new Dark Tower book. In the last couple weeks, I've gone through the new Orson Card, the new Dave Farland, the new Neal Stevenson (and the Big U as well), and the new David Drake. I spend too much money on books.

Currently reading "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin. After this, I'll read another one of Dan Brown's book since I really enjoyed the "Da Vinci Code."

Right now i'm reading "Survivor" by Chuch Palahniuk and "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" by Ken Kasey.

"Western Horsemanship," by Charles R. Self, Jr.

"The Triangle Fire" by Leon Stein

Very VERY graphic depiction of the working conditions of the early 20th century...so bad (the conditions not the book)

I should be finishing off Lolita, by Nabokov tomorrow. After that I'm not sure, I guess another trip to the library and then we'll see. . .

Just finished reading "Angels & Demons" and "The DiVinci Code" by Mr. Brown. Very good books. Kinda like Tom Clancy meets Indiana Jones.
Now I'm reading "Deception Point", also by Dan Brown. Different main character but very intriguing nontheless.

"The Sigma Protocol" by the late great Robert Ludlum. A true master.

'The Life of Charlemagne' - Einhard

Orphans Preferred: The Twisted Truth and Lasting Legend of the Pony Express

So far, so good. I just received it from Amazon and am enjoying it so far. It is a behind the legend story of the real pony express.

A Glorious Cause by Jeff Shaara

'The Light at the End' by Spector and Skipp as recommended by some users of the TFP. :)

cryptonomican by Neal Stephenson

Still reading For Whom the Bell Tolls... This is close to the longest its ever taken me to finish a book. School is kicking my ass :(

On the Road - Jack Kerouac
Third time i've read it, i can't get enough of this book.

Dragons of a Lost Star - the second book of the Dragonlance War of Souls trilogy

Im reading various school book unfortunately. Ever since i've gone to college i havent had time to read for pleasure...so sad

Arrogance by Bernie Goldberg.

I recommend it to all.....

'The Davinci Code' by Dan Brown, halfway through with it after the first day...damn good book :)

Howard Zinn's "People's History Of The United Sates". Lots of interesting stuff in here

Angelmass, by Timothy Zahn. Not as good as some of the things he's done, but still really enjoyable.

I just finished 'Diary' by Chuck Palahniuk and a lot of Philip K. Dick stories and novels (e.g. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? a.ka. Bladerunner).

And I am now onto more Philip K. Dick short stories until I get tired of reading Sci-Fi. After that, I am up for any good suggestions.

Neuromancer by William Gibson.

I have absolutely no idea what is happening in this book.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vagas, good book and movie

The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary -- by Simon Winchester

So far it's a great book. Not at all boring. I'd highly reccomend it.

The Scions of Shannara-Terry Brooks

Reading Closing Time by Joseph Heller. Tis the sequel to Catch-22 where the surviving characters are old men. Haven't really read it enough, as is the case with reading in general since the start of this year. Seems quite good and has a number of choice reviews.

Almost Done with the Di Vinci Code.

Dan Brown is the man..

I am reading A Storm of Swords by George R R Martin. I haven't ever read anything this good other than the wheel of time.

i thought it was a trilogy :P:P i wonder if A Feast of Crows will end it.....

reading The War of the Flowers by Tad Williams and its rocking.

WhoaitsZ,
If you're diggin on the Song of Fire and Ice series, you should check ot Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, by Tad Williams (3 or 4 books depending on whether it's paperback or hardback: "The Dragonbone Chair", "The Stone of Farewell", and "To Green Angel Tower" [Parts 1 and 2 in paperback]). They stand up with Martin and Jordan and even Tolkien, and he's finished writing them, so there's a definite end.

My current reading selections are:
Heinlein, "The Man Who Sold the Moon", at work and in the garage, and Harris "Silence of the Lambs" in the bathroom.

The New Intelligent Mans Guide to Science by Issac Assimov