BOOK THREAD: What Are You Reading Right Now?

[djheater]

Dream Catcher by Margaret Salinger

With Love and Squalor: 14 Writers Respond to the Work of J.D. Salinger by Various

The encheiridion of Epictetus

 

[amcdonald]

I just finished re-reading a collection of Hesse's short stories.
I just started re-reading Hocus Pocus by vonnegut.

 

[eplebnista]

Numbered Account by Christopher Reich

 

[Kyteland]

2001:A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke

 

[Descartes]

Originally posted by: Chaotic42

Originally posted by: Descartes
Schrodinger's Kittens and the Search for Reality: Solving the Quantum Mysteries. I had read it in part in the past, but I again became interested in quantum entanglement, and his book is good read on this topic (and others).

Did you read the first book? It's excellent. I haven't picked up Kittens yet.

Nope, sure haven't, but he references it in the beginning of this book. I might pick up and read that one as well.

 

[isildur]

A History of Western Philosophy, and Its Connection With Political and Social Circumstances from the Earliest Times to the Present Day

Bertrand Russell

almost done with that one - just picked up James Joyce's Ulysses too.

 

[edtsui]

The Killer Angels
Michael Shaara

 

[WhiteKnight]

Originally posted by: edtsui
The Killer Angels
Michael Shaara

Intense book, pretty down in the mud gritty.

 

[DurocShark]

Richard Marchinko Rogue Warrior series... (Forget the name of the particular one I'm reading... (C)1997 though)

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Originally posted by: GuybrushThreepwood
Title: Gardens of the Moon
by: Steven Erikson
genre: fantasy



by FAR the best fantasy series i have EVER read. this is my 3rd time through

Is Gardens of the Moon the title of one of the books in the series, or the name of the series itself?

 

[OREOSpeedwagon]

Patriot Games by Tom Clancy, getting ready to read Nineteen Eighty-Four. Not sure about the author but its that book about Big Brother is watching

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Originally posted by: OREOSpeedwagon
Patriot Games by Tom Clancy, getting ready to read Nineteen Eighty-Four. Not sure about the author but its that book about Big Brother is watching

I love Patriot Games. So much better than the movie. I have 1984 in my stack waiting to be read as well, not sure when I will get around to it. They had us read Brave New World in high school, rather than 1984.

 

[DanTMWTMP]

Shadow Puppets by Orson Scott Card...the last book in the ender/bean series

 

[fatalbert]

The Road to Middle Earth by Tom Shippey

still early in it yet, but so far it is quite good

 

[sygyzy]

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman

 

[PatboyX]

Originally posted by: OREOSpeedwagon
Patriot Games by Tom Clancy, getting ready to read Nineteen Eighty-Four. Not sure about the author but its that book about Big Brother is watching

its orwell.

im reading:
A Certain Somewhere (bunch of essays)
Glamorama (bret easton ellis...still reading it...ga....)
The Resurrectionist (gary k. wolf seems on par with his first roger rabbit stuff so far)
The Pill vs. The Spring Hill Mine Disaster (brautigan)

 

[spidey]

Dreamcatcher, Stephen King.

 

[hjo3]

The Transhuman Space GURPS books. Preparing for an upcoming Mars campaign.

 

[Kadarin]

Originally posted by: Mathcop
Beasts of Gor
The Twelfth Book of the Saga of Tarl Cabot.

Author: John Norman
Genre: Sci-Fi Fantasy

I love this series. I have the whole set, except for the last one, #25.

Heh.. I read that entire series something like 15-20 years ago.. :beer: I'm not sure what happened to him, but I haven't seen a new book in the series for a long, long time. I'd sort of like to know how the current plotline turns out..

Currently I'm reading Heinlein's The Number of the Beast, a book that I return to every now and then.

 

[Yossarian]

D-Day, Ambrose

 

[stormbv]

The Metaphysical Club by Louis Menand and Unholy Ghost: Writer's on Depression.

 

[DT4K]

Developing and Implementing Windows-Based Applications with Visual Basic.NET and Visual Studio.NET
by Mike Gunderloy

Yeah, I know, sound real interesting doesn't it.
Actually, I'm also currently reading Fellowship of the Ring with my 8yr old son and 5 yr old daughter.
He just finished the latest Harry Potter by himself, but I haven't read it yet.

 

[BigJ]

Title: A Song of Ice and Fire: A Storm of Swords
Author: George R.R. Martin
Genre: Fantasy

The first two were great, can't wait to finish this one.

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Finished reading H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds, and am now most of the way through Firestar, by Michael Flynn. An excellent hard SF book about the near future, and the steps mankind may have to take to establish a permanent presence in space. It is the first of a series, the others in the series are:

Rogue Star

Lodestar

Falling Stars

I initially picked up Firestar and Lodestar at Gulliver's Books when I went nuts at their 50% off used books sale for Labour Day, and realized after I got home that they were first and third in a series and not stand-alone novels. I went back over the weekend and bought a couple of dozen more books, and managed to get the second one in the series as well. I will probably get the fourth off of Half.Com, and hopefully it will arrive by the time I finish the third book.

 

[SarcasticDwarf]

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