What book are you reading right now?

[bigrash]

Let's hear it. I'm looking to pick up a new book

 

[Skiddex]

working on "the truth (with laughs)" by al franken and "the nasty bits" by anthony bourdaine

 

[pontifex]

A huge book of Poe's works. I forget the exact title. It's some like The Complete Works of EAP.

 

[lozina]

I just finished reading a leather bound version of the Odyssey.

Thinking what to read next... maybe Arabian Nights... or maybe a collection of HP Lovecraft's works

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: lozina
I just finished reading a leather bound version of the Odyssey.

Thinking what to read next... maybe Arabian Nights

I've been thinking about Arabian Nights also. I have a good while until I get there though.

 

[JulesMaximus]

'We Were Soldiers Once...and Young'

In November 1965, 450 U.S. soldiers were dropped into a small clearing in the Ia Drang Valley. They were surrounded by 2,000 North Vietnamese soldiers.

Three days later, a sister battalion engaged in a vicious fire-fight only two and half miles away.

Together, these actions at landing zones X-Ray and Albany constituted one of the most savage and significant battles of the Vietnam War.

 

[KeithTalent]

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

It's fantastic and has the best inroduction and acknowledgements I've ever read.

KT

 

[erikistired]

i just finished 'the atrocity archives' by charles stross. excellent SF book.
i'm reading 'toxicology' by steve aylett right now. the more i read his stuff the weirder he gets.
next up is 'pixel juice' by jeff noon. one of my favorite authors.

 

[Delita]

Market Wizards and Duma Key

 

[irishScott]

The Hot Zone, Richard Preston

That along with various Military History books for my Hist210 class (Everything from Ancient Greek warfare to WW1)

 

[bigrash]

Originally posted by: KeithTalent
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

It's fantastic and has the best inroduction and acknowledgements I've ever read.

KT

Hmm, I saw that at B&N last time but didn't know if it was any good. I might pick it up.

 

[TecHNooB]

Originally posted by: pontifex
A huge book of Poe's works. I forget the exact title. It's some like The Complete Works of EAP.

Same. Saw it on ATOT and picked it up

 

[KeithTalent]

Originally posted by: bigrash

Originally posted by: KeithTalent
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

It's fantastic and has the best inroduction and acknowledgements I've ever read.

KT

Hmm, I saw that at B&M last time but didn't know if it was any good. I might pick it up.

You should. The author offers a money-back guarantee, though it may have expired by now.

KT

 

[legoman666]

Nine Stories by JD Salinger

 

[zinfamous]

Originally posted by: bigrash

Originally posted by: KeithTalent
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

It's fantastic and has the best inroduction and acknowledgements I've ever read.

KT

Hmm, I saw that at B&N last time but didn't know if it was any good. I might pick it up.

It's well-written...but kind of insignificant if you ask me. A memoir by Eggers with a mildly interesting life up until that point (in that it isn't OMG kick-ass memoir material)

Friend of mine went to school with Eggers. I read her copy that was signed and personalized...she's not a huge fan.

Good writer though, he's gotten himself involved in all sorts of little projects.

 

[brikis98]

Just finished The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins (which should be required reading for everyone ) and am a little ways into the Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman.

 

[mundane]

Viriconium - it's interesting, although not quite my thing.

 

[FoBoT]

http://www.amazon.com/Art-Happ...&qid=1204049554&sr=8-1

been working on it for about 4 years

i don't read much anymore

 

[Kadarin]

Gorgon Child, by Steven Barnes.

 

[KeithTalent]

Originally posted by: zinfamous

Originally posted by: bigrash

Originally posted by: KeithTalent
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

It's fantastic and has the best inroduction and acknowledgements I've ever read.

KT

Hmm, I saw that at B&N last time but didn't know if it was any good. I might pick it up.

It's well-written...but kind of insignificant if you ask me. A memoir by Eggers with a mildly interesting life up until that point (in that it isn't OMG kick-ass memoir material)

Friend of mine went to school with Eggers. I read her copy that was signed and personalized...she's not a huge fan.

Good writer though, he's gotten himself involved in all sorts of little projects.

Any recommendations for an 'OMG kick-ass memoir'?

KT

 

[yankeesfan]

Master and Margarita

after that I'm going for Middlemarch.

 

[Dacalo]

Good to Great

 

[gar3555]

Just finished Next by Michael Crichton. It was decent enough. Not sure what I'll read next, I'm usually into a little harder Science Fiction.

 

[Imported]

Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House by Valerie Plame Wilson

 

[RandomFool]

A Tale of Two Cities.