General Chat / What book are you reading at the moment?

I'm just curious about if anyone here reads at all, and what.

I'm reading "Deadeye Dick" by Kurt Vonnegut. Pretty funny.

Projection by Keith Ablow.

Good mysteries by him, there is.

I'm often reading a few things at a time:

A Short History Of Nearly Everything (Bill Bryson) - before going to sleep

Double Helix - bus

Q/New Scientist - whenever.


Just finished 'The Blind Watchmaker' by Richard Dawkins and 'A Short History Of Medicine' by Roy Porter. I recommend both for people interested in Evolution and Medecine (respectively).

Everyone should read 'A Short History Of Medicine', actually, cos it's a great book even if you're not too interested in science. It includes a lot about the sociological side as well - human attitudes towards medicine as it develops, for example. Really well written, too.

Apart from science books (which I really started reading to prepare for Uni) I like lots of books, but some of my favourite authors are: Zadie Smith, Philip Pullman, JK Rowling, John Marsden, Terry Pratchett, Donna Tartt, Agatha Christie.

The Amber Spyglass put me in a state of depression for three days.

The Amber Spyglass put me in a state of depression for three days.

The Amber Spyglass! Wow - you've read it all? I started it, and got about a quarter of the way through, but couldn't bare to finish it. Beleive me - I know exactly what you mean by depression when it comes to that book

Can you tell me what happens please?

Nathan

Roberto Clemente - Pride of Puerto Rico

Im reading Prey by Michael Chrichton cause my dad made me.

And for school, One Flew Over the Cukoos Nest by Ken Kesey (this guy must have been really high when he wrote that one)

Im reading Lord of the Flies (for school).

--^--that book really, really, really, really, (you get the point) sucked big penis.

I burned it when i was finished. to bad it was my schools book...

(lord of the flies)

On The Beach- Nevil Shute

I don't like it...

The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Pirates and the Mouse: Disney's War Against the Counter Culture by Bob Levin

I'm reading quite a lot at this moment:

For Pleasure Reading
Farenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
Psychology & Religion - C.G. Jung
Thus Spake Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzche
The Birth of Tragedy - Friedrich Nietzche
The Genealogy of Morals - Friedrich Nietzche
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Messianic Legacy - Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln

For College Classes
The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx
Calculus - Thomas
Chemistry and Chemical Reactivity - Kotz and Treichel
Global Issues - John L. Seitz

All the books that I am reading for pleasure, I'm not reading at the same time. I am reading them in order at about 3 at a time. So that would mean that I am reading Farenheit 451, Psychology & Religion, and Thus Spake Zarathustra. All the books seem to be really good so far, even though two of them are non-fiction. I have been reading up on a lot of Philospophy and Psychology recently and both Jung and Nietzche were recommended to me by my professors at college as being authors that I would like based on my personal beliefs.

Walkabout by James Vance Marshall for my honors english class...

Im reading Prey by Michael Chrichton cause my dad made me.

Good book.

Now I'm reading Insomnia by Stephen King.

I am currently reading The Merchant of Venice, a Shakespeare "comedy". I'm bored to death, but it's really easy to read and understand, so whatever gets an A...

At the present I am reading...

Athyra by Steven Brust
The Black Company by Glen Cook


Books that I will be reading in the near future or when they come out are...

Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb
The Next George Martin book by George Martin

Angels & Demons by Dan Brown..very interesting book about a historical antichrist/religion cult, or something like that. I'm a really slow reader, I've only read 142 pages of 572.

Im reading Lord of the Flies (for school).

I remember that! PIGGY!

I am reading rain of gold.

I am currently reading The Merchant of Venice, a Shakespeare "comedy". I'm bored to death, but it's really easy to read and understand, so whatever gets an A...

Shakespeare easy to read and understand?! I have to read one page 5 times just to understand what it is saying. Then I forget it... Shakespeare is ment to be seen... Not read..

"Clear and Present Danger" by Tom Clancy. I'm on page 150 of almost 700. Good so far.

Gettysburg 1863 by Richard Wheeler. It's about the Battle of Gettysburg.

For School:

The Once and Future King - by T.H. White

It's okay so far... I've read Books 1-2... and I've got to read all of Book 3 (about 200 pages or so) by Monday...

For Myself:
Umm... nothing! I'm thinking about going through the Harry Potter series again.

I just finished Bleachers, by John Grisham... It's an excellent book for all football fans- especially high school football fans.