What Are You Reading Right Now?

[aduidarnenye]

I'm reading "Out of Africa" by Karen Blixen. I work at a job where I can listen to an iPod for six hours a day, and I'm listening to the Wheel of Time series on audiobook (my fiance downloaded the whole thing with Rapidshare). I like the fact that it's really long, even if it does get really slow at times.

[Shalyn]

Been reading a bunch of Sherlock Holmes stories whenever I get a chance, but there are a bunch here that I'd like to get into eventually (like Foucault, Hawkings, and Huxley).

I have so many books here that I've either read fully or completely ignored. If you want suggestions on novels to read just send a PM, I'm usually pretty good at making suggestions based on your personal taste.

[Isawa]

Night Watch - Sergei Lukyanenko

Very good book, based in Moscow. Basic story is there's two factions of wizards, Light and Dark. They police one another to keep balance between the two groups because there's very few of them left. There's a 2nd and 3rd book out, Day Watch and Twilight Watch. Supposedly a 4th book as well, but I've yet to see it.

[oldoldman]

The trouble with physics
Lee Smolin

[Seanr]

Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk .... Good shit

[Shalyn]

Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk .... Good shit

Funny that you mention that, my sister just returned this to me after having borrow it years ago and I looked at the sleeve and remembered that I had gotten it signed by the author at a reading. I remember being pretty faint after he read off some of the 'swimming' chapter. Great book!

[Senoska]

Three cups of tea by Greg Mortenson.

Pro tip: BOOK SUCKS.

[Seanr]

Funny that you mention that, my sister just returned this to me after having borrow it years ago and I looked at the sleeve and remembered that I had gotten it signed by the author at a reading. I remember being pretty faint after he read off some of the 'swimming' chapter. Great book!

You were one of those people in the online articles eh, lol. The audio of the live reading from that chapter is online. I wish i could hear him read the whole book to me.

[ZarakiKujata]

At Mind's Limits by Jean Amery, book on surviving Auschwitz by a Jewish philosopher

Sin in the Second City, kind of a pop culture history of prostitution in Chicago in the early 20th century, specifically the most famous brothel of the time/ever, the Everleigh House, and how christians trying to shut it down helped shape the culture wars of the 20th century.

[Odesseiron]

Dark Tower, Volume 1

[miokomioko]

You Shall Know Our Velocity! by Dave Eggers.

[Howard Roark]

someone reccommended Pillars of the Earth, despite the fact it's an old Oprah booklist thingy (2007 according to wiki) and is from 1989, the way it was summarized to me sounds pretty epic in scale (I really do try to avoid the use of 'epic' but I think it's over 1000 pages)

thing still sells 100,000 copies a year, can't be too bad

[Heian]

Massachusetts State Building Code 7th Edition (2003 International Building Code Edition)

and.....

Massachusetts CMR 521 Architectural Access Code

Yay architecture degree.....

[thestalkmore]

Gradiva and Delusion and Dream in Wilhelm Jensen's Gradiva (Wilhelm Jensen/Sigmund Freud)


FFFFFF KILLMENOW

[TheShadyMan]

Amazon.com: The Empathy Gap: Building Bridges to the Good Life and the Good Society: J. D. Trout: Books
Amazon.com: Counterculture Through the Ages: From Abraham to Acid House: Ken Goffman, Dan Joy: Books
Amazon.com: The Turn of The Screw by Henry James. Published by MobileReference (mobi) eBook: Henry James: Kindle Store

[Sol-Blackguy]

Amazon.com: The Planet of Junior Brown: Virginia Hamilton: Books
The movie was pretty good, but I felt like something got left out so I picked up the book.

Also, reading fan made Streets of Rage novel collection on and off. The first 3 books were great, but the 4th isn't so hot but I'm going to finish it and the 5th just for completion.

[Butcher]

Angels and Demons by Dan Brown

[Woozie]

I'm reading this right now.

[Obev]

House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds.

[spd]

book 5 of the dark tower series.