Books Whats everyone reading atm?

[Jazz]

Pratchett and geeky science \o/

For fiction I read mostly Pratchett - "Monstrous Regiment" and "Night Watch" both continuing the Discworld series in typical style...

The rest of the time, I read what tends to be called "popular science," mostly at the moment I'm reading Richard Feynman stuff, for his tendency to be both a genius and an amusing read at the same time. You can get some introduction to his work here if you're into geeky sciencey stuffe at all. The book I'm reading right now is a biography of Feynman by James Gleick called "Genius" (Amazon.com link
here; Amazon UK don't seem to have it atm).

 

[]SK[]

Put the book down and get back to TFC tbh Afx

 

[Trancor]

Currently reading 'Black Dog' by Stephen Booth and 'Fools Fate' by Robin Hobb. Good so far, but black dog is slow reading IMO.

 

[Anul]

I am reading mostly fanstasy books and documentary types of books i am currently reading George RR Martins A game of thrones and Stalingrad by Antony Beevor.

 

[Darthshearer]

Slowly but surley going through ALL Pratchetts books, the geezer is class

 

[djpringle]

Reading the 5th Elephant at the mo mainly but just started 'The girl in the picture' by Denise Chong...probably a big mistake just before Chrimbo as it is a bit depressing

 

[Covenant]

Crossroads of twilight is number 10 (or 9?) of a series that is getting rather long. I'm still enjoying it but a friend of mine maintains that nothing happens in the book. So if you don't know about it, it's the wheel of time series. There's some new books coming out which are basically the first two books split into two (four books). It might be easier to read then.

Crossroads is number ten - I have everything up to Winter's Heart, but as previously noted, it's getting a bit long in the tooth. I was a great fan of the series up to book four - The Shadow Rising - but after that, I feel he lost the plot. Literally - it doesn't seem to be going anywhere at the moment.

I'm tempted not to buy Crossroads for the simple fact that it'll be more of the same. I was hoping that in the time between book four and book nine, he may gather up the fallen strands of plot and weave them back into something vibrant and enjoyable. Sadly, it appears I was wrong, hence the question about book ten.

 

[Conchabar]

I am currently reading "A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole" good book recomend it

 

[echo]

At the moment I have loads on the go;

Brian Wilson And The Making Of The Beach Boys' "Pet Sounds" - Charles Granata

A Riot Of Our Own (Night And Day With The Clash) - Garry Barker and Johnny Green

Lipstick Traces (A Secret History Of The Twentieth Century) - Greil Marcus

 

[Patriarch]

I'm reading A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving at the moment. It was in the Big Read Top 100 books, and I'm finding it very enjoyable so far.

 

[Munkey]

Erm. Read quite a few books this week:

1) Hiroshima - John Hersey
2) The Fourth Hand - John Irving
3+4) Harlequin + Vagabond - Bernard Cornwell
5) erm.....it was some book about this english butler who goes for a drive through southern england, talks about his old days serving a Lord who fratenised with nazi supporters - Written by some japanese fellow who moved to england at the time

Otherwise atm i'm re-reading some of my Dragonlance books. Make good reading whilst you're bored out of your wits

(and yes troggeth, raistilin is teh w1n! )

 

[Whipped]

Reading "Stupid White Men" by Michael Moore. Some very scary observations of the American politcal system in there.

 

[Wij]

Razzle \o/

 

[Eternal]

I'm reading "Heretic" by Bernard Cornwell, about Grail-hunting in 14th century France.

Originally posted by Xane
Eats, Shoots and Leaves, to compliment the grammar nazi I will become here.

Tut tut! Any decent grammar nazi knows that one should never start a sentence with a verb!

 

[NiteFall]

At the moment I am reading Peter F. Hamiltons Nights Dawn Trilogy (very good), Ian M. Banks' Feersum Endjinn (also very good) and Join Me by Danny Wallace (very good too).

 

[Doh_boy]

I'm reading "Heretic" by Bernard Cornwell, about Grail-hunting in 14th century France.


Tut tut! Any decent grammar nazi knows that one should never start a sentence with a verb!

I'm kinda thinking that's the point.

 

[Maljonic]

Just finished 'Thief of Time', Pratchett and started 'The Boat of a Million Years', by Poul Anderson which seems like it's going to be quite good so far. It's a fairly large SF novel and I haven't read a SF in ages; it starts out in the ancient world on Earth and tracks mankind's progression into outer space and beyond. I'm a bit frustrated with it because I can't wait to get to the outer space bits but I know it's all going to link up somehow so I just have to soldier through it. It is actually quite interesting, I'm reading about ancient China atm and keep forgetting it's a SF novel...

 

[Tenko]

I'm about to start His Dark Materials but as I'll probably get something to read this xmas I may save those until I'm back at work

 

[Aoami]

Recieved Pompeii from my mother today, gonna tuck into that tomorow!

 

[gremlin]

Recieved Pompeii from my mother today, gonna tuck into that tomorow!

Ooh cool, quite fancy reading that myself at some point. Robert Harris is a top author.

 

[Sar]

Reading "Stupid White Men" by Michael Moore. Some very scary observations of the American politcal system in there.

Read it, v good.

Finishing off D,WMC atm. Equally great, and scary.

 

[Froggeh]

The Inheritors by William Golding

 

[Gombur Glodson]

The Discworld.

 

[Cthulhu]

Just finished Stalingrad by Antony Beevor, great stuff.
Now reading The Cold Six Thousand - James Ellroy, a pretty warped take on 60's USA.
Anyone read Touching the Void or seen the film yet??

 

[yaruar]

currently reading -
Donna Tartt - The Little Friend
Just finished in the last month that I can remember offhand)
Joe R Lansdale - A Thin Dark Line
Joe R Lansdale - The Bottoms
Stephen Fry - Moab is my Washpot
Neil Gaimen - American Gods

Currently got about 10 books in a pile to work my way through starting with Sun Tse - The art of war and Ovid - Love poems.

+ finally starting work on my 2nd proto-novel (not that I ever finished the first as I realised half way through the plot was going nowhere!)

 

[Astfgl]

Currently reading Pyramids by Pratchett, for about the millionth time.

I just read them all over and over again.

 

[Exotic_DAncer]

I be mostly reading razzle.

 

[Talyn]

Pomegranites fair and fine.

Couldn't tell you the author off hand, but it's a novel based on the White Wolf World of Darkness...

 

[caLLous]

John Grisham - The King of Torts and James Patterson - Four Blind Mice.

 

[Munkey]

Just finished John Simpson's 'The Wars Against Saddam Taking the Hard Road to Baghdad'

A very good read and by jove it sure makes me annoyed at the americans. Saddam was quite a character.