What are you reading right now?

neuro-praxis

List your currents. The books I am reading for the first time right now:

Desperadoes - Joseph O'Connor
Brave New World (finally!) - Aldous Huxley
Europe on a Shoestring - (lonely planet)
The Collected Letters of CS Lewis
The Collected Essays of CS Lewis

The books I am reading for the umpteenth time right now:

Anton Chekov Selected Short Stories
Christianity is Ridiculous - John Allan

Am I the only one who reads books again and again, too? I want to know what all you people read!

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Give me back my towel. I'll sue.

Manach

Pursuit of Excellence - Stephen Jay Gould
Pragamtic Programmer - Hunt and Thomas
Reading the Bible - Dalpadado
Puskin - Elaine Feinstien
Majyk by Accident - Esther Friesner

In a perpetual loop re: Chesterton books.

and finally my coding report review which was due in last week

Thanx 4 The Fish

Am currently reading :-

The mad ship : Book 3 of the Liveship traders
by Robin Hobb.

Next Book is Terry Brooks' latest.

Have more or less the entire pratchett
collection and will read any of those
whenever have nothing else to read.

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You never expect the Beefy Inquisition !!!

Stephen

Bad Love, by Jonathan Kellerman

--Kaiser--

Wizard and Glass by Stephen King
strange but compelling

Blitzkrieger

about to finish King of the Ants bye Some Guy and move on to Microserfs by Douglas Coupland

TwoShedsJackson

'We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families' by Phillip Gourevitch.

His account of the Rwandan genocide in 1994, mostly in anecdotal form. Compelling, fascinating and terrifying.

Frodo@work

david farland; wizardborn (book 3 of the rune lords)
katherine kerr; darkspell
george r.r martin; storm of swords (book 3 of song of ice and fire)

Shinji

Just finished re-reading Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson. I know I've wibbled on about this before, but anyone with an interest in computers, cryptography or World War II *needs* to read this book. As a matter of some urgency

Currently occupying my commuting hours is Alaistar Reynold's "revelation space" - he's a new author afaik, but the book is a stunner, really top-notch sci-fi that reads like a cross between Iain M Banks' "Culture" novels and Neal Stephenson's "Snow Crash".

yossarin

"hells angels" by Hunter S. Thompson. bit of a documentary, and now what i was expecting after fear and loathing

Cloud

The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan
Cerebus by Dave Sim
And of course some manga: Ranma!

Yo Mamma

Just finished rereading the Silmarillion
So the next book I read will be the Book of Lost Tales 1, Both By the father of Fantasy JRR.Tolkien!!

I'm also reading Ravenloft "The war against Azailn" Brilliant !

Canaboid

Currently:

Otherland - Tad Williams
The Troubles - Tim Pat Coogan

Next up:

Shadow of the Hegemon (sequel to Enders shadow) - Orson Scott Card (fav contempory author)

and yes Shinji, I can't say enough about Cryptonomicon.
Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear is also good.

WhiteWashMan

wheel of time, againa and again and again and again and again
discworld. all of them. again and again and again and again
lord of the rings. stuck on chapter 3 for the last 4 weeks, and making no progress.
windows 2000 networking infrastructure administration chapter 1. havent got of it in about 2 weeks....
gateway 7200 arl server manaul
ingediants of several bottles of shampoo/domestos/toilet duck/whatever can be found inthe toilet cupboard
other various bits and bobs....

neuro-praxis

Blitz, I *loved* Microserfs - have you read anything else by Douglas Coupland? I have read them all - Girlfriend in a Coma, Life After God, Polaroids from the Dead, Generation X, Miss Wyoming, and Shampoo Planet (my favourite one that). I don't think I've missed any. They are all superb except Miss Wyoming, which is pants. (Although Excelsior would severely disagree with me on that one.)

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GreenHell

indeed microserfs a classic book shame I lost my copy

Currently reading/just finished
Men at Arms - Terry Pratchett
Jingo - T.P

Next well in about 15 mins really I'm going to get cracking on Hogswatch once again by T.P when will this discworld phase end!!!!!!!!

plastic membrane

The Throat By Peter Straub ( he c-wrote The Talisman), followed by White Jazz by James Ellroy. Them mabye Cryptonomicon, if i have a year of my life to spare..

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Damn it Jim, im a doctor, not a Beefy King !

Blitzkrieger

I actually bought a lot of books by Coupland but haven't got around to reading them yet. Everybody says he's brilliant so that should be fun

shank

Skin Tight - Carl Hiaasen
Avengers - Brian Lumley

Excelsior

i am reading a collection of essays and musings by Wittgenstein. its good because i can delve in, read one and leave it down for 3 days.
i am reading the CS Lewis Sci-fi trilogy, the first one Out Of This Silent Planet is just superb. i am no expert on sci-fi but if there is more stuff out there like this, count me in.
i have also begun The Thin Red Line. i love the movie so my best friend bought me the book for Christmas.

i re-read Coupland's books, the Hitchhikers Guide books and CS Lewis all the time.

manach, is that Gould's latest book? i always pick them up 2 years late on bargain from Chapters. is it still just a book of essays on various topics or is it a book discussing one thing?

and blitz, you will LOVE Coupland. he is my favourite living author. his style and pacing is just sublime. you will dig Microserfs, which ties for me with Generation X and Girlfriend in a Coma as my favourite book.

the fnj

Mr Nice Howard Marks

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whitetrash

reading:

"nymphomation" - jeff noon
and "on writing" - stepehn king, read it before. but just picked it up and began agaion

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I Live (in a dream world)

Manach

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- Life's Grandeur was published in 1992. It's supposed to be about Evolution but he digresses for a 1/3 of the book and statistic theory and how it applies to baseball?!?.
Not one of his better efforts.

Frodo@work

ok finished them.
im now reading Brian Lumley's Necroscope

Da Bounca

The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
SAS Survival guide - ?

quite a mix i know, but the gadgets they make are just soo cool.

Kali

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

Lenny

I'm readin "Fly away Peter" by david Molouf
for my LC quite a good book, gets intrestin at the end

Evil Phil

Just finished: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance {Kali }

Currently: Burr by Gore Vidal

Next Up: Spares by Michael Marshall Smith

I haven't read MM Smith before but apparently he's brilliant so I'm giving him a try. Make a change from Mr. Vidal.

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The people who vote decide nothing. The people who count the vote decide everything.

- Joseph Stalin

adnans

reading: wonderland avenue by danny sugerman
just finished: mr nice by howard marks

adnans

Gerry

I just started Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth. Also reading Practical Unix and Internet Security, and the evening herald.

Flink

The Art of Dreaming - Carlos Castenada.

Even if you think it's the biggest load of Bull-**** ever, it still makes very interesting reading.

Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkein

Just finished reading for the second time. Great book.

Dali's Optical Illusions

Man he got some crazy pictures.

Up next- my years notes, in preparation for my exams. It just wouldn't feel right reading books when I've got so much study to do.

P.s. How do you get a ranking, like corporal or whatever??