What are you reading right now?

pepperkin

I'm reading the Piers Anthony series, "Incarnations of Immortality" for about the 17th time...great series
And I am also checking out this enormous book I picked up over the weekend for $20, entitled GHOSTS and filled with TONS of ghost stories (all supposedly real) and some other nifty articles. The other great thing about this hardbound book is that it's a foot tall, 3 inches thick and weighs about
20 lbs, so I could whack an intruder with it.
Oh, and if this counts...Harry Potter and the Sorcerors Stone to my kids, bit by bit, every night. (I've read it about 4x to myself, lol)

Trojan

Couple of ones others are on:

The Pragmatic Programmer (excellent)
Revelation Space (it's spelt Alastair btw)

Also getting through:

High Noon - Sun/McNealy bio
Ringworld, RW Engineers (Niven is just the man!)

Writing Compilers & Interpreters (Mak)
The Art of Compiler Design (Pittman & Peters)
Compiler Techniques (1972!!)

Guess what I'm doing at the mo

Al.

Thanx 4 The Fish

Is ok Al,

Everybody already knows

M

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adnans

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by adnans:
reading: wonderland avenue by danny sugerman
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thats finished also, im onto NO LOGO by naomi klein

adnans

Corinthian

A Monk Swimming by Malachy McCourt (very funny in parts, I was ROFL a couple of times)
The Silver Castle by Clive James
The Woman and the Ape by Peter Høeg

neuro-praxis

Blessed art thou a monk swimming.

I know it.

smoke.me.a.kipper

damn. i used to read a lot, but over the past few years.... nothing.

i *really* have to get back into it.

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Zapper

Moby Dick by Herman Mellville, acctuallly better than i thought it would be. Been reading a few classics recently, like the Oddesey by Homer - mainly cos im skint and cant afford any book priced over a pound

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OSiriS

Currently Reading:

Buy Jupiter (short stories by Issac Asimov)
Shogun (James Clavell)
The Bears Tears (Craig Thomas)
Lord of the Rings (JRR Tolkien)

Next up:

The rest of the Tom Clancy books I haven't gotten to yet (not his colaborations)
The rest of Craig Thomas's books
Start the DiskWorld series

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tHE vAGGABOND

currently reading 4 books - thats well l33t!

Celt

LOTR of course, read LE Modesitt's recluse series plus all Jordan's nook in the alst month or so..

MiCr0

just about to finish the latest michael connelly book, a darkness more than night

amp

uhhh... I'm currently reading:
http://www.boards.ie/cgi-bin/bulletin/postings.cgi?action=reply&forum=Literature&number=13&topic=000295.cgi&TopicSubject=What+are+you+reading+right+now|QUS|

AHHHH HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA!!
But seriously though kids, bookwise I'm reading:
Some big ass Sci-fi short stories edited by Ursula Le Guin.
Two books on early Ireland and Celtic mythology (they are big and have pretty pictures)
Arthur C Clarkes Hammer of the Gods (complete drivel unfortunately)
The Star (with FREE 7 day tv guide)
John Irvings - The World According to Garp.(fupping excellent)

I'm thinking about reading the entire 10 books of the late crazed L Ron Hubbards Mission Earth series. When I've got a spare 6 months or so.

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Shinji

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">and yes Shinji, I can't say enough about Cryptonomicon.
Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear is also good.</font>

Spooky, those are the two books that I ordered together (with some ubertechy coding manuals) from Amazon a few weeks back. Have you been looking in my windows again? I'll have that restraining order re-applied, you know...

Clintons Cat

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Blitzkrieger:
about to finish King of the Ants bye Some Guy </font>

Charlie Higson
Cool book,the padded baseball bat scene is very disturbing.
Happy now

Da Bounca

catch22

****ing deadly book,its so funny

Jim Daniels

Paul Auster: New York Trilogy.

Three wonderfully strange stories with chance and coincidence as common themes. They all nearly, but not quite, relate and overlap. Pleasantly headwrecking.

All this guy's stuff is great.

Canaboid

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Shinji:
Have you been looking in my windows again?
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What if I have ?

Frodo@work

Tad Williams 'the dragon bone chair'
and it better start getting better.

MiCr0

now reading
Net Spies by Andrew Gauntlett

darthmise

Boy George autobiography.
Funny guy.

Illkillya

High Fidelity - funny book
..by Nick Hornby

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yellum

::Originally posted by amp:

:I'm thinking about reading the entire 10 :books of the late crazed L Ron Hubbards :Mission Earth series. When I've got a spare :6 months or so.

Instead of studying for my leaving Cert I sat in the Library and read those. Was going through a book every 2 days at one stage. The first book was good and a few more were okay but they really could have edited it into 4 or 5 books. Fairly epic tale. God I'd love a Jolt (the beverage in the book, not the one in the real world)

metalchicken

Am reading Bridget Jones Diary (thought I'd read it for millionth time b4 i go to see the film) and also "the Truth" by Mr P. (The truth is too big to carry in my bag for the bus, hence 2 books.)

Da Bounca

the wars over laddy, let it go

Chubby

deleting a bad joke

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Greenbean

Isaac Asimov - Prelude to Foundation. Ahem you don't have to read it either, you could, ahem, listen to it, cough, unabridged,... using audiogalaxy, cough... ahem.

neuro-praxis

I have just finished reading "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" by dave Eggers, and am now eating into two guides to Einstein. And am still enjoying CS Lewis (these collections are massively massively long)...


Sweet sweet books...

Yossarian

Currently,
Panzer Leader -Heinz Guderian
Catch-22 - J. Heller (re-read)
War & Peace - Tolstoy (started it 2 years ago still havent finished it )

followed by,
The Art of War - N. Machavelli
On War - Von Clauswitz.
Road to Stalingrad - John Ericsson.

Von

Vatican Bloodbath by Tommy Udo. About the 500 year long struggle between the Vatican and the British Royal Family for control of the world's heroin trade.

Tits Out Teenage Terror Totty by Steven Wells.
With Princess Diana repeatedly resurrected and then ritually slaughtered to satisfy the angst-lust of the drug-addled British public, with the government kidnapped by revenge-crazed Yorkshire miners and with an increasingly insane God gearing up for Armageddon, the scene is set for Justine Justice and her top terrorist chums to persecute their insane jihad against the SAS, vegetarians, road protesters, serious novelists, rave music and the cabal of evil dog-molesting Tory vampires who secretly rule the world.