# Once again with the: So What Are You Reading? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 17, 2002, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-again-with-the-so-what-are-you-reading/124412 "2002-08-17T23:55:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2002, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-again-with-the-so-what-are-you-reading/124412/1 "2002-08-17T23:55:36Z")
I have to confess. I am currently reading a Glamour magazine. I have no book in progress at the mo’ – a dire situation that clearly cannot be allowed to stand. So, for the – what, fourth? fifth? time, I ask you, wise and literate (un and il, I’m not picky) Dopers: Whatcha reading? Whatcha think of it? Would you recommend it? Huh? Huh? ---
**Author:** ![xcheopis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/bc8723/32.png) [@xcheopis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xcheopis)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2002, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-again-with-the-so-what-are-you-reading/124412/2 "2002-08-18T00:11:06Z")
_Dr. Tatiana’s Sex Advice To All Creation_ by **Olivia Judson**. I think it’s very funny and quite informative. I do indeed recommend it. ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2002, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-again-with-the-so-what-are-you-reading/124412/3 "2002-08-18T00:14:09Z")
I’m extremely bad… I read multiple books at once, it just happens it seems. Right now I’m reading several Neil Gaiman books… and hoping to get money soon so I can raid the local comics store for his Sandman Comics… as well as the first Wheel of Time book and Shadow Moon, the start of the series that takes place after the movie Willow… ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2002, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-again-with-the-so-what-are-you-reading/124412/4 "2002-08-18T00:52:41Z")
I’m working my way through the 15 volume omnibus series of Michael Moorcock’s Eternal Champion series. I’m just about done with book 4, with book 5 waiting in the bedroom. I’m not sure how far I’ll get before I put them aside to reread the Wheel of Time series in preparation for the release of Book 10 in November. Then, I expect the next George Martin book will be released before too long, so I’ll need to reread those… I’m booked! (Haw haw haw) ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2002, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-again-with-the-so-what-are-you-reading/124412/5 "2002-08-18T00:54:17Z")
I am currently reading _House of Leaves_ by Mark Z. Danielewski, _Five Hundred Years After_ by Steven Brust and _The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Cats, Cat Breeds & Cat Care_ and re-reading _The Stand_ by Stephen King and _Pilot’s Choice_ by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller. I’m never so happy as when I’m in the middle of a half-dozen books. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2002, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-again-with-the-so-what-are-you-reading/124412/6 "2002-08-18T00:58:25Z")
Well it’s happened again. I lost a whole post. This time I was **NOT LOGGED IN!**. It has happened so many times now that I haven’t the patience to remember and re-type my whole post. I will just say I reccomend every Terry Pratchett book, every Harry Potter book, High Fidelity (Nick Hornby), All five of the Hitch Hiker trilogy (douglas adams) ---
**Author:** ![ResIpsaLoquitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b3f665/32.png) [@ResIpsaLoquitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ResIpsaLoquitor)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2002, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-again-with-the-so-what-are-you-reading/124412/7 "2002-08-18T01:27:39Z")
I’m somewhere in the middle of the Star Wars _New Jedi Order_ series. I plan on re-reading _Slaughterhouse 5_ after that. ---
**Author:** ![tritone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8e7dd6/32.png) [@tritone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tritone)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2002, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-again-with-the-so-what-are-you-reading/124412/8 "2002-08-18T01:52:05Z")
I’ve just finished _Dirt Music_ by Tim Winton, a West Australian writer whose novels are very firmly attached to the place I live in. It was good, but not as good as _Cloudstreet_, probably his most famous and IMO his best novel. I recently got to read a preview copy of A.S. Byatt’s new novel, _A Whistling Woman_, which hasn’t yet been released in Australia (I love having friends who own a bookshop!). It’s the final book in her ‘Frederica’ quartet. It was FAB! I’m currently contemplating my bookshelf to decide which of the unread novels is next in line - probably Henry James’ _The Wings of the Dove_. I’m also three quarters of the way through Dorothy Dunnett’s _House of Niccolo_ series - two books to go. I stalled halfway through _Caprice and Rondo_ (number 7 in the series) when I tried to read it earlier this year. I think the final two books will have to wait until summer holidays, when I can give them my complete attention for a few weeks. Of course, I’m also working my way through _Robbins’ Pathologic Basis of Disease_ at the rate of about one chapter per week :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2002, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-again-with-the-so-what-are-you-reading/124412/9 "2002-08-18T02:13:38Z")
I am currently reading “Evolution Wars a 3 billion year battle” It’s quite interesting-I like the way it’s written. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2002, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-again-with-the-so-what-are-you-reading/124412/10 "2002-08-18T02:54:12Z")
I’m reading _Modern Operating Systems_, a textbook on–you guessed it!–operating systems. Knowing things like that makes me better at my job, and more likely to get promoted. ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2002, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-again-with-the-so-what-are-you-reading/124412/11 "2002-08-18T03:25:01Z")
I am finally reading The Poisonwood Bible, after resisting reading it for a long time. A friend loaned it to me. Next up: Whatever my book club assigns, and one of the books I’ve had piling up since Christmas. Maybe The Fiery Cross, or Paris to the Moon. ---
**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2002, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-again-with-the-so-what-are-you-reading/124412/12 "2002-08-18T04:20:11Z")
Another several books going at once person here. Recently (in the last few weeks) re-read all the Diana Gabaldons (including _Fiery Cross_); re-read _Hamlet_, and since I was about it, also two books about Shakespeare (_Shakespeare in The Movies_ by Douglas Brode, and some literary collection full of essays about Shakespeare I can’t recall the name of.) A friend recommended _Miss Lizzie_, by Walter Satterthwait, and _Confessions of An Ugly Stepsister_, by Gregory Maguire, so I read those, too. Today I finished reading _The Angel of Darkness_, by Caleb Carr. Next on my list: _Hard Eight_ by Janet Evanovich and _Wicked_ by Gregory Maguire, and I’m patiently waiting for Nora Roberts’ next Eve Dallas (JD Robb) book. ---
**Author:** ![Flashpaper\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Flashpaper\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flashpaper_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2002, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-again-with-the-so-what-are-you-reading/124412/13 "2002-08-18T07:27:18Z")
Richard Brautigan’s Trout Fishing in America ---
**Author:** ![Living\_Dead\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecb155/32.png) [@Living\_Dead\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Living_Dead_Girl)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2002, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-again-with-the-so-what-are-you-reading/124412/14 "2002-08-18T11:40:58Z")
Currently I’m rereading ‘Will There Really Be A Morning?’ by Frances Farmer, definitely worth a read if you can track down a copy. It’s pretty horrific in parts, but overall it’s an amazing book. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2002, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-again-with-the-so-what-are-you-reading/124412/15 "2002-08-18T13:01:32Z")
Just because I haven’t gotten to the library lately… _All Creatures Great and Small_ by James Herriot. I had just finished rereading the Masters of Rome series by Colleen McCullogh. (Anyone know when _October Horse_ is coming out?) ---
**Author:** ![Kantalooppi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a5b964/32.png) [@Kantalooppi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kantalooppi)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2002, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-again-with-the-so-what-are-you-reading/124412/16 "2002-08-18T13:03:58Z")
_Skeptical Environmentalist_ by Bjorn Lomborg and _Years of Rice and Salt_ by Kim Stanley Robinson. ---
**Author:** ![Geobabe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/geobabe/32/3908_2.png) [@Geobabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geobabe)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2002, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-again-with-the-so-what-are-you-reading/124412/17 "2002-08-18T14:52:53Z")
_Sailors to the End: The Deadly Fire on the USS Forrestal and the Heroes Who Fought It_ by Gregory Freeman, who posts here on the SDMB as **GregAtlanta**. This book is excellent, and I highly recommend it. I was in the Navy for 7-1/2 years, and saw the training film about the _Forrestal_ fire many, many times, so I was familiar with what had happened, but the book gives a far more in-depth look at the story, and tells the personal stories of many of the sailors who were on her. I was sick in bed on Friday and got through about 3/4 of the book, because I couldn’t put it down. [http://www.sailorstotheend.com/](http://www.sailorstotheend.com/) ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2002, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-again-with-the-so-what-are-you-reading/124412/18 "2002-08-18T15:15:50Z")
Right now, I’m reading **Words and Rules** , a terrific study of the structure of langage by Steven Pinker. My boyfriend’s parents gave me **I’m Just Here for the Food** , by Alton Brown, the guy who hosts _Good Eats_ on Food Network. I’m also reading a collection of James White’s Sector General medical SF, **Alien Emergencies**. Yeah, I’m one those several-books-at-a-time folks. ---
**Author:** ![lauramarlane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a5b964/32.png) [@lauramarlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lauramarlane)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2002, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-again-with-the-so-what-are-you-reading/124412/19 "2002-08-18T15:44:48Z")
I just picked up a copy of Gregory Maguire’s most recent book ._Lost_. I have no idea what it’s about but I read and loved both _Wicked : The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West_, and _Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister_–they were great! I recently finished _Death’s Jest Book_ part of the Dalziel and Pascoe police procedural mystery series by Reginald Hill and it was great! Although, I’m in the U.S. and it hasn’t been published here yet so I had to order it from Amazon in the UK–and, as a side note, I ended up paying less for a new hardcover including shipping, than I would if I’d bought it from a bookstore here. ---
**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2002, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-again-with-the-so-what-are-you-reading/124412/20 "2002-08-18T15:56:30Z")
_Night of the Avenging Blowfish_ by John Welter - “A novel of covert operations, love and luncheon meat” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-again-with-the-so-what-are-you-reading/124412.md?page=2)