# What Are You Reading Now? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 18, 2002, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-reading-now/104270 "2002-04-18T05:20:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2002, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-reading-now/104270/41 "2002-04-20T03:34:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Caesar’s Ghost \* > \*\*I’m also reading Stephen King’s new anthology (I’m big on anthologies), _Everything’s Eventual_. I love it so far. I had to skip over the Dark Towers story, “The Little Sisters of Euria”, because I haven’t read anything of the DT series, but I’ve read the other works and they’re fascinating. I’m halfway through right now. \*\* Same here - including the fact that I skipped the DT story. I’m also working my way through C S Forester’s _Hornblower_ series; nearly finished with _Ship of the Line_. I just finished Lisa Scottoline’s _The Vendetta Defense_. _Murder in Baker Street_ - original Sherlock Holmes stories by various crime fiction authors. ---
**Author:** ![Daoloth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/82dd89/32.png) [@Daoloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daoloth)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2002, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-reading-now/104270/42 "2002-04-20T06:08:07Z")
“Hate”, a biography on the founder of the American Nazi Party George Lincoln Rockwell. Got it for $5 at Halfpriced Books. ---
**Author:** ![ITR\_champion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c67d28/32.png) [@ITR\_champion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ITR_champion)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2002, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-reading-now/104270/43 "2002-04-20T06:30:28Z")
I’m almost at the end of _The Fall of Hyperion_. It’s readable, though like most SF sequels, it’s a bit of a let down compared to the original. I’m also about half-way through _The Once and Future King_. The first two sections were very clever and well-written. In my British lit class, we just started _Pride and Prejudice_. ---
**Author:** ![ethicsrcritical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e9a140/32.png) [@ethicsrcritical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ethicsrcritical)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2002, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-reading-now/104270/44 "2002-04-20T06:58:36Z")
“Gospel” by William Barnhardt The footnotes will educate you. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2002, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-reading-now/104270/45 "2002-04-20T13:57:32Z")
The next one I read will be _Girl With A Pearl Earring_, thanks to a very nice person on this board. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![zuma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9c0ed/32.png) [@zuma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zuma)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2002, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-reading-now/104270/46 "2002-04-20T13:59:10Z")
[Whatever Happened to the Hall of Fame? Baseball, Cooperstown, and the Politics of Glory](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0684800888/104-4953545-6723935) by Bill James. All baseball fans should read this. The weird thing is that I could see myself bringing my friends into the hall of fame once I assumed a powerful enough role to do so, even if I knew it was wrong. human nature, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Stupendous\_man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Stupendous\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stupendous_man)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2002, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-reading-now/104270/47 "2002-04-20T15:23:45Z")
“Cosmos” by the late great Carl Sagan. A book so good I often wish I has an audience to read it aloud to… Non-Fiction, Science/Astronomy About 10 beans CDN for the softcover “novel” size. ---
**Author:** ![HerMajestyLorna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/7cd45c/32.png) [@HerMajestyLorna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HerMajestyLorna)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2002, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-reading-now/104270/48 "2002-04-20T15:28:29Z")
“The Catcher in the Rye” for the first time. I am enjoying it immensely. ---
**Author:** ![Jabba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5e925/32.png) [@Jabba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jabba)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2002, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-reading-now/104270/49 "2002-04-20T16:27:46Z")
_Artemis Fowl_ by Eoin Coller ( just started it today). ---
**Author:** ![fish\_in\_the\_sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7ba0ec/32.png) [@fish\_in\_the\_sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fish_in_the_sky)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2002, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-reading-now/104270/50 "2002-04-20T19:54:53Z")
I’m about half-way through **The Days of Henry Thoreau** by Walter Harding. I’ll get to some more intense reading once school lets out for the summer. ---
**Author:** ![AbbySthrnAccent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@AbbySthrnAccent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AbbySthrnAccent)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2002, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-reading-now/104270/51 "2002-04-20T20:17:25Z")
Unlocking the Powers of Faith, by Garth Allred. My Name is Asher Lev, by Chaim Potok. The Life of Christ, by Frederic Farrar ---
**Author:** ![RedDevil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3ec8ea/32.png) [@RedDevil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedDevil)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2002, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-reading-now/104270/52 "2002-04-20T20:41:32Z")
A Severed Head - Iris Murdoch Dipping into a few Oscar Wilde plays. Re-living my school years with Peter Trudgill and Sociolinguistics. Enjoying myself with Jilly Cooper and Riders. ---
**Author:** ![Atreyu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@Atreyu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atreyu)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2002, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-reading-now/104270/53 "2002-04-20T23:31:10Z")
I’m about finished with re-reading The Call of Earth by Orson Scott Card. When I’m done, I’ll take a break from this series and get to reading the two books that I purchased today, The Battle for God by Karen Armstrong and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon. ---
**Author:** ![Dante](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dante/32/9673_2.png) [@Dante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dante)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2002, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-reading-now/104270/54 "2002-04-20T23:50:07Z")
I’m pulling some of the old classics out of the library for the daily train ride to work, so I’m re-reading Asimov’s _Robots_ series, and then I’ll be moving on to the _Foundation_ series. Is planning your book reading in advance _too_ geeky? ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2002, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-reading-now/104270/55 "2002-04-21T00:32:53Z")
Just finished reading The Prestige, by Christopher Priest. Very interesting account of two turn-of-the-century (err, nineteenth-twentieth) stage magicians. Very interesting stuff, although I realized this afternoon that there was a big fat lack of explanation of one of the book’s mysterious plot threads. That may have been deliberate, but it still chafes. Dunno what I’ll read next. Daniel ---
**Author:** ![pesch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pesch/32/4925_2.png) [@pesch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pesch)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2002, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-reading-now/104270/56 "2002-04-21T00:46:53Z")
Just finished “The Plague and I” by Betty Macdonald, about her year in a sanatarium for TB. I’m writing a review of Michael Connolly’s “City of Bones,” which was decent, but not as emotionally hard-hitting as some other cop novels I’ve read (like those by Ian Rankin). Currently, I just started on “Under the Black Flag: The Romance and Reality of Life Among the Pirates,” which was recommended by Common Reader. And, of course, working through Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2002, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-reading-now/104270/57 "2002-04-21T01:50:44Z")
**The Law of Similars** by Chris Bohjalian. **Selected Poems of Robert Frost** Waiting in the wings is a Margaret Atwood, but it’s on the nighttable and I cannot remember the title. Planning the reading in advance is NOT geeky, it speaks of such adoration for the written word that you just cannot imagine being without a book at all times. I do it sometimes. Or, I’ll go into a used bookstore and just GO for it. Cartooniverse ---
**Author:** ![reprise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@reprise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/reprise)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2002, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-reading-now/104270/58 "2002-04-21T02:05:35Z")
I just finished reading the Roth trilogy - _The Four last Things, The Judgement of Strangers, and The Office of the Dead_ - by Andrew Taylor (hint, If you are going to read this series, read the books in reverse order), and George Orwell’s _1984_. Currently reading _Trinity_ by Leon Uris. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2002, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-reading-now/104270/59 "2002-04-21T02:13:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cartooniverse \* > \*\ ***The Law of Similars** by Chris Bohjalian. > > Waiting in the wings is a Margaret Atwood, but it’s on the nighttable and I cannot remember the title.\*\* Is the Bohjalian one good? What’s it about? (don’t say it’s about 300 pages 😉 ) I read _Midwives_, which was really good, and _Trans-Sister Radio_, which was kinda weird. I’m guessing this is a new one? I didn’t realize he had a new one out. I just bought _The Blind Assassin_ by Margaret Atwood, but haven’t started it yet. I loved _The Handmaid’s Tale_. There’s this problem with my To-Read pile…it never gets any smaller. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2002, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-reading-now/104270/60 "2002-04-21T07:15:04Z")
A big book buying trip three days ago and I’ve just started another one of the books I bought: _Alternate Gettysburgs_, a collection of stories and essays on alternate history possibilities concerning the battle of Stalingrad. Made you look. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-reading-now/104270.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-reading-now/104270.md?page=4)