# What are you reading right now? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 26, 2002, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-reading-right-now/116054 "2002-06-26T16:07:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2002, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-reading-right-now/116054/21 "2002-06-26T23:37:48Z")
Alternating between _Downsize This!_ (Michael Moore) and _Perl Core Language: Little Black Book_ (Steven Holzner). They’re not new books – I’m re-reading old ones because I don’t have the budget (or the shelf space) for new books. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2002, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-reading-right-now/116054/22 "2002-06-27T00:17:08Z")
For fun, either being read or about to be read: _A Fine Balance_, by Rohinton Mistry _Memoirs of A Geisha_, by Arthur Golden _Little Altars Everywhere_, by Rebecca Wells _Up Country_, by Nelson DeMille For work: _Classroom Language Skills for Children With Down Syndrome_, by Libby Kumin _Teaching Reading to Children With Down’s Syndrome_, by Patricia Logan Oelwein \*What Happened to Recess and Why Are Our Children Struggling in Kindergarten? \*, by Susan Ohanian _I See What You Mean: Children at Work With Visual Information_, by Steve Moline ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2002, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-reading-right-now/116054/23 "2002-06-27T00:20:22Z")
“High Five” by Janet Evanovich. Perfect series for light summer reading. ---
**Author:** ![Siege](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@Siege](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siege)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2002, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-reading-right-now/116054/24 "2002-06-27T01:04:24Z")
I’m re-reading both _The Chronicles of Narnia_ and _The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy_ right now (OK, so it gets a bit surreal) and I’ve got David McCullough’s _John Adams_ lined up to read while I take some time off next week. CJ ---
**Author:** ![divemaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/divemaster/32/78_2.png) [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2002, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-reading-right-now/116054/25 "2002-06-27T01:15:39Z")
Just finished **Black House** by King and Straub and **The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World** by Bjorn Lomborg. Currently reading **Time Enough for Love** by Heinlein and re-reading **The Burden of Bad Ideas: How Modern Intellectuals Misshape Our Society** by Heather Mac Donald. ---
**Author:** ![ForgottenLore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5e9695/32.png) [@ForgottenLore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ForgottenLore)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2002, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-reading-right-now/116054/26 "2002-06-27T01:26:37Z")
> [@](#): > > Slogging through Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson - the middle part of a trilogy & I don’t think I’m going to make it. Very dense story, lots of characters & more politicking than I prefer. **Politzania,** give Robinson a chance. _Blue Mars_ is a big improvement over _Green Mars._ Though if you forced me to choose, I’d have to say that the first book was probably the best of the three. ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2002, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-reading-right-now/116054/27 "2002-06-27T03:14:27Z")
_The Four Loves_, C.S. Lewis, and I have Dorothy L. Sayers’ translation of Dante’s _Inferno_ waiting for me. Then I have to read \*The Silmarillion[/]. My fiance says I have to. Warning: by the end I’ll probably think I’m an ent. Oh, i also have _The Norton Anthology of English Literature, vol. I_, waiting for me. It’s a beautiful book. Lots and lots of pages. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2002, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-reading-right-now/116054/28 "2002-06-27T03:19:44Z")
Bother. What did I do to the coding? ---
**Author:** ![Jet\_Jaguar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jet_jaguar/32/3562_2.png) [@Jet\_Jaguar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jet_Jaguar)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2002, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-reading-right-now/116054/29 "2002-06-27T03:23:19Z")
Since the last time this question has come up, I’m still working on the classic Chinese novel **Journey to the West**. I’m just picking it up again and hope to finish it this weekend, since I’m on chapter 93 (out of 100). I’m also reading **The Amateur’s Mind** by Jeremy Silman, a chess instruction book; and I’m working through **Chess** by Lazlo Polgar, a book of over 5000 mating problems. I should finish the latter in about a year or so. ---
**Author:** ![WV\_Woman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@WV\_Woman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WV_Woman)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2002, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-reading-right-now/116054/30 "2002-06-27T03:27:46Z")
I’m almost done with “This Present Darkness” by Frank Peretti. I read it years ago but forgot literally everything about it. Next on the list is “Piercing the Darkness,” same author. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2002, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-reading-right-now/116054/31 "2002-06-27T03:40:05Z")
Finally, this thread comes up and I have a book that I am not embarrassed ( ok, I’m not embarrassed, I just don’t want to be flamed) to mention here. You dopers sure read some high falutin books. [cue trumpet voluntare] I am reading \*\*The Poisonwood Bible \*\* It is the first Oprah’s Book Club book that I’ve liked (most seem too depressing or dull. It must be me.) and I am not sure if that means I am getting smarter and more hip or just more lemming. ---
**Author:** ![BraheSilver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@BraheSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BraheSilver)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2002, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-reading-right-now/116054/32 "2002-06-27T03:40:10Z")
Currently I’m reading **Virtual Light** by William Gibson, but I’ve just come back from the library so I’ve got **The Difference Engine** up on deck. ---
**Author:** ![grendel72](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/91b2a8/32.png) [@grendel72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grendel72)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2002, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-reading-right-now/116054/33 "2002-06-27T03:43:58Z")
**The Cyberiad** by Stanislaw Lem. Frikkin’ brilliant, better than **Solaris** IMHO. I only ever read one book at a time. ---
**Author:** ![ResIpsaLoquitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b3f665/32.png) [@ResIpsaLoquitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ResIpsaLoquitor)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2002, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-reading-right-now/116054/34 "2002-06-27T03:49:47Z")
Working through book 5 (I forget the title) of the New Jedi Order series of Star Wars novels. I also picked up **Hulk: The End** from Marvel today, by Peter David and Dale Keown. Arguably the best Incredible Hulk comic I’ve ever read, or at a minimum, in the top 5. ---
**Author:** ![Lyllyan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b2d939/32.png) [@Lyllyan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lyllyan)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2002, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-reading-right-now/116054/35 "2002-06-27T04:40:25Z")
Just finished Perchance to Dream by Denise Little. It’s a collection of short stories about dreaming. 1/3 of the way through Son of the Shadows by Juliet Marillier. Starting A Confederancy of Dunces by John Toole. Browsing Herbal Healing by by Phyllis A. Balch. Also on the currently being read pile is What Your 4th Grader Should Know and What Your 5th Grader Should Know but am too lazy to go get the books to find the author. Anxiously awaiting Requiem for the Sun by Elizabeth Haydon. ---
**Author:** ![leechbabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@leechbabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leechbabe)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2002, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-reading-right-now/116054/36 "2002-06-27T05:07:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by PunditLisa \* > \*\*“High Five” by Janet Evanovich. Perfect series for light summer reading. \*\* I’ve just finished that one. Its a great series, although I will admit to being more interested in the romantic developments than the bounty hunter plot line. I’m currently reading **“The Colour of Light”** by William Goldman. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2002, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-reading-right-now/116054/37 "2002-06-27T05:15:47Z")
I’m reading ‘Darwin’ edited by Philip Appleman…excerpts from some of Charles Darwin’s works (Origin of Species, Voyage of the Beagle etc) plus some _VERY_ interesting essays on the influence of Darwinism on the scientific, socio/economic, philosophical/ethical, and religious world views. Grouse book 🙂 🙂 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2002, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-reading-right-now/116054/38 "2002-06-27T05:22:47Z")
I’m re-reading **King’s** IT for about the millionth time. No real reason, but I don’t have any new books and the library is really out of my way, so I just grabbed IT. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_Wright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Steve\_Wright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_Wright)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2002, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-reading-right-now/116054/39 "2002-06-27T09:44:17Z")
About half-way through Neal Asher’s _The Skinner_. Dunno about this one, yet - I quite liked one of Asher’s small-press short story collections, but this one seems a bit routine… and I think I detect a heavy Iain M. Banks influence (not that this is a _bad_ influence, but I’d like to see more originality). ---
**Author:** ![Loopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loopus/32/15343_2.png) [@Loopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopus)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2002, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-reading-right-now/116054/40 "2002-06-27T09:57:10Z")
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