# What Book are you currently reading? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 18, 2000, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-currently-reading/46251 "2000-12-18T22:53:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RocknRoll\_Killing\_Machine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5daacb/32.png) [@RocknRoll\_Killing\_Machine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RocknRoll_Killing_Machine)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2000, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-currently-reading/46251/1 "2000-12-18T22:53:32Z")
Right now, I’m working on _Cryptonomicon_ by Neal Stephenson. I think the next book I’ll read will be _Get Shorty_ by, uh… someone. ---
**Author:** ![magdalene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df788c/32.png) [@magdalene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magdalene)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2000, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-currently-reading/46251/2 "2000-12-18T23:03:53Z")
I just started The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx, on a recommendation from Milossarian. Also just started Malignant Sadness by Lewis Wolpert. (one for train reading, one for bedtime reading) I think the author you are looking for is Elmore Leonard. ---
**Author:** ![Simetra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Simetra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simetra)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2000, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-currently-reading/46251/3 "2000-12-18T23:05:30Z")
“Otherland” Series by Tad Williams. I’m on “River of Blue Fire”. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2000, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-currently-reading/46251/4 "2000-12-18T23:07:46Z")
Catching up on lost years: _Moby Dick._ ---
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2000, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-currently-reading/46251/5 "2000-12-18T23:16:24Z")
necronomicon was excellent. I am finishing the 4th harry potter book tonight and then I start on “Serious Pig” a collection of essays by a travelling chef. ---
**Author:** ![Danimal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bb73d2/32.png) [@Danimal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danimal)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2000, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-currently-reading/46251/6 "2000-12-18T23:19:59Z")
George R.R. Martin, _A Storm of Swords._ The third book in the best fantasy series I’ve read since Tolkien. ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2000, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-currently-reading/46251/7 "2000-12-18T23:27:36Z")
Re-reading _The Black Dahila_ by James Ellroy. Then I’m going to read about what really happened in\* "Severed: The True Story of the Black Dahlia Murder\* by John Gilmore. ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2000, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-currently-reading/46251/8 "2000-12-18T23:30:49Z")
Just finished the latest Dean Koontz, “False Memory” and started one of the Anne McCaffrey books that I’ve missed so far, “Renegades of Pern.” ---
**Author:** ![magdalene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df788c/32.png) [@magdalene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magdalene)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2000, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-currently-reading/46251/9 "2000-12-18T23:31:04Z")
yojimbo, COOL! I’m a huge Ellroy fan, I’ll have to pick upt the true story version. ---
**Author:** ![BlackKnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb8c5e/32.png) [@BlackKnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlackKnight)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2000, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-currently-reading/46251/10 "2000-12-18T23:37:37Z")
Just finished “Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid”, and am currently reading “Winter’s Heart” (the newest Wheel of Time book) and “Philosophy and Computer Science” by my current computer professor, Tim Colburn. ---
**Author:** ![zyzzyva](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@zyzzyva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zyzzyva)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2000, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-currently-reading/46251/11 "2000-12-18T23:38:42Z")
I tend to flip around, but these are on my nightstand: Harry Turtledove: _The Great War: American Front_ Irvine Welsh:_The Acid House_ James Burke:_Circles_ David Perry:_Bike Cult_ ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2000, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-currently-reading/46251/12 "2000-12-18T23:38:45Z")
Yay! _Shipping News_ is a wonderful book. re: _Moby Dick_, I just finished [_In the Heart of the Sea_](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0670891576/o/qid=977182558/sr=8-1/ref=aps_sr_b_1_3/107-7249148-2274166) and the accompanying [_The Loss of the Ship Essex, Sunk by a Whale: First-Person Accounts_](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0140437967/ref=sim_books/107-7249148-2274166). Fascinating, horrifying. Now I’m reading _Martha Quest_ by Doris Lessing. What a wonderful writer. I hereby publicly predict that she’ll have a Nobel Prized within 5 or 6 years (unless the relatively recent awarding of the prize to another White South African Woman [Nadine Gordimer] disqualifies her politically). ---
**Author:** ![absoul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc8723/32.png) [@absoul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/absoul)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2000, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-currently-reading/46251/13 "2000-12-18T23:39:43Z")
currently reading- [The Complete Fuzzy](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0441005810/ref=lm_lb_6/107-0762771-8539739) by H. Beam Piper ---
**Author:** ![Purd\_Werfect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47c2d/32.png) [@Purd\_Werfect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purd_Werfect)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2000, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-currently-reading/46251/14 "2000-12-18T23:39:54Z")
Just finished Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem, and am about to embark on Ender’s Shadow by Orson Scott Card. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2000, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-currently-reading/46251/15 "2000-12-18T23:43:19Z")
I’m in the middle of a big nostalgia attack. I saw a hardcover Douglas Adams Omnibus for 10 bucks. I’m now re-reading The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Life, the Universe and Everything, So Long and Thanks for the Fish, Young Zaphod Plays it Safe and Mostly Harmless. All in one handy-dandy book. Did I mention it was only 10 bucks? ---
**Author:** ![McMurphy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e19adc/32.png) [@McMurphy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/McMurphy)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2000, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-currently-reading/46251/16 "2000-12-18T23:43:23Z")
I’m currently reading A Clockwork Orange again. I’ve recently read Nighttrain by Martin Amis which is a superb noirish thriller. Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies by Douglas Hofstader which is a brilliant, albeit quite difficult, book detailing artificial intelligence experiments in pattern finding and anagrams Lord of the Flies by William Golding which is brilliantly written although I totally disagree with what the author is trying to say. The Green Mile by Stephen King. A word of advice, don’t go and see the film after you’ve read this, you’ll be sorely disappointed. Also, Blackknight, where did you get hold of a copy of Godel, Escher, Bach? I’ve been looking for one everywhere but I can’t find it. ---
**Author:** ![Mofo\_Rising](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Mofo\_Rising](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mofo_Rising)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2000, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-currently-reading/46251/17 "2000-12-18T23:58:58Z")
[Rumble Tumble](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0446607576/qid=977183573/sr=1-14/105-8852901-0272721) by Joe R. Lansdale, the fifth installment in the Hap Collins and Leonard Pine series. I’m also reading [High Cotton](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0965590127/o/qid=977183573/sr=2-2/105-8852901-0272721), a collection of Lansdale’s short stories. I also have a William S. Burroughs omnibus I’m dipping into. ---
**Author:** ![BlackKnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb8c5e/32.png) [@BlackKnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlackKnight)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-currently-reading/46251/18 "2000-12-19T00:05:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\*Also, Blackknight, where did you get hold of a copy of Godel, Escher, Bach? I’ve been looking for one everywhere but I can’t find it. \*\* I checked it out from the college (University of Minnesota, Duluth) library. I believe they only have a single copy. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-currently-reading/46251/19 "2000-12-19T00:13:54Z")
Just finally finished “The Lord of the Rings” which was one of the most satisying reads I’ve done in a long time. Starting to reread “A New Age Now Begins : A People’s History of the American Revolution” by Page Smith. I may decide to just continue on and read all 8 volumes of his history. ---
**Author:** ![slackergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@slackergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slackergirl)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-currently-reading/46251/20 "2000-12-19T00:16:37Z")
havok, I believe Get Shorty is by Elmore Leonard. I’m slogging my way through Ulysses. I’m supposed to be on Chapter 15 by mid January. I don’t think I’m going to make it. I think Snowcrash is up next. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-currently-reading/46251.md?page=2)