# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![hypergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/49beb7/32.png) [@hypergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hypergirl)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-currently-reading/46251/41 "2000-12-19T04:00:17Z")
I just finished the Princess Bride again. I am kinda in the middle of some cheesy romance/softcore porn novel called Forever in Your Embrace. And I just started National Lampoon’s Paperback Conspiracy. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-currently-reading/46251/42 "2000-12-19T04:09:22Z")
I am reading Dune. I have never read it so I wanted to see what the fuss was. I like it so far. I recently finished All Tomorrow’s Parties by William Gibsom, which makes a reference to a column my Mr. Adams. ---
**Author:** ![kasuo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8c91f0/32.png) [@kasuo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kasuo)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-currently-reading/46251/43 "2000-12-19T04:10:11Z")
I’m currently reading **Green Mars** by Kim Stanley Robinson. Hey **delphica** , have you read any of the other Cooper books? **The Dark is Rising** is definitely my fave. ---
**Author:** ![nashiitashii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7c8e57/32.png) [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-currently-reading/46251/44 "2000-12-19T04:15:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by absoul \* > \*\*currently reading- > > [The Complete Fuzzy](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0441005810/ref=lm_lb_6/107-0762771-8539739) > by H. Beam Piper > \*\* OMG!!! I remember that book! I have one of those books from when I was younger. They were kewl little Fuzzies. Anyway, I’m in between books at the moment. I haven’t decided what I’m going to start when I finish these two books for school that I need to start. ---
**Author:** ![lolagranola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ea5d25/32.png) [@lolagranola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lolagranola)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-currently-reading/46251/45 "2000-12-19T04:27:58Z")
I wish that I could say that I was in the middle of some great work of literature, but I’m not. I’ve just been reading some **Star Trek** fiction. I’ve been looking for **Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid**. If I get desperate, I’ll order it from Amazon. ---
**Author:** ![Catrandom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@Catrandom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catrandom)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-currently-reading/46251/46 "2000-12-19T04:45:12Z")
Just started the Aubrey/Maturin cycle for the third time. I plan to read them all one after the other like one long novel this time. I love these books! ---
**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 19, 2000, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-currently-reading/46251/47 "2000-12-19T04:48:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by yojimbo \* > \*\* **magdalene** …\*\*Be warned that the pictures are quite shocking if you decide to look at them. There are no pictures on the page I have linked to. \*\* \*\* But if that’s the book I’m thinking of, there are enough photos in it. Not for the squeamish. But a fascinating read that I think **magda** will enjoy. She’s tough. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lissener \* > \*\* re: Moby Dick, I just finished In the Heart of the Sea and the accompanying The Loss of the Ship Essex, Sunk by a Whale: First-Person Accounts. \*\* They sound good. I’m slowly moving through _Moby Dick_ and luxuriating in the details. I had always avoided it because so many people had hated it so vociferously. Then I read his story “Bartleby the Scrivener.” Since the drafting profession found homes for those of us who would have been copyists a century or two ago, I recognized Bartleby instantly. If he could describe the most annoying drafter on Earth so well, the whale book had potential. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by beatle \* > \*\*…The Double-Cross System by J. C. Masterman and Strategic Deception in the Second World War by Michael Howard. \*\* \ More to add to my reading list. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-currently-reading/46251/48 "2000-12-19T06:26:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by kasuo \* > \*\*I’m currently reading **Green Mars** by Kim Stanley Robinson. > \*\* What did you think of Red Mars? I read it, it was interesting, very very Hard Sci-Fi. I just couldn’t get into it. There were approximately 1 billion characters in the book (give or take a few million) and the ones I liked kept dying off. The rest I couldn’t keep track of. By the time I got to Green Mars, I just felt I wasn’t interested in continuing the series. I read about 30 pages before putting it down. ---
**Author:** ![zen101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c68b51/32.png) [@zen101](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zen101)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-currently-reading/46251/49 "2000-12-19T07:02:05Z")
Return of the King (TLOTR). Never read the trillogy before, started last week. Pretty good readin’, but Tolkein leaves a lot of gaps. I guess thats allowed in creating such a big works, but some of it still strikes me as sloppy. I guess I have just read too much “hard” science fiction, where people get laughed out of a career for leaving big gaping holes in their plotlines and charachter developments. ---
**Author:** ![Sapphire\_Bullet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@Sapphire\_Bullet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapphire_Bullet)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-currently-reading/46251/50 "2000-12-19T07:06:44Z")
Now that school is over, I can resume reading for fun! I put down Shadow - Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate by Bob Woodward in August and have been dying to pick it back up. I’ve also started reading Way Out There In the Blue by Frances Fitzgerald. It’s about Reagan and the Cold War. I have also tackled (again) A Bright Shining Lie by Neil Sheehan. It’s about the Vietnam War. I am _so_ glad school is over 🙂 Unfortunately I only have 3 weeks to catch up on the fun stuff! ---
**Author:** ![Sapphire\_Bullet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@Sapphire\_Bullet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapphire_Bullet)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-currently-reading/46251/51 "2000-12-19T07:18:16Z")
I forgot to mention Six Crises by Richard Nixon! I ordered it several weeks ago and for some dumb reason had it shipped to Ft. Worth (where my parents live)! Dumb, dumb, dumb. Now I have even less time to read it 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-currently-reading/46251/52 "2000-12-19T07:44:49Z")
I just started reading _The Illuminatus! Trilogy_, by Robert A. Wilson. It’s a little big to read on the train, though, so I’m also carrying _The Dragons of Eden_ by Carl Sagan in my coat pocket. –sublight. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Pinky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/848f3c/32.png) [@Dr.Pinky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Pinky)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-currently-reading/46251/53 "2000-12-19T07:50:03Z")
**Havok,** good thread! **Cryptonomicon** was a great book. It would make a great movie. **dropzone** is reading and **mrblue92** will soon be reading **Moby Dick**. The local theater is going to do an Eskimo interpretation of it this Spring. That ought to be bizarre. My grandmother used to say that Melville based part of it on the diaries of one of our whaling ancestors who had been shipwrecked. I finally read it four years ago, when I took my last sabbatical. **TheVoiceofReason: GED** is fairly available at used bookstores; I just saw 2 copies in town. Great book, terribly influential in making me what I am today. **slackergirl,** you need any help with U, give a shout. I was a Joyce scholar in a previous life. (Perhaps you’ve read my “Seeso, hrss, rsseeiss, ooos: Fourworded Wavespeech in the Proteus Episode of Ulysses”? Perhaps not.) **KAT,** do you want to sell \*Everyday Life in Regency and Victorian England[/1] by Kristine Hughes when you’re done? I’m currently re-reading \*\*the Illuminatus Trilogy,\*\*because I got a good deal on a used copy. ---
**Author:** ![dave99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/45deac/32.png) [@dave99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dave99)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-currently-reading/46251/54 "2000-12-19T07:58:38Z")
Currently I’m on The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins, The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe (for the third time) and Dispatches by Michael Herr. On the subject of the Vietnam war, **Sapphire** , I recently finished A Bright Shining Lie. J.P. Vann seems a living metaphor of America’s involvement in the war, no? ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-currently-reading/46251/55 "2000-12-19T08:17:42Z")
I’m reading: Voodoo Science by Robert Park Bad Subjects: Political Education for Everyday Life Trips: How Hallucinogens Work In Your Brain by Cheryl Pellerin Human Natures by Paul Ehrlich Just finished: It’s What He Would Have Wanted by Sean Hughes (I don’t think it’s available in the U.S. yet, but check it out when they publish it - excellent novel). Next up: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by David Eggers (may have the title a bit wrong) ---
**Author:** ![Commander\_Fortune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Commander\_Fortune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Commander_Fortune)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-currently-reading/46251/56 "2000-12-19T08:19:57Z")
The Edna Webster colection of the previously unpublished writings of Richard Brautigan. Bitchin’ ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-currently-reading/46251/57 "2000-12-19T09:01:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dr.Pinky \* > **KAT,** do you want to sell _Everyday Life in Regency and Victorian England_ by Kristine Hughes when you’re done? _hugs book to chest and backs warily away from Dr. Pinky_ 😉 Seriously, there are very few of my books I would be willing to part with, especially those of the historical sort. ---
**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, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-currently-reading/46251/58 "2000-12-19T09:11:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dr.Pinky \* > I’m currently re-reading \*\*the Illuminatus Trilogy,\*\*because I got a good deal on a used copy. Just for the record for anyone who’s interested, Barnes and Noble just remaindered their privately pubished _hardcover_ edition of the complete Illuminatus trilogy. I think it’s going for about $9.95 right now. ---
**Author:** ![Sapphire\_Bullet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@Sapphire\_Bullet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapphire_Bullet)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-currently-reading/46251/59 "2000-12-19T10:00:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dave99 \* > > On the subject of the Vietnam war, **Sapphire** , I recently finished A Bright Shining Lie. J.P. Vann seems a living metaphor of America’s involvement in the war, no? I’ll let you know what I think when I’m done. Should be sometime around June! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-currently-reading/46251/60 "2000-12-19T12:17:27Z")
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