# 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:** 18\ **Page:** 4
**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, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-currently-reading/46251/61 "2000-12-19T12:19:38Z")
Sorry, the title by Barbara Wallraff is _Word Court_. ---
**Author:** ![mrblue92](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@mrblue92](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrblue92)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-currently-reading/46251/62 "2000-12-19T17:36:27Z")
> [@](#): > > My grandmother used to say that Melville based part of it on the diaries of one of our whaling ancestors who had been shipwrecked. That would be the Essex, which was the subject of _In the Heart of the Sea_. No doubt you’d find it an interesting read if you knew which one of them was your relation! ---
**Author:** ![Skelji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Skelji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skelji)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-currently-reading/46251/63 "2000-12-19T17:53:24Z")
_Learning Perl_, one of the O’Reilly books _Shambhala_, by Chogyam Trungpa And after some house cleaning, I uncovered _More Of The Straight Dope_, so I can finally finish the last few pages. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Phobos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Phobos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phobos)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-currently-reading/46251/64 "2000-12-19T18:02:40Z")
**Turbulent Mirror : An Illustrated Guide to Chaos, Theory and the Science of Wholeness** > **[Turbulent Mirror: An Illustrated Guide to Chaos Theory and the Science of...](https://www.amazon.com/Turbulent-Mirror-Illustrated-Science-Wholeness/dp/0060916966)** > > Buy Turbulent Mirror: An Illustrated Guide to Chaos Theory and the Science of Wholeness on Amazon.com ✓ FREE SHIPPING on qualified orders That, and my ever-growing pile of Astronomy & National Geographic magazines. I rarely have time to sit and read lately. Perhaps I shouldn’t spend so much time here! 🙂 Nah, that’s crazy talk. ---
**Author:** ![Phobos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Phobos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phobos)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-currently-reading/46251/65 "2000-12-19T18:10:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sublight \* > \*\*I’m also carrying _The Dragons of Eden_ by Carl Sagan in my coat pocket. > \*\* doesn’t everyone? 🙂 ---
**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, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-currently-reading/46251/66 "2000-12-19T18:11:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sublight \* > **I just started reading _The Illuminatus! Trilogy_, by Robert A. Wilson.** You newbies realize that it is required reading here, don’t you? The rest of us are sick of explaining the fnords. Hmmm, **Adam Weißhaupt** would be a good replacement name. I suppose we already have one, though. ---
**Author:** ![vix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a88e4f/32.png) [@vix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vix)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-currently-reading/46251/67 "2000-12-19T18:13:21Z")
Just finished _Corelli’s Mandolin_ by Louis de Bernieres. Now reading _Possession_ by A.S. Byatt. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-currently-reading/46251/68 "2000-12-19T18:29:03Z")
Let’s see… I’m currently reading: - The Singing Sword,\* by Jack Whyte (2nd in \* The Camulod Chronicles\*); _Dune,_ Frank Herbert; _Jumpers,_ a play by Tom Stoppard; _Aesop’s Fables,_ the relatively new Penguin edition; _The Fall of Atlantis,_ Marion Zimmer Bradley; _Prophecy: Child of Earth,_ Elizabeth Hayden; _A Brief History of Time,_ Stephen Hawking; _Conqueror’s Pride,_ Timothy Zahn and _The Deer Hunter,_ E.M. Corder ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-currently-reading/46251/69 "2000-12-19T18:41:08Z")
Hannibal by Thomas Harris I just finished reading Lord of the Flies Next I’ve got the new Tom Clancy book and Firefox. Used book sales rule! all those books plus a few more for under 3 bucks! ---
**Author:** ![Deiket](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Deiket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deiket)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-currently-reading/46251/70 "2000-12-19T19:00:51Z")
I’m reading “Exiles: The Ruins of Ambrai”, “Slaughter House 5”, “Wicked”, “The Vampire Armand”, “Gone With the Wind”, three romance novels that I’m ashamed to even type down, the newest Cat Who… book, and the newest book by Rita Mae and Sneaky Pie Brown. I can’t read one book at a time. Too confusing… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-currently-reading/46251/71 "2000-12-19T19:19:51Z")
_From Potters Field_ by Patricia Cornwell. ---
**Author:** ![HannibalV](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e47c2d/32.png) [@HannibalV](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HannibalV)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-currently-reading/46251/72 "2000-12-19T19:28:29Z")
I’m currently splitting time between “Fear and Loathing On The Campaign Trail '72” by hunter S. Thompson and “A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius” by Dave Eggers. Plus I have David Foster Wallace’s “Up, Simba: 7 Days On The Trail Of An Anticandidate” on my MS Reader both at work and at home, and I’m three pages into “The Neal Pollock Anthology Of American Literature” by Neal Pollock, plus I’ve just read “Iphegenia at Orem” in Neil LaBute’s “Bash: Latterday Plays” plus I just bought Darren Aronofsky and Hubert Serlby Jr.'s screenplay for “Requiem For A Dream”… But I’m really not as highbrow as all that. Up next (i.e., when I crack them open–as is obvious, I don’t really wait to finish one thing before jumping into another): Michael Chabon’s “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay” (perfect for the comics geek) and my annual birthday/Xmastime rereading of Douglas Coupland’s “MicroSerfs”. ---
**Author:** ![Maeglin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-currently-reading/46251/73 "2000-12-19T19:34:13Z")
Right now…hmmm… **Seneca’s** Thyestes, the great Latin play of power, madness, revenge, and cannibalism. Book I of **Homer’s** Iliad. Gotta keep up my Greek skills. Latin Lyric Poetry of the Middle Ages, by [n]Helen Waddell\*\*. It’s a bit dated but solid nonetheless. Storeys from the Old Hotel, by **Gene Wolfe**. Perhaps the greatest writer of speculative fiction alive today. I _think_ that sums it up. MR ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-currently-reading/46251/74 "2000-12-19T19:39:23Z")
My current pile of books, which can be found randomly at my desk at work, in my car, next to my computer, or on my nightstand: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, Jared Diamond. The Medieval Archer, Jim Bradbury. Fire and Stone: The Science of Fortress Warfare, 1660-1860, Christopher Duffy. The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody, Will Cuppy. The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett. And well over a dozen classics from Project Gutenberg, which deserves your support. ---
**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, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-currently-reading/46251/75 "2000-12-19T19:45:30Z")
**Dr.Pinky** Thanks for the offer, I’ll keep you in mind. I haven’t picked up the book in a couple of days, but I think I’ll probably spend a good chunk of the weekend avoiding my grandmother by reading. ---
**Author:** ![el\_mono](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ea666f/32.png) [@el\_mono](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/el_mono)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-currently-reading/46251/76 "2000-12-19T19:45:35Z")
Recently discovered the “Repairman Jack” series by F. Paul Wilson- The Tomb, Legacies, Conspiracies and All The Rage. Finished The Tomb and Conspiracies, about to start Legacies. Excellent series. Well written and the character Repairman Jack is unique. The books are a combination of sci-fi, adventure and mystery. Hard to catagorize, but great reads. Also reading A Letter Of Mary by Laurie King. While Christmas shopping at the local Barnes & Noble last week I was delighted to find that Jonathan Kellerman’s latest Alex Delaware was out and on sale for 40% off. Plenty of material to get through the joyous holiday season. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-currently-reading/46251/77 "2000-12-19T20:25:59Z")
Rumpole’s Return by John Mortimer The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume III During my morning Commute I’m listening to: The Odyssey, translated by Robert Fagles and read by Magneto ---
**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 20, 2000, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-currently-reading/46251/78 "2000-12-20T08:35:10Z")
\*\*slackergirl, \*\* it took me 3 years to get through U the first time. It is my responsiBILity to lower the levelling of suffering in this universe. Hey, Phobos & Sublight: I no longer carry any Sagan on me. I found out he was wrong on some minor, un-remembered point somewhere, & I’ve been a skeptik ever since. HannibalV, FLCT72 is THE book to be reading now. Kudos to someone who has the mojo, & doesn’t flaunt it. Kat, I wouldn’t wrench it from your tightly clenched breast. This is why no one over 3 can make their way to the front door. The toppling towers of obscure titles would waste them. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-currently-reading/46251.md?page=3)