What Book are you currently reading?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

<sigh> More to add to my reading list.

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.

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.

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 :slight_smile:
Unfortunately I only have 3 weeks to catch up on the fun stuff!

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 :slight_smile:

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.

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: GEDis 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.

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?

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)

The Edna Webster colection of the previously unpublished writings of Richard Brautigan.

Bitchin’

hugs book to chest and backs warily away from Dr. Pinky

:wink:

Seriously, there are very few of my books I would be willing to part with, especially those of the historical sort.

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.

I’ll let you know what I think when I’m done. Should be sometime around June! :wink:

You mean within the past twenty-four hours?

Sufism, Mystics, and Saints in Modern Egypt by Valerie J. Hoffman.

The Tantric Way: Art, Science, Ritual by Ajit Mookerjee.

Word Count: wherein verbal virtue is rewarded, crimes against the language are punished, and poetic justice is done by Barbara Wallraff.

Tales of H.P. Lovecraft major works selected and introduced by Joyce Carol Oates.

Foreign Constellations: the fantastic worlds of John Brunner by John Brunner. (Any other Brunner fans here? Write me!)

Telugu Self-Taught by I. Mallikarjuna Sharma.

Jewels of Remembrance by Jalal al-Din Rumi.

Passions of the Tongue: Language Devotion in Tamil India, 1891-1970 by Sumathi Ramaswamy.