# What book are you reading now? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 3, 2000, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-reading-now/15872 "2000-04-03T02:20:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![missbunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/76d3ee/32.png) [@missbunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missbunny)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2000, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-reading-now/15872/41 "2000-04-03T20:23:00Z")
phouka - I finished The Three Musketeers (yet again) recently too! It is one of my favorite books - full of witty repartée. ---
**Author:** ![xekul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/838e76/32.png) [@xekul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xekul)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2000, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-reading-now/15872/42 "2000-04-03T20:26:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Guy Incognito: > \*\*Presently I’m reading “The Name of the Rose” by Umberto Eco. Wish I had taken a Latin class in school… > > \*\* Oh! Eco is GOOD. This book, and _Foucault’s Pendulum_, and _Misreadings_ which is a collection of parodies. But _The Island of the Day Before_ is one of the few novels I’ve never finished… * * * ``You’re just an empty cage girl if you kill the bird.’’ – Tori Amos. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2000, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-reading-now/15872/43 "2000-04-03T23:43:00Z")
About time someone started this thread again! “Guns, Germs and Steel”, based on everyone’s recommendations from the last time we did this (thanks) “The Hollow” by Todd Hayes (because he’s on one of my one-list groups and he’s funny) “Veil’s Visit: A Taste of Hap and Leonard”, by Joe Lansdale, cuz I’ve read all the Lansdale I can find and this’ll tide me over till the two new books come out Waiting patiently for the next book in George R. R. Martin’s fantasy series – last I heard, it’s set for publication this fall. * * * **Don’t bring beer to your job interview.** – Sig courtesy of **WallyM7** ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2000, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-reading-now/15872/44 "2000-04-04T00:13:00Z")
_The Hashish Man and Other Stories_ by Lord Dunsany. He founded the modern genre of Fantasy, ya know. Also was a major inspiration/influence on H.P. Lovecraft. And I’m reading a collection of Chinese Fairy Tales, to boot. 🙂 * * * You should tell the truth, expose the lies and live in the moment."-Bill Hicks “You should tell the lies, live the truth and expose yourself.” - Bill Clinton ---
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2000, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-reading-now/15872/45 "2000-04-04T00:16:00Z")
I just finished “The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon” by Stephen King. * * * Wrong thinking is punished, right thinking is just as swiftly rewarded. You’ll find it an effective combination. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2000, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-reading-now/15872/46 "2000-04-04T00:21:00Z")
Re-reading ‘Jurrasic Park’. But then, I have no taste. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2000, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-reading-now/15872/47 "2000-04-04T00:57:00Z")
_The Mad Ship_ by Robin Hobb, who will be in town this week (under her real name of Megan Lindholm) Plan to buy the next Harry Potter book, the new Terry Goodkind book _Soul of the Fire_ and if what you all are saying is true, the new Discworld book, _Fifth Elephant._ ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2000, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-reading-now/15872/48 "2000-04-04T01:10:00Z")
_Innocents Abroad_ by Mark Twain. ---
**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:** [April 4, 2000, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-reading-now/15872/49 "2000-04-04T01:23:00Z")
Little Nemo - Thanks for the suggestion! I love the book section at Sam’s and I shall keep a look out for Mammoth Book of Battles. 😉 I finished, not so long ago, the first horror book I’ve ever read. It wasn’t that scary. _Eaters of the Dead_ I liked it and the movie that was based on it _The 13th Warrior._ * * * That what does not kill me, postpones the inevitable. ---
**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:** [April 4, 2000, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-reading-now/15872/50 "2000-04-04T01:24:00Z")
I’ve also re-read Dave Barry’s Greatest Hits and Holidays in Hell by PJ O’Rourke. Two all time favs around here. ---
**Author:** ![Ophanim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8491ac/32.png) [@Ophanim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ophanim)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2000, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-reading-now/15872/51 "2000-04-04T01:45:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Asmodean: > **The wheel of time 🙂** Which one? I’m reading: \*\*The Shadow Rising -Robert Jordan Legends 3- New Spring-Robert Jordan The Dream Hunters- Neil Gaiman/ Yoshitaka Amano (I know he didn’t author any of it, but his painting are amazing) Mobile Suit Gundam-Awakening- Yoshiyuki Tomino The Complete Oscar Wilde Stardust- Neil Gaiman At the Mountains of Madness- H.P. Lovecraft The Shadow Over Innsmouth- H.P. Lovecraft Inferno- Dante Otherland- Tad Williams Bored of the Rings (for about the thirtieth time)- Harvard Lampoon (can’t remember the actual author) I guess that’s it. 🙂 * * * ## **Ophanim** Not Voted, \*\*Coolest, Dumbest, Happiest, Drunkest, Surliest, Gayest, Most Godly, or anything else! \*\* Damn you all to HELL! Where’s my side of FUN!? Kisses! Ophy ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2000, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-reading-now/15872/52 "2000-04-04T01:45:00Z")
“A Walk In The Woods” - Bill Bryson. Non-fiction. Two middle aged guys hit the Appalachian Trail. Hilarious, informative, entertaining. “Confessions of a Cineplex Heckler” by the inimitable Joe Queenan ---
**Author:** ![Trion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Trion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trion)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2000, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-reading-now/15872/53 "2000-04-04T02:05:00Z")
This has been great. I’ve been looking for something new to read and now I have tons of suggestions. In return I’ll recomend two of my favorites: The Age of Missing Information by Bill McKibben and Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition by Ed Regis * * * “My mind reels with sarcastic replies!” - Snoopy ---
**Author:** ![TheUnforgiven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TheUnforgiven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheUnforgiven)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2000, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-reading-now/15872/54 "2000-04-04T02:16:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Shirley Ujest: > \*\*…_Eaters of the Dead_ I liked it and the movie that was based on it _The 13th Warrior._ > \*\* Sorry, Shirley, but how could you like that movie? It was so bad!! See Antonio. See Antonio pick up foreign language in a few days. ---
**Author:** ![dragonfly98](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7bcc69/32.png) [@dragonfly98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dragonfly98)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2000, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-reading-now/15872/55 "2000-04-07T23:11:00Z")
[Better Chess for the Average Player](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0486290298/o/qid=955062301/sr=2-3/002-7691222-8381838) by Tim Harding. Just finished Fantastic Journey by Asimov. 😛 * * * “What’s right is only half of what’s wrong and I want a short-haired girl who sometimes wears it twice as long.” George Harrison - _Old Brown Shoe_ ---
**Author:** ![dragonfly98](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7bcc69/32.png) [@dragonfly98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dragonfly98)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2000, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-reading-now/15872/56 "2000-04-07T23:13:00Z")
[Better Chess for the Average Player](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0486290298/o/qid=955062301/sr=2-3/002-7691222-8381838) by Tim Harding. Just finished Fantastic Voyage by Asimov. 😛 ## oops. “What’s right is only half of what’s wrong and I want a short-haired girl who sometimes wears it twice as long.” George Harrison - _Old Brown Shoe_ ---
**Author:** ![Joe\_Cool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecb155/32.png) [@Joe\_Cool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joe_Cool)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2000, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-reading-now/15872/57 "2000-04-08T00:09:00Z")
Let’s see… In the last few months I’ve finished: Stephen King: Nightmares and Dreamscapes, Skeleton Crew Isaac Asimov: Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation Robert Heinlein: Citizen of the Galaxy Job (hated this one) The Door Into Summer Starship Troopers The Puppet Masters Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451 J.D. Salinger: The Catcher In The Rye Right now I’m reading _Core PHP Programming_. 🙂 * * * ## Joe Cool Full speed, right ahead Don’t stop, you can sleep when you’re dead ---
**Author:** ![MadPoet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8c91f0/32.png) [@MadPoet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadPoet)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2000, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-reading-now/15872/58 "2000-04-08T00:30:00Z")
Currently reading Beowulf by some long dead guy. Actually, most have my time has been spent on Exam Cram: NT Server. Two tests down, and THEN they tell me they’re retiring them at the end of the year… * * * [http://www.madpoet.com](http://www.madpoet.com) I am human, and I need to be loved Just like anybody else does ---
**Author:** ![David\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/51bf81/32.png) [@David\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_B)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2000, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-reading-now/15872/59 "2000-04-08T00:56:00Z")
These threads go on for long enough, and I’m on to new books already! 🙂 I’m now reading _House of Invention: The Secret Life of Everyday Products_ by David Lindsay. I’m listening to _Myth Conceptions_, by Robert Aspirin on tape (yeah, I know, I’m going backwards from the last one, but I’ve read them all before anyway so I remember the general gist of what’s going on). Next up for reading (unless I get something I like better) is _The Energy of Life: The Science of What Makes Our Minds and Bodies Work_, by Guy Brown, Ph.D. Next up on tape is _Dinosaur in a Haystack_, by Stephen Jay Gould. After that is a book about Feynman, but I can’t remember the title. ---
**Author:** ![Gazelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Gazelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazelle)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2000, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-reading-now/15872/60 "2000-04-08T02:44:00Z")
I’m reading the sequel to **The Sparrow** by Mary Doria Russell, called **Children of God**. Sci Fi fans, The Sparrow is a must-read! Even my female-author-hating husband is enjoying it! Our next book club book is **The Talented Mr. Ripley** … haven’t heard too many good things about it. A co-worker loves Pratchett’s Discworld series so I’m reading the first one, **The Color of Magic** … not impressed so far. * * * You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say will be misquoted, then used against you. With love from the poster voted as having the **"Most Confusing Username"** [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-reading-now/15872.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-reading-now/15872.md?page=4)