# 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:** 17\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![mega\_the\_roo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3da27b/32.png) [@mega\_the\_roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mega_the_roo)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2000, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-reading-now/15872/81 "2000-04-11T16:16:00Z")
okay, so now i’m reading _hocus pocus_ by kurt vonnegut * * * “Organs gross me out. That’s _organs_, not orgasms.” -the wallster ---
**Author:** ![Cabbage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@Cabbage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabbage)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2000, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-reading-now/15872/82 "2000-04-11T16:50:00Z")
Just started _The House on the Borderland_ by William Hope Hodgson. * * * …ebius sig. This is a moebius sig. This is a mo… (sig line courtesy of WallyM7) ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2000, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-reading-now/15872/83 "2000-04-12T05:03:00Z")
“Man of the House” by Stephen McCauley. He also wrote “The Object of My Affection” (same as the movie) and best of all, “The Easy Way Out”. Witty, delicious novels about loser-ish gay guys dealing with platonic female friends. Maddening, touching, funny, everything a rainy afternoon’s light reading should be. ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2000, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-reading-now/15872/84 "2000-04-12T05:23:00Z")
Standing Firm by Dan Quayle. It’s easy readin! 😉 Actually, just checking out this book called Heaven Found by M.J.Agee. She says she knows where Heaven is: Saturn. She’s serious. * * * [My home page](http://members.aol.com/abbie4ever22/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![G.B.H.Hornswoggler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c67d28/32.png) [@G.B.H.Hornswoggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G.B.H.Hornswoggler)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2000, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-reading-now/15872/85 "2000-04-12T14:08:00Z")
OK, so _now_ I just finished William Goldman’s **Which Lie Did I Tell?** and I’m working on Helen Fielding’s **Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason**. Yes, it’s fluff week in Aceland! * * * I’m your only friend I’m not your only friend But I’m a little glowing friend But really I’m not actually your friend But I am ---
**Author:** ![wevets](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9a140/32.png) [@wevets](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wevets)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2000, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-reading-now/15872/86 "2000-04-12T14:38:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Zico: > Marx / Engels - Communist Manifesto > > It’s part of my college course, and I promise not to start an uprising to overthrow America. Not this week, anyway. I read that for college too, and I still have it in my bookcase, but whenever anybody sees it I get strange looks and the occasional comment… yeesh, I just read the thing, it’s not my bible! Just thought I’d share that… 🙂 I just finished _The Man in the High Castle_ by Philip K. Dick, and I recently finished _Ender’s Shadow_ by Orson Scott Card Right now I’m in the process of reading _The Third Chimpanzee_ by Jared Diamond, _A Guide to Sharks and Rays_ by iforgetwho, and _Mere Christianity_ by C.S. Lewis … in the pipeline is a book called _Creating Minds_ and _Song for the Blue Ocean_ by Carl Sarfina. ## I wish I could read non-fiction as fast as I read fiction, but it just isn’t happening. “Banned by the Space Pope” ---
**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 12, 2000, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-reading-now/15872/87 "2000-04-12T15:57:00Z")
Update: I just finished Animal Farm and Bloom County: Billy and the Boingers Bootleg. hehe how’s that for a contrast? One a true classic, revered by all, required reading in Literature classes, a scathing commentary on our times… …and Animal Farm, too. * * * ## Joe Cool Full speed, right ahead Don’t stop, you can sleep when you’re dead ---
**Author:** ![CatInHat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@CatInHat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CatInHat)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2000, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-reading-now/15872/88 "2000-04-12T18:01:00Z")
In the car, I just finished listening to Olivia Goldsmith’s _Young Wives_. A good read (or in my case, a good listen). At home, I’m reading _Black and Blue_ by Anna Quindlen. Very well-written, and extremely depressing. It’s about a woman whose husband beats her up (he’s an NYC cop), and she finally takes their son and goes into hiding. If it weren’t so well-written, I wouldn’t finish it, but I want to make sure everything turns out OK in the end (I don’t **know** that everything will turn out OK in the end; I just hope it does. If you do know, please don’t tell me). Next up: the new translation of _Beowulf_. ---
**Author:** ![Rahne\_McCloud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/76d3ee/32.png) [@Rahne\_McCloud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rahne_McCloud)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2000, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-reading-now/15872/89 "2000-04-13T00:16:00Z")
Presently reading Storm Rising by Mercedes Lackey. I’ve just finished Storm Warning and the Mage Wind trilogy also by Mercedes Lackey and Dirk Pitt Revealed by Clive Cussler. * * * I have abandoned my search for truth, and am now looking for a good fantasy. ---
**Author:** ![Michi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c37758/32.png) [@Michi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michi)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2000, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-reading-now/15872/90 "2000-04-13T00:22:00Z")
Green Angel Tower, by Tad Williams. ## I Know This Much Is True, by Wally Lamb. You know you are a vet nurse when: it’s 4 AM and you are out of creamer for your coffee, so you use kitten milk replacer instead. ---
**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 13, 2000, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-reading-now/15872/91 "2000-04-13T05:12:00Z")
I’m halfway through ‘Hannibal’ by Thomas Harris. So far, not much action. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2000, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-reading-now/15872/92 "2000-04-13T05:30:00Z")
spooje: this is not a spoiler. but I have to tell you, Hannibal move _much_ slower than any of Harris’ other books do. Especially if you haven’t read any of his stuff recently. Going halfway through “Hannibal” won’t disappoint you with anything, but IMHO, going any further without getting yourself in the “Harris mindset” will. I would recommend, at the bare minimum, renting or watching/reading Silence of the Lambs or reading Black Sunday, or that other book (I think it was called “Red Dragon”). Hannibal is really good, but you have to be in the right frame of mind for it. I would really like to know what you think of it, as none of my friends have bothered to read it. * * * Sala, can’t you count?!? I said NO camals! That’s FIVE camals! ---
**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:** [April 13, 2000, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-reading-now/15872/93 "2000-04-13T05:31:00Z")
## Re-reading “Lord of the Rings” for the 3 time and “Notes from a big country” by Bill Bryson. _If you christians were more like your Christ the world would be a better place_ -Mahatma Gandhi ---
**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:** [April 13, 2000, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-reading-now/15872/94 "2000-04-13T05:36:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Connor: > \*\* I would really like to know what you think of it, as none of my friends have bothered to read it. > \*\* I loved it but I can really say why coz I’ll ruin it for spooje . Is anybody with me in thinking that “Manhunter” which was the film of “Red Dragon” was better than “Silence of the Lambs”? * * * _If you christians were more like your Christ the world would be a better place_ -Mahatma Gandhi ---
**Author:** ![Glitch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/0ea827/32.png) [@Glitch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glitch)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2000, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-reading-now/15872/95 "2000-04-13T12:19:00Z")
FBI’s Crime Classification Manual ---
**Author:** ![GaWd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f08c70/32.png) [@GaWd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaWd)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2000, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-reading-now/15872/96 "2000-04-13T12:28:00Z")
Umm… Viral Sex-The nature of AIDS by Jaap GOudsmit MCSE NT Workstation 4 study guide Soon to be reading– Naked lunch by William S. Burroughs Diary of an addict by Alistair Crowley Any Dean Koontz book that may happen to come into print anytime soon. * * * P.S.-- I don’t have AIDS, nor am I a heroin addict 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2000, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-reading-now/15872/97 "2000-04-13T12:38:00Z")
Excuse my butting in about Thomas Harris, but I read Silence of the Lambs and Red Dragon before they were movies. The Mr. and I read Hannibal and thought it was slow and just awful and can’t blame Jodie Foster for passing on the film version. I thought Red Dragon and Silence were exactly even in terms of quality reading, very enthralling and intense, both of them. But I think Silence was a much better movie to watch, even though both books were just wonderful to read. Manhunter was an OK film, but obscure and had no stars in ilt. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-reading-now/15872.md?page=4)