# What book are you reading? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 28, 2002, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-reading/100509 "2002-03-28T04:25:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![novacaine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ea924/32.png) [@novacaine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/novacaine)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-reading/100509/1 "2002-03-28T04:25:05Z")
I know i have almost definatly seen a thread titled this before but it is one of those things that always changes and I am always curious about. I am currently in the middle of rereading the entire _Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy_ serries. Most recently I finished Kurt Vonnegut’s _God Bless You Dr. Kevorkian!_ and John Irving’s _The Hotel New Hampshire_ . So what are the rest of the dopers reading these days? ---
**Author:** ![croaker67](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/439d5e/32.png) [@croaker67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/croaker67)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-reading/100509/2 "2002-03-28T05:06:10Z")
Chapterhouse Dune by Frank Herbert and The Guns of the South by Harry Turtledove… ---
**Author:** ![Jurhael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@Jurhael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jurhael)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-reading/100509/3 "2002-03-28T05:18:09Z")
Chapterhouse Dune is a WONDERFUL book! Anyway, I am now reading: “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep” by Philip K. Dick and “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” by Victor Hugo ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Like\_A\_Rose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7feea3/32.png) [@Mighty\_Like\_A\_Rose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Like_A_Rose)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-reading/100509/4 "2002-03-28T05:38:09Z")
Well, currently re-reading Dracula. Previously reading Hearts In Atlantis. ---
**Author:** ![Lizard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@Lizard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lizard)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-reading/100509/5 "2002-03-28T05:43:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jurhael \* > \*\*Chapterhouse Dune is a WONDERFUL book! > > Anyway, I am now reading: > > “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep” by Philip K. Dick > \*\* Intriguing, and not much like the movie. I’m getting rolling on “Bias” by Bernard Goldberg. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-reading/100509/6 "2002-03-28T05:44:47Z")
The Call of Cthulhu and other Weird Stories, a Lovecraft compilation from Penguin books. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-reading/100509/7 "2002-03-28T06:03:45Z")
_The Corrections_ , by Jonathan Franzen–very entertaining and sprawling. Up next: _Fight Club_ , by Chuck Palahniuk, and _Everything’s Eventual_ , by Stephen King. ---
**Author:** ![BalmainBoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6a8cbe/32.png) [@BalmainBoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BalmainBoy)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-reading/100509/8 "2002-03-28T06:06:23Z")
**Eleanor of Aquitaine** by Alison Weir. A biog of the most powerful woman in the Western Middle Ages. ---
**Author:** ![Shera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Shera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shera)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-reading/100509/9 "2002-03-28T06:28:45Z")
I am reading\* Gates of Fire\* by Steven Pressfield. I am also reading _Calvin and Hobbes: Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat_. ---
**Author:** ![Atreyu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@Atreyu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atreyu)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-reading/100509/10 "2002-03-28T06:38:46Z")
At the moment, I’m in the midst of reading The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin by H.W. Brands. An excellent biography, so far. ---
**Author:** ![Mikahw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Mikahw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mikahw)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-reading/100509/11 "2002-03-28T06:56:51Z")
The Hobbit by none other than J. R. R. Tolkien. You know, it’s kind of sad. I really never paid much attention to Tolkien until the Fellowship of the Ring movie came out. It’s a shame, too. ---
**Author:** ![ITR\_champion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c67d28/32.png) [@ITR\_champion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ITR_champion)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-reading/100509/12 "2002-03-28T07:32:40Z")
Currnetly at page 127 of _Hyperion_. I was right in the middle of _A Cavern of Black Ice_, by J. V. Jones, when I had to return it to the library. I don’t think I’ll ever bother returning to that one, since it was getting rather slow and tedious. In English lit class, we’re about to start on _Pride and Prejudice_. ---
**Author:** ![tavalla](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tavalla/32/89_2.png) [@tavalla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tavalla)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-reading/100509/13 "2002-03-28T08:20:58Z")
“Honk If You Are Jesus” by Peter Goldsworthy “The Lady of the Sorrows” by Cecelia Dart-Thornton “Everything’s Eventual”, Stephen King “To Kill a Mockingbird”, Harper Lee for about the fiftieth time And I’m trying to get into “Queen of Angels” by Greg Bear, but I’m not having much luck. ---
**Author:** ![Cougarfang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c67d28/32.png) [@Cougarfang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cougarfang)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-reading/100509/14 "2002-03-28T10:45:52Z")
The Silmarillion, by J.R.R. Tolkien Master and Fool, by J.V. Jones Contact, by Carl Sagan I, Robot, by Isaac Asimov Some of these are scattered around in bathrooms around the house… ---
**Author:** ![Osakadave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f07891/32.png) [@Osakadave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Osakadave)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-reading/100509/15 "2002-03-28T11:27:28Z")
Fiction: Emergence by David R. Palmer, an oldish SF book Nonfiction: The Zen Way by Myokyo-ni ---
**Author:** ![Badtz\_Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Badtz\_Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badtz_Maru)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-reading/100509/16 "2002-03-28T12:21:54Z")
‘Waiting’ by Ha Jin and ‘Vampire Junction’ by S. P. Somtow ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-reading/100509/17 "2002-03-28T12:57:51Z")
The Frankling bio is a great read, good choice. I started Atonement, but Ian McEwan, last night. ---
**Author:** ![quarx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/50afbb/32.png) [@quarx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quarx)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-reading/100509/18 "2002-03-28T13:06:31Z")
I’m in the middle of **Smiley’s People** by John LeCarre’. It’s probably the fifth time I’ve read the Karla Trilogy, but I can’t seem to stay away from it for too long. Besides, 2 weeks after I finish it, I need to reread it to try once more to unravel the plot. ---
**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:** [March 28, 2002, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-reading/100509/19 "2002-03-28T13:46:00Z")
My train book is _Those Who Love_ which is a biographical novel of Abigail and John Adams, quite intersting. My at home novel is _Pale Horse Coming_ by Stephen Hunter. An excelent book and the action has just started! I have no idea what will be next though. ---
**Author:** ![FlyingDragonFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c89c15/32.png) [@FlyingDragonFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingDragonFan)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-reading/100509/20 "2002-03-28T14:08:40Z")
I just finished _Ender’s Game_ for the umpteenth time, and I’m currently in the middle of _Helm_ by Steven Gould. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-reading/100509.md?page=2)