# 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:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Jeff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2002, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-reading/100509/61 "2002-03-31T09:24:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by shagadelicmysteryman \* > **"For Whom the Bell Tolls" by Ernest Hemingway** I’m working through that one, myself. Plus, I’ve got Dickens’ **Hard Times** waiting in the wings, and I recently finished Saul Bellow’s **Ravelstein**. ---
**Author:** ![nefertari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7bcc69/32.png) [@nefertari](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nefertari)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2002, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-reading/100509/62 "2002-03-31T10:34:40Z")
Just finished the Rama Cycle by Arthur C Clarke. Wasn’t that excited about it to start with but I really got into it by the end book and now I’ve run out of them. Starting " A Farewell to Arms" by Ernest Hemmingway, and “Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan” by John Lloyd Stephens. Then I’ve got a big reference systems textbook. Whee! nefertari. Whoever is reading Chuck Palahniuk once you’re finished with “Fight Club” get “Invisible Monsters” if you can. It’s fan-tastic. ---
**Author:** ![Aurinko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f1d935/32.png) [@Aurinko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aurinko)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2002, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-reading/100509/63 "2002-03-31T11:31:23Z")
The Quran. ``` Tough but very interesting. The funny thing is, I've never read the Bible. And I had never thought I'd read a "Holy Book". ``` ---
**Author:** ![TruePisces](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/truepisces/32/13628_2.png) [@TruePisces](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruePisces)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2002, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-reading/100509/64 "2002-03-31T13:06:38Z")
I just finished re-reading _Tiger Burning Bright_ by Mercedes Lackey, Andre Norton, and Marion Zimmer Bradley. I’m currently re-reading _Wild Cards II: Aces High_, ed. by George RR Martin, the Anita Blake novels by Laurell K. Hamilton, and _Sex Signs_ by Judith Bennett. I’m currently reading for the first time _Blood and Chocolate_ by Annette Curtis Klause, _Fables and Reflections_ by Neil Gaiman, _Learning the Tarot_ by Joan Bunning, and _Planetary Observations by Sophia - Absolutely positively unendorsed by anyone Famous_. Yeah, I always have a lot going at one time. ---
**Author:** ![Brynda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Brynda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brynda)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2002, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-reading/100509/65 "2002-03-31T14:01:50Z")
**BalmainBoy** , how is the bio of Eleanor of Acquitaine? I remember looking for one eons ago when I first saw The Lion In Winter and not finding anything I liked. If you recommend the Weir one, I will have to look it up. **Ukelele Ike** , I had been thinking of getting a Bryson book as a read aloud book for me and my sweetheart. I have only read excerpts and liked what I read, but now I wonder. Are there any of his books you would recommend over the others? Also, since my sweetie is British and I am American, I thought the ones he has written on the US and Britian might be good, but I would like to hear from someone who has read them. And if, in the spirit of the great SDMB book swap, you would like to get rid of a few…😃 I just (moments ago, actually) finished Falling Angels by Tracey Chevalier, whose first book was Girl With a Pearl Earring. From what she said, I think I liked it better than Cranky did (she loaned it to me), but I didn’t like it as much as GWAPE. My verdict: not great lit, but a fun read nonetheless. It kept me entertained and distracted, which is not bad. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2002, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-reading/100509/66 "2002-03-31T14:28:12Z")
Having gotten the ones I was missing for Christmas, I am reading (for the first time) the Horatio Hornblower books by C S Forester; I just started _Hornblower and the_ Atropos. My train/work book is _1632_ by Eric Flint. I don’t even want to think about the stacks of books piled up on my “to be read” shelves. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-are-you-reading/100509.md?page=3)