# What ya reading?? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 27, 2001, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ya-reading/63526 "2001-04-27T12:12:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Wartime\_Consigliori](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9d8465/32.png) [@Wartime\_Consigliori](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wartime_Consigliori)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ya-reading/63526/21 "2001-04-27T14:47:41Z")
1. **The Last Don** by Mario Puzo 2. An old **Sports Illustrated** with an article about the World Ice Golf Championships 3. A Haynes manuel concerning my Mazda 4. **The People’s Almanac** , a classic ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ya-reading/63526/22 "2001-04-27T14:50:43Z")
Just finished re-re-re-reading Joshien Gartners “Sophies World”. Great book. Am cstarting Dennis Millers “I rant, therefore I am”, after finishing “Ranting again”. ---
**Author:** ![Lyllyan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b2d939/32.png) [@Lyllyan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lyllyan)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ya-reading/63526/23 "2001-04-27T14:56:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Astroboy14 \* > \*\*Right now I am reading A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin (fantasy, and pretty damn good, too!), \*\* I **Love** this series! Can’t wait for the next one. ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ya-reading/63526/24 "2001-04-27T14:56:54Z")
_East and west_, by the last British Governor of Hong Kong, Chris Patten. If you want a good read, check out the _Captain Najork_ series by Russell Hoban, with wonderful watercolour illustrations by Quentin Blake. Whaddaya mean they’re kids’ books? ---
**Author:** ![Airbeck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/airbeck/32/6574_2.png) [@Airbeck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airbeck)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ya-reading/63526/25 "2001-04-27T14:58:28Z")
“Snow Crash” by Neal Stephenson ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ya-reading/63526/26 "2001-04-27T15:08:57Z")
Just finished reading Lord of the Rings. I hadn’t read it since HS because the ending depressed me so much. Well, the ending still depressed me, and I’ll probably never read it again. So now I’m on to something light - a collection of historical romance short stories called “In Praise of Younger Men” 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Gundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Gundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gundy)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ya-reading/63526/27 "2001-04-27T15:10:59Z")
_A False Spring_ by Pat Jordan. It’s excellent, very melancholy, though. A real baseball-but-not-just-baseball book, and an excellent follow-up to _Ball Four_. ---
**Author:** ![Sue\_Duhnym](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@Sue\_Duhnym](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sue_Duhnym)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ya-reading/63526/28 "2001-04-27T15:28:34Z")
_Fool on the Hill_ by Matt Ruff Good so far… ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ya-reading/63526/29 "2001-04-27T15:36:27Z")
Since I pick my reading material based on pop-culture and T.V., I have not a single classic waiting to be read. I waste many brain cells on romance books, of which I can read 2 a day, depending on the length. Right at this second, instead of reading _Mr. Midshipman Hornblower_, I’m posting to the boards. I better get crackin’ too because if my husband gets to _Lieutenant Hornblower_ before I do, I’ll be waiting for a month to read the next installment. Slow readers are so. . . slow! ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ya-reading/63526/30 "2001-04-27T15:54:17Z")
Lesse… like some people here I often read a bunch of books at one time. Mainly because I carry the paperbacks with me and leave the hardcovers at home since I don’t need extra weight in my backpack. Right now I’m reading… _The Redemption of Althalus_ by David and Leigh Eddings _Silence of the Lambs_ for the first time (I haven’t seen the movie either so don’t spoil it for me!) _Outlander_ by Diana Gabaldon _Out of Time_ a fantasy one about this woman who learns she can travel through time to fight curses. Something by Andre Norton that I can’t recall the title to off hand. And a couple of books I got from the library giving tips on writing novels. I’m forgetting something too but I can’t remember what… ---
**Author:** ![Tabeitha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b3f665/32.png) [@Tabeitha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabeitha)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ya-reading/63526/31 "2001-04-27T15:57:07Z")
I just finished reading the Imortality of the Incarnations series by Piers Anthony. All 7 books in this series are fantastic! Time was a little strange (Hi Chronos) Death, Nature, and Satan are all tied for the best book in the series. Has anyone else read these? If so what did you think? Also I am snailing my way through “The Tebetian Book of the Dead”, and reading “Crime and Punishment” for the third time. I am finding C&P a hard book to get through as I keep confusing who is doing what. I am also reading “Windows NT for Dummies” and “New Ideas From Dead Economists” (I can’t seem to decide between Economics or Computers as a major, in fact it seems my career is night school. What I do during the day is just a way to continue my quest for knowledge.) ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ya-reading/63526/32 "2001-04-27T16:10:13Z")
Hey, **Tabeitha** I loved the Incarnations series- Fate and Death were my favorites. I like Piers Anthony a lot. The _Xanth_ series began to get a pretty silly (I discovered them in high school, so I could have been a little older than the target audience) and I absolutely loved his _Blue Adept_ series. I started reading the _Tarot_ series but somehow lost track and interest. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ya-reading/63526/33 "2001-04-27T16:35:57Z")
As usual, I have several going all at once. [ul] [li] _The Oxford History of the Crusades_ - Edited by Johnathan Riley-Smith[/li][li] _Targeting Guns: Firearms and Their Control_ - by Gary Kleck[/li][li] _The Innocents Abroad_ - by Mark Twain and[/li][li] _Ethics for the New Millennium_ - by the Dalai Lama[/li][/ul] And various periodicals, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Tabeitha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b3f665/32.png) [@Tabeitha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabeitha)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ya-reading/63526/34 "2001-04-27T16:35:57Z")
Sorry about the double post. User error! Is there a way I can delete it? If not can one of the Mod’s do it for me? ————————————————————— \*Yep. It’s gone. [Edited by UncleBeer on 04-27-2001 at 12:10 PM] ---
**Author:** ![slackergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@slackergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slackergirl)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ya-reading/63526/35 "2001-04-27T16:52:06Z")
I’ve got a few things going at the moment - The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco - it’s for my book club. I’ve read it before, but it’s been a while and I’m always eager to come back to Eco’s work to see if I can pick up any more of his weird references. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood - she’s my favorite writer. My sister gave this to me months ago, but I haven’t had the time to sit down and devour it in the way I would like to. I got about 50 pages in and stopped until I can take a couple of days to devote to it. C for Dummies by somebody - reviewing some basics for work. Managing Your Documentation Projects by somebody - more of the same. ---
**Author:** ![shell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/46a35a/32.png) [@shell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shell)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ya-reading/63526/36 "2001-04-27T17:16:43Z")
_The March Of Folly_ by Barbara Tuchman. Well written, interesting premise. _An Anthropologist On Mars_ by Oliver Sacks. Very good, will read more of his stuff. _Pseudoscience and the Paranormal_ by Terrenace Hines. A bit dry for my taste. _You Just Don’t Understand!_ by Deborah Tannen. Still at the “hmmm” stage with this one. _A Canticle for Leibowitz_ by Walter M. Miller Jr. Rereading this one for the third or fourth time. _The Brothers Karamazov_ by Dostoyevsky. Better than Ambien for insomnia. _The Great and Secret Show_ by Clive Barker. Just finsished this as well. Pogey bait for the brain. _Gorky Park_ by Martin Cruz Smith. Just finished this one too. Even better the second time around. _The Generals Daughter_ by Nelson DeMille. Will start this one tonight. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ya-reading/63526/37 "2001-04-27T17:40:58Z")
Biggirl - If you have not yet got to “Beat to Quarters”, “Ship of the Line”, and “Flying Colours” in the Hornblower series, prepare yourself for a treat. These are some of my favorite books of all time, and I can quote chunks of each verbatim. I just started “How Hitler Could Have Won World War II”, by Bevin Gallagher. Next up after that is Heinlein’s “Job - A Comedy”. ---
**Author:** ![Atreyu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@Atreyu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atreyu)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ya-reading/63526/38 "2001-04-27T18:05:49Z")
I recently just finished **A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius** , by David Eggers, which just came out in paperback. Liked it. Now I’m starting two books. First, I’m re-reading **Survivor** by Chuck Palahniuk, the guy who wrote **Fight Club**. (No, it has nothing to do with the TV show of the same name.) I’ll be alternating between this book and **On Writing** by Stephen King. ---
**Author:** ![Necros](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/necros/32/11086_2.png) [@Necros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Necros)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ya-reading/63526/39 "2001-04-27T18:11:53Z")
Previously: **Humboldt’s Gift** by Saul Bellow. Now: **American Pastoral** , by Philip Roth. Next: **Angle of Repose** by Wallace Stegner. I’m working my way through Pulitzer Prize-winning books (not in order, obviously). ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ya-reading/63526/40 "2001-04-27T18:32:52Z")
_Paddy’s Lament_ by Thomas Gallagher, about the Irish potato famine. I’m only a few chapters into it, but as yet I’m not overly impressed - it’s a bit too sensationalistic for my tastes. I’ll reserve judgment til I’ve completely finished it but at so far I’d recommend Cecil Woodham-Smith’s _The Great Hunger_ over this one to anyone wanting to educate themselves on the subject. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ya-reading/63526.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ya-reading/63526.md?page=3)