# Whatcha reading? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 3, 1999, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-reading/10857 "1999-11-03T16:03:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 1999, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-reading/10857/61 "1999-11-06T06:50:00Z")
OK, I just finished Donald Westlake’s “What’s the Worst That Could Happen?” The writing was OK, but it was the best damn edited book I’ve ever read! Just started the bizarre and delightful “Collected Tales and Fantasies” of Lord Berners, recommended to me by Ukelele Ike. ---
**Author:** ![NicePete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ee7513/32.png) [@NicePete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NicePete)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 1999, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-reading/10857/62 "1999-11-09T15:52:00Z")
I loved _Focault’s Pendulum_ for it’s language and the obscure Knights Templar conspiracy theory. But I can appreciate David’s disappointment in the book’s climax or lack thereof. I’m a huge Donald Westlake fan. A Westlake book can be a great read – humor and crime all in one. I started _Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood_ yesterday. the wife got it and I picked it up and started browsing. Not nearly as girlie as I thought it would be. * * * Plunging like stones from a slingshot on Mars. ---
**Author:** ![Narile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@Narile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Narile)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 1999, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-reading/10857/63 "1999-11-09T19:06:00Z")
Welp, finished Pratchett’s Fifth Elephant and am now starting on Holt’s Who’s afraid of Beowulf and rereading Tolkien, and Applied Cryptography * * * \>\>Being Chaotic Evil means never having to say your sorry…unless the other guy is bigger than you.\<\< —The dragon observes ---
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 1999, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-reading/10857/64 "1999-11-09T19:12:00Z")
For Whom the Bell Tolls * * * Magnificent to behold - Greatly to be praised. ---
**Author:** ![Pixoid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Pixoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixoid)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 1999, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-reading/10857/65 "1999-11-09T20:39:00Z")
Just finished _The Hobbit_ for the first time. I just never got around to reading it earlier. It was really good, and someday, when I have the time, I’ll read the rest. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 1999, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-reading/10857/66 "1999-11-10T00:21:00Z")
Currently working my way through all of the Dorothy Dunnett books – I’m on book three. Also reading “The Rosewood Casket” by Sharyn McCrumb – I love reading her books, she writes like a folksinger. Just finished “Friday the Rabbi Slept Late”. I’m sort of in a mystery mode right now, working on the Dorothy L. Sayers books, too (just finished “Busman’s Honeymoon”) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 1999, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-reading/10857/67 "1999-11-11T01:32:00Z")
Goldmines & Guttersnipes By Mark Twain. A collection of Twain’s humorous newspaper articles from his day living in San Francisco in the 1860’s. Funny _and_ historically enlightening. * * * YO-HO, ME HEARTIES! ALL HANDS ON DECK FOR THE MUSICAL BATTLE AT SEA! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatcha-reading/10857.md?page=3)