# Your last, current and next book **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 5, 2007, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-last-current-and-next-book/425235 "2007-11-05T01:09:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2007, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-last-current-and-next-book/425235/1 "2007-11-05T01:09:55Z")
Simple enough. Last book I read: Barry Glassner - The Culture of Fear The book I’m currently reading: William Gibson - Count Zero Next book: Michael Pollan - The Botany of Desire ---
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2007, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-last-current-and-next-book/425235/2 "2007-11-05T01:16:05Z")
Did you like _The Culture of Fear_? I am currently reading _The Reader_ and _Spells of Enchantment_. Previous book: _Five Red Herrings_ Next book: dunno. I kind of want to read _Free Food for Millionaires_ just to see if it’s as bad as they say it is. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2007, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-last-current-and-next-book/425235/3 "2007-11-05T01:24:14Z")
[QUOTE=HazelNutCoffee] Did you like _The Culture of Fear_? [/QUOTE] Loved it. I think it and Fast Food Nation are must-reads for every resident of these United States and anyone else who wants to understand how we live. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2007, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-last-current-and-next-book/425235/4 "2007-11-05T01:34:25Z")
Last: _Practicing: A Musician’s Return to Music_ by Glenn Kurtz Current: _The Inner Game of Music_ by Barry Green and Tim Gallway Next: _Musicophilia_ by Oliver Sacks Yeah, I ordered 'em all off [Amazon.com](http://Amazon.com) in the same week. I’m going to music school in my 40s and figured it couldn’t hurt. ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2007, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-last-current-and-next-book/425235/5 "2007-11-05T02:04:15Z")
Last book I read: Vince Flynn’s “Protect and Defend” (not the best of his stuff sadly) Currently reading: “A Killing Frost” by Michael A Black (so far it sucks ass btw) Next on the list: God knows. Hopefully I can find something worth reading. ---
**Author:** ![chrissysissystar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5e9695/32.png) [@chrissysissystar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrissysissystar)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2007, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-last-current-and-next-book/425235/6 "2007-11-05T02:10:45Z")
Not nearly as sophisticated… Last read: _Mistress of the Art of Death_ by Ariana Franklin Currently reading: _Exit Strategy_ by Kelly Armstrong Next read: Probably _The Sons of Heaven_ by Kage Baker (But might not. It’s the last of The Compay series and I’ve been waffling because I don’t want it to end.) I’d love to hear what you think of _Musicophilia_! ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2007, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-last-current-and-next-book/425235/7 "2007-11-05T02:18:19Z")
Last book: _The Miserable Mill_ Current book: _The Austere Academy_ Next book: _The Ersatz Elevator_ I gots me a little project goin’. ---
**Author:** ![Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleeps_With_Butterflies)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2007, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-last-current-and-next-book/425235/8 "2007-11-05T02:33:28Z")
Last Book: _The Almost Moon_ by Alice Sebold Current Book: _No End in Sight: Iraq’s Descent into Chaos_ by Charles Ferguson Next Book: _The Gift of Fear_ by Gavin De Becker ---
**Author:** ![PastAllReason](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f07891/32.png) [@PastAllReason](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastAllReason)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2007, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-last-current-and-next-book/425235/9 "2007-11-05T02:51:13Z")
I’m not often reading only one book at a time, so this is picking a few out of the just finished, currently reading, and to be read piles: Just read: Bloodfever by Karen Marie Moning Currently (re)reading: Saxons Vikings And Celts by Bryan Sykes Next up: What Are You Optimistic About?: Today’s Leading Thinkers on Why Things Are Good and Getting Better by John Brockman ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2007, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-last-current-and-next-book/425235/10 "2007-11-05T03:07:03Z")
Last: Dark Harvest by Norman Partridge Current: The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy Next: probably the new Michael Chabon ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2007, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-last-current-and-next-book/425235/11 "2007-11-05T03:09:18Z")
Last: \*A Pirate Looks at Fifty \* by Jimmy Buffet Current: _Cool It_ by Bjorn Lomborg Next: \*The Mass of the Early Christians \* by Mike Aquilina ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2007, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-last-current-and-next-book/425235/12 "2007-11-05T03:19:06Z")
Last: [The Sunrise Lands](http://www.amazon.com/Sunrise-Lands-Novel-Change/dp/0451461703/ref=pd_bbs_1/105-9794851-4464422?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194232503&sr=8-1) by S. M. Stirling Current: [Long May She Reign](http://www.amazon.com/Long-Reign-Ellen-Emerson-White/dp/0312367678/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/105-9794851-4464422?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194232608&sr=1-1) by Ellen Emerson White Next: I don’t know. Possibly re-reading an old favorite. ---
**Author:** ![1010011010](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/ea666f/32.png) [@1010011010](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/1010011010)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2007, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-last-current-and-next-book/425235/13 "2007-11-05T03:20:32Z")
Last: _In the Shadow of the Ark_ by Ann Provoost Current: _Birth_ by Tiny Cassidy Next: several hundred pages of gibberish by James Joyce… or whatever book someone leaves laying around that looks sufficiently interesting. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2007, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-last-current-and-next-book/425235/14 "2007-11-05T03:32:02Z")
Last: _Up Country_, by Nelson DeMille - excellent thriller. Current: _The Good Husband of Zebra Drive_, by Alexander McCall Smith. The latest ‘Ladies #1 Detective’ book and, so far, better than the previous two. Just in at the library, so will be next: _Tree of Smoke_, by Denis Johnson. Another Vietnam novel. ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2007, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-last-current-and-next-book/425235/15 "2007-11-05T03:38:41Z")
Last: _Fun Home_ by Alison Bechdel. Current:_Good Omens_ by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. Next: _The Adventures of Kavalier & Clay_ by Michael Chabon. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2007, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-last-current-and-next-book/425235/16 "2007-11-05T04:05:48Z")
Last book: _A Walk in the Woods_ by Bill Bryson Current book: _The Tender Bar_ by J. R. Moehringer Next Book: _A Pirate Looks at Fifty_ by Jimmy Buffet (now that **Rhiannon8404** has finished it) ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2007, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-last-current-and-next-book/425235/17 "2007-11-05T04:12:16Z")
Last book: _Social Lives of Medicines_ Current book: _Eat, Pray, Love_ Next book: Probably _The Glass Castle_ ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2007, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-last-current-and-next-book/425235/18 "2007-11-05T04:14:58Z")
[QUOTE=DoctorJ] Current:_Good Omens_ by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. Next: _The Adventures of Kavalier & Clay_ by Michael Chabon. [/QUOTE] I have to ask, is either of those is a first time for you? If so, you are one lucky bastid. ---
**Author:** ![stegon66](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee59a6/32.png) [@stegon66](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stegon66)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2007, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-last-current-and-next-book/425235/19 "2007-11-05T04:36:02Z")
Last: Haruki Murakami’s _After Dark_ Current (almost finished): Andrea Barrett’s _The Air We Breathe_ Next: Charles Frazier’s _Thirteen Moons_ ---
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2007, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-last-current-and-next-book/425235/20 "2007-11-05T04:47:52Z")
Okay, could people post a little bit about the books they’re reading? Yeah, I didn’t do that either in my post, so I’ll do it now. Five Red Herrings: eh, was okay. Involved a lot of old British painters, not the most exciting bunch. The Reader: is a short and fast read, but has some interesting parts. Would recommend. Spells of Enchantment: a must for any fairytale lover. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-last-current-and-next-book/425235.md?page=2)