WHAT are you reading right now?
 

In following of the "What are you listening to right now" topic in the Music forum, I present to you the question... What are you reading right now?

Me, Moby Dick. I felt it was time to check out some classics.

Secrets of the Samurai, by Oscar Ratti and Adele Westbrook.

This is a pretty big book, and it's full of nifty little illustrations and shit. Samurai kick ass. :)

Stephen King- The Stand (again)

The SARS outbreak prompted me. I can dream, can't I?
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Wendie 99

I am reading people's post on the I-Mockery boards.

i am reading.. online comic on www.geeksalad.net

angry candy by harlan ellison

I am reading Keys To Inifinity by Clifford A. Pickover ... again. :)

Lord of the Flies.

It's incredibly boring so far. :(

I liked "Lord of the Flies".

Right now I'm reading Frank Miller's "Daredevil Visionaries: Volume 2".

Next up as far as novels go I have "God Emperor of Dune" lined up in the queue.

Ah, Lord of the Flies. An untimely classic.

Three flies for the shady guys in bowties.
Seven for the midgets, all each other's clone.
Nine for clowns over whom the baby cries.
One for the fat guy who came in alone.

...well, something like that anyway.

Incidentally, I started in Moby Dick and drifted over to Stephen King's The Waste Lands. I've been re-reading the Dark Tower series after I found out the next volume's set for June :rock

Catch 22 :(

OH MY GOD YOU ARE CURRENTLY READING THE BEST BOOK EVER!!

i'm currently reading anna karenina, palahnuik's survivor, the third force: the psychology of abraham maslow, and the sequel to bridget jones' diary. :hyper

I've been picking at Thompson's Great Shark Hunt because I've been too lazy to go and pick up something else at the moment.

I like the funny books

THEY HAVE PICTURES :(

The Far Side books are STILL funny to me ... yup ... I'm an idiot. :/

I've decided to go with a thesis rather than internment period, so most of what I'm reading is pretty dry. Current two on my desk are:

Nuclear Weapons and International Law in the Post Cold
by Charles J. Moxley

The Unbroken Record: Soviet Treaty Compliance
by Daniel Rosenberg

Regulators by Stephen King (Richard Bachman).

On a side note: The Stephen King reference brought something to mind. Has anyone notice a comeback of the short story format lately? I've noticed that many established writers including Peter Straub and Elmore Leonard have went back to the format. Does anyone think that King had an impact in making this genre open up again? Personally, I like short stories.

Could be. In the introductions to his short story compilations he tends to complain that the art of writing short stories is dying out.

And yeah, I love short stories - they help me sleep. When I'm reading a good book in bed, I have a hard time putting it down without the closure of the end of a chapter, and sometimes not even that. When I can finish a story in one evening, I have no trouble putting the book away before, ya know, sunrise.

Kelly, as much as I love King's regular sized novels, I think his short stories are a fuck of a lot better. I'm far more apt to read something out of Night Shift or Nightmares and Dreamscapes on the can than I am to read a chapter of something out of a novel that I'm currently reading.

By the way, right now I'm pretty addicted to the Hap and Leonard series by Joe R. Lansdale. Man, that fucker is funny.

Count Zero by william gibson

"Myst - The Book of Atrus" by Rand and Robyn Miller
"The Dolphins of Pern" by Anne McCaffery
"Murder in Lamut - Legneds of the Raftwar Saga" by Raymond E. Feist
"The Shinning Ones" by David Eddings

...multiple books makes it more fun...

makes what more fun, princess?

please PLEASE don't call me princess....thats just plain insulting...

...and why would you care about my reading habits? if i think reading more books at once makes the general experience fun, isn't that enough explanation in itself?

you didn't say the "general experience." you said "it." i asked what.

get it, PRINCESS?

hmm...i'm a princess...how nice...i've given up trying to get you to stop it..it's a complement so why bother?

NOT WHEN YOU'RE THE PRINCESS OF FECES :lol

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; anything by Tolkien, and Dreamcatcher.[/u]

You're reading "anything by Tolkien" right now? Did you perhaps glance at the cover to see WHAT you're reading?

I'm rereading Watchmen.

Yes, i DID look at the cover of what it is, its just that i am INTO anything by Tolkien. I read the series at least once every 2 years. The Hobbit, then on to LOTR, and i have yet to finish the Silmarillion. Thats a hard book to read because it is written in almost a biblical form. And also, it's not completely J.R.R.'s Work, some of it is his son.

"Freedom Evolves" by Daniel Dennett. On hiatus, Wittgenstein's "Philosophical Investigations".

The Pickleman Online Comic Book!

This thread is dangerous to the very existence of threads like this one. >:

I AM READING "LIVE FROM NEW YORK" I ONLY READ ABOUT TV

Macbeth.

I keep jumping between Tom Robbins' Even Cowgirls Get The Blues, King's The Eyes Of The Dragon, Crichton's Terminal Man, and, uh, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Fuck you, it's the best book in the series.

Im rereading Star Wars, Heir to the Empire, great triology.
Waterwitch, is thsi your first itme reading the ddings books? I am a fuckig naddict to those, have rad them all way to many times.

I'm reading a math history book cause i'm a nerd. Howard Zinn's "declarations of independence" is pretty swell too.

The Illusion of Conscious Will - Daniel Wegner
Orientalism - Edward Said
Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
a molecular biology protocols book

I just finished "The Great Gatsby" it is good but not super i read all the Ender novels by Orson Scott Card inside of a month i could not put them down. "Xenocide" is my favorite.

Russia: A History
Illusions of Liberalism
Eastern Kings: The History of the Ottoman Turks
Crossroads of Twilight

Mine's a cycle of the following recently:

Respect for Acting -- Uta Hagen
Beowulf
Mind over Matters -- Mike Nelson

"Werewolves in their Youth", Michael Chabon

Starman

I've just received American Gods and the Divine Comedy translated into English, but I'm a little worried in that the translator (like many others) manipulated the text to achieve a certain degree of rhyme :( I would've preferred a raw, as literal as possible translation, I think.

I am obligated to read Frankenstein by Shelly, summer reading for Brit Lit next year. Ugh. Oh well, it's not too bad, but a little too romantic for my tastes.

For myself I am reading The Sun Also Rises. I'm going to start Winner Take Nothing, and I am also in the middle of As I Lay Dying by the Faulk-man.

Yeah, as i lay dying is pretty hardcore. Crazy Darl.

I'M READING SCTV BEHIND THE SCENES AT SCTV BY DAVE THOMAS I ONLY READ ABOUT TV

The Art of War by Sun-Tzu.

I'm reading Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. It's incredibly boring so far, and I'm only reading it for school. Yes, they gave me homework over the summer. >:

The Red Tent by Anita Diamant (thanks Glowy!)

Fight Club :(

A pamphlet I took at the doctor's office about SARS.

Hegel's Phenomenology.

The "what are you reading now" thread. DUH! :rolleyes

When I finally do it, I want to be prepared. :(

Gulliver's Travels. Then Huxley - Brave New World.

The Iron Heel By Jack London[/url]

Try "Sea Wolf" next. :love

Reading "Johnathan Livingston Seagull" by Richard Bach

reading
 

Shogun James Clavell

Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin. Also Zig Zag Zen: Buddism and Psychadelics.

hermann hesse. i read this series of short stories about knulp, this wanderer whom everyone across the country knows, and i just finished gertrude, an awesome novel about a composer and his relationship with music.

I'll try "Sea Wolf" if you read or have read "The Iron Heel" :love

Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut, my second time.
The Crusades by Hans something, a translation
Next...
The River Between by Ngugi
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Casca: The Eternal Mercanery by Barry Sadler

Almost done with

Karl Von Clausewitz: War, Politics, and Power

"Dreamland" by Kevin Baker

Anthony Burgiss - A Clockwork Orange

I'm reading The Road Less Travelled by M. Scott Peck. This is a book that I had to read parts of for a college sociology class and now I'm reading it for myself.

I had never read Catcher in the Rye before so I bought it a couple days ago.

Next is 1984. I'd like to read all those books that people are supposed to read but I never did.

Reading a really, dry, boring music history textbook now - right now, as far as recreational reading goes, I'm in the middle of Dune: Messiah.

Conan - Volume 2 by Robert E. Howard.

I get a boner from it.

I'm currently writing up a thesis of my theory, so most of my reading is reference.

Catechism of the Catholic Church
The Elegant Universe- Brian Greene, pouring through it a second time.
The Confessions of St. Augustine
The City of God Against the Pagans - St. Augustine
Selected Philosophical Writings - St. Thomas Aquinas

I ordered off of Amazon a while ago:
The Illusion of Conscious Will
The Problem of the Soul
The Complete Works of Shakespeare... Gotta get some leisure in there somewhere.

I get a boner from some of the dust jackets.

"Shogun" by James Clavell (someone else said this)
and "Flatland" by Edwin A. Abbott. I recommend this if you’re into nerdy dimensional stuff.

Preacher Vol5 Dixie Fried

this is the worst one so far :(

Naked by David Sedaris

Entertaining, capturing, inspiring soul teaser
 

Piddler on the Hoof by SI Fishgal - history through the potent fiction, entertaining, capturing, inspiring.
The derisive living truth and death emotionally awake a Jewish preschooler in the Red Army's Rearguard during the WW2.
"Damn good soul teaser," wrote Barnes & Noble's reviewer. "No fruitless illusions, impractical fantasies and daydreamers. It's life, death, humor and true emotions. Coolest book on hottest topics, rich, vivid, fascinating, stimulating and gripping novel."
http://piddler-on-the-hoof.8m.com/

Would you,
Could You,
Spam I am?

Hhmm
 

Well, you guys read alot deeper material than I do.

I'm reading The Dark Tower V : Wolves of the Calla by Stephen King.

Mary Roach's Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

It's a non-fiction work about all the stuff that can happen to a cadaver. It manages to be respectful and humorous, which is surprising considering the subject matter. One of the best things I've read in a while.

I saw a discovery channel documentary about the history of using cadavers for medical study. In England, it seems there was a shortage of cadavers and two gentlemen (I don't recall their names) actually went out and "made" cadavers for a local medical professor. First, they started out with local homeless guys and then progresses to whomever was available and eventually got caught.

They were called Burke & Hare. British entrepreneurial spirit at its best.

I finished Battle Royale a while back

I am currently reading Catch -22 (someone else said this)

Now I'm in the middle of both Satan Speaks and the Devil's Notebook by Anton LaVey. They're both pretty short, but I don't have time to sit down and read these days. :(

Ahh, nothing like a warm fire with a nice hot, herbal tea whilst curling up with Lucifer. :love

I just read War In The Sun, which can wipes it's ass with Dixie Fried ten times over.

All the drenai novels by david gemmel. Im through a fair few of them. The waylander series is the best i think.

I read those a while back. Besides Druss, there isn't enough keeping those books alive.

The reconciliation between science and religion, especially during the Rennaisance Period, has always intrigued me. This is a pretty fast-paced, in-depth and compelling read for those that are interested in the chronology of the earth and how it was arrived at from both the scientific and theological perspectives (see review below):

Measuring Eternity: The Search for the Beginning of Time

by Martin Gorst (Broadway Books, 2001) 338 pages

God Bles You, Mr Rosewater (or pearls before swine) by Kurt Vonnegut

The Xenocide Mission

- My parents got it. It's pretty good so far.

Pattern Recognition, William Gibson

Just finished: Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris

and Dream Boy - Jim Grimsley

Now reading: Going Down - Jennifer Belle

Next on the list: The Fuck Up - Arthur Nersesian

Dandelion Wine- Ray Bradbury :love

Catch-22, reminds me of Mr. Burbank's humor style :)

Waiting for Godot

As I lay Dying