What books are you reading right now?

Existence by David Brin.

The pace is a little slow because of how much near-future world building is involved (if this was a fantasy novel i would have chucked it by now) but I'm really enjoying it,

 

It was very interesting. All about a secret operation that was performed on Cleveland back in 1893, to remove a cancerous growth. It goes into the cover-up, and the events that followed when a Philadelphia journalist uncovered the story.
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Time to move on to a new book....hmmm.....

 

Since I can't just read one book at a time, also finally cracked open Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Shiguro. Good so far!

 

Really, my mind went into a totally different direction on " sick man". Lol

 

I don't know what I'm not shocked, Freetofly! Lol

 

Can't decide whether to stick with history, or go in a completely different direction........so many books, so little time.....

 

Farewell Shanghai, a novel about the community of Jewish artist/intellectuals who fled Nazi Germany for Shanghai, China.

 

Makeup To Breakup - Peter Criss, ex drummer of Kiss. Interesting book.

 

The Burglar in the Library, by Lawrence Block. Part of the Bernie Rodenbar series. I like Lawrence Block alot.

 

Just finished "things I wish my mother had told me" regarding life, style, and elegance. Quite insightful and enjoyable.

 

Despite the near-universal disdain for it, I finally broke down and started reading A Feast For Crows.

 

Currently reading Destiny of the Republic, by Candice Millard

 

right now:

Mike Dash - Batavia's Graveyard.

It's hard to even start telling what its really about without spoiling it, other than its about a shipwreck, and what human nature is like (for good and for bad) when everything is permitted.

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Erm, and just to add in case it sounds like a rip off of Lord of the Flies... this is stuff that REALLY happened.
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I'd be interested in what you thought of it as an adult.

I think if I'd have read it as a kid or adolescent I might have liked it. Reading it a few years ago I hated it, hated the guy who wrote it, hated almost everybody in it.

 

Don't read my post till you've finished it!

But the way to deal with bullying isn't to murder the bully by administering a beating of such severity that the kid is killed, as soon as you make sure its "ok" to do so cos he threw the first punch ! And the way the murder was set up to somehow make Ender "blameless" is what I really hated. The kid if a psychopath and the whole system is set up to feed his psychopathy with violence, hatred, and rage - and the whole while the author seems to approve of it all!

 

Master and Margarita.
Translated from the original Russian.
This is a very interesting read that was banned for a while in the USSR.