The "list the books you've read as you read them" thread
 

Minimal comment, just a list.

I think there are threads a bit like this... but not one just like it - so everyone who reads can post here what they have just read, even if it isnt comment worthy!

Me:

The London Monster: Terror on the Streets in 1788 by Jan Bondeson

I just finished (for maybe the 20th time) the Complete Works of Jules Verne.
I'll be rereading the Foundation Series by Asimov in the coming weeks. I've been in a scifi mood lately.

Postcards from the Edge by Carrie Fisher

god my reading list is tedious.

merleau-ponty: seminars on husserl's "origin of geometry" (1960)
paul klee: notebooks
marcel proust: cities on the plain.

Tedius, you say? Why, who doesn't like to curl up on a Sunday morning with a cup of coffee and a good read by haughty French philosophers that are hung up on dead German mathemetician/philosophers? I mean, it's just not the weekend unless I get to snuggle up and read a few chapters of Philosophy of Arithmetic.

Rhett Butler's People.....hated it

I have two chapters left in The Amber Spyglass. Next up is Darkly Dreaming Dexter.

After I sign off, I'll finish up rereading "Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal" by Christopher Moore. It's absolutely hilarious, probably Moore's best work.

When i'm not sidetracked by video games, i'm currently reading "The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe" By Roger Penrose

Currently immersed in Special Topics in Calamity Physics and How I Became Stupid.. Both are quite spectaular and I find myself reading them slower than usual to spread out the enjoyment.

Just Finished 'The Kite Runner' by Khaled Hosseini and skimmed through 'Pillars of the Earth' by Ken Follett (read it years ago and wanted a quick brushup before tackling the sequel when it hits paperback in a few months).

A Nancy Drew mystery called "The Sign of the Twisted Candles"--a reprint of the original edition from the 1930s. Very cool and a fun read.

just finished Nelson DeMille's "Wild Fire" the other day.
currently reading Orson Scott Card's "Empire"

Promise of the Witch-King, The Sellswords Book II, by R.A. Salvatore

Fantasy nerd alert :)

Just finished up "For One More Day" by Mitch Albom. Not sure what I'll pick up next.

Finished "Phantom" and "Debt of Bones" by Terry Goodkind recently. Currently reading "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy and "Neuromancer" by William Gibson

"The Road" is awesome.

Just finishing up The Ceremonies by T.E.D. Klein. Next up: Cold Moon Over Babylon by Michael McDowell.

Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky, not quite finished with it. I started reading it a while back, really enjoyed it but finals got in the way. Lately I've been craving to re-read Thirty Years That Shook Physics: The Story of Quantum Theory by Gamow. That was an awesome book, but I'm starting to think I've lost it and that would be a very big shame.

Just finished Darkly Dreaming Dexter. Next is Last of the Mohicans.

Just finished One Hundred Years of Solitude by Marquez which was beautiful and Microserfs by Douglas Coupland, which was highly entertaining, very quirky.

Picked Follett's book up before Christmas to read over the break. I cannot imagine why a sequel was green lit. I'm not much the discriminating reader, but I didn't enjoy it all.

Just finished two books by Steve Berry (The Amber Room and one about the Templars) and they were alright. Nothing to write home about, but if you're looking for a poor man's Dan Brown, then he's your guy.

Wow! A poor man's Dan Brown. That's saying something! :) I read The Da Vinci Code. I didn't like it very much.


Last week I read Stardust and Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman. Neither was particularly heavy reading. I enjoyed Anansi Boys. I wasn't that fond of Stardust.

Crime and Punishment is a favourite of mine. If you want to read more Dostoyevsky I'd recommend The Brothers Karamazov. I've got The Idiot sitting on my bookshelf. I'm currently reading The Seven Pillars of Wisdom so it'll have to wait until I've finished that.

Thanks to willravel mentioning them in the James Bond thread it I've been making my way through the classic Bonds again.

Currently reading: Thunderball by Ian Flemming.

Bridget Jones Diary...for the first time in my life I think I can say I enjoyed the movie more than the book

I know. Avoid them at all costs. :no:

The Prize - The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power

By Pulitzer Prize winner, Daniel Yergin

It's a long read, 884 pages but awesome. I learned so much.

Confessor by Terry Goodkind. Hate to see the series end. :(

I read A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini and The Love of the Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald while I was on vacation.

I think I'm going to start reading Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer tonight. But I'm not sure. I might opt for something non-fiction. My sister gave me a copy of The Children by David Halberstam and I've been wanting to read that...

choices, choices :)

Just finished The Last Life by Claire Messud, story about an American expat woman and her children in France (I read it in Lebanon, which helped me cope), and am currently in the middle of the great memoir, An Invitation to Laughter: A Lebanese Anthropologist in the Arab World.

I am also plodding through a rather slow book, The Gospel of Judas by Simon Mawer. It's the first novel in a long time that I don't think I'll finish.

Last 4.

The Red Queen

The God Delusion

The Ancestors tale

Genome

and I'm working on The Selfish Gene right now more for historical perspective.

Isn't it absolutely wonderful?!

Edit: Please, please do not bother reading the third book in the series, Dexter in the Dark. It's absolutely horrible. Trust me, I'm saving you hours of your life. The second novel, Dearly Devoted Dexter, is good, though.

City by Clifford D. Simak - it's a series of short stories, presented as ancient legends told by the dog-descendants that eventually replace humankind.

Just finished Chainfire by Terry Goodkind. now about 200 pages into Phantoms (same author)

I am getting really tired of this series, its like Goodkind invents these stupid problems that don't need to be there so that he can write more best sellers. I am glad the series is done, I am not happy in the direction he has taken it. For anyone reading these I highly recommend the first 2 books then just stopping there.

jacques roubaud: the great fire of london

reading samuel beckett: watt

Just finished Confessor by Terry Goodkind.....the last of the Sword of Truth series. WOW! I have to disagree with blahblah.....the whole series is good.

Call of the Wild - by Guy Grieve

my mrs thinks im going bush

I thought Dexter in the Dark was interesting, at least. I'm not sure I like the direction Lindsay is taking with the dark passenger, but it's still better than that Showtime nonsense (since when did Dex actually care about Rita?)

Anyway, Dearly Devoted Dexter > Darkly Dreaming Dexter > Dexter in the Dark.

Am currently reading Different Seasons, by Stephen King. Crompsin's constant Rage references got me wanting to read it again, but I can't find my copy so I settled for this instead.

Last night I finished Summerland by Michael Chabon. Meh.
Early this week I read Persepolis 1 & 2 by Marjane Satrapi. I enjoyed both.