What are you reading right now?
 

I did a search and didnt see any threads on this, so I figured I would start one and see where it goes.

What book(s) are you reading right now?

Personally, I am reading Hemingway's For Whom The Bell Tolls. I really enjoy Hemingway, and figured that I need to read some more of his work.

I've been on a Terry Pratchett binge for the past month or so. Currently reading the Lost Continent. Its a hoot, just like all his other works.

The Art of Deception by Kevin Mitnick

Finally decided to grind out 'The Stand' by Steven King.

'Quicksilver' by Neal Stephenson. Took me a while to make it past part I and now I'm really engrossed.

Thoureau's "Walden"

Insomnia by Stephen King

'Quicksilver' here too.
Damn that is a great piece of work.
I'm also working on "The living Torah' and 'Seven questions people ask about Judaism".

Edward W Said - Orientalism

so good I love that book.
I'm reading Zen in the Art of Archery by ummmmmmmmmmm the books all the way across to room, I'll check back with the auther later.

The Prometheus Deception - Robert Ludlum

Sometimes you just need a good spy novel...

GOLD- Asimov short story collection very nice

"The man who mistook his wife for a hat" by Oliver Sacks.

Very interesting read. The author is a neurologist, describing a number of his most interesting patients. It is written in a very humane tone, with a real sense of caring about his patients, not just describing their symptoms in a "textbook" style.

Just read "Talon of the Silver Hawk" by Raymond E. Feist

It's a part of his Midkemia series started in "Magician"

At this moment I'm reading the latest in a comic book series called "Promethia"
An Esner award winner - comic based on the philosophies of Qaballah, Tarot, and the Book of Thoth by Aleister Crowley
(yes...that is the feminine derivative of "Prometheus" who brought light down to man)
It's very deep, very symbolic...takes forever to get through a page,
and think about the aspects embedded within the comic story & pics.

And next I'm going back to simple fantasy...
"The Lone Drow" by R.A. Salvatore (the latest in the Drizzt sagas)

Who knows what I'll do after that,
Computers, New Age, History, Physics, Philosophy, Comics, Fantasy, Horror...
My tastes vary too much...as long as I'm reading something.

Just finished "Angels and Demons" by Dan Brown minutes ago. Great book, it was a lot of fun. Gotta pick up "The Da Vinci Code" next....

The Ride Of My Life by Mat Hoffman

This thread....

Well-said.

I'm currently reading "Animal Farm" by George Orwell, I think, for class...but I'm also reading "The Brimstone Journals" by Ron Koertge on the side. I've read them both before, but they're good reads (plus I need to refresh my memory on "Animal Farm" so I can possibly pass English 4, ha).

Thats something I have been meaning to get all the way through for a long time. It takes a lot of time to read; it is one of those books where you really have to sit and digest nearly every sentence, but what I have read of it was pretty insightful. One of these days...

James Clavell's "Shogun"

I don't plan on reading his entire Asian Saga since his books are over 1,000 pages long and there are at least 5 or 6 of them, but Shogun has really grabbed my interest. I like the setting (feudal Japan) and I particularly enjoy the way that Clavell dives into all of his character's thoughts so fluidly.

I've been reading a few at the moment, including:
Dirt Magic - Tim Winton. A great story that has been sitting in my library for nearly a year now and I've finally just started.

Singo (Mates, Wives, Triumphs, Disasters) - Gerald Stone. Tale of a great Aussie bloke and marketing genius.

You Don't Have To Be Born Brilliant (How to design a magnificent life) - John McGrath. I loath self help books but this one is something very different. Combines tips and advice with an autobiography about an Aussie high school dropout who went on to become a very successfully Real Estate manager at 24, with clients ranging from mate Russel Crowe to the Kerry Packers son (James).

I just finished Robin Hobbs "Fools Fate". I managed to squeeze it in while i was reading Chaz Brenchleys "Outremer" series. Both are fantasy. Both are very good....even though Hobb is much much better than Brenchley :)

I really have never been much of a reader, but my roommate just loaned me his copy of Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci Code." Has anybody read it? I've heard good things, but don't really know at all what it's about. I'm just about to sit down to chapter one right now.

"Where are they buried? How did they die?"

by Tod Benoit

i just finished lullaby by chuck pahlaunauk (sp?) fight club author.

really weird. interesting stuff.

"Bloody Bones" by Laurel K. Hamilton

"Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal" by Christopher Moore

Wizard and Glass, the 4th Dark Tower book by Stephen King

How is this series? I have always been curious but haven't heard anything about it, good or bad.

I'm re-reading Stephen King's Skeleton Crew.

It is beyond excellent....Better than 10 SuperBowls! But i don't want to oversell it. Buy it, borrow it, or steal it, just get these books and judge for yourself.

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will do, as soon as I finish 'The Stand' :)

Yeah, when you have read a lot of Stephen King, The Dark Tower series is even better because it ties everything together. All of his recurring characters and storylines all merge into one Stephen King Universe. You beging to believe that maybe he has been telling one giant 30+ volume story and has filled in his universe with all sorts of side stories and characters. And he has been working on this for thirty years.

Sweet, you are making it sound very appealing...and best of all, I have read a ton of his books so I might enjoy this series even more.

The Monkey Wrench Gang - Edward Abbey

QED (Quantum-electro dynamics) by Richard Feynman.

A great introduction the theory of QED by one of its main contributors.

/Nerd.

Angels and Demons by Dan Brown. I am hooked.....

<i>River God</i>, by Wilbur Smith.
The owner of the bookstore told me that Wilbur Smith is , to his knowledge, the only author who has seriously and thoroughly researched ancient Egypt and wrote (historically accurate) novels about it.
I already read the sequel - <i>Warlock</i>.

Good reading.

White Oleander. So far so good.

this doesn't come out in the states until february. how did you get your hands on it? color me jealous ;)

and on topic, just finished Angels and Demons and i'm now working on Robert Ludlum's "Bourne Ultimatum"