Watcha reading??

[Eli]

Currently i'm between books.

I finished Daniel Quinn's Ishmael yesterday. I have no idea why I read it, but it was nice.

I'm trying to decide now whethee my next book should be "serious" thought material style book or some interesting sci fi one. Normally it takes me more time to decide what to read than to actually read it.

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Lorizael
Ajbera, how's Fight Club the book? I've only seen the movie, which I thought was absolutely fantastic.

So do the rest of you actually have like a dozen started books, but then just one or two that you really focus on? Or am I just weird.

I always read a book from start to end -- it drives me crazy that others can just drop a book in the middle of it!

[Harry Seldon]

I just got done with Sword in the Storm by David Gemmell. I've also read The Man in the High Castle / Philip K ****, The Octagonal Raven / LE Modesitt Jr, and A History of China: Opium Wars to the People's Revolution over the last month. I'm currently reading an exciting thriller, SQL 2000 Administration by Exam Cram.

[ajbera]

Originally posted by Lorizael
Ajbera, how's Fight Club the book? I've only seen the movie, which I thought was absolutely fantastic.

Thoroughly excellent, and (so far) the film was very faithful to the book. I understand the movie departs from the book towards the end, but as I'm only 80% of the way through the book, I can't confirm this yet. Like you, I adore the movie. My current assesment - if you enjoyed the movie, you'll enjoy the book.

[*End Is Forever*]

"The Downing Street Years" - Margaret Thatcher (okay, okay, I've got a tutorial to read for!)

[Tolls]

Coming close to the end of "The Third Reich - A new history" by Michael Burleigh.

Hobsbawm's "Age Of Extremes" is the last part of his 4 part "Age of..." series, the previous 3 covering the "long" 19th century (1792-1914), and this one covering the "short" 20th century (1914-1990ish).

[ajbera]

Originally posted by Harry Seldon
I've also read The Man in the High Castle / Philip K ****

I've been meaning to read P. K. Dick (In fact, I have "The Man in the High Castle" on the shelf right next to me), but I'll probably have to wait 'til my next science-fiction binge. I've read "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?", but that's because Blade Runner is my favorite film.

Again, too many good books, and not nearly enough time...

[Harry Seldon]

I have the short story collection "The Minority Report" by Mr. ****. The stories are very good and most are only twenty pages long. Good for when you need a quick fix.

[Japher]

I'm reading "How to make BIG money in real estate" - Ty Hicks.

I am a sucker for investment books of any kind.

[alva]

Started on 'Dead Famous -Ben Elton', but put it down and don't really feel like continuing it ( his worst one so far IMO, and read pretty much all of them)

Just started 'de Larf - Midas Dekkers' ( Desmond Morris kind of books, sort of )

[ajbera]

Originally posted by Harry Seldon
I have the short story collection "The Minority Report" by Mr. ****. The stories are very good and most are only twenty pages long. Good for when you need a quick fix.

I'll keep that in mind. Thanks.

[JCG]

Currently reading (both non-fiction):

"The wars of the postwar (II)" by Christian Zentner, pretty much an early-mid 70's overview of all postwar conflicts since the Cuban revolution until the Vietnam war.

"The Civil War: two or three Spains?", to try and begin to cure my profound ignorance of the Spanish Civil War.

Contains the memoirs of two Italians who fought on opposing sides of the conflict, and three prologues offering different views on the war itself (by Paul Preston, Sergio Romano and Javier Ruiz Portella).

[TheGuitarist]

Golding's "Lord of the Flies."

[Kassiopeia]

Dan Simmons's Fall of Hyperion. I finished Hyperion a few weeks ago and the blasted book ended right when things started to get interesting. In other words, they are pretty much one novel split in two parts.

Originally posted by Eli
Eh?

I thought books are those txt files you get on file sharing programs and store on your hard disc?

E-books Not everyone fancies reading off the screen, but to me it's become natural. Mainly because of all those scifi titles in English. Finnish is not a good language for science fiction, then again, maybe just personal preference.

[Ecthy]

Nope, Finnish is not a good language AT ALL