What Book(s) Are You Reading?

[Kropotkin]

Just finished Pale Fire by Nabokov some time ago. What can I say, great minds think alike, and some on apolyton also.

Also finished Maequez' One Hundred Years of Solitude the other day. Couldn't understand the fuzz about it, I couldn't get into it at all.

Now I'm reading a biography about the 15th century Swedish king Karl Knutsson Bonde (he was king three times) By historian Dick Harrison.

[Dracon II]

"The transparency of Evil" by Jean Baudrillard

[Whaleboy]

I have a gorgeous hardback copy of Gaarder's "Sophies World" on my shelf but I haven't even opened it yet!

[child of Thor]

I'm reading Manda Scott's 'Boudica - dreaming the eagle', there are a couple more in the series and its not bad as historical novels go.

[Natalinasmpf]

Two books, which I find interesting, although some people say I'm too obsessed with subjects like these.

The Feynman Processor: Quantum Entanglement and the Computing Revolution by Gerard J Milburn

And

Fermat's Last Theorem by Simon Singh.

Good books.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Whaleboy
I have a gorgeous hardback copy of Gaarder's "Sophies World" on my shelf but I haven't even opened it yet!

That was the book that got me seriously interested in actually reading other philosophers, as opposed to just thinking about philosophy.

[Whaleboy]

Kuci, who do you read?

[Sandman]

Well, I picked up another Ian Rankin crime novel set in good old Edinburgh - Set in Darkness. The Inspector Rebus crime novels I've read so far have been pretty damn good. It's nice living in the place where the books are set - means I know where everything is, right down to the individual pubs and restaurants.

I'm also re-reading the Discworld books. The wizards' banter is hilarious as ever. On the other hand, I really dislike the Luggage.

[Jethro83]

Just finished Chapter House Dune recently. I'll probably be reading through the whole Dune series again soon (once I get my copy of the first one back from the friend I lent it to).

In the meantime, I don't have much time for reading, aside from doing research for the essays I will have to hand in at uni in the next couple of weeks.

[JohnT]

I just got a couple of books about the AOL/Time Warner fiasco ... some fun reading in the week ahead.

[Zkribbler]

Just finished The 9/11 Commission Report and The Pefect Storm.

Now, I'm reading Prof. Glyn William's The Prize of All the Oceans, a true story of the British squadron sent out in 1740 to travel around Cape Horn and capture the Manila galleon.

(These guys were so f*ucked. Six ships & 2,000 men set out. One ship and less than 500 men made it back. The Spanish ships sent to intercept them did worse. Their commodore tried to make it around the Horn first, so his ships could re-fit, restock and be fresh to meet the Brits when they emerged battered from rounding the Horn. But the Spanish were repeated pushed back by gales and most of them starved to death. )

Coming up next: Something, anything, by Terry Prachett. I need a levity break!

[Krill]

Strata by Terry Pratchett. I've read the entire Discworld series (started when I was 8, still reading 50% of my life later ) and;

The Stone Canal by Ken Macleod. Something that I can read that slows my mind down, so that i can fall sleep at night.

[Gangerolf]

I was reading "The da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown but I've somehow lost it. I can highly reccomend the first 53 pages or so

[Flip McWho]

The Da Vinci Code is excellent. Most of Dan Brown's books are though. Makes you think.

[Kuciwalker]

@ Flip. The Da Vinci Code was mediocre at best. I thought it was a rather poorly-written jumble of chases with some random factoids about phi thrown in. A much better book would be The Rule of Four.