The "what are you reading" thread:

[Zkribbler]

Congo by Michael Creighton. Good discription of the rain forest. Characters and plot are mmmhh.

[Zoid]

"Humble Pie" - Gordon Ramsays autobiography. Fascinating stuff!

[Lord Avalon]

Finished Fury, and also Harbingers, A Repairman Jack Novel, by F Paul Wilson.

Reading Star Wars Republic Commando: True Colors

[Tattila the Hun]

Reading "The first hours of Winter War"

[Fake Boris]

Done with Stendhal's Le Rouge et le noir and Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, now reading Sartre's Being and Nothingness.

[VetLegion]

Steven Pinker's "How the mind works" (audiobook). It is very good.

[aneeshm]

I've finished Breaking the Spell, The Mating Mind, and Moral Minds. I've also finished the two books by Pratchett.

Right now, I'm reading Steven Pinker's Words and Rules.

The ones I haven't started yet, in English:

The Future of Ideas, by Lawrence Lessig
The Third Culture, by John Brockman.
The Stuff of Thought, by Steven Pinker

In Hindi, the Mahabharat is going strong as ever (1,00,000+ shlokas, 10,00,000+ words in total).

Also in Hindi, I'm currently reading Dinkar's brilliant and tremendously emotive work, Urvashi. The beauty of his poetry is astounding. All good, solid stuff, totally for rasikas, no pretentiousness, completely natural. The emotions flow off the pages, and you can simply let go and enjoy the ride.

I've got a bit of Marathi reading lined up, but I haven't purchased the books yet - I have a long backlog of stuff left to finish before that. When I finish this current set, I'm going to go get Mrityunjay, by Shivaji Sawant, and finish the one I've currently kept on hold, Iravati Karve's Yuganta.

@ LS

You can read Hindi, right? Have you read Urvashi?

[aneeshm]

Originally posted by VetLegion
Steven Pinker's "How the mind works" (audiobook). It is very good.

I'm planning to get that one in book form, along with his The Blank Slate when I finish the long list I've just posted.

I'm also planning to start on some of Thomas Sowell's work, specially his A Conflict of Visions.

[Igloodude]

Does the December issue of Reader's Digest count? Because I just got a year's subscription for a Christmas present.

[Zkribbler]

Some of the jokes are good.


I'm re-reading Cornwell's Sharpe's Fortress.

[Lord Avalon]

Read the following Adventures of Modesty Blaise, by Peter O'Donnell:

Sabre-tooth
I, Lucifer
Dragon's Claw
The Night of Morningstar

Reading Journey to Centauri

[Krill]

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Guards! Guards!

[atomant]

Pamwere Chete

its about the selous scouts in the Rhodesian bush war

[Japher]

I just started A Game of Thrones, which I have been meaning to read for a long time... Over a year, at least, when someone here recommended it to me. I am about 100 pages in and so far love it.

[CrONoS]

I just begun : Essays of Four Decades by Allen Tate