The "what are you reading" thread:

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by Nostromo
I finished Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norell. It was pretty good. I recommend it.

Second the recommendation. One of my favorite books of the decade.

[Meticulous Man]

Da Vinci code : roman / Dan Brown ; traduit de l'anglais (États-unis) par Daniel Roche

Language acquisition is always a good excuse to read all kinds of low-brow stuff

[Meticulous Man]

BTW, I recommend to thriller-interested Poly Germans the works "Ewige Nacht", "Das Hiroshima-Tor" and "Höllensturz" by Finnish author Ilkka Remes

[Nostromo]

Da Vinci code : roman / Dan Brown ; traduit de l'anglais (États-unis) par Daniel Roche

Language acquisition is always a good excuse to read all kinds of low-brow stuff

Learning the language of love

Da Vinci code

[Meticulous Man]

/me hocha la tête.

[Koyaanisqatsi]

Just finished God's Demon by Wayne Barlowe. The premise is that a former seraph who fought alongside Lucifer is tired of handing out suffering in Hell and decides to start a holy war to return to Heaven. He recruits Hannibal Barca to lead the human souls in his rebellion and marches on Beelzebub (who's acting as regent since Lucifer is nowhere to be found). Pretty good, though somewhat light on plot in places. Barlowe is mostly known as a painter though (he's the artist that did most of the concept work on Discovery Channel's Alien Planet, if you saw that) and it comes through in some long, detailed descriptions of Hell that would make anyone from Hieronymus Bosch to Dave McKean squirm in their chair. For instance, this is his painting of the ex-seraph, only because it's in words instead of an image it's about a thousand times more vivid in the book:

[Zkribbler]

I found a copy of the orginal "The Mark of Zorro," first published in 1909!

[Lord Avalon]

Fatal Revenant: The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Book Two, by Stephen R. Donaldson.

[jkp1187]

Finished ''Born Standing Up" by Steve Martin. Very good.

[CrONoS]

Finished:

The Noblest Triumph: Property and Prosperity Through the Ages by Tom Bethell

Excellent books; it made me thinks about several issue, was able to make link with course that I took during my B.A.!

I'm now reading(again) a book:
The Futurological Congress by Stanislaw Lem

One of the funniest book I've ever read and at the same time; very insightful.

[Nostromo]

I'm now reading(again) a book:
The Futurological Congress by Stanislaw Lem

One of the funniest book I've ever read and at the same time and very insightful.

Never read that one. Maybe I'll check it out.

I finished A Canticle for Leibowitz. It was pretty good. And I'm now going back to Gombrowicz.

[Tuberski]

Reading Memories of Ice by Steven Erickson

ACK!

[-Jrabbit]

Making Money by Terry Pratchett

Got it for my wife last Christmas, never got around to it.

[Julian Delphiki]

My local library is closed for another month because of renovation. I just might finally manage to finish my unread pile , now reading The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco. Only 120 pages down, not much has happened yet.

[Fake Boris]

The Claim of Reason by Stanley Cavell.