The "what are you reading" thread:

[Lord Avalon]

Finished Moonraker, by Ian Fleming.

Reading The Bonehunters, 6th book of The Malazan Book of the Fallen, by Steven Erikson.

[Tuberski]

Originally posted by Lord Avalon
Finished Moonraker, by Ian Fleming.

Reading The Bonehunters, 6th book of The Malazan Book of the Fallen, by Steven Erikson.

I'm reading Midnight Tides with the Bonehunters waiting on deck.

Awesome series.

ACK!

[Zoid]

"Under the North Star" by Väinö Linna. An epic trilogy that follows the life of a Finnish family from 1880 to about 1950 while simultaneously describing the effects of the important ideals and events of that period (Language strife, Nationalism, Socialism, First World War, Finnish independence, Civil War and Second World War) have on ordinary people.

[Zoid]

dp

[CrONoS]

Orthodoxy - G.K. Chesterton

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Krill
Thud!

Most people are wowed by Thud!
I think it is one of Prachett's lesser novels. --But I do like the burglary mystery at the beginning.

[Space05us]

Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy. Right now I am on "The Cossacks", I need to go back and finish "Family Happiness". \

Guess who wrote it.

[Meticulous Man]

"Under the North Star" by Väinö Linna. An epic trilogy that follows the life of a Finnish family from 1880 to about 1950 while simultaneously describing the effects of the important ideals and events of that period (Language strife, Nationalism, Socialism, First World War, Finnish independence, Civil War and Second World War) have on ordinary people.

Never read it but still

Myself, "Vådan av att vara Skrake" by Kjell Westö. I warmly recommend it for Swedes

[Zoid]

You should read it, it's awesome.

I'll check out Kjell Westö.

[Nostromo]

- Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.

Huckleberry came and went, at his own free will. He slept on doorsteps in fine weather and in empty hogsheads in wet; he did not have to go to school or to church, or call any being master or obey anybody; he could go fishing or swimming when and where he chose, and stay as long as it suited him; nobody forbade him to fight; he could sit up as late as he pleased; he was always the first boy that went barefoot in the spring and the last to resume leather in the fall; he never had to wash, nor put on clean clothes; he could swear wonderfully. In a word, everything that goes to make life precious that boy had. So thought every harassed, hampered, respectable boy in St. Petersburg.

Brings back good memories of when I was a kid. Those were the days

Still reading

- Witold Gombrowicz, Ferdydurke

[SpencerH]

Reading 1776 by David McCullough and the Gathering Storm by Kate Elliot.

Just picked up:

Founding Brothers by Joseph Ellis
With Malice Toward None: A life of Abraham Lincoln by Stephen Oates
The Jedburghs: The Secret History of the allied special forces France 1944 by Will Irwin
Band of Brothers by Stephen Ambrose

I'm looking for the best regarded histories of the american civil war if anyone has an opinion on that

[Meticulous Man]

"Das Erbe des Bösen" by Ilkka Remes, translated from a barbarian language by Stefan Moster. A nice thriller about Nazi Germany's nuclear program and Operation Paperclip.

[Tuberski]

Originally posted by Aivo½so
"Das Erbe des Bösen" by Ilkka Remes, translated from a barbarian language by Stefan Moster. A nice thriller about Nazi Germany's nuclear program and Operation Paperclip.

Translated from German to what?

ACK!

[Meticulous Man]

No, translated from a Northern barbarian language into German

Originally posted by Aivo½so
BTW, I recommend to thriller-interested Poly Germans the works "Ewige Nacht", "Das Hiroshima-Tor" and "Höllensturz" by Finnish author Ilkka Remes

Sadly I don't think his books have been translated into English yet, they certainly should. His stuff is at the very least on par with that of Dan Brown or Tom Clancy, IMO.

[CrONoS]

Earlier this week, I finished reading:
Heretics - G.K. Chesterton
and just finished reading
St Thomas Aquinas - G.K. Chesterton

Now; I'm looking for a novel from G.K. Chesterton.