The "what are you reading" thread:

[Flubber]

Originally posted by Flubber
I am reading Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brien

http://www.amazon.com/Master-Commander-Aubrey-Maturin-Patrick/dp/0393307050

I am now on book 5 of this series-- Desolation Island--

I quite like this type of historical fiction-- It does follow world events with reasonable accuracy

[CrONoS]

Just finished:
Darwinian Fairytale by David Stove:
It was a fun read and also really interesting, particularly by the fact that I read several books from Ultra-Darwinians and memetism. (Richard Dawkins, D. Denett, S. Blackmore, etc...)

I'm now reading:
How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization by Thomas Woods Jr.

http://www.amazon.com/Catholic-Church-Built-Western-Civilization/dp/0895260387

[Imran Siddiqui]

I've started Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army by Jeremy Scahill, about mercenary forces the US is using in Iraq.

I just finished Stardust by Neil Gaiman, which was a great fantasy novel

[Ramo]

I recently found a new guilty pleasure - Eric Flint's 1632 series. Terrible writing, ridiculous characters, but somehow I feel compelled to read it. They're books you can almost skim, going through 'em in a few hours. Brings back memories of the books I read a decade ago (Anne Rice, Harry Turtledove, etc.)...

[Kuken]

Originally posted by CrONoS

I'm now reading:
How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization by Thomas Woods Jr.
http://www.amazon.com/Catholic-Churc.../dp/0895260387

I'm actuallly reading this right now. Very interesting

[Fake Boris]

The Critique of Pure Reason

[Spec]

Poly.

Spec.

[Thoth]

Illuminatus!

So of course the first thread I see on Poly this morning is "Conspiracy on Apolyton" : paranoid:

[Japher]

Nothing. I'm taking a break. I have no idea what I want to read next.

I'm debating between The Foundation series by asimov, Song of Fire and Ice, or nothing at all since I start school in Jan.

[Lord Avalon]

Just finished House of Chains, now on to Midnight Tides, 5th Tale of the Malazan Book of the Fallen, by Steven Erikson.

[Nostromo]

Originally posted by Oncle Boris
The Critique of Pure Reason

Why the ?

- What Ho! The Best of P.G. Wodehouse. I laughed out loud a couple of times. Its a good sign.

- Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

- Paul Feyerabend, Against Method. I'm giving a lecture on Feyerabend next thursday.

- John Stuart Mill, On Liberty.

- Jean-Paul Sartre, Huis Clos. "L'enfer, c'est les autres" (Hell is the others) is so true.

[Lord Avalon]

Originally posted by Nostromo

- Jean-Paul Sartre, Huis Clos. "L'enfer, c'est les autres" (Hell is the others) is so true.

I would translate that as "Hell is other people."

But, yes, it is true.

[snoopy369]

Just finished reading Sean Haney's illustrated Beowulf (with every facing page being a photo of an ancient relic appropriate to the stanza)... The movie novelization is a very drastic change, in several points, so if you're going to watch the movie please do not expect it to have but the slightest resembance to the original poem. (However, I think the movie novelization is a pretty good story in its own right, and a reasonable modern retelling of it, making it a bit more in line with normal fantasy while still retaining much of what made Beowulf what it was.)

Just bought the new McDevitt novel ... will read that soon.

[Nostromo]

Originally posted by Lord Avalon

I would translate that as "Hell is other people."

But, yes, it is true.

Even better

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
I just finished Stardust by Neil Gaiman, which was a great fantasy novel

QFT

My home book is a history of Washington at Valley Forge (I forget the title and author)
I have a copy of Prachett's Witches Abroad in my car, which I'm re-reading.
My car audio-book is The De Vinci Code.