The "what are you reading" thread:

[aneeshm]

In English:

Daniel Dennett's Breaking the Spell.
Geoffrey Miller's The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped The Evolution Of Human Nature.

Books which I've got but not yet started on:

Lawrence Lessig's The Future of Ideas.
The Third Culture - a collection of essays about the emergence of the scientific method in the arts and humanities.
Moral Minds - (I forget the author's name) About how the roots of morality are universally in-built into humans, and an exploration of how they evolved,

And as for light reading, I have two Terry Pratchetts lined up.

In Hindi, the Mahabharat still going strong.

[Odin]

Originally posted by Oncle Boris
The Critique of Pure Reason

Ugh, reading Kant is pure torture (not as bad as Hegel though).

[Odin]

The History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

Fifty Degrees Below by Kim Stanley Robinson

Breaking the Spell by Daniel Dennett

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

[Zoid]

A Beginners Guide to Reality - Jim Baggott

Pandoras Star - Peter F Hamilton

[SpencerH]

Theodore Rex - by Edmund Morris

Re-reading "A game of Thrones"

[Pekka]

Uh, got too many books I'm currently reading. right now?

Understanding social control - Martin Innes
Obedience to authority - Stanley Milgram
Propaganda - Edward Bernays
Propaganda - Jacques Ellul
Surveillance studies: an overview - David Lyon
Theorizing surveillance: Panopticon and beyond - David Lyon
The visible employee: using workplace monitoring and surveillance to protect information assets - J Stanton
Images of organization - Gareth Morgan
Information warfare and security - Dorothy Denning
Corporate espionage - Ira Winkler

These are what I have on my table and what I'm reading at the moment, as in I read these all, chapters, daily. Not one at a time. For work and for pleasure (no difference).

[MosesPresley]

Saki, a complete anthology. He's very witty.

[Traianvs]

American Psycho, B.E. Ellis

what an annoying book ffs. Luckily the protagonist is starting to feel the bloodlust now

[MosesPresley]

I read two books by Ellis: Less than Zero and The Rules of Attraction. LtZ was pretty good, but the TRoA stunk. It was full of unsolicited popular music opinions.

I picked up American Psycho and read some excerpts. It looked worse than TRoA. More music opinions, but this time with bloody murders. Whatever.

[Nostromo]

I forgot... I recently read Stephen King's The Gunslinger. I thought it was crap.

[Donegeal]

A Gift from Earth, a short Novel by Larry Niven set at around the time of the Kzin invasion of Sol.

[Zoid]

Originally posted by Nostromo
I forgot... I recently read Stephen King's The Gunslinger. I thought it was crap.

Yep, pretentious crap at that. I read the first two parts in the mid-80's and thought they were great. Then I read the first book again last year and couldn't even finish it... It was the same with Asimovs 'Foundation'. Great the first time around, boring as hell the second...

[Fake Boris]

Originally posted by Nostromo
Why the ?

The style is arid, yet when you understand you come to realize he could have said it with more simplicity.

The a priori/a posteriori distinction is bollocks.

His table of categories is an intellectual imposture.

The only thing I liked so far is the Transcendantal Aesthetics, I liked his reflexions on mathematics.

What did you think of it ?

[Krill]

I'm reading the confederation trilogy by Peter F. Hamilton. I'll be finished in the next few weeks, so I'm on the look out for another decent Sci Fi set to start reading. Any ideas?

[Zoid]

Alastair Reynolds