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What book is everyone reading at the moment?

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I went looking for Thud! to read again, but I can't find it...

So I'm not reading anything.....Odd for me.
 
Just finished reading "Touching History - The Untold Story of the Drama That Unfolded in the Skies over North America on 9/11" by Lynn Spencer. Picking back up halfway through "Firefight - Inside the Battle to Save The Pentagon on 9/11" by Patrick Creed and Rick Newman.
Wow....I really am spending too much time in the CT subforum....:boxedin:
 
laarree said:
Jerri Blank! I saw a stage show she did with Stephen Colbert and Paul Dinello a few years back in NYC called "Wigfield: The Can Do Town That Just May Not". I got to eat a couple of her famous home-baked cupcakes there. Yummy! :D
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Luckeeeeeeeeeee!! I am so jealous of that! :)

But her book really is an interesting, fun read. And it's full of really useful bits of information about entertaining and cooking and whatnot. I would recommend it to anyone interested in that sort of thing.
 
I'm reading The Life of Elizabeth I by Alison Weir.

On deck is Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby.
 
I'm reading Anita O'Day's autobio High Times, Hard Times. She was a jazz singer, amazing voice, amazing woman, eventful life. There is a very good doco out about her which I recommend also if you can find it.

Just finished Ray Hyman's "The Elusive Quarry: A Scientific Appraisal of Psychical Research."
 
"On B******t" by Harry Frankfurt (as recommended at TAM)

"World War Z-An Oral History of the Zombie War" by Max Brooks

"Big, Fat Lies" by Glenn A. Gaesser
 
The Gunslinger by Stephen King. It's gotta be my eighteenth re-reading. I was flying this weekend and needed to pass the time. Took this one, The Road by Cormac McCarthy and A Different Light by Elizabeth Lynn.
 
Just finished Furst, Spies of Warsaw. Excellent mood and espionage novel set in the late 1930s, though his (continued) inability to get Polish names and titles correct is irritating. All he needs is a research assistant or consultant, for heaven's sake.
 
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I just finished The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan. Is it weird of me that it made me tear up so many times?
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I'd think you were weird if it didn't. You may enjoy this:



I'm reading The Tangled Wing: Biological Constraints on the Human Spirit, by Melvin Konner, which is pretty amazing. It's the first book in a while that's really grabbed me in my chest or brought tears to my eyes the way the above sagan passage always does. His science is superb, taking a broad look at evidence from many fields and developing a very sophisticated view of a complex topic. And the prose is amazing, poetic, stirring.
It was written in 1982, yet, to my best ability to see, still retains its value.
 
While digging through some old music books I have, I found this little treasure I'd bought years ago:

http://www.amazon.com/Fringes-Reaso...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1215719012&sr=8-1

Published in 1988, it's one of those "whole Earth" things with a wide variety of articles and lots of citations and sidebar articles. Quite forgotten I'd had it...

The very first chapter is about "The End", and the awful history of failed end-time prophecies.
Interesting, as a sidebar article covers the "Mayan" thing, with a book published by some nut-ball back then advising that the world would end either in 2002 or 2012.....Guess we missed the first date.
Amazing how long some of these ideas have been knocking around; they just seem to recycle.
 
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I have just started The Road by Cormac McCarthy. I'm only about 20 pages in so far and have no opinion on it yet other than it seems to move at a slow pace. This is the first work of McCarthy's that I've started, so other than knowing he wrote No Country for Old Men, I have no other background information at all.
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I'll be curious to know what you think of it when you're done. There were some major frustrations for me -- and the slow pace is only part of it -- but I can also see that that's a deliberate literary plot on the part of the author... Not the sort of thing I usually read.
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Finished The Road a bit ago, but I don't want to discuss too much until RobRoy has finished it, but I definitely agree there were some frustrating components. All-in-all, I enjoyed it a fair bit.

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The Gunslinger by Stephen King. It's gotta be my eighteenth re-reading. I was flying this weekend and needed to pass the time. Took this one, The Road by Cormac McCarthy and A Different Light by Elizabeth Lynn.
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Let me know what you think of The Road when you're done. I'm also a fan of The Gunslinger; read it a couple of times years ago but I'm due for a refresher.
 
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Let me know what you think of The Road when you're done. I'm also a fan of The Gunslinger; read it a couple of times years ago but I'm due for a refresher.
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I think I read book one of The Gunslinger way back when, but I got tired of Stephen King somewhere in the early '90s. I've read some of his newer stuff, but not with much verve.

Currently just starting The Amber Spyglass, and enjoying the series immensely. I'm curious if it'll end up being series I wish hadn't ended.

I also think I may look up other stuff by Philip Pullman. Has anybody read any of his other works? Are they as good?
 
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