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What book is everyone reading at the moment?

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DaN K. StAnLeY said:
Reading a book called Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. It's purdy good, but some parts read like a romance novel.
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Radical libertarianism!

Someone who I met (SWIM) is...

Marx & Satan
http://www.amazon.com/Marx-Satan-Richard-Wurmbrand/dp/0891073795

The Divine Matrix: Bridging Time, Space, Miracles, and Belief
http://www.amazon.com/Divine-Matrix-Bridging-Miracles-Belief/dp/1401905706

^^ Worthwhile read,

Anyone reading Huxley, Carl Jung, Stanislav Grof, Robert Anton Wilson?

Storm Warning said:
I also picked up his "The Pale Horseman" at the same time. It's next!
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HawaiiBigSis said:
And a really good read, too!
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My favorite part of his books are the very end, where he relates what did and didn't happen, what was real and what was contrived for the plot. He's quickly becoming my must-read author.

I just finished The Winter King and Arthurian story.

Now re-reading A Game of Thrones.
 
Fiction: I'm currently working my way through Terry Pratchett's Discworld books. Currently on #5 Sourcery

Non-fiction: The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness by Lyle H. Rossiter, Jr., M.D.
 
I've just finished reading Brandon Sanderson's "Elantris". He's the guy who'll finish the last volume of the "Wheel of Time" series and is, in my opinion, quite good. Let's hope, he is up to task. Finishing a book that is as complex as the WoT isn't easy.
 
Fiction - Making Money - Terry Pratchett

Bed time story- The complete Calvin and Hobbes (a few pages / day , but at 1440 or so pages I can go on for a while)

Non Fiction - Just for fun - Linus Torvalds
 
"The Three Musketeers" by Alexandre Dumas.

The book is plenty good, but it makes me want to see the Gene Kelly movie again.
 
I'm never reading a book - always a few. But currently top of my 'in progress' list

When The Wind Changed : The Life and Death of Tony Hancock - Cliff Goodwin
The Ode Less Travelled - Stephen Fry
The Command of the Ocean : A Naval History of Britain 1649-1815 - N.A.M. Rodger
 
The Archimedes Codex: How a Medieval Prayer Book is Revealing the True Genius of Antiquity's Greatest Scientist by Reviel Netz and William Noel.
 
I'm currently reading In The Earth Abides The Flame by Russell Kirkpatrick. Immediately prior to that I was reading Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind. Both fiction. Last non-fiction book I read was... hrm... good question... The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright or perhaps Empire by Niall Ferguson.

The next non-fiction book I'll read will probably be Touching History when it comes out in New Zealand (by Lynn Spencer).

There's another ten books in Goodkind's series and one more in Kirkpatrick's so they will no doubt be next in terms of fiction.
 
I'm currently reading In The Earth Abides The Flame by Russell Kirkpatrick. Immediately prior to that I was reading Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind. Both fiction. Last non-fiction book I read was... hrm... good question... The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright or perhaps Empire by Niall Ferguson.

The next non-fiction book I'll read will probably be Touching History when it comes out in New Zealand (by Lynn Spencer).

There's another ten books in Goodkind's series and one more in Kirkpatrick's so they will no doubt be next in terms of fiction.
 
I've just finished reading Wasting Police Time by PC David Copperfield (or as he is now called Stuart Davidson and lives in Canada).
 
Just finished "Satan in Goray", the first novel (and I think the first translated from Yiddish into English) by Isaac Bashevis Singer. Can certainly see why he infuriated many people including fellow writers who called him obscene. This and "The Slave" are his two 17th century novels (at least as far as I know). "The Slave" has, I think, as fine a love story as can be found in a historical novel. A bitter one, mind.
 
DoctorOHM said:
"Happyslapped by a jellyfish" by Karl Pilkington. And if you don't know who he is you have to listen to the Ricky Gervais show!
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Have you seen the stuff with him on the DVDs for Gervais' live shows? Frikken Hil-ar-i-ous.
 
Wildy said:
I've just finished reading Wasting Police Time by PC David Copperfield (or as he is now called Stuart Davidson and lives in Canada).
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Me too. It was quite a good read, although I disagree with some of his thoughts on police powers - he's entitled to his opinion, and he at least speaks his mind.
 
gumboot said:
Immediately prior to that I was reading Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind.
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Eww. Admittedly, there's a sort of compelling horribleness about it that kept me reading to the end (thus proving the First Rule), but -

There's another ten books in Goodkind's series and one more in Kirkpatrick's so they will no doubt be next in terms of fiction.
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- I have no desire to read anything by Goodkind ever again. And apparently the books get worse as the series progresses, though I find that difficult to conceive.

Anyway, just finished Jhegaala, by Steven Brust. As one reviewer put it, "Not my favorite, but I'll take it over dead teckla on my pillow". Brust is a wonderful writer, but somewhat frustrating, because he writes slowly and the books are being written out of order, so we've been getting back-story since 2002. I want to know what happens next, dammit!
 
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