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What book is everyone reading at the moment?

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Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail by Malika Oufkir and Michele Fitoussi.

It started out well, but I'm rapidly losing interest. The writing style leaves much to be desired . . . like complete narritive, cohesion of thoughts, etc.
 
Richard Feynman's "Six Easy Pieces"
..... for the second time in a row!!!!

I kind of want to buy a "Physics for Dummies" but I feel embarrassed about the idea of being seen reading it on the subway :)
 
Approaching the end of Dune Messiah. This is my 4th or maybe 5th tour of the Dune sequence. I enjoy a good "multi book" story as there is the opportunity to get really involved with the characters and environments.

Of that ilk I have also enjoyed Chronicles of Thomas Covenant and The Amtrak Wars. On several occasions I tried to induce a friend of mine (now sadly departed) to read The Chronicles, but he wouldn't have anything to do with them because he considered the basic premise to be depressing (the protagonist is a self-despising leper) and also absurd (a hero of past times named 'Kevin').
 
Ron_Tomkins said:
Richard Feynman's "Six Easy Pieces"
..... for the second time in a row!!!!

I kind of want to buy a "Physics for Dummies" but I feel embarrassed about the idea of being seen reading it on the subway :)
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How about "Physics for Future Presidents"? People might think you are future-president material. It's written by a professor who teaches physics to non-science majors.

Currently reading: Seeing by Jose Saramago because it is about an election...and noticed his prior work is "Blindness" and am wondering if there is an intentional link, because I understand that this isn't a series?

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The Medieval Art of Swordsmanship: A Facsimile & Translation of Europe's Oldest Personal Combat Treatise, Ro Yal Armouries MS I.33
 
-Beyond Oil and Gas: The Methanol Economy by George A. Olah, Alain Goeppert, and
G.K. Surya Prakash.
-Fourier Series by Georgi P. Tolstov
-Law 101 by Jay M. Feinman
-The Science of Fear by Daniel Gardner
 
"The Living Dead" a collection of short stories about zombies.

"The Emperor Wears No Clothes" a hemp bible by Jack Herer.

"Death By Black Hole" by Neil Degrasse Tyson.
 
I just finished Kurt Vonnegut's "Mother Night" and I'm currently reading "Lies my Teacher Told Me" by Loewen.
 
alysten said:
The Medieval Art of Swordsmanship: A Facsimile & Translation of Europe's Oldest Personal Combat Treatise, Ro Yal Armouries MS I.33
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Would this be the illustrated book, originally in German? If so, a fairly gory tome, if I recall..............
 
RobRoy said:
You could always wrap it in a brown bag. :D

Excalibur by Bernard Cornwell, the last in The Wardlord series.
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I finished Harlequin last weekend, I'm about halfway through Vagabond and Excalibur is sitting on the shelf waiting. He's a captivating writer!

ETA D'oh! Heretic is the last book in the Grail Quest series. I haven't started the Warlord Series yet, but am looking forward to it!
 
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Sophie and Michael Coe, True History of Chocolate. Excellent and very appetizing history. The Coes were involved in the decipherment and translation of Mayan.
 
'Bad Science' by Ben Goldacre.

Skeptical, intelligent, clear, concise and funny. It's almost hard not to hate the guy for being so good.....
 
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Approaching the end of Dune Messiah. This is my 4th or maybe 5th tour of the Dune sequence. I enjoy a good "multi book" story as there is the opportunity to get really involved with the characters and environments.

Of that ilk I have also enjoyed Chronicles of Thomas Covenant and The Amtrak Wars. On several occasions I tried to induce a friend of mine (now sadly departed) to read The Chronicles, but he wouldn't have anything to do with them because he considered the basic premise to be depressing (the protagonist is a self-despising leper) and also absurd (a hero of past times named 'Kevin').
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I loved Thomas Covnant when I first read them as a teenager. But I recently tried to read the first of the the "Last Chronicles". I couldn't finish it because I hated the style of writing (if he used the word "eldritch" one more time I was going to scream). I'm not sure if he has changed, or my preference has changed. I suspect the latter.
 
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ETA D'oh! Heretic is the last book in the Grail Quest series. I haven't started the Warlord Series yet, but am looking forward to it!
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The Warlord series is good up to the latest book. That one just sorta laid there like a bored hooker. I still love the characters, but I felt like Cornwell was just milking the series with this one.

Currenting reading The Curse of Sagamore by Kara Dalkey. It's a fun little story, that I recall reading many years ago, and pulled off my shelf to re-read.
 
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