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What book is everyone reading at the moment?

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I usually have two books going at any given time. Right now A Godly Hero, which is a biography of William Jennings Bryan and Columbine by David Cullen.
 
I'm currently reading the 9/11 Commission Report, just finished reading Huxley's Ape and Essence
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Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet
 
David Edmonds and John Eidinow - Wittgenstein's Poker: The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers
 
Speaking of Wittgenstein, I'm currently reading "Philosophical Investigations." When that's finished I'll definitely be picking up Pynchon's "Inherent Vice." I've been waiting for that book for months.
 
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This sounds really interesting, is it good?
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It was a fun and easy read, written in a journalistic style (by two journalists). The book doesn't go into details about their philosophies or what they exactly argued about. I expected more details about their actual arguments. Although, one major message in the book is that the reports about how the meeting and exchange went turns out to be somewhat conflicting. The participants seem to have remembered it differently. They also question Popper's account of it, in the way he outlined it in his autobiography.

I think the authors describe both philosopher's history, personalities, the surrounding they worked in and their relation to Russel, the Vienna circle and Cambridge in an interesting and enjoyable fashion. I liked it.
 
Damn you Piscivore! I'm looking at my Pynchon's The Crying of Loft 49, it's still in my bookshelf ... why should I read it? :D ;)!
 
I'm finally reading Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. I'll get through it this time, I think--but it's still depressing to me, even in comparison with the final two books in the series.
 
Just finished The Gallant Six Hundred by John Harris. It's older,found it at the library on a random scan of the shelves. Balaclava,Crimean Campaign. Cavalry against artillery and infantry. 72% casualties.
 
Just finished P.D. Smith's Doomsday Men: The Real Dr Strangelove and the Dream of the Superweapon. Quite interesting, triggered a desire to change my avatar. The book traces the development of some "weapons which will end wars" (poison gas, biological weapons, A-bomb, H-bomb and cobalt bomb). It also shows the impact of these weapons in popular culture as well as the hits and misses of science fiction regarding them.

Right now, reading Dawkins' The Ancestor’s Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life. Its very good and seems so far to be the best book by Dawkins I ever read.
 
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