What book is everyone reading at the moment?

[Jim Bowen]

Just curious, but what books are people reading at the moment?

Jim Bowen

 

[T'ai Chi]

Just curious, but what books are people reading at the moment?

Jim Bowen

Well, not a book, but the September / October 2004 Skeptical Inquirer.

 

[Lisa Simpson]

"Winter House" by Carol O'Connell

 

[The Central Scrutinizer]

I'm "reading" the November issue of Playboy. If there is a hotter chick on the planet than Brooke Burke, I haven't seen her!

 

[H3LL]

This forum?????

Oops!...It's not a book.

The book I'm reading (again) is:

The Demon Haunted World - Carl Sagan.

Blame Randi.

 

[American]

I'm "reading" the November issue of Playboy. If there is a hotter chick on the planet than Brooke Burke, I haven't seen her!

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[Ove]

Gene Krantz : "Failure is not an option" for the umptenth time.

 

[Chaos]

The Gateway trilogy, by Fred Pohl. Since he´ll be at TAM3, and so will I, I figured I´d get myself and opinion about his writing.

 

[LostAngeles]

Bleak House, but it's for school.

No, I'm not enjoying it. I was expecting more Jarndyce v. Jarndyce not "Who's your mommy?"

 

[asthmatic camel]

Blair's Wars by John Kampfner. Our Tony doesn't exactly come up smelling of roses...

 

[Rob Lister]

Badnarik's book, Good to Be King: The Foundations of our Constitutional Freedom

 

[rppa]

I suppose you're talking about non-fiction. Usually I'm not a huge reader of non-fiction, but I've bought and read more this year than ever before. Right now I'm reading "Power to the People" by Vijay Vaitheeswaran, energy reporter for "The Economist". Fascinating look at the post-petroleum energy industry.

 

[Hutch]

"The Great Influenza" by John M. Barry. Fascinating reading and good science about one of the deadliest plagues in known history and how modern medical science for the first time confronted and tried to cure/prevent the epidemic using the new-found medical knowledge. It also shows the appalling level of medical training in the USA at the beginning of the 20th century and the men who helped make it change with the times.

Great read of an event not often told these days--the author has alos written a book on the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 that i'll be looking to pick up next.

 

[phildonnia]

"Fire Lover" by Joseph Wambaugh.

 

[bjornart]

Neal Stephenson "The system of the world"

 

[HarryKeogh]

The Scientists by John Gribbin

next in line is Guns Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond

 

[headscratcher4]

The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle

 

[duckhook]

"Charlie Wilson's War." About the CIA/American backing of the Afghan guerrillas during the Soviet invasion/occupation in the 1980's. Wilson was a Texas congressman who initially pushed through lots of dollars for the guerrillas. If you're not already cynical about politics, appropriations, and congressional junkets, this book will help you towards that end. All in all, though, pretty interesting reading.

 

[Bikewer]

Chaos- Pohl has a new Gateway book out, I just ordered it. Always liked his stuff.

I'm reading China Miehville's newest, The Iron Council. This lad is remarkably literate and inventive, and his two previous stories, Perdido Street Station and The Scar were very good.

 

[tim]

The Gateway trilogy, by Fred Pohl. Since he´ll be at TAM3, and so will I, I figured I´d get myself and opinion about his writing.

Good idea, Chaos - I'll get right on it!