What book is everyone reading at the moment?

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Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks

I've been busy with school so I haven't been able to get to much more than textbooks lately but the last good fiction book I read was East of Eden by John Steinbeck. I wasn't sure I'd enjoy a sweeping novel about late 19th/early 20th Century California but it was a very complete and rich story. I'd suggest it to anyone who is looking for a good summer read.
 
just finished "Fire Lover" by Joseph Wambaugh. first part was good, but got in to too much trial transcript.

also "Columbine" by Dave Cullen. good but not great, a lot of repetition.
 
Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray"

I'm just nearly finished. It didn't measure up to my expectations, but it was entertaining.
 
"Molecular Gastronomy" by Herve This
"Ananthem" by Neal Stephenson
"I am American, and so can you to" by Stephen Colbert
 
No Man Knows My History, Fawn Brodie, 1971 (re-reading, actually). Do we have any Mormons, excuse me, Latter-Day Saints here? They should read this. Five will get you ten that they haven't.
 
Brideshead Revisited

Mixed feelings. The author was a devout convert from agnosticism to Catholicism but what in the world is this novel saying about religion? Absolutely all over the place.

The Catholic characters are either crazy, boring or dysfunctional or all three but the agnostic character is just as much of a jerk. He is destroyed not once but twice by religion and loses his wife, his children, the woman and the man he loves directly and indirectly because of it- and then becomes a devout Christian.

Without a word of explanation of why or how. After spending the past two hundred pages calling it a superstition.
 
I'm taking a break from my almost constant diet of Rankin/Pratchett/Fforde/Holt. Currently on The Music of The Primes by Marcus Du Sautoy, soon to be followed by either Shermer's Why People Believe Weird Things or Robert L Park's Superstition.

My plan to infect my youngest niece with the Pratchett Bug has started nicely. Gave her the Tiffany Aching books for her birthday and word is she's really enjoying The Wee Free Men :D
 
"Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka: The Operation Reinhard Death Camps," by Yitzhak Arad. Probably the most depressing thing I've ever read.
 
I'm having a bit of a Philip K. Dick phase. I picked up Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, A Scanner Darkly, and The Man in the High Castle. I'm currently halfway through A Scanner Darkly, and I love it. His writing can be so manic at times though, and it leaves me thinking 'what'? Thus I often find myself going back through pages. I like that though.
 
I finally finished Regenesis. Man, that's a slow book. But worth it. I'm now reading Viking Weapons and Combat Techniques by William R. Short. He's basically taken the archaeological evidence and combined it with the descriptions from the Icelandic Sagas in order to reconstruct the fighting techniques of the Vikings. Interesting read.
 
Mousquito in the old Balantine Books History of the Violent Century series. Not BB's best; it's carelessly written and it's lacking in that good old minute technical detail that us buffs eat and drink. But a good enough read. Damn but that was a classy bird.
 
Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy

I'm reading Reclaiming History by Vincent Bugliosi. It's about 1,600 pages and the introduction alone is 36 pages. The next section deals with what actually happened. The first part is called "Four Days in November". It goes almost minute by minute of happened on the day of the assassination and the days that followed.

Has anyone read this book? Any opinions on it?

Josh
Cleveland, OH
 
I am finally reading Dirk Gently's Holistic Dectective Agency. Unfortunately, once I'm done there will only be one Douglas Adams book I will not have already read :(
 
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