What book is everyone reading at the moment?

[Doc Daneeka]

"Waging Modern War" by Gen. Wesley Clark

 

[Kestrel]

"The Dark Side" by Jane Mayer

 

[Dorfl]

"Den befjädrade ormen" (The feathered snake) by Hans Alfredson.

 

[The Whether Man]

'40 Days and 40 Nights' by Mathew Chapman. An account of the Dover, Penn. trial by Darwin's great-great-grandson. I've only just started it so I'm still getting introduced to the people involved.

 

[Palimpsest]

I recently finished Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City. Delightful, though I had a hard time getting into it. But it grows on you, and after a while I couldn't put it down.

Then, while at my parents' place I found my copy of The Night Land, an old (circa 1910, I think) sci-fi-ish/horror-ish story of the far future where mankind is beset by horrible monsters on a dying Earth. It's all right; the bits with monsters are quite good, but the whole thing is wrapped up in a silly love story that was schmaltzy, old-fashioned and sexist even for the era.

I heard about this book in an essay H.P. Lovecraft wrote on contemporary (for him) horror fiction, and I completely agree with his review of it. Say what you will about Lovecraft (like, that he was a creepy and misogynistic bigot) but when it came to horror and fantasy literature, he knew his stuff.

(Though I don't remember how I actually found the book. It was a recent edition, too)

 

[Bobert]

"Think and grow rich" by Napoleon Hill

 

[lupus_in_fabula]

Neil Stephenson: Vol. I of the Baroque Cycle, Quicksilver.


(For some reason I'm enjoying it much more the second time.)

 

[Audible Click]

MetaGame by Sam Landstrom it was 80 cents at the Kindle store.

 

[Azimer the Mad]

Just finished "Death From the Skies" by Phil Plait. I loved the sections near the end about the end of the universe.

 

[FredfromRVA]

Manhunt, The 12-Day Chase For Lincoln's Killer

By James L. Swanson

 

[Audible Click]

Just finished Paranoia by Joseph Finder. It's a good novel about corporate espionage.

 

[soetkin]

I'm finishing up Patrick O'Brian's 'HMS Surprise' and am halfway through the first volume of Tad Williams' Otherland series, which I like very much.

 

[MetalPig]

I'm getting near the end of Michael Shermer's Why People Believe Weird Things.
In the fiction department, I started rereading Jeffery Deaver's More Twisted, a collection of short stories.

 

[LeSuz]

My Lobotomy by Howard Dully. Unbelievable that physicians actually got away with doing this procedure. Forced on a 12-yr old boy by an evil stepmother. But he's surprisingly cheerful about his past.

 

[Marduk]

"Edgar Cayce on Atlantis "

 

[Valiss]

Call of Cthulhu by HP Lovecraft. Classic horror awesomeness.

 

[ejk]

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

Enjoying it much more than I did the original. Also trying to work my way through The Origin of Species, taking that one chapter at a time.

 

[critterrice]

Kenneth S. Saladin
"Anatomy & Physiology: The Unity of Form and Function." Fourth Edition.

 

[I Ratant]

Proceeding (slowly) thru "The Mathematical Experience" by Davis and Hersh.
I've had it for 19 years, but only started going thru it a week ago.
Some of it is just too bizarre!
The things those math guys worry about!

 

[headscratcher4]

Just finished Evan's third volume of his terrific history of Nazi Germany and World War II. Great book.

Now reading crime/novel Lush Life and Political/historical analysis of Bush years: The Dark Side.