What book is everyone reading at the moment?

[catbasket]

Cakes and Ale by Somerset Maugham.

Which reminds me I have a set of Somerset Maugham's books and I haven't read them all yet.

Just started reading by Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds.

I really enjoyed Chasm City so I'll definitely be reading more by him.


A Clash of Kings - George R.R. Martin

 

[Praktik]

A Clash of Kings - George R.R. Martin

Good on ya!

Great book for sure. Though #3, A Storm of Swords, is probably the best novel in the series and therefore in my world: the best fantasy novel ever written, since Martin tops my list.

 

[Rogue Primate]

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett. Next will be World Without End.

Both are a great read.Two of my favorite books.

The Most Dangerous Animal by David Livingston Smith about human nature and the origins of war.

 

[MarkCorrigan]

Trick or Treatment? by Simon Singh and Ezrad Ernst. Bloody good read, fantastic value at £8.99.

 

[Safe-Keeper]

Just finished Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. It's a chilling tale.

 

[sackett]

The Deportees, Roddy Doyle. A collection of short stories. Funny, he's writing about Ireland today, with all the changes that have taken place, and yet his characters are still mostly comical Liffey-side pads. Except when his normative figure is African; then he produces a very simple style, brief declarative sentences of short words, as if maybe your black fellah couldn't think any other way, bedad 'n begorrah.

 

[foco]

The Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins.
It has that fantastic Dawkins writing style.

 

[bruto]

I've been reading Bad Science, by Gary Taubes, about the hoopla surrounding cold fusion.

 

[catsmate]

Terry Pratchett's new Discworld book, "Unseen Academicals".

"The thing about football - the important thing about football - is that it is not just about football."

 

[Ambrosia]

Chasm City - Alastair Reynolds.

Just started reading by Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds.

I really enjoyed Chasm City so I'll definitely be reading more by him.

The only thing I've read by him I didn't like was "Absolution Gap" if you like this stuff you ought to also read Iain M Banks if you don't already.

 

[KoihimeNakamura]

I have just finished reading:

Lies My Teacher Taught Me by James Loewon
The Leaders We Deserved (And A Few We Didn't) by Alvin Stephen Felzenberg
The Glorious Cause by Robbert Middelkauff


and I just threw against a pillow (library book, can't damage it by throwing it against the nearest heavy object)

48 Liberal Lies by .. some guy I don't want to remember. Suffice to say when you start checking his evidence it's uhm.. false. Or lies by omission.

(Also need to find new history books to read now.)

 

[arthwollipot]

I finally finished Physics of the Impossible, and I've taken up the book I had started reading before I started downloading onto my iPhone - Cyburbia by James Harkin. Not sure how this is going to turn out, to be honest. In the queue is Future Proof - The Greatest Fadgets and Gizmos Ever Imagined by Nick Sagan with Mark Frary and Andy Walker. That should be fun.

On the iPhone I've finished War of the Worlds and started reading The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle. When I was a very small kid I had a vinyl record which was basically an audio dramatisation of this story, entitled Dinosaurs! (starring Basil Rathbone as Professor Challenger). I listened the hell out of that. But I've never read the original.

 

[sackett]

Run Run Run, by Abbie Hoffman's brother Jack, with help from Daniel Simon. Funny, I don't remember the sixties that way, or the seventies. I think that maybe poor working people experienced the whole thing way, way differently -- and with no particular help from semi-celebrities and their relatives.

Radicals, right or left, always consider themselves to be a helluva lot more important than they really are. And jerks like J. E. Hoover, Jno. Mitchell, and Nichard Rixon play right into their hands.

Still, I can understand the sadness a family must feel when one of their own flushes himself down the toilet.

 

[arthwollipot]

Well, The Greatest Show On Earth turned up last night, so my reading priorities have been... rearranged.

 

[Doctor Evil]

Game of Thrones.

Take your time. For two reasons:
The series is really good. And ...

You will have more then enough time to be frustrated with the lateness of the next book in the series, just like the rest of us.

 

[Darat]

Unseen Academicals - Pratchett's latest.

 

[Roboramma]

Matter by Iain M. Banks - one of the best SF writers in my book

I agree, though I've only read one of his SF books, I thought it was very well done: he gives a very convincing view of the future.

I also quite liked some of his non-SF books.

 

[Roboramma]

The Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins.
It has that fantastic Dawkins writing style.

That book is awesome! Quite possibly my all time favourite. After I read it the first time, I put it down for a day, then couldn't help myself and picked it up and read it through all over again. Its one of those books that seemed to take over my whole world while I was reading it: I could think of nothing else.

Probably about time for a re-read, but my copy was so heavy I stopped carrying around through my travels and have, sadly, lost it. I'll have to pick up another some time.

 

[Roboramma]

Which reminds me I have a set of Somerset Maugham's books and I haven't read them all yet.

You know, I think I've read all of his short stories (which are wonderful), but only one of his novels: Razor's Edge, which I really enjoyed at the time.

Any suggestions for others of his?

 

[Roboramma]

I just finished reading Neil Gaiman's Fragile Things. It's a collection of short stories, and they are great. I bought the book a long time back, and for some reason couldn't get started, but the imagery is amazing, in true Gaiman fashion.

My favourite story I think is "Other People" about a man who goes to hell...