What book is everyone reading at the moment?

[Anti_Hypeman]

Right now I am reading ...

The Klingon Dictionary
Klingon for the Galactic Traveler

and listening to ...

Conversational Klingon
Power Klingon

So I can get good enough to read ...

Hamlet in Klingon

Do I win the biggest geek award?

Da Vinci Code: I figured out the twist early but kept telling myself "no no it cant be that lame" I was wrong.

Angels & Demons: WTF its EXACTLY the same as Da Vinci Code only with a few different names. I gave up when he started flying a space plane around the world.

Luckily I didnt pay for either of these.

 

[bob_kark]

The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco, 3rd or 4th time.

Surviving Schizophrenia, Dr. E Fuller Torrey, a little research.

The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes and Its Implications, David Deutsch, whether its true or not, its still very interesting.

 

[kmortis]

The Barbarian Conversion: From Paganism to Christianity by Richard Fletcher

The Confusion: The Baroque Cycle Vol. 2 by Neal Stephenson

Dreams of Terror and Death: The Dream Cycle of H.P. Lovecraft

An Incomplete Education by Judy Jones and William Wilson

On the Origion of Species (Gutenburg Edition) by Ok, really, does any REALLY need me to name this author?

 

[Terry]

I'm going to start "Watchmen" tonight. Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons graphic novel (yeah, comic).


--Terry.

 

[kmortis]

I'm going to start "Watchmen" tonight. Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons graphic novel (yeah, comic).


--Terry.

Quite possibly one of my all-time fav comics/gns. I just hope they don't screw up the movie

 

[Bikewer]

I'm currently re-reading William Gibson's Virtual Light. I also have King's last (he says) installment of the Gunslinger series, the Dark Tower.
For some reason, the local library has been rather slow getting me several current events books I have on order.

 

[bob_kark]

Quite possibly one of my all-time fav comics/gns. I just hope they don't screw up the movie

Nooooo! Please tell me they aren't going to make a movie of it! I just know that this can't end well.

 

[Fungrim]

"Quicksilver" - Stephenson. Am about a third through now but I find it a slow read. Just not very engaging. But good.

"The logic of scientific discovery" - Popper. Am about to start. Wish me luck.

 

[dogjones]

"Outsider in Amsterdam" by Janwillem van de Vettering. Weird and readable twist on detective fiction.

Also I'm re-reading the Earthsea Trilogy by Ursula Le Guin. Ahhhhh, so soothing.

 

[kmortis]

"Quicksilver" - Stephenson. Am about a third through now but I find it a slow read. Just not very engaging. But good.

"The logic of scientific discovery" - Popper. Am about to start. Wish me luck.

It does pick up...a bit...kind of.

Ok, it keeps up that same pace all the way through, but you get used to it after a while. It's kind of fun to see a fairly accurate portrail of Newton. I don't know enough about Liebeniz to say if he was accurate or not, but knowing Stephenson, it prolly was.

 

[BeholdTheTruth]

"God Created The Integers" by Stephen Hawking.

 

[logical muse]

The Neutronium Alchemist by Peter F. Hamilton

Calculated Bets: Computers, Gambling, and Mathematical Modeling to Win by Steven Skiena

How We Know What Isn't So by Thomas Gilovich

Delta of Venus by Anais Nin

 

[Godmode]

I'm actually reading 3 books at the moment
1. Issac Asimov's foundation series (about halfway through)
2. Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder
3. Starship Titanic by Terry Jones (based on an idea by Douglas Adams)

 

[Kopji]

"Hydra
A Greek Island Town
Its growth and form"
By Constantine E Michaelides

Another little gem from the local used bookstore, (although has a slight mildew smell).

A study written for Washington University relating the architecture and art to the political and economic history of the island. Includes many aerial photographs and drawing overlays. Detailed examinations and discussions of various characteristics that make the town what it is. The book was written in 1967 and includes early paintings of the town and many old sailing ships & maps.

 

[rikzilla]

Stephen Pressfield "The gates of Fire"
The Spartans at Thermopolae! An excellent back-story historical novel about the famous 300 and how they held the "Hot Gates" in the face of Xerxes's 170,000-250,000 man army.

-z

 

[Haywire]

"Goldfinger" by Ian Fleming.

 

[catbasket]

I've interrupted my normal diet of (re)reading Terry Pratchett, Robert Rankin and Tom Holt to read "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors" by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan.

 

[Terry]

A home at the end of the world and some Transmetropolitan

 

[KRAMER]

AUSTERLITZ, by SEBALD, for the 2nd time.

The most important literary experience of my adult life.

 

[Antiquehunter]

Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris is sitting on the back of my toilet tank. Just to get into the spirit of the season.

Pot-Limit and No-Limit Poker by Bob Ciaffone and Stewart Reuben is on my nightstand - a very dog-eared copy.

Unweaving the Rainbow by Dawkins is currently in my lap as I pause to type this message.

The Smiths 'Heaven knows I'm Miserable Now' is playing on the stereo for no particular reason except that the Smiths accompany a nice (Wolf Blass Green Label) Shiraz very well, thank you very much.