What book is everyone reading at the moment?

[Bikewer]

Just finished re-reading William Gibson's related books, Virtual Light and All Tomorrow's Parties.
There has been a spate of Gibson-bashing amongst sci-fi types lately, but I still greatly enjoy his stuff.
These two are set in a world that's not quite as far in the future as his original trio of Cyberpunk novels, and the extrapolation from today is pretty good. California split into two states, a greatly reduced Federal government, the rise of corporate and private interests to the potency of nation-states, the deep stratification between rich and poor....
The plots of both involve the value of information technology, and the adventures of an out-of-work cop, a runaway-turned-bike messenger, and a Japanese anthropologist.
Both very entertaining.

 

[Boo]

I just picked up "Ancestor's Tale" by Richard Dawkins. ...snip...

Me too! I also picked up The Fabric of the Cosmos, Origin of the Species and Stiff:The secret lives of corpses.


I love it when Borders has sales.



Boo

 

[Johnny Pixels]

Just finished Agatha Christies "Death on the Nile", and "The lion the witch and the wardrobe". Depending on if I've got time to go to a bookshop tomorrow, I might get something by Graham Greene, or start re-reading "20000 Leagues under the sea" to keep me busy on my training course I'm starting tomorrow.

 

[Jon.]

I just picked up "Ancestor's Tale" by Richard Dawkins. I'm only to Concesor 1, but it's an easy read.

I read this over the December holidays, and loved it. It does get a bit tougher going later on, but not too bad.

 

[TriangleMan]

A Feast for Crows by George R. R. Martin.

How is it? I'm probably going to pick it up in a couple of weeks.

Currently I'm reading The Roaring Nineties by Stiglitz. An interesting look at the last 20 years of US economic policy.

 

[Chris Haynes]

I am presently reading The Roots of Desire by Marion Roach. It is about red hair... the history, some science and other things. Unfortunately she seems to be spending the first three chapters on the perception of witches and demons having red hair.

I just recently finished reading two books about Lillian Moller Gilbreth. It included her rather unedited quickly written autobiography that was not published until 1998, As I Remember . This is referenced often in the much better and well written recent biography of her by Jane Lancaster, Making Time: Lillian Moller Gilbreth, a Life Beyond "Cheaper by the Dozen" . I would definitely recommend reading the latter instead of wasting your time on any of movies made based on "Cheaper by the Dozen", included those starring Myrna Loy and Bonnie Hunt.

By the way, I also have The Ancestor's Tale waiting for me to read... but unfortunately I may have to return it to the library before getting far in it.

 

[Molinaro]

The Elegant Universe
Superstrings, Hidden dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
by Brian Greene

 

[antihippy]

I'm just finishing the Orcs! omnibus. I have to say I am disappointed in the writing - stock fantasy at best. Oh well.

I've read a ton of books recently but I would certainly recommend Ghenghis Khan by John Man. Great book - very entertaining history of the great man. Has a good recipe for ground squirrel but don't tell the animal rights guys I said so.

 

[BeProf]

"God Emperor of Dune" and a book about Job called "Job: A Man of Heroic Endurance".

 

[Fungrim]

Finished "Quicksilver" by Neal Stephenson. A tad slow, but interesting, and I'll probably go on and read the sequels as well.

Postponed Poppers "The logic of scientific discovery" in favour for J M Roberts's "History of the World".

 

[Beleth]

"The Theory of Poker" by David Sklansky. I have a tournament to win at TAM4, after all.

 

[Jon.]

Just started A Brief History Of Time*. It's one of those books I've been meaning to read but never got around to it, and when the local used bookstore had its going out of business sale recently, I picked up a copy for fifty cents.

*If you have to ask who wrote it, you probably don't deserve to know.

 

[GrnMtSkeptic]

Has Science Found God?: The Latest Results in the Search for Purpose in the Universe by Victor J. Stenger

 

[kmortis]

Me too! I also picked up The Fabric of the Cosmos, Origin of the Species and Stiff:The secret lives of corpses.


I love it when Borders has sales.



Boo

Stiff Rocked. I read that last summer. Along those lines I recommend Salt.

 

[Terry]

Rumpole and the Primrose Path and The Quark and the Jaguar

 

[homer]

The Elegant Universe
Superstrings, Hidden dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
by Brian Greene

Me too!
Also 'Catface' by Clifford Simak , 'State of Fear' by Micheal Crichton .

 

[UnrepentantSinner]

Rereading Reading Lolita In Tehran by Azar Nafisi.
Reading Collapse: How Societies Chose To Fail Or Succed by Jared Diamond.
On my list - Lipstick Jihad by an author I can't remember.

There's another memoir by an Iranian woman writer that I saw mentioned in the Amazon.com reviews of Lipstick Jihad. I might get it too.

 

[Orphia Nay]

Been reading & rereading Bill Bryson's excellent, very funny travel books:
Notes From a Small Island
Down Under
Neither Here Nor There
A Walk in the Woods.

Now I need to borrow his 'The Lost Continent' from the library, as I've lost my copy somehow. I remember when I first read it in 89/90 I was on a tram and laughed out loud involuntarily. Got lots of strange looks. Could have been embarrassing, but I was having too much fun to care.

 

[Ryokan]

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? By Philip K. Dick.

 

[Jeff Corey]

And they turned that into "Bladerunner".
I'd hate to see what would become of "The Man in the High Castle" or "Valis" or "Through a scanner darkly".