What book is everyone reading at the moment?

[a_unique_person]

"The Weather Makers" by Tim Flannery. Global Warming by a scientist who makes it nearly comprehensible for the Man in the Street.

 

[Jon.]

Well, I just finished A Brief History of Time. Can't necessarily say I understand much more than I did before I read it, but that's my fault, not Hawking's.

Just started Lord Valentine's Castle by Robert Silverberg. I understand it to be a classic of the fantasy genre, and it was only $1 at the closing used-book store mentioned in my last post.

 

[kmortis]

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".

Well, you'll soon find out.....

Keeanu Reeves as Arctor - my freaking ass!

 

[asthmatic camel]

Just finished Vernor Vinge's "A Deepness in the Sky." A truly wonderful space opera.

Presently reading "How to Survive a Robot Uprising" by Daniel H. Wilson. Funny, informative and brilliantly illustrated. Pop science at its best.

 

[cgordon]

Nonfiction - R. Dawkins, Ancestor's Tale
Fiction - B.Cornwell, Last Kingdom

 

[LibraryLady]

You're Wearing That? by Deborah Tannen.

Communication between mothers and daughters. Apparently Tannen has been tapping my phone.

 

[ranson]

Rereading On Basilisk Startion by David Weber.

Just finished Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison.

Gearing up for System of the World by Neal Stephenson.

 

[canadarocks]

Non-fiction - Ancestor's Tale
Fiction - Wicked

Next non-fiction on the list is "Big Bang!"

 

[cgordon]

Nonfiction - R. Dawkins, Ancestor's Tale
Fiction - B.Cornwell, Last Kingdom

Also:

Politix: J. Hightower, If the Gods had Wanted Us to Vote, They Would Have Given Us a Candidate

 

[Corpse Cruncher]

A Killing Kindness by Reginald Hill. ISBN: 0586072519 - Fiction - I am never sure of what genre is what? At least I know it is a crime thriller.

 

[Angus McPresley]

The Demolished Man, by Alfred Bester.

Not to kiss up, but I also pulled out Randi's "Flim Flam" last night and reread a bit too...

 

[Basilio]

Well, Im involved in 3:
The Crumb biograpy of P.G. Wodehouse, "His Excellency, George Washington" by Ellis, and a book on Sears' "homes by mail". my wife hated that I multi-task my reading!

Basilio

 

[Chris Haynes]

You're Wearing That? by Deborah Tannen.

Communication between mothers and daughters. Apparently Tannen has been tapping my phone.

Of course when I sent the request to hold that book from my library system, it was noted for each of the half dozen branches to be "on order". Yeah, right... all the female librarians are reading it first!

 

[LibraryLady]

Of course when I sent the request to hold that book from my library system, it was noted for each of the half dozen branches to be "on order". Yeah, right... all the female librarians are reading it first!

Actually I went out and bought it.

 

[Nyarlathotep]

I just started Soiled Doves: A History of Prostitution in the Early West. It's really research for a book I am trying to write myself, but it is an interesting book in its own right.

 

[Piscivore]

Ring, by Koji Suzuki

 

[Nyarlathotep]

Ring, by Koji Suzuki

Ooooh. I read that a few months ago. It was a pretty good read. I had a lot of trouble getting into the sequel, though.

 

[Piscivore]

Ooooh. I read that a few months ago. It was a pretty good read. I had a lot of trouble getting into the sequel, though.

I'm enjoying it. I wish I read Japanese though so I would know if the weaknesses are the translator's, as I suspect.

 

[Kotatsu]

Fiction: Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Non-fiction: Dawn over Kalahari by Lasse Berg
Non-fiction: The Viking Art of War by Lars Magnar Eriksen
Non-fiction: The Greeks in Bactria and India by W. W. Tarn (though I have to admit that progress in this book is incredibly slow...)

 

[Orphia Nay]

[...]
The Crumb biograpy of P.G. Wodehouse
[...]

I think you mean the 'McCrum biography' after doing a bit of searching... and losing (what's left of) my innocence...

Wodehouse: A Life is a journey through some of the twentieth century's most turbulent decades, and it culminates in Wodehouse's controversial wartime experience: his internment in Nazi Germany and the broadcasts from Berlin, a fateful decision that haunted him to his death in 1975, and still affects his reputation.".
"Wodehouse: A Life is the story of an Englishman who served to represent the essence of his age and country, but who, tragically, ended his life at odds with both.

I didn't know that about him, and I've read lots of his books.

Oh, well, I think I should read the book now, and see if he can be redeemed at all, if his story is told as the book jacket says: "while never forgetting for a moment his comic genius".

Let me know what you think when you finish it.

As for me, I've just started "Matisse the Master" by Hilary Spurling.