What book is everyone reading at the moment?

[ranson]

"The Truth" -- Terry Pratchett

 

[sackett]

The Satanic Verses, after all these years. (I built up some calluses first by reading The Moor’s Last Sigh.) I think I went right past the fatwa-inducing parts without recognizing them.

Man, I’m getting old when an 80’s book feels dated!

 

[H3LL]

Great book. Dry subject one would have thought but a real page turner. Not finished just yet but I keep finding excuses to sit down for a few minutes read.

I'm up to Copper-knickers at the moment.

The Calendar: The 5000 Year Struggle to Align the Clock and the Heavens and What Happened to the Missing Ten Days.
By: David Ewing Duncan


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[headscratcher4]

A very enjoyable and quirky travelog called Assasination Vacations...you can guess the object of the trips. Very fun.

 

[Forty-Two]

The Areas of My Expertise by John Hodgman. As someone who used to peruse almanacs as a kid, I can say this book is a fantastic spoof.

 

[Arkan_Wolfshade]

I've moved on to The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule

 

[The Central Scrutinizer]

Scrutinizer: We bought that book for our kid for Xmas; he's always been a big pro wrestling fan.
I remember watching Wrestling at the Chase religiously as a kid; Joe Garagiola hamming it up with the wrestlers, and always promoting "Booshee Bavalian" beer, as Kinje Shibuya used to say.

Yep, I grew up watching it with my grandma. Joe G was slightly before my time - I would have started watching in the late 60's. It's been a fun read.

Joe Schoenberger (the referee with the bum leg) was a friend.

 

[Rissask]

next in line is Guns Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond

I just finished reading that (GREAT book ) and now I am plodding through Collapse by Jared Diamond. It is also very good, it concerns the rise and fall and (possible) reasons for the collapses of major and powerful civilzations such as the Mayans, Easter Islanders and the Vikings.

Diamond can be a bit dry in parts but it is still well worth the read.

 

[Terry]

Just started reading "Market Forces" by Richard K. Morgan. It's fiction. I enjoyed his previous two novels, this also seems good, although it is set in a different "universe".

 

[Jas]

I just started 'The Wars' by Timothy Findley.

'Not Wanted on the Voyage', by the same author, is probably one of my favourite books. Although I made the mistake of loaning it out to someone, and I'm quite certain that I'll never see it again.

How come the only books that even end up having returned are the crappy ones? I mean, when I said that you didn't have to bring back 'The DaVinci Code', I really meant it.

 

[Curnir]

Shogun.

and
Soon Starting on:
science of good and evil.

 

[elaine]

Kill Me - Stephen White

 

[dglas]

Lessee.
Recently finished Brief History of Time and Why people Believe Wierd Things.
Finally ground my way through Foucault's Pendulum.
Currently working on The Mismeasure of Man.

 

[headscratcher4]

Manhunt -- the history of the search-for and capture of the conspirators in the Lincoln assassination.

 

[canadarocks]

Lessee.
Recently finished Brief History of Time and Why people Believe Wierd Things.
Finally ground my way through Foucault's Pendulum.
Currently working on The Mismeasure of Man.

I read mismeasure of man and found it to be quite interesting. If you haven't already, you could follow that up with Broca's Brain by Carl Sagan (IIRC).

 

[dglas]

I read mismeasure of man and found it to be quite interesting. If you haven't already, you could follow that up with Broca's Brain by Carl Sagan (IIRC).

I had the good fortune to be introduced to Dr. Sagan's work fairly early. I've read most of his books (a number of times each), including Broca's Brain. It was well worth the time and worthy of being suggested reading. If only I hadn't lent out my copy of The Demon Haunted World.

I figure I'll have to pick up a Promethius Books catalogue and go from there. I wonder if the university bookstore might have a stray one...

 

[Jeff Corey]

Neal Stephenson's Confusion.
I bought The System of the World at Heathrow and was p!ssed at myself for not checking that it was the last in a trilogy. So I bought Quicksiver in a London bookshop and tried to find Confusion. No luck. But I found a gently used copy of Cryptonomicon in Dublin (5 euros). So I read that after Quicksilver.
It seems to have something to do with a Reimann Zeta function, where s is a complex number.

 

[Terry]

The Invisible Man (H.G. Wells)

 

[Aurelian]

Don Quixote (could be a while before I post my next book)

 

[tom m.]

communist manifesto