What book is everyone reading at the moment?

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I'm wrapping up I, Robot (Asimov) and The Demon Haunted World (Sagan), then it's on to the Gil trilogy by the JREF forum's own Rebecca Bradley! I can't wait to read the books, especially after having spent an evening with Rebecca, Eos, rustypouch, badger, and Jimbo07 last month.

It's going to be cool.
 
A couple or three,
"Baseball Between the Numbers: Why Everything You Know About the Game Is Wrong." Edited by Jonah Keri.
"The Island at the Center of the World," by Russell Shorto. Dutch Manhattan and how it influenced the shaping of America.
and, for the WC...."Suspense and Sensibilty," by Carrie Bebris.

I'm still haunted by "Never Let Me Go," which I read last month.
 
My mate brought home a paperback of "Wyrd Sisters" by Pratchett. I'll have to have a look at it after finishing the Foundation series.
 
Book Club Books

I finished "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" by John Perkins as part of a local atheist book discussion group. I felt that I was almost lynched during the discussion when I voiced my opinion that the author provided assertions that were not backed up with verifiable evidence and that I couldn't believe half of the things presented in the book (other than things that could be verified).

Anyway, I'm reading "American Theocracy" by Kevin Phillips for the next book club.
 
I am presently reading Come Together, Fall Apart by Cristina Henriquez... a series of short stories and a novella that take place in Panama post Noriega (and apparently post US official handing over the canal operation in 1999).

I'm not so keen on the personal relationships she portrays... but I find it cool that I can recognize the places that are mentioned and visialize them in my mind's eye.

(Note: I was born there, but moved away when I was 3 years... and then we returned where I spent 8th, 9th, and 10th grades there (Curundu Jr. High and Balboa High School) --- the last couple of years living in Ft. Amador on the start of the causeway, where a Gehry designed museum is being built).

I have not finished Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds... I may attempt to renew it again, but there seem to be holds on it now at the library. I am glad that Randi posted the Project Gutenburg link to it.
 
Hydrogen Cyanide said:
I have not finished Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds... I may attempt to renew it again, but there seem to be holds on it now at the library. I am glad that Randi posted the Project Gutenburg link to it.
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And (inconvenience to you notwithstanding) I'm glad others at your library want to read it. Good stuff there.
 
Recently finished The Mask Of Nostradamus, by an old grump whose name I don't currently remember;). Very good, as expected.

Working on Consciousness Explained by Daniel Dennett. Tough slogging, but seems to be worth the effort. Certainly does give one a new viewpoint on what sometimes seem like old ideas.
 
Just finished Jack Ketchums "Off Season". As expected from Ketchum, an excellent and chilling read.
 
The Terror...a history of the French Revolution. Very interesting...if a little dense for the non-french.
 
Didn't manage to finish Consciousness Explained before the library needed it back, but did get (and am now reading) Darwin's Dangerous Idea. I like Dennett - he really makes the philosophy meaningful by applying it to reality in concrete ways.
 
A biography of Linus Pauling by Tom Hager.

This is the first time I've looked at this forum, but I can see I'll have to go through all the pages of this thread and make a reading list.
 
I have just finished two Colin Forbes books, I can't even remember the titles. I didn't like them, so it may surprise you that I read two. However, I felt that, after the first one, I had to read another one to check that Forbes' writing is really as bad as I thought it was. And also, it would be nice for someone to read them, as even his editor doesn't. Maybe I should write and let him know.

Have just started rereading an Ian Rankin, but it is letting me down, as it is not as funny as I remember it being the first time, maybe I have grown up. Mum says that she is going to let e read 'I capture the castle' next, but she hasn't finished it yet and has taken it on Pack Holiday with her, so I will have to wait.
 
Dances with wolves (in french so it's Danse avec les Loups) It's quite good, the reader is drawn along with Dunbar's voyage of discovery.It has been a long time since I saw the film, so the plot has been long forgotten.
 
Just finished Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini which was a waste of time - fairly lazy writing about a writer writing, standard manipulative fare that I should know by know is the kind of stuff my mother and brother recommend.

Also finished Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murikami which was a gorgeous and compelling book. Want to read more of his stuff. Started Holy Writ as Oral Lit by Alan Dundes today, which has so far been pretty interesting.
 
Sea of Gray: The Around-the-World Odyssey of the Confederate Raider Shenandoah

They made the bulk of their captures after the Civil War had already ended. You have to admire that kind of dedication.

P.S. First Post!
 
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