What book is everyone reading at the moment?

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Just finished The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova.

Next, I'll be starting on Signal Processing First, by McClelland, Schafer and Yoder. (Yes, the vacation is over.. Back to the university)
 
Just finished "The Tin Drum",
only to hear about Grass coming out as an SS Nazi.
Still liked the book though.

And I made a start on "I Claudius".
 
I'm alternating 2 books:

1. Katherine by Anchee Min
2. Acqua Alta by Donna Leon
 
The 9/11 Commission Report. Damn you conspiracy theorists!

I've got Moby Dick to read after that though, so it's not all doom and gloom.
 
Just finished "Jurassic Park" by Michael Crichton; re-read "The Bear and the Dragon" by Tom Clancy before that.

Not sure what I´ll read next. None of the unread stuff looks particularly appealing right now; I´m considering re-reading either "Ivanhoe" (Sir Walter Scott) or "Eaters of the Dead" (Michael Crichton).
 
Piscivore said:
I just got "Adventures of the Artificial Woman" by Thomas Berger.

I can't believe there's a robot woman book I hadn't read yet.
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Have you read that book by Janet Asimov (yes, the widow of Isaac Asimov)... I think it´s called "Death of an Android".
 
I ran out of books. My mate brought home three paperbacks, which I read in this sequence:

The Road to Ruin -- Donald Westlake
Wyrd Sisters -- Terry Pratchett
Watch Your Back! -- Donald Westlake

The Westlake stories are both tales of John Dortmunder, master burglar and possessor of the world's worst luck, and his eccentric... erm, co-workers. Great comedy crime stories, lots of fun.
 
'The Path of Beauty - A Study in Chinese Aesthetics' by Li Zehou / Song Lizeng

'The Trees in my Forest' - Bernd Heinrich

'Midnighters 3' (A book my kids brought home)
 
I'm working on three books:

Richard Dawkins: A Devil's Chaplain and Ancestor's Tale (that book is huge)

and collected essays of Bertrand Russell on God and Religion

And, of course, I read the Bible daily. Praise Jesus!
 
Glacian said:
Richard Dawkins: A Devil's Chaplain and Ancestor's Tale (that book is huge)
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Well worth the read, though. It's not really one book; it's a collection of essays put together very wittingly and interestingly, each one a gem. Dawkins is an excellent popular writer.
 
Van said:
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.
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Guys like Colin Forbes are actually a very valuable literary commodity.

People can read some of one his books, close it, think, "If crap like this can get published, I can write a book.", then they do.

Almost all of them will be better than Colin Forbes - except for maybe Clive Cussler.

I'm reading a few - as usual - at the moment, a mix of cultures and styles:

Jeremy Clarkson
Bios of Martin Luther King, Oscar Wilde and Dylan Thomas
Ben Elton's The First Casualty
and for light entertainment, John Daly's autobiography.

And, I do honestly have a bible in the toilet! The paper's useless, but the book can be a boon when constipated.
 
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I just finished re-reading Evolution by Stephen Baxter
Now I'm going through a John Wyndham phase reading The Kraken Wakes ATM.
 
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