What book is everyone reading at the moment?

[sackett]

Dropping Names, by the late J. K. Galbraith. Re-reading, actually. He and Charles Bukowski are almost the only writers left who can make me laugh out loud. Yes, even re-reading.

 

[Palimpsest]

Just started reading Foucault's Pendulum. I'd read The Name of the Rose many years ago and loved it, so I'm quite looking forward to this.

 

[Dogdoctor]

I am reading Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character):

 

[Trigood]

Dropping Names, by the late J. K. Galbraith. Re-reading, actually. He and Charles Bukowski are almost the only writers left who can make me laugh out loud. Yes, even re-reading.

Galbraith is amazing. I loved The Economics of Innocent Fraud, which is a little gem of a book and I think was his last.

I caught his funeral on C-Span, and his son read the last few lines from TEOIF. I learned that William Buckley was apparently one of his good friends, surprising considering their respective views. Buckley's eulogy was very touching, and the whole service made you choke up.

I've just started reading The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope, by Jonathan Alter.

 

[jamrat]

I am attempting to read the entire set of the Flashman Papers. Right now I'm on the volume entitled "Flashman and the Angel of the Lord". I have to say it's my least favorite volume so far.

 

[Trigood]

I am attempting to read the entire set of the Flashman Papers. Right now I'm on the volume entitled "Flashman and the Angel of the Lord". I have to say it's my least favorite volume so far.

Never heard of the Flashman Papers. What are they? (she asks timidly, afraid it's an inside joke that she just doesn't understand... )

 

[jamrat]

Never heard of the Flashman Papers. What are they? (she asks timidly, afraid it's an inside joke that she just doesn't understand... )

The Flashman Papers are a fictional autobiography of a British Army officer in Victorian times named Harry Flashman, "history's biggest cad". Basically, through cowardice and an overactive sex drive he ends up in the middle of a lot of significant world events from the civil war in America to the Afghanistan campaign to the Crimean War and on and on, usually ending up the hero. Very funny and very well footnoted (is that a word?).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Paget_Flashman

 

[Pipirr]

Reading Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin. It's very, well, thorough. Very. He was really on top of his subject.

 

[Arkan_Wolfshade]

Finished Wolves of the Calla and have not moved on to The Bear and the Dragon

 

[Spidey13]

Finished Wolves of the Calla and have not moved on to The Bear and the Dragon

Well, why haven't you???

I'm guessing the word "not" was a typo.

 

[Ignignokt]

Islands In The Stream
Ernst Hemingway

 

[zizzybaluba]

Since my last post in this thread,
I read (gee how poetic):

Demon Haunted World
Fahrenheit 451
Brave New World
The Unfolding of Language by Guy Deutscher (great book, btw)

Now, I'm working on Asimov's Foundation.

 

[Wowbagger]

I am currently breezing my way through the "Feynman Lectures on Computation". I already read selections from his more famous Lectures on Physics, and some of his outragious biographies and stuff. The guy is, like, both a genius and a buffoon!!

 

[Ignignokt]

Brave New World
Now, I'm working on Asimov's Foundation.

Thats funny I played the director in the stage play of that book. SOMA!!!! SOMA NOW!!!! A Gram is Better than a Damn!

 

[Mrs L]

I used to think I was wierd for reading the books I did, which were a bit out of the mainstream in the small town I grew up in. Nothing quite like being called a witch for reading science fiction, right? But then I married somebody who had most of the same books I did. And it's impossible to answer this question in the singular because I have at least 3 books currently on my reading/re-reading pile.

reading for the first time: Labyrinth, by Kate Mosse
the Dead Sea Scrolls
Undercover economist

Re-reading:
the shadow matrix
traitor's sun
going postal
1491 -america before columbus
1421 -the year china discovered america
the Great Influenza

...is it just me and the people I know, or does everyone have a certain thing in history that they are fixated on? Mine is the spanish influenza pandemic of 1918.

 

[Esperdome]

"Moving Mars", by Greg Bear.

 

[Major Billy]

OK, you caught me. As I browse this Forum I have C. S. Lewis's The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" in hand.

 

[Halden]

I read Anansi Boys some time ago and loved it, big fan of Gaiman.

I am currently reading:

Climbing Mount Improbable
The End of Faith
Knife of Dreams

 

[Haywire]

"Tyrannosaur Canyon", by Douglas Preston

 

[enjoytheview]

Im reading 'the Treasure of Khan' by Clive Cussler