What book is everyone reading at the moment?

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Roving Mars by Steve Squyres

A book about the very successful Mars landers Spirit and Opporunity.
 
I read Thomas Harris' Hannibal Rising on a car trip from Minneapolis to Sioux Fall, SD. A fun read that did an excellent job of killing six hours travelling over the most boring landscape imaginable.
 
May I substitute writing for reading?

I have mostly been writing The Room. While it was with the proofreader I did get to finish The Cosmic Landscape by Leonard Susskind.

The book is also why I have not been posting for a while.....
 
I've started reading Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World by Nicholas Ostler. Just 30 pages in (and its around 600) but seems to cover most regions of the world and how languages developed and/or became dominant there over time.
 
qayak said:
Looks like it might be a good read. Keep us updated on its release.
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Thanks qayak
Having a background from JREF and other sites of reason, I took great pains to relay that an event the character goes through was not supernatural. I based it on String Theory. I took liberties however. I reached out to Leonard Susskind, told him a bit about the story and apologized for stretching string theory so far. He wrote back: "Strings were meant to be stretched". Leonard is the author of The Cosmic Landscape and is a pioneer in string theory.

I will let folks know once the excerpt is posted..
 
Witnesses of War: Children's Lives Under The Nazis by Nicholas Stargardt.

I'm only on page 10.

As the title suggests, he's interviewed children of people in the Nazi party. He's not asking them what they thought of their parents specifically, he's just asking them how they felt about their experiences at the time.

Might be interesting.
 
One amazing book I finished a few weeks ago was "The God Delusion".

Richard Dawkins has to be one of the smartest people on the planet. It's a great read.
 
Just finished The God Delusion myself, and I agree, it's an excellent read. Dawkins covers ground that's (or should be) familiar to any atheist, yet it's unusual to see everything collected in one place.
Most frightening to me are some of the independently-reported quotes from a variety of good Christians that should send chills down one's spine.

On an entirely different note, I started in on volumes one and two of The Traditional Bowyer's Bible; a compendium of articles for the traditional archer and bowmaker.
 
Currently reading "Sanctuary" by my good friend Inez Ponce de Leon. But I just got my 13 volume "Tales of Anton Chekhov" box-set in the mail, and I'll be devouring that one next.
 
I just finished reading Tolkien and son's 'Unfinished Tales' and now I'm on to 'The Book of Lost Tales, Part 1' which is an intriguing look at Tolkien's earliest conceptions of Middle-Earth and its mythology and the earliest forms of the narratives the would come to comprise 'The Silmarillion'.

The first section entailing 'The Cottage of Lost Play' is beautifully written and the perfect read for winter nights though I'm not sure if there'd be any interest for someone who's not a Tolkien fan.

In between books I did take a quick indulgence in the Star Wars novel 'Tempest' because I'm a raging geek and I don't care who knows!:D
 
I"m currently reading Demon Haunted World (again).
My baloney detection kit needed some resupplying.
 
I've just finished X-Ray by Ray Davies (billed on the front cover as the unauthorised autobiography) and I'm presently nearing the end of How Mumbo Jumbo Conquered the World, by Francis Wheen. I don't understand all of it, especially the politics, but the bits I do understand are a hoot.
 
Yesterday afternoon and evening, I enjoyed listening to (5 CDs and abridged) 'Angels and Demons' by Dan Brown. Much too far-fetched of course, but great fun and unputdownable.
 
Read Dead Man Walking (assigned to one of the kiddos) and then Saddam Hussein was hung in no time flat. Quite a difference in cultures.

Am starting Lamb, by Christopher Moore, a humorous midrash on the life of Christ, and decently accurate while being truly funny fiction.

Was also referred to Intuition by Allegra Goodman, which is compelling fictional reading about lab life and searching for funding as well as the cure for cancer. I'm liking the pace and character development.

Our littlest is not sleeping through the night, so it may be a while before my next post.
 
Just finished Cryptonomicon... now I'm looking for something with more plot... the dictionary comes to mind.

Seriously tho, The God Delusion is up next.
 
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