What book is everyone reading at the moment?

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Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk. I've seen the movie several times, but I'm just now getting around to reading the novel.
 
Spidey13: I thought you weren't supposed to talk about Fight Club!

"The Gospel of Food" by Barry Glasner
 
The Roving Mind by Isaac Asimov.

(I figure this book, along with John Sladek's The New Apocrypha, started me on my road to skepticism.) I've never read it all the way through before. It's a bit dated, but there's some good arguments in there. It still amazes me what a clear and concise writer Asimov was.
 
Confederacy of Dunces.

Believe it or not, I heard Howard Stern talking about it and figured I'd give it a shot. Pretty fun, so far.
 
Currently reading "The ultimate guide to cunnilingus" by esteemed author Violet Blue.
 
spiteme said:
Spidey13: I thought you weren't supposed to talk about Fight Club!
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The first rule of Fight Club is there is no Fight Club. The second rule of Fight Club is... THE EXACT SAME RULE AGAIN. Spookily kerazee, eh?

Bascially, Spidey13 is reading nothing.

I also read 'nothing' last year and enoyed it. I recommend 'nothing' to all my friends. ;)
 
I'm reading The Creationists: From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design by Ronald L Numbers, which was in turn recommended by Eugenie Scott, who spoke at TAM.
 
Stardust by Neil Gaiman. Although technically I have just finished it. Started very oddly and I almost threw it out with the trash. I am glad I stuck with it, I couldn't put it down. Very word intense.

Might not be to everybody's taste, but a very pleasurable love story at least.
 
I just finished reading Jeremy Blachman's Anonymous Lawyer.

It was an amusing read although I can't recommend making it a part of your permanent library.* Definitely worth checking out of the public library though.

What is unique about the book is that it's structured 100% around blog posts and e-mails.

I mention it because we have quite a few creative posters here at the JREF and I think they could each write a book just as amusing if not more, using the same structure.

Also see this:
http://anonymouslawfirm.com/

I thought it was clever of him to create this web site. He probably got a lot of feedback as to what worked and what didn't before he published his book.


* I'm tough that way though -- if I don't think I'm going to read the book more than once, or use it as a reference, I'd rather not buy it.
 
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I preferred the movie.
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lol, that made me laugh out loud.

But have started on my third semester now, so back to business. Now it's "Chemistry - Principles and reactions", "Introduction to organic chemistry", "Essentials of ecology", "Økologi og biodiversitet" and of course a 120 page compendium. Wish I had the opportunity to read "normal" books again. :(
 
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I'm reading Typecasting: On the Arts and Sciences of Human Inequality by Ewan and Ewan. Kurt Vonnegut calls it "merely the most lucid and instructive history book to be published in the new millennium." Mike Davis says, "With great wit and dark irony, the Ewens remind us that modern culture has been a sinkhole of pseudo-scientific stereotype and racial hallucination. Few books so properly deserve the title of required reading." I paid $34.95 for this book. It was worth it in the first chapter. I am spellbound - I am learning; no, my mind is being turned inside out by this book. I have never been more ashamed and proud of humanity - as Koheleth said, "For in much wisdom is much vexation, and he who increases knowledge, increases pain."
 
I finished the last book I was reading, and just started Dawkins' 'The Selfish Gene'
 
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