What book is everyone reading at the moment?

[Chris Haynes]

Unstrange Minds by Roy Richard Grinker... only about a quarter through. In the beginning where he describes the journey to get his daughter diagnosed sounded eerily like our experience with our oldest son. Except he was older, and our family doctor was much quicker in getting us proper referels... oh, and he is not autistic, "just" severely speech disordered.

 

[canadarocks]

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller.

I enjoyed that book, as soon as I figured out the writing style. It helped me to see the movie also.

 

[Firestone]

The World Is Flat
by
Thomas L. Friedman

 

[SusanB-M1]

The Darwin Awards, by Wendy Northcutt.

 

[Marquis de Carabas]

Waiting Period by Hubert Selby, Jr., though I shan't be finishing it. It's mind-numbingly dull.

Furthermore, it seems Hube has a cutesy habit of using a '/' in contractions rather than an apostrophe. A hint to authors: if you aspire to edginess and unconventionality, write edgy and unconventional stories. Edgy and unconventional punctuation is just a distraction to the reader. If you've done punctuation correctly, I will not have noticed it at all.

 

[Terry]

Years of Rice and Salt, Kim Stanley Robinson. Okay... but long-winded.

 

[skeptifem]

wasted by marya hornbacher... very good. i think people should read it, theres a lot of misconceptions about eating disorders out there.

 

[ARubberChickenWithAPulley]

I just finished Thunderstruck by Erik Larson. Loved it.

I'm looking for another book to read right now, but I haven't chosen one yet.

 

[Corpse Cruncher]

Bladerunner2 by KW Jetter. It was a 10p book bargain for a charity cause.

 

[autumn1971]

The Elements of Style, to avoid the admonishments of the language police on this forum.

I still can't spell, though.

 

[boojum]

Free Play -- Improvisation in Life and Art by Stephen Nachmanovitch. It's got woo in it, but from skimming the later chapters appears to also have interesting actual information and advice; so I'm sticking with it.

 

[Chris Haynes]

Vaccine by Arthur Allen: http://www.vaccinecontroversy.com/

 

[ImaginalDisc]

Romance of the Three Kingdoms. No Lu Bei, don't become a turncoat. The horse isn't worth it!

 

[sackett]

The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin, by H.W. Brands. The print is minute and the guy writes like a shotgun, but what the hell. Old Ben is always fun.

 

[patnray]

Just finished Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali.

Currently reading A Devil's Chaplain by Richard Dawkins (in my briefcase to read on the train) and Why I Am Not a Christian by Bertrand Russel (my armchair book to read at home)

 

[canadarocks]

I just finished "God: The Failed Hypothesis" by Victor Stenger. Scientific analysis of the existence of God (defined as the Judeo-Christian-Muslim God) and demonstrates, using several lines of evidence, that the God of the Bible can be disproven. It was a relatively quick read and it had lots of references for potential followup. Anyone else read this??

 

[canadarocks]

Currently reading A Devil's Chaplain by Richard Dawkins (in my briefcase to read on the train) ...

I especially liked the last chapter (A message for his daughter).

 

[GregC]

Truth in Comedy by Charna Halpern and Del Close. I'm reading it as part of an improv course.

 

[Achán hiNidráne]

Honor Among Enemies, By David Weber.

 

[The Whether Man]

The Real Rule of Four by Joscelyn Godwin, the translator of the first complete english edition of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili. I picked it up at a book sale as I have read The Rule of Four. This is a sort of guided tour of the book the other book was based on, if you follow me.