What book is everyone reading at the moment?

[Jon.]

The Callahan's Place stories went down the drain, for me, when Spider decided saving individual people wasn't exciting enough -- he had to have his characters save the world.

The universe this time.

And honestly, I really could have lived without the scene where Jake's fourteen-month-old supergenius daughter reacts to a compliment with "Why, Uncle Nicky, what a sweet thing to say! I'm going to start f***ing when I'm sixteen, would you like to take a number? I can fit you into the single digits if you hurry."

Yeah, that line nearly made me stop reading - and I almost never abandon a book once I start it! It wasn't just the squick factor (I'm pretty tough to shock), it was the "Look at me, I'm being really casual about sex! Aren't I just the biggest little rebel you've ever read?!?!" factor.

 

[ConspiRaider]

I'm kinda going to "school" now, and you know how it is when you're involved in a full schedule at college. This is self-study, however. So I have a bunch of books opened at once, and am reading a bit from each:

1. Encyclopedia of Western Gunfighters
2. The Shooters: A Gallery of Notorious Gunmen from the American West
3. Western Words: A Dictionary of the Old West
4. Everyday Life in the 1800s: A Guide for Writers, Students and Historians
5. The Cattle Towns
6. Cowboy Lingo
7. Draw: The Greatest Gunfights of the American West
8. True Tales of Old Time Kansas

I'm writing a feature-length Western screenplay and this is for background. I'll also be going out on location to etch in the setting. And then the real work begins. Gonna be a hoot and a holler!

 

[Corpse Cruncher]

Great Fantasy edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H Greenberg. Wonderful collection of many old fantasy stories.

 

[Spidey13]

Currently reading Manhunt by James Swanson.

 

[canadarocks]

Finished "Misquoting Jesus" by Ehrman. More ammunition for the argument against a literal interpretation of the Bible.

Almost finished "god is not Great" by Hitchens. Another gem in my ever-growing library concerning atheism (God Delusion by Dawkins, End of Faith by Harris, The God Hypothesis by Stenger (sp?))

 

[ShowerComic]

Currently Reading -- Unweaving the Rainbow by R. Dawkins.
Just finished -- I sold my soul on e-bay.
Waiting for -- God is not Great - by C. Hitchens to arrive.

 

[Arkan_Wolfshade]

Just finished The Bear and the Dragon by Clancy. Now, I'm multiplexing between Undermining Science by Seth Shulman, The Da Vinci Code, and a couple of "You're a newb manager" books.

 

[Terry]

Frankenstein (pronounced FRONKensteen)

 

[Arkan_Wolfshade]

Frankenstein (pronounced FRONKensteen)

That's the one with Igor (EYE-gor), right?

 

[Chris Haynes]

Currently reading Natural Causes... just finished The Good Husband of Zebra Drive (which could have used some better editing, I had to reread some parts because of situational disconnects).

 

[headscratcher4]

The science fiction novel Hyperion and a History of the Ottoman Empire called Osman's Dream. Enjoying both. Just finished Robert Service's biography of Stalin...quite interesting.

 

[ConspiRaider]

Frankenstein (pronounced FRONKensteen)

"Pardon me boy, is this the Transylvania Station?"

"Ja, ja. Track 29. Oh - can I give you a shine?"

"Uh...no thanks!"

 

[JQH]

Currently reading "The God Delusion"

Just finished "The Grapple" by Harry Turtledove - for those who haven't read it it's the latest in a sequence of novels in which the Confederacy wins the American Civil War. Turtledove is exploring the knock-on effects in subsequent history. Among his better books IMHO.

 

[The Demon's Head]

I'm currently reading Superheroes and Philosophy: Truth, Justice and the Socratic Way.

 

[Damien Evans]

Thucydides History Of The Peloponnesian War

BTW, i think that joker looks terrible

 

[The Whether Man]

Tycho and Kepler, by Kitty Ferguson. Originally published in hardback as The Nobleman and His Housedog. Apparently, it's pronounced Teeko and Kepler. Tycho lost his nose in a duel, did you know that?

 

[The Demon's Head]

Thucydides History Of The Peloponnesian War

BTW, i think that joker looks terrible

I think it looks terrible as well. It is also a divergence from the source material. I've let known what I think about the image in a related thread in the Movies, TV, Music, Computer Gaming, and other Entertainment subforum.

 

[Gregory]

Castle Skull, a mystery novel thats title just screams "melodramatic garbage," but which is actually a (so far) very entertaining early effort by locked-room master John Dickson Carr.

 

[Lensman]

Re-reading "The Elenium" series by David Eddings - not his best work, but better than nothing. I'm an avid SF/Fantasy reader although my favourite SF authors are old school. Heinlein, Asimov, Smith (both E. E. & George O.), Clarke, Niven etc.

 

[Ian Osborne]

Just invested in a copy of 'The God Delusion'. I look forward to reading it...