What book is everyone reading at the moment?

[qayak]

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

I just finished The God Delusion for the second time but I found The Selfish Gene in a used bookstore for cheap, so I have just started it!

 

[calebprime]

I'm about to start The Road by Cormac McCarthy.

I noticed you're also reading On the Road--a good antidote.

Well, I just finished The Road, by Cormac McCarthy. I quickly got hooked, and by the end I was just crying, crying.

To get over it, it helped to go into a convenience store and buy some stuff.
Also, to over-eat a little. Then I was also nervously checking my kid. It's ok, he's alright.

Afterward, living in boring suburban paradise never seemed sweeter.

If being a parent feels like a lonely journey, then you can easily enter into this world--a lonely journey to end all. I found the conversations between father and son just devastating. That complete, scary rapport.

The writing is beautiful--maybe too much so--which helps offset the bleakness.

But the scenario is all too possible. Not likely, but possible.

 

[Sandy M]

Just started "Opening Day" by Jonathan Eig [the story of Jackie Robinson's first season]

 

[Athyrio]

A Whiff of Death by Asimov, © 1958. I picked it up years ago at a thrift store, found it on my attic shelves the other day. It's not science fiction, appears to be a murder mystery à la Agatha Christie. Halfway through it, will finish tomorrow if the grandkids don't come over again.

 

[The Demon's Head]

Just beginning to read Eisner/Miller.

 

[sackett]

H. W. Brands's TR: The Last Romantic. Brands usually puts out a good read, and this is one.

Not that Teddy Roosevelt was altogether such a likeable guy, but he lived a lot of life and made a lot of splashes. Dammit, Teddy was fun! He wouldn't do in these modern times, but it's not his fault that he'd be too big to fit into our mean, bloody, dirt-crusted days.

 

[Bluegill]

I'm about half way through American Gods by Neil Gaiman. I wonder, if I had not been told that he had created the Sandman graphic novels, whether this book would strike me so strongly as being a graphic novel with words instead of pictures?

 

[ShowerComic]

I just started "god is not Great" by Christopher Hitchens.

 

[kinkymagic]

I'm currently reading Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon. Well, trying to read would probably be more accurate; the pulitzer board weren't lying.

 

[Spidey13]

It's time for a little light reading, so I'm about to start Forever Odd by Dean Koontz.

 

[sackett]

I'm currently reading Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon. Well, trying to read would probably be more accurate; the pulitzer board weren't lying.

I made it all the way through by skimming like a man. I wanted to say, "Tom, you forgot to make it interesting."

ETA: That raises a question: Have you really read a book if you skimmed parts? What percentage is it okay to skim and still say you read it? Dr. Johnson would probably knock you down for even asking; he often read only the right-hand pages of a book, and still got most of the good out of it. But he never met Tom Pynchon or Henry James.

 

[Sandy M]

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.

I understand it's coming out in paperback this month. I'm to books behind now on that series, The Grapple and whatever the title (slipped my mind) of the next one is.... June 26th release date, I believe.

 

[JQH]

Didn't know the next was out yet, thanks for the heads up - I'll keep an eye out for it.

 

[Jon.]

Just recently started Lost Christianities by Bart Ehrman. So far, very interesting.

 

[The Whether Man]

This being a fiction month for me, I'm going to try and clear some mystery/thrillers out from under my bed and am presently working my way through The Stone Monkey by Jeffery Deaver. Not particularly thrilling, sad to say. Certainly not as much as Lee Child's Die Trying, which was the last book I read.

 

[Kahalachan]

Darwin's Dangerous Idea by Dan Dennett.

 

[LashL]

I recently finished reading The Devil in Massachusetts - A Modern Enquiry into the Salem Witch Trials by Marion L. Starkey, and just started reading I Married a Communist by Philip Roth.

 

[ConspiRaider]

This being a fiction month for me, I'm going to try and clear some mystery/thrillers out from under my bed and am presently working my way through The Stone Monkey by Jeffery Deaver. Not particularly thrilling, sad to say. Certainly not as much as Lee Child's Die Trying, which was the last book I read.

I'm a Jeffery Deaver fan as well, have just about everything he's done. After Stone Monkey, I went one further, with The Vanished Man. And then no more.

 

[bobdroege7]

Moby Dick and The God Delusion

 

[SopranoHarmony]

The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene. I should have finished it about 2 years ago, but I've had to start over and have gotten stuck a few times...