What book is everyone reading at the moment?

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Why Darwin Matters, latest Skeptical Inquirer, and biography of Johnny Unitas. I'm always reading more than one thing.
 
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"God is Not Great; how religion poisons everything" by Christopher Hitchens

"Coral: a pessimist in paradise" by Steve Jones - 'Jones is the Alan Bennett of science writing' (Financial Times)

"My Young Years" by Arthur Rubinstein (more about wine, women and gourmet meals than music)

"Paris Interiors" by Lisa Lovatt-Smith - see how artistic Parisians live (hint: they don't follow the style rules) - the photographs are luscious.
 
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Mathematics 1A/ Mathematics 1B Notes on Complex Numbers and Matrix Algebra

Calculus James Stewart

This is what I get for failing Maths first semester. A catch up exam when I've forgotten everything.
 
The Pleasures of the Damned: Poems, 1951-1993 by Charles Bukowski. Checked it out of the library just yesterday. The exterior shows nothing but a picture of Bukowski's face. So here's a book you really can judge by its cover.

Yes, it's pretty gruesome: Buskowski's face, lying there on the table.

But how many poets or other types of litterarties can make you laugh?
 
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Wyatt Earp: The Life Behind the Legend by Casey Tefertiller. I'm to the part, just after the shootout at the O.K. Corral, where the townspeople turn against the Earps during the trial.

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The Last Witchfinder by James Morrow - one of the funniest novels I've read for a long time and of particular interest to sceptics. Also the only book I've ever read that purports to be narrated by another book, in this case Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. A terrific read.
 
Just finished:
R. Bradbury – Fahrenheit 451
C. Hitchens – Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man

Just started:
W. Gibson – Spook Country
 
Just finished Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism by Susan Jacoby. I read it because it is one of the ten books that Sam Harris recommends at the end of Letter to a Christian Nation, which I read recently. I also just finished Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar...Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes by Thomas Cathcart & Daniel Klein. Now I've started Slicing Pizzas, Racing Turtles, and Further Adventures in Applied Mathematics by Robert B. Banks.
 
As one of my Xmas presents was a Satnav that also plays audible books, I have been listening to "The Count of Monte Cristo" on my drive to and from work every day. About 10 hours in (think it is about 50 odd in total!) and thoroughly enjoying it.

Would feel a bit strange saying I am "reading" the book though, which I know is bizarre as it is an unabridged translation so I am not missing anything.
 
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