What book is everyone reading at the moment?

[hcmom]

"Small Gods" by Terry Pratchett.

The last ten or so books that I've read have been Terry Pratchett...

 

[Kthulhut Fhtagn]

I just finished re-reading Watchmen (absolutely incredible book!) and I just started I Am America (And So Can You)

 

[arthwollipot]

I'm about to start on Malcolm Gladwell's latest, Outliers.

 

[MattusMaximus]

Kevin J. Anderson's The Saga of Seven Suns - Book 2

Thomas L. Friedman's The World Is Flat

Bronowski & Mazlish's The Western Intellectual Tradition: From Leonardo to Hagel

+ too many damned periodicals to mention

 

[Tapio]

Dick Taverne: March of unreason

 

[sackett]

Brideshead Revisited. Re-reading it after -- holy Hohokam, 30 years! -- and it's still so veddy, veddy too-too uppah clawss that I can hardly breathe.

 

[Aitch]

Half-way through The Battle of the River Plate by Dudley Pope. Interesting and well written. Could do with bigger maps, mind you.

 

[Francesca R]

"Nonzero--History, Evolution and Human Cooperation" by Robert Wright

 

[ugot2bekidding]

The Portable Atheist by Christopher Hitchens.

 

[sackett]

"A battle is something fought at the junction of two maps,"

Half-way through The Battle of the River Plate by Dudley Pope. Interesting and well written. Could do with bigger maps, mind you.

said Napoleon. (Maybe he did; although I think he hired writers at least some of the time.)

After a lifetime of reading military and naval history, I'm yet to find a book on those topics that EVER has adequate maps. When I get rich (have to get around to that one of these days), my military reading-room will be lined with giant maps; more will be stored in great presses around the walls; there won't be room for books; I'll have to bring my current volume in with me.

Still won't be enough maps, of course.

 

[Aitch]

...When I get rich (have to get around to that one of these days), my military reading-room will be lined with giant maps; more will be stored in great presses around the walls; there won't be room for books; I'll have to bring my current volume in with me.

Still won't be enough maps, of course.

I must admit I don't read a lot of military history. The reason I bought the book was that the film was on TV about a dozen times over Christmas/New Year (I think Film 4's DVD budget must have been cut recently) and having watched it a couple of times, I thought I'd get a book and see how 'accurate' the film was. The Pope one is based mainly on RN and German documents, so I assumed (not necessarily correctly) that it would be a reasonable narrative. Apparently, it does miss out one fact about the damage the Graf Spee suffered (not discovered until later) which is relevant, but otherwise is a reasonable read.

 

[Francesca R]

"The Company of Strangers" by Paul Seabright. Seems to be my 8th book since Xmas. (My review of the Robert Wright book)

 

[Piscivore]

"Jurgen" by James Branch Cabell

 

[Blackadder]

"Small Gods" by Terry Pratchett.

The last ten or so books that I've read have been Terry Pratchett...

If you read them for the first time I am very jealous. I rank reading a few of those books for the first time among the best experiences of my life, just below sex.

 

[Aitch]

I've tried reading Pratchett, but found his writing style doesn't work for me. However, and I've found this with other authors, having them converted to radio or TV programmes makes them work for me, in the couple I've heard/seen.

I get the same effect with, among others, the Morse books; rubbish reads, but generally watchable TV.

 

[Aurelian]

Just finished Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer. Am starting on Physics for Future Presidents once it arrives, and I am hoping that I won't be punishing myself with Faulkner's A Light in August.

 

[al_capone_junior]

several things

moby dick, found a very old cheep copy of a pocket book the other day, so might as well...

Also at the used bookstore they have old national geographic copies for 50c, from everywhere from the 70's to present day... so I got a stack of those.

Also got a bunch of CDC publications emerging infectious diseases so I'm reading selections from those.

 

[tomwaits]

Heretics of Dune - Frank Herbert

 

[Frozenwolf150]

The Mysterious Benedict Society on Piviscore's recommendation. So far it looks like exactly what I've been searching for, so thanks again.

 

[Piscivore]

The Mysterious Benedict Society on Piviscore's recommendation. So far it looks like exactly what I've been searching for, so thanks again.

Cool, glad you like it.