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What book is everyone reading at the moment?

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Conn Iggulden, the Conqueror series. Just finished : "Wolf of the Plains" and "Lords of the Bow" and have started to dig into "Bones of the Hills". Excellent books, and will dig into the Emperor series as soon as I am done with the Conqueror.
 
Currently reading: Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delaney.

Just finished: Normans and Saxons: Southern Race Mythology and the Intellectual History of the Civil War, by Ritchie Devon Watson Jr. (It's a good book.)
 
Them. Jon Ronson, 2002. My intro to Alex Jones and David Icke. (Also to Ian Paisley up close. Man, that 'un wouldn't last five minutes in Casper WY on payday night.) An odd book. He seems to sympathise w/ the conspiracy jokers, but for the sake of what I assume is humour.
 
The Boy Who Followed Ripley, part 4 of Patricia Highsmith's 5 novel Ripliad.

When one considers that a good writer pens from experience, a creepy feeling enters about this serial killer who continually escapes justice.
 
His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman; Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke is next. I reread too much and never seem to get to new books. I also like to reread a series if a new book comes out or if I go to see a movie. It's going to hurt when the 12th book in the Wheel of Time series comes out in November...
 
Mixing it up between "Death from the Skies" - bought & signed at TAM this month; and very DRY book called "Color Correction for Digital Video" about... well, you can probably guess; and the third "Dexter" novel (that inspired the TV show)... whose name escapes me at the moment, but it's three words - all alliterated to 'Dexter' just like the other two.
 
Lewis black "me of little faith"

Half way through and I don't like him anymore, he believes his friend is psychic, and that he saw a TM'r glow, and another guy claiming to be jesus had a light on his head. Lewis says that the light on his head was from "energy" being passed to him from the observers. Yep, lewis black turned out to be a nut.
 
A Little History of the World, by Ernst H. Gombrich.

Aimed at children, this is a lovely brief summary of the whole world history in a small package, just 40 chapters. Already in chapter 20 which is about Muhammad. The book is allowing me to learn (or relearn) some few things I had forgotten from my earlier school days.

PS. Looking forward to this same author's The Story of Art, which is not for children, and is in fact one of the best selling art books of all time.
 
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"Strong of Body, Brave and Noble": Chivalry and Society in Medieval France, Constance Brittain Bouchard, 1998. Man, no matter what you say about the Middle Ages, and no matter how well supported by evidence, somebody can contradict you, also with reams of facts and evidence. They say medieval studies is like a dark forest: you go in and you never come out.
 
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