What are you reading?

[Joe]

In response to the other thread, concerning WWII books worth reading, my three favorite are:

1. Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
2. Fires on the Plain - Shohei Oka
3. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller

Adding Slaughterhouse 5. I've never read such a good book about post traumatic stress disorder.

 

[rainey]

just started reading Blindsight.
Just finished reading Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, classic read.
Before that I read Clive Barkers new book, Mr B. Gone, what an absolute pile of shite, an utter let down.

 

[Dreamnuker]

For now i'm addicted to Dan Brown... Just finished reading his last book - Digital Fortress... In my future plans there're Warcraft books because i'm realy interested in Warcraft lore...

 

[Iceman23]

The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald, an interesting story, combined with believable characters and some nice plot twists; a damn good book, and easily one of my favorites.

 

[MrCrun]

I just started The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
Just finished Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds.
Due to start in the future: Half of A. Reynolds stuff published since Absolution Gap, China Mieville's Un Lun Dun, Clive Barker's second Abarat book, PKD's Do Androids Dream... and indeed most of the books I've ever bought.

 

[Geoffrey42]

For now i'm addicted to Dan Brown... Just finished reading his last book - Digital Fortress... In my future plans there're Warcraft books because i'm realy interested in Warcraft lore...

I once read Digital Fortress out of sheer desperation for something to do. I wish I could sear the memory from my mind. It pretty much sealed it for me that I am never, ever, going to read The DaVinci Code.

 

[Projekt Spartan]

The whole Forgotten Realms : Legend of Drizzt series, by R.A. Salvarore is great. There are quite a few of them though, so dont start it unless you are prepared to spent the next few months of your life, and a few hundres dollars on them.

 

[uberlad]

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007 edited by Dave Eggers

This year's edition isn't as good as last year's...at least not yet. But there's such a wide assortment of really high-quality stories from the past year, totally worth checking out sometime.

I'm also slowly plowing through my newest edition of Mental Floss magazine

 

[wrshamilton]

Hemmingway short stories, Chekov short stories, Gogol short stories.

 

[RentCavalier]

For once I'm actually reading some decent stuff.

I just finished Altered Carbon, which is a VERY good bit of Cyberpunk. A noir set-up with some interesting ideas on the nature of death in it and some major drugs and ass-kicking.

I got about a quarter of a way into Shulz, the autobiography of the Peanuts author before giving it up out of sheer boredom. I can sum it up for you: Depressing.

Now I'm reading The Dharma Bums, by Jack Kerouac, and after that I'll be reading some Tom Wolfe.

 

[JimboG]

Slash - The autobiography.

It's a good insight into the world of rock and hippy lifestyle, but it's just too long.

 

[Hey Joe]

The Republic by Plato because I'm a pseudo-intellectual bastard, and Maus.

 

[intplee]

I am currently reading The Princess Bride by William Goldman. It was a Christmas present, received from a friend. A fitting gift because I had bought them a DVD of the movie adaptation for their birthday, a few months previous.

 

[the_carrot]

I haven't read much in the last several years, which is sad since it was an anchor for me for so long. So I've gone back to some of the reading I did in high school, to refresh my memories of some of these things, and to lubricate a re-introduction to reading regularly. But anyway, I read The old man and the sea for the first time while I was traveling to see my family for the holidays. Epic fish story, and a wonderful humanistic novella. I am also reading 1984, Nausea, and some short stories by Hemingway.

 

[roo18]

For a while now there's nothing I've really got into until I started reading 'Grasshopper,' by Barbara Vine, who is also Ruth Rendell. I've found it very engaging, and very long so I've got something to read for a while. It's been out for around seven years so quite easy to get a hold of too.

 

[Kirethidae]

I've just started 'The Amber Spyglass' by Philip Pullman.

I don't like it too much, and I want to finish it because I have other books to read...

 

[twilight_dweller]

1984 - George Orwell

It's a good read. I highly reccomend it.

 

[GT69]

Currently reading The Quest, by Wilbur smith. Highly recommend his Egyptian series (River god, Warlock and the Quest)

 

[Joe]

I'm putting A People's History on hold for a bit, because I can only get so angry about class warfare for so long before I start getting stabby. So instead, I'm taking a break and reading Shook Over Hell [http://www.amazon.com/Shook-over-Hell-Post-Traumatic-Vietnam/dp/0674806522/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1198913532&sr=8-1], about PTSD sufferers from the Civil and Vietnam Wars. I'm not too far into it, but it's a smooth read so far, something most historians can't seem to pull off.

 

[Fire Daemon]

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six is a good read and I will recomend to anyone that enjoyed the games before even knowing it was based on a Book.

Or you could read Philip Pullman's Northernlights, The subtle knife and Amber Spyglass.