What are you reading right now?

[twistedlegato]

As i have finished the Twilight series two weeks ago, i am now reading Brisingr. I know a lot of you guys don't like the series, but it's just a fun read to me. Not the greatest work of art at all, but still quite enjoyable

 

[jb60606]

"Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone"

 

[satty]

I read "The Black Swan" by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. It's a book about random events, how the human species handles them and why they fail to predict anything in the future.

Not the easiest book to read, but it's interesting and fun. Here one quote out of the book.

As I am writing these lines I am using a Macintosh, by Apple, after years of using Microsoft based products. The Apple Technology is vastly better, but yet the inferior software won the day. How? Luck.

 

[riscy]

The Mozart Conspiracy - Scott Mariani

A sort of Dan Brown read-a-like which is ok at the minute.

 

[jodelli]

The Red Shoes: Margaret Atwood Starting Out by Rosemary Sullivan.

 

[Shotglass]

I just finished 3001 and thus the whole series. I am done with Clark right now, so I'll start reading something else. I got Siddartha for my birthday, so I might just read that.

 

[spikespike]

Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder.

...An absolutely amazing and inspiring true story, and written as well as a work of literature. Highly recommended.

Absolutely incredible book. I kept waiting for some shoe to drop but it never did. I was blown away by Paul Farmer.

 

[spikespike]

"Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone"

Very interesting look at life in the Green Zone in post occupation Iraq. It really details how things got off track and why.

 

[BoyBach]

The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb.

Only 700 pages to go!

 

[maclover001]

The manual for the new MacBooks

 

[twistedlegato]

The Poisonwood Bible

Many people have told me it's wonderful, so i'm giving it a chance

 

[Banacek]

Bradbury Stories, a collection of stories by Ray Bradbury.

 

[Annndy!]

Just finished reading Watchmen. Not exactly a book, but damned if I didn't love it!

 

[Mike Teezie]

The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, which shamefully, I've never read.

I've recently had my interest in comics piqued again. I just read the Red Son series, Kingdom Come series, and now I'm rereading the Fatal Attractions crossover.

 

[toaster_oven]

I usually have several books going at the same time (mostly non-fiction), but currently I've dropped everything and have fully immersed myself into "Infinite Jest."

 

[Shotglass]

Design It Yourself by Ellen Lupton. Loving it.

 

[Melrose]

The Difference Engine by William Gibson (just started it)

 

[BoyBach]

Posted in wrong thread!

 

[LizKat]

October 11th issue of The Economist, the special section on the world economy. The cartoonish drawings are fun and more uplifting than the charts: "scary," one of them is labelled, depicting household debt as a percentage of disposable income for Germans, Brits, Yanks. Trust me, you don't want to know.. Well actually the Germans look relatively virtuous, having got it down to the 100% mark by 2007, but the Brits (170%) and Americans (140%) were still then rising and clearly candidates for this rude awakening we've all now been invited to.

 

[IgiveyoutheFBI]

The Book Thief - Markus Zusak

Just finished it, probably the best book I've read this year

 

[2056]

Magical Thinking by Augusten Burroughs
first book i picked up by him, so far so good!