What book are you reading right now?

[04440]

It's crazy that the Bible is one of the best selling books, best written stories and poems.. Yet still we can't read it as a 'book' 'story' in school. Absolutely disturbing. We should be able to read all religious books. Just the bible is a remarkable book. There should at least be a class on it. Not only private schools.. Anyone agree?

 

[Deefuzz]

Ahh, working your way through the tower. Might want to read Hearts in Atlantis before the last book. Fills in some details on one of the characters.

Really? Ok I will look into that, thanks for the tip!

 

[MacFan782040]

Carl Hiassen - Skinny Dip

and

Tom Wolfe - I am Charlotte Simmons

 

[Ish]

Osman's Dream by Caroline Finkel. It's about the history of the Ottoman Empire.

 

[baby duck monge]

Reading A Star Called Henry right now. I definitely have Against the Day on my list, as well (glad to see the OP list that one). I have to admit I'm a sucker for PoMo lit, and I really enjoyed the bit of Pynchon I read in undergrad.

 

[princealfie]

Second to the Bible?

I'm not reading much of anything. Just finished grad school, and I'm tired! Save for a few articles or short stories on sailing and such adventures.

I thought the Book of Mormon surpassed the Bible by now?

 

[Loge]

Just finished Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince; now reading the Miles Davis biography by Ian Carr.

 

[0007776]

I just finished 1984 by George Orwell. I'm not sure what I'm going to read next.

 

[michaelsaxon]

Wittgenstein's Poker. A fascinating read, to be sure.

http://www.amazon.com/Wittgensteins..._bbs_sr_1/103-1872572-5146268?ie=UTF8&s=books

 

[cslewis]

A Separate Peace for a language arts class. It's been an interesting read.

 

[QuarterSwede]

Monster by Frank Peretti. So far its a page turner.

Best I've read so far (besides what I've gotten through of the Bible) is Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis. Now that will make you think.

 

[yellow]

"From Baghdad, With Love: A Marine, the War, and a Dog Named Lava", by Jay Kopelman with Melinda Roth.

http://www.amazon.com/Baghdad-Love-...=pd_bbs_1/104-9593004-9508706?ie=UTF8&s=books

 

[thedude110]

To the Lighthouse -- one of my favorite novels and a book I try to come back to every December. Peaceful, brilliant and so freaking human and beautiful.

Inuit Women Artists is next in my pile.

 

[SkyBell]

Michael Crichton's Next. Pretty good book all about genetic patents, transgenic experimentation, stuff like that. Of course his dialogue is awful (it always is), but the scenarios and questions he asks are all pretty cool.

Reading that also.

 

[nukiduz]

Dickens - Hard times
Rorty - Contingency, irony and solidarity
Maquiavelo - The Prince

and some others partially...

 

[nukiduz]

I just finished 1984 by George Orwell. I'm not sure what I'm going to read next.

If you liked it, you have to read Animal Farm. You could also try Brave New World by Huxley

 

[ejb190]

The World Is Flat-Thomas Friedman (finding it very repetitive, but I'm an econ major so maybe that's why I feel like he doesn't need to drill it into my head so much)

Yah. I got about half way through it.

I am reading Moonwar by Ben Bova. It's been a long time since I read any of his stuff and I am enjoying it even more now. Before this was I, Robot by Asimov, Moonrise and PowerSat by Bova, and a biography of a WW2 Navy Pilot (A very sobering read...).

 

[nickster9224]

i read animal farm in school this year, buy currently im reading for one more day, by mitch albom

 

[Luis]

Lotr

Right now i'm finishing The Return Of The King, after reading the other two last week.

Best.Books.Ever

And the movie isn't so bad either, when you take in mind that they had to summarize a lot of details.

 

[mac 2005]

The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford

 

[pseudobrit]

Eamon de Valera: The Man Who Was Ireland by Tim Pat Coogan.

 

[jrv3034]

The Vampire Chronicles, by Anne Rice.

 

[The Mad Kiwi]

Quicksilver by Neil Stephenson, ony 600 pages left to go, followed by 2 more books in the series

What a wonderful trilogy of books. The worst thing is that a few months after you've finished you start thinking you need to read it again !!!!!

 

[jalagl]

Jennifer Government by Max Barry

Also trying to finish Only Revolutions by Mark Danielewski...

 

[Motley]

What a wonderful trilogy of books. The worst thing is that a few months after you've finished you start thinking you need to read it again !!!!!

Kinda glad I read Cryptonomicon first. Now if the library would ever get Snow Crash in!