What book are you reading?

[darvlay]

Currently reading:

1. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer;
2. Manufacturing Consent by Chomsky and Herman;
3. As I Lay Dying by Faulkner; and
4. Siddhartha by Hesse

I like to multi-task.

[drake_259]

Stephen Kings' Dreamcatcher

[jonesthecurl]

Currently reading:

1. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer;
2. Manufacturing Consent by Chomsky and Herman;
3. As I Lay Dying by Faulkner; and
4. Siddhartha by Hesse

I like to multi-task.

Yeah, I always am reading several at once, I guess I meant, "which one is at the top of your mind right now?"

[got tonkaed]

Currently reading:

1. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer;
2. Manufacturing Consent by Chomsky and Herman;
3. As I Lay Dying by Faulkner; and
4. Siddhartha by Hesse

I like to multi-task.

I think your list is the winnar.

[InkL0sed]

I've read Siddhartha, I liked it. Really short, as I recall.

[darvlay]

I've read Siddhartha, I liked it. Really short, as I recall.

Yep, it is quite slim. I'll do that one on the bus...

Last week, I read Night by Elie Wiesel. Also a short read. Highly recommended if you have any interest in life in the Nazi concentration camps. Very intense and terrifying!

[Neoteny]

I've read Siddhartha, I liked it. Really short, as I recall.

Yep, it is quite slim. I'll do that one on the bus...

Last week, I read Night by Elie Wiesel. Also a short read. Highly recommended if you have any interest in life in the Nazi concentration camps. Very intense and terrifying!

That was a good one.

I'm currently focusing on Contagion by Robert Cook, though I'm also still slogging through Hawking's Shoulders.

[Grooveman2007]

America and Americans by Steinbeck

[strike wolf]

I've read Siddhartha, I liked it. Really short, as I recall.

Yep, it is quite slim. I'll do that one on the bus...

Last week, I read Night by Elie Wiesel. Also a short read. Highly recommended if you have any interest in life in the Nazi concentration camps. Very intense and terrifying!

Night by Elie Wiesel was simply brilliant. Very moving book, I must have read it several times over.

[Neoteny]

I've read Siddhartha, I liked it. Really short, as I recall.

Yep, it is quite slim. I'll do that one on the bus...

Last week, I read Night by Elie Wiesel. Also a short read. Highly recommended if you have any interest in life in the Nazi concentration camps. Very intense and terrifying!

That was a good one.

I'm currently focusing on Contagion by Robert Cook, though I'm also still slogging through Hawking's Shoulders.

Oh yeah, and I'm rereading Feynman's Surely, you're joking. It's one of the greatest books I've ever read.

[jonesthecurl]

I went through a Hesses phase some while ago. I especiallly like the Glass Bead Game.

[jonesthecurl]

Our local swimming pool has a bring one, leave one bookcase - yesterday I picked up "Zelazny's last book ", Lord Demon. It was finished by a collaboration (I don't have it right in front of me, I'll tell you who tomorrow), but I'm about halfway through, loving it, and would (almost entirely) have accepted it as pure Zelazny if they hadn't said. Huge praise, nice work collaborating lady, will seek out your own work soon.

[jay_a2j]

Wow, this is a good book! I'm on chapter 10 (first time reading it) and already can't wait to read it again! Highly recommended!

[RiskTycoon]

Book of Coral Propagation Volume #1 by Anthony Calfo

[pimpdave]

Last week, I read Night by Elie Wiesel. Also a short read. Highly recommended if you have any interest in life in the Nazi concentration camps. Very intense and terrifying!

yeah, Night is pretty short too. I remember had to read it for my AP US History course Junior year in High School.

I started the book the afternoon it was assigned and I got home, and finished it that evening. It wasn't because I was an overachiever, just that I literally couldn't put it down; it was so gripping.

Night should be required reading for all school children (of an appropriate age), lest we ever forget.

[strike wolf]

It was at my school. I had to read it for two different english classes and we went over it briefly in world history.

[Juan_Bottom]

Hey is
Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth any good?

Also, The 808th is not.

[strike wolf]

i'm not reading it now, but I did read "Firestarter" by Stephen king over the summer.

[bedub1]

I checked out Robert A Heinlein - The Puppet Masters from the library yesterday at dammit the the receipt doesn't tell me the time...but it was probably like 1pm or so. By a little after midnight I was done with it....340 paperback pages of great Science Fiction. If you want to read a book by him though....go pick up Stranger in a Strange Land. It is THE quintessential Science Fiction book of all time.

EDIT: Damn...started reading the wiki article and had to quote this: "Eventually Stranger in a Strange Land became a cult classic, attracting many readers who would not ordinarily have read a work of science fiction."
EDIT: I just looked...and it appears they give the entire plot away. DON'T READ THE PLOT SUMMARY!

I looked for the Mission Earth series by L. Ron Hubbard too...but they didn't have it. I would highly recommend his Battlefield Earth book though...it was a fantastic read. Although I would probably recommend staying away from his Scientology books...they are just a massive pyramid scheme to take all your money. That L. Ron Hubbard really knew how to write some great Science Fiction.

[got tonkaed]

stranger in a strange land is quite a good book in my opinion.

[jonesthecurl]

Both The Puppet Masters and Stranger in a Strange Land were originally published in a somewhat-edited format. The full version of both has also been published, and in both cases is noticeably better. I don't know which is the most likely to encounter these days, but if you've not seen the "restored" versions, seek them out.

Incidentally I once lent Stranger to a friend. When I asked him what he thought of it, he said "I didn't grok it, so I ate it."

[ksslemp]

"MOHAMMED, Founder of the worlds most intolerant religion"

[HapSmo19]

Mysteries of time and space.

[Fircoal]

Nothing, unless you count all the Inuyasha manga I'm reading on the nets.

[Snorri1234]

Does erotic gay fanfiction about Star Trek count?