What book(s) are you reading now?

Nub · Post by **Nub** » 2006-02-02 04:58pm

Shibumi by Trevanian.

Ilium by Dan Simmons.

The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis.

Post by **Dalton** » 2006-02-02 06:04pm

Right now I'm working my way through In the Beginning...Was the Command Line by Neal T. Stephenson and a small stack of Dave Barry books. Soon I shall start Outbound Flight, which just arrived

Post by **Simplicius** » 2006-02-02 09:06pm

Currently, it's The Face of Battle by John Keegan. Next up is David McCulloch's The Great Bridge unless I feel like a break and end up reading Starship Troopers again, or something.

Patrick Degan · Post by **Patrick Degan** » 2006-02-02 09:21pm

Considering the season, I'm presently making my way through New Orleans author Robert Tallant's Mardi Gras As It Was.

Zadius · Post by **Zadius** » 2006-02-02 09:33pm

The Scientists by John Gribbon

Singular Quartet · Post by **Singular Quartet** » 2006-02-02 10:35pm

Just started Six Armies at Normandy by Keegan.

After that... *glances at stack* yeah... there's plenty after that.

thejester · Post by **thejester** » 2006-02-03 12:24am

Sharp-kun wrote:Cryptonomicon

How fucking awesome is that book?

As for the topic at hand: Army at Dawn by Rick Acktinson, almost finished...a pretty damn good history all up.

Boyish-Tigerlilly · Post by **Boyish-Tigerlilly** » 2006-02-03 02:43am

I am focusing on a panopoly of books, because I never have the attention span to just stay on one. I have to start them all; it's obsessive compuslive problem.

1. Darwin's Dangerous Idea: By Dennis Dennett---This one is pretty good, and it reads pretty well.

2. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

3. The Third Reich

4.The Hitler Myth

6. The President of Good and Evil: By Peter Singer.

7. One World: By Peter Singer.

Post by **Dalton** » 2006-02-03 05:44am

thejester wrote:
Sharp-kun wrote:Cryptonomicon
How fucking awesome is that book?

Think that's good? Follow it up with the Baroque Cycle

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2006-02-03 06:12am

Dalton wrote:
thejester wrote:
Sharp-kun wrote:Cryptonomicon
How fucking awesome is that book?
Think that's good? Follow it up with the Baroque Cycle

Dalton, I just recieved the diamond age. Starting now.

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2006-02-03 01:16pm

I just finished Arthur C. Clarke's The Songs of Distant Earth, and am now indulging myself a little with Diane Duane's Doctor's Orders (which is a Star Trek book).

Faqa · Post by **Faqa** » 2006-02-03 01:47pm

To Light A Candle. Second book of a rather generic fantasy trilogy, but I happen to like it....

Lost Soal · Post by **Lost Soal** » 2006-02-03 07:54pm

So much for good intentions. Finished B5 vol 3, but I picked up The Sabbat Worlds Crusade today, so I'm reading that now.

SoX · Post by **SoX** » 2006-02-03 08:09pm

Children of Dune - Frank Herbert

The Original Nex · Post by **The Original Nex** » 2006-02-03 10:12pm

Recently finished The Truth: with jokes by Al Franken and What Would Jefferson Do? A Return to Democracy by Thom Hartmann. Just finished Night by Elie Weisel.

Also reading Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson.

SCRawl · Post by **SCRawl** » 2006-02-03 10:27pm

I'm a little behind in my reading. I had a friend of mine (who is much more well read than I am) compile a list of the top 100 books which every english-speaking person should have read. I've read 27 of them.

Anyways, I'm almost done "Pride & Prejudice". Yeah, go ahead, make the jokes.

Kitsune · Post by **Kitsune** » 2006-02-04 12:06am

Just finished "Omega Cage" and "Shadow of Saganami" and reading "Ill Wind"

Vicious · Post by **Vicious** » 2006-02-04 03:38pm

Currently reading The Joiner King. Not sure if I like it or not yet. On deck is Bram Stoker's Dracula, Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment and Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond, which is a re-read but it's relevant to my History and Geography classes this year.

JediMaster415 · Post by **JediMaster415** » 2006-02-05 05:35pm

I just bought Dune Messiah, Children of Dune and Restaurant at the End of the Universe last night. When I'm done with Med Ship, I'll launch into one of them.

KrauserKrauser · Post by **KrauserKrauser** » 2006-02-05 07:31pm

Splitting my time between Dragons of Summer Flame and The Motley Fools Investment Workbook

Raptor 597 · Post by **Raptor 597** » 2006-02-05 09:20pm

The Memoirs of General William T. Sherman by Himself (go figure)

The Civil War in Louisiana by John D. Winters

Battle for Bataan by Colonel Richard C Mallonee, USA (only autiobiographical account of Bataan, damn good)

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2006-02-05 10:25pm

Right now, the autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, and Heart of Darkness.

Saurencaerthai · Post by **Saurencaerthai** » 2006-02-06 01:43am

Twentieth-Century Music by Robert P. Morgan (Yes, this is a school text, but it's something I'd read even if it wasn't required!)

The next thing will probably be New Directions in Music by David Cope, and if I actually have time, Fool's Errand by Robin Hobb.

Trogdor · Post by **Trogdor** » 2006-02-07 12:38am

Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson. I just started, and I'm not sure if I like it yet. The stuff about terraforming Mars is interesting, but the interactions between the characters is just 'meh' so far.