What are YOU currently reading?

[nadroj1985]

Great book. I liked that one a lot.

Oh yeah. I haven't read it in a few years, but all the warm fuzzies are coming back. Or maybe that's just the soma I took a little while ago kicking in

 

[Fineous_Reese]

currently reading Neuromancer (by William Gibson). cyberpunk is awesome, but I wish that there was an author who didn't use so much swearing. it's too bad that cyberpunk is so rare, too... the only good 'punk you can get these days is Gibson, and the only closest thing to Gibson is the Ender saga (by Orson Scott Card... if you have not read Ender's Game, turn off your computer now, calmly proceed to your local library, check it out, and proceed to read it in one sitting), which everyone has already read. too bad, really.

Neuromancer was excellent especially noting when it was written. have you checked out Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson? I got a kick out of the Shadowrun novels too although they're more sci-fantasy than true cyberpunk.
-Fin

 

[Addaperle]

The Handmaid's Tale, by Margart Atwood

oh, and "The Origins of the Second World War" by AJP Taylor for my history class! What a boring book that is... I've fallen asleep reading it several times!

Clare xx

 

[SaraJ]

The Purpose Driven Life
Great book, everyone should read, believers and non-believers!

 

[TempestRose]

I've just finished "Gates of Eden" by Ethan Coen (Amazing book! It's all short stories but they're fab!) and I'm now reading "Mr Nice" by Howard Marks and "Quite Ugly One Morning" by Christopher Brookmyre!!

 

[twosteppin]

I just bought and now reading "The Screwtape letters" by C.S. Lewis. Love it so far.

 

[Artema]

I keep switching around, really, so I have about five that I'm not yet finished reading. I read a few chapters of one, leave off a day or two, pick up another and do the same.

So thus far on my plate I've got:

Jane Austin's "Emma"
JK Rowling's "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban"
Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment"
Tolkien's "Fellowship of the Ring"
Gaston Leroux's "Phantom of the Opera"

What's funny is "Emma", "Crime and Punishment" and "Phantom of the Opera" were all books that friends of mine had to read for classes. They complained about them so much that I had to read them for myself, and I'm really enjoying them!

 

[Konnie]

The Glorious Appearing by Tim Lahaye and Jerry B. Jenkins

 

[PaladinValer]

I'll probably reread Peter Gomes' The Good Book soon...

 

[VigilanteHamster]

"The Oath"-- Frank Peretti
"A Spell for Chameleon"-- Piers Anthony (the first Xanth novel!)

 

[sparklecat]

A Brief History of Time, Hawking
The Qur'an
An Introduction to Symbolic Logic
Robinson Crusoe, Defoe
Family Business: Human Dilemmas in the Family Firm, De Vries
Nightwatch, Pratchett
Justine, de Sade
The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky
Textbooks

The symbolic logic and business books will have a high turnover rate... what I want to read and need to read, respectively. The others, I pick up and get a few pages in when I have some spare time and feel like reading for fun/education. I'm planning to read the rest of Paine's Age of Reason, the Shakespeare plays I haven't yet read, Anna Karenina, Pratchett's Monstrous Regiment, Dante's Purgatorio and Paradisio, Milton's Paradise Lost... this list could get a bit long, so I'll stop here.

 

[michabo]

Scion of Cyador, by L.E. Modessitt Jr
Paranoia, by Joseph Finder
Why Not Me, by Al Franken
What Liberal Medial, by Eric Schlosser
Mere Christianity by CS Lewis
The Case for Faith by Lee Strobel

The Scion is an e-book and I read that before bed, Paranoia is an audiobook for around the house, the Franken is also an audiobook but for running, and the Schlosser is yet another audiobook but for the car, and I'm reading a chapter of the Lewis and the Strobel as a favour for my grandmother. This is quite a bit, even for me, but I've always got at least three books on the go.

As for what's next... I'd like to read the Jesus Puzzle by Earl Doherty (on reserve at the library), and then it's just a matter of whatever happens to appeal to me when one book ends (I might read a lot, but I'm not always very discriminating )


Sparklecat: have you read Good Omens, by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman? I haven't read all of Pratchett's, but I've read all of Gaiman's, and it's one of my all time favorites.

 

[rkonfire]

I just read the newest Bill O'Reilly book, "Who's Looking Out for You?"

 

[ischus]

Currently I am reading:
"Tuesdays with Morrie," by Mitch Albom
"Baptism in the New Testament," by G.R. Beasley Murray
"NIV Application Commentary on Mark," by David Garland
"Becoming a Contagious Christian," by Bill Hybels & Mark Mittelberg
"Your People Shall Be My People," by Don Finto
"The Gospel According to John," by D.A. Carson

 

[Sanguine]

Stalingrad by Antony Beevor
and
Rocks of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life by Stephen Gould - an absolutely brilliant read regardless of your position on either.

 

[b.cairns]

Currently, I'm reading the Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren. It's interesting and designed to be read over a peoiod of forty days. Although I may not agree with some statements by the author, I find that this book has had a way of really getting me to think...and confront certain things in my heart that I have kept hidden for years!

 

[sparklecat]

Sparklecat: have you read Good Omens, by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman? I haven't read all of Pratchett's, but I've read all of Gaiman's, and it's one of my all time favorites.

Yes, I have (and am currently in a debate with the library over whether or not I returned it). Oddly enough, I didn't enjoy it that much- it seemed to go rather slowly, and I'd become used to the regular Pratchett characters. It was ok, I suppose, on its own; just not what I had expected.

 

[michabo]

Oddly enough, I didn't enjoy it that much- it seemed to go rather slowly, and I'd become used to the regular Pratchett characters.

Hmm... That's inspired me to try some more of Pratchett's books

 

[Jeremiah the Bullfrog]

The Enemy Within--Michael Savage

 

[UberLutheran]

A very, VERY sobering look at what happens when religion turns absolutist, and its leaders become corrupt.