What book are you reading right now?

[hafilax]

Just finished Mindkiller by Spider Robinson which is the first book of the Lifehouse trilogy. On to Time Pressure.

[irul&ublo]

This:



and this:

[Like a Boss]

Wind up Bird Chronicles by Murakami
the book makes me feel calm

I read this book in a day. Literally morning to night. Loved it.

I just finished Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and I'm on to Neuromancer.

[nateski]

the unbearable lightness of being.

hemingway's boat.

both great

[iceman]

"How to Navigate the Forums" by Sir Jongalot.

ha, still funny five years later.

[Grange]

I recently finished a series that according to the author the premise came from bet where he had to write a book based on the topics of the Lost Roman Legion and Pokemon. The books were pretty good.

[54-46]

Sh*t My Dad Says and Why I Suck at Girls by Justin Halpern were funny.

Vertical, the follow up to Sideways, was funny.

[~mikey b]

Storm World by Chris Mooney

[blender]

Reading The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsche right now. Good, but a bit mind-boggling at points.
Recently read The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes. Awesome literary history. The description of Fermi's pile reactor at the U of Chicago is riveting. Highly recommended!
If you haven't read The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe, by all means, get cracking.

[SkiCougar]

now reading death of the grownup and spoiled rotten(books by theodore dalrymple on decline of british culture).

read new deal or raw deal, panic of 1907, invasion, history of germany and suprised by hope recently.

hitlerland and american gridlock on deck.

[Fortune_Cookie]

Just finished Endurance, about Shackleton's expedition, by Alfred Lansing. Those guys were fucking hardcore. Some of the descriptions of them crossing the open ocean, crew divided among three small boats, were so obviously sandbagged I could only shake my head. What an awesome tale of people holding it together when the chips are down.

Just started The Wolverine Way by Douglas Chadwick. He's a wildlife biologist who helped out with the 5-year Glacier Wolverine Project in Glacier National Park. The wolverine is truly an astounding creature, and almost more amazing is how little we know about it. The pictures alone are worth a look.

[blender]

Just finished Endurance, about Shackleton's expedition, by Alfred Lansing. Those guys were fucking hardcore. Some of the descriptions of them crossing the open ocean, crew divided among three small boats, were so obviously sandbagged I could only shake my head. What an awesome tale of people holding it together when the chips are down.

Just started The Wolverine Way by Douglas Chadwick. He's a wildlife biologist who helped out with the 5-year Glacier Wolverine Project in Glacier National Park. The wolverine is truly an astounding creature, and almost more amazing is how little we know about it. The pictures alone are worth a look.

Nice. Read Endurance years ago. Great drama.

[smartyiak]

I went low-brow. Been doing a lot of traveling this summer so I wanted something to kill time on an airplane. Saw Abe Lincoln Vampire Slayer at B&N for $5.00.

I was pleasantly surprised...sure it's dumb. But it's quick and fun...and it was certainly better than listening to financial advice from Mortimer Duke in Seat 4B.

-Smarty

[Meadow Skipper]

I'm going to go get Necrophelia Variations today. NSFW link.

[Tippster]

Book 6 of the most kick-ass Fantasy series ever: The Malazan Book of the Fallen.

Whoah - 5 years later and I'm reading Book 8 - Toll the Hounds. Yes I read several dozen other books in between...

[hutash]

Nice. Read Endurance years ago. Great drama.

Read "South" Shackleton's first hand account.


Currently I am reading the "Mary Poppins" series. We were talking about it the other day, and it turns out I never read them, even having two daughters. Fun books.

[Meadow Skipper]

No, serious now - Driving the Rim by Tom McGuane. Only 30 pages in and I'm hooked. Hilarious and poignant, it's one of his better ones.

I just finished Sandstone Spine by David Roberts. Not bad, but not as good as his In Search of the Ancients. He's all about Anasazai in those two. ISotA is a good read, almost as good as his climbing stuff.

[blender]

Read "South" Shackleton's first hand account.


Currently I am reading the "Mary Poppins" series. We were talking about it the other day, and it turns out I never read them, even having two daughters. Fun books.

I bet it's good. I'll put it on the list. It's a long list.

[MTT]

Genesys
Reporting and Analytics Aggregates 8.0
Deployment Guide

Fun and exciting stuff, along with the conference calls where I have to argue with several people on each and every option setting.

[Beaver]

Shades of Grey. Text porn. Reading away on the reader, no one knows what I'm readin' but me.

[blender]

Shades of Grey. Text porn. Reading away on the reader, no one knows what I'm readin' but me.

Pretty fucking weak; as a book and as porn.

[GiBo]

I ordered some books.

I just read Searching for Captain Zero. Like it, so I bought Cosmic Banditos.

My boy was watching Shark Week and I got sucked into the episode about three guys adrift for 47 days during WWII. So I bought Unbroken, the story of that ordeal, written by the author of Seabiscuit.

And for shits and giggles, I bought I've Never Met an Idiot on the River, by The Fonz.

In searching for Driving the Rim by Tom McGuane, I ended up more intrigued by his book The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing. Will probably order the former after I get through these. At 10-20 pages a night, it takes a while!

I'll let ya'll know what I think (whether you care or not!).

[Obstruction]

Slogging through War and Peace, the fucking thing just will not end, but its a death march and I refuse to give up.

Also reading God's Crucible by David Levering Lewis which chronicles the history of Europe from 700's to 1500's and the role that the interplay between Muslim and Christian worlds played in it. I'm kind of in to it.

For shits and giggles Benicio Del Toro's sci-fi "The Strain" first in a dystopic vampire trilogy without all of the faggy twilight kind of bull shit.

[Obstruction]

Shades of Grey. Text porn. Reading away on the reader, no one knows what I'm readin' but me.

Pretty fucking weak; as a book and as porn.

Never thought beaver's porn cred would be challenged, but I hear you.

[Scotsman50]

Just finished Cloud Atlas....liked it a lot.
Just starting Railsea by China Meiville...steam punk.