What are you reading right now?

[damselgaming]

I finished American Gods (Neil Gaiman) yesterday and it is now one of my favourite books.
Today I started on an obscure out of print one that my brother-in-law lent me- Resume With Monsters (William Browning Spencer).
So far it's pretty good.

 

[Catchy Slogan]

The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brookes - Complete Protection From The Living Dead.

Halo: The Fall Of Reach by Eric Nylund

Neuromancer by William Gibson - Pure awesomeness, by the way.

And various diferent stuff on LiveJournal, FanFiction.net and FictionPress.net. There are some pretty good stuff once you get through all the crap.

 

[Andalusa]

Plague Ship be Clive Cussler. Still.
Normally I would have finished such a book by now, but I'm only reading it in my breaks at work. I've nearly finished it so I'm doing well, considering I only get 15 minutes break.

 

[Brown Cap]

I'm reading this post

 

[Susano]

I'm reading World war Z, Just finished the zombie survival guide, and when I'm finished those I have Call of Cthulu and the Necronomicon to read. After those I've found the Terry Pratchett section of my local bookstore. =D
By the way, I got the Necronomicon, Call of Cthulu, World War Z and Zombie Survival Guide because I found threads here that recommended them, so thank you Escapist!

 

[Lukeje]

The Principles of Quantum Mechanics by Paul Dirac. Very heavy going, but ultimately very rewarding.

 

[Kawakta4890]

A Norwegian book called "Madonna Gåten".
It's a parody on the "The Da Vinci code"
Really funny book.
Authors are -Knut Nærum
-Elisabeth Botterli
-Peder Udnæs

 

[CrashBang]

I'm reading Once Upon A Time In The North by Philip Pullman.
Damn I'm obsessed with His Dark Materials, can't wait for The Book Of Dust!

 

[Toasty]

Currently reading 'A people's Histiry of Britian' in an attempt to ready myself for uni......fail!
Oh and when my boyfreind's freind finally finishes the 7th Drak Tower book by Stephen King Ill devour that book as well.

 

[Zacharine]

Just began reading the Use Of Weapons, by Iain M. Banks (part of the Culture-series).

And it's great, beginning with a poem of sorts, called Slight Mechanical Destruction. an exempt:

"('Hey, my boy, it's you and us knife missiles now,
Our lunge and speed and bloody secret:
The way to a man's heart is through his chest!')
- They thought you were their plaything,
Savage child; the throwback from wayback
Expedient because
Utopia spawns few warriors.
But you knew your figure cut a cipher
Through every crafted plan
And playing our game for real
Saw through our plumbing jobs
And wayward glands
To a meaning of your own, in bones.

The catchment of these cultured lives
Was not in flesh,
And what we only knew,
You felt,
With all the marrow of your twisted cells."


Truly, I expect the awesomeness to continue. Banks is a freaking genius.

 

[The_ModeRazor]

The Dirty Dozen. At the moment I can't decide whether I like it or not.

 

[Fraught]

I'm reading What are you reading right now? by Concon141.

I'm not much of a reader, so the other book I am reading is the Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas. I haven't read it, but it was in my list of summer reading, so I picked it.

 

[Cool_Pat]

"The age of reason" By Jean-Paul Satre.

 

[Mana Fiend]

Hecuba/Trojan Women/Andromache by Euripides. Love his work, seeing as my favourite Trojan War characters are Hecuba and Talthybius.

Gonna perhaps go onto some Socrates afterwards, not sure.

That, or finish off the Death Note saga.

 

[Susano]

world war z

I'm reading World war Z, Just finished the zombie survival guide, and when I'm finished those I have Call of Cthulu and the Necronomicon to read. After those I've found the Terry Pratchett section of my local bookstore. =D
By the way, I got the Necronomicon, Call of Cthulu, World War Z and Zombie Survival Guide because I found threads here that recommended them, so thank you Escapist!

WWZ is epppiiiic. and i carry around Zombie Survival everywhere. NEEEERRRRD!! but it is brilliant

Doesn't having to carry it around kinda defeat the purpose? You're supposed to prepare your life for a zombie attack, not rely on it at the last minute =P

I'm reading Once Upon A Time In The North by Philip Pullman.
Damn I'm obsessed with His Dark Materials, can't wait for The Book Of Dust!

The Book of Dust? I thought there were only 3 books...

 

[bodyklok]

Book wise: I'm reading 'A Classical Education' it's a book about the Ancient World that I picked up on holiday.

 

[BardSeed]

Just finishing LotR: fellowship for the second time. I've recently ordered a load of books online; they should be here in a few days. The books I shall be receiving are:
LotR: Two towers, because I've only read the first.
Island by Aldous Huxley.
Little brother by Cory Doctorow. It's about privacy/freedom in the internet age; it sounds really good.
The stand by Stephen King.
The chrysalids by John Wyndham. Set after a nuclear war, humanity has reverted to a paranoid form of fundamentalist Christianity. They think destroying all form of mutation is God's will.

 

[spinachwrap]

I'm rereading Sunshine by Robin McKinley and Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones. I'm stalled in the first chapter of my Neuroethology text and just finished reading for my Professional Ethics Training thing. I barely stayed awake through the intro of the Ethics reading packet but the rest of it wasn't that bad and the case studies were amusing.
And a few days ago I finished a couple of trashy romance novels about time traveling Vikings [http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=sandra+hill+viking&x=16&y=24]. Absolutely hilarious books, often unintentionally.

I like reading books for fun that are completely unrelated to work or school, thus the selection.