What book are you reading right now?

[Velvo]

The Varieties of Scientific Experience, by Carl Sagan, and also the complete collection of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

 

[MercurySteam]

I'm reading 2 at the mo,

Slash's autobiography

Good book there.

OP: Halo: Evolutions. It's basically a bunch of short stories about Halo written by a bunch of different authors who write books like the Halo books e.g. Tobias S. Buckell, Eric Nylund, Karen Traviss etc. Some of the stoies are quite good, other are a bit crap but in the end of most of them, the endings aren't very good. But they're short stories I guess.

Still, good book.

 

[Canadian Briton]

horus heresy, Galaxy in flames. The books are good but you know everything is http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DoomedByCanon doomed by canon anyway

 

[Fightgarr]

I just finished reading a history of Studio Ghibli. It was enlightening but not nearly as in depth as I was hoping. Ah well, there's always the internet for that. Currently I'm powering through the 27th McSweeny's edition. I've owned it for a while now and (despite being pretty big into Eggers' stuff) just haven't gotten around to it. Also on the topic of Eggers, the most recent actual "novel" I read was Eggers' novelization of the Where the Wild Things Are which was a quiet and beautiful book to get through. Myself as a Wild Things fanboy enjoyed it quite a lot.

 

[randomrob]

1984 By George Orwell and it's absolutely bloody fantastic. Seriously though, the idiot who read the book and thought Big Brother was a good idea for a TV show was seriously fucked up and should crawl into a hole and die.

 

[Ilyushin88]

Currently reading seven types of ambiguity by Elliot Perelman, I love psychological thrillers.

 

[craddoke]

Kushiel's Justice (book five of a series that begins with Kushiel's Dart). It's got adventure, intrigue, and sadomasochistic sex. What more does anyone need?

 

[DeathWyrmNexus]

Rereading the Collected Works of H.P. Lovecraft... I'm only a few stories in but I tend to read it in bed and not much reading has occurred vs sleeping/other stuff.

Read a number of them before, just catching myself back up on his work again.

 

[Contun]

Eric Clapton's autobiography, and it's pretty interesting.

 

[Crispee]

I'm reading Dune, or trying to anyway, I keep wanting to read it but I always end up doing something something else.

Don't suppose anybody could confirm whether it's good or not?

 

[chromewarriorXIII]

Right now I'm reading Beautiful City of the Dead by Leander Watts. It's a short book about a teenage metal band who are trying to create their own unique sound called Ghost Metal. I'll leave it at that as I don't want to give anyway anything else.

 

[Quaxar]

OT: Just finished Star Wars: Death Troopers the creepiest, best Star Wars book I have read. A derelict Star Destroyer, stranded prison ship... oh and zombie Stormtroopers. XD

That sounds interesting... will have to investigate further.

OT: I've just finished Shakespeare's King Lear (not his best play I think) and am now eight chapters into Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Interesting, but I don't really like the Austen parts methinks. Next will be Alice in Wonderland and Through the looking-glass, let's see.

 

[Enemy Of The State]

Of Mice and Men, because I have to study it at school.

Its quite depressing in a way.

 

[Chase Yojimbo]

right now is Dante Alighieri's 'Divinia Comedia' The Inferno. afterwards will probebly be the Trial of Socratis. i don't have the 2nd Divinia Comedia

 

[stormtrooper9091]

A Clockwork Orange
1984
Life and times of Gargantua and Pantagruel

 

[Cutoid]

The Millenium trilogy (Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Girl who played with Fire, Girl who kicked the hornet's nest) by Steig Larsson

Individually and together some of the best mysteries I've read in decades
Also re-reading Bujold's Vorkosigan series

 

[Sebenko]

Roadside Picnic by Boris & Arkady Strugatsky.

If you're a STALKER fan, you owe it to yourself to read this book.

Where did you get it? I can only find copies for $100 or more.

lolwhut?

I just walked into a book shop, asked if they had a copy, and they ordered it in. £8 and a weekend of waiting for it to be delivered.
Are you buying first printings or something?

 

[Feste the Jester]

Atlas Shrugged. This book is taking a loooooong time.

 

[Lemon Of Life]

I'm flicking between Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything, which is extremely interesting, and Pratchett's Men at Arms.