Thread: What are you reading?

Still Sputnik Sweetheart :3 and now new Cloud Atlas from David Mitchell.

Jane Eyre, but only because of school work. Damn my English teachers for setting me homework over the summer!
However, I am a rather amazing English student.

This is going to sound completely ridiculous but I'm re-reading Redwall by Brian Jacques. It's honestly just a great book. I've only read it about five hundred times now.

Finished up both Reamde and Red Mars last night. Red Mars was my back burner audiobook (I finished a couple ebooks and a couple other audiobooks in the midst of listening to it, but did keep going back to it). It was good, but the wandering travelogue aspect with characters in the forefront and plot as an afterthought challenges some people's patience, based on Goodreads reviews. The way I read it was probably a good way to read it.

Reamde was a lot of fun with some engaging characters and lots of action, not the deep mindbender one might expect from Stephenson, but a good read especially if you are familiar with and/or interested in virtual worlds (though most of the action takes place in meatspace).

Right now I'm between books and will probably start something new tonight, but I don't know what.

Ugh, i'm reading these books a bit faster than i wanted to....
Finally i got my hands on all 6 of them, so now i can continue with the 5th

Finally reached the last book... i feel a bit sad that the story will soon end But it was really fun so far



I'll start looking for something new soon, i can't be left without a book to read

The void trilogy
The tao of tai-chi
and lucid dreaming: gateway to inner self,

I'm reading The Swerve, which won a Pulitzer this year and the National Book Award last year:


It's fascinating so far. The first part is mostly a biography of the papal secretary and founding humanist who re-discovered Lucretius' On the Nature of Things 600 years ago, and the historical context of that discovery, including a lot of detail of the papal court, monastic culture, and the origins of the humanities as a field of study. Greenblatt hasn't really touched on his thesis yet, that Lucretius' almost-lost poem is the founding document of Modernity, but I mainly got into it for the historical stuff, anyway--a friend recommended the book when I mentioned I wanted to pick up some history after my recent sci-fi jag.

I'm also listening to Roger Zelazny's Lord of Light, about future space colonists who found a medieval society with their cloned offspring and then rule from orbit in the guise of the Hindu pantheon, opposed by one of their own number who acts as a Buddha of sorts. It's proven way too engaging for bedtime listening, so I've also resumed the comfortably mediocre Belgariad series as a sleep aid

- A Student's Guide to Maxwell's Equations by Daniel Fleisch: a really good book if you want to review or learn about the four fundamental equations of electromagnetism
- The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins: I wanted to read this for a while now and I share most of my views on religion with Dawkins.
- Introduction to Tensor Analysis, Relativity and Cosmology by D.F. Lawden: I would like to know more about relativity and tensors but I still lack the physics background to tackle this book so I had
to put it away for now.
- The Red Queen: sex and the evolution of human nature by Matt Ridley

The fourth book in the series and actually one of the best books in it so far. I've read quite a few fantasy series but "A tale of the Malazan book of the fallen" is definitely the most intellectually challenging so far. It's unpredictable and very imaginative. However it can get a bit too deep sometimes, especially the previous books, there's alot of philosophy stylish monologue which can get tiring.

I really recommend this series to anyone who's into fantasy.

The Swerve was interesting throughout, but never made much of a case for its thesis, or rather had a much less ambitious thesis than the subtitle "How the World Became Modern" suggests. People who were blown away by it seem mainly to have been moved by the short, straightforward introduction to Epicureanism and the anti-religious sentiment. For me, the former struck me as a sort of under-developed Buddhism with a couple crucial parts missing, and the latter as a personal hangup of the author.

Now I'm reading a pretty trashy (but not altogether bad) old horror novel, Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons. It's about puppet masters or "mind vampires" who can psychically control one or two people near them and get a special kick out of making those people do violent things. There's a definite BDSM vibe to the whole thing.

I just finished reading The Hunger Games books by Suzanne Collins which were really enjoyable.

I'm currently reading 'Invisible Monsters' by Chuck Palahniuk (fight club) about a fashion model who's face gets disfigured.

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath. Just discovered it's nearly 800 pages long. Yay. But it's good, though.

My current fixations

im reading "the fires of heaven" book 5 in the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan

I'm about to start The Electric Jesus: The Healing Journey of a Contemporary Gnostic by Jonathan Talat Phillips.

Also eager to start the Aghora trilogy by Robert E. Svoboda, even knowing the controversy surrounding its authenticity.

Originally Posted by Original Poster

Survivor was enjoyable enough and maybe a little better than Fight Club (which wasn't nearly as good a book as the movie was a movie), but the only Palahniuk I really enjoyed was Lullaby. Besides those I started Diary and never finished it.

I kinda like it so far, but only for the absurdity of the character. Nothing in the story has really hooked me.

Well, i decided to stay in the Forgotten Realms so far. I'll be reading all the Drizzt Do'Urden books from now on Starting with this:

I love reading Iris Johansen's books.. "The Ugly Duckling" and Cherry Bennet's "Life in the Fat Lane" I enjoy reading it.

I got to like Drizzt already

I love Crime and romance books but for a change I'm reading manga right now..it's "venus cappriccio"

Really interesting read so far Also well written and illustrated.