What it says in the title. What book are you reading at the moment? You can also say what its about, where you are up to, what you like about it etc if you like.

Currently I'm reading John Green's Looking For Alaska. I'm up to page 49. The character Alaska is really interesting. I keep on reading just to find out more about her, the book is really addictive. I can't put it down. I'm only posting this because I'm taking a break to have a drink then I'm diving back into the world of Culver Creek.

Now that Christmas Break is over, I'm no longer reading what I want, which isn't as bad as it sounds. I generally enjoy what I have to read for class. Over the break I read A Drink Before the War, Darkness, Take My Hand, and Sacred, all by Dennis Lehane and from his Kenzie and Gennaro series of Boston neo-noir. I also read True Grit.

Now, for my Intro to English Literature class, I'm reading some poetry from Robert Browning, specifically My Last Duchess and Porphyria's Lover.

For my World Mythology class, I'm reading the ancient Mesopotamian creation/flood myths of Atrahasis.

Not very long works, but still. I don't have to read any novels for a little bit longer.

Bedlam: London and its Mad by Catharine Arnold. About halfway through and enjoying it a lot, even if it is a bit bleak - the things they used to do to "cure" people is pretty terrifying, although most only had the best intentions. Also learned that Bedlam was originally called Bethlehem, as in a house of bread and refuge, which then became Bethlem, which then became Bedlam. Kind of reflects what happened inside its doors too.

The Child Garden, about 3/4ths through it, I didn't really get into it, but it's had some decent parts. Also reading Great Expectations, up to about chapter 8/9 - not sure. I really like it so far, but I have a bad habit of only reading sporadically.

You don't want to... heck, La Temptation de l'Innocence by Pascal Brückner. :teehee:

Douglas Addams' So long and thanks to all the fish in the house, Macbeth in english lessons and Agi Agi Agi in welsh lessons.

Terry Pratchett's most recent novel, I Shall Wear Midnight. It's quite good, which I was worried it might not be - it's a continuation of the Tiffany Aching storyline, but written much more like his older novels rather than the slightly younger-reader style he adopted for Wee Free Men and Hatful of Sky. Not a classic, compared to some of his other work, but certainly has some good themes and characters going for it.

I'm reading the first Dexter book.

The Stand, by King. I would put a bit about what it's like, but I don't want to ruin it for anyone, and by the time I was finished it would be like a short story of the first 100 or so pages...its good though

:facepalm: should have read this before the dark tower series, among some of his other books.....



niiiice. depending on what you like to read, of course...it's a good series.

Hitlers second book. its for history class.

Im in the middle of reading four books at the moment,

The Stand by Stephen King
Dark Tower III: the Wastelands by Stephen King
The Horus Heresy: Horus Rising by Dan Abbenet
The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King by J.R.R Tolkien

They are all very good books, thankfully.

Currently reading Day by Day Armageddon by J.L Bourne. Its of course a zombie book :teehee: and one of the best I've read.

I am currently reading "The 19th Wife" or rather I am wading through it at a slow pace. I have read three other books while wading through and am currently looking for another book to read so I can just put it on a back shelf for a spell and forget about it.

Oooh, I like a good zombie book and haven't heard of that one - thanks for the recommendation! :thumbsup:

Right now I'm about 150 pages into Mists of Avalon. Thus far I don't think it's all that great. I would have stopped reading by now, but since my uncle and a friend were totally lyrical about how fantastic it was I'll finish it so I can at least discuss it with them. Maybe I'll even start to like it.

Discworld - Reaper Man

Somehow I got into "One Hundred Days. The memoirs of the Falkland Battle Group Commander." by Sandy Woodward. It's completely different from the fantasy I usually read, and the only reason I have it is because I used the foreword as a source while writing about the Falklands War for class. And now I'm already halfway through.

Books are mysterious things...

I just finished Fahrenheit 451 here is what I'm reading at the moment

Neuromancer -Gibson

Snow Crash - Stephenson

Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? - dike

As you can tell, I'm into Cyberpunk right now

As for how Neuromancer is, I like it except for the computer slang. It was cool at first, but now it's just plain hard to understand what's going on without understanding all of this computer talk.

Just finished the U.S. Constitution and Declaration of Independence. Just started, I Am Legend (Matheson). After that, At the Mountains of Madness (Lovecraft).

Nothing! :dance: Well, until classes start and I have to read my science textbooks.

I used to be a voracious reader, but I just can't read long books anymore, it's too boring an activity for me. I can manage a Discworld book now and then, though.

I'll have to check out Pratchett's new book as well. Hopefully not his last one.


Nice book. Death is one of my favourite characters from the Discworld series.


I have just started reading The Infernal City from Greg Keyes today, and also re-reading Pratchett's Carpe Jugulum.

I've currently got Max Weber's Economy and Society vol. 1, Alan Aldridge's The Market, Don Slater and Fran Tonkiss's Market Society and Beyond the Marketplace edited by Roger Friedland and A.F. Robertson on my desk. I'm writing an essay on markets as a form of social organization.

On my bed behind me I've got Narrative and Social Control, by David Mumby, The City Reader, edited by Richard T. LeGates and Frederic Stout, Space, Knowledge and Power, edited by Jeremy W. Crampton and Stewart Elden, Mapping the Subject edited by Steve Pile and Nigel Thrift, Forgetting Foucault by Jean Baudrillard and Discipline and Punish and The History of sixuality vol. 1, both by Michel Foucault. That's for an essay on bodies in social space.

Once I finish these essays (deadline in a couple of days...) I'm going to finish off Nihilism, by Bulent Diken and then start reading Governmentality, by Mitchell Dean, Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil, and Our Tragic Universe, by Scarlett Thomas. I can't wait...

Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle. Working through the whole collection, and loving it.

Thank you. I just ordered it up via Amazon.ca

I'm currently reading "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. dike. It's a book about a bounty hunter of androids named Richard Deckard. He is hunting a group of Nexus-6 androids that have found their way to Earth. Sound familiar? Well Blade Runner is based on that book.

Little Brother, by Cory Doctorow. It's kind of a what-if scenario, where San Francisco gets hit by a terrorist attack (specifically, they blow up the Bay Bridge). It's told from the point of view of a 17-year-old kid who finds himself being kidnapped and interrogated (by the government) for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. He's released only to discover that SF has turned into a police state. The book basically follows his efforts to stage a civil revolt against the DHS.
It's really well-written, and the characters are great- my only complaint is that the antagonists are frustratingly two-dimensional, but that can be excused since the book's told from the perspective of a seriously pissed-off teenage boy.
I can't think of too many other books where the author actively encourages people to go out and hack their school security systems.
(Also the book's endorsed by Neil Gaiman, one of my favorite writers.)

I'm also re-reading World War Z and impatiently waiting for the release of the next Temeraire novel.