What book are you reading?

[Paros]

Breakfast with Socrates

[Mad hatters in jeans]

just finished a murder mystery...which ends with and they all die except the main character and his crush.
never expected such a weak ending from what was a reasonably well written book.

"and they all died" is something a kid could come up with.

[Stattr]

"Fell"
By David Clement-Davis.
you have to read the first one "The sight" to understand "Fell".

[Natty Narwhal]

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

[Northern Europia]

Inheritance by Christopher Paolini

[Tannarabia]

I'm rereading The Odessey. Its a good read, though if you just had a conversation with your friend, I would not suggest it. It gets hardish to read if your not used to the syntax.

[Zaras]

Robert Keohane's After Hegemony.

[The Truth and Light]

I just finished reading The ABC Murders, by Agatha Christie. Now I am beginning, Our Town, a play by Thronton Wilder.

[Nanatsu no Tsuki]

Just started The Abyssinian Proof, by Jenny White. So far, it has been quite interesting.

Summary (for those who might be interested): Constantinople, May, 1453. In the dying days of the Byzantine Empire, as the city prepares for a final onslaught by the Ottoman Turks, Isaak Metochites and his family are entrusted with a silver reliquary carved with the figure of a weeping angel and the inscription "Behold the Proof of Chora, Container of the Uncontainable."

Four hundred years later, magistrate Kamil Pasha is plagued by thefts of antiquities from mosques, churches and synagogues, and a series of murders in which the bodies bear the same distinctive mark. Sources lead Kamil to a hidden sect descended from Abyssinian slaves living in an abandoned cistern in Istanbul's gritty underworld. The re-emergence of the forgotten reliquary sets off a brutal race between those sworn to protect it and those who will stop at nothing to gain its explosive secret.

[Krakosov]

20th century guns

[I V Stalin]

Paul Hoffman's The Last Four Things.

[Charlotte Ryberg]

Georges Perec's Life: A User's Manual. The level of detail is far more than a WA resolution with lots of micromanagement.

[Besate]

Warhammer 400000 Dawn of War *

[Bellkronum]

I'm reading Catching Fire. It's the second book in the Hunger Games series. The first book was amazing so I'm hoping the second book will be just as good. I haven't read much of it yet, only the first few chapters.

[Malakthia]

Reading two at the moment. One is Foxe's Book of Martyrs, an incomplete list of Christian martryrdom from the disciple Stephen to the 21st Century.

The other is The Three Musketeers. Been a favorite for years. In fact, this is my third time reading it.

[Fedeledland]

I'm reading Catching Fire. It's the second book in the Hunger Games series. The first book was amazing so I'm hoping the second book will be just as good. I haven't read much of it yet, only the first few chapters.

It's good, not nearly as good as Hunger Games.

I'm starting to read Inheritance. Even now, I'm barely tolerating the purple prose (and I'm on freaking page 26), but I started the series a long time ago and need to finish it.

[Syvorskji]

Done with 1984, so no books anymore. Well, I got to read one for Dutch literature.

[Something with wings]

Just finished David Eddings' Belgariad series (someone had mentioned it earlier, and i decided to reread it)

next up Orwell's Road to Wigan Pier, then probably more Eddings.

[Saurisisia]

The Last Stand of Fox Company: A True Story of U.S. Marines in Combat

It's a pretty good book.

[Theseonia]

Galactic Effectuator by Jack Vance.

I kinda picked it up as a joke in a used bookstore for a dollar a year ago cause the cover was cheesy just like the name. While i had never read him, I DID however know that Jack Vance was a respected SF author. The book is not cheesy as it turns out, confirming once more the saying that you shouldn't judge a book by its cover, but while well written, it isn't particularly entertaining. Yet anyway.

[Tlaceceyaya]

Human, All Too Human by Frederick Nietzsche.

[Stattr]

"Corbenic"
By: Catherine Fisher

[Horsefish]

I'm attempting to actully get through This is your Brain on music. It wasn't the science that stumped me last time though, it was the technical music explanation at the start/

[Fnordgasm 5]

Just started The Abyssinian Proof, by Jenny White. So far, it has been quite interesting.

Summary (for those who might be interested): Constantinople, May, 1453. In the dying days of the Byzantine Empire, as the city prepares for a final onslaught by the Ottoman Turks, Isaak Metochites and his family are entrusted with a silver reliquary carved with the figure of a weeping angel and the inscription "Behold the Proof of Chora, Container of the Uncontainable."

Four hundred years later, magistrate Kamil Pasha is plagued by thefts of antiquities from mosques, churches and synagogues, and a series of murders in which the bodies bear the same distinctive mark. Sources lead Kamil to a hidden sect descended from Abyssinian slaves living in an abandoned cistern in Istanbul's gritty underworld. The re-emergence of the forgotten reliquary sets off a brutal race between those sworn to protect it and those who will stop at nothing to gain its explosive secret.

I'm guessing from your synopsis that this reliquary is stuffed with C-4?


Anyway, I'm still trying to read Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand by Leonard Peikoff. It's not going well though. This shit is hard.. not to understand but to put up with the nauseating hatred for anyone who dares have a different opinion not to mention the misrepresentation of other philosophies. Still, one should make an effort to understand why people take it so seriously..

[NobleBastard]

I read King Lear for a class, and thought it was rather enjoyable for a Shakespeare (which I don't rather like). Also have to read Macbeth.

I even watched the Japanese reinterprtation "RAN" which was really bad.