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What are you reading?

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And how are you liking it?

I am just starting "Seeking the Heart of Wisdom" by Joseph Goldstein and Jack Kornfield. I've only read the first 22 pages, but so far so good.


Do you know what you will read next?

Over the holidays, I will read "Love" by Toni Morrison.
 
Probably "Brave New World" again, as I haven't read it in some time and is one of my favorites.
 
frisian said:
Probably "Brave New World" again, as I haven't read it in some time and is one of my favorites.
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I read it as a teen and loved it. I should reread it, too.
It's always interesting to revisit a book after many years. New eyes, almost.
 
River Town by Peter Hessler - wonderful story about a peace corps volunteer teaching english in Fuling China. He does a good job of explaining the view of the average person in China, and makes it understandable why so many like communism, support their leaders, etc (not that I agree with their positions, but know I understand how they arrived at them)

The Founding Fish by McPhee - good, but my interest is petering out, as I often do with his books. I am fascinated to learn about new things, but sometimes there seems to be a lot of facts regurgitated - I can research facts, I read a writer to synthasize them. Oh, its a book about shad fishing in America.
 
Comedy Writing, Step by Step - Gene Perret. So far, not the best book on comedy writing...
 
I'm reading Rage by Stephen King. It's been pulled from publication now (so you'll have to get a second-hand copy or find a pirate site that has it printed) because of some school violence episodes that were supposedly 'linked' to it. The worst kind of censorship is self-censorship.
 
I am usually in the middle of reading about three or four books, along with various magazines. I recently finished a book on mathematics and probability, and I would like to find time to write a computer program to simulate one of the illustrations in the book.

I am also still slogging my way through "Lord of the Rings." I'm in the middle of "Two Towers" and still see no sign of a plot.
 
Unfortunately I was an only Twin - A collection of Peter Cook scripts/sketches.
 
A huge stack of comics.


Also a book on massage, maybe can get some practice in at TAM 2 ;)
 
I´ve just finished "Domain" by Steve Alten, and as soon as I find the time, I´ll start "Grunts! A fantasy with attitudes" by Mary Gentle.
 
I tend to alternate fiction and non-fiction; just finished THe Blank Slate by Steven Pinker, and I'm reading Perdido Street Station by China Mieville at the moment.
 
I'm glad you asked.

I have been reading The Magus, by John Fowles. It's quite good.

I've interrupted it though, so that I can read Those Bones Are Not My Child, by Toni Cade Bambara. It's a novel about the Atlanta child murders of 1981-2. Wow, what a powerful story. I'll start a thread on it in a week or so.
 
frisian said:
Probably "Brave New World" again, as I haven't read it in some time and is one of my favorites.
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And when are we finally going to get the Feelies?
 
Chaos said:
I´ve just finished "Domain" by Steve Alten, and as soon as I find the time, I´ll start "Grunts! A fantasy with attitudes" by Mary Gentle.
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I read Grunts. Certainly not the kind of story one would expect from a cute little lady named 'Gentle'.
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I liked it. And if you want a book that does to Sci-Fi what that one does to Fantasy then I would suggest Illegal Aliens
 
- "The Making of the Atomic Bomb" by Richard Rhodes. This book is a monster but I've never read a Pulitzer Prize winner so it seemed like a good place to start.

- I'm halfway through Mark Twain's "Life on the Mississippi", an autobiographical work of his experiences as a riverboat pilot. This book is fascinating, I would never have guessed those pilots had to be so intimate with every feature of the river. I've also got Twain's "Roughing It" for when I finish Life on the Mississippi, another autobiography from his time as a gold prospector. That guy lived a life and a half.

- Roger Penrose's "The Emperor's New Clothes". I know this book is a classic, but this author's writing style just puts me to sleep, his style is to my mind far too flowery for a popular science piece.

- I also have Carl Sagan's "Cosmos" and Nelson Mandela's autogiography "Long Walk to Freedom" for when I finish all of the above books.

Lately I've been buying books faster than I can read them. Brisbane's first Borders Bookstore opened a few months ago and I just can't help myself, I've never seen a bookshop that covered three floors of a building before so I'm drawn to it every time I go into the city.

- Finally there's the massive biography of Werner Heisenberg "Uncertainty" by Divid Cassidy still sitting on my bookshel unopened after over a year.
 
I finally found a copy of "Hell House" by Richard Matheson and am enjoying it immensely.

After I am done with it, I think I am going to re-read "Dune".
 
Iconoclast said:
- "The Making of the Atomic Bomb" by Richard Rhodes. This book is a monster but I've never read a Pulitzer Prize winner so it seemed like a good place to start.
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That is one of my favorites. I have to admit, I cheated and listened to it on tape. I liked it so much I bought a copy, but I haven't put a dent in it yet. I still greatly enjoyed listening to it, and it's probably on my top 10 list. The follow up is Dark Sun, about the H-bomb.

I'm also reading LoTR, Return of the King. My plan is to read it before seeing the movie. I did this before the other 2 as sort of an exercise in screenplay adaptation analysis, but I'm loosing interest. It was never one of my favorites when I was a kid, and I was genuinely surprised to find it was such a popular set of books. Heresy! :)
 
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