What book is everyone reading at the moment?

[catsmate]

Gladys Mitchell's "Laurels Are Poison". Good, classic mystery.

 

[Sunray Breaker]

Currently about to finish The Scar by China Mieville, need to pick up Iron Council next...But until I have the cash to buy it...The Selfish Gene is next on my list

 

[HawaiiBigSis]

Just finishing up "Wizard's First Rule," and wondering if I really want to put the time into the remaining books in the series. Maybe if I split them up and read other stuff in between, I won't feel like it's such a total time sink.

 

[rsaavedra]

On Writing, by Stephen King

 

[wollery]

I'm about halfway through Bill Bryson's "A Short History of Nearly Everything", and it's a cracking read.

I recommend it to anyone who wants to know how science works.

 

[Praktik]

Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

Im staying up way too late reading this!!

 

[The Drain]

I just finished The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown and now I'm reading the second book of a post apolyptic trilogy titled Kingdom River by Mitchell Smith.

I started 'The Lost Symbol' but got bored about quarter way through and couldn't finish it. I read Dan Brown's other books easily enough - all nice holiday escapism - but his latest heavily-hyped novel is too... simple? formulaic?

I'm currently reading 'Gunpowder: The Explosive That Changed The World' by Jack Kelly. Fascinating.

 

[pnerd]

I'm reading The Life and Times of Hercule Poirot by Anne Hart.

 

[jimbob]

Just finishing up "Wizard's First Rule," and wondering if I really want to put the time into the remaining books in the series. Maybe if I split them up and read other stuff in between, I won't feel like it's such a total time sink.

Why are you trying?

 

[eccles]

Richard Dawkins: "The Greatest Show on Earth". Should be required reading in all those Christian Schools that shun Evolution.

 

[HawaiiBigSis]

Why are you trying?

Because it's a water-cooler topic at work, and I don't like being out of the know!

 

[Captain Tripps]

Just finished the sequel to the Inferno, called Escape From Hell by Larry Niven and Jerry Puornelle.

 

[The Drain]

Just finished the sequel to the Inferno, called Escape From Hell by Larry Niven and Jerry Puornelle.

Any good? (And welcome to the forum!)

 

[pnerd]

Richard Dawkins: "The Greatest Show on Earth". Should be required reading in all those Christian Schools that shun Evolution.

What good will that do? They'll just keep ignoring the evidence the way they always do.
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[jimbob]

Because it's a water-cooler topic at work, and I don't like being out of the know!

Fair enough, I can't talk as I accidentally picked up a really weird one.

Fundie right-wing science-fiction strongly in favour of Roman Catholicism, but seemingly also in favour of any religion as well, including polytheistic ones.

I would quote the afterword, but my brain kept melting when I read it.

At least it didn't cost any money (The Tuloriad) Avoid.

Yes I will read almost anything if I have the time. But that was *bad*

Military Science Fiction is so bizarre that I keep reading it just to see how the authors' minds* work. This was a new subgenre, "Theological" (If I can dignify the incoherent but unsubtle message with that word) Military Science Fiction.



*It is very American, and very right-wing, and seems to have lots of collaborations... About the only decent fiction I have read that was a collaboration is Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman.

 

[Professor Yaffle]

I'm about to start The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie for a book group I just started going to.

 

[HawaiiBigSis]

I'm about to start The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie for a book group I just started going to.

I wish I could find a book group.

 

[bruto]

I just finished Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation. An entertaining look at sex from an evolutionary standpoint.

 

[Foster Zygote]

I'm about to head off to bed and pick up where I left off in Jesus Interrupted by Bart Ehrman.

 

[pakeha]

Rereading Gore Vidal's Creation.