What BOOK are you reading right now?

I've started Metaplanetary by Tony Daniel, I've never heard of him, but the book was recomended by MrB. It's interesting so far.

The dictionary.Eever since I got on A2K

Million Dollar Baby, by F.X. Toole.
I've seen the movie, too.

Digital Fortress - Dan Brown

Like Dan Brown's stuff, Crucifiction? You were reading Angels and Demons before, and I'm going to bet that you've read Da Vinci Code, since pretty much all of earth has.

I found that his stuff got very, very repetitive.

Spanking the Donkey, by Matt Taibbi. Present-day gonzo journalism on the race for the 2004 democratic pres nomination.

Simultaneously hysterical and hideously depressing.

Spanking the Donkey, by Matt Taibbi. Present-day gonzo journalism on the race for the 2004 democratic pres nomination.

Simultaneously hysterical and hideously depressing.

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. I love, love, love, love Murakami. I discovered him while I was living in Japan last year and have been working through his entire body of work. He's just awesome. Anyone curious about the modern Japanese mind or living in Tokyo should read him. And Banana Yoshimoto as well. I read the first story from her collection titled Lizard while on a train. The story takes place on a train, and I totally had one of those transcendent literary moments.

Re: Dan Brown


I got Code as a Christmas gift and found some parts of it imaginative and some parts, like the love story, very obvious and flat. I think it'll make an exciting film, though.

I'm most of the way through Mostly Harmless (last of Douglas Adams' hitchhiker series). I bought 2 david sedaris books that I'llbe reading next.

reading two books by john mortimer ("rumpole of the bailey" - i've read them all - over and over again).
the older is a re-read "john mortimer in character - interviews with some of the most influential and remarkable men and women of our time "; interviews with lord denning to discuss the law, death penalty and life in genaral, with archbishop runcie to question him about god, ditto with cardinal hume ... and about two dozen more interesting characters. it's an absolute gem !
the other book is : "where there is a will" . he wrote this book in 2003 when he was 80 years old and this book is another gem.
the first sentence in the book is : "all advice is perfectly useless", my father told me when he sent me away to school. the book deals with such subjects as : "getting drunk", "outdoor sex" - not permitted in england ! - and gets only better from there on. it's a real feast to read . hbg

SLAB RAT by Ted Heller

I just finished this - really enjoyed it, shallow person that I am. It's a mordant view of career machinations in the publishing business.

I'm getting involved in, "The Rule of Four". I usually don't like books written in the first person or in the present tense but so far it's pretty good.

I'm reading Every Which Way But Dead by Kim Harrison

I am done with the Hitchhiker series. Now, which David Sedaris book should I start with? I left it to my dog to chose. Twice she sniffed out "Naked". So, that's where I start.

Ooh, I haven't read that one...

Osso, David Sedaris - you've read his stuff? which ones? Mostly I've heard him on the radio. I've only read Holidays on Ice, so far.

I read and liked Me Talk Pretty One Day. I think that's the only book of his I've read, but I've also enjoyed his short pieces in the New Yorker.

Rereading Niagara: A History of the Falls, Pierre Berton--a fascinating tale well-told . . .

Good, I think Naked was his funniest book.

Me talk pretty one day was okay, but sometimes he was trying to hard.

I gong to the library to look for "dress your family in corduroy and denim"

I saw him at a book reading - hearing his voice, and seeing his diminutive stature at the same time was a real hoot.

I just started "What Salmon Know," by Elwood Reid. This is a collection of short stories, and so far Reid has this post-Carver minimalism thing going on. I'm enjoying it.