What BOOK are you reading right now?

It's actually a very interesting book. Coke is fully aware they don't taste any better or worse than other sodas. It's all about branding.

A lot of dirty politics, back room deals, not playing fair etc etc.

With that in mind. I'd like to get to know this Fred.

finished A Game of Thrones a while back, now reading A Clash of Kings, listening to The Magician King and reading some comic books, the Flashpoint series, some of the new DC launch and the Death of Spiderman arc

as an aside, i'm trying once again to read some Orson Scott Card, i listened to Lost Boys a few years back and kind of enjoyed it, but for the most part i can't get into his writing, i'm struggling through The Folk of the Fringe

I'm reading Badjelly the Witch to my little boy.

Nice!

hehe yes but now he wants a fish

On Coke and Pepsi, Malcolm Gladwell went into all that in Blink - a book I liked after I got over his self promo moves at the beginning. I'm not even sure he's self promotional so much as always on.

I think Blink is worth a read.

I'm still plowing through McCullough's The Greater Journey (Americans in Paris). I love it but need a break. The book is so heavy, tires my arms. You would like all the great detail involving art.

Snort, when my wrists went bad, I think it was from reading heavy books in bed.
(They're better, but still woopy)

Of course, I still read books in bed. They might have to house me in a jacket if I couldn't do that. That was part of my panic on a2k re my old eye surgery threads. I am a book addict at large.

I have to add I'm reading a book I like.

I know this is a surprise after my last diatribes. Roger gave me this, besides the two books I bombed.
Nelson de Mille's By the Rivers of Babylon

This reminds me of books I was involved with, engaged, forming opinions, decades ago.

But this is better written.
At this point, I'm not just a fluff ready to buy all of the underlying premise (far as I've read). But it is good writing, per me, and very worth a read.

The opposite of the last two books I was whining about.

Me no catchy stupid writing.

Kind of hate to put that Nelson de Mille book in the Goodwill box, but better someone else enjoy it; it was really engrossing all the way through.

Am presently about two thirds through The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields, which I'm liking a great deal. Something of a keeper, at least for a while.

The Lake House by James Patterson! Wouldnt it be cool to be half bird/half human

Pilgrrim, by Timothy Findley. Bizarre book. I can't say if i'm enjoying it or not. I'm mostly reading it because a book has to be really, really bad for me to give it up without finishing it.

Immortals of Meluha -a strange concept of depicting Shiva (God of Hindu mythology) as an ordinary man and the ordeals he undergoes..interesting i would say

I must have read that one - is it about the kids that are half bird and half human that break away from the government experimental place or some such thing?

Ok. Have spent the last 45 minutes going back through this thread to find the person who spoke highly of Alice Hoffman's The Dovekeepers. I wanted to grovel at their feet in thanksgiving. I can't find that person. Whoever you are, I will be forever grateful. It is one of the finest books I have ever had the pleasure to read.

Embassytown by China Mieville

Very much like this author.

I'm only a couple of chapters into it, but it hasn't engaged me yet.

looking forward to reading it, i really liked Un Lun Dun and his book of short stories, quite enjoyed The City & The City as well

have the New Coruzon series but haven't read them yet

Finally reading Greg Mortenson's Three Cups of Tea.

Still in the mountain-climbing part. Figuring out that he's one stubborn bugger.

I've just reread a thriller/police procedural set in Chicago. Since it was a reread, I could predict most of what would happen - but like books not only for their plotting but the general scene. In this case, the story is preposterous to start with, so there ya go. But, given that, I still generally liked Holton's writing.

I'm in the midst of book giveaways, and I'd read that one ten years ago. Ok, out the door -

Violent Crimes, by Hugh Holton

You are still going to read it despite the controversy regarding the possibility the author may have fabricated many of the books claims Beth?