What BOOK are you reading right now?

farmerman, What is "krakatoa" about? I read "The Map That Changed the World" which I really enjoyed.

gus, Send me your mail address by pm, and you got it.

I'm reading "Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal". Highly, highly recommended. Such hilarity is rarely found.

Hey, revengeofthecow, welcome to a2k! Who wrote that book?

1066 The Year Of The Conquest by David Howarth.

Finally finished the Kinsey report on male sexuality and started the report on the female but decided enough of sex made boring by being studied, examined in minutia, and put into statistical charts, ugh. But the movie was great.

"Running blind" by Lee Child. I spent most of my vacation reading Lee Child books. I love his detailed descriptions.

reading again : ambassador's journal by j.k. galbraith(issued 1969). galbraith was a friend of president kennedy who appointed him ambassador to india. he pleaded with the president to stay away from vietnam ... to no avail. i find it enlightening and frightening at the same time to take a look back at how world history was being shaped. i find it is often more interesting to read what was going on at a particular time than reading (a later) historical account. hbg

"The Bourne Identity" by Robert Ludlum

Good escapist reading...

I'm reading "Portrait of a Lady" by Henry James and loving it. I swear I'm just like Isabel sometimes!

I'm reading "Reading Lolita in Tehran". It makes me angry, but it's very hard to put down.

I'm now reading lonely planet's "Antarctica." It's long with 376 pages, and I'm not quite half way through. It's pretty comprehensive about it's history, expeditions, fauna and flora, ecology and global warming and it's effects on the region, and how visitors should be aware of how they impact the environment - what to do and not to do. It even tells about how different countries have impacted Antarctica in negative ways and the damage they have caused. It also includes a 32-page full-color wildlife guide which identifies all the peguins, birds, whales, and seals. It's amazing to see how many different species of penguins live in Antarctica.

I've just finished reading "First Light" by Brock and Bodie Thoene. It was really good. Does anyone else know of fiction books about religion?

I just finished "my side of the mountain" and #2 of the lirial series.

Finished DeMille's "Night Fall" last night - quite an ending!

I just started Dean Koontz's "Life Exepectancy."

A friend loaned me a precious copy of The Trouble with Lichen about a year ago. I accepted it to be nice, figuring I'd hold onto it and then return it.

Well, ok, it got covered by paper int he workroom, and I was about to return it but finished the book I was reading with 15 mins of commute ahead of me.

This book is amazing; written by the gent who wrote The Day of the Triffids, John Wyndham, it's about a bio-chemist, a woman, who discovers that a certain lichen can prolong life by a hundred years and more. Her boss is working on it in secret as well, and they go in different directions with it. The political, economic and moral ramifications are covered and satirized with stinging accuracy.

It's really a gem of a book. Written in 1960, you realize toward the end that no one has said the word "computer!" Sadly, I finished it today, but a fun read!

I'm getting close to finishing "Dragons of a Fallen Sun: The War of Souls Volume I". I'm not exactly fond of the story because it is a typical fantasy novel with dwarfs, gnomes, elves, dragons, etc. I tend to like reading fantasy books a lot but not ones that seem to tailor themselves to Tolken's novels. However, someone gave it to me for Christmas and I needed a new book to read so I figured I would give it a shot. The only problem is that it is written well enough to make me want to know what happens in the second and third books.

I won't be reading the second book in this series next though. I recently bought the 13th book in a series I've been reading for a few years now. It's titled "Ordermaster". I like the series because it is fantasy, but not your "traditional" fantasy. I would be hard pressed to give a decent description of the series without giving much of the plot away, otherwise I might get into it. Chances are I'll be reading this book next, but my girlfriend got me "America (The Book)" for Christmas and I've really wanted to read it. Maybe I'll flip a coin or something.

EDIT: I just realized that the Daily Show book isn't an actual book, but rather more like "Bart Simpson's Guide to Life" (a childhood favorite). Now I feel kind of silly.

I loved the book Warriors Don't Cry.
its a true story about this girl who integrated a high school in the 50s in arkansas.

I have just finished reading Brilliance Of The Moon, the third and final book in the Tales of the Otori trilogy by Lian Hearn. That was excellent.
Currently I'm reading Montmorency : On The Rocks by Elanor Updale.

Yuck--I tried to finish what was billed as an historical mystery by Candace Robb, first in a series. I skipped ahead and won't pick up another.
Too much info where you didn't need it, not enough where you did.
Steven Saylor is one author who has mastered the art of beautiful writing, compelling mysteries, genuine and interesting characters, great plots and convincing historical background woven through a story. Hard to find many others.

So having left that book at an inn, I'm now reading Without Reservations--about a woman traveliing alone around the world. awesome.

Mc Sweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Stories

it's a collection of short stories presented in the style of the great sci-fi mystery anthologies of the 40's and 50's

it's edited by Michael Chabon and has a variety of never before published stories by such writers as Stephen king, Elmore Leonard, Nick Hornby, Neil Gaimen, Dave Eggers, etc

Just finished the quick, little "Holidays On Ice" by David Sedaris. I've had it for a year or two. Just got around to it. Very funny.