What are you reading?

[Technomancer]

"Conspirators" by Michael Andre Bernstein. I've also picked up "The Glass Bead Game" by Herman Hesse.

[uc pseudonym]

I am midway through Dune by Frank Herbert. Though I find the world and political intrigue very involving, I have been disappointed by most of his characterization.

[starfire]

Just finished The Crucible. I'm now wading my way through Simply Einstein:Relativity Demystified. It rocks!!!

[Kaori]

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. While this is the third time I have read the work, my appreciation of it has not been decreased by rereading it.

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam and Attar's Bird Parliament, translated by Edward FitzGerald. Obscure and somewhat fascinating poetry.

I am part of the way through reading The Virtue of War, by Alexander Webster and Darrell Cole, and have no strong opinions about the book as of yet.

[Htom Sirveaux]

Currently reading The Silence of the Lambs. A superbly written psychological thriller. I thought Red Dragon was good, but this one's even better!

[uc pseudonym]

Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller

This is a book on Christianity for a postmodern (in the best sense of the word) audience. It has the possibility of offending some, but I would recommend it regardless because of the sometimes difficult truths it contains about Christian relations to non-christians. Also, the author is an enjoyable writer and the book isn't heavy reading.

[Kaori]

"Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," both by Washington Irving. It had been several years since I last read these stories, so I was pleased to discover the high quality of Irving's prose.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself, and "The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro." These works speak for themselves, and there is little I can say about them.

I have also been rereading significant portions of Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur. Malory isn't the most literary writer of Arthurian materials, but the book is enjoyable nevertheless.

[mitsuki lover]

I have been reading Lies,And The Lying Liars Who Tell Them:A Fair And Balanced
Look by Al Franken.At first I was rather relunctant to read it but he does have
some interesting things to say.The most objectionable was on page 155 when
he talks about the Confederate States.The most amusing is the chapter when
he details his adventures at Bob Jones University(he says they were weird but
nice).

[uc pseudonym]

I am simultaneously reading Children of Dune (I was advised to skip the second book in the series, and it hasn't hurt my understand so far) and The Two Towers, both for pleasure.

[Sage_Al-Kahira]

Currently I am reading:
The Giver-Lois Lowry
Gathering Blue-Lois Lowry
Messenger-Lois Lowry
The Historian-Elizabeth Kostova
Tale of the Body Theif-Anne Rice
Eye of the World-Robert Jordan
and,
King's Dragon-Kate Elliott

all for pleasure.

[Kaori]

I am simultaneously reading Children of Dune (I was advised to skip the second book in the series, and it hasn't hurt my understand so far) and The Two Towers, both for pleasure.

That's a shame]Dune Messiah[/I] fairly well--particularly the end--and wouldn't have minded if the series had ended there.

I have been reading Tennyson's Idylls of the King, for the second time, some of Tennyson's other poetry, and rereading Book I of Spencer's Faerie Queene. All of this is excellent poetry.

[mitsuki lover]

I was wrong it's page 255 where Franken talks about the CSA and not 155.

[Technomancer]

I'm just finishing Hermann Hesse's 'The Glass Bead Game'

[Emanku]

I'm reading The Screwtape Letters by C.S.Lewis.
It really gives me a lot to think about society and the way we think.

[LostChild]

Christopher Paolini's Eldest.

[Catapult Turtle]

I'm reading The Golden Ratio by Mario Livio. Very interesting book about phi (not to be confused with pi) for the math literate. Luvin it. In fact, he includes this one quote: "Is God a mathmetician?" and it really does make you wonder if He is. He also has lots of paintings (like Jesus-esque) in there which I really like. I'm up to page 108 in two days, and this book remains interesting.

I read Maximum Ride. Not good. Not original. Didn't stand on it's own. Could barely work out details thanks to the narrative style. Read it in 4 hours flat.

I'm also reading this book called the Switchers. I can't say much about it. I've barely started it.

At the same time I'm reading a story I'm writing, if that counts. I like mine a lot because it fufills my idea of the ideal book ^^

And that, my friends, is what I'm reading.

[mitsuki lover]

I don't know what I will read next.

[AnubisWerewolf]

I just finished C.S. Lewis' The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe. Man did that bring back childhood memories!!!

[LostChild]

Are ya gonna go watch the movie?

[uc pseudonym]

I continue to read the two previously mentioned titles for pleasure, and I am also reading significant portions of Tolkien: A Cultural Phenomenon by Brian Rosebury. It is an interesting critique of the books focusing on the associated products and also the various movie adaptations.

[mitsuki lover]

Plain Speaking by Merle Miller.

[starfire]

I'm currently reading "The Extraordinary Cases of SHerlock Holmes". Sir Arthur Conan Doyle always provides a classic.

And for a short story, "Cold Equations". It's a story that depicts a disturbing choice, without the choice aspect.

[uc pseudonym]

Ah, yes, I remember reading that long ago. It is certainly an interesting concept.

Meanwhile, I have finally read portions of Westrix Donn as I will be able to speak with the author personally. Also, for a literature class I have read portions of four different books by a number of authors.

[mitsuki lover]

I just checked out Batman Child Of Dreams by Kia Asamiya with Max Allen Collins
from the library.The reason why I did is because of the fact that Asamiya created my all time favorite anime series Silent Mobius and if you take a look at the
design for the main Japanese character in the comic,Yuko Yagi,she has a strange
similarity in appearance to Silent Mobius' main heroine Katsumi Liqueur.

[uc pseudonym]

Way of the Heart by Henri Nouwen

For being considered such a devotional masterpiece, I wasn't terribly impressed. It never really connected to me on a spiritual level, so that left it fairly dry and extremely brief.

[dragonshimmer]

Wizard and Glass by Stephen King from the Dark Tower Series.

[Kaori]

Essays by Emerson, poems by Walt Whitman, and Thoreau's Walden.

The Unfortunate Traveller, by Thomas Nashe. I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone. Its claim to fame, and the reason I am reading it, is that it is one of the first novels written in the English language.

[LostChild]

I didn't like Walden. It just dragged on and on and on and on and on... The ants started to bug me...

[Sage_Al-Kahira]

Faust- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Anne Rice books
Catcher in the Rye- J.D. Salinger, 9 stories- J.D. Salinger
Faerie Wars- Herbie Brennan
The Historian- Elizabeth Kostova

[Technomancer]

"Dark Hero of the Information Age" by Flo Conway and Jim Siegelman. This is a biography of Norbert Wiener, and his role as one of the most important figures in the development of digital and analog communications and the information age in general.