Thread: What are You Reading?

Just finished: Charles Dickens' Hard Times and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World

Just started: J.W. von Goethe's Faust (in German, I'm getting a bit rusty).

Crooked Little Vein by Warren Ellis.......I feel just slightly ashamed posting after Pithor's post, but I'll soldier on and continue wandering in the undergrowth of humanity.

ik have recently left my 2/3 finished game of thrones book (a storm of swords) on a plane by accident, so i started reading naked lunch, i got to page 14 and gave up, i just couldnt get into it. i will have to get around to calling qantas' lost property to see if my book got given in.
i have a book called fast and slow thinking (i think) that i am going to give a try next.

Funny you mention Naked Lunch. Here is a review of Crooked Little Vein from the Chicago Tribune, "Crooked Little Vein" ---which combines the noir sensibilities of Raymond Chandler with the grotesqueness of Chuck Palahniuk's infamous short story 'Guts' and the acerbic societal commentary of William S. Burroughs's Naked Lunch---is a book readers will not soon forget." I'm not sure I could read Naked Lunch again but in 1967 it had quite an impact on a 19 year old Bill. I am a series addict of Game of Thrones but am loathe to read fantasy or science fiction.

Originally Posted by edhewitt

ik have recently left my 2/3 finished game of thrones book (a storm of swords) on a plane by accident, so i started reading naked lunch, i got to page 14 and gave up, i just couldnt get into it. i will have to get around to calling qantas' lost property to see if my book got given in.
i have a book called fast and slow thinking (i think) that i am going to give a try next.

A most fascinating Read Called Predator.is about our drones in the mid-east.
Is amazing that the pilot who is 7500 miles away in nevada can fire with pinpoint accuracy hellfire missles at even a single person he can see from 10k FT,just hit the target with a laser,pull the trigger,done deal.

Winter of the world by Ken Follett. A good book that gives insight on the human impact of war, second book in a trilogy.

Originally Posted by decraew

I didn't know you were an SF fan Richard! Have you read the works of Iain M Banks ? My favourite SF writer, may he rest in peace.

Not yet but with your post, I plan to!

Iain+M+Banks
Thank you!
~Richard

Now re-reading a group of SciFi books by David Drake.
The "Leary" series, and am up to "What Distant Deeps," This 'fun read' series is about people that act very quickly and are able to get the job done very well indeed. Many of the really good insights about people do not show up at first read..
david drake - Alibris Marketplace
If I like a book, I buy it and add to my library. I have a few SciFi series there. Alibris, above, is the best place I have found to buy books.
~Richard

Clarence Larkin's "The Spirit World", read it several times and also taught on it in my Sunday school class, this book will answer a lot of questions people my have today from God, death and dying, cults and the occult, the devil, angels, it will also tell you why Muslim terrorist do what the do. I think you can still purchase this book on Amazon, Bible Baptist Book store of Pensacola,Florida will have it, and yes I would recommend this book to anyone religious or not, not to many pages I think about 158 pages, happy reading.

I'm trying to get through Thomas Picketty's "Capital in the twenty first century"
An interesting and somewhat provocative view on capitalism by a French economist.