What are you currently reading?

[polmico]

If this isn't the best short story ever written, then there are very few that are better than it.

Absolutely. I was stunned how good it was. I'd read Moby Dick years ago in school, so I knew Melville was good. I guess I forgot how good he could be.

[notallwhowander]

I'm now into Jon Ronson's The Men Who Stare at Goats. It's pretty awesome: weird, frightening, and hysterical in turns, or all at the same time.

[proggosaurus]

Douglas Preston and Lee Child are another two that I'm starting to dig into. I had a chance to meet and speak with Preston when he stopped in to my ASU magazine writing class for a Q&A, and he was extremely affable and forthcoming.

I just finished Lincoln Child's Unitopia. I thought it was a pretty solid read. I wonder how much input/influence the other has on their solo efforts. they've penned some very good books together but it hard to top Relic. I've missed some of their work because I kinda tired of Pendergast but with advance reviews of Two Graves being so positive, I need to go back and read what I've missed.

[Planechant]

AJP Taylor: The Habsburg Monarchy

I have a real weakness for AJP Taylor that I was mocked for when at school, but he's kind of like Tom Costain, good storytelling history books.

[Camelogue]

Ishmael and something by Eric Hoffer

[firth5th]

Animal Farm by Orwell.

[Jymbot]

Smallcreep's Day is Peter Currell Brown's only novel and it is a very good one. Sorta like a Gormenghast where the castle-world is instead a factory-world.
And of course...the prog connection.

[Yves]

A Fire Upon The Deep- Vernor Vinge.

I got away from SF for a while. I was getting caught up on many of the classics I never read as a teen; which came free with me e-reader. But I needed something a little more complex to sink my teeth into.

[Jefferson James]

I'm currently reading a trippy book called "Out West" by Fred G. Leebron; it's a murder story involving two of my favorite locations: San Francisco (Tenderloin District) and Van Nuys.

[Big Ears]

Tales From Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb (first published in 1807). Described as a helpful preface to the actual plays, these are just fun to read. The Lambs were fine writers, but prone to mental instability - Mary murdered their mother in a fit of insanity.



The 20 stories adapted from the selected plays are:

The Tempest (Mary Lamb)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Mary Lamb)
The Winter's Tale (Mary Lamb)
Much Ado About Nothing (Mary Lamb)
As You Like It (Mary Lamb)
Two Gentlemen of Verona (Mary Lamb)
The Merchant of Venice (Mary Lamb)
Cymbeline (Mary Lamb)
King Lear (Charles Lamb)
Macbeth (Charles Lamb)
All's Well That Ends Well (Mary Lamb)
The Taming of the Shrew (Mary Lamb)
The Comedy of Errors (Mary Lamb)
Measure for Measure (Mary Lamb)
Twelfth Night (Mary Lamb)
Timon of Athens (Charles Lamb)
Romeo and Juliet (Charles Lamb)
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (Charles Lamb)
Othello (Charles Lamb)
Pericles, Prince of Tyre (Mary Lamb)

There is a full copy online with beautiful artwork from Walter Paget (1910):

http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00078081/00001/8j

[firth5th]

The Catcher in the Rye.

[Scott Bails]

I'm currently reading a trippy book

Of course you are.

[notallwhowander]

I'm currently reading a trippy book called "Out West" by Fred G. Leebron; it's a murder story involving two of my favorite locations: San Francisco (Tenderloin District) and Van Nuys.

May I ask why Van Nuys is one of your favorite locations?

[Levgan]

Just started Keith Richards' "Life". Liking it so far - seems like the man's personality, intonation and manner of speech is really present in the book, even though it was of course written by someone else.

[FKYES]

The Given Day- by Dennis Lehane. Set at the end of the first World War in Boston. Fantastic historical fiction.

[Yves]

Just started Keith Richards' "Life". Liking it so far

I think that he too took some enjoyment from it.

[davis]

Interviews with Dick Dale, George Thorogood, Kim Lenz, and Devin Townsend as I await a book called 'Conversationally Speaking."

[polmico]

Couple of things to take on vacation. Bukowski's Post Office and Salinger's Nine Stories.

Also reading some Melville shorts on my iPad and blazing through the second compendium of Walking Dead. I'd take it on vacation with me, but that sucker weighs five pounds.

[Duncan Glenday]

...I'd take it on vacation with me, but that sucker weighs five pounds.

You need a Kindle, or a Nook!

I carry about 30 pounds of books with me on my phone, and double that on my Nook.

[-=RTFR666=-]

My stocking stuffers XMAS 2012:

Who I Am - Pete Townshend

Far and Away: A Prize Every Time - Neil Peart

A book about the history of the MAFIA from first-hand accounts - the exact subtitle and authors (brothers) escape me at present

[100423]

The First Four Notes - Matthew Guerrieri

http://www.thefirstfournotes.com/p/about-book.html

Received it as a gift for Christmas...

[firth5th]

Finished the Catcher in the Rye this week. Might read The Call of the Wild starting today. On my Iphone.

If the author has been dead for 70 years, you can get the book for free online. In the public domain.

[polmico]

You need a Kindle, or a Nook!

I carry about 30 pounds of books with me on my phone, and double that on my Nook.

Well, I've got the iPad, though I'm not sure I feel comfortable taking it with me on the beach.

In the case of the Walking Dead book, financially it was a better option. $35 for the compendium versus $2.99 per single issue or $9.99 for each collection of ten issues. The compendium collects 50 issues, and it will like nice on my shelf next to the other compendium.

I still prefer real books, but I've started reading things here and there on my iPad--mostly public domain stuff.

[NogbadTheBad]

I think I'm going to download the complete HP Lovecraft and complete Shelock Holmes onto the wife's Nook. Grand total of $4.

[100423]

I think I'm going to download the complete HP Lovecraft and complete Shelock Holmes onto the wife's Nook. Grand total of $4.