What book(s) are you reading right now?

[supernova]

What's the subject? Why does that interest you? If more than one, how do you find time to read more than one at a time?

Me? I just finished reading Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind. Wow! So many mulitiple layers it was hard to take at times, but always so fascinating I couldn't turn away. :crazy:

[flamingyouth]

1. Fabric of the Cosmos - new Brian Greene book n/t

[name not needed]

2. 1984

have yet to open it though. just havent got around to it.

[devilgrrl]

12. You're going to love that book!

Read it for the first time ever a few months ago... OUTSTANDING!!!!!

[name not needed]

17. i already do

read the first 150 pages last year. returned it to the library though cause i didnt want to pay the fine that would accumulate over winter break.

[VOX]

3. Caroline Alexander's "The Bounty"

A fascinating account of the sequence of events on the Bounty (as in "Mutiny on the"), then Bligh's extraordinary feat of seamanship in getting an open launch to the Dutch East Indies, and the eventual trial and sentencing of the captured mutineers.

A great read, and highly recommended!

[LeftCoast]

4. Ok...here's my list of books that I'm currently working on:

The Mabinogian (Oral Celtic Myth)
Celtic Myth and Legend (Charles Squire)
Singing the Soul Back Home (Gaitlin Matthews)
Guns, Germs & Steel (Jared Diamond)
Pharmako/Poeia - Plant Powers, Poisons & Herbcraft (Dale Pendell)
PharmakoDynamis - Stimulating Plants, Potions & Herbcraft (Dale Pendell)

Lets just say, I'll be rather surprised if anyone else is reading any of these (except for the Diamond book). :)

edited to add: The "Pharmako" books are simply amazing. If you have any interest in herbcraft, I'd call them a MUST READ.

[nostamj]

5. Kevin Phillip's AMERICAN DYNASTY

and

Stephen Baxter's EVOLUTION

both fascinating for VERY different reasons.

p.s. Perfume is a great read too

[Catch22Dem]

6. A Gathering of Spies

By Jonathan Altman. Pretty good. The main villan is a woman, and she's ONE EVIL BITCH!!!

[asjr]

7. Kate White's

"If Looks could Kill."

[Dimsdale]

8. A Monk Swimming by Malachy McCourt..

a second reading actually. Hilarious..

[Renew Deal]

9. Had enough by Carville

[Mz Pip]

10. American Gods

by Neil Gaiman. Very strange. I just started it and have never read anything quite like this before. It's sort of a fantasy, but not with dragons or wizards. Sort of like Elmore Leonard meets Tolkien.

MzPip
:dem:

[Redneck Socialist]

13. Good stuff

I enjoyed that book immensely.

[reprehensor]

19. If you like that...

Look for Tim Powers' books. Really good stuff. 'On Stranger Tides' is phenomenal, but hard to find.

[1monster]

11. GODS' CONCUBINE, Book Two of THE TROY GAME

by Sara Douglass

I happend on to Sara Douglass while browsing the shelves at Barnes and Noble about two years ago. She is an Australian author whose trilogy THE WAYFARAER REDEMPTION had just been published in this country. She has a really original touch.

Just Finished Book one of THE OUTREACHED SHADOW by Mercedes Lackey and someone else whose name escapes me and just before that read the sequel to Mercedes Lackey's (and another someone else whose name escapes me at the moment) THE LION OF ST. MARK. When I finish with GODS' CONCUBINE, I'll read EXILE'S VALOR (also by Mercedes Lackey, but alone this time) the latest of twenty-six books so far about her world of Valdemar.

In between these, I am reading INKHEART by Conrelia Funke... a children's book and just finished ERAGON by Christopher Paolini. The amazing thing about this book is that the author is now only nineteen years old and started writing it when he was fifteen. http://www.randomhouse.com/teens/eragon/ His parents had the book privately published and later it was picked up by Random House. It is the first of three.

For non-escapism, I am, when the mood takes me, reading GALILEO'S DAUGHTER, and THE PRICE OF LOYALTY by Ron Suskind...

Sigh, books are my opiate. I gave away about 600 books in the last two years and still have about 1000 in the house...

[Redneck Socialist]

14. Just finished Life of Pi by Yann Martel

and I just started Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

[greatauntoftriplets]

15. How Much Are You Making on the War, Daddy?

It skewers the numbnuts regime on war profiteering to *'s friends.

[Rocinante]

16. A Stillness At Appomattox

by Bruce Catton.

[reprehensor]

18. The Original "Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace"

Edited by Harry Elmer Barnes. Outstanding. It's a bona fide first-run hardcover. The D/J is toast, but the book is in really good shape.

It is an account of the difficulties that 'revisionist' historians encountered getting their work published after WWII, as well as actual revisionist articles.

Barnes and others were not fans of FDR's foreign policy and surmised that FDR had foreknowledge of the Pearl Harbor attack. Turns out they were right. See 'Day of Deceit' by Stinson and 'The Golden Age' by Vidal for insight into that topic.

After 50 years, certain secret papers became available through FOIA which definitely suggest that FDR knew a Japanese attack was coming.

Did Bush know? I hope it won't take 50 years to find out.

[fishnfla]

20. "Fat Land" and "Out of Gas"

funny how the two go hand and hand.......

[kitkatrose]

21. Fast Food Nation. n/t

[silverlib]

22. Just finished Demons and Angles and the DaVinci code and now

in the middle of The Greatest Sedition is Silence.