The "What Are You Currently Reading?" Thread

[BRGM]

I'm reading this forum page.

[Jamesman42]

This thread just reminded me of a book I started reading at the library and would like to own: Philosophy of Mathematics. It gets into some really cool and thought-provoking ideas that arise when you look at math in different ways.

The first time I went to Germany, I got drunk many times with a guy who was doing his thesis on the philosophy of mathematics. One of the most interesting guys I ever talked to.

I bet. Just reading the first chapter of that book gave me a new look at the world, and I want to tell others about it.

[Silver Tears]

Reading the LOTR trilogy. Just started in The Two Towers.

I got through the Hobbit and The Fellowship, but then I could only get through first few chapters of Two Towers and haven't had the urge to pick it up. It's a bit dry for me.

Fellowship had me hooked at the first page. I read the whole thing (400 pages or so?) in 2/3 days.

 

[lonestar]

About to start Medium Raw by Anthony Bourdain, his follow up to Kitchen Confidential.  If any one wants to know what it is really like in a professional Kitchen, they should pick this up.(the first one)

[Space Invader]

Started reading a Song of Ice and Fire.

About 600 pages into a Game of Thrones, and all I can say is WOW. 
So damn good. Strong characters, compelling world, visceral action and a level of bad-assery which matches even the most intense books.

[emindead]

Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand

Next: The Road - Cormac McCarthy

Maybe afterward: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

[MetalManiac666]

Read The Physics of Star Trek a while back.  Awesome book.  Haven't started reading anything since.

[ScioPath]

I'm reading this forum page.

That post was so clever i cannot begin to tell you.



George Orwell, 1984

[Zydar]

I just borrowed 'I Am Ozzy' by Ozzy Osbourne from a co-worker. I can't wait to get home and start reading it.

Wow, I'm really enjoying this one. I've read a few chapters and I'm having a hard time putting it down (now I finally understand that expression about books).

[limnides]

Started reading a Song of Ice and Fire.

About 600 pages into a Game of Thrones, and all I can say is WOW. 
So damn good. Strong characters, compelling world, visceral action and a level of bad-assery which matches even the most intense books.

I really need to re-read that series.  I finished A Storm of Swords years before the release of A Feast for Crows and by the time the book came out I had forgotten most of the storyline and couldn't get into it.

...same thing happened with the Wheel of Time series, now that I think about it.


That's why now I tend to go for series that are already finished before I start.  :B

[Pyroph]

Reading On Writing by Stephen King.

[Isolde]

George Orwell, 1984

Is it any good?

[Nick]

George Orwell, 1984

Is it any good?

Amazing book.

I'm almost done with The Dreaming Void by Peter F. Hamilton. It's the start of a trilogy and I've been intrigued enough that I think I'll get the next two books.

[Birch Boy]

Band Of Brothers by Stephen E. Ambrose. Really liking it so far, and I'm actually wanting to read on, which is rare in school-assigned books.

[FiberglassMoon]

Started Soul of the Fire on Sunday

I started Temple of the Winds but haven't gotten back to it.  I have a big issue with reading multiple series at once. 

I finished Blood of the Fold (which was good but not as good as Stone of Tears or Wizards First Rule) and started Temple of the Winds then just decided to take a break.

Since I've read Storm of Swords (Amazing), The Eye of the World (Really Good), and The Name of the Wind (Really Good), and am currently finishing The Talismans of Shannara.

I think I'll get back to The Sword of Truth when I finish The Heritage of Shannara.  Either that or keep going with The Wheel of Time, or start the Malazan Book of the Fallen.

Or maybe I should just learn to stick to one series at a time

[lonestar]

About to start Medium Raw by Anthony Bourdain, his follow up to Kitchen Confidential.  If any one wants to know what it is really like in a professional Kitchen, they should pick this up.(the first one)

OK, so finished this one in two days.  God is this guy fucking funny.  A little quip on how the movie Old Yeller effected his life....

    So, when Old Yeller gets sick with this rabies thing, little Tony is, naturally, not concerned.  Pinocchio, after all, got out of that whale situation no problem.  Sure, things looked bad for him for a while, but he figured it out in the end.  Bumpy ride with Bambi, what with Mom dying, but that ended okay.  Like mom and dad never forgetting to pick you up at school, the Happy Ending was a dead cert.
    It will be okay.  It will be fine.
    No one will hurt a fucking dog, especially Disney.
    That's what I'm saying to myself, sitting there between Mom and Dad, staring up at the screen, breath held, waiting for the miracle.
    Then they go and blow Old Yeller's fucking brains out.
    I sit there stunned.  "What do you mean there's no cure for rabies?  I don't give a fuck if they had to put Old Yeller out of his misery!  What about my misery, cocksucker!  They were supposed to fix things!  He was supposed to get better!  Don't talk to me about reality!  I don't care if it's a magical rainbow out of a fairy princess's ass that makes him better!  He's supposed to get better!!!"
    Nice, huh?  May as well have put the crack pipe in my hand right then.  Why wait?  Maybe this is why I never worked at the French Laundry.

                                                            -Anthony Bourdaine, from Medium Raw
                                                             (French Laundry is arguably the best restaurant in America)
                                                           

[MetalManiac666]

[lonestar]

Dude, the whole fucking book is like that, and so is Kitchen Confidential.  I'm finding myself lol'ing hysterically on public transportation.  He is one of my heroes.  He also does a show on travel channel.

[TheVoxyn]

Finished LOTR on holiday. Came back to find The Hobbit lying in the mail - so that will be next. Also have a couple of other books on my shelf that I still want to read.

[PlaysLikeMyung]

Started Soul of the Fire on Sunday

I started Temple of the Winds but haven't gotten back to it.  I have a big issue with reading multiple series at once. 

I finished Blood of the Fold (which was good but not as good as Stone of Tears or Wizards First Rule) and started Temple of the Winds then just decided to take a break.

...

Or maybe I should just learn to stick to one series at a time

That's what I do.

If you don't own all the books I've been buying them as I go along so I could loan them to you when you need them

Also:

I'm reading Stone of Tears by Terry Goodkind

I'm entertained thus far with the series

Good series. 

Now on Blood of the Fold (I'm actually almost finished)

Started Temple of the Winds today

Started Soul of the Fire on Sunday

Started Faith of the Fallen yesterday

[Jarlaxle]

[axeman90210]

About to start Medium Raw by Anthony Bourdain, his follow up to Kitchen Confidential.  If any one wants to know what it is really like in a professional Kitchen, they should pick this up.(the first one)

OK, so finished this one in two days.  God is this guy fucking funny.  A little quip on how the movie Old Yeller effected his life....

    So, when Old Yeller gets sick with this rabies thing, little Tony is, naturally, not concerned.  Pinocchio, after all, got out of that whale situation no problem.  Sure, things looked bad for him for a while, but he figured it out in the end.  Bumpy ride with Bambi, what with Mom dying, but that ended okay.  Like mom and dad never forgetting to pick you up at school, the Happy Ending was a dead cert.
    It will be okay.  It will be fine.
    No one will hurt a fucking dog, especially Disney.
    That's what I'm saying to myself, sitting there between Mom and Dad, staring up at the screen, breath held, waiting for the miracle.
    Then they go and blow Old Yeller's fucking brains out.
    I sit there stunned.  "What do you mean there's no cure for rabies?  I don't give a fuck if they had to put Old Yeller out of his misery!  What about my misery, cocksucker!  They were supposed to fix things!  He was supposed to get better!  Don't talk to me about reality!  I don't care if it's a magical rainbow out of a fairy princess's ass that makes him better!  He's supposed to get better!!!"
    Nice, huh?  May as well have put the crack pipe in my hand right then.  Why wait?  Maybe this is why I never worked at the French Laundry.

                                                            -Anthony Bourdaine, from Medium Raw
                                                             (French Laundry is arguably the best restaurant in America)
                                                           

I hate the French Laundry, just because the Brooklyn Brewery brews a beer exclusively for them and it's the only one missing from my 750 mL bottle collection

[Birch Boy]

Really enjoying Band Of Brothers. I plan on finishing it tomorrow, and then onto The Autobiography Of Malcom X for AP Language  .

[Nick]

Just finished Peter F. Hamilton's "The Dreaming Void". Now onto "The Temporal Void".

I've put the bible and Koran both on the back burner for awhile it seems.

Recently picked up the following to be read before Christmas...
Paul of Dune - Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Andrerson
To Sail Beyond the Sunset - Robert A. Heinlein
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card

[lonestar]

Reading WWW:Watch by Robert Sawyer.  It is the second book in his WWW trilogy, about an intelligent conciousness arising out of background of the internet.  Very good.

[Birch Boy]

Reading The Autobiography Of Malcom X for school. Not too bad, but still boring.

[emindead]

The Ring of the Dove - Abū Muḥammad ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Saʿīd ibn Ḥazm. (Better known as only Ibn Hazm)
The Complete Works of Jorge Luis Borges - Jorge Luis Borges
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand

[PlaysLikeMyung]

I'm reading Stone of Tears by Terry Goodkind

I'm entertained thus far with the series

Good series. 

Now on Blood of the Fold (I'm actually almost finished)

Started Temple of the Winds today

Started Soul of the Fire on Sunday

Started Faith of the Fallen yesterday
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Just started The Pillars of Creation

[DeanTheater]

CURRENT:  THE PASSAGE.  so far I am riveted. this author has extremely complex character background, even for the smallest parts.  I cant put this one down.  If you like SK's "The Stand"  Get this!

Just finished "WAR" by Sebastian Junger, about a Platoon in the Korengal Valley, Afghanistan, with the most enemy contact of any unit in the campaign. I read this in like 3 nights.  fast paced, gritty documentary.

[lonestar]

lonestar's long quote

I hate the French Laundry, just because the Brooklyn Brewery brews a beer exclusively for them and it's the only one missing from my 750 mL bottle collection

The place is amazing.  Their cookbook is the only one that has thouroughly educated me, and I would do anything short of giving up my daughter to eat there.

[Pyroph]

Finished The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. I saw the movie first, and I think I like it a bit more. The movie follows the book pretty closely, but what happens in the story seems that it could have been shortened a bit. (590 pages) It was a good book, but it was kinda silly in some regards. Plus all they do is have coffee and godamn sandwiches in their cafes.


Going to start 1984 next.


emin, did you ever end up reading The Road? I saw the movie for that and I want to get into McCarthy.

[lonestar]

I loved The Road.  Have yet to see the movie.

[emindead]

emin, did you ever end up reading The Road? I saw the movie for that and I want to get into McCarthy.

I have it on my e-reader. It's still next on my list once I finish Atlas Shrugged (it's freakingly long lol). My aunt, who read The Road, said that she preferred No Country For Old Men. But I've heard great reviews of TR, so that's why I'll read it next.

[TheVoxyn]

I've finished The Hobbit this weekend (also started reading it this weekend ).

Will start either Vladimir Nobokov - Lolita or Dostojevski - Notes from the Underground.

[Pyroph]

I loved The Road.  Have yet to see the movie.

It's got Viggo and Hillcoat directing (who also did an amazing gritty western; The Proposition) so I think you'll enjoy it.