The "What Are You Currently Reading?" Thread

[emindead]

I'm thinking about reading Atlas Shrugged over the summer, what do you guys think?

I'm planning on buying it as soon as I land in the US. I've heard great things about John Galt.

[LeeHarveyKennedy]

I just finished rereading Ender's Game, so now I'm working my way through the saga, and I also picked up Ender's Shadow yesterday, as well. I'm also nearly through with The Cartoon History of the Universe, Part 3 (Very interesting series, I recommend them for anyone who wants a walk through history told in an extremely lighthearted manner), and I'll be starting with ...Of the Modern World, Part 1 soon.

And then I also picked up The Culture of Fear and The Spartacus War. You know, for some light bedtime reading.

[Nick]

I need to read that at some point.

[LeeHarveyKennedy]

I need to read that at some point.

Which one?

[Nick]

Ender's Game.

[LeeHarveyKennedy]

You haven't read that yet?! I have half a mind to mail you my copy right away.

[Nick]

Please, feel free to do so.

Although my pleasure reading is on hold till the end of my summer semester. Then in the span of 10 days I'm going to try and read the new Terra Incognita novel by KJA, "The Map of All Things", and "The Dreaming Void" by Peter Hamilton.

[LeeHarveyKennedy]

Yikes. I'll probably keep my copy for a bit, then. Never know when I may need to go back and reference it.

[Nick]

I keep all my non-fiction as reference material, the fiction I mainly keep in case I want to go back and read it or loan it out. Speaking of which I might try and squeeze a fresh read of 1984 into those 10 days as well.

[carl320]

To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

[contest_sanity]

Im thinking about reading Atlas Shrugged over the summer, what do you guys think?

I wouldn't recommend it.

Just listen to "2112" over and over instead.

[Portrucci]

Just started "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples" by Winston Churchill. He really writes superbly, very interesting stuff 

[emindead]

Just started "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples" by Winston Churchill. He really writes superbly, very interesting stuff 

I guess that's why he won the Nobel.

[Nick]

Then again Barrack Obama did win a Nobel peace prize.

[Sigz]

..which has nothing to do with writing, unlike Churchill's nobel prize in literature. 

[Birch Boy]

To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

I'm SO sick of that book after having analyzed it up the asshole freshman year.

[ogrejedi]

AnOther, a compilation of avant garde poems by E.E. Cummings.

[lonestar]

Just finifhed Black Hills by Dan Simmons.  Easily one of the best novels I have readd in a while.  I highly reccomend it to anyone interested in historical fiction, surrounding the genocide of the Native Americans in the late 1800's.

[antigoon]

Jon Krakauer - Into The Wild

[The Noob]

Finally reading World Without End.  This book reminds me why I love Ken Follett's writing so much.

[juice]

Paradise Lost has grasped my attention yet again!  I bought it a while ago and I read a little bit of it and its been sitting in my room until this weekend when i started reading it again, woot woot!

[juice]

Michael Romeo is such a good writer!

[Sigz]

A little ways through His Majesty's Dragon which is mindblowingly awesome thus far despite the lame title. Next up is Perdido Street Station, which I've only read a few pages of. It's pretty weird thus far, case in point:

Isaac watched the huge iridescent scarab that was his lover’s head devour her
breakfast.

He watched her swallow, saw her throat bob where the pale in-sectile underbelly
segued smoothly into her human neck ... not that she would have accepted that
description. Humans have khepri bodies, legs, hands; and the heads of shaved
gibbons, she had once told him.

He smiled and dangled his fried pork in front of him, curled his tongue around it,
wiped his greasy fingers on the table. He smiled at her. She undulated her headlegs at
him and signed, My monster.

I am a pervert, thought Isaac, and so is she.

But I've heard great things about it, so we shall see.

[masterthes]

Finally reading World Without End.  This book reminds me why I love Ken Follett's writing so much.

Good book, but Pillars was amazing

Being ambitious and reading Edward Gibbon's History Of The Fall And Decline Of The Roman Empire. I'd say I'm a third a way into the first volume

[contest_sanity]

Being ambitious and reading Edward Gibbon's History Of The Fall And Decline Of The Roman Empire. I'd say I'm a third a way into the first volume

Following the logic of other Empires (like the one that struck back), I will guess that volume two will be the best in the trilogy you're reading.

[Volk9]

Finally reading World Without End.  This book reminds me why I love Ken Follett's writing so much.

Good book, but Pillars was amazing

Yeah, Pillars was definately one of the best books I've read. The characters all had personality and life, and you really felt for them. World Without End was ok, but isnt even close to the epicnocity of Pillars.

[Zydar]

I've finished 'Close to The Edge: The Story of Yes' and I'm thinking about reading 'Lifting Shadows' again.

[soundgarden]

The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas 

[hefdaddy42]

The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas 

I'm slugging my way through a Dean Koontz novel, Your Heart Belongs to Me.  Not liking it thus far.

[Birch Boy]

I got my AP Language summer work, and here are the required readings (not gonna type the authors out of laziness):

The Autobiography of Malcom X
Thank You for Arguing
Band of Brothers
"Against School"
"Dehumanized"
"Why Johny Can't Fail"
"I Know Why the Caged Bird Cannot Read"
"Most Likely to Succeed"
"American Kids, Dumber than Dirt"
"Why Everything Sucks"
"In Defense of Distraction"

[contest_sanity]

I got my AP Language summer work, and here are the required readings (not gonna type the authors out of laziness):

The Autobiography of Malcom X
Thank You for Arguing
Band of Brothers
"Against School"
"Dehumanized"
"Why Johny Can't Fail"
"I Know Why the Caged Bird Cannot Read"
"Most Likely to Succeed"
"American Kids, Dumber than Dirt"
"Why Everything Sucks"
"In Defense of Distraction"

Sounds more like a list for someone getting their Master's in education; very interesting, though.

[Sigz]

I got my AP Language summer work, and here are the required readings (not gonna type the authors out of laziness):

Man your high school shits all over you guys.

[Birch Boy]

I got my AP Language summer work, and here are the required readings (not gonna type the authors out of laziness):

The Autobiography of Malcom X
Thank You for Arguing
Band of Brothers
"Against School"
"Dehumanized"
"Why Johny Can't Fail"
"I Know Why the Caged Bird Cannot Read"
"Most Likely to Succeed"
"American Kids, Dumber than Dirt"
"Why Everything Sucks"
"In Defense of Distraction"

Sounds more like a list for someone getting their Master's in education; very interesting, though.

Not as interesting as last year's Summer reading (The Odyssey, Fahrenheit 451, and The Alchemist), but still kinda looking forward to it, but not, on the other hand, the multiple essays and assignments attached to them.

I got my AP Language summer work, and here are the required readings (not gonna type the authors out of laziness):

Man your high school shits all over you guys.

I suppose I shouldn't post my AP United States History Summer work then. 

[Sigz]

Seriously, what's the point of all that? I had to read like two short books over the summer for AP language, and even those don't help for the AP test, as it's language, not literature. High school is fucking retarded.

[Birch Boy]

Seriously, what's the point of all that? I had to read like two short books over the summer for AP language, and even those don't help for the AP test, as it's language, not literature. High school is fucking retarded.

I dunno... the worst part is is that all the work is incredibly tedious. On the bright side, one of the three assignments for AP US is to write about how American society is defined and displayed through social groups, activities, etc... at a parade/fair/sporting event/music festival that you attended over the summer, and I'll be doing it on Ozzfest 2010 (inb4 lolozzfest, even though I know it's inevitably coming).