What are you reading?

[cbrock]

"Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease" among other medical books. Only 2 more months of all of them and I'm done! Then it's on to clinical rotations where I really learn medicine (and have more time for photography and reading books that don't end in -ology)

 

[s0nus]

Presently engrossed by Thomas Metzinger's "The Ego Tunnel". It's a great introduction into consciousness, the self, and the subjective experience of reality that's not overly technical and jargon-filled.

 

[phigmov]

Swapping between three -

* Ian Banks - The Business (re-reading it and enjoying it just as much as the first time)
* Antony Beevor - D-Day (all of this guys stuff is brilliant - particularly Stalingrad & Berlin)
* Douglas Adams - Dirk Gentlys Holistic Detective Agency (re-reading on the Kindle - great fun)

 

[W.Ray]

Recently I've gone through the Millenium trilogy, the Wallender books by Henning Mankell and am currently reading "The English Assassin" by Daniel Silva.

 

[QualityBuiltIn]

I just read during lunch time (very short book) "Allegro ma non troppo" - by Carlo Cipolla (I have no clue what that translates to in English).

Translates as "Fast but not too much"

 

[petach]

For eye candy, it is Ansel Adams 400 Photographs. What a fantastic collection of plate photos from the 20's to the 80's.

For fun, it is Stephen Fry "Moab is my wahspot"

And, 'cos I am an ex cop......................"Blue Blood" about one guy in NYPD and his career

 

[petach]

Swapping between three -

* Ian Banks - The Business (re-reading it and enjoying it just as much as the first time)
* Antony Beevor - D-Day (all of this guys stuff is brilliant - particularly Stalingrad & Berlin)
* Douglas Adams - Dirk Gentlys Holistic Detective Agency (re-reading on the Kindle - great fun)

Yeah, I read D Day too. Rivetting and sometimes a painful picture of some shortcomings in certain areas of the allied theatre. But who am I to say....not been there nor done that (But I have stood back to back in a bar brawl if that counts)

 

[petach]

I'm re-reading his hilarious war memoirs. Spike is/was a national institution in England and the main force behind the Goons with Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe (he wrote the scripts). Probably most non - native speakers won't have heard of him (or the Goons) - which is just as well because the humour would be totally incomprehensible! Apart from this aspect I find them interesting because they almost exactly mirror my father's. Spike was with the 8th Army in North Africa and my father was with the RAF (radio tech in a Spitfire squadron) in support. He, like Spike, then crossed to Sicily then Italy and was still there when the war ended.

I had to stop reading Spike's books on the train. Guffawed too much and it was embarrassing. Funniest books ever.

 

[Wlodek]

Antony Beevor's "Stalingrad". A terrifying history of the worst battle of WWII.
And somehow less depressing; short stories by the Russian Nobel prize winner, Ivan Bunin. A great writer.

 

[Alanroseman]

Unbroken. Biography of Louie Zamperini.

 

[BrianK]

Read and Listen

Just started Williams Gibson's Zero History iPad version.

Also Listening VIA Audible to The Autobiography of Mark Twain Vol 1

BK

 

[Hyubie]

On a related note, (and to anyone's who's been waiting from George RR Martin), hallelujah.

 

[hanzo]

Recently finished the Hangman's Daughter, and Murakami's Norwegian Wood.
I'm in the middle of Brothers Karamazov for weeks.. but too lazy to continue

 

[Tecpatl4]

Finished Moby Dick last week. Now reading Jeeves and Wooster by Wodehouse. Funny stuff that.

 

[phigmov]

Just finished Atwoods 'Oryx & Crake' and halfway through 'The Year of the Flood'. Both highly recommended.

Got to get back to Chomskys 'Failed States' after that - I keep putting it off because its frankly a little depressing.

 

[BlairMacKay]

Finished "The White Tiger" which is a fantastic read. Just started "Grapes of Wrath"

 

[bernard]

Now I'am reading 2 books:
Chris Hedges - Empire of Illusion:the End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
Jonathan Franzen - Freedom
Before that:
Naomi Klein - The Shock Doctrine : excellent book

 

[phigmov]

Naomi Klein - The Shock Doctrine : excellent book

Hear hear - seconded - awesome read !

'No Logo' is good too.

 

[phigmov]

Well, I finished Atwoods 'The Year of the Flood' (recommended), ended up re-reading China Mievilles 'Perdido Street Station' (recommended) and now I'm about half-way through Dave Mitchells 'Black Swan Green' (recommended).

Then something lighter - Matt Fredericks '101 Things I Learned in Architecture School'. Looks like he has a few in the series - maybe one day he'll do a '101 Things I Learned in Photography School'.

 

[angloasturian]

Austen/Vargas Llosa

Just finished 'Lady Susan, The Watsons and Sanditon' (the last two unfinished fragments) - the only Austen works I had never read. About to start 'El Sueño del Celta' (The Celt's Dream) by Mario Vargas Llosa (Nobel prizewinner in 2010).