What are you reading now?

SciFi Lover · Joined: 28 Mar 2005 Posts: 174

I have seen this on other forums and it always is pretty interesting....

What are YOU reading now? Question

Just list what you are reading, then when you start something new, add a new reply.

Bill Snodgrass · Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2005 11:08 am Post subject:

I am reading submissions and The New Evidence that Demands a Verdict.

Cool

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SelenaT · Joined: 05 May 2005 Posts: 1870

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

It's brilliant.
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AmyR · Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2005 8:19 pm Post subject:

Selena, I love love LOVE that book. It's amazing and, as you said, brilliant.

Right now, A Brave New World. I'm having a little trouble staying with it as I have a lot going on now, though. It's on the list of 110 banned books I'm trying to read.

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SelenaT · Joined: 05 May 2005 Posts: 1870

Oh, A Brave New World is a classic AND one of my favorites! Stay with it.

I'm nearly done with The Time Traveler's Wife. I can hardly put it down. It's such a unique love story.
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Phy · Joined: 29 Mar 2005 Posts: 866 Location: Wisconsin, USA

Just finished _A Paladin of Souls_ by Lois McMaster Bujold, 2004 Hugo award winner. It's the first "Speculative Theology" that I've come across, and I found it thought-provoking and hugely entertaining.

Next up, a re-read of _Butterfly and Hellflower_.
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PamL · Joined: 25 Apr 2005 Posts: 275 Location: California

I'm halfway through Tad Williams' latest: Shadowmarch

It's his return to "traditional" fantasy. (did y'all read The Dragonbone Chair?)
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SuuranSongforge · Joined: 23 Mar 2005 Posts: 85

The Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn trilogy might be my favorite fantasy of all time.

Right now, I'm reading Sufferings in Africa, a book written by an American sea captain about his slavery and various sufferings when his ship was wrecked on the cost of Africa. It was published in...1817, I think. Lots of good information, and it's an interesting read. Abraham Lincoln apparently read it at a young age, and it might well have influenced his negative views towards slavery...
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Raph · Joined: 30 Mar 2005 Posts: 55 Location: Minnesota

Just finished reading Night of Power by Spider Robinson. Excellent book. Very thought-provoking. And there's a scene near the end where one of the female characters finds a unique and fitting way to deal with a would-be rapist.

Now I'm working on Xenocide by Orson Scott Card. It's part of the Ender series, but unfortunately I've only been able to find two others in the series(fortunately, one was the first, Ender's Game).
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AlexP · Joined: 24 Jun 2005 Posts: 141 Location: Nashville, TN

I just finished The Man Who was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton. I'd read countless recommendations and positive reviews of Chesterton from many respectable sources over they ears, but for some reason never actually read his stuff until now. And boy was I missing out. His writing is clever, he picks his words with the utmost care, and he has plenty of things to say. I haven't gotten so much enjoyment from such a short work for a long time.

Thya · Joined: 28 Mar 2005 Posts: 39 Location: Greece

I'm reading for the second time, Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince

I'm not giving anything away as I'm thinking of writing a book review on it.
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SelenaT · Joined: 05 May 2005 Posts: 1870

I just finished The Time Traveler's Wife. It was great.

Now I'm reading Easier Than You Think by Richard Carlson. One of those little books with chapters of 2-5 pages that's good for the little readable gaps in your day.

I'm trying to decide which of the half-dozen unread books on my shelf I should start on next.

Actually, I may have to get A Paladin of Souls instead. Based on Phy's recommendation.

Oops, just discovered my fav book club (QPBC) has the book. Can I wait for the softcover? That's now the question.
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SelenaT · Joined: 05 May 2005 Posts: 1870

Ah, Amazon has it in paperback. Yippee.
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Phy · Joined: 29 Mar 2005 Posts: 866 Location: Wisconsin, USA

AlexP · Joined: 24 Jun 2005 Posts: 141 Location: Nashville, TN

I'm now about a hundred pages short of the ending of Lois McMaster Bujold's Mirror Dance, the seventh book in the Vorkosigan saga. It's not the best book in the series, but then again not the worst. Bujold certainly made a bold and risky choice when she decided to make Mark the main character of this book, and to make him realistically angry, short-tempered, and insecure. She pulls it off, though, as I'm certainly rooting for him to win at this point.

I'm also reading Thomas Friedman's The World is Flat. It's about globalization, and ties in nicely with Bill's column in the The Cutting Edge. It's fascinating to think that throughout all of human history, people's lives have been shaped primarily by where they are born. Whoever you live among determines who your friends will be, what education you get, what jobs you can take, and a whole lot more. But for the first time ever, that's now changing. We can become fast friends, easily and without expense, with folks all over the planet.