What are you reading?

[doubleohfive]

Currently about 320 pages into The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson, and also about a quarter of the way through my co-worker Rasheed Newson's first e-book, Bring a Shovel and a Gun.

 

[Lowdarzz]

I'm reading Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam by James M. McPherson. It's a concise history of the events leading up to, during and around the pivotal American Civil War battle. This includes the disasters of the Seven Days Battles, Second Bull Run/Manassas as well as the possibility of British and French intervention in the war.

Whenever I get a spare moment I am also working my way through A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin.

 

[Snowlilly]

Waking Hours by Lis Wiehl

 

[cooleddie74]

Dan Balz's The Battle for America 2008, his best-selling tome on the last presidential election. I'd read it before but wanted to leaf through it again in advance of the upcoming election five weeks from now.

 

[Tora Ziyal]

So I gave up on Kraken halfway through. No, less than halfway. I'm curious... has anyone else read it, and what did you think of it?

 

[Avon]

i'm reading a bible and highlighting all the bits that are morally reprehensible to quote at the next angry street preacher i come across.

and also a book by film critic mark kermode whose cover has fallen off and therefore cant remember the title.

 

[Starkers]

I'm currently reading All Hell Let Loose, a history of WW2 by Max Hastings.

Finished this now and returning to fiction with Ash by James Herbert...

 

[trekkiebaggio]

Moved onto Frank: The Making of a Legend by James Kaplan.

 

[trekkiedane]

Vis-à-vis my latest purchases I now have to decide on which book to begin reading as they might have The Hydrogen Sonata at the store any day now and I'm expecting a prolonged geekgasm from that book

 

[Lowdarzz]

I just started The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery by Eric Foner.

I'm also still working on A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin.

 

[T'Preea]

Star Trek Immortal Coil. So far, so good.

 

[cooleddie74]

Rereading part of The Making of the President 1960.

 

[gturner]

^ Is that like The Six Million Dollar Man?

 

[cooleddie74]

We have the technology.

We can make him richer. More Bostonian. Kennedyer.

 

[kolibri]

Just started Star Trek: Vanguard - Open Secrets. Just finished Redshirts by John Scalzi.

 

[thestrangequark]

Stephen Fry's memoirs. They're all the tweedy, nicotine-saturated, cocaine-fueled, manic-depressive, pleonastic, poofy glory one would expect; I've said it before, but if he weren't 20 years too old and 100% too homosexual for me I'd totally marry him.

 

[trekkiedane]

Stephen Fry's memoirs. They're all the tweedy, nicotine-saturated, cocaine-fueled, manic-depressive, pleonastic, poofy glory one would expect; I've said it before, but if he weren't 20 years too old and 100% too homosexual for me I'd totally marry him.

That post settles it: I'll need to read that too

ETA: Which one are you describing. Moab Is My Washpot or The Fry Chronicles?

 

[thestrangequark]

^I'm on the latter at the mo', and it's a lot of fun. I just delight in his writing. He has the same playfulness with language that Wodehouse had, and it's a lot of fun.

 

[trekkiedane]

I can't believe I haven't read anything of Fry's -That's a serious slip, I'm sure he writes as well for print as for speak

Thanks

 

[thestrangequark]

^READ The Liar, NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!