What book are you currently reading?

[doubleohfive]

My ADD has been ruling my schedule lately, so I'm in the middle of four different books right now:

007: Carte Blanche by Jeffrey Deaver

Grace: The Biography of Grace Kelly by Robert Lacey

The Clinton Tapes: Conversations with a President, 1993-2001 by Taylor Branch

The Adventures of the World's Greatest Stuntman: My Life as Indiana Jones, James Bond, Superman and Other Movie Heroes by Vic Armstrong

 

[AdinWilliam]

Charles C. Mann

 

[nickyboy]

Finished Vanguard: Declassified now reading The man in the high castle by Philip K. Dick

 

[SPCTRE]

Not a book, I know

 

[trekkiebaggio]

Just finished World War Z today.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

Ghost Story was delivered yesterday afternoon, I've just finished it. Have to say I wasn't really sure at first, quite a different tone to most Dresden Files books but as it went I really got stuck in to it and loved it. Really good story and can't wait for the next one (Cold Days, I hear that's the title anyway.)

 

[23skidoo]

I completed Carte Blanche (highly recommended) and am now reading "A Kiss for a Killer" by GG Fickling, which is a great hard-boiled detective novel featuring Honey West. Now there's a character they should do a movie with (they did a great TV series with her in the mid-1960s that was cancelled in part because it was ahead of its time - US viewers didn't know how to handle a female gumshoe back in the day).

Alex

 

[trekkiebaggio]

X-Men & Philosophy - another book which is a collection of philosophical essays exploring different aspects brought up in X-Men.

 

[RandyS]

My ADD has been ruling my schedule lately, so I'm in the middle of four different books right now:

007: Carte Blanche by Jeffrey Deaver

Grace: The Biography of Grace Kelly by Robert Lacey

The Clinton Tapes: Conversations with a President, 1993-2001 by Taylor Branch

The Adventures of the World's Greatest Stuntman: My Life as Indiana Jones, James Bond, Superman and Other Movie Heroes by Vic Armstrong

Nonsense. I don't consider that an example of ADD. I do, however think it's an example of an enjoyment of variety. Four books IS a little excessive. I prefer two at once, and right now I'm reading Star Wars Legacy of the Force book 5: Sacrifice, and Martin Cadin's Exit Earth. I usually average between 30 and 70 pages a night on each, except when I'm tired or sick. How about you? You stick to a schedule, or just read what and when you feel like?

 

[CaptainCanada]

Just finished War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells, now reading The Sound of the Mountain by Kawabata Yasunari.

 

[Mistral]

you may want to try harry turtledove's guns of the south.

I'm vaguely aware of his work. I take it he writes "alternative historical fiction?"

Yes, but that novel is amazing in the way it captures characters and the feel of the time-in fact, nearly every character is an actual person right down to lowly corporals and privates...

 

[Kai "the spy"]

Currently reading "From Russia with Love" by Ian Fleming. "Dr. No" is up next, though that will be a re-reading.

 

[lennier1]

World Without End by Ken Follett

 

[CaptainCanada]

World Without End by Ken Follett

Good book. Not as good as The Pillars of the Earth, its predecessor, but still enjoyable.

 

[23skidoo]

Currently reading "From Russia with Love" by Ian Fleming. "Dr. No" is up next, though that will be a re-reading.

Are you reading them all in order? I did that about 8 years ago and it was a lot of fun because you began to catch continuity and other things that aren't evident when you read them out of order (or, worse, read them in the order of the movies).

Alex

 

[Kai "the spy"]

^ Yeah, I'm reading them in order. I've read "Casino Royale", "Dr. No", "Thunderball" and the "Octopussy & The Living Daylights" collection out of order before, but now have decided to read them in order and at the same time fill in those I haven't had read before.

I should mention, I've also read "Goldfinger" before, but that was a German translation and more than ten years ago. Now, I'm collecting them in the current Penguin007 edition with the fancy Maurice Binder-esque covers.

 

[doubleohfive]

I started doing the same thing when I was in college and found most of the Fleming books in paperback for a quarter each at my local library. I got all the way through Goldfinger before stopping mid-way through. (The golf scenes are incredibly detailed and meticulous ... and somewhat boring. I managed to finish the book though recently and plan on picking up where I left off.

 

[CaptainCanada]

The Sound of the Mountain by Kawabata Yasunari

Interesting if sedate drama about an older man watching the domestic dramas of his children. For non-Japanese it offers some interesting details about Japanese society in the immediate postwar era, when people like the main character were still familiar with the old way of doing things.

The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain

As the preface to the Everyman collection this was a part of notes, while Raymond Chandler and Dashiel Hammett have become canononical writers, Cain's novels have largely been overshadowed by the films based on them. This, the first of his major ones, is a good crime story (he's got a very strong narrative voice), though it takes a turn into a drama about legal technicalities where the narrator is basically a spectator at one point.

 

[Yevetha]

Project for The New American Century by the Heritage Foundation.

And Star Trek Forged in Fire.

 

[Kai "the spy"]

I started doing the same thing when I was in college and found most of the Fleming books in paperback for a quarter each at my local library. I got all the way through Goldfinger before stopping mid-way through. (The golf scenes are incredibly detailed and meticulous ... and somewhat boring. I managed to finish the book though recently and plan on picking up where I left off.

Yeah, that was my impression when I read it years ago. But with the other Fleming novels I've recently read, I found even such scenes with detailed explanations on a sport or a game - like Chemin de fer in "Casino Royale", Bridge in "Moonraker", Horse-racing in "Diamonds are Forever", etc. - I'm actually interested in learning this stuff. Maybe it's an age thing. Was probably sixteen when I read "Goldfinger", now I'm twenty-six. The things we're interested in change, I suppose.