What book are you currently reading?

[doubleohfive]

Well, I finished the Breakfast at Tiffany's book the other day and have been working on the Vic ARmstrong one while at the same time starting The Three Minute Universe by Barbara Paul, which I found at my local used book shop last month.

 

[23skidoo]

I've commenced reading the coolest book I've come across in a while. It's a 900-page, 2011 release from Otto Penzler, who runs the Mysterious Bookshop in New York and puts out massive collections of classic pulp fiction. The book I have is The Big Book of Adventure Stories, and this thing is incredible. It's got stuff like The Most Dangerous Game, Kipling's The Man Who Would Be King, Armageddon 2419 (the original Buck Rogers story), Tarzan the Terrible, the very first Cisco Kid story (when he was a villain), the first adventure of The Spider, Leningen Vs. the Ants... even a pulp adventure story by western writer Louis L'Amour!

Definitely worth getting. This beast is gonna keep me busy for a while!

Alex

 

[Miss Chicken]

I am reading "Disco for the Departed" which is the 3rd book in the Dr Siri Paiborn series these books are set in Laos in the 1970s. Siri is an elderly doctor, a disillusioned Communist, who spent many years with Laotian jungle fighting for the Communists. The communist win control and doctor Siri thinks he will be able to retire only to be informed that the Party has decided that he has to be the country's coroner as the previous coroner, and most of the country's doctors, have,
'swam across the the Mekong" I.e. escaped to Thailand.

Dr Siri has no experience of performing autopsies and his only staff are a plump nurse and a young man who has Downs Syndrome. Siri has next to no equipment.

These books are a delight filled with interesting people. Dr Siri has a delicious sense of humor.

 

[anjalina]

Currently I’m reading book call twilight.

 

[Goliath]

(recently finished Double Indemnity and Farewell, My Lovely)

I can recommend some lesser-known titles from that era, if you're interested.

I am currently reading two books: Mephisto by Klaus Mann and The Rising: Ireland, Easter 1916 by Fearghal McGarry

 

[CaptainCanada]

I can recommend some lesser-known titles from that era, if you're interested.

I'm going to stick with finishing the Chandler/Cain/Hammett novels of the period for now.

 

[Out Of My Vulcan Mind]

I've always been resistant to audiobooks, preferring that special connection of reader to text, but with the amount of reading I do for work my eyes need a rest once in a while, so I've taken the audiobook plunge, to be interspersed between my leisure reading. It's turning out to be a very enjoyable experience. I just finished listening to Terry Pratchett's Equal Rites narrated by Celia Imrie.

 

[Saga]

reading The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard

 

[Admiral_Young]

I am going to be starting SuperGods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human by Grant Morrison

 

[timothy]

reading the gods of mars by edgar rice burroughs. and then onto warlord of mars.

 

[spooky spice]

I hope you're joking.

Nope, not joking. I'm stubborn like that.

I said I didn't like the first one - I found it rather sexist, given that it's supposed to be fantasy, and someone argued with me that it wasn't [sexist]... so I read the next book and that was worse, and so on and so forth.

I'm still waiting for these strong female characters I was told about to appear ...

 

[PsychoPere]

I've been reading the ST: A Time to... series, but Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi - Ascension just came out this week, so I'm taking a break to read that. Once I'm done, I'll go back to Trek with A Time to Kill.

 

[Tom Hendricks]

I'm re-reading Slaughterhouse 5, I haven't read it many, many years. I would actually say at least 15 years. However I caught a story a few days ago about a library banning the book, so that gave me impetus to read it again.

 

[jefferiestubes8]

space opera

I just ordered used on Amazon:

Shards of Honour (Vorkosigan)" by Lois McMaster Bujold;

"Quarter Share" by Nathan Lowell

based on recommendations and some reviews I've seen I'm up for some space opera in a week or so.

 

[Saga]

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

 

[Miss Chicken]

War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches. For anyone who doesn't know it's an anthology showing how historical figures from the time period of Wells' novel dealt with the Martian invasion.

I had no idea this book existed before you mentioned it. I have ordered a second hand copy through Abebooks as well as Manly Wade Wellman's "Sherlock Holmes's War of the Worlds which I read many years ago.

 

[Squiggy]

Finished Royal Pains: A Rogue's Gallery of Brats, Brutes, and Bad Seeds last week...currently halfway through Theodore Rex.

 

[Lindley]

I hope you're joking.

Nope, not joking. I'm stubborn like that.

I said I didn't like the first one - I found it rather sexist, given that it's supposed to be fantasy, and someone argued with me that it wasn't [sexist]... so I read the next book and that was worse, and so on and so forth.

I'm still waiting for these strong female characters I was told about to appear ...

I'm reading Game of Thrones now after watching the TV series to fill in the gaps. My favorite female character on the show was Arya, but she hasn't come across quite as strongly in the book so far. Then again, I'm only a third of the way into it. Favorite character overall, of course, is Tyrion.

 

[Sean Aaron]

Presently reading Planet of the Apes for my SF book group. Our previous book was Ballantyne's Twisted Metal and since I found it was a series and the second book Blood and Iron was already out I bought that for my iPhone as well and make quick work of it. My first non-club/non-illustrated/non-franchise fiction purchase in decades.

 

[gh4chiefs]

I hope you're joking.

Nope, not joking. I'm stubborn like that.

I said I didn't like the first one - I found it rather sexist, given that it's supposed to be fantasy, and someone argued with me that it wasn't [sexist]... so I read the next book and that was worse, and so on and so forth.

I'm still waiting for these strong female characters I was told about to appear ...

Wow, I don't have enough time to read the books I like, let alone ones I don't like.