What are you reading now?

"I Am America, and so can you" by Stephen Colbert. The guy is hilarious! I'm about halfway though. I haven't been able to dedicate enough time to pleasure reading with school taking up most of my study time. Next on my list is "Good Omens" by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. My girlfriend really enjoyed it and suggested it to me.

 

Deadhouse Gates by Steven Erikson

 

I devour books and tend to be a fast reader.

In between reading legal cases, just finished Bryce Courtenay's "The Persimmon Tree", that I found to be light enough reading to polish off in a week, before starting on "Touched by the Devil (inside the mind of the Australian psychopath)" by criminal profiler Dr John Clarke. Interesting, factual cases, based on his research.

Now looking around for something else to read, preferably light for a change...

 

I want to read Good Omens too. I've heard good things about it. Maybe I'll pick it up one day when I'm not switching from Doctor Who to Star Trek to Torchwood. I also wonder about that book Thud! Not sure if it's good or not.

Current read: Torchwood: Border Princes by Dan Abnett.

 

'Net pages about Realtek installation problems. Pretty dry reading, but it may have a happy ending.

 

Thats what the g/f said, I've heard nothing but good things. I can't wait to start it!

 

'Walking with Angels' by Carmel Reilly which is a collection of true stories of heavenly encounters

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Read that one too grumbles...At the moment reading Sara Douglas "The Axis Trilology" Bought the next trilogy from Green Metropolis(Good site you can sell and buy books and so much goes to planting new trees) but waitting for the third book from the library arghhh she says chewing finger nails

 

I need to write my master's thesis so I am reading books related to my topic. The topic of my thesis is "Managerial team's efficiency and productivity". I'm reading Jimm Collin's "From good to great". Like it very much! Has anybody read that one?

 

Infidel -Ayaan hirsi ali

Joe Haldeman's latest book of short stories

The National Post

 

I'm reading a book called "Dead Connection" it's okay so far. My favorite books of all time would still have to be "House of the Scorpion" and "Sabriel".

 

'The Mote in God's Eye. by Niven and Pournelle. I like sci-fi this time, 2nd time around for this book.

 

"Repositioning Yourself" by T.D. Jakes, and "The Purpose Driven Life" by Rick Warren.

 

Almanach des terres de France! it is made to read it every day, but I read as far as possible

 

I failed to finish the Pickwick Papers by Dickens. It is too large to carry it in the bag.
Currently I'm reading 'Carry on, Jeeves' by P.G. Wodehouse. A book of short stories - very funny!

 

Reading the Princess Bride. It's hysterical... the author writes this whole elaborite autobiography in the beginning about how he researched the "historical figures protrayed in the legend" and the dedicated museum he visited with his Son's son... I wikipedia'ed it and he had 2 daughters and made the whole thing up. it's really funny.

 

Brazen Careerist---great read for generation Y

 

I am currently reading this post, during breaks I am reading "The Vampire Chronicles", and I am also reading "The Emporer of Ocean Park". And of course the daily rubbish..err..news.

 

Just recently received my copy of Windows Vista Annoyances by David A. Karp. A companion to my XP "bible" (Windows XP Annoyances for Geeks, SP2 edition).

Ordered it, at a discount, on October 1st, 2007 from Amazon . It wasn't released until Jan 1st 2008, and for some reason took until Mid February to arrive in my OZ post box. :cry

Read it through pretty thoroughly and it wasn't until I reached Appendix A that I found out they had omitted the Setting Locator Appendix entirely.

In the XP version, they list out "more than 700 individual Windows XP settings and where to find them" These proved invaluable to me.

The equivalents not being in the VISTA book spoilt the whole book, IMO.

Still if you want a 45 day free on-line read of the VISTA book go to www.oreilly.com/go/safarienabled and enter the coupon code VGJUKEH .

Bazza

 

im reading the wheel of time series by robert jordan (again) ... my favorite fantasy series ever

 

Wow I havent read that for years,would really love to again,i shall have to look out for them.have you read Terry brooks Shanara series?

 

I am reading The Theory of Relativity by Albert Einstein - for the 2nd time.

 

Just an update, I'm halfway though Good Omens and its fantastic! I hope to finish it this week as long as school work doesn't pile up.

 

I,m not reading anything at the moment but when i do i generally like fantasy. Authors like Terry Brooks (Shannara series), Robin Hobb (The Liveship Traders), Victor Salvatore (Dark Elf Series) and lots more. I like to get a series of books because i tend to plough through them at speed. I also recently read 'Mohab Is My Washpot' an autobiography by Steven Fry.

 

I got that wrong above the author is Robert A Salvatore not Victor duh

 

The first three books from the Dark Elf Series were pretty good and interesting, but then he started delivering crap... He should have ended this all after the third book

 

I did enjoy them all must of read about 20 of his books

 

Me too! I read "Gardens of the Moon" twice. The first time I had a hard time with it - I normally read pretty fast - and could not get into it. I read it again at a slower pace and it really hooked me. "Deadhouse Gates" has been fantastic as well.

 

Check out "Shantaram", by Gregory David Roberts. 930+ pages. Brilliant read.

To quote from the slip cover.

 

The plot sounds pretty interesting...
Though, i think that Depp was born to play Jack - the only his performance apart from that, which I liked was in Secret Window

 

Just finished Stephen Kings "Duma Key" Pretty good, not as horiffic as he used to be.

 

Stephen Lawheads' 2nd book in the King Raven (Celtic version of Robin Hood) trilogy "Scarlet".

 

Besides reading to stay up to date with statutes and cases, just finished reviewing "Evidence, Advocacy and Ethical Practice - A Criminal Trial Commmentary", written by a former lecturer of mine...always good reading - a book I still pick up on.

Also done some laid back reading on series of Art books I have, that I always enjoy going through:

• World of Durer
• World of Michelangelo
• World of Leonardo

Now looking around for something light and fictional to relax with.

 

Executive Power by Vince Flynn

 

It is not really a "plot" but a book covering a period of his life. It is no work of fiction, but based on fact. Bazza

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Another set of good fantasy books are The Liveship Traders by Robin Hobb. Really good idea in the core of the story.

 

Bolo!

A science fiction novel by David Weber, and based on concepts created by Keith Laumer.

Good book, thus far . . . but depressing

 

I'm not reading anything currently, but have recently finished Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt. One of the best books I've read in a long time.

 

Have you read Stephen Hawking's "A brief History of Time"? An excellent book.

 

Maybe I was expecting too much, but I thought his follow up books, "'Tis" and "Teacher Man" were not as good.

 

No, sorry for not being clear, These are also by Frank McCourt. (Angela's Ashes)

 

My fault. You and Laura were talking about something else.

 

I'm in the middle of reading "The 6 most Important Decisions You'll Ever Make"

Great book, very interesting.

 

And what are the decisions?

 

Have you read something of Klaus Joehle?
I've read some of his books and another books from this series. I enjoy it very much! Really works!
Now I'm reading his "Money is love" book with great pleasure.