What are you reading right now?

The War of Art by Steven Pressfield

Lost Souls by Poppy Z. Brite

Pretty damn good so far. Essentially it's like reads like an eighties-tinged road trip movie with bisexual vampires as the leads. Sort of like taking the movies The Hunger, River's Edge and Wild at Heart and making something of the three of them.

Stealing America by Dinesh D'Souza

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Brenden wrote:A Short History Of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

I read this a while ago, it's quite good.

Brenden wrote:

xyz72 wrote:

Brenden wrote:A Short History Of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

I read this a while ago, it's quite good.

It's entertaining and enjoyable. Although, I've spotted a few tidbits that are on this list, so I'm taking everything said with a grain of salt. I like how it highlights a lot of lesser-known scientists who had the limelight stolen by the big names.

I didn't realize Wikipedia had a list like that. Interesting. I'm surprised how much on there I was aware of already. It's interesting how many "medieval" items turned out to either be fakes or from a later period (iron maiden, chastity belt, that spikey ball staff thingy)

The subject says it all. What books are you reading right now? I have three I'm reading now.

1. Opium for the masses
2. Life Love Joy
3. Beginning programming with Python for dummies

Your turn, list what you're reading.

Gaiman! I've heard of him (of course) but hadn't ever read anything of his, so I picked up Neverwhere while ago and just didn't get into it in the first 20 pages. I was recently on vacation and saw American Gods at a bookstore and thought, hey, why not?

Loooooved it. Then I found out it's going to be a TV show. The cast list is looking exquisite!

I then finished Neverwhere. It was very different. As a main character, Richard Mayhew does not have the same sort of dirty gravitas that Shadow does.

Next on my list is Anansi Boys.

poolerboy0077 wrote:Reading Dabiq 15 right now (the magazine of ISIS). The quality of the production is superb. That's very unsettling.

I see the funding from the illicit sale of Syrian oil is being put to good use.

War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War

I've been spending far too long on this. Roughly 40% in after over a week. It's a fantastic exploration of the different ways the US dealt with Germany and Japan in WW2 though, simulatenously treating one of them as an inferior race and the other as a good people with a crazy leadership.

I just finished reading the memoirs of the Duc de Saint-Simon, a courtier from the reign of Louis XIV & XV. What did you last read? What are you reading now?

Hard Choices- Hillary Clinton

Just finished The 33 Strategies of War by Robert Greene, one of my favorite authors. I'm now reading Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche.

_Isaac_ wrote:I just finished reading the memoirs of the Duc de Saint-Simon, a courtier from the reign of Louis XIV & XV. What did you last read? What are you reading now?

Nice! I'd be especially interested in his insight into Louis XIV.