What book are you currently reading?

[Niteowl]

Carte Blanche by Jeffery Deaver.

 

[davidburke]

The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi

The Ghost Brigades (Old Man's War, #2) by John Scalzi - Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists

 

[MikeyC]

Just started The Incendiary's Trail by James McCreet.

I'm up to chapter 4 and I can tell this is going to be a tough read, but hopefully a rewarding one in the end.

 

[superfluouslyme]

 

[PGT]

The Drop by Michael Connelly. The last 10 books I read were all by Michael Connelly I think I have a problem....obsessed.

 

[Subpop]

Lost At Sea by Jon Ronson

 

[selon]

Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

Great great great book!!

 

[Fobic]

Fobic, Dostoievski is great. I like The Brothers Karamazov in particular.

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Yes . I also read "The Brothers Karamazov" and I loved that book. :thumbup:

 

[painfullheart]

I read more than one book at a time.
freedom from the known and the satanic verses.

 

[painfullheart]

by krishnamurti and salman rushdie

 

[this_portrait]

I'm reading three different books, but here's one:

 

[Starry]

 

[Something-Vague]

 

[cocorose]

After deciding I need to read more, I just finished A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (i LOVED it). I want to read Life of Pi next.

 

[Subpop]

The Mammoth Book of Wierd News: Geoff Tibballs (Ed.) Purchased at Airport to help pass travel time. Contains some very amusing stories, some of which I had to question the integrity of the reporting. I actually laughed out loud at a couple.

Can anyone recommend some humorous writers? I like reading Tim Cahills books and Jon Ronson has some very funny moments.

 

[coyote]

the Roxy catalog for Fall 2013

 

[akala]

Chocolat-Joanne Harris
&
a bunch of self help books

 

[very_shy]

Xu Lun: A Madman's Diary and other stories. Great insight into the history of China at the beginning of 20th century.

Subpop: Czech Republic has some good funny writers, like Michal Viewegh.

 

[squidgee]

1984 by George Orwell
Northen Lights by Philip Pullman

 

[Flanscho]

I'm reading Stanislaw Lems science-fiction novel "Lokaltermin". The book has never been translated into English. Sadly, I don't speak Polish, so I read it in German instead.

Major topics of the book are: the problems of the society of plenty based entirely on automated production where individuals have little to do; imposition of ethical laws through technology i.e. the ethicsphere which has made it impossible to harm individuals physically; and the ideological opposition of two dominant systems, which is basically a parody of Western-Soviet Union split taken to the absurd.