What book are you currently reading?

[MikeyC]

Here's my sexy eyes with the book I'm reading.

I had to take it at a different angle than my original one to avoid a possibly offensive poster in the background.

Anyway, it's about a device that destroys all firearms from a distance, and how to roll it out among the American public. A fictional story about the politics of the whole thing, and if it's going to be used for good or evil.

I'm not really following the technical jargon of the book - of which there's a whole lot - but overall it's actually a very engaging book with some great writing. It's involving the President of the United States a lot, and the inventors and other scientists and government officials, and all their struggles to keep it in the right hands. Very gripping, even if it's not usually the book I go for.

On a side-note, everyone here reads faster than I do. You're all way more of a book-worm than I'll ever be.

 

[Earthcircle]

I am reading How Everyone Became Depressed, by Shorter who argues for a revival of the old medical category of neurasthenia and its fundamental distinction from psychotic depression. I wish that more people in this forum would read this book, because I suspect that most of us here are neurasthenic, and the old Victorian treatments really make a lot more sense than anything that came along later.

How Everyone Became Depressed: The Rise and Fall of the Nervous Breakdown - Edward Shorter - Google Books

 

[Phoenixx]

Finished The Maze Runner last night (started it last week) and then started this sequel today. This series is a lot better than I thought it would be. I originally bought The Maze Runner months ago, but never got around to reading it until now. I liked it so much, while I was in Kalamazoo I went to Barnes and Noble there and bought The Scorch Trials since I had a little bit of a gift card to use up. Really liking it so far.

 

[DeadmanWalking]

 

[superfluouslyme]

I started this today, but I doubt I'm going to finish it. It's a bit hard to read, pretty tragic. Might set it aside for another time.

It is hard to read, but I think it's worth it in the end. I haven't gotten up the chutzpah to watch the movie, though, and I don't think I ever will. It's one thing to read about it, but to see it... that's a bit too much for me. The author has another book called Lucky which is about her own rape in college. I read it right after finishing The Lovely Bones and it actually helped me get through the sadness of TLB better. I know that sounds really weird and creepy and mean, but Sebold's spirit and sense of humor are amazing and reassuring.

Anyway, I'm reading this...

 

[Phoenixx]

It is hard to read, but I think it's worth it in the end. I haven't gotten up the chutzpah to watch the movie, though, and I don't think I ever will. It's one thing to read about it, but to see it... that's a bit too much for me. The author has another book called Lucky which is about her own rape in college. I read it right after finishing The Lovely Bones and it actually helped me get through the sadness of TLB better. I know that sounds really weird and creepy and mean, but Sebold's spirit and sense of humor are amazing and reassuring.

^ I really wanted to see the movie, and debated watching it first before reading the book, but as usual I held off and waited to read the book instead. I'm in the middle of a new series now after casting it aside, so I might not come back to it until next year. I didn't realize she had her own biography too, I'll have to look into that.

There's something about reading difficult situations and stories that is oddly fascinating to me, even though I sometimes struggle reading through them (I still end up finishing them eventually!). The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns had similar situations that were a bit difficult to read, but I still managed to get through them and they are some of the best books I've ever read in my life. I still haven't seen the movie for The Kite Runner, and debated watching it because of a particular scene that -- if they included, which I don't see why they wouldn't -- would be pretty disturbing to watch.

 

[squidgee]

Yay, school books to analyze. My first one is 'The Quiet American', by Graham Greene. Just finished it and it's actually quite decent in my opinion.

 

[superfluouslyme]

 

[Quietguy11]

InuYasha Vol. 8.

 

[Phoenixx]

^ Awesome. :thumbup:

 

[SilentBird]

Half-way through, not yet convinced.

 

[Silatuyok]

A tad slow, but good so far...

 

[MikeyC]

Since I have been feeling bad and needed escapism, I managed to finish a book within four days. That's a lot for some of you, but that is pretty much a world record for me.

Pretty good cop crime thriller.

 

[Phoenixx]

 

[Silatuyok]

About to start on this book. Might go do that now, in fact, instead of futzing around on the internets..

 

[Ithior]

Bought at the airport a few weeks ago because my sister's flight was delayed and I had to wait for her to arrive. Currently a bit after halfway.

When I finish it I'll start reading the second volume of Spice and Wolf.

Also reading Feng Shui for beginners, just want some ideas for the layout of my room.

 

[Steiner]

The Druid King. I don't read books much though. So I only read it every now and then.

 

[Scandic123]

I've just started reading Dan Brown's Angels and Demons.

 

[GraybeardGhost]

I'm embarrassed to admit that I haven't actually read an actual book in over a year. That's pretty sad for a self-confessed word guy. I buy them, catalog them, stack them up, but that's as far as it goes. I have books everywhere and plenty of time, but I can't seem to find the motivation. I look at them, they look at me, but nothing happens. It's almost like dating.

 

[Silatuyok]

I'm embarrassed to admit that I haven't actually read an actual book in over a year. That's pretty sad for a self-confessed word guy. I buy them, catalog them, stack them up, but that's as far as it goes. I have books everywhere and plenty of time, but I can't seem to find the motivation. I look at them, they look at me, but nothing happens. It's almost like dating.

My attention span has gotten so whittled down over the years of staring at screens, that I find it significantly more difficult to get through a book these days. It takes a good amount of willpower and concentration. I bet if you picked one up and just read a few lines here and there you would end up getting sucked in to the story...