What are you currently reading?

[imported_Imp]

'First French Reader'

From Guy de something to the other 50 guys I never heard of. On the bright side, I'm definately getting better at comprehending French.

 

[CKent]

Originally posted by: dirtylimey
Reading the third book in Stephen Kings 'The Dark Tower' series. The book is called "The Wastelands"

Loving the series so far. I've always ignored it and thought it sounded stupid, but this is turning into some of the best Stephen King stuff I have ever read and I have read pretty much everything he has put out.

Dark Tower for the win.

The first and fourth are my favorites, after that it goes downhill imo. I'm putting off reading the 7th because I found 5-6 so disappointing.

 

[Jesusthewererabbit]

Originally posted by: dirtylimey
Reading the third book in Stephen Kings 'The Dark Tower' series. The book is called "The Wastelands"

Loving the series so far. I've always ignored it and thought it sounded stupid, but this is turning into some of the best Stephen King stuff I have ever read and I have read pretty much everything he has put out.

Dark Tower for the win.

Yes, read this. Read it to the end. Then go back and reread it. Then read The Stand, It, Insomnia, The Talisman, and Black House. I do have to admit that the wait between Wizard and Glass and Wolves of the Calla was the best part of the series, because I got to try to find every bit of Dark Tower stuff hidden in his other books. Most of King's newer books kind of, well, suck, but his magnum opus is one of the most amazing things I've ever read!

Oh yeah, I've been reading some of my Calvin and Hobbes books I have around.

 

[Deeko]

Stephen King - Dreamcatcher

Not his best work...I'm about halfway through and thoroughly bored, not looking forward to the next 400 pages.

 

[eplebnista]

The Light Bearer-Donna Gillespie

 

[RapidSnail]

Candide

 

[IronWing]

Originally posted by: RapidSnail
Candide

The best of all possible books to be reading right now.

 

[RaistlinZ]

The Count of Monte Cristo

Unabridged version. 1,462 pages of fun. :thumbsup:

 

[alkemyst]

currently Cisco Press ICND1 study and exam guides.

The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant by Stephan R Donaldson are a favorite read of mine. I have read a lot of books, I think I have close to 300-500 here.

 

[ppdes]

Some sort of Gypsy Morph book from Terry Brooks. I enjoyed his books as a kid. Not enjoying this one now, though, for whatever reason. Seems kind of pointless. Guess I enjoy scifi more than magic, even if the scifi tech is probably just as unrealistic as magic. Maybe I don't like fiction at all any more.

 

[PrinceofWands]

Read 'em and Reap - Joe Navarro
Power, Faith, and Fantasy - Michael B. Oren
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed - Jared Diamond
Confessor - Terry Goodkind

 

[Rockinacoustic]

For School:
Fundamentals of Biochemistry (Voet)
On The Cognition and Sensation of the Human Soul (Herder)

For Fun:
The Revolution- A Manifesto (Paul)
Nothing currently, but I may revisit Nietzsche or Dostoevsky soon enough.

 

[Woosta]

Originally posted by: RaistlinZ
The Count of Monte Cristo

Unabridged version. 1,462 pages of fun. :thumbsup:

Nice. Has anyone read Don Quixote? Is it worth it?

 

[Woosta]

Originally posted by: Kalmah
I am reading "Introduction to ASP.net 2.0" and "Perl Power!".

Oh as for technical books, MySQL 4th Edition by DuBois, Learning Perl 5th edition, Learning Python 3rd edition, ECMAScript 262 specification, MySQL documentation, about to get into Scheme/Common Lisp/Haskell.

 

[krunchykrome]

I dont read much for leisure purposes, in fact I havent read a book that wasnt required for school in the last 4 years. However, theres a book I might pick up tonight.

It's titled "The last lecture"

 

[zerocool1]

risk financing
the essential drucker
going to pick up atlas shrugged.

 

[Baked]

I got The Children of Men from the library. I watched the movie but it wasn't memorable for me, so I'm going into the book on a clean slate.

 

[jonks]

Originally posted by: ppdes
Some sort of Gypsy Morph book from Terry Brooks. I enjoyed his books as a kid. Not enjoying this one now, though, for whatever reason. Seems kind of pointless. Guess I enjoy scifi more than magic, even if the scifi tech is probably just as unrealistic as magic. Maybe I don't like fiction at all any more.

It's not you, it's him. After his first trilogy he descended into the depths of mediocrity and repetition just like David Eddings did. Running with the Demon was ok but everything else he's written since then has been pretty weak.

 

[Woosta]

Anyone read Master of the Margarita? Or is it worth it reading 'We' if you've already read 1984? I heard it was much better.

 

[imported_Imp]

'Best French Stories'

Got some Voltaire. I suck at reading French, and lack any attention span, but at least it's better than the last POS collection of stories I gave up on. I actually just ordered 5 new French novels from Amazon with one, cohesive story. They're written for children, so I should be right at home. I should probably have gone with an easier level, but I just couldn't bring myself to order a book titled 'Diary of a 6th Grader'. *shudders*

 

[K1052]

1776

 

[Bryophyte]

Dune-House Corrino

 

[Chryso]

Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett

 

[Mo0o]

At this very moment: Vander's Renal Physiology

but for leisure im TRYING to read: Confessions of an Economic Hitman

 

[rasczak]

Originally posted by: dNor

Originally posted by: Woosta

Originally posted by: dNor

Originally posted by: Woosta

Originally posted by: dNor
This thread and I want my money back :|

Shogun was awesome BTW

Can you recommend some other awesome books?

Have you read the Song of Ice and Fire series?

No, I keep hearing about them. What are they?

Amazing fantasy series by George R.R Martin. I'm not a big fan of epic, long fantasy series novels but this series is an exception.

could you give a teaser? I love reading epic, long fantasy series novels.