What are you reading now?

[Rogut]

I've just finished Ben Elton's "Blind Faith" - a great, if unnerving, vision of what could happen if Religion and the Big Brother/Facebook culture are allowed to run rampage over humanity ! I'd strongly recommend it to any atheist/agnostic. It's not as cerebral as many books mentioned here, but it's a fun read and it does give pause for thought !

Rog

[statichaos]

Dune. Give or take a few years, I give it a shot once a decade or so to see if it's any more interesting to me. This time, it may be.

[RuleBritannia]

I'm reading page 19 of a thread entitled "What are you reading now?" on rationalia.com.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

I'm reading page 19 of a thread entitled "What are you reading now?" on rationalia.com.

I'm reading a joke that was old on the first forum where I saw it.

[Clinton Huxley]

Castles of Steel, finally.

Just finished it. Epic stuff. A damned close run thing.

[klr]

Castles of Steel, finally.

Just finished it. Epic stuff. A damned close run thing.

I thumbed through that a few nights ago, but I really need to read Dreadnought first.

Maybe if I stopped posting here I could find some time to read ...

[Tomi]

Reading The Penguin Complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It must say something about the quality of Doyle's work that I felt like I knew Mr Holmes without having ever read his work. So far it certainly lives up to its reputation.

As a major history geek I am also reading Volume III of Sir Charles Oman's history of the Peninsular War.

[Thurston]

Reading The Penguin Complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It must say something about the quality of Doyle's work that I felt like I knew Mr Holmes without having ever read his work. So far it certainly lives up to its reputation.

As a major history geek I am also reading Volume III of Sir Charles Oman's history of the Peninsular War.

I've recently introduced myself to Sherlock Holmes (A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of the Four) and found them charming. I'm rather ashamed to have lived 27 years before tackling so famous a literary character.

But at the moment I'm reading The Idiot by Dostoevsky.

[statichaos]

I envy anyone who is just now tackling Holmes, since you have so much incredible work that lies undiscovered to date.

I'm currently reading Tom Clancy's Executive Orders. It's utter trash. I mean, there is nothing whatsoever redeeming about this book. And yet at the same time, I must continue to read it, if only to watch the trainwreck through to its inevitable conclusion.

[macdoc]

In it's own right as powerful as the movie...

Out of Africa is Isak Dinesen's memoir of her years in Africa, from 1914 to 1931, on a four-thousand-acre coffee plantation in the hills near Nairobi. She had come to Kenya from Denmark with her husband, and when they separated she stayed on to manage the farm by herself, visited frequently by her lover, the big-game hunter Denys Finch-Hatton, for whom she would make up stories "like Scheherazade."

In Africa, "I learned how to tell tales," she recalled many years later. "The natives have an ear still. I told stories constantly to them, all kinds." her account of her African adventures, written after she had lost her beloved farm and returned to Denmark, is that of a master storyteller, a woman whom John Updike called "one of the most picturesque and flamboyant literary personalities of the century

She had the majority vote for the Nobel in 1959 but recently declassified docs show why she was passed over....
'Reverse provincialism' denied Karen Blixen Nobel prize | Books | guardian.co.uk

Try and get the illustrated version as the photos and illustrations are superb. Very enjoyable read..a time travel....

top notch illustrations by the likes of David Shepard

[Pappa]

Sams Teach Yourself iPhone Application Development in 24 Hours

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Yourself-iPhone ... 0672330849

Seems to be the best of it's type I've ever read. So far it seems to be successfully bridging the gap between basic and complex without failing at either. I've never read a Sams Teach Yourself book before, if the rest of them are like this one, I think I might buy more of them.

[Sisifo]

http://www.amazon.com/Fierce-Invalids-H ... 863&sr=8-1

Not the knee slapping that I expected from recommendations, but good reading.

[Sisifo]

I'm not sure if the book is about suicide of the characters, or try to make the reader to commit suicide. It is very beautifully written, but I can't wait to finish it. Not to know the end, but to be over it.

[Deep Sea Isopod]

Viz issue 193
http://www.viz.co.uk/index.html

[Sisifo]

Books of the history of China are often too dry; often too vast, and often too biased. Using the Great Wall as a backbone for historic and geographical travel throughout China, the author offers the reader a regard both skeptical and at the same time full of awe, of the historical moments that surrounded the building of this outstanding monument. I'd recommend it for every sinophile, as I found myself marking pages for coming back to them in planning my next travel into China.