What are you reading now?

[Taryn]

Homeland by R.A.Salvatore.

[leo-rcc]

Plato and a Platypus walk into a bar.

Love that book.

[Elena]

[Equivokate]

Reading Nancy Friday 'Men in Love' about how their Sexual Fantasies are an indicator of love.
and
Arousal : The Logic of Sexaul Fantasies Dr Bader as before
*Gets ready for Sauciest Theist Award anytime soon*

[Mac_Guffin]

I was reading Harry Potter last night. It is one of my favourite book and it broke best selling record.

I am also a fan, and I don't care if anybody says that I am a low brow!

I strive on low brow literature.

[Blip]

I've just finished Washington Square and just started Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh.

[Harmless Eccentric]

Remarkable Creatures, by Tracy Chevalier. It's based on the real life of a nineteenth-century female fossil-hunter- very well written; I'm enjoying it a lot so far.

[owtth]

2666 by Roberto Bolaño,
and
Mortal Causes by Ian Rankin

[Mr P]

I've just finished The Stangest Man, a biography of Paul Dirac, the man who put the mechanics into quantum mechanics.

An excellent insight into a relatively unknown true genius, a quiet and reserved fellow who was possibly autistic. This was the man who predicted the existence of anti matter and was the first to suggest that particles may consist of tiny strings.

[Reverend Blair]

Well, I just finished the first run-through of "Death by Cornflakes" a novella a fiend (that started as a typo, turned out to be more accurate) wrote and asked me to proof for him. It's really good, but he fears rejection slips to the point that he never tries to get anything published. That's a pity because other than needing a little tightening up and some correction of tenses etc., it's better than most of the stuff out there.

Anyway, it's a really bizarre story full of sex and drugs and a serial killer who uses Corn Flakes to kill his victims in various inventive ways. It's generally pretty dark, but there are several lmao bits.

I'll ask if I can put it up in various places on the internet since he never tries for publication, but in the past he's always said no to that.

One odd thing about reading friends' stuff like this...conversations that you had with them months ago gain a whole new context.

[Mac_Guffin]

Not reading them yet, but I just checked out these:

[Bella Fortuna]

Reading with an obviously personal interest...

[The Red Fox]

I'm about 150 pages in to Catch-22 at the moment. After that I'll be reading Journey To The End Of The Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline.

[normal]

I'm on Jingo again for the fifth or sicth time

[Wasted Tourist]

I'm on Jingo again for the fifth or sicth time

Was going to start that soon! Good read then?