Hey, what are you reading there?

[Mr.Obvious]

I'm interested in what everybody likes reading. And once in a while I would love to find something that could be worthwhile for my next reading endeavor. So let me know.

Apart from some plays I'm reading, I'm currently invested in two books.

"Ik heb geen vijanden, ik ken geen haat." (Trans: 'I have no enemies, I know no hate'.) It's a collection of writings and poems from Nobel-prize winner Liu Xiaobo who is currently serving a sentence in prison in China for co-making the charter 08. It's one of the first non-fiction books I'm reading. It's a tough go, especially if you don't know a lot about the history of communist China. But it's interesting. While I'd never recommend going through it in one go, as it's not even made for that, I would suggest it.

Second book I'm currently reading is "Jurrassic Park". I found it in a drift-shop in Dutch a few years ago for a euro and a half and decided to pick it up. Finally started reading it. Seeing as it's a translation, my vision on the original might be askewed, but so far I'm preferring the movie. (Which is rare as it's usually the other way around.) Reading it just makes me want to see it all the more. (I didn't even know the film was based on a book.) But it is a good read and I can see why someone who read the book would've had enough faith in the story and message to turn it into a film. It's not that it's a bad book. It's just that it's a classic film.

[Mrs.B]

I'm interested in what everybody likes reading. And once in a while I would love to find something that could be worthwhile for my next reading endeavor. So let me know.

Apart from some plays I'm reading, I'm currently invested in two books.

"Ik heb geen vijanden, ik ken geen haat." (Trans: 'I have no enemies, I know no hate'.) It's a collection of writings and poems from Nobel-prize winner Liu Xiaobo who is currently serving a sentence in prison in China for co-making the charter 08. It's one of the first non-fiction books I'm reading. It's a tough go, especially if you don't know a lot about the history of communist China. But it's interesting. While I'd never recommend going through it in one go, as it's not even made for that, I would suggest it.

Second book I'm currently reading is "Jurrassic Park". I found it in a drift-shop in Dutch a few years ago for a euro and a half and decided to pick it up. Finally started reading it. Seeing as it's a translation, my vision on the original might be askewed, but so far I'm preferring the movie. (Which is rare as it's usually the other way around.) Reading it just makes me want to see it all the more. (I didn't even know the film was based on a book.) But it is a good read and I can see why someone who read the book would've had enough faith in the story and message to turn it into a film. It's not that it's a bad book. It's just that it's a classic film.

I like mystery/suspense/legal/detective fiction, layman science, atheist, biography, humour.

[Alex K]

Right now: "The invention of Nature"



As a German I probably have more familiarity with all those intellectual figures of 18th century Germany than the intended audience, but I still find it very inspiring.
When I'm not reading that, I'm trying to read some philosophy as well as some physics (I always have J.S. Bell's "Speakable and Unspeakable in Quantum Mechanics" on my night stand, which is THE collection of papers to read if you want to understand how hidden variables and locality in physics work).

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Gosh, Alex - for someone who was 'born evil', you have pretty eclectic tastes.

Boru

[The Valkyrie]

Goblin Quest by Jim C. Hines.

[Foxaèr]

I have not read anything in a while.

The last book I read was Anne Rice's Prince Lestat.

My favorite authors are Anne Rice and Dean Koontz.

[c172]

My attention span is horrible. But I do like Sarah Vowell and Sam Harris. Part of me, even at 41, wants to reread stuff I was assigned in high school but failed to read or read all that well. Salinger, etc.