What are you currently reading?

[Longingtobenude]

I just finished Ready Player One yesterday. It was a great read, a real page turner. Had a great William Gibson kind of vibe to it. Lots of 80's references, which was right up my alley. Can't wait for the movie to come out!

Gamer with Gerard Buttler.  I remember in the intro it says something like "from the book, Ready Player One"

No, there's a Spielberg movie coming out next year. Gamer came out in '09, and Ready Player One was published in '11.

My mistake.  Wonder how that false memory got in there    If Spielberg is making it, it'll probably be a decent representation. 

[seventhsam]

I just started "The Fall of Hyperion" by Dan Simmons

[Blake Skies]

The Assassin's Blade Series is the one i'm currently reading. Not thrilled about it to be honest.

[Archaewok1]

Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict, by Erica Chenoweth & Maria J. Stephan

[Density]

The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger. I really dig the pacing of the book so far and it does take you to a different dimension of an apocolyptic world.

[Archaewok1]

The Passion Conversation by Robbins Phillips

[Myshkin]

A Grave for a Dolphin by Alberto Denti di Pirajno: A collection of  short narratives of his experiences as a doctor and administrator in colonial Eritrea  and Somalia fashioned mostly out of tales told to him by local people.  Much of  it has an air of  magical realism about it so how much is true and how much fanciful is for the reader to decide.  The writer was half English and the book is very well written and a compelling read - medical men who can write well are very good observers of humanity.  The title story is the most intriguing - about a young Italian surveyor and his relationship with a local Danakil girl - and a dolphin.   I won't say more so as not to  be a "spoiler".   I also found out  that the book was one of David Bowie's  top 100 reads and he was offered the chance to play the  young Italian in a film adaptation which he turned down as he thought it was impossible to film which is probably true though it would have made a fascinating project.   

[Longingtobenude]

The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger. I really dig the pacing of the book so far and it does take you to a different dimension of an apocolyptic world.

That is a good one.  I liked the whole series for the most part.  Really get the impression that King is familiar with Mescaline 

[Mettis]

Death's Mistress by Terry Goodkind

[Hayley]

Re-re-re reading Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories. Right now 'A Study in Scarlett'

[lewischessmen]

Some stuff from soren kirkegaard. Philosophy is one of my interests.

[Blake Skies]

Re-re-re reading Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories. Right now 'A Study in Scarlett'

YAY another Sherlock Holmes fan!

[Hayley]

Re-re-re reading Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories. Right now 'A Study in Scarlett'

YAY another Sherlock Holmes fan!

[Blake Skies]

Re-re-re reading Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories. Right now 'A Study in Scarlett'

YAY another Sherlock Holmes fan!

Best buy I got from Barnes and Nobel was the complete Sir Arthur Conan Doyle works.

Also to get back on topic I've had a submarine itch of late so: Hunt for the Red October

[fex]

The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin - by Steven Lee Myers