What book are you currently reading?

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  1. philosoraptor

    philosoraptor carnivore in a top hat Supporter

    Alan Dean Foster also wrote what was initially supposed to be the sequel to A New Hope, Splinter of the Mind's Eye.
     
  2. Latikos

    Latikos Valued Member

    I even have that book here, but only in German so far and I prefer the books in English.

    I should give it a try anyway.
    In case I manage to concentrate for longer than 2 pages a session, I might be done.... so time in three years...

    EDIT: Or did I read it already?
    I#d need to check, to be honest.
     
    Last edited: Aug 14, 2016
  3. greg1075

    greg1075 Valued Member

    A few. "Le Suicide Français" by Eric Zemmour, "À la recherche du temps perdu" by Proust and "the Big Short" by Michael Lewis. I had started "Vers La Feminisation" by Alain Soral but the guy is an atrocious writer. Totally unreadable.
     
  4. Van Zandt

    Van Zandt Mr. High Kick

    What did you expect? French isn't a proper language. :D
     
  5. Ben Gash CLF

    Ben Gash CLF Valued Member

    I just finished the third of the Ryria Chronicles. It was a good story but a little short.
     
  6. Bozza Bostik

    Bozza Bostik Antichrist on Button Moon

    That's next on my reading list! Glad to hear it's good.

    Do you think the Chronicles had a much darker tone than the revelations? I enjoyed the series much more than Revelations because of that.
     
  7. Rand86

    Rand86 likes to butt heads

    Binging on Bernard Cornwell's Saxon stories, currently on book 5. Fun stuff.
     
  8. Pretty In Pink

    Pretty In Pink Moved on MAP 2017 Gold Award

    The Iliad by Homer. Translated by Robert Fagles. So far so good.
     
  9. Ben Gash CLF

    Ben Gash CLF Valued Member

    I don't know, there's some pretty dark stuff in the Revelations, I think it's just a bit more diluted by the stories being bigger.
     
  10. E-Rocker

    E-Rocker Valued Member

    Valor's Choice by Tanya Huff. I've read 180 pages of it in two days, which is much faster than my usual reading pace. I guess I must be enjoying it.
     
  11. CrowZer0

    CrowZer0 Assume formlessness.

    After much insistence from a friend I've started on Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes. He was right I should have read this long ago!
     
  12. philosoraptor

    philosoraptor carnivore in a top hat Supporter

    Anyone else finding themselves rereading the Origins of Totalitarianism?
     
  13. AndrewTheAndroid

    AndrewTheAndroid A hero for fun.

    Gut by Giulie Enders I am listening to it on audible. I'm only on the first chapter book so far it's very informative. Been on a health things this past month or so and I'm looking into gut health. Seems there's definitely a connection between a healthy gut and a healthy brain.
     
  14. aikiMac

    aikiMac aikido + boxing = very good Moderator Supporter

    Wow, I'm feeling silly. I'm reading Percy Jackson for the second time. :jester:
     
  15. philosoraptor

    philosoraptor carnivore in a top hat Supporter

    I picked up Dhalgren for funsie reading. :3
     
  16. AndrewTheAndroid

    AndrewTheAndroid A hero for fun.

    Currently listening to change your brain change your life it's a very informative book and I like it a lot. It's helping me come up with strategies to deal with depression through behavioural changes and nutrition and exercise.
     
  17. AndrewTheAndroid

    AndrewTheAndroid A hero for fun.

    Should be done my book tonight. Next one up is Buddha Brain
     
  18. philosoraptor

    philosoraptor carnivore in a top hat Supporter

    Just finished Peter Pomerantsev's "Nothing is True, Everything is Possible." Really fun book, really strange society, and world that he reveals. The guy worked as a media and television producer in Russia who talks about the interactions between the oligarchs, the Kremlin, and the media.

    Next up is Rorty's "Achieving our Country," thus far really fun and not too dry reading for a philosopher; I squeed a bit when he mentioned Neal Stephenson's "Snow Crash" and Pynchon's "Vineland" as fictional projections of our current culture.
     
  19. Van Zandt

    Van Zandt Mr. High Kick

    "Nothing Changes Until You Do" by Mike Robbins. Great little book on cutting yourself some slack and accepting things as they happen without worrying so much.
     
  20. Ben Gash CLF

    Ben Gash CLF Valued Member

    Having another stab at Elric of Melinbone. I found Corum and Hawkmoon accessible despite their weirder aspects, but for some reason I can never get into Elric.
     

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