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What 📔book are you reading right now?

Just finished Les Liaisons Dangereueses! And I must say, Choderlos de Laclos was nothing short of a brilliant genius of a man! Anyone else come across this book?
 
I'm almost through reading The Da Vinci Code. I think it is an great book. Murder, betrayal, corruption, history, what else could you as for?
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I liked it too, but for different reasons- mostly because of my interest in religion and just that it was very thought-provoking and absorbing.

In response to my last post- in my English class we actually just started reading My Antonia today..
 
Niirewen said:
I liked it too, but for different reasons- mostly because of my interest in religion and just that it was very thought-provoking and absorbing.
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I loved that part too. I thought the ideas brought up were very interesting...Now that I've read it, I really want to learn more about the topic...After I finish rereading the Sil...
 
RE My Antonia; I like it, it's good, but it's not holding my attention. It's good literature, but not really riveting, and I want riveting at the moment. So I think I'll set it aside for now and pick up a novel with more suspense.

And in the meantime I'm reading a non-fiction book; Wild at Heart by some guy who's name I can't remember. But it's very interesting.
 
I'm reading the Bhagavad Gita, also reading a book on Buddhist Logic, Lord of the Rings, Walden by Thoreau, and a collection of books by William James.
 
The Bhagavad Gita, cool. I used to be a Krishna-devotee. I am reading LotR right now (first time). Siege of Gondor. Been stuck there for a few days on account of not having enough time. After LotR I am going to (re)read The Hobbit and after that I am going to read the Silmarillion (first time). Oh and eh... I should really be reading stuff for school...
 
I'm currently reading Screenplay by Syd Field and The Guerilla Film Makers Blueprint by various contributors.

Both are for my future career.
 
im actually reading nothing at the moment... waiting to get paid so I can raid my neighbourhood bookshop, there are a lot of books I have not read, I m a little behind in my reading
 
I've just finished book 10 of the Wheel Of Time, Crossroads Of Twilight which was frustrating in that people are being incredibly dense and in that it didn't really go anywhere. Still, it is the beginning of the end of the series, maybe something interesting will happen in book 11? Gotta wait till 2005 though...

Now I'm on Sharpe's Fortress which will no doubt be excellent, as I've come to expect from Bernard Cornwell
 
reading 'Into the Labyrinth', book 6 in the Death Gate Cycle. Had it for ages, and now re-reading it in waiting for some new books to come in...
 
We're reading Gabriel García-Márquez's short stories in Finnish class; I would like to at least read the English translations, but the Finnish text is enjoyable too. Very surrealistic writing, I love magical realism!
Also, I've begun reading 'Tess of the D'Urbervilles', a fairly epic work of English literature. It has some wonderful countryside descriptions so far, and the story itself is quite intriguing.
 
I loved Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude. I read it during the summer, and it was just perfect. I have Love in the Time of Cholera somewhere in the piles of unread books lying around in my room, but I haven't gotten to it yet.
 
I've just got Mein Kampf out of the library. For someone who likes history enough to want to study it at university, is it worth sticking with?
 
Mein Kampf is good reading material; not awefully attractive though.

For me, I am going to start on Aldous Huxley's 'Brave New world'.
 
Beleg said:
Mein Kampf is good reading material; not awefully attractive though.

For me, I am going to start on Aldous Huxley's 'Brave New world'.
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I was so depressed after reading Brave New World. Had unpleasant dreams for a whole week.
 
As dystopias go, Brave New World is quite mild... For really unpleasant dreams I recommend "1984".
 
I keep thinking I should read 1984, and then I think naaaaw... I doubt it would be good for my mental and emotional equilibrium. Another book I found incredibly depressing was The Metamorphosis. I hate Kafka. Goodness gracious. I was downcast for a whole month after that little gem of darkness. He wakes up a bug, he goes through all this stuff, and then... Yeah.

And in other news, I'm reading an ARC of The Game by Laurie R. King--the latest installment in her Mary Russell series, due out next month. Very good reading.
 
Rhiannon I do suggest you read '1984', even thuogh it is quite nauseating and depressing. It also makes you think on so many levels, and the characters are so utterly relatable.
 
Currently reading:

American Gods by Neil Gaiman.

so far, so great.

very similar to Neverwhere, which is also great.
 
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