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What 📔book are you reading right now?

I'm currently reading between "Tell No One" by Harlan Coben, and so far so good, and "Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets" and yes...that's the second one...my friends have finally forced me to read them...
 
The Gold Coast by Nelson DeMille. Not the type of book I'd ordinarily pick up, just thought I'd try something different.
 
Conan the Adventurer, by L. Sprague de Camp and Robert E. Howard.

Yeah baby!

(Just finished rereading The Book of Three by Loyd Alexander. I needed a mindless violence break.)
 
I don't think many of you remember me, but anyway.....I'm reading Sir Walter Scott's "Ivanhoe" for the first time. I'm enjoying it a lot. I think it's a good book, even though it's historically inaccurate (at least that's what I've heard).
 
I remember you. I'm a Cubs fan, also, living on the north side of Chicago.

I'm reading A Conneticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.
It's not bad, but it usually puts me to sleep right away.
 
Currently rereading Still Life With Woodpecker by Tom Robbins. Amazing novel by an amazing novelist.
 
I'm re-reading The Hobbit for a class, I'm working very slowly on Little, Big, and I really need to finish The Place of the Lion by Charles Williams and Lilith by George MacDonald. I read Phillip Pullman's Lyra's Oxford (which is a glorified short story, but the little red cloth-bound book beckoned me), and I'm reading A Fine and Private Place for the first time. I'm also forcing myself to not read Ladies of Grace Adieu until I have time to focus on it and I need to re-read The Golden Compass so that I can discuss it with a friend of mine.
 
I'm currently reading SPEAKER FOR THE DEAD, and currently hunting for XENOCIDE in the local bookstores here.
 
I am reading; The Science of Discworld III by Terry Pratchett

The hard science of time travel, number theory, and Evolution rapped up in an interesting fantasy fiction setting (making it seem almost understandable )

also looks at the life of Charles Darwin and shows how it was almost impossible to have even gotten on the 'Beagle' let alone write the 'Origins of Species'
 
I'm reading Dragon by Clive Cussler. Just your average adventure novel.

Waiting for some books on Irish neutrality in WWII to arrive so I can read them for uni.
 
Right now I'm reading "The Teutonic Knights" by Henryk Sienkiewicz, about the battle of Grunwald in 1410.

A lot better than "With Fire and Sword", in my opinion. The good humour throughout somewhat surprises me (this is the same guy who wrote "Quo Vadis", after all).

In conjuction, I've also been going through "Masterpieces of Fantasy and Enchantment" collection, compiled by David G. Hartwell, which contains some extremely good short stories written from the 1830s to the present. I'd recommend any fantasy fan pick up a copy.
 
I'm am currently wrapped up in Philosphy and books about what makes the mind tick. Right now I'm working on The Expressions and Emotion in Man and Animals and Motivation: An Experimental Approach. Very interesting, I suggest anyone interested in such topics to take a look at them.
 
I'm rereading Night by Elie Wiesel. Saddest book ever, but other than that, no comment.
 
Elendil said:
I'm currently reading LotR (again ) and The Canterbury Tales, by Chaucer. What about you guys?
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Currently I'm rereading The Varieties of Religious Experiences by William James (hadn't read it since 1958); just finished Children of Hurin by you-know-who; rereading Bright Lights Dark Shadows by Carl Palm (the story of the rise and fall of ABBA). Soon I'm going to reread Crooked Cucumber by David Chadwick: the biography of Shunryu Suzuki, the monk who came over from Japan, settled in Northern California, and became an important exponent of Soto Zen to America. I also finished reading Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth and watching the DVD. Truly terrifying.

Eliot said:
I don't think many of you remember me, but anyway.....I'm reading Sir Walter Scott's "Ivanhoe" for the first time. I'm enjoying it a lot. I think it's a good book, even though it's historically inaccurate (at least that's what I've heard).
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I remember you! Who could forget that Cubs logo? How are ya?

Barley
 
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Recently: Re-read A Wizard of Earthsea be Ursula K. Le Guin and The Last Unicorn by Peter Beagle, as well as The Book of Three and The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander. I'm currently working on Tam Lin by Pamela Dean, which would be interesting if it weren't working so hard to be dull as dirt.
 
I am currently read Sex Lives of Cannibals by J. Maarten Troost. It is about neither sex nor cannibals, actually. Quite interesting. I'm almost done, and I'm greatly enjoying it.

I've read quite a few books lately due to the influence of my fiance. One of them: Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. He raved about how great it was. My opinion: quite possibly the dullest book ever written. Seriously.
 
Inbetween projects I'm in the middle of Gormenghast by Mervin Peake, and The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand, and rereading all the Harry Potters.

I've got a big reading list for this summer
 

Two musician cannibals were eating a missonary... nah, better not tell it!

Barley
 
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