What book(s) are you reading now?

[Katzpur]

I'm reading "And the Mountains Echoed" by Khaled Hosseini (author of "The Kite Runner" and "A Thousand Splendid Suns"). As I expected, it's awesome.

 

[Muffled]

I am finishing up "Earth Afire" by Orson Scott Card. Even though he has a co-author it measures up to his previous books.

I started The Cat Who series by reading "The Cat Who Could Read Backwards" by Lilian Jackson Braun. As a detective novel it was adequate but I'm not sure how much cat adoration I can stand. (I think of this as light reading)

I finished "Executive Orders" (over 1300 pages) by Tom Clancy. I was amazed this book didn't seem as long as it was or become tedious. I have to classify this as a prodigous work of literature.

 

[xkatz]

On Judaism by Martin Buber. He has an interesting approach to theology though I do really dislike his political beliefs

 

[Knight of Albion]

Also reading:

'The Extended Circle: A Dictionary of Humane Thought'
Edited by by Jon Wynne-Tyson

A most wonderful book. An anthology of over 400 pages of beautiful, compassionate quotations/teachings. I cannot imagine that anyone could read this book cover to cover and fail to emerge a better person...

"Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace" Albert Schweitzer

 

[Sand Dancer]

Military History for Dummies
The Evolution of Faith

I have many more but those are the ones that I have read in the last two days.

 

[yoda89]

Angelo's Ashes

 

[illykitty]

Going to start reading the Sri Guru Granth Sahib, text of the Sikh path... Well a translation of it, since I can't read Gurmukhi.

 

[Breathe]

The Art of Happiness in a Troubled World by The Dalai Lama

 

[Poeticus]

Feast for Crows took me a long time to get through

Namaste,

Too much of Brienne in AFFC...

There was no Jon nor Stormborn....thus I had to read through it as fast as possible to get to book #5, and even ADWD ended abruptly....I wonder what the Horde will do regarding that they are standing in front of a dragon and a Khaleesi whose a bad b**** hehe

I wonder if Stormborn will go bonkers on them (Dothraki) or try to get them on her side and make another army...

M.V.

 

[Quagmire]

Angelo's Ashes

I just started reading this a cpl days ago. Great book. :yes:

Amazon.com: Angela's Ashes (9780743581493): Frank McCourt: Books

edit: unless you actually did mean AngelO's Ashes, (figured that was a type-o).

 

[Falvlun]

Listening to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

I listen to books on tape since I have a half hr commute, and I try to get classics or other books I might otherwise not have the patience to read.

This book is excellent. Sometime's I have to sit in my car for a little bit to finish listening to a particular passage. The emotional buildup and suspense is intense; I haven't had a book affect my emotions like this to such a degree in a long while.

Part of the appeal may be the actor who voices the book. His voices are excellent and natural, and his delivery is perfectly timed.

Anyway, the storyline of a group of men in a psychiatric unit in the early 1960s is fascinating. The staff congratulate themselves on the modern and unbarbaric practices they have adopted, and yet from the lens of today's standards-- and indeed, even from the contempt displayed by the author in its own time-- the "therapeutic benefit" of many, if not all, of the things that they do are rather questionable at best and downright harmful at worst.

This is an introspective book. I read and enjoy a lot of books just for the story-- the action, the plot, the scenery. But this book spends just as much time delving into the thought processes of the main protagonist, as well as others, as it does in what is actually occurring. Done poorly, or with an uninteresting subject matter, this style can quickly get incredibly boring, and makes you just want to skip ahead to the action. But in this book, the two-- the plot and the introspection-- meld seemlessly, and I can't get enough of either.

I definitely recommend this book, whether you just want a good read or whether you are looking for something with a little more substance. It's perfect either way.

 

[Titanic]

Listening to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

I listen to books on tape since I have a half hr commute, and I try to get classics or other books I might otherwise not have the patience to read.

This book is excellent. Sometime's I have to sit in my car for a little bit to finish listening to a particular passage. The emotional buildup and suspense is intense; I haven't had a book affect my emotions like this to such a degree in a long while.

Part of the appeal may be the actor who voices the book. His voices are excellent and natural, and his delivery is perfectly timed.

Anyway, the storyline of a group of men in a psychiatric unit in the early 1960s is fascinating. The staff congratulate themselves on the modern and unbarbaric practices they have adopted, and yet from the lens of today's standards-- and indeed, even from the contempt displayed by the author in its own time-- the "therapeutic benefit" of many, if not all, of the things that they do are rather questionable at best and downright harmful at worst.

This is an introspective book. I read and enjoy a lot of books just for the story-- the action, the plot, the scenery. But this book spends just as much time delving into the thought processes of the main protagonist, as well as others, as it does in what is actually occurring. Done poorly, or with an uninteresting subject matter, this style can quickly get incredibly boring, and makes you just want to skip ahead to the action. But in this book, the two-- the plot and the introspection-- meld seemlessly, and I can't get enough of either.

I definitely recommend this book, whether you just want a good read or whether you are looking for something with a little more substance. It's perfect either way.

I totally agree. A great book I love to read. I also like the movie too.

 

[Titanic]

I am reading fifty shades of grey again.

 

[Bismillah]

Prehospital Emergency Care

(Al-Qur'an) القرآن‎

Ma'ariful Qur'an - Mufti Shafi Usmani

The Message of the Qur'an - Muhammad Assad

Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources - Martin Lings

Destiny Disrupted - Tamim Ansari

The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World - Michelle Pollan (heh)‎

 

[NoraSariah]

Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief

 

[BeckyRose1998]

Fearless Fourteen by Janet Evanovich (Stephanie Plum Series)
The manga for Ouran Highschool Host Club. I just finished #13

 

[Titanic]

Crime and Punishment. I finished all three of the fifty shades of grey books in less than a week. Yeah I am a real fast reader.

 

[BSM1]

Juddaism For Dummies.

 

[methylatedghosts]

Just finished The Inheritance by Robin Hobb/Megan Lindholm. A collection of short stories, very enjoyable.

I'm about to go shopping for The City and the City.

 

[Titanic]

Anita Blake.