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Whatcha' Reading Part 1
What are you reading right now Part 0

Anyone up for more "capsule" reviews of the book you've just finished.... unless, of course, there is a better thread in which to place such a post e.g. maybe the author/book was already discussed and you can "bump" an earlier thread!



Can't believe that I'm still reading the first Otherland book by Tad Williams! Oh well.... maybe I'll be finished by the end of the month!

Angels and Demons, Dan Brown.

Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller
Unceasing Worship by Harold Best

Just finished The Explainer by Slate Magazine. Nice little fact book.

Now I'm finally starting Dark Tower 3.

Still reading Day of Infamy by Walter Lord. Haven't had much reading time this last month at all.

50 pages to go till i finish The Iliad YAY!!!

I'm slowly working through a book called "Sex, Time and Power: How Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution"
by Leonard Shlain

It's fasacinating because he has some ideas that are hard to believe but he justifies them well. It's a slow read but it isn't too technical.


I'm also reading a bunch of young adult books. I'm a 6th grade teacher and our school is doing a staff readathon so I'm reading books that my students recommend to me. I really liked "Green Angel" by Alice Hoffman. It deals with the stages of grief after a loss. Definitely aimed for teenagers but enjoyable.

H.M.S. Surprise, the 3rd novel in the Patrick Obrian series

Still reading Laymon's To Wake the Dead.

Haven't been reading much lately, but I just picked up "Against All Enemies" by Richard Clarke and have been working my way through it very slowly. So far it's very, very interesting.

I just finished Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.

Right now I'm reading Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla.

Then after that it's Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. I'm rereading the series in anticipation for the 3rd film.

Finished Greg Iles books last week and now starting with Dennis Lehanes Patrick Kenzie series, A Drink Before War.

Finished Black Cross by Greg Iles. It was as good as everybody said it was, and I recommend it also to anyone looking for a great WWII thriller. Next I'm going to read Chosen Prey by John Sandford.

Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo. Good book so far!

By the bed: California Fire & Life by Don Winslow

In the car: Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett

In the briefcase: Done for a Dime by David Corbett

On the to-read shelf:
Firecracker by Ray Shannon (Gar Anthony Haywood)
Homicide Special by Miles Corwin
The Grand Complication by Allen Kurzwell

Dark Tower 5 here.

Apart from the 3 computer books I have around all the time (Programming PERL, HTML/XHTML reference, and Javascript Reference), I've got 2 other books I'm working through (MySQL and Flash MX).

For non-computer reading, I just finished Flood by Andrew Vachss. Started reading the next Vachss book (Strega), but got diverted into The Sum of All Fears by Tom Clancy. And I've always got a Discworld book I'm working through (currently Witches Abroad).

Just finished Catch-22 Joseph Heller. I had forgotten how much damned word play there was in that book.

Now - The Last Place - Laura Lippman. A desperation book from my co-worker as I have nothing to read now.

ok its taken me about 2 weeks and 5 days to read but...YAY!!! ive just finished The Iliad...really enjoyed it, now i really cant wait for Troy!!!!

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The Karate Kid III

Just finished "Against All Enemies" by Richard Clarke. Very interesting and very informative, but a lot of it comes off almost like sour grapes.

Now I'm just beginning to wade my way through "Ghost Wars" by Steve Coll.

Trying to finish If Chins Could Kill by Bruce Campbell, and then going to work on The Cinema of Stanley Kubrick for a school project I'm doing on Kubrick. After that, the plans are to read some Hunter S. Thompson before jumping into the Lord of the Rings or Beatle biography books.

Just finished...
A&R by Bill Flanagan
MoveOn's 50 Ways to Love Your Country
The Last Honest Place in America: Paradise and Perdition in the New Las Vegas by Marc Cooper

Just starting...
The President of Good and Evil: The Ethics of George W. Bush by Peter Singer
Against All Enemies by Richard Clarke

The Jury by Steve Martini.

Just finished Da Vinci Code. Reading Digital Fortress now.