What are you reading?

[Zuni]

I just finished Patricia Cornwell's Jack the Ripper Book. I am now reading 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad by Harrison Salisbury. Both have turned out to be excellent and incredibly readable.

[LincolnMcGrath]

1. Everythings Eventual

14 Dark Tales

[NightTrain]

2. The discussion board at DU, of course!

:hi:

[felonious thunk]

3. The writing on the wall

Although I still can't make it out.

[dofus]

4. In the Presence of Mine Enemies

a new alternate history novel by Harry Turtledove. Germany won WWII. It's about 2010, and despite the fact that all Jews have been eliminated in the large part of the world under Nazi control, there are still secret, hidden Jews.

Turtledove writes wonderful alternate history. One of my favorites is "Guns of the South" in which South Africans from the early 21st century go back to 1862 and arm the South with AK-47s.

[Zuni]

8. I read a bunch of his

books--the WWI series. I like alternate history.

[On the Road]

5. I Just Finished

Sceinfitic American's special edition entitled "New Light on the Solar System". It was spectacular! Everything from the sun to the Oort Cloud. Not only new photos from flyovers, but a lot of new theory about planet composition and formation. Rings, magnetism, vulanism, the carbon cycle, collisions -- all kinds of things that change what I learned in school.

I also woke up this morning and finished "A Haircut in Horse Town and Other Car Talk Puzzlers."

[Zuni]

9. Astronomy

is the one science that I really love. I like reading about black holes, quasars, supernovas and such, because they are among the Universe's most powerful forces.

[everythingsxen]

6. This post

Right now.

Still reading it.

Done.

Next post.

:evilgrin:

[Kolesar]

7. Camp Wellstone Activist Training Manual

(Between reading library books on how to weatherproof the house and fix the car) I recommend it.

[ant]

10. Gideon's Spies: Secret History of the Mossad

by Gordon Thomas - it's for school and a paper I have to write, but it's pretty interesting. Starts off with a story about how the Mossad was trying to recruit this guy at a hotel, and the guy turned out to be the driver who killed Princess Di and Dodi. I'd never heard that before.

(To preempt the tinfoil: the book makes is it clear there is NO evidence the Mossad was behind the car crash, except to say that perhaps the pressure they were putting on the driver may have contributed to his increased drinking/drug use.)

[Don Claybrook]

11. The Corrections, by Jonathan Franzen

[Az]

12. The instructions manual to Final Fantasy Online

Hey, it can't all be politics and sociology/psychology!!!

[CPschem]

13. Jonathan Ames

hilarious short stories

[trof]

14. just found a forgotten treasure

Last year at our library book sale I got a boxed, two volume set of the complete short stories of Somerset Maughm. Somehow it got put on the shelf and I forgot about it.

[slappypan]

15. Flash deConstruction by Todd Purgason

I'm learning Flash MX and actionscripting.

[curse10]

16. Animal Liberation

by Peter Singer. Most excellent. :-)

[LTR]

17. "The Hunting Of The President"

By Joe Conason.

It's about the GOP's dirty tricks on the Clintons. I'm sure many of you have read or heard of the book.

I found it at a Goodwill store last week. Very good read.