What Book Are You Currently Reading?

Anna-Roza · Post by **Anna-Roza** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 7:35 pm

Few German theatre plays from the XVIII century.

Post by **Keith Jordan** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 8:17 pm

I am reading "Saturday" by Ian McEwan at present then "Tuesdays With Morrie" by Mitch Alborn is next! Thought provoking and moving stuff! I think I will tackle Atlas Shrugged for the first time in a couple of weeks! It is such a large book though.... war and peace hasnt been read yet despite the fact that I own a lovely copy of the devil. Some books are too long and drawn out!!

IainS · Post by **IainS** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 8:40 pm

Manring - 'Electronic and Computer Music'
Mark Vail - 'Vintage Synthesizers'
Trevor Pinch - 'Analog Days'

Norbert Wilkins · Post by **Norbert Wilkins** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 11:08 am

One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and a very boring book on Cubase VST, which still isn't working. I hate that bloody program.

Powderfinger · Post by **Powderfinger** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 7:05 pm

Flatland written by E. Abbott

Avani · Post by **Avani** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 1:41 am

Franz Kafka - The Trial

white rabbit · Post by **white rabbit** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 4:29 am

i'm reading several books right now, most of them for school.

Cold Sassy Tree - takes place in confederate amer., for english. it's HORRIBLE!!

Experience & Education by John Dewey - for english, boring as hell

One River - about a professor's trip through the amazon, documenting ritual use of plants, reading for pleasure

Under the Influence - the Disinformation guide to the "war on drugs", reading for pleasure

J Ed · Post by **J Ed** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 7:04 am

white rabbit wrote:One River - about a professor's trip through the amazon, documenting ritual use of plants, reading for pleasure

I've read this one: Wade Davis is a famous ethnobotanist, born in Victoria BC
that book is like a beautiful roadtrip through the backwaters of the Amazon,
explaining the geology and the botany
the history of white exploration, and different cultures interactions with the plant life (both indigenous and colonial)
with a particular emphasis on hallucinogens, but thats just part of a very rewarding read

when I read One River, I thought "thats what a person with a university degree should be doing when they grow up!"

J Ed

riders of fury · Post by **riders of fury** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 1:45 am

The Caged Lion by Charlotte M. Yonge

This book is a work of fiction on James I, King of Scotland.

wiped · Post by **wiped** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 4:57 am

Ghost Rider : Neil Peart (the drummer from Rush) .... good read so far if a little slow ...............

Post by **mosespa** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 5:03 am

"Spiral" (The sequel to "Ring") By Koji Suzuki

and

a book on recording...I forget the title and author.

Furious · Post by **Furious** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 2:13 pm

"'The Making of the African Queen' or 'How I Went to Africa with Bogart, Bacall and Huston and Almost Lost My Mind'" by Katherine Hepburn

also

"Memory, Sorrow and Thorn" by Tad Williams. I don't read fantasy normally, but after I was given the first part in this series a year or so ago and reading it, I rather enjoyed it, and bought parts 2-4. I'm re-reading it, and nearly finished the second book.

Recomended reading.

I expect an essay on my desk in the morning.

Prkl · Post by **Prkl** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 4:16 pm

Some collection of short stories by Flannery O'Connor.

J Ed · Post by **J Ed** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 11:27 pm

A History of Scarborough, edited by Robert R Bonis, 1965
something I found in my mum's book collection

Scarborough is the suburb of Toronto where I grew up
though I have not lived there in 20 yrs, and have no friends or family living there anymore

in the many years in which I've been gone from Toronto,
I've developed a strong interest in place-specific history
which I've focused on places I've travelled to,
and places I've been employed as a cartographer on the West Coast

now I'm trying to find a place for myself in this city thats grown away from me in the long time I've been gone
trying to discover a sense of personal roots and all that

with Scarborough its problematic, as its a classic postwar cardependent suburb
all eight-lane avenues, stripmall parking lots, subdivisions and industrial parks
but not that long ago there were farms and sawmills, oneroom schoolhouses and inns at the crossroads: all gone now

J Ed

Painmaster · Post by **Painmaster** » Sun Feb 20, 2005 6:41 pm

The Walrus was Paul E. Gary Patterson, The Satanic Bible La Vey