What Book are You Currently Reading?

[BeatleBoot]

I am reading a biography of St. Patrick by J.B. Bury published in 1905.

:hi:

[JTG of the PRB]

1. "Stranger in a Strange Land"

Very good so far. I've been on a major sci-fi reading kick this year and I;ve read a TON of excellent science fiction literature.

[mtowngman]

6. love that one

read it years ago and still grok some things over

[Solly Mack]

2. Unnatural Murder: Poison at the Court of James I by Anne Somerset

[Fleshdancer]

3. Grapes of Wrath...

and The ROI of Human Capital.

[mucifer]

4. I'm currently reading DU lounge... sorry that was bad.

[seabeyond]

5. homecoming by joanne ross. just read a gena showalter. totally different from what i read.

you all read such serious books.

[mtowngman]

7. I'm reading The Russian Revolution

By Alan Moorehead published 1958. This summer I read The Jungle by Upton Sinclair published around the time the one you're reading now was.

[kimi]

8. Lonely Planet's guide to Ireland

Cause I'm going there with my mom later this month. I plan to start a thread later this week to ask people what places are best to see in or near Dublin, but that's neither here nor there now. I love Lonely Planet guidebooks, they're concise, comprehensive, and funny at times. I read their books for places I never plan to go to, like Central Asia or the Canary Islands, just cause they're fun to read.

[WolverineDG]

9. Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England

pretty interesting. The book I read before that was "The Disappearing Spoon," a book on the periodic table for people who took chemistry a looooong time ago or never did.

dg

[Odin2005]

11. That is a fun book.

[Odin2005]

10. "Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology" by philosopher David Abrahm.

[suzbaby]

12. The Year of Living Biblically

by A.J. Jacobs

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

13. Beyond the Khyber Pass

I've had it for several years but didn't start reading it until a few weeks ago. Our being in Afghanistan is big, big trouble. Here's a review of the book, which is a retelling of British failure there in 1842.....

Rich in adventure, intrigue and treachery, this is the story of the British failure in Afghanistan in the 1840s, as England competed with czarist Russia for strategic advantage in Central Asia. Waller relates how the womanizing ways of garrison troops in Kabul (amid a xenophobic, deeply religious society where such behavior was punishable by death) was the "last straw" that caused the tribal chiefs to abandon their bloody feuds and declare a holy war against the infidel invader. The war found the vaunted British square formation, cavalry and artillery virtually useless in the high mountain passes where most of the fighting took place. The great set piece of the book is the awesome description of the near destruction of the 4500-man British Kabul garrison and its 12,000 camp followers as they attempted to fight their way to Peshewar. This first-rate history by the author of Gordon of Khartoum captures the savage grandeur of the First Afghan War.

[Kali]

14. reference books

an old Merck manual, Peterson Field Guide - Southwestern and Texas Wildflowers, and a Haynes for old escorts/merc tracers (I'm done with that, going to junk the thing now)