Which book are you currently reading?

[NISM0_SKYLINE]

Awesome book. Really makes you wonder what's going on at Area 51 and what else has been going on in the past. Some people might think it's a little out there, but it's an awesome read that gets more and more exciting as you go. But it's part one of a trilogy. So it keeps you wanting more.

 

[Ettick]

Been reading Kant's Critique of Judgement for an essay and it's genius, especially his concept of "the sublime."

 

[jake2013guy]

Started reading Modern Operating Systems by Andrew Tannenbaum. Uni Course related.

 

[BobK]

Started reading Modern Operating Systems by Andrew Tannenbaum. Uni Course related.

Tannenbaum knows his stuff.

 

[jake2013guy]

Tannenbaum knows his stuff.

Definitely.

 

[35mm]

Bill Bryson - At Home: A Short History of Private Life​

 

[Vert4848]

Andersonville by MacKinley Kantor. It's a really good book.

 

[Northstar]

It's been awhile since I've updated what I've been reading.

Tom Clancy - The Bear and the Dragon.

Rather boring, really the only reason to read it is that it's a part of the Ryanverse.

Jonathan Maberry - Patient Zero

It's part horror novel, part spy thriller and it reads like an 80's action flick. Overall a good fun read.

Thomas Harris - Hannibal

Insanely good until the end at which point it completely falls apart.

Stephen King - End of Watch

It's much more King like than the first two and a fitting final chapter of the Hodges trilogy.

Tom Clancy - The Teeth of the Tiger

Rather boring, really the only reason to read it is that it's a part of the Ryanverse.

 

[prisonermonkeys]

Between Silk and Cyanide: A Code-Maker's War, 1941-1945

This is the memoir of Leo Marks, a ne'er-do-well who through a combination of charm, family connections and luck winds up working as a code-breaker for the Special Operations Executive. Ostensibly, he is there so that he cannot cause trouble for anyone, but his insubordinate streak causes friction within the labyrinthine corridors as he fights a system that is as as redundant as it is bureaucratic. The narrator - who I imagine is a combination of @Famine and @TenEightyOne - has a combination of acid wit and a vague sense of disbelief as he tries to preserve the security of agents in Europe despite knowing that the system is fatally flawed.

 

[Ettick]

The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon

 

[Northstar]

Everything I read in 2016. My goal was 25 books and I reached 28, the goal for 2017 is 40.
https://www.goodreads.com/user/year_in_books/2016/52400155
What I've read thus far in 2017:

A rather good spy novel.

Pretty solid conspiracy/mystery novel.

Currently Reading:

I'll probably be reading it for a bit longer than the other 2.

 

[Rallywagon]

I just finished up Arcanum Unbounded. Again. I really enjoy Sanderson's cosmere and all those short stories and synopsis really help tie the room together.

I think though, I am going to set aside the audiobook and begin to read something in the library and not off audible. And that book would be?

I started it many years ago, but got distracted by life and never came back to it. I think it's time.

 

[35mm]

Everything I read in 2016.

Damn, that's triple the pages I've read.

 

[Liquid]

Just finished reading this:

It's 1964 and a body washes up in a lake outside Berlin. In a week's time it is the Führer's 75th birthday.

A thriller set in an alternate history where Germany won the European theatre of WWII; they starved Britain into submission by securing the Channel and Celtic sea and took all of European Russia with today's fighting being against guerrillas in Siberia and the Urals.

A solid read, very enjoyable and very interesting for a loser like me who studied Germany at university. I so wish there was a sequel but the book was released in 1992 and there hasn't been one thus far.

With that book over, I'm moving on to this:

I've read Bond novels before but weirdly never the first one.

 

[250 GTO]

Recently started this, and so far I can hardly put it down
To read these two spiritual leaders take on the world, just brings a constant smile to my face. So insightful, so thoughtful, so loving and last but not least, so very witty. Is literally such a joy

 

[Silver Arrows]

Good Norwegian crime novel, the general feel of the novel is quite cleaner and maybe more polished then maybe other crime novels from America. But I appreciate the difference in tone.

Also picked up Cormac McCarthy's The Road, going to dive into that when I am done with this.

 

[TexRex]

Spoiler: Saddest book ever written.

 

[PzR Slim]

Love reading about cycling from years gone by and this book explains the history of the greatest single day races in the world of professional cycling.

 

[BobK]

The first three books of the Chicks in Chainmail series in one volume.

A fun read.

 

[Ettick]

 

[MisterWaffles]

 

[35mm]

I've been a bit slow with my reading. Started this yesterday:

Ian Fleming - From Russia, with Love (James Bond, #5)​

 

[kikie]

This thread reminds me not to forget getting two books from the library.

1) Body language for Dummies.

2) The power of positive thinking. Read this book twice in the past but it was such a long time ago that I want to read it again.

 

[Mike Rotch]

Walden by Henry David Thoreau. Slow going, but thought provoking.

 

[RUI]

Zero K, by Don DeLillo.

 

[kikie]

The power of positive thinking by DR. Norman Vincent Peale.

 

[W3H5]

After You by Jojo Moyes. Yes, it's the follow up to Life Before You, but it's just what I had to hand. Not very good is how I would rate it. Rather crap if I'm honest. The kind of thing you find at an airport and end up reading through boredom, as in my case.

 

[kikie]

Got to page 32 today, since Tuesday.

 

[W3H5]

About a 5th of the way through and really enjoying it.

 

[Silver Arrows]

Just got this off of Amazon: