What book(s) are you reading currently?

[megawad]

and one on hold. I am currently reading "Mornings on Horseback", a biography of Theodore Roosevelt's formative and early years. I am also reading "The Oxford History of the Prison." Intriguing read there!
I paused in my reading of Hayek's "The Road to Serfdom" because I borrowed it from the public library and couldn't renew it because it was on hold for another reader. I am 17th on the list right now to get it back!

Happy reading!

MW

[Clouddancer]

Required reading on an Open University course I'm pursuing at the moment, largely esoteric reading, extremely dry, & you'll need several other reference books to get through it.
Reads like a PHD thesis

[victor meldrew]

Southern Steam on the Isle of Wight

[donny1]

45 was widely reviewed in the British press. The Times said that "It is usually a disaster when pop stars write books.... But Bill Drummond was never your average rock star", describing the book as "A series of loosely related vignettes forming the rambling diary of one year, it initially feels far removed from the scam-mongering stunts that we have come to expect. Drummond portrays himself as a shambling, absurd figure, saddled with the twin obsessions of pop music and art.... [he] has the inimitable wisdom of a true maverick."

[buttsie]

Call me Mr escapist but when I read books like these i tend to start and only stop when I've fallen asleep

Just finished

The first novel is especially well done given the youngest son of the king,plotting his way to usurp the crown from his older brother,is actually the main protagonist.So we have the evil character being portrayed in a sympathetic light...makes a nice change

The novels are:

* Well Of Darkness (2000)
* Guardians of the Lost (2001)
* Journey into the Void (2003)



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_Stone

Currently reading

Bones of the Dragon by Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Weis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracy_Hickman

Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman have long been a dynamic duo in the world of fantasy literature. Almost 25 years after their first Dragonlance book was published, the two have started a new fantasy series. “Bones of the Dragon”, the first of six volumes in the Dragonships of Vindras saga, introduces readers not only to a whole new creative world, but a story sprinkled with adventure, romance and clashes between humans and such creatures as dragons and ogres...

review
http://www.bscreview.com/2009/01/boo...ps-of-vindras/

[renno61]

harry Sidebottom warrior of rome
part 1 fire in the east

[ErnestoGuevara]

Having just re-acquainted myself with Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte for my Open University course (Northanger Abbey and Jane Eyre, for the record), my lighter reading for the last day or two has been the new edition of The Good Beer Guide.

Pleasant reading it makes, too, with an upsurge in the number of micro breweries and associated beers.

Literature and beer: what could be a finer combination?

[Brecht]

Isaac Asimov - The Caves of Steel (1954)

[jokerman]

I've finished Hunting Evil.
And I'm now reading To conquer hell. The battle of Meuse-Argonne 1918, which is written by American author Edward G. Lengel.

It's the true story of the US first army on the Western Front in 1918. From what I've read so far it's a damming indictment of what happens when poorly trained troops are led into battle by incompetant leaders & sent up against well trained battle hardened troops.

It doesn't pull any punches about the poor state of the US Army during the First World War or about it's Generals. Who, sent many men needlessly to their deaths.

During the First World war the British Tommy was hailed as a lion led by Donkey's.
In this case it could be said that the American Doughboy was an Eagle led by Dodos.

[Clouddancer]

The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason is a runaway international bestseller, topping the charts on both sides of the Atlantic.But the foundation of The Rule of Four, as all its readers know, is a little-known text from the fifteenth century, the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili.Lurid, dreamlike, extremely erotic and written in many different languages and codes, the exact meaning of the Hypnerotomachia has eluded scholars for centuries.

Now, in this indispensable, concise and thoroughly entertaining book, Professor Joscelyn Godwin, the translator of the first complete English edition of the Hypnerotomachia, guides the reader through its labyrinthine pages and unlocks the secrets and mysteries within Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason’s novel.He brings to life the worlds of both the Renaissance reader and the young Princeton undergraduate, setting both in the context of their time and place.Erudite and engaging, The Real Rule of Four is the perfect companion piece to The Rule of Four.