What books are you reading for pleasure these days?

[John King]

I'm still reading "The Ancestor's Tale" by Richard Dawkins and Yan Wong.
And "The Silmarillion" by J.R.R. Tolkien.

Slowed right down due to heart problems over the last 6 months or so.

 

[theoldsmithy]

Don't seem to have the inclination for anything too demanding at the moment. I'm working my way through Ruth Rendell's "Inspector Wexford" stories, and discovering how unlikeable most of the characters were in the books!

 

[lucien]

@Mike regarding War and Peace. Are you at the beginning middle or end? Enjoy, I think you like torture lolz

 

[Richard]

I'm currently reading "The Second World War" by John Keegan. It's a good book but rather spoiled when you know the ending. Actually, I prefer this account to Max Hastings' single volume history of World War II, which I read a year or two back.

-R

 

[fredlong]

My current project is reading all 41 of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels in order of publication. I've read about a dozen of them over the years but it's time to get obsessive! I'm on #6 Wyrd Sisters.

I'm also working through Thich Nhat Hanh's The Heart of Understanding yet again. But that's more of a lifelong practice than just reading.

 

[UnderOpenWater]

@Mike regarding War and Peace. Are you at the beginning middle or end? Enjoy, I think you like torture lolz

I'm about 1/3 into it. It is better than the first time around.

 

[lucien]

May the force be with you, ha ha ha. Enjoy

 

[agentlossing]

To quote the old "Val Gal" jargon, "Oh, gag me with a spoon!" You are reading what?! Yikes. That's scary stuff. Give me a Marvel Comic any day. ;o)

Hey I'm all for dense books on some subjects, but kill me if you're going to try and make them math-related. I'll take linguistics, philosophy, psychology, history...

 

[boojum]

I am re-reading “War and Peace.”

Woody Allen was filling in for Johnny Carson and in his monologue said he had taken a speed reading course. He said he had read all of War and Peace the previous night. "It's about Russia." LOL

 

[NoTan2]

I've been re-reading The Expanse series by James S.A. Corey. I read the first seven books years ago and then watched the TV series. I noticed that Leviathan Falls had been released and decided to read from the start again to get back in sync before I read that one.

On a more photographic level, I bought "Light Science & Magic" by Fil Hunter et al. years ago but it's been on the shelf until I decided to work through it a few weeks ago.

I've been a C programmer since the late 1970s and C++ and C# since they were released. Haven't done much C++ lately so I'm working through Bjarne Stroustrup's "The C++ Programming Language" to get up to speed on everything I've missed. (Probably not most people's cup of tea ).

 

[boojum]

I've been re-reading The Expanse series by James S.A. Corey. I read the first seven books years ago and then watched the TV series. I noticed that Leviathan Falls had been released and decided to read from the start again to get back in sync before I read that one.

On a more photographic level, I bought "Light Science & Magic" by Fil Hunter et al. years ago but it's been on the shelf until I decided to work through it a few weeks ago.

I've been a C programmer since the late 1970s and C++ and C# since they were released. Haven't done much C++ lately so I'm working through Bjarne Stroustrup's "The C++ Programming Language" to get up to speed on everything I've missed. (Probably not most people's cup of tea ).

Another "Gag me with a spoon" candidate. I wrote code for 20+ years, just a smidge in the C family. LibArts majors write in English (COBOL). ;o) The C family was a scary crowd.

 

[gryphon1911]

I’m reading Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink

Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win https://smile.amazon.com/dp/1250183863/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_WCA3NSG55016E1RX1931

 

[Andrewmap]

After seeing Wilfred Thesiger mentioned by @PacNWMike and @JensM, I read Arabian Sands and now into Eric Newby's books. Just received in the post today "What the Traveller Saw" - some wonderful images in there - and waiting for a Folio edition of "The Last Grain Race." Many thanks guys for the heads up

 

[Rick Waldroup]

Peril by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa. It is a modern-day horror story.

 

[Bart J D]

Only sideways connected to this topic, kind of the opposite really.
I was just looking at the free first episode of Foundation on apple tv+.
Granted, it must be 40 - 45 years since I read the Foundation trilogy but I didn't recognize these in the series.
anyone else seen them that also read the books? Is my memory playing tricks on me or has the series little to do with the books?

 

[fredlong]

Year of the Monkey by Patti Smith

 

[gordo]

Just received The Pacific War trilogy by Ian Toll. Still need to find the box in storage that has my copy of Toll's Six Frigates so I can re-read that one.

 

[phigmov]

Neal Stephensons 'Fall, Or Dodge in Hell' - pretty good so far. Quite a few memorable tidbits in there.

 

[John King]

Love the quoted paragraph, Walter.

A beacon for every weirdo conspiracy theorist around ...

 

[Richard]

I'm reading this at the moment - Bicycle Diaries by David Byrne.

It's a book about world cities, urban planning, architecture, globalisation, politics, history, music and art and much else besides. What (loosely) links it all together is city cycling, so we share what the author is seeing and thinking as he pedals around Berlin, London, Sydney, Istanbul, New York, San Francisco and many other great cities.

I'm currently about halfway through (in Buenos Aires, since you ask). So far I'm enjoying the journey and I'll be sad when it's over.

-R

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