What are you currently reading?

Now I'm reading Alex's Adventures in Numberland (in Italian, of course : P ).
It's a book about maths obviously, but it is very interesting discovering how maths influences our lives. I've always hated this subject at school, but with this book I'm loving numbers. I had already loved maths games in Alice in Wonderland of Carroll, but with this book I'm having a different approach with it.
I'm travelling in a real world, our world, learning a lot about numbers. I've already met people who can count only until 5 and a monkey able to use all the arabic number with the exeption of 0.
It's a fantastic book and I'm really enjoying this travel!
I reccomend it to all people who have hated maths at school because this book is likely to let you love this "orrible" subject.
 
I'm currently reading "The History Of The WWE Championship". It's a good book. There's not much in it that I didn't know already though. I kinda wanted more behind the scenes stories of some of the booking decisions. Like who would be the next champion, what they thought about the champion, etc. It's more kayfabe based unfortunately. Though, it's still a fun read. Casual fans will get a lot from it, while hardcore fans like me will like it simply for the nostalgia factor, along with a few cool stories. :)
 
^ I think the kayfabe-ness of that would annoy me. Plus like you say I am familiar with basically all the title changes of the modern era.

I've just finished a book called Timelapse - David F. Nighbert, which wasn't bad. It was a fairly standard sci-fi novel, hardly a classic.

After that I started Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov. I read the first Foundation a few months ago and loved it. I think Asimov is probably the best sci-fi author of them all.
 
the baby jesus buttplug by carlton mellick.

it's a rivetting short story about a deviant couple who get themselves a pet baby jesus from a breeder (as opposed to from a sex shop). although it is frowned upon, they use the pet baby jesus as a buttplug, but it turns out to be extremely evil and destroys their lives. they should have known better because the breeder warned them against using the pet baby jesus in this way. she said "i can't believe some people actually have the nerve to use the holy power of the messiah on anal expeditions."

10/10

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Baby-Jesus-Butt-Plug/dp/0972959823
 
Currently rereading Stephen King's Dark Tower series. Up to the drawing of the three. Probably my favourite in this series. I really like Eddie and Odetta/Detta/Susan and their backstories.
 
I've just finished Isaac Asimov's Foundation and Empire. I liked it a lot, but I think I preferred the first one, Foundation.

I'm on to the third in the trilogy now, Second Foundation.
 
Witch Wraith, Terry Brooks' latest Shannara offering. I don't have very high expectations of this...it appears Terry has all but run out of ideas, as the Forbidding is crumbling again and there are half a dozen re-used plot elements from the High Druid trilogy, which I really, REALLY did not care for...mostly because I don't like Grianne. Although I am liking the darker tone this trilogy has taken; prominent characters are dropping like flies. Although with the same antagonists as previous books and protagonists who are pretty much identical to previous ones, I have very little motivation to read this. Pre-Voyage novels are still his best works.
 
In non-fiction I am presently reading The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud, but in German instead of in translation. It's the theory of the unconscious mind in relation to dream interpretation and is the precursor of the theory that eventually became known as the Oedipus Complex. It's really interesting but is pretty complicated at times and I wonder whether my knowledge of psychology is quite deep enough to understand it all.

In fiction I'm reading a French novel called La Peste Noire which translates as The Black Plague. It's historical fiction which is one of my absolute favourite genres and it's full of really in-depth description which is what I like.

I find it interesting how a few people whose opinions I've read on here say that when they play Final Fantasy, they love having really detailed, beautiful environments to interact with. This is what was apparently lacking in XIII - the ability to interact with those wonderful environments that whooshed past you, the game giving you no opportunity to visit any of them at all at any point! But in books, the environments and our ability to interact with them, which are the very things we claim to crave in Final Fantasy, are given to us through description... and yet those descriptions are the very thing that people seem to dislike when they read! How does that make sense? I think it partly boils down to us all being resistant to change, myself.

LanguageSponge
 
Hitler's Willing Executioners - Daniel Goldhagen.

It's a somewhat racist book about a very racist subject, the subject being the Holocaust. His book is about the people involved in the actual murders, rather than people removed from it. He also argues that Germans were better suited to a massacre of Jews than other peoples.
 
On Basilisk Station - David Weber

I'm on a big sci-fi kick at the moment. Read Ender's game and Old Man's War before this. This particular book is the first in a currently 14 book series, Honor Harrington. I'm about a third of the way through it right now, and I'm liking it.
 
Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A. Heinlein
A sort of fish out of water story about a man born on Mars and raised by Martians, trying to understand Earthlings. Interesting.

The Honor of the Queen - David Weber
Liked the first book. Moved on to the next.
 
I have loads of books on the go at the moment... Phil Beadle's How to Teach, Philip Pullman's The Amber Spyglass, the two-part play of His Dark Materials by Nicholas Wright (I get to teach this!) a book about a murderer on a ship. I have so many books on my reading list, but not enough time to read them. :sad3: Still, it makes me happy to have two very full bookshelves (mine have two rows of books on every shelf), and a wardrobe half full of books I WILL read. :lew:
 
Stephen Kings' Needful Things - I've only read about a fifth of the book right now, but it's pretty great. It's all about a small town where an evil shop owner opens a shop there and how it ruins the characters' lived. It feels a lot like Under The Dome?

Loving it so far :)
 
Finishing up The Hunger Games right now.

Katniss and Peeta are my new OTP.
 
I'm in the process of re-reading The Hunger Games Catching Fire. I got about mid way through it a month ago and I quit , well I realized upon opening the book that I lost my bookmark! :rage:
So now I have to restart it again.
 
'The World of Ice and Fire: The Untold History of Westeros and the Game of Thrones', written by Elio Garcia and Linda Antonsson in consultation with George R. R. Martin.

Essentially a companion book to Martin's 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series of novels (and for the most part the TV show adaption, 'A Game of Thrones'). Brilliant for fans of the books and show as it details much of the history that is referenced and is stunningly illustrated.
 
Lone Wolf by Jodi Picoult, it's a dramatic novel about a family of four: Georgie, the wife, Luke, the father and their two children, Cara and Edward. Luke is a wildlife conservationist--he's obsessed with learning the behavioral pattern of wolves, what makes them tick, how they select alphas and betas and omegas, how the hierarchy is maintained. He recently got into a car accident with Cara who broke her scapula but it left him in a virtually unrecoverable vegetative state. So what this has turned into is a taut courtroom drama with Cara and Edward on either side, Edward wanting to pull the plug sustaining Luke's fragile life and Cara wishing for a miracle and the wolves he idolizes so much to cure him. And Georgie's just in-between, remarried with twins. So far it's interesting, it's one of those "I-can't-put-it-down-and-stop-turning-the-pages-fast-enough" types. After that I have Matthew Quick's debut novel, Silver Linings Playbook leering at me to finally read it, tucked away on the corner of this computer desk.
 
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