What Book Are You Reading At the Moment? (Split)

[Cassi]

I just finished a great book called The President of Good and Evil, a politics book analyzing (very impartially, I might add) the morals that guide President Bush's life. Right now I'm reading Catch-22 (by Joseph Heller) and La Casa de los Espiritus (by Isabel Allende), both for school. For fun, I'm reading Terry Pratchett's Thief of Time and Lords and Ladies. Terry Pratchett is a genius.

Is Catch-22 any good? I was thinking about buying it, but then I got 1984 instead...

[Metatwaddle]

Meh. It's funny, but the consistent illogic of the characters and their military system - which is really what makes it funny - gets a little bit tiresome after a while. There are tons of small ironies, but not enough big ironies. It's not that I keep waiting for something to happen, it's just that I keep expecting the author to make a really incisive point. And it hasn't really happened too much.
On the other hand, it takes one hell of an author to keep my attention for three hundred pages without really having a plot to the story. And Catch-22 has done that. So hats off to Joseph Heller.

[Cassi]

Meh. It's funny, but the consistent illogic of the characters and their military system - which is really what makes it funny - gets a little bit tiresome after a while. There are tons of small ironies, but not enough big ironies. It's not that I keep waiting for something to happen, it's just that I keep expecting the author to make a really incisive point. And it hasn't really happened too much.
On the other hand, it takes one hell of an author to keep my attention for three hundred pages without really having a plot to the story. And Catch-22 has done that. So hats off to Joseph Heller.

Hmm. Maybe I'll get it next time I don't feel like taking the effort to actually look in a bookstore. =P

[Crescendo]

I just finished the Secret Life of Bees.

[vivian58]

Rereading Goblet of Fire having finished rereading OotP. I'm trying to read them all over again backwards, which is pretty cool actually, because you notice stuff a lot more.

[DM was on fire!]

The Rnadom House Book of Humor (almost typed horor. No, not my kind of book.) I finished the story Tales of a 4th Grade Nothing yesterday.

[Nani]

I'm jointly reading- don't laugh- Moneyball and The Teammates.

[Crystal Cloud]

I just finished All American Girl, and am now reading The Battle for Carnillo. Both great books.

[SpiraLethe]

My social anthropology texts, Investigating Culture by Carol Delaney.

[Christopher]

'Popcorn', another Ben Elton book, this time its about a guy that makes brutal movies getting an unwanted visit from real serial killers.

[Cassi]

Now I'm onto Shadow of the Hegemon (again =P). Plus the other two books that I don't even know I can really say I'm reading, since I don't even know what they're called...

[Ixistant]

Right now I'm reading "Leadership" by Rudolph W. Gulianni. It's really good and i found his account of 9/11 quite sad.

[wolftracker]

Aside from Crescent by Diana Abu-Jaber, which I'm still reading for pleasure, I'm also reading Grammar Alive! (and it's actually succeeding in making grammar instruction interesting) for English Teaching Methods, short stories by Sherman Alexie for Adv. Composition, Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad for Literature of Emerging Nations, and selections on Indian Cinema for Global Genres. Isn't being a senior uni. English major fun? (and in a week or so I'll start getting homework in Shakespeare as well, I think our first play is Taming of the Shrew)

[Chaud]

I'm reading Point Blanc, sequel to Stormbreaker.

[Joelz Butterfly]

I am currently reading Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris. It's a pretty interesting vampire series. ^__^ I can't wait to read the second one.