What are you reading at the moment?

[badwhale]

Of Human Bondage ~ W Somerset Maugham

Reading it outloud helps me follow it better, and seems to sooth the savage beast, that is my 1 year old daughter.

Will

[mrtr33]

I am just about finished with The World is Flat, by Thomas Friedman. I realize this book is dated (in terms of Internet and globalization) but he sounds oddly and childishly fascinated with rather mundane tasks such as e-mail and where all the different parts of his laptop comes from. I just think he had his mind made up about several issues before he researched them, and spends the rest of the time of the book trying to convince himself that he's right. I'm on the last chapter, and it's worth finishing just because it's a long book.

I'm also reading This Incomplete One: Words Occasioned by the Death of a Young Person, editied by Michael D. Bush. This is a collection of eulogies and sermons given in light of death's of young people. A very close friend of mine passed away just before Christmas, and a family friend gave me this book.

Up Next: The Second World by Parag Khanna and I've been meaning to reread Shakespeare's Hamlet.

[Corvin]

After I finished Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk my wife handed me Duma Key while she works on You Suck by Christopher Moore.

I really enjoy Moore's stuff, but it's more light and funny then Chuck's stuff.

[mrtr33]

After I finished Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

What did you think of Fight Club? I like the story, but the book didn't read very well (to me). I think he writes like a 5th grader.

[Corvin]

What did you think of Fight Club? I like the story, but the book didn't read very well (to me). I think he writes like a 5th grader.

It was a good read, nothing spectacular, but a good read. It is an easy writing style, but I'm not sure I'd go so far as to say he writes like a 5th grader. He has gotten to be a better writer though, Fight Club was his first.

[stjohnroe]

Matter by I.M.Banks, SF as usual. For the above I have enjoyed C Palahniuk in the past and think that his disjointed style fits his subject matter.

[slcraiders]

New Testament. Just finished Matthew and about to move on to Mark. I have never actually sat down and read a gospel from start to finish. When I can block out all the chaos and house noise- Powerful stuff!