Your reading list?

[Sandra Craft]

I remember reading Carl Sagan's The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark. It was shortly after losing my faith and I found it a very good book.

Definitely my favorite of all Sagan's books.

I'm half-way thru Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking and I'm cursing myself just a little for never having read her books before.  Her style is so clear, so disciplined and yet so poignant it makes me want to read everything she's written.  Maybe it's just the subject of this memoir -- the year following her husband's sudden death -- yet I want to find out more about this woman's gift.  (Sadly, the next book I read of hers is likely to be Blue Nights, the memoir of her daughter's death two years later).

I've also just picked up from the library the next in Laurie R. King's Kate Martinelli series, Night Work, and an intereresting looking memoir by Donovan Hohn called Moby Duck.  The author was a high school teacher when he heard a story about a cargo of 28,000 rubber bath ducks being lost at sea and was so fascinated by this that he quit his job and went looking for them.  Along the way he found a large number of other people doing the same thing -- it's a very odd club of very odd people and promises to be an interesting read.

[unholy1971]

The next book I plan on reading is The God Delusion.

[squidfetish]

My sister is buying me Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot for my birthday next week. I know it's an oldie but it's one I've been planning to read for years but never got round to.  During the Xmas break I'm going to tackle Dean Hamer's The God Gene and also have a look through Bart D. Ehrman's Lost scriptures too which should be interesting.

[Sandra Craft]

Just picked up Hitchens' Arguably: essays.  I ordered it sight unseen and had no idea it was this big -- I could use it as a weight when I'm not reading it.

[Tank]

Just finished Peter F Hamilton Reality Disfunction and starting on The Neutronium Alchamist (part 2 of 3 in the Nights Dawn trilogy). Big space opera set in 2,600+. A little heavy handed in places but if you like your SF writ large then worth a look.

[The Magic Pudding]

Just finished Peter F Hamilton Reality Disfunction and starting on The Neutronium Alchamist (part 2 of 3 in the Nights Dawn trilogy). Big space opera set in 2,600+. A little heavy handed in places but if you like your SF writ large then worth a look.

My local library has 5 books of his, 4 available.  3 voids a Manhattan and Lightstorm, I haven't ready any of his stuff.

[Cerulean]

I'm currently reading Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick. She interviewed about 100 defectors from NK - this book focuses on the lives of six of them. It tells of daily life under the Kim regime over the span of several decades and is a pretty fascinating read.

One part I found particularly interesting is that Demick drew the comparison of one young man figuring out that their "Dear Leader" was a sham to atheism. He had growing doubts for years, but one particular moment made it click for him:

"He now knew for sure that he didn't believe. It was an enormous moment of self-revelation, like deciding one was an atheist. It made him feel alone. He was different from everybody else."

An enourmous moment of self-revelation is exactly what it felt like for me.

[Tank]

That looks like a very interesting book.

[DeterminedJuliet]

House of Leaves by  Mark Z. Danielewski is next on my list. I've heard good things and I could use a spooky bit o' fiction.

[Ali]

House of Leaves by  Mark Z. Danielewski is next on my list. I've heard good things and I could use a spooky bit o' fiction.

Great book!

[Tom62]

I'm reading "The Sun Grows Cold" by Howard Berk

[corgilover]

Anything Harry Potter.

Lord of the Rings

The Hunger Games

[Squid]

I'm currently reading Facing Violence: Preparing for the Unexpected by Rory Miller.  Great book so far.

[Asmodean]

Lord of the Rings

May I suggest The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan (& Brandon Sanderson for the last three books)

It is, of course, subjective, but WoT is, in my opinion, infinitely better than LOTR.

[Ali]

I'm re-reading the Charlie Huston "Joe Pitt" series.  If you're a fan of the kind of hard boiled crime novels AND you like vampires, I highly recommend them.