Books: What are you reading now?

I read that about a year ago. I also read great reviews about it but I hated it. I found it strange and depressing. It starts out good, with a good premise but I don't think the author developed it properly or developed it to its fullest potential. I won't say more so I don't spoil your reading of it.
I just finished a book of letters by Richard Feynman called "Perfectly Reasonable Deviations From The Beaten Track" - I loved it. Feynman was a Nobel prize winning physicist who also was an artist, played the drums and was generally entranced with life in general.
I am just starting "The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century" by Thomas L. Friedman. It promises to be very good - I have read much of his stuff and liked it. He writes op-ed pieces for the New York Times. I like his approach to the global economy.

Kathleen

I'm reading Dan Brown's Deception Point at the moment and I'm still reading Mystic River by Denis Lehane.

I'm reading, continuosly reading, a thrilling tale of money, governments, poverty and human nature. Economic Development.

Exciting.

Im reading these posts

yup you could make a fair bit of money back in the day robbing a grave or two.

do a search for 2 fine young chaps from edinburgh called burke and hare. they started grave robbing for a doctor in edinburgh university but decided just killing people outright was quicker and easier. an interesting if somewhat macabre story.

the story is in the book - pretty funny actually.

I'm trying to read the new Cohelo's "Zahir" but I'm so tired at night that I fall asleep just after a couple of pages...damn! I need some vacation...

"Star" by Pamela Anderson

I'm presently reading "Highways To a War" [Christopher J. Koch - also wrote The Year of Living Dangerously]. It's a very interesting book - the setting is the Indochina War - the historical events are true..the characters fictional.
The last book I've completed reading was one called "Christendom" [Neil Cross] - was determined to finish it, but one of the most frustrating books I've ever read. It assumes you understand what is going on from the get go and never really tells you how the world got to be in the state it's in [America is a Christian Fundamentalist State] throughout the course of the book.
RECOMMENDATIONS: If you like/love suspense and absolute break neck speed action from beginning to end, I HIGHLY recommend and encourage people to read any of Matthew Reilly's books. Apart from The HP series and LOTR, these are the only books I have not been able to leave alone til I finished them. [Contest, Temple, Ice Station, Area 7 and Scarecrow, Hover Car Racer]...has a new book coming out in November [7 Ancient Wonders and I'm looking forward to getting that]

You can read a synopsis of each of his books at his site. Contest and Area 7 are my favourites.
http://www.matthewreilly.com/high/home.htm

Happy reading.
S.

Right now I'm reading:

Going Solo (An autobiography) - Roald Dahl
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Subterranean - James Rollins

Just finished Enemies Foreign And Domestic by Matthew Bracken and would highly recommend it. And I'm hoping to pick up Revenge Of The Sith by my favorite author, Matthew Stover, at the library soon.

Adrian