Books: What are you reading tonight?

[Blarg]

I'm too egotistical to be put in my place by Ulysses. I'll probably be humble enough to read it by the time I no longer have even close to the mental capacity to make any sense of it at all.

[oe39]

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I am finishing up the last hundred pages of Haruki Murakami's "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle". I really enjoy it but very strange. Sort of like reading a David Lynch movie.

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i'm about a third through this, feel about the same.

also reading david foster wallace - oblivion and other stories. the wikipedia entry on this is pretty accurate... i like it, but it's hard to recommend to someone without knowing them.

[diebitter]

I'm currently reading 'Claudius the God' by Robert Graves for the third or fourth time - thoroughly enjoyable.

Also reading 'Bigger Deal' by Anthony Holden, the sequel to 'Big Deal'. Big Deal was great, this is okay so far, but not outstanding.

Also reading 'Hitler - My Part in his Downfall' by Spike Milligan, very funny.

[DerrtySlime]

I'm reading "Catch 22" right now. Only done 2 chapters but it's clever and funny so far. I heard it was very love/hate.

[Taso]

I'm about halfway through Ron Paul's new book, A Foreign Policy of Freedom. It's very similar to what he's running on today, but basically the book is a series of I suppose, his most important statements while in Congress. It's slightly eerie reading what he wrote back then, and seeing how it's come true/still applies to today.

[Doc T River]

I am also one of those who read many books at once. Right now I am working on You Only Live Twice by Ian Fleming, The Cold Moon by Jeffery Deaver, Double Cross by James Patterson, and Fundamentals Of Poker by some guy named Malmuth.

[bemydemon]

For something different, try Cary Tennis' "Since You Asked" which is a best-of compilation of his advice column on Salon.com. I ordered it from his site http://www.carytennis.com/home.html and got a signed copy. I recently stumbled on the column and now I read it daily. Very entertaining and enlightening, not your traditional Dear Abby style advice.

[Enrique]

I am reading Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton. I found it for $2 hardcover. I have been enjoying the book, a really fast pace read.

[Dominic]

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I am reading Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton. I found it for $2 hardcover. I have been enjoying the book, a really fast pace read.

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good read. It's one of the few books I literally could not put down! I stayed up all night reading it.

[Dominic]

I picked up Max Brooks' World War Z while holiday traveling and I was very impressed.

WORLD WAR Z

The premise is absurd: a world wide plague wipes out half of mankind, turning people into flesh-eating zombies. Civilization buckles and almost collapses before the humans fight back.

However, the book is so well written and in such an original way that it verges on greatness. The whole book is an "oral history" told ten years after the Great War. The author travels the world interviewing survivors, political leaders, and military personnel. It's as if the war really happened - events are deadly serious and reverent.

It's sort of like Studs Terkel doing zombies!

Great read.