So what is everyone reading?

[Jim Colyer]

I just read Forrest Gump by Winston Groom.

 

http://jimcolyer.com/papers/entry?id=127

[Monomer]

Strong Motion by Jonathan Franzen

[Boerseun]

I just read Forrest Gump by Winston Groom.

Read it a few weeks ago, much better than the movie! Ole' Forrest makes a turn in space, as well, a scene which never made it to the film script.

There are plenty other non-movie scenes as well, which made it a pretty good read!

(Granted - the movie had a much better soundtrack than the book...)

[Tormod]

Currently reading the final book by Neal Stephenson (not his last, but the only one I haven't read - I think). It's titled The Diamond Age.

 

Stephenson is a fantastic writer. His Baroque trilogy was stunning but far far far too long. I have just completed Interface, Cobweb, and Snow Crash, and they were all quite good.

[ronthepon]

I've just come across Mario Puzo's 'The last Don'

 

Damn, he's a great writer, I have to see the rest of his workings.

[Hannoes]

The Mémoires from Hector Berlioz

[Michaelangelica]

Just read a most delightful and moving book by David Almond called The Fire Eaters.

Got it from the young adult section of the library.

He has won the Whitebread and Carnegie medals, for other books, so I thought why not?

 

Wow what a deceptively powerful and simple little book

It is simply written like a Hemingway with the power of a Steinbeck

Amazing, quietly evocative, atmospheric book set on the pebble coal beaches in a poor 1962 N England

Good read - now I have to find the ones he did win medals for and who beat him in 2003 when he published this. It must have been some book!

[Boerseun]

Just finished Asterix and the Mansions of the Gods. :)

[Jay-qu]

Finished Foundation last week, kinda stuck now, cant find "foundation and empire" in any of the local shops - probably just get it online :)

[steph_r]

Just finishing "A Child Called It", by Dave Pelzer. Very touching story about child abuse. Good read.

[Peter Parker]

Just finishing "A Child Called It", by Dave Pelzer. Very touching story about child abuse. Good read.

That is a very very brutal book....and its pretty sad. I just hope hes not faking it like the guy that wrote "A Million little pieces"

[Peter Parker]

Just started on "The Emperor's New Mind" by Roger Penrose

 

The start of the book is about AI, algorithms and turing machines. Interesting stuff, but I cant wait till a bit further in though, it turns into more of a cosmological book

Sounds intersting...Ill have to check that one out

[Jay-qu]

Its a really hefty read, I am still reading it, I pick it up from time to time as im reading other things.. Just finished the Quantum section which has left my mind buzzing!

[Becca]

im reading catch 22, and have been for more months than id care to mention. i keep getting disracted by actual degree work, selfish. that involves quantum mechanics my I M Rae and my bible physics for scientists and engineers, affectionatly refered to in my department by the auther's name of Tipler. legendary.

[Michaelangelica]

The Weather Makers

 

by Tim Flannery,( annouced, oddly, today as Astralian of the year.)

7.30 Report - 25/01/2007: Tim Flannery announced Australian of the Year

The scariest book I have read in along time.

 

Things you thought you knew about Global Warming but were afraid to ask. Some stuff I knew but a lot I didn't- like rising sea temps 4-5miles under.

 

Oddly because we have not signed the Koto Protocol along with Lichtenstein, Monarco and some other tin pot county who's name escapes me:) .

 

Tomorrow it will be 20C in local sea/surf.

15C in city of Hobart

[Jay-qu]

I just got "The nature of space and time" by Hawking and Penrose for my birthday :naughty:

[Tarantism]

i am currently reading Villa Incognito by Tom Robbins and In Search of Memory by Eric R. Kendall.