What are you currently Reading? (5 Viewers)

[Dystocia]

the fountainhead
not a bad book, some ppl say it gets dry and I can understand that but it's ok. The only part I didn’t like was the underlying philosophy that if you see a person dying on the street you should tell them to pick themselves up with their bootstraps

 

[Charles Bean]

The Catcher in the Rye.

 

[musing]

junichiro tanizaki - in praise of the shadows

 

[Kimyia]

Angels and Demons - Dan Brown

+1 for Dan Brown. Reading Frankenstein and The Girl who Played with Fire by Steig Larsson.

 

[lamingtons]

just finished Room Full Of Mirrors, A Biography of Jimi Hendrix. amazing read

i have plenty of books i still need to read, just need to work out which one first. might give Plato's Symposium a go

 

[Lentern]

Russell Brand's "My Booky Wook " Sylvester will approve as its not fiction.

 

[SylviaB]

lol

(Seriously not lurking, first time ive een in here in months)

 

[SylviaB]

The Evil Princes of Martin Place: The Reserve Bank of Australia, the Global Financial Crisis and the Threat to Australians' Liberty and Prosperity

 

[MichaelRichards]

the israel lobby and american foreign policy by mearshimer and walt
the 10,000 year explosion by henry harpending and gregory cochran
the ethnic phenomenon by pierre van den bergh
the story of israel by martin gilbert (completely beautiful picture/history book full of newspaper clippings, pages from theodor herzls diary, photographs and information detailing israel's history since its formulation and the early zionist movement)

 

[Shadowdude]

Orlando, Virginia Woolf.

 

[CallanT]

Communist Manifesto
Robinson Crusoe
Frankenstein

 

[Examine]

The Book Thief

 

[Lentern]

My Booky Wook II by Russell Brand.

 

[kfnmpah]

the second sex - simone de beauvoir

 

[yoyoyoshi]

I Don't Know How She Does It - Allison Pearson
So far, so good. : )

 

[halapenyo]

Deception Point - Dan Brown

 

[Lentern]

Salman Rushdie "The Satanic Verses"

 

[demonduckofdoom]

Sex At Dawn - Christopher Ryan & Cacilda Jethia
Really interesting look into views on human sexuality and how it possibly developed.

 

[Demento1]

Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

Intriguing book about people being born with their future already dictated.

 

[OzKo]

I finished reading Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick last weekend.