What are you reading right now?

**jannodanno** · 5th January 07, 01:42 PM

Originally Posted by Big Mikey

Boy, do we have some highbrow members!!

I am currently reading a wonderous tome which I received for Christmas. "Uncle John's Bathroom Reader, 19th edition". A superb 500 page collection of trivia that one should not be without.

WOW they are up to 19 already!!!!!! I am still on #10.. I guess that is because I only read it in the bathroom. I have some catching up to do!

**Caradoc** · 5th January 07, 01:51 PM

Originally Posted by jannodanno

WOW they are up to 19 already!!!!!! I am still on #10.. I guess that is because I only read it in the bathroom. I have some catching up to do!

Not that much to catch up on - their fact-checkers don't appear to be on the ball.

The copy I have has several very obvious errors in it.

EDIT: My mistake. The book with the errors in it is my copy of Gavin Webster's "Trivia for the Toilet," which sits next to the Uncle John's Reader.

**McMurdo** · 5th January 07, 02:41 PM

Well I was reading the Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince to my daughter, but were finished with that one now, so,

I am reading:
The Secret Sharer
by Joseph Conrad

John
By Cynthia Lennon

and I think I will finally pick up
the Da-Vinci code
By Dan Brown
I dont want to be the only person on the planet who has not read it.

I am also re-reading
The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills
By Charles Bukowski

Lastly I think I will start reading Erigon to my daughter soon, reading together is something we enjoy very much.
Thats about it for now but soon I will be looking for something else.

**TimC** · 5th January 07, 02:58 PM

Red Badge of Courage - Port Captain - Bible

-Tim

**arrogcow** · 5th January 07, 03:20 PM

Originally Posted by McMurdo

Well
and I think I will finally pick up
the Da-Vinci code
By Dan Brown
I dont want to be the only person on the planet who has not read it.

You're not missing much. It's a really mediocre book (not talking about the theological implications, just bad, predictable, makes John Grisham look like Dickens).

Adam

**Richland** · 5th January 07, 03:33 PM

I have Royal Flash in my sachel for quick reads. Very fun book.
A 1970 novel by George MacDonald Fraser. It is the second of the Flashman novels.
Royal Flash is set during the Revolutions of 1848. The story features Lola Montez, and Otto von Bismarck as major characters, and fictionalizes elements of the Schleswig-Holstein Question, 1843, 1847 and 1848. It is set in the fictional Duchy of Strackenz.

Characters include Prince Edward, Lillie Langtry, Lola Montez, Otto von Bismarck, Ludwig I of Bavaria, John Gully, Nicholas Ward, Lord Conyngham, Richard Wagner, Franz Liszt, Oscar Wilde, Henry Irving, Karl Marx, Lord Palmerston, Viscount Peel, Jefferson Davis.

The book is loosely based on the plot of The Prisoner of Zenda. Flashman explains that this is because the story was plagiarised from him by its author, Anthony Hope.

**mexpiper** · 5th January 07, 07:56 PM

I am currently reading 1921 by Morgan Llyelyn. I recieved the series from a friend. I just started it today while sitting outside in the highly unusual weather for western NY it was 58 degrees.

Mexpiper

**pdcorlis** · 5th January 07, 08:59 PM

I am currently reading Desire Lines: A Journey Around Scotland and Through Her History by David R. Ross. Its fascinating.

**NancyMan** · 5th January 07, 09:03 PM

Originally Posted by Rampant Lion

I'm currently reading The Path of Daggers by Robert Jordan. I'm only part way into it, but it seems a little slower going than the rest of the books in The Wheel of Time series.

By coincidence, I happen to be on the same book of the Wheel of Time series (I have all of them up to no. 11) For those not in the know, Robert has a rare and fatal blood disease. He has one more book to write to finish off this series and has vowed to complete it. I would wish him that and much more. Its been a great read so far.

**Improv1** · 5th January 07, 09:04 PM

I am on the final chapter of Sea of Glory by Nathaniel Philbrick (the story of the first American voyage of discovery). I enjoy his style of historical/biographoical writing. His previous book, Into the Heart Of The Sea was based upon the sinking of the whaleship Essex, which is what Melville based Moby Dick on.

For Christmas, I received a book about researching your own past lives. I am working my way through it, but there are writing exercises involved, so it is a little more interactive than most books I read. I can't wait to find out more of my past!

The most interesting book I have ever read was The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes, about convict transportation to Australia.