What are you reading right now?

**wsk** · 6th January 07, 08:57 AM

Originally Posted by turpin

The 100 days, by Patrick O'Brian. The adventures of "Lucky Jack" Aubrey and the crew of HMS Surprise during the period between Napoleon's escape from Elba and Waterloo.

I love these books. Just started The Wine Dark Sea which is number 16 in the series. I've also just finished a couple of short books by a guy called Slim Randles: Dogsled and Sun Dog Days. The first is the author's description of his adventures as a novice musher in 1970's Alaska and the second is a fictional account of modernday cowboys in California.

Another recent book is The Shantyboat by Harlan Hubbard which is an account of the author's and his wife's journey douwn the Ohio and Mississippi rivers in a home-built shantyboat in the 1950s.

I've also just finished reading The Art of Kiltmaking. Hope to put that to use next fall.

And I've set myself the task of reading Othello before we go see the play in mid February.

**auld argonian** · 11th November 06, 07:53 AM

I'm halfway through "Great Expectations"...which I never read before and am finding fantastic...I can see why Dickens is Dickens as a result of reading it.

But...I've put "GE" aside for a while to read "THUD" by Terry Pratchett. More adventures of the Ankh Morpork Nightwatch...I read "The Fifth Elephant" a while back and it was so good that I grabbed "THUD" when I saw the paperback on the racks. just have to have some fantasy/escapist material to read...

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**Deil the Yin** · 5th January 07, 10:31 PM

Originally Posted by auld argonian

I'm halfway through "Great Expectations"...which I never read before and am finding fantastic...I can see why Dickens is Dickens as a result of reading it.

But...I've put "GE" aside for a while to read "THUD" by Terry Pratchett. More adventures of the Ankh Morpork Nightwatch...I read "The Fifth Elephant" a while back and it was so good that I grabbed "THUD" when I saw the paperback on the racks. just have to have some fantasy/escapist material to read...

Best

AA

Have you read Pratchet's "The Wee Free Men"? It's freakin' hilarious!

At the moment I'm working on my first go round of A Confederacy of Dunces... which I'm rather injoying.

**Jerry** · 12th November 06, 07:35 AM

I just started re-reading Jean M Auel's Earth's Children series (about a third of the way through Clan of The Cave Bear). And, this morning, I ordered a copy of Robert A Heinlein's Time Enough for Love, from Powell's Books I might check back later to see of they have a copy of Eragon too.

**GreenDragon** · 13th November 06, 10:56 AM

Promise of the Witch King - RA Salvatore

**GreenDragon** · 13th November 06, 11:03 AM

Doh! double post.

**cormacmacguardhe** · 14th November 06, 01:30 AM

The short stories of Ernest Hemingway. It was just recently that I realized that I had never read any of his writings, so thought that I should look them over.