What are you reading now?

I didn't see any book threads, go ahead and close if I missed an existing one.

So reading people: What are you reading now, or what are the last few books you've read? Would you recommend them? I'm always looking for new things to read so go ahead and recommend us books you've read in the past as well.

Currently reading:

Buddhism Plain and Simple, Stephen Hagan
The World As Will and Representation, Schopenhauer

Last few books I've read:

The Story of B, Daniel Quinn
The Elegant Universe, Brian Greene
Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser

Bought and unread yet:

Memoirs of a Geisha
The World's Religions
The DaVinci Code (now that the bandwagoning is over everyone says this is crap so I'm holding out...didn't see the movie either)

I don't always read so much pseudointellectual faggoty stuff, I'm just feeling introspective lately. I would definitely recommend The Story of B, as well as Daniel Quinn's other books - one of my favorite authors. I also highly recommend The Elegant Universe. Skip Fast Food Nation, parts were interesting but most of it was very dull.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Crash Landon

Right now, I'm slowly moving through The Fabric of Our Cosmos by Brian Greene.

This is the same guy that wrote The Elegant Universe! So, I think I should probably read this at some point.

I've never read Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I keep forgetting it even exists. And for the Memoirs of a Geisha fans, it's coming soon. I'm just backlogged, I buy a ton of books over a 6 month period and then read them all at once during a couple book binges yearly.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

At this point I'd like to bring up my hatred of the classics. I think it's no wonder that today's schoolchildren don't enjoy reading, when they're forced to read such droll and unbelievably boring titles. We did read a few great books (such as Night, which I loved), but for the most part I hated school-assigned reading, and I love to read.

My least favorite books, that I would not use for anything other than wiping my ass:

- The Scarlet Letter
- Great Expectations
- The Grapes of Wrath

I'm sure they were more but I've forgotten them, which is really no surprise since these books were dull, depressing, and totally lacked any vision other than encyclopedically cataloguing melodramatic human misery. I hate Charles Dickens beyond words - he specialized in this genre.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Okay, I guess I only meant certain classes. I never got to read any of the good ones. Several you listed I KNOW are good books. And I love depressing things, it's just that the protagonist has to be someone that I can actually feel for instead of wishing them a slow and painful death.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

I'm now working on the Bhagavad-Gita. I finished the books I was reading before but I'm not starting any new ones, I'm too busy right now.

Books I wish I'd had to read in school: Catch-22, Fahrenheit 451, Ender's Game, since everyone says they're good. I'll probably never get around to them now though.

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