What are you currently reading?

Life During Wartime by Lucius Shepard - Science fiction as it should be written.

I am reading The Tommyknockers by Stephen King.

Now reading The Doomsday Machine (published early December 2017) by the one and only Daniel Ellsberg. About 2 chapters in, I put it down in order to buy a 2nd copy and drop that off at my Congressman's office, asking him and his staff to read it ASAP. I'm reading its remaining chapters now.

It's about all the previously classified US nuclear war planning information of which US citizens *and* members of Congress were previously unaware.

'The City and the City' by China Mieville

A most excellent book - two thumbs up from me

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The Shing by Stephen King

I'm reading Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King & Owen King.

I am curently reading the Penguin Atlas of Modern History. My school basically did not teach us history, so I am reading the Colin McEvedy series to catch up.

I'm reading Horns by Joe Hill.

At the moment, I’m on a Neil Gaiman kick. I just love his work. The latest book I’m reading is The Ocean at the End of the Lane.

I'm reading We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver.

I've read this before, but enjoying it again. It's a true classic, and worth the time, however long it takes a person. This book causes you sometimes to slow down, to search for meaning,and ultimately to find it.

Riddley Walker, by Russell Hoban, published in 1980.

Wonderful. It reiterated the lesson of patience, with the reward of humor, adventure and insight.

I'm reading Insidious Intent by Val McDermid.

originally posted by: POWMIA
I am curently reading the Penguin Atlas of Modern History. My school basically did not teach us history, so I am reading the Colin McEvedy series to catch up.

I love that series. I've got the full set- Ancient, Mediaeval, Modern, Recent, American, and African. Highly recommended.

The Second World Wars

by Victor Davis Hanson

How the first global conflict was fought and won

I'm reading Swan Song by Robert McCammon.

I am reading 'The Reluctant Shaman' by Kay Cordell Whitaker and there was an interesting story in there about Turtle Island and the creation of the Earth.

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That's a new one on me, I'll have to check it out.

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Loved the series American Gods, want to read the book.

Was on a Philip K Dick trip for a while, downladed his works and was reading through alphabetically. Got about halfway through The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritc when I switched to 1st shift from 3rd so I hardly read anymore .

The Manuscript Found in Saragossa by Jan Potocki

The Manuscript Found in Saragossa collects intertwining stories, all of them set in whole or in part in Spain, with a large and colorful cast of Romani, thieves, inquisitors, a cabbalist, a geometer, the cabbalist's beautiful sister, two Moorish princesses (Emina and Zubeida) and others that the brave, perhaps foolhardy, Walloon Guard Alphonse van Worden meets, imagines or reads about in the Sierra Morena mountains of 18th-century Spain while en route to Madrid. Recounted to the narrator over the course of sixty-six days, the novel's stories quickly overshadow van Worden's frame story. The bulk of the stories revolve around the Gypsy chief Avadoro, whose story becomes a frame story itself. Eventually the narrative focus moves again toward van Worden's frame story and a conspiracy involving an underground — or perhaps entirely hallucinated — Muslim society, revealing the connections and correspondences between the hundred or so stories told over the novel's sixty-six days.

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It is laugh out load funny in places. Very sharp yet simply told. And the author is a fascination in himself, he committed suicide using a silver bullet that he made himself and got blessed by a priest because he thought he was transforming into a werewolf.