Unofficial What are you Reading Thread?

[Raphaella]

I found this today at the thrift store: The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds. It's a play by Paul Zindel, pretty cool so far.

[Cain]

I'm reading The Re-emergence of Emergence: The Emergent Hypothesis from Science to Religion, edited by Phillip Clayton and Paul Davies

[Manta Obscura]

I'm about 90 pages into "World War Z" by Max Brooks, the bloke that did the zombie guide. So far its entertaining, but hardly an intellectual masterpiece.

[Iason Ouabache]

I'm reading The Re-emergence of Emergence: The Emergent Hypothesis from Science to Religion, edited by Phillip Clayton and Paul Davies

Uh, would this happen to be an e-book or a paper book?

[Cain]

I'm reading The Re-emergence of Emergence: The Emergent Hypothesis from Science to Religion, edited by Phillip Clayton and Paul Davies

Uh, would this happen to be an e-book or a paper book?

E-book

http://mihd.net/xkozme

[Jenne]

A Lion Among Men, the new sequel to the Wicked series.  I needs me something light-ISH.

[Iason Ouabache]

I'm reading The Re-emergence of Emergence: The Emergent Hypothesis from Science to Religion, edited by Phillip Clayton and Paul Davies

Uh, would this happen to be an e-book or a paper book?

E-book

http://mihd.net/xkozme

SWOTE!  Grassy-ass.

[BADGE OF HONOR]

I'm reading Anathem by Neil Stephenson.  I'd say it's not as entertaining as his other books, but I'm only 100 pages in and he usually takes a while to pick up. 

The setting is like a mix between a zen school, a catholic church, and an ancient greek philosophers' club.  I keep getting A Canticle For Leibowitz vibes off it for no real reason.

[Cain]

I have heard Anathem starts off quite slow, and makes up for it later (so like you say, comparable with his other books, though apparently you really have to stick with this one).

I'm finishing off After Authority, which is taking forever.  At turns it is interesting and both mind-numbingly boring in the way only an IR academic could be.  After that, I intend to read Breeding Bin Laden's by Zachary Shore.

[Professor Mu-Chao]

Good to know about Anathem, going to tackle that next. Currently reading Clive James' Cultural Amnesia which is very engaging (but very large).

[Reeducation]

I'm reading Schrödinger's Cat trilogy.

[BADGE OF HONOR]

Good to know about Anathem, going to tackle that next. Currently reading Clive James' Cultural Amnesia which is very engaging (but very large).

I'm a lot farther now and it definitely picked up.  I've marked out some passages I'm going to quote here, when it's not late as fuck.

[Payne]

Finally picked up a copy of The Black Swan, in dead-tree format.

So much more readable.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I think I'm reading a terry Pratchett book, but I can't remember which one.

[LMNO]

No reading.  There is only writing.