What are we reading?

[spike]

Lets split this into three.

!) What was the last book you finished reading?

") What are you reading just now?

£) What do you plan on reading next?

For me it's:
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (J.K. Rowling).
The Business (Iain Banks).
Finish reading either War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy) or Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevski).

[Josh Lyman]

at the moment i'm on a bill bryson fetish , if you don't know who he is , he writes very amusing travel books .
just finished ,
down under ,
i'm reading ,
notes from a big country ,
and will read,
made in america.
he's from the usa but spent 20 odd years living in good old blighty, his style of writing is very british as is his sense of humour, well worth a read if you want light amusing topics .

[Joey Lucas]

I'm assuming my A-Level revision guides don't count so:

1) Last book i read was The West Wing - The Official Companion

2) Currently reading A is for Alibi by Sue Grafton

3) The next book I read will probably be Harry Potter & The Order Of The Pheonix when it arrives

[DarkHoarse]

Last book (funnily enough) was The West Wing script book.

Not reading anything at the moment unless you count the NME Originals magazine on Radiohead!

Considering re-reading the Harry Potter books before Order of the Phoenix comes out, but I've just moved house and time is short. The next book I will definitely read is, inevitably, Order of the Phoenix. It's been bad enough missing 24 for 2 weeks due to no TV and getting spoiled, if anyone spoils that book before I've read it, a very nasty spell will be cast upon them!

[spike]

I'm going to be outside my local Waterstones for midnight on the 21st waiting to pick up my copy of OOTP.

[Lemon Lyman]

Just read - Millie Fling by Jill Mansell and Isabels Wedding by Shelagh O'Flannaghan.

Reading - The West Wing Staff by Bradley Patterson and Pandora by Jill Cooper.

Reading next - New 24 book

Have ordered my signed first edition of the new Harry Potter Book - but that's for my godson.

[First Lady]

Last Book-Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson

Reading- West Wing Script Book and Stupid White Men by Michael Moore

Next Book- Downsize This! by Michael Moore

[madcap]

Last book - Case Closed (Gerald Posner) - book where he tries to convince us Oswald did act alone when JFK was assassinated. How wrong can he be ?

Present book - Nemesis (Ian Kershaw) - study of Hitler and the Third Reich 1933 -1945. Either that or promotion study packs.

Next Book - Probably The Order Of The Phoenix, need something a bit less heavy going !

[spike]

Lemon said:

Have ordered my signed first edition of the new Harry Potter Book - but that's for my godson.

Course it is. And the copy of the new HP book I've ordered is for my ex-girlfriend son.

[spike]

First said:

Next Book- Downsize This! by Michael Moore

Top book. I'd also recomend Adventures in a TV Nation by MM.

Have to change my third answer. Next book I'l be reading is now Aint It Cool? by Harry Knowles (from www.aintitcoolnews.com

[Josh Lyman]

also " stupid white men "/ by mr moore . how i did enjoy reading that piece of anti bushness and much , much more lol

[DarkHoarse]

Madcap

Ian Kershaw was (and I believe still is) head of my old History Dept. at university (Sheffield). He is a really nice bloke and loves a beer (bitter, I seem to remember). Also he's a lot more lucid than some other historians I have read.

Also, I don't know if you've heard of David Irving ("historian" who argues that the Holocaust is basically Jewish propaganda) but when one of the undergrads in our German History class described Irving as a historian in one of his essays, Prof Ian Kershaw crossed out the word and wrote "controversial right-wing self-publicist"!

Just thought this may help you enjoy his weighty tome a little bit more.

[madcap]

You must have been taught well as Kershaw is probably the most on the ball of the Nazi era historians. Nemesis is fantastically well researched and the depths he delves for the subject matter are unbelievable. I thought Hubris would take some beating but Nemesis has done it.

As for David Irving, well, "right wing self publicist" is a lot milder than I would describe him.

[Admin]

I'm not about to admit I haven't read a book from cover to cover in the past two years. Books I've been reading (dipping in and out of, reading specific parts and so on):

The Oxford History of England Vol. 4, The Thirteenth Century, 1216 - 1307: All very interesting.

In The Line of Fire: This is a school text book sent to me by a friend in America. Lists all the assassinated Presidents and the attempted assassinations.

The Living Lincoln: This is a huge book of letters sent by Abraham Lincoln. Includes the famous 'altar of freedom' letter sent to a Mrs Bixby after two of her five sons were killed in battle (Lincoln writes it as five sons dead, but this is corrected in the footnotes). And others such as:

"We have another boy... he is very much a child as Bob was at his age... Since I began this letter a messenger came to tell me, Bob was lost; but by the time I reached the house, his mother had found him, and had him whipped - and, by now, very likely he is run away again"

I like that one. It's funny. Not laugh out loud funny, but 'fatherly' funny.

And a couple of other titles that pick up and put down now and then, like a book about Ancient Egypt.

Next in line. Believe it or not, Hillary Clinton's new book, Living History.

[Flamingo]

In between reading A level txtbooks: Last Book read, Alias Prequel; Presently reading TWW companion; read the chronicles of America about 3 hours ago and book to read in the future- harry potter and the order of the phoenix