What Book(s) Are You Currently Reading?

[mtdman]

Ender's game. Not really into sci-fi but I have to its pretty good. And I see it's going to be a movie next year

I'm doing a listen of EG right now. Something that struck me about Card's ideas about the internet and the discourse on the net.

Spoiler: show

In EG and again in the 2nd Bean book, the kids are able to have these awesome discussions on the internet, and Val and Peter influence the world through their writing. When I read the 2nd Bean book, it got me interested in going on the net and having these discussions online on forums like Val and Peter and Bean do. It struck me today that Card's vision of the level of discourse on the net is completely wrong. In his theory, it's a great thing that leads people and allows people to soar and inspire others, a tool for brilliant people to influence the world. In reality, we've got things like twitter and message boards where people post pictures of their boobs.

[GF-22a]

Haha true . I had no idea that book was written over 20 years ago

[auburntigerdude]

100% Completely different than the movie. Gump is mean and bitter in this book. Since Gump is the narrator the grammar is horrible . .

[Kansas City Joey]

Just finished this



Quickest I've read a book, probably ever. I couldn't put this down and its a very easy read. Not a whole lot of fluff.

If you're a video game and 80's fan, you have to read this.

[TG7782]

Currently reading the Ultimate Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, finished book 1 and onto book 2. Also reading a The Crusades by Thomas Asbridge.

[flemgoblue]

CAPA for the FDA Regulated Industry

woo hoo

[auburntigerdude]

Fast moving and to the point. Less than 400 pages so I like that.

[Mororvia]

http://www.amazon.com/Spys-Fate-Arna.../dp/1888451289

At the center of the novel is Carlos Manuel (alias Roberto), who for two decades has built his reputation—and guarded his anonymity—as a Cuban special service agent and political assassin in Africa and Latin America. When his wife commits suicide, he returns to Havana in 1994 to discover his country’s economy in disarray, along with its intelligence infrastructure. Widowed, jobless, and homeless, he finds himself completely alienated from his children, and from the country he has served.

After his kids embark on a potentially disastrous raft ride to the US, Carlos steals a yacht and sails after them into the stormy Atlantic. A last-minute decision saves his children, but leaves him stranded in Miami: just one step ahead of the CIA, for whom he is a murder suspect, and Cuban intelligence, who mistakenly believe he has defected. Complicating matters is Sidney King, a maniacally vindictive CIA bureaucrat. Carlos flees from a Florida refugee camp to small-town Maine to a fishing village in northern Cuba. The hunter becomes the hunted as Carlos finally encounters his old nemesis—and the ravaging violence of his former life.

[robdiddy]

I won't rest until we start a book club and read the twilight series together. I dream of private messaging with Gekko about New Moon.

[oldstyletom]

Just finished


Just started

[Fraze]

Just finished the Hobbit re-read, now reading all of the lotr books.