What are you reading now?

I recently started reading Haruki Murakami's Sputnik Sweetheart. So now I am reading that and also casually looking through/reading Louis Wain's Catland and A Catland Companion: Classic cats by Louis Wain & many others.

I have a huge stack of books that I need to read so I still have no clue what I will be reading next.

>>80
Spare yourself. The series goes downhill faster than a black man after a white woman.

Currently reading Lolita.  Figured I'd see how it all started.

Just finished Kobo Abe's Woman in the Dunes, which was amazing. I'll watch the movie this weekend.
Today I began Seeds of Decadence in the Late Nineteenth-Century Novel. I'll probably work on getting through that rather casually (off and on?) and maybe begin Maldoror soon.

Generations by William Strauss and Neil Howe

Very interesting book written in 1991. It tries to prove that there is a generational cycle in American history. It also makes some rough predictions about the future based on generational patterns. Though some of the specifics are wrong, like thier prediction that the senior citizen movement will weaken over the next few years (starting in 1991) as the GI Generation starts dying off, others seem errily accurate, like the idea that there will be a major secular crisis soon (likely a major war or revolution, peaking around 2020). While this may not seem like an impressive insight today, remember that they wrote the book in 1991, when almost everyone was trumpeting that the "End of History" had arrived with the defeat of the Soviet Union.

I'm not done reading it yet...I read a synopsis on the Wikipedia and some parts of the book near the beginning and end...

I also heard that the authors wrote a more recent sequel about the current rising generation. I intend to read that once I'm done.

I'm rereading Watership Down for the third time to keep myself occupied on the bus ride to- and from-work. Previously I was reading Carl Sagan's "The Dragons of Eden" and blew through it in two days' worth of 45-minute bus rides.

After Watership Down I'll probably start on my copy of Battle Royale I have sitting somewhere around here (which I borrowed from a friend last year while I was at college and still haven't given it back to him, and I haven't seen him in months cause he's still at college and I'm taking a year off!)

Pattern Classification by Duda, Hart and Stork, 2nd edition.

crome yellow. - aldous huxley.

the origins of Virtue by Matt Ridley

a genuine eyeopener according to my uncle...

Ringworld

Im reading lolita

lol im reading childhooods end

no books on the interbutt

candy by Mian Mian

R. Patrick Gates FTW!

currently reading 'A short history of nearly everything'.
People claimed that it was a rough guide to science, but it's nothing really new from what i've learned in college (i took A- levels). The interesting parts are actually the backstories of how the scientific theories came to be and the (usually) eccentric people behind it. so far, more history book than science book (as the title implies, anyway), it's kinda witty at times and much more accesible compared to the textbooks we have.

Light Music by Kathleen Ann Goonan
It's a good book, but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone without the ability to jump cleanly from one subject to another and back again without thinking about it.
If you don't know what I mean, you can't do it.

The diceman

The Plague by Albert Camus

Seems all I'm reading these days are lecture notes. sigh.

Starman Jones - Robert A. Heinlein
very cool and laid back book... not much of a hassle to read and enjoy, yet nice bizzarre anachronic world he created i like the Country/Space theme it involves

almost finished 'Salem's Lot by Stephen King.
The scariness isn't overt, it sort of creeps up on you after you're halfway into the novel, and you realize you're freaked out by nothing that's apparent.

>>101
Funny. I just finished King's Wolves Of The Calla, which references 'Salem's Lot heavily and makes me want to reread it.

As mentioned, I've been working my way through the Dark Tower series. After that, I'm planning on reading Leslie Feinberg's Stone Butch Blues.

Beserk by Tim Lebbon

Chainfire by Terry Goodkind

The Prince-Machiavelli  Quick and to the point, great read if you got a couple of hours to burn.

Wheel of Time series by robert jordan

Madam Bovary - Flaubert
Coming Up For Air - Orwell
Extraordinary Tales - Borges
Alice in Wonderland - Carrol
The Myth of Sisyphus - Camus

I'm stalled in the middle of Clavell's Shogun, and am making my way through Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash.  After finishing Murakami Haruki's translated works I've been searching rather futilely for something to read that interests me half as much.

Count Zero - William S Gibson
The Soft Machine - William S Burroughs
Blood Electric - Kenji Siratori

i'm currently hooked on The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger. you should be too.

Le comte de Monte-Cristo.

I'd rather be reading Good Omens, but Amazon sucks and I'm waiting for my copy since 20 days.

snowcrash

>>111
Good Omens sux.

I found a copy of Gibson's The Difference Engine at a used bookstore for 3 bucks. I was reading a little before work and I got sucked into it. This is going to be enjoyable; I can't wait until I've got a nice stretch of time ot read it.

Right now, I am reading 'Miracles' by C. S. Lewis, and 'Tales Before Tolkien' a colection edited by Douglas Anderson. I am also, half-assedly reading 'LOTR', and 'The Greater Collected Works of Poe' but I'm almost always reading those.

Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean. It's about orchids.

>>116
And thieves, presumably?

>>116

And Adaptations, amirite?

The book is about obsession. Over orchids mainly. And theives because they steal orchids from everywhere but ironically the accused guy was legally not a thief.

>>118
More like, adaptation of the orchids amirite.

Sorry for my interuption:
Do you people read bout The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho?