Name the book you're currently reading

The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown. I've been plodding through it all summer; haven't been in the mood to read very much. (Highly unusual for me. I'm usually reading three or four books at a time.)
 
Family Relationships: Rewards and Costs

Social Psychology: Sociological Perspectives

The Social Psychology of Groups

Status Generalization: New Theory and Research

Advances in Group Processes

Social Exchange Theory: Two Traditions

Sociological Theories in Progress: Two Traditions

I have an exam coming up in November, so I'm balls deep in reading. These are just pages 6 and 7 (minus the journal articles) of my 19 page reading list.

I did read a few "leisure" books recently. Leavitt and Dunbar's Freakonomics was a piece of research garbage, which surely made the authors tons of money. It was fun to read, but that doesn't make it good research in the slightest.

I also read Ross Haenfler's "Straight Edge: Clean-Living Youth, Hardcore Punk, and Social Change." It's an excellent book, and fair-handed at that (despite the author being sXe himself). I've had some good correspondence with the author about some questions I had on the book. We're trying to find out who wrote either a book or journal article, which was trying to define and identify the various subgenres of metal music from a scholarly perspective.

I don't read many "fun" books, I suppose.
 
I'm reading a few right now... Amusing Ourselves to Death, War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning and The Crisis of Islam.
 
[quote name='javeryh']How was Digital Fortress?

I'm reading Batman: The Dark Knight Returns[/quote]

Digital Fortress was okay. I really enjoyed The DaVinci Code and Angels and Demons, though.

I think next I'll read Rich Dad, Poor Dad.
 
Harry Potter ans the Half-Blood Prince. I started reading this back when it was release...I'm up to chapter 3. Unusual since I'm usually interested to finish the book withing a day or two. Hasn't really caught my attention.

EDIT: Oh now i know why I stopped reading! Someone spoiled the ending for me. Bastards.
 
[quote name='Diiz']I'm reading a few right now... Amusing Ourselves to Death, War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning and The Crisis of Islam.[/quote]

How is War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning? I read part of the first chapter at Barnes and Noble about a month ago, but it seemed a little different than what I thought it would be.
 
[quote name='MidnightRain']The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown. I've been plodding through it all summer; haven't been in the mood to read very much. (Highly unusual for me. I'm usually reading three or four books at a time.)[/quote]

Exact same deal for me.
 
I'm reading the Demon Child Trilogy by Jennifer Fallon
I just finished Medalon, and now I'm into Treason Keep. Next up; Harshini.
 
The Belgariad... recommended to me by several CAG's.

Pretty good thus far (well I'm almost done with it)... pretty slow but I'm anticipating it will pick up and will read the next one in series.
 
I just finished re-reading Tolstoy's Anna Karenina for my September Book Club meeting. I loved it the first time around when I read it many years ago when I was in college. Now its 800 pages seemed about 400 pages too long. I don't know if it was the translation or being older or what.

I plan on reading something totally frivolous next just for fun.
 
[quote name='javeryh']How was Digital Fortress?[/quote]

I thought it was hilarious. It is a campy sendup of bad SF/action movies, right?

Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons (excellent)

before that, a biography of Tori Amos (interesting)

before that, In the Ocean of Night by Gregory Benford (insufferable)

before that, Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman (fun, but American Gods was better)
 
Knife of Dreams by Robert Jordan. I'm just glad this book is so much better than the last couple books in The Wheel of Time. It took me like a year to get through Winter's Heart and Crossroads of Twilight cuase they were just so boring. Sure, it's nowhere near as good as it was at the beginning of the series, but at least I'm enjoying reading them again.
 
[quote name='Sooner']I'm reading A Clash of Kings, the second book in the A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R.R. Martin.[/quote] Good books!

The 33 Strategies of War, by Robert Greene.
 
"Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Tales" by H.P. Lovecraft. I started reading it after I played the xbox game, Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth.

I recommend the Penquin edition because it has a lot of great liner notes..
 
I've been reading "If They Only Knew" by Chyna (the former wrestler). She passed out at a party and got double-teamed!!! Guess she got P'WNED!
 
[quote name='karsh']Knife of Dreams by Robert Jordan. I'm just glad this book is so much better than the last couple books in The Wheel of Time. It took me like a year to get through Winter's Heart and Crossroads of Twilight cuase they were just so boring. Sure, it's nowhere near as good as it was at the beginning of the series, but at least I'm enjoying reading them again.[/quote]

I gave up after Path of Daggers. I was so angry at the stunt he pulled in that book and the glacial pace of the plot -- I had heard someone refer to Wheel of Time as "writing his retirement" but I didn't take it seriously until then. After that book, I really felt that he had contempt for his readers.

I don't suppose I could just skip WH and CoT?
 
[quote name='blandstalker']I gave up after Path of Daggers. I was so angry at the stunt he pulled in that book and the glacial pace of the plot -- I had heard someone refer to Wheel of Time as "writing his retirement" but I didn't take it seriously until then. After that book, I really felt that he had contempt for his readers.

I don't suppose I could just skip WH and CoT?[/quote]

You can pretty easily skip them if you read the Wikipedia entries on the two of them. They pretty much sum up that the pace moves SOOOOO slow those two books. You can't really straight out skip them, but the wiki sums up the important parts.
 
[quote name='karsh']You can pretty easily skip them if you read the Wikipedia entries on the two of them. They pretty much sum up that the pace moves SOOOOO slow those two books. You can't really straight out skip them, but the wiki sums up the important parts.[/quote]

I haven't read the last 2 books or the prequel. I hated how the end of book 8 and the beginning of 9 were so different. I had to go back and read the ending to 8 to make sure I wasn't dreaming it up. They were about to attack the White Tower, weren't they?

Anyway, any idea when the series will wrap up? I decided to stop getting the books till it's done, then I'll reread the beginning and go through to the end.

I'll check wiki, thanks!
 
[quote name='SithFran']I haven't read the last 2 books or the prequel. I hated how the end of book 8 and the beginning of 9 were so different. I had to go back and read the ending to 8 to make sure I wasn't dreaming it up. They were about to attack the White Tower, weren't they?

Anyway, any idea when the series will wrap up? I decided to stop getting the books till it's done, then I'll reread the beginning and go through to the end.

I'll check wiki, thanks![/quote]

The next book that comes out in 2008 is supposed to be the last book. He's vowed it will be the last one even if he has to write 2000 pages to finish it up. Apparently lately he's said it'll prolly be a 1500 page book, because he can't right more than one more coherent novel in the main series.
 
[quote name='Squall835']How is War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning? I read part of the first chapter at Barnes and Noble about a month ago, but it seemed a little different than what I thought it would be.[/QUOTE]

Good so far, but I'm reading it concurrently with the other books so I'm not too far into it yet. Hopefully I can provide more insight in about a week haha.
 
Neo-Bohemia: Art and Commerce in the Post-industrial City by Richard Lloyd
--an ethnography about a Chicago neighboorhood that went under gentrification starting with "bohemian" artists

The Freud Wars -- about the arguments against Freud

Sex, Drugs and Cocoapuffs by Chuck Klosterman -- pop commentary about life, the universe, everything


...and these are all about to chill until late December when class is over :lol:
 
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