What are you reading?

[Stupot]

Conversation's dried up a bit, so I hope you don't mind this contrived little attempt at getting a discussion going, but...

What's everyone reading at the moment?

I've got two books on the go at the moment.  The first is The Secret Agent by Conrad.  Right at th beginning of this, but so far so good.  And the second is The Little Friend by Donna Tartt.  The story hasn't really taken off yet, but I really loved her other book, The Secret History so I decided to give this one a go.

Has anyone read any of these books?  What did you think?

Also, how many of you usually have more than one book on the go at any one time?  The ony reason I have at the moment is because TLF is a dirty great hardback and I can't be arsed to carry it around with me when I go out, so I read TLF at home and the pocket-sized TSA when I'm out of the house.

Discuss.

[Atelier]

LotR, FotR. I finished the trilogy ages ago and going back a second time. (More precisely, I finished the book). I've never managed to complete The Hobbit though.

[Anian]

I'll probably have more time soon, right now reading (except for my degreee, which is stuff about early photography) is sort of on pause.
I'm mid:
N. Stephenson - Snow Crash
C. Palahniuk - Rant
and, only because I got the book as a gift, so I feel kind of obligated to read it, Dan Brown - Lost symbol, it's also ok as game plot inspiration.

Yeah, usually more than one book, but I concentrate on one when it's interesting.

[Darth Mandarb]

This thread.

[ddq]

This thread.

This post.
And my economics textbook. I feel that I should really be reading more than just when my school makes me. I'll watch this thread for any good suggestions.

[Radiant]

Juggler of Worlds, by Larry Niven.

[Phemar]

This

This word.

[Oliwerko]

I've never been a very enthusiastic reader.

But revenge came with my college, I study slovak/english literature, so I MUST read more than I actually can. This leaves little time for anything else.

Anyway, I'm a really picky reader. I don't jump on random books, I usually need a recommendation to read something. This way, I've read very few books in my life, but I found almost all of them great.

What I like are things filled with sarcastic humor (Catch 22 type of book, I also remember another great one, How I won the war, I don't remember the author though) and sci-fis (favourite is Aldiss' Nonstop), but also funny short stories (Leacock). I am also a very slow reader (excluding the speedy school readings). I have also never read two books at the same time.

[LimpingFish]

I continue to read most kinds of classic short horror fiction that I can get my hands on.

Just finished a lot of Arthur Machen and Robert Bloch.

Currently reading Robert E. Howard.

[Mati256]

I´m Currently reading Hemingway´s "For Whom the Bell Tolls".
It is not hooking me as much as I had thought.  

EDIT: Actualy, I´m also reading  Bob Bates, Scarpia, Blake Speers and something else regarding to Puzzle creation.  :

[Gravity]

Hm, I've not really read anything lately. The last thing I read was The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights. Can't remember the author or anything. I'm more interested in writing lately than reading.

[Mr Jake]

A mix of technical and fictional books at the moment:-

"Don't Make Me Think" By Steve Krug

and

"Flashman and the Dragon" by George MacDonald Fraser

[Crimson Wizard]

I decided to "remember my younger days" and re-read Jack London's stories, simply without any certain reason.
Also reading Lovecraft a little bit, for game-making inspiration mainly.
Also a book on C#

[Jim Reed]

I have a pirate...err legally downloaded library of sf and fantasy, and use a text to speech app to read it faster than I normally would (I usually crank it up real fast). I also have a selected lib on my phone so I can read on the go. No books at the moment, but the last book I finished was "A Matter for Men!" by  David Gerrold. I pick random books from the library and try to suprise myself.

[Babar]

"Flashman and the Dragon" by George MacDonald Fraser

* Babar approves

I love reading, and have a huge collection that I constantly revist. But as for new stuff, I'm currently reading Paul Theroux's "Blinding Light".

Also, I saw a copy of "Frankenstein" in a second-hand bookshop recently, and realised I've never read an unabridged version of it (read a children's version long ago). So I picked it up and realised it was a 1895 edition! I ended up buying it for about $3.5. I'll be getting to it as soon as I finish the Theroux one...

[Igor Hardy]

I've been reading The Castle by Kafka in German until April, but then got focused on developing Snakes of Avalon and haven't gone back to it yet.

Later I've been reading from time to time  classic short detective stories. For example, a few of the most favored Sherlock Holmes stories as I never read those before. Also, started reading The murders in the Rue Morgue by Poe, but despite its shortness I found it to be the only of Poe's stories so far that I don't feel like finishing.

In the meantime I've been getting into the only pulp fiction book ever committed by the experimental writer Witold Gombrowicz. It's called The Possessed (or Opętani in original).

That was May and early June, and since then I have stopped reading fiction.

[Sylpher]

It seems I've been reading nothing but technical books forever, but I have been reading some Discworld after all these years of meaning to. Only on the 3rd book so far (Equal Rites), but I've been enjoying them so far.

[Chicky]

Shot by Shot.

[Dualnames]

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Nah, nothing really.

[evenwolf]

I have 3 graphic novels checked out of the library:

Shutter Island, Tom Strong Delux Edition, and Zombies


Got a couple nonfiction I've been off and on reading.