What are you reading now?

[Geoff]

Just finished Miranda July's Nobody Belongs Here More Than You, which was both disturbing and endearing.

Am undecided about what to next choose from my unread stack. Am thinking I'll go with Going Solo, by Ronald Dahl.

Gald to see you here, Vikki! Come over to the UK and I'll take you for a drink in the Orwell!

[Trolldor]

Just finished Miranda July's Nobody Belongs Here More Than You, which was both disturbing and endearing.

Am undecided about what to next choose from my unread stack. Am thinking I'll go with Going Solo, by Ronald Dahl.

I don't think Dahl has any books not worth reading at least once.

[Pappa]

Am thinking I'll go with Going Solo, by Ronald Dahl.

I have very fond memories of that book.

[Arse]

Brilliant book, even better than The Kite Runner.

[ScholasticSpastic]

I've just begun reading this book. Probably wouldn't have started by now, but I misread the subtitle: it says circumnavigation. Not the other thing I thought it said.

Having read this book:

It's proving to be a lot of fun to go back and read about Darwin's voyages leading up to the flowering of his big idea. It's also quite a bit of fun reading Darwin because I have the benefit of historical hindsight and basic (but modern) biological education, so I can marvel at how much he got right while also enjoying the bits he's gotten wrong.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

It's proving to be a lot of fun to go back and read about Darwin's voyages leading up to the flowering of his big idea. It's also quite a bit of fun reading Darwin because I have the benefit of historical hindsight and basic (but modern) biological education, so I can marvel at how much he got right while also enjoying the bits he's gotten wrong.

I am re-reading OOS at the moment and I couldn't agree more. That he came up with such an astute, lasting and complete theory with no understanding of heredity, a misunderstood fraction of today's fossil record and a prevailing body of scientific onion in his field that was vaguely right in places and ludicrous in others, is utterly staggering. But I would have expected him to plump for a common dog ancestor... :hum:

[owtth]

Cities in Flight by James Blish

I haven´t read any of his other stuff but it´s very enjoyable old style sci-fi. If any Physics buffs have read it, does the science side of it make any sense? It sounds pretty good to me but then I know very little about that stuff. The equations went right over my head.

[Pappa]

[owtth]

That´s cheating, too many pictures

[Pappa]

That´s cheating, too many pictures

Since my forum addiction has taken me over, I just can't concentrate on real books any more. I used to be such a bookworm too.

[JimC]

Cities in Flight by James Blish

I haven´t read any of his other stuff but it´s very enjoyable old style sci-fi. If any Physics buffs have read it, does the science side of it make any sense? It sounds pretty good to me but then I know very little about that stuff. The equations went right over my head.

I read that many years ago, and liked it very much, more for the people and the social/political comment than the rather weird science...

Currently re-reading an enjoyable space opera (part of a larger series), Crown of Slaves by David Weber and Eric Flint.

[Animavore]

Collapse by Jared Diamond.

[Pappa]

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

[Shaker]

... which I'm enjoying hugely so far, soppy old twot that I am.

[Existentialist1844]