What are you reading?

[pilvi]

I have always been rather obsessed with fantasy novels, and I still prefer fiction over nonfiction.
When it comes to books, I usually buy them as soon as I see them (as long as they look interesting), so I have over ten novels lying around still untouched. Besides those there are about three books that I'm in the middle of reading- that reminds me, I really should get those finished.

One of these books is by C.S.Lewis- Perelandra. It is very intriguing, to say the least. 

[jennywalsh]

Hello everyone, I'm a newbie, just logged on for a look around the site, spotted this thread and thought "I'm Home"

I will read pretty much anything that contains text, a book has to be pretty bad for me to put it down (I was very disappointed by Patricia Cornwell's Southern Cross) and I reread my favourites until they fall apart (I'm on my third copy of Wuthering Heights)
At the moment I'm reading the Harry Potter series..for the third time. Even though they're published as children's books they're brilliantly written and addictive.
I tend to prefer books over films and I'm not a fan of audio books as I love to sit down and concentrate on the content of the writing...it's my personal "time out".

...and that's a little about me

[cyberdevil]

I just read this great topic about what people were reading, hehe.
As for real books, I'm trying to make my way through the Bible, one of the best semi-historical science-fiction compilations of all times. So far I'm about halfways, but it tends to get a bit dull after long reading sessions, it isn't an easy book to read.

[shelialk]

I recently finished reading Big Bad Wolf by Patterson, I like his Alex Cross books.  I am about half way finished with the last Harry Potter book.  I need large print books for reading nowdays as my eyesite is not very good anymore and those little words on those printed pages seem to get smaller every day.  I used to be a very avid reader and I miss it terribly,  I have been listening to some of my hubbys audio books tho, they seem to be mostly westerns. 

[sexy_calo]

I love reading. I'm 19 years old and I've loved to read since I was 12. I usually read science fiction and modern history. I'm currently reading the "Sperpant-war Saga" by Raymond E Feist and "The View From the Mirror" series by Ian Irvine. I love reading so much I read in the toilet (at home of course), in the bus and in general.

[cshinaberry]

Since, as another poster pointed out, I read at lest as much as I write, I thought this would be as good a place as any to make a first post.   I willingly admit to being a book addict.  I am not a collector; that is much too dignified a term for what I do, which is more like compulsive accumulation!  I read an enormous variety of books, and I own more of them than I do anything else.  My home boasts several very large and very overstuffed bookcases, as well as a few small drifts of them on the floor, and about as many more packed away in the closet!  To get back on topic, here are some books I either just finished or am currently in the middle of.  I usually have several going at once:

-A Brief History of Everything by Ken Wilber
-Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee, translated by Robert Van Gulik
-The End of Science? by John Horgan
-Masks by Fumiko Enchi
-The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (in translation)
-Person/Planet by Theodore Roszak
-A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson

[nashville383]

This is my first post around here, but I wanted to pipe in because A Brief History of Everything is one of my all time favorite books -- although I haven't thought of it in years. Do you know if Wilbur has written anything new lately?

I am reading Made to Stick, a brilliant book by Chip and Dan Heath on why some ideas survive and others die. I started reading it to add to my "professional" library at work (I do marketing and PR) but am finding it's far more interesting and sneaks into many other areas of my life.

[Primus]

Right now I'm reading Terry Pratchett's "Interesting Times" He's hilarious

[MissScribe]

I've just discovered Harlan Coban and in 4 days I've read: Just one Look, Tell No-one and now I'm reading The Final Detail featuring Myron Bolitar.  I love Coban's turn of phrase, and his stories are about ordinary, everyday people who find themselves in situations where they are protecting their nearest and dearest. 

I am so glad I found this author