What are you currently reading?

[Andrew Fryer]

When I was young I loved the Man From U.N.C.L.E. books, but nowadays it's too obvious that they are just hack-written rip-offs.

[Jeremiah Lawson]

working on the last ... 400 pages of Taruskin's Oxford History of Western Music.

still working through Adorno's Aesthetic Theory. Not by any means an easy book to read. David Roberts' trio of books dismantling Adorno's approach was more readable than A's own books. But ... reading A anyway.

[steampick]

Understanding Media by Marshall McCluhan. Incredibly valuable book in this day and age.

[LarryShone]

In between books at the moment having just finished Casino Royale. Hmm what next...

[Erik Zurcher]

"A history of Scotland" by Neil Oliver.

[zzzsegundaepoca]

Matanya Ophee’s Guitar Essays.

[doug]

“The Aquitaine Progression,” by Robert Ludlum

[LarryShone]

Maskerade by Terry Pratchett

[manythumbed]

The Tower by Uwe Tellkamp

[Andrew Fryer]

Understanding Media by Marshall McCluhan. Incredibly valuable book in this day and age.

Read it in 1978. Must find time to read it again!

I must confess I've been stuck on page 500 of Ulysses for a year. I read it three times when I was in my late teens and twenties.
I read Finnegans Wake again last year or the year before, but I think that's enough - these books are for young people to read, to form their characters. I just can't be bothered with them any more at my age.

[Luuttuaja]

Now I'm reading "The Renaissance of the 12th Century" by Charles Homer Haskins.

[doug]

“Shadow Prey,” by John Sandford. I received my copy of, “The Complete Poems and Songs of Robert Burns” yesterday. I’m not going to read the entire book at one time, but just a bit here and there. I read, “Handsome Nell” last night. It’s not easy reading because of the Scots language. I have to occasionally turn to the glossary to find the meaning of a word.

[zupfgeiger]

Michael Wolff, Fire and Fury. Great stories about POTUS and his shady collaboratives. Hilarious and horrifying at the same time.

[henders]

“The White Lioness” by Henning Mankell. I read “Faceless Killers” before this one and thought it was very good, but this one is even better. I’ve got “the Troubled Man” in the line up for my next read but am wondering whether I should stay with the 90s ones for now.

[Vito Simplicio]

Sharpe's Fortress by Bernard Cornwell

Cornwell's series is composed of several novels and short stories, and charts Sharpe's progress in the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars. He begins in Sharpe's Tiger as a private in the 33rd Regiment of Foot who becomes a Sergeant by the end of the book; he is an Ensign in the 74th Regiment during Sharpe's Trafalgar who is transferred to the newly formed 95th Rifles as a second lieutenant. He is gradually promoted through the ranks, finally becoming a lieutenant colonel in Sharpe's Waterloo.