Question What are you reading?

[adamb193]

So what books are you reading currentaly reading?
I am currently enjoying some Harry Turtledove myself. And in school I am reading The Catcher in the Rye ,and Der Besuch der alten Dame.

 

[Missioncmdr]

I am currently reading Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson.

 

[Andy44]

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

also

[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Space-Warfare-Strategy-Principles-Policy/dp/0415407966/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1207622023&sr=1-2"]Space Warfare, Strategy, Principles, and Policy[/ame] by John J. Klein

 

[computerex]

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows for the only god knows how many times.

 

[FlyGirl]

Re-reading Rendezvous with Rama and the rest of the Rama series by Clarke

 

[FlyingSinger]

AI and Niven

I'm reading "The Emotion Machine" by Marvin Minsky, a book about AI and the mind. And I'm taking "Ringworld" by Larry Niven on a trip this week because it's a classic I never read. Taking a few other books too (8 day UK trip). I guess I read a lot (137 "books" posts on my blog, but 185 "Orbiter" posts - guess I write a lot too).

 

[unussapiens]

The Player of Games - Ian M. Banks

A great author, he writes books like no one else I have found (He has some unique concepts).

 

[bujin]

I am currently reading

The Portable Atheist - Christopher Hitchens

and I've just also started

God: The Failed Hypothesis - Victor Stenger

 

[TSPenguin]

I am (re)reading First Contact by Murray Leinster.
A great first contact story involving two starships meeting coincidentialy inside the crab nebula after documenting it's developement for 4000 years via faster than light travel.

 

[razgriz31m]

I'm reading this post haha LOL, Da vinci code here.

 

[Bj]

This forum currently

I'm reading Flags of our Fathers

 

[Brad]

The Scarecrow and his Servant by Philip Pullman.

 

[Chipstone306]

V2 by Walter Dornberger ( nazi general who overseen the v2 project) interesting book how he imagined launching rockets using the v2 technology to the moon

 

[n0mad23]

I've been in the mood for a comedy -

So I'm currently reading Gerard K. O'Neill's, The High Frontier.

For some reason though, I don't seem to be able to book a reservation for the decade old Island 1....

 

[doggie015]

I am currently reading "Maximum Security" and will eventually be reading Artemis Fowl and the Opal Deception (again)

 

[RAF92_Moser]

Aircraft System I by Jeppesen.

 

[Ghostrider]

The Icom IC-R5 portable radioscanner manual.

 

[MajorTom]

As usual for me, a big pile of books...switch to a new one when I get tired of the one I'm on.

• The Case for Mars, Zubrin (quite a slog, though lots of vitalstatistics)
• China's Space Program, Brian Harvey
• Curious George, H.A. Rey
• Dragonfly, Bryan Burrough (very interesting...about MIR and NASA during the early days of Russian / US cooperation in space. Yet surprisingly downbeat.)

Just finished a good one: To a Distant Day, by Gainor. Survey of rocket development and the driving personalities, from Tsiolkovsky to the Manned moon landing. This one's pretty new, and I had been searching for a survey on the topic rather than focused biographies of individuals such as von Braun, Korolev, Glushko, et. al.

 

[Brad]

Finished the Scarecrow and his servant and am now reading Science Instruction in the Middle and Seconary Schools by Chiappetta and Koballa. Yawn... :study:Oh well.. I'll get that teaching degree some day.

 

[silent_protagonist]

I just finished Rendezvous with Rama (very good, although the anti-climax at the end means that I won't be able to rest until I've read the rest of the series), and I'm about to start Destination: Void.

The Case for Mars is a good book, although it gets rather less grounded in reality near the end. Still, I hope we get to try it someday.