What book are you currently reading?

[down by the river]

just finished The Great Gatsby. great book and doesnt take long to read either.
Just started reading Moby Dick.
Been reading alot of penguin classics recently!

 

[dropthatpickle]

Infinite Reality

by Jim Blascovich. It's about different ways what's real can change for us and how current and future forms of virtual reality, like immersive video games and networking, will merge with our lives. He says the technology's available to save yourself virtually so your great-grandkids will be able to interact and get to know you. It's humorous, conversational, mindblowing and intense.

 

[JedTheHumanoid]

^ nice one Sam

ever heard of this one? Up and Down with the Rolling Stones


Tony Sanchez worked for Keith Richards for eight years buying drugs, running errands and orchestrating cheap thrills. He records unforgettable accounts of the Stones' perilous misadventures racing cars along the Cote d'Azur; murder at Altamont; nights with the Beatles at the Stones-owned nightclub Vesuvio; frantic flights to Switzerland for blood changes and the steady stream of women, including Anita Pallenberg, Marianne Faithfull and Bianca Jagger. Here are the Stones at their debauched peak cavorting around the world, smashing Bentleys, working black magic, getting raided, snorting coke and mainlining heroin. Sanchez tells the whole truth, sparing not even himself in the process with hard-hitting prose and candid photographs.

I read this one. I found it hilarious the way he kept saying how he wasn't a drug dealer and then describing how he was exactly that...

 

[33Hz]

Wonders of the Universe: Much more in-depth than the TV series. Fantastic illustrations, and wonderful pictures of space in all its glory.

 

[Budisti]

A short history of nearly everything by Bill Bryson. Im actually reading it for the second time now since i started reading it again by accident when i borrowed it from a friend and after a few pages tought wuttahell ill read it again. Good read if youre interested in sciences. Im also reading "The great philosophhers" and the Bible(wanted to see what all the fuzz is about).

 

[Myshkin]

ever heard of this one? Up and Down with the Rolling Stones


Tony Sanchez worked for Keith Richards for eight years buying drugs, running errands and orchestrating cheap thrills. He records unforgettable accounts of the Stones' perilous misadventures racing cars along the Cote d'Azur; murder at Altamont; nights with the Beatles at the Stones-owned nightclub Vesuvio; frantic flights to Switzerland for blood changes and the steady stream of women, including Anita Pallenberg, Marianne Faithfull and Bianca Jagger. Here are the Stones at their debauched peak cavorting around the world, smashing Bentleys, working black magic, getting raided, snorting coke and mainlining heroin. Sanchez tells the whole truth, sparing not even himself in the process with hard-hitting prose and candid photographs.

Sounds like my rock star biography fixation will have to continue for that little bit longer. :D

Cheers Slaughter - there are so many Stones books out there it's unreal, but that one sounds like one that needs to be read!

 

[third eye squeegee]

I'm reading two books at the moment -

Syd Barrett - A Very Irregular Head by Rob Chapman
- sympathetic portrayal of the cracked genius

and

Bad Wisdom - Bill Drummond & Z from Zodiac Mindwarp
- loony adventure to the North Pole in a bid to free mankind by burning an effigy of Elvis the Divine - the vibes are supposed to dissipate down the ley lines and heal the world ... had to put it down for a bit after they met Oscar Wilde and Keith Richards in a pub in Sweden - too much shit and jizz for my delicate constitution at the time - will pick it back up soon.

Bill Drummond's 45 is a must read if you're anyway interested in the KLF etc... also waiting to read Julian Cope's Head On/Reposessed...