What are you reading at the moment

[Ortega]

yeah...but apparently translating Caesar's   "Commentaries on the Gallic War" was so difficult, it took a month to do.
It was easy for me, and i found it  interesting to read the book in Caesar's native language.

[Dim of the Yard]

Aww, yeah.

[hare.29]

Aww, yeah.

How is that as a textbook?

[mrbasehart]

I read this awhile ago, though it was the last thing I read: Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card.  It's the follow up to Ender's Game, though the novels are completely different.  I think I may have preferred this one, and though perhaps the Piggies - the slang term for the new alien species they encounter - aren't terribly convincing, Card's ability to write humans is excellent.  I may now have to read the third one.

[hare.29]

Aww, yeah.

How is that as a textbook?

Looks very leafy.

Leaves are organic matter.

[mrbasehart]

Or a proctology one.  I bet that book's hard to thumb through.   

[bettertomorrowamy]

Aww, yeah.

How is that as a textbook?

Looks very leafy.

Leaves are organic matter.

Says you!

[Tripe]

My local library just got this for me.

I loved The Last Temptation of Christ and Zorba the Greek so I thought I'd give this a go.

Depending on how I like the translation I might give Kimon Friar's poetry a go. Imrahil, any input to offer on that?

[sarcasm_made_Easy]

im rereading jack londons the seawolf.  wolf is my hero.

[Junkyard]

I've just started reading Roma Eternia, by Robert Silverberg.
It's one of those alternate history things, for if Rome had never fallen. The author goes ainly under the assumption that Christianity caused Rome's fall, it looks like.
It's starting rather slowly, but it has some potential yet.

[deadheadpunk]

i'm on the 2nd book of the Ice and Fire series by George RR Martin, Clash of Kings

i'm completely blown away by this series so far 

[sarcasm_made_Easy]

oh and for the record"  life is the ultimate piggishness."

[Tripe]

The author goes ainly under the assumption that Christianity caused Rome's fall,

Pretty much what Gibbon thought too.

And time to plug that book. If you've not read it and you have some time to, I'd suggest reading The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. It is reflective of it's time but I don't think it's ever really been equalled as a work of modern History writing.

Oh and I'm perhaps a 1/5 of the way through book one of The Odyssey A Modern Sequel and thus far it's very good.

[OTC316]

Robert E. Howard's "the Savage Tales of Solomon Kane". I'm a fan of the Conan stories, and I always heard about Kane and finally found a collection of the short stories. Kane is a great character, and I'll probably read it again pretty soon.

[Natureboy]

Even though King has lost a step in his writing, this book is still pretty good.