What Are We Queer Geeks Reading?

My own accursed book.

I'm in the editing process on my self-published book, and that means that I"ve been combing over the thing for weeks now with a fine-toothed comb. Ever gotten to the point where you hate your own words on paper? I go to bed at night churning over every random thought for sentence structure issues.

I'm reading Go Where You Wanna Go: An Oral History of the Mamas and the Papas. I have read pretty everything that has been written about them. I have to know everything. My selfish desires.

I should have mentioned that I am also reading Rugby for Dummies®. it doesn't make the sprinting any easier.

The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

And The last of the wilds by trudi canavan.

I'm currently in the middle of "party of one" by Annelli Rufus, and "Risk Society" buy Ulrich Beck.

I wonder if all geeks read more than one book at a time. I have a "home" and an "away" book at all times.

STILL trying to read:

A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin
Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner
The Best American Comics 2006

Just finished God's War, by christopher Tyerman, a 900 plus page history of the Crusades

now starting Rubicon, a history fo the fall of the Roman Republic

I just finished reading Gaiman's "Neverware".

Reading: "The Short History of Switzerland" Small book by a historian and a new paper writer. Traces back the origins that made that small piece of land what is today.
Finished : "Complete Stories by Isaac Asimov" need I say more about this one?

Cheers
Oli

Im reading Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk

"Godel: Escher: Bach" number theory, propositional calculus, etc.. nice book for bedtime reading, or with a couple of cheap beers on a dead night out of the week...

In Gods We Trust : The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion by Scott Atran. Sam Harris is fine for firing up the troops, but Atran gives a much better sense of the very strong and deep forces we face in keep society safe for secular folks.

Ken McLeod's "The Cassini Division".
Charles Stross' "Accelerando"

Wikipedia ;-)

Nick Sagans excellent series: Idylwild, Edenborn, Everfree. =)

Again, Titan/Wizard/Demon by Varley.

Having just finished all 19 (or so) books in the New Jedi Order series

Prior to that, Lud in the Mist.

Hm. I think that covers it - well, and the annual re-read of Lord of the Rings, this time spurred by a recent birthday acquisition of Salo's "A Gateway to Sindarin". My partner threatened me - "You have to learn Spanish before Sindarin". I just grinned.

"Wrathreu" by Storm Constantain
and also "Glamourama" by Bret Easton Ellis

Non fiction- Sex and the Floating World by Timony Screech

I am reading "Son of a Witch" by Gregory McGuire right now. It is pretty good so far.

'Going Postal'--Terry Pratchett. One of my favorite authors if not my favorite. He does fantasy humor, I think he started out kinda poking fun but found an audience. Bloody amazing! I got turned on to him when my dad was stationed in England, my best friend at the time had every book. I soon did too, and my mom sold my entire collection (terry pratchett and all my other books) for $25 to a used book store when they moved again when I was in college. I got home the day after she sold it and every last book had already been sold, I was heartbroken. Oh well, at least I have good taste!
I can't read just one book at a time so I'm also reading:

'A Bend in the River'--VS Naipaul. I don't agree with him always, his characters usually come across as arrogant, but he comes out with some pretty good insights that you don't often hear from 3rd or 4th world authors.

'Enough to Say its Far'--Pak Chaesam. I just got turned on to poetry, after reading Jane Kenyon, and I love his spare reflective style. He goes back and forth between what is in front of him and what is happening beyond what you can see.