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I'm going through the Discworld books and right now I'm currently reading Pyramids.
I am veritably crawling through House of Leaves. Such a confusing damn book.
I am reading Isaac Asimov's Foundation books again. Right now im at book 9 (from 15) and im glad that Daneel Olivaw plays a role again.
Which reminds me...Michael Fassbender(played David in Ridley Scott's "Prometheus") would be the perfect Daneel Olivaw if they ever planning on making a movie or a series out of those books.
Finished reading a four-story compilation centered on Solomon Kane, the puritan swordsman created by Robert E. Howard. 3/5
Finished reading the first book in the Japanese light novel series Full Metal Panic!, freshly translated in Italian. 4/5, I would kill to put my hands on an ARX-7 Arbalest (or even an M-9) AS unit AFK...
Stephen Kings new book Doctor Sleep, its the sequel to The Shining and a great return to form for the author.
The Language Instinct, by S. Pinker
The Demon-haunted World, by C. Sagan
Materialism And Empirio-criticism, by V. Lenin
The Oxford Companion To Philosophy, ed. by Ted Honderich
The Resurrection, by L. Tolstoy
Typewriter In The Sky, by L. Ron Hubbard
...as well as books and articles on medicine and computer science.
Going Postal by Terry Pratchett.
Well... though I'm reading them for school I've got quite a bit on my plate

Improving Your Serve
The fine Line
How to think Theologically

I just finished "What Can I Do?" which was awesome...

I started 1984 not to long ago but with all my college reading... that's been pushed aside haha.
Once school starts, I read only my college books. This semester, those books are The New Oxford Annotated Bible (NRSV) and The Norton Anthology of World Literature Volume A (currently; volumes B and C will follow). The annotations in the Bible are interesting, but I'm not a fan of the translation. Maybe it's because I grew up on the King James Version, but the New Revised Standard Version just lacks that... well, I don't know how to describe it. Plus, it is hard to tell when the translation turns into interpretation. Sometimes, stuff that could be interpreted other ways in the KJV is worded such that other interpretations can't be made.

As for the anthology, I'm actually surprised at how much I am enjoying it; most of it I probably wouldn't have read otherwise. I think my favorite so far has been Gilgamesh. Sometimes the writing was annoying, some parts dragged on unnecessarily long, and other parts (like seemingly important events) appeared almost as footnotes, but it was pretty good. While everything kept me glued to the pages, considering it is early, early literature, it's pretty good. Except Lysistrata. That was... I don't even know.
Post edited October 06, 2013 by Daedalus1138
Finished reading Slan by Alfred E. Van Vogt. 4/5, pretty good classic sci-fi.
Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre - H.P. Lovecraft
Lord Fouls Bane, The First Chronicles of Thomas Covenant The Unbeliever, The last book of the third series is released on Thursday, so starting the chronicles from the start again.
A Dance of Dragons, the 5th book in the Song of Ice and Fire.
Ivanhoe, by Walter Scott. I don't think he's "in" with the literary highbrows any more, but he's read a hundred and eighty years after his death, which is its own recommendation. I'm enjoying it; the antisemitism in a novel that sets itself up as being at least partially a critique of antisemitism (e.g. the saintly Rebecca contrasted with the villainous Christian Templars) is kind of weird, though.