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yeah, me too.
i re-read books too many times.

Pinker seems to be popular lately. I keep running into people who are currently reading him. Myself, I'm halfway through Pinker's The Blank Slate.

Farewell Song by Rabindranath Tagore
Plastiki by David de Rothschild

Les Miserables- Victor Hugo
War and Peace- Leo Tolstoy
One Drop of Blood- Scott L. Malcomson

At Home by Bill Bryson

You're the first one I've run into.
I'm only about 1/3 through this one; it happens to be on linguistics (as if it isn't obvious enough already), which is my strongest interest, so I'm not in any hurry to rush through it. I want to savor every word. That's how I was with Bill Bryson's The Mother Tongue as well, though this Pinker book is surely much longer.
I also own his How the Mind Works. After I've finished this one and after I have read a couple books that are on my to-read list, I might just read that one.

City of Dreaming Books

Harry Potter et le Prisonnier d'Azkaban
Tigers in the Mud - the Tigers in question being the armoured kind. Not convinced by the author's protestations of innocence ("yes you did, you invaded Poland!") but it's an interesting enough read.

Alchemaster's Apprentice up next.

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Quarter Share by Nathan Lowell

Main Currents of Marxism (1978) by Leszek Kołakowski. Gives an interesting overview of the development of Marxist, socialist and communist thought, before and after Karl Marx.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leszek_Ko%C5%82akowski

I'm kinda semi committed to two books at the mo.

I'm re-reading Dune which is totally amazing, I can't believe I missed how genius this book is when I read it as a kid. I remember thinking it was boring and skimming a lot.

The other is Mercury Retrograde by Pythia Peay, which a friend bought me, and is very interesting.

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1974) by Nicholas Meyer

My psychotic Sherlock Holmes obsession is so great that I bought The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, a three-volume hardcover collection which retails for over $100, but I'm just now starting to explore what Wikipedia calls the "extracanonical works." That is, the Holmes stories written by authors other than Arthur Conan Doyle. I decided to start with The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, which is the most popular of them. The story concerns Watson seeking the help of Sigmund Freud to cure Holmes of his cocaine addiction. At least that makes up the first half – it segues into a traditional mystery in the second. It's a great book with a terrific story that perfectly captures Doyle's style, which is amazing considering that it was written by a 28-year-old American.

"Physics of The Future" by Dr. Michio Kaku

I'm reading Assassin's Creed Brotherhood by Oliver Bowden.

Just started Thomas Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow".

Read:

The Great Escape (nonfiction, was interesting)
What Mad Universe? (old satire on pulp SF)
The Alchemaster's Apprentice (not a huge fan of either the book or the translation)
They Never Said It (book about famous non-quotes; I keep running into "too good to be true" quotes on t'interweb)

Reading a few things at the moment.

The Outline of History (H.G. Wells, nonfiction, boring so far; it gets mentioned in What Mad Universe? above)
HP et le Prisonnier d'Azkaban (still - reading a few pages every now and then at work)
Jane's Tank Recognition Guide (slightly disappointing; I'd've preferred more details on variants and variant names)
Jane's Fighting Ships 1963-64 (as current editions are far too expensive!)
ElfQuest (not got to issue 17 yet )

Attempting to read "The Name of the Rose".

Regrettably, I've been failing at reading.