What book are you reading now?

[xavier]

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

[Wolfpack]

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Never read the book, but seen the movie, will have to read it one day

[HumbleTangerine]

Crime and Punishment. Usually when I read a classic just because I feel like I should somehow, I end up being disappointed. After all - "because I should" is hardly the best argument for reading something.

This time, however, I'm very positively surprised. So far it's absolutely amazing and I can't wait to see how things develop!

[sillyboy86]

Still reading books about the relationship about ArtSystem&Economy. I started this one:
The $12 million stuffed shark.

[TwisttheLeaf]

The Bird Eater by Ania Ahlborn

[showme]

Book? What's that?

[CellarDweller]

After his wife dies in a car accident, bisexual writer and activist Steve Abbott moves with his two-year-old daughter to San Francisco. There they discover a city in the midst of revolution, bustling with gay men in search of liberation—few of whom are raising a child.

Steve throws himself into San Francisco’s vibrant cultural scene. He takes Alysia to raucous parties, pushes her in front of the microphone at poetry readings, and introduces her to a world of artists, thinkers, and writers. But the pair live like nomads, moving from apartment to apartment, with a revolving cast of roommates and little structure. As a child Alysia views her father as a loving playmate who can transform the ordinary into magic, but as she gets older Alysia wants more than anything to fit in. The world, she learns, is hostile to difference.

In Alysia’s teens, Steve’s friends—several of whom she has befriended—fall ill as AIDS starts its rampage through their community. While Alysia is studying in New York and then in France, her father tells her it’s time to come home; he’s sick with AIDS. Alysia must choose whether to take on the responsibility of caring for her father or continue the independent life she has worked so hard to create.

Reconstructing their life together from a remarkable cache of her father’s journals, letters, and writings, Alysia Abbott gives us an unforgettable portrait of a tumultuous, historic time in San Francisco as well as an exquisitely moving account of a father’s legacy and a daughter’s love.

[Dan1980]

Allegiant by Veronica Roth.

[Softmachine]

Last Words, the final journals of William Burroughs. Enjoying it so far, but like most collected diaries it's a very mixed bag.

[MRossW]

Quantum Consciousness (at one extreme), What They Always Tell Us (at the other extreme) - and somewhere in between a frustratingly inaccurate, typo-filled, and poorly proofed Microsoft textbook on database management fundamentals.