What are you reading?

[Swatopluk]

For balance a book on the cultural impact of the AK-47 and another on the Hitler salute.
Also All the Colors of the Dark (aka the Bava Bible  , 5-6 kg printed paper about that (in)famous Italian director)

[Pachyderm]

The Persian Boy, by Mary Renault

[beagle]

For balance a book on the cultural impact of the AK-47 and another on the Hitler salute.

Nice example of good industrial design .  A chromed barrel so you can bury it without wrecking it. Pity the changeover lever is so noisy. Bit of a giveaway when stalking in Tesco's car park.

Where did the salute come from? A modified version of the Roman one?

The Persian Boy, by Mary Renault

Read that some time ago. Remember being amused by the Persians' habit of taking the whole court on campaign with them.

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

Finished Robin Hobb's Royal Assasin (2nd book on the trilogy) and started Assasin's Quest. I got really caught with it and read through the night. I'll do a full review of the trilogy once I'm done.

[Swatopluk]

Still waiting for Turtledove's Toxic Spell Dump to arrive by mail (availability seems to be limited at the moment)

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

Still waiting for Turtledove's Toxic Spell Dump to arrive by mail (availability seems to be limited at the moment)

Been out of print for years.  Too bad, it's one of his best, IMHO

[Pachyderm]

Started on Patrick O'Brian's master and Commander series (again). now on book 9 of 20, Treason's Harbour.

[Swatopluk]

Still waiting for Turtledove's Toxic Spell Dump to arrive by mail (availability seems to be limited at the moment)

Been out of print for years.  Too bad, it's one of his best, IMHO

Amazon.co.uk offically has it in stock still but their delivery rate for books (outside the UK) would almost double the price.

[Pachyderm]

Now onto book 10, The Far Side of the World.

[Swatopluk]

Mainly printouts of news/commentary pages (truthout/alternet) at the moment

[Griffin NoName]

Deconstructing Psychopathology 
Ian Parker, Eugenie Georgaca, David Harper, and Terence McLaughlin

At least, the Introduction. It's very short; apparently there's not a lot to explain about the book

Given I've just finished my Dip. I am a bit concerned I haven't gone for an easy novel. Perhaps I AM mad.

but at least it's not Windows Programming

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

Charles Nicholl - Leonardo Da Vinci, Flights of the Mind. A nice and thoroughly researched biography.

[Bluenose]

The Science of Discworld III - Darwin's Watch.

Very entertaining and quite informative too.

[Swatopluk]

It's also one of the rare cases where the obsolete theories and their original proponents are treated with respect (as opposed to those that still adhere to them in face of megatons of contrary evidence).
Although I knew about the watchmaker argument, I had never consciously heard of Paley.

[The Meromorph]

The Descent of Woman by Elaine Morgan.