How many books are you reading now?

[irinmisfit92]

I like to read different books, so whenever I finish reading one chapter from Dracula by Bram Stoker, I will continue with one chapter from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. Something like that.

1. Dracula
2. Jane Eyre
3. Inheritance (I KINDA regretted wasting 23 bucks for it)
4. Amulet of Samarkand
5. (Trying to) Fahrenheit 451

Andddddd... a few comics that have really good storylines. I think it's really fun when you read different books after one chapter. Perhaps it's because I get bored way too easily when I just read one book.

I just finished Brave New World and I love it.

So anyway, how many books do you read per time?

[chrisvia]

I, too, tend to read books concurrently. Right now I'm reading Auguste Comte's Introduction to Positive Philosophy, the latest Paris Review, the Bible (I'm practically always reading the Bible since I'm studying western literature), Molière's plays, and Houellebecq's first novel, Extension du domaine de la lutte.

[The Comedian]

I too always have multiple books going. Currently, I'm readin'

Ruth Hall
The Giver
10 Speeches Cicero
The Complete works of Rimbaud
Benito Cereno
A Contract with God

[chrisvia]

The Giver by Lois Lowry?! I read that in sixth grade (I'm 27 now) and it still sticks with me!

[The Comedian]

The Giver by Lois Lowry?! I read that in sixth grade (I'm 27 now) and it still sticks with me!

Yep. That's the one. I had never read it. But after teaching a segment on Plato's "allegory of the cave" and some other bits from Republic, a student said that it reminded her of this book The Giver which she had read in elementary school.

When I told her that I'd never read it (or heard of it, really), she brought her copy the next day for me to read.

So far I really like it and can see a lot of the parallels to Plato's ideal "school" that we had discussed in class that day.

[Dark Muse]

I have always read mutiple books at once. Presently I am reading:

Pale Fire
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
The Secret History
The Russian Concubine
Tom Jones
Far From the Madding Crowd
Breafkast at Tiffany's
Daniel Deronda
Stone of Tears
White Truffles in Winter

[chrisvia]

Yep. That's the one. I had never read it. But after teaching a segment on Plato's "allegory of the cave" and some other bits from Republic, a student said that it reminded her of this book The Giver which she had read in elementary school.

When I told her that I'd never read it (or heard of it, really), she brought her copy the next day for me to read.

So far I really like it and can see a lot of the parallels to Plato's ideal "school" that we had discussed in class that day.

I'm jealous that you teach. I've been trying to get a teaching job since I finished grad school...1.5 years ago.

[chrisvia]

I have always read mutiple books at once. Presently I am reading:

Pale Fire
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
The Secret History
The Russian Concubine
Tom Jones
Far From the Madding Crowd
Breafkast at Tiffany's
Daniel Deronda
Stone of Tears
White Truffles in Winter

I love Pale Fire! The writing is so neurotic--and to think that Nabokov made all of that up! I think I read Philip Roth's The Human Stain not long after, and I couldn't help comparing the narrators, though Roth's Zuckerman never goes into the territory that the Pale Fire narrator goes into.

[Dark Muse]

I love Pale Fire! The writing is so neurotic--and to think that Nabokov made all of that up! I think I read Philip Roth's The Human Stain not long after, and I couldn't help comparing the narrators, though Roth's Zuckerman never goes into the territory that the Pale Fire narrator goes into.

I have to admit Nabokov is just not for me. I had earlier read Lolita and though most people rave about it, I had trouble getting into it and the same thing is happening with Pale Fire. There is something about his style of prose that at times bores me and fails to keep me engaged I find my mind start to wander to other things while reading and cannot commit myself to reading it for long periods of time.

[Charles Darnay]

I tend to get far too distracted when reading multiple books and never really give any one the time it deserves....nonetheless it is a habit I cannot break:

At the moment:
1. Prague Cemetary
2. Cornish trilogy (easier to take a break from since it's really three separate books)
3. Beautiful and the Damned

[TheChilly]

I'm debating whether to continue with Skyim or to plunge myself into more of "Dhalgren".

[Vladimir777]

I, too, tend to read books concurrently. Right now I'm reading Auguste Comte's Introduction to Positive Philosophy, the latest Paris Review, the Bible (I'm practically always reading the Bible since I'm studying western literature), Molière's plays, and Houellebecq's first novel, Extension du domaine de la lutte.

I just finished the King James Old Testament! An interesting read, to say the least. There is some crazy, crazy stuff in there, but also some great books (Genesis, Exodus, Deuteronomy, Sammuel-Kings, Ecclesiastes, Job, etc.). I must admit, the prophetic books at the end (with a few exceptions) were pretty boring, and took me the longest.

To answer the OP, I tend to only read one book a time. I'm just about to start The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo to finish it before the movie comes out at the end of December, then am going to read Gone with the Wind (that movie is playing in theaters here in January), then I will tackle the King James Apocrypha, and eventually the NT.

[varnish7]

Right now I'm reading "Unexplained!" and "Tess of the D'Urbervilles". Usually, I only read one book at a time, but now I'm starting to alternate chapters between two books.

[Climacus]

Yes, I've always got a handful of things on the go too. The Bible and Plato's dialogues I read cyclically. And beyond that, right now I'm reading:


Das Nibelungenlied Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student by Corbett and Connors
Where the Conflict Really Lies by Alvin Plantinga (on the science-religion debate)
Some Chekhov
Analysing Bach Cantatas by Eric Chafe
Prefaces by Kierkegaard
And a bunch of other stuff . . .

[ClaesGefvenberg]

I like to read different books, so whenever I finish reading one chapter from Dracula by Bram Stoker, I will continue with one chapter from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. Something like that.I regularly have 5 - 10 books going, but I am nowhere near as organised as you: Basically, I just pick the book closest to me. :biggrin5:

So anyway, how many books do you read per time?Right now:


Caesar - Adrian Goldsworthy
A Science Fiction Anthology
Nine Tomorrows - Isaac Asimov (printed 1963)
The Great Train Robbery - Michael Crichton
Verbal Judo - George Thompson
A couple of MS Excel instruction books (trying to get to grips with some macros).
Shogun - James Clavell

/Claes