What are you reading?

"Whatever you do, don't get "Biological Psychology: An Introduction to Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience", it's freakin boring as hell" - ShanV, literary masochist, way back before when.

"Eysenck and Keane's Excellent Adventures in Cognitive Science" is also a classic. Essential bedtime reading for insomniacs.

"The Psychology of Everyday Things" is, well, interesting and occasionally amusing. A typical scenario...crowds of people in a magnificently abstract public building, gathered around doors and light switches wondering how they work - the beauty of modern architectural design.

I've just finished Bill Bryson's "A Short History of Everything", which explains that scientists, viewed retrospectively, are basically insane - incompetent, deluded, dangerous, obsessive and frequently malevolent. In their defence, they occasionally experience a flash of insight that can be ascribed only to genius, followed by an inexorable descent into obscurity.

Obviously, these are somewhat subjective micro-reviews, and any semblance of accuracy is entirely coincidental.

Footnote to Fallica's suggestions: Lord Foul's Bane and The Illearth War are the first two books in Stephen Donaldson's trilogy, "The First Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, The Unbeliever". If you want to follow the story through to its gloriously ambiguous conclusion, you'll also be reading the second trilogy, which bears the astonsihingly intuitive legend "The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant".  All this may consume a considerable slice of your life, as it did mine.

Arbitrary appendage: this FCK editor thing is missing U*ED - Enter and die...