Currently "reading" a few things. But what I'm reading with regularity? At present, The Simulacra by Philip K. Dick, the January 2009 issue of GQ magazine, and More Information than You Require by John Hodgman.
(Most of you know Hodgman best as the PC in the Mac commercials, or from his work on The Daily Show. When he put his first book, Areas of My Expertise out in 2005 he was a guest on the aforementioned show. I've been hooked to this deranged millionaire ever since.)
So far, I highly suggest the Hodgman book; go out and get the first one too if you've never read it. I'm only a few pages into the PKD book, but knowing him I will not be disappointed. And as for GQ? Never buy almost anything they advertise: if you do, you enable yuppie culture, support sweatshop labor, and may have been a Nazi in a past life. Otherwise they have some of the most talented columnists I have ever had the pleasure of reading. It's actually a pretty smart mag.
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