What Are You Reading?

[professorchaos]

Before They Are Hanged (The First Law: Book Two)- I'm halfway through and it is even better than book one. If the final book of the trilogy is as well written, this will be one I will definitely be steering others to.

Good stuff huh? The Bloody Nine is one of my favorite characters in a long while.

[professorchaos]

I just finished Jim Butcher's Ghost Story (it went far too quickly) and started Richard Kadrey's Sandman Slim. Dark, gritty and a lot of fun. Next I'll either tackle R. Scott Bakker's The Judging Eye or George RR Martin's A Dance with Dragons.

[marvin100]

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Basil Bunting - Complete Poems

[marvin100]

Infinite Jest really changed the way I see all entertainment. It's likely the best book of fiction i've ever read. It's fun to chat with dudes about it too. it's not as much of a hit with the ladies.

I was underwhelmed by IJ. It's virtuosic, sprawling, and very, very funny, but I didn't think it packed much of a punch by the end. I just didn't leave it very changed, if you know what I mean. DFW's suicide is tragic to me largely for this reason--I believe he had great books in him, books on the level of Gravity's Rainbow, The Sound and the Fury, or Ulysses. But we'll never get to read them.

[Badger & Bengall]

191188

[joshmpdx]

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[Mink]

Just started, "Cloud Atlas", by David Mitchell

I've read 2 of his books and thoroughly enjoyed them. I saw that they are making a movie of this book with Tom Hanks and quite a good actor list.

[tchudson]

Currently - David Weber and Steve White's "The Shiva Option." On a sci-fi kick at the moment.

[auk1124]

Quiver, by Peter Leonard. I gave up on it last night when Leonard started referring to a Smith and Wesson .357 as an "automatic."

Honestly, if you are going to write a gritty thriller with gunplay, spend a couple hours on the internet and do a little research on guns. Sheesh.

[ama015]

Knut Hamsun`s "The Growth of The Soil" for the xyz time. One of the finest, most remarkable books ever written imo.

[jstutman]

Chapter 3 of "The Juvenile Justice System" by Dean John Champion.

Quiz is due tonight :P

[marvin100]

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That's so good. It's no Sot-Weed Factor, but great, great.

[Walker]

On The Road by Jack Kerouac

[Redman667]

Just Started World War Z: an oral history of the zombie war. The book is interviews with survivors of the zombie war, its an easy read and new way of looking at zombie novels.

[RayH]

Just Started World War Z: an oral history of the zombie war. The book is interviews with survivors of the zombie war, its an easy read and new way of looking at zombie novels.

A good read. They're making a movie out of it. Starring Brad Pitt. Unfortunately Hollywood has changed the movie, so as it doesn't follow Brad's character after the war but during.

[Rushman2112]

Bedtime reading is Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain. Daytime reading is The Complete Robuchon which I just got at the weekend (classic French cookbook).

[joshmpdx]

That's so good. It's no Sot-Weed Factor, but great, great.

You like the fun stuff! what are a few of your favorites?

[Redman667]

A good read. They're making a movie out of it. Starring Brad Pitt. Unfortunately Hollywood has changed the movie, so as it doesn't follow Brad's character after the war but during.

I got excited when you mentioned a movie and found a summary of the movie online.

"The story revolves around United Nations employee Gerry Lane (Pitt), who traverses the world in a race against time to stop the Zombie pandemic that is toppling armies and governments and threatening to decimate humanity itself."

nothing like the book :( but it sill might be good. Would have been great if they did a Ken Burns style "documentary" for this book.

[Alacrity59]

I'm reading out loud to my wife Kay Scarpettia by Patricai Cornwell . . .

[RayH]

I got excited when you mentioned a movie and found a summary of the movie online.

"The story revolves around United Nations employee Gerry Lane (Pitt), who traverses the world in a race against time to stop the Zombie pandemic that is toppling armies and governments and threatening to decimate humanity itself."

nothing like the book :( but it sill might be good. Would have been great if they did a Ken Burns style "documentary" for this book.

Yeah, nothing like the book, it's Hollywood's version. A Ken Burns style documentary would be awsome.

[marvin100]

You like the fun stuff! what are a few of your favorites?

In that area? Well, I'm a Pynchon die-hard, but I'll recommend a few Anthony Burgess novels: The Long Day Wanes and Earthly Powers are tremendously underrated, esp. in the States. I recently read and loved 2666 by Roberto Bolaño.

Anyone who likes Barth probably would also like (non-fiction) Godel, Escher, Bach, by Douglas Hofstadter. I'm not a big Nouveau Roman guy, but I love Nathalie Sarraute, esp. Between Life and Death. How about some Italo Calvino (Invisible Cities or If on a Winter's Night A Traveler) or oh man oh man Julio Cortazar (Cronopios and Famas, Hopscotch, Around the Day in Eighty Worlds!)? Maybe Ferdeydurke, by Witold Gombrowicz? Great, great. Farther out? Dhahlgren, by Samuel R. Delaney...America's greatest gay black science-fiction writer!

And who doesn't like William Gaddis? Nobody I care to drink with, that's who.

[honed]

Just started reading Bukowski's "Pulp"
30 pages in it looks really promising!

[marvin100]

Ham on Rye is my favorite Bukowski, veiled autobio. His poems are good, too.

[honed]

Ham on Rye is my favorite Bukowski, veiled autobio. His poems are good, too.
Yeah, I'm a big fan of his work. This is the only book I haven't read.

[BDKrause]

Currently working my way through WEB Griffin's Presidential agent series

[Kevan]

"The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War Against Al-Qaeda" by Ali Soufan. The writing is a little amateurish but I can excuse that because it's engrossing so far.

[Picaro]

Been working through Edward Rutherfurd's 'Princes of Ireland' and ' Rebels of Ireland'

[AngryDad]

Catcher in the Rye

[Picaro]

That's so good. It's no Sot-Weed Factor, but great, great.

Sot-Weed Factor....I read that in my teens( quite a while ago)

I think it bent something in my head.

[marvin100]

Sot-Weed Factor....I read that in my teens( quite a while ago)

I think it bent something in my head.

Wow, me too (maybe '87?)! Read it again (and again...) as an adult, and have found it pretty bottomless. Great, great book.

[The Count of Merkur Cristo]

This week, I'm reading "Poland", a historical novel written by James A. Michener and published in 1983 detailing the times and tribulations of three Polish families (the Lubonski family, the Bukowski family, and the Buk family) across eight centuries, ending in the 1981.

http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff318/peprita628/Smilies/ReadingSmiley.gif "The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn the more places you'll go.” Dr. Seuss

[JBagKY]

Currently reading "Hyperion" by the suggestion of some of the members of this board. So far, I am enjoying it.

[rearviewmirror]

Just finished Hyperion. Now reading The Fall of Hyperion

[Mink]

This week, I'm reading "Poland", a historical novel written by James A. Michener and published in 1983 detailing the times and tribulations of three Polish families (the Lubonski family, the Bukowski family, and the Buk family) across eight centuries, ending in the 1981.

http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff318/peprita628/Smilies/ReadingSmiley.gif "The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn the more places you'll go.” Dr. Seuss

I read this years ago. When you read about all the unending troubles that the Polish people have been through, it's, well, depressing, but it was also a country I knew nothing about. Great section about a young man that pursues a future bride at each of the social levels. I love most of Michener's books.

[Luc]

I got Dracula the Un-dead on ebay for 99 cents. I started reading it. That the official sequel to Dracula by Bram Stoker. Dacre Stoker wrote it with Ian Holt, I won't spoil anything yet but I'm only up to chapter 5...

[tchudson]

Kim Stanley Robinson, Galileo's Dream.

[marvin100]

http://www.mottodistribution.com/shop/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/f/a/fanged_noumena_urbanomic_motto_01.jpg

Nick Land - Fanged Noumena

[kwk285]

Day of Atonement by Kellerman.

[JBagKY]

Just finished Hyperion. Now reading The Fall of Hyperion

I guess they don't have that on Kindle. That is sort of a bummer. My library doesn't have it either. Guess I might be heading to a few book stores and seeing if I can find a paperback copy. Enjoyed the first and look forward to the rest of the story.

[dreadpirate]

Decision Points by George W. Bush; on my Kindle.

[dreadpirate]

I have Hyperion on my Kindle.


I guess they don't have that on Kindle. That is sort of a bummer. My library doesn't have it either. Guess I might be heading to a few book stores and seeing if I can find a paperback copy. Enjoyed the first and look forward to the rest of the story.

[dreadpirate]

OBTW - Have you guys seen the new Kindles the Amazon just came out with? They are due out Nov 15th.

[Laz]

I have Hyperion on my Kindle.

It is The Fall of Hyperion they don't have on the Kindle. They have 3 of the 4 books. Must have pulled the Fall of Hyperion for some reason.

[Laz]

OBTW - Have you guys seen the new Kindles the Amazon just came out with? They are due out Nov 15th.

Yeah, makes me want to upgrade. I want the 3g touch.

[JBagKY]

It is The Fall of Hyperion they don't have on the Kindle. They have 3 of the 4 books. Must have pulled the Fall of Hyperion for some reason.

This. I thought after that I saw all the others on Kindle that I must just be missing it. However, I can't believe that they don't have it. Ugh. Like I said, now I have to search in book stores like its before 2000 or something.


Yeah, makes me want to upgrade. I want the 3g touch.

I sort of do too.

[rearviewmirror]

you guys know you can download Calibre on your computer that will allow you to easily convert books from any format to another?

If you want to 'borrow' my copy of Fall of Hyperion let me know and i'll send you a link when I get home.

[OldAF]

Yeah, makes me want to upgrade. I want the 3g touch.

Just pre-ordered the Touch. No need for 3g.

[kwk285]

I like the new kindles. However since I use it just as a reader my second generation model is doing the job.

[rtb178]

Book of Illusions, Paul Auster

[njpaddy]

Moby Dick on the Kindle. While I'm reading some classics I probably would not have bought otherwise, I still can't read for very long on it.

[jazzman]

Henry VIII by Allison Weir, borrowed from the library for my Nook. I'm just skimming some of the detailed descriptions of the palaces and their furnishings, as well as the parties, but that dude knew how to live!

[JCinPA]

The President, the Pope, And the Prime Minister by John O'Sullivan

[Obiwan]

Born to Run

[rearviewmirror]

just finished The Fall of Hyperion, now reading Endymion

[Miles]

Going through Neil Gaiman's American Gods

I like it so far, but it is very reminiscent of the Sandman series.

[JBagKY]

I just started Ghost in the Wires about Kevin Mitnick, its really good. Also getting ready to start American Gods because I have heard good things about it but have never read it.

[joshmpdx]

Just finished:

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[The Count of Merkur Cristo]

I'm now reading Donald McCaig's novel, "Rhett Butlers People" (http://www.amazon.com/Rhett-Butlers-People-Donald-McCaig/dp/0312262515).

This novel is "fully authorized by the Margaret Mitchell estate, Rhett Butler's People is the astonishing and long-awaited novel that parallels the Great American Novel, "Gone With The Wind". Through the storytelling mastery of award-winning writer Donald McCaig, the life and times of the dashing Rhett Butler unfolds. Through Rhett's eyes we meet the people who shaped his larger than life personality as it sprang from Margaret Mitchell's unforgettable pages: Langston Butler, Rhett's unyielding father; Rosemary his steadfast sister; Tunis Bonneau, Rhett's best friend and a onetime slave; Belle Watling, the woman for whom Rhett cared long before he met Scarlett O'Hara at Twelve Oaks Plantation, on the fateful eve of the Civil War".

http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff318/peprita628/Smilies/ReadingSmiley.gif "Reading is to mind what exercise is to the body. Joseph Addison

[¢orey]

Just started:
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But I cannot wait for teh English version of this (comes out October 25):
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[Wilpar76]

I just bought myself a Kindle about a week ago. I have started diving into the ton of free books before I start purchasing some more recent works.

I am revisiting 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Vern and The Three Muskateers by Alexander Dumas. I read them years ago, but did not make it all the way through either as I was in high school.

[mdevine]

I just bought myself a Kindle about a week ago. I have started diving into the ton of free books before I start purchasing some more recent works.

I am revisiting 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Vern and The Three Muskateers by Alexander Dumas. I read them years ago, but did not make it all the way through either as I was in high school.

Good luck revisiting the classics. In some ways, I think that by "making" me read some books in high school, I didn't appreciate how good many of them were. Largely, it was because I lacked the life experiences to get the full benefit of many of them. Through the years, I've read enough poorly written books to appreciate quality writing when I see it. Jane Austen had much less to offer me as a 16 year old boy than as a 48 year old man. Have fun with the Kindle and don't be afraid to tackle the books that you didn't get through all those years ago.

Mike

[auk1124]

Just finished The Heroes, by Joe Abercrombie. A great military fantasy novel, marred by a terrible ending. I won't go into spoilers for anyone reading Joe Abercrombie from the Sci-Fi thread that is around here somewhere, but I will say that the ending to this book is rushed and is very disappointing. I just slogged through hundreds of pages describing the details of a three-day battle, for an unbelievably convenient and abrupt ending that feels like the author just got tired and said "Screw it, I'm done."

The ending of the First Law series was somewhat lacking as well, but the ending of The Heroes takes the cake. Mr. Abercrombie could be the best thing to happen to sword and sorcery since Robert E. Howard, if he could only figure out how to write a satisfying conclusion to a book.

[Dennard]

The Portable Nietzsche.

[garyg]

"Cold Vengeance" by Preston & Child, latest (?) of the Pendergast series. Regrettably they story doesn't grab me as much as their earlier works, it ends so obviously "Stay Tooned" I likely won't read the next. Sad, but they have turned into a McStarmartharry of fiction ..

Also, just finished a re-read of Uris' "Trinity". No less powerful than when first read in the 70's, as the subsequent bloodshed on all sides of the Irish Trinity illustrate that he was on to something with the title

[garyg]

Good luck revisiting the classics. In some ways, I think that by "making" me read some books in high school, I didn't appreciate how good many of them were. Largely, it was because I lacked the life experiences to get the full benefit of many of them. Through the years, I've read enough poorly written books to appreciate quality writing when I see it. Jane Austen had much less to offer me as a 16 year old boy than as a 48 year old man. Have fun with the Kindle and don't be afraid to tackle the books that you didn't get through all those years ago.

Mike


That is something I've also discovered, some of those must reads from years ago are good, which is why they are still in print eh? Though ol' Jane still eludes me ...

[kwk285]

Lost Empire by Clive Cussler.

[cnnc97]

I am still reading a lot of Stephen King. I finished the Talisman yesterday and started Desperation last night.

[Gissy]

I'm reading Fortuna by the norwegian writer Aleksander Kielland. It's from 1884, but still says so much about society today!

[marvin100]

College app essays. So many college app essays.

[Greenleaf]

Just finished The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson.
good book overall, but weaker last 3rd; too many ideas developped in the book, imo

[Greenleaf]

you can try Anansi Boys afterwards for more of the same.

[jazzman]

Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand. A member of the US 1936 Olympic team becomes a B-24 bombardier, crashes into the Pacific, survives a 2,000-mile life raft journey, and becomes a prisoner of war. Masterfully written.

[Fbones24]

Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand. A member of the US 1936 Olympic team becomes a B-24 bombardier, crashes into the Pacific, survives a 2,000-mile life raft journey, and becomes a prisoner of war. Masterfully written.

Amazing and inspiring book! I read it last year and purchased it as a Christmas gift for more than one person. Can't recommend this one enough!!

I'm currently reading "Bechamp or Pasteur" by Ethel D. Hume. I am fascinated by the cellular theory of illness.

[OldAF]

Finished: Red Rabbit by Tom Clancy. I loved Clancy in the 80s but this is a pale imitation.

Started: At All Costs by David Weber. The Honor Harrington Series is great. Weber does great space opera.

[AlanL]

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

[auk1124]

The Outlaw Josey Wales, aka Gone to Texas, by Forrest Carter.

[jcocucci]

2666 by Roberto Bolano. A masterpiece.

[marvin100]

2666 by Roberto Bolano. A masterpiece.

Yes. So, so good.

[JCinPA]

After America by Mark Steyn. Depressing.

[tchudson]

The Templar Legacy - Steve Berry

[TonyH]

After a trip to NYC and seeing the show on Broadway, The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leraux.

[TonyH]

Just finished:

http://ncowie.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/open_cover.jpg

What did you think? I got that as a Christmas gift last year and really enjoyed it. Agassi was probably my number 2 sports hero growing up, just behind McEnroe.

[Greenleaf]

on to Witches Abroad by Pratchett

[xillion]

REAMDE by Neal Stephenson.

[johnniegold]

Just finished J.D. Salinger's The Catcher In The Rye.

[mdevine]

REAMDE by Neal Stephenson.

How is this one, Chris? It is on my short list as I've really enjoyed his other books.

[Devilpup]

I'm reading Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick. It's the story of the whaleship Essex, the basis of the book Moby Dick. It's defiantly a good read and one of the few true page turners I've been assigned for school.

[Greenleaf]

REAMDE by Neal Stephenson.
the read of the month for "Swords and Lasers" Goodreads reading group :)
discussions there http://www.goodreads.com/topic/group_folder/94306?group_id=4170 and on their podcast http://www.swordandlaser.com/

[Dennard]

Just finished J.D. Salinger's The Catcher In The Rye.

Salinger is one of my favorite writers.

[Obiwan]

Born to Run

[joshmpdx]

What did you think? I got that as a Christmas gift last year and really enjoyed it. Agassi was probably my number 2 sports hero growing up, just behind McEnroe.

I loved it. The way it was written by the ghost author was really well done. It's a great story, with lots of thinking points. Especially being a tennis fan!

[Legion]

Pay It Forward by Catherine Ryan Hyde.

It is the book where the term PIF came from.

[Rushman2112]

Just picked up the new Lee Child and trying to wait until I go on holiday in 10 days (13 hours 30 mins and counting) to start it. In the meantime marking time by re-reading some Steven Saylor short stories in "A Gladiator Dies Only Once".

[marvin100]

Pay It Forward by Catherine Ryan Hyde.

It is the book where the term PIF came from.

Not exactly...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay_it_forward#cite_note-1

[Legion]

Not exactly...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay_it_forward#cite_note-1
Ah, thanks for the background info.

[TonyH]

Just got the Exorcist by William Peter Blatty for my Kindle. Events of the last 24 hrs inspired me. Let's just say that SWMBO had a reaction to some medicine and leave it at that.

[infotech]

Tom Sawyer and Huck Fin. I wanted some light reading and realized I haven't read the unabridged versions of either of them.

[barneykiller]

Around the World in 80 Days! free on my kindle app on my phone. Classics FTW

[tchudson]

Wildland Fire Chain Saws.

[blary54]

Currently reading Money Ball So far pretty good.

[mdevine]

Pay It Forward by Catherine Ryan Hyde.

It is the book where the term PIF came from.

When I started medical school at Ohio State in 1982, our invocation speech was given by Woody Hayes. His "Pay it Forward" speech remains the most memorable talk I've ever heard. I have a poster over the door into my sun room with this saying and Woody on it and try to follow what it says.

[Samurai-5]

"The way to Dusty Death" by Alistair MacLean

[VGA Ubersoldat]

I have been doing a ton of reading over the past year since I got myself a nook for xmas last year.
Just a list of what have read and reread so far this year:
Not in any order.

Writing to be Understood by G. Allen Clark.
Immediate Fiction by Jerry Cleaver.
Sharp Writing by Kaplan.
The Fire in Fiction by Donald Maass.
Writers Write by William Meikle.
Write Good or Die by Scott Nicholson.
The Storyteller's Art by Francis Porretto.
The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins (currently reading).
Legacy Trilogy Series by Ian Douglas.
What You Can Learn From Ronald Reagan by The Editors of New Word City.
Loneliness by John T. Cacioppo.
The New Evolution Diet by Arthur De Vany.
The Dukan Diet by Pierre Dukan.
The Primal Blueprint by Mark Sisson.
The Vang Trilogy by Christopher Rowley.
Empire from the Ashes Trilogy by David Weber.
1632 by Eric Flint.
Ghost by John Ringo.
Lots of The Executioner books by Don Pendleton.
Inherit the Stars and The Gentle Giants of Ganymede by James P. Hogan.
The Apocalypse Troll by David Weber.
Lots and lots of free ebooks assorted topics.

[Born&razed]

I've been reading a lot of rock autobiographies lately
Slash - Slash
Heroin Diaries - Nikki Sixx
My Appetite For Destruction - Steven Adler

[Gissy]

I've been reading a lot of rock autobiographies lately
Slash - Slash
Heroin Diaries - Nikki Sixx
My Appetite For Destruction - Steven Adler

The Heroin Diaries is so great!

[njpaddy]

I've been reading a lot of rock autobiographies lately
I hope to finally start Pogue Mahone/Kiss My Arse: The Story of the Pogues next week.

[jcm2012]

Been trying to read more lately. Blasting through High Fidelity by Nick Hornby the past couple days. Enjoying it very much.

[Born&razed]

The Heroin Diaries is so great!

Yeah fantastic book starting on The Dirt soon the motley crue autobiography

[Gissy]

Yeah fantastic book starting on The Dirt soon the motley crue autobiography

The Dirt is cool, but much more tabloid and about shock value. It's still a good read IMHO. Have you read "White Line Fever"? The autobiography by Lemmy from Mötorhead? I'm not a big fan of the band, but a great book. "Hell Bent for Leather" is also a great rock'n roll book, a story about a metalhead in the 80's. Written in a very funny way.

[njpaddy]

Needed something quick and light just to keep me occupied and out of everyone's way for short periods the last two nights so I re-read "Day by Day Armageddon". Not bad for zombie fiction, but basically the book equivalent of eating a Twinkie.

[dirkstruan]

I have to read at least fifty pages of history books each day for school (or at least average as much), but each night I'm reading a short story from Ray Bradbury's The October Country.

Just got 1Q84 and I can hardly wait until the semester ends to dig in.

[Born&razed]

Have you read "White Line Fever"? The autobiography by Lemmy from Mötorhead? I'm not a big fan of the band, but a great book. "Hell Bent for Leather" is also a great rock'n roll book, a story about a metalhead in the 80's. Written in a very funny way.
no ill have to find them ozzys autobiography is a good read too

[Gissy]

no ill have to find them ozzys autobiography is a good read too

I have to track that down!

[stuart12dz]

"The Bourne Dominion"

[tchudson]

The Snowman by Jo Nesbo.

[Gissy]

The Snowman by Jo Nesbo.

He really have made it, good and exiting books.

[The Count of Merkur Cristo]

I'm now reading "Fail-safe" by Eugene Burdick & Harvey Wheeler. As the story goes..;

"Something has gone wrong. A group of American bombers armed with nuclear weapons is streaking past the fail-safe point, beyond recall, and no one knows why. Their destination -- Moscow.

In a bomb shelter beneath the White House, the calm young president turns to his Russian translator and says, "I think we are ready to talk to Premier Kruschchev." Not far away, in the War Room at the Pentagon, the secretary of defense and his aides watch with growing anxiety as the luminous blips crawl across a huge screen map. High over the Bering Strait in a large Vindicator bomber, a colonel stares in disbelief at the attack code number on his fail-safe box and wonders if it could possibly be a mistake.

First published in 1962, when America was still reeling from the Cuban missle crisis, Fail-Safe reflects the apocalyptic attitude that pervaded society during the height of the Cold War, when disaster could have struck at any moment. As more countries develop nuclear capabilities and the potential for new enemies lurks on the horizon, Fail-Safe and its powerful issues continue to respond".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fail-Safe_(novel)

http://www.therobotspajamas.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/failsafenovel-196x300.jpg

http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff318/peprita628/Smilies/ReadingSmiley.gif "Reading is to mind what exercise is to the body. Joseph Addison

[mparker762]

Marne, 1914, by Holger Herwig. History of the start of WW1 through the first battle of the Marne, using some new German documents that became available after unification. Also it's by a German, so he's got a bit different take on the whole thing (think southern take on Gettysburg, as Marne was the turning point of WW1 for the Germans as Gettysburg was for the WBTS, it just took them longer to finally lose than it did the south after Gettysburg). Very interesting interpretation.

[Golden Child]

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Quite a good read, I recommend.

[marvin100]

Seconded. Great book.

I'm still reading college app essays. Early Decision deadline rapidly approaches...

[Edcculus]

I'm now on A Feast For Crows, book 4 of the A Song of Ice and Fire series. Not sure how I made it through A Storm of Swords after the Red Wedding chapter. That was an extremely tough read. Much worse than Ned's death in A Game of Thrones, or even Renly in A Clash of Kings. I was also pretty sad to see The Old Bear go. At least he made up for it by offing that little jerk Joffery!

[infotech]

To Have and Have Not. One of Hemingway's I never got to.

[hitemfrank]

I've started rereading The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson. The movie is out next week over here so I may check it out.

[njpaddy]

Trying to finish Pogue Mahone Kiss My Arse:The Story of The Pogues before Stephen King's new book comes out.

[Picaro]

Just finished Hideaway- Dean Koontz...my "smoko break " book between books.

Just started New York- Edward Rutherfurd

[garyg]

Finished The Snowman by Nesbo, pretty good though like most translated works it takes a while to get the lingo right .. I've ordered more from the library but all of his are loaned or on hold so twill be a while. Started Lewis' Main Street, as penance for the Cliffs Notes period I am re-reading a classic every other book.

[Kilgore13]

Just finished The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson. Great memoir about life in the heartland in the 1950s. Very funny stuff. Just started A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers, and am excited to get into the meat of it. Happy reading!

[marvin100]

Just started A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers, and am excited to get into the meat of it. Happy reading!

The first 100 pages or so are amazing, but it collapses after that, imo. Well worth it for that start alone--totally virtuosic, sui generis style on display there. No mystery why it was nominated for a National Book Award.

[kwk285]

The Sixth Man

[Darth Indiana]

The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe.

and yes, i do know where it is.

[Bigsurprise]

The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe.

and yes, i do know where it is.

You're kidding? I just finished that today and I am now on "So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish". Great series. This is my first time through.

[wilsonent]

Finishing up the third part of The Strain Trilogy.

Jeff

[marvin100]

Occupy Wall Street Gazette #1 (http://www.scribd.com/doc/70036769/OWS-Gazette-1) (brought to us by N+1 magazine)

[Mink]

I just finished "Cloud Atlas" by David Mitchell. It was very cleverly crafted and parts of it were very good - especially the parts in Korea. I would never recommend this book to anyone. It was so tedious that reading it took weeks and felt like an ordeal. The guys who did the Matrix movies are making a movie of this book, and it has a stellar cast, but they will need to do something special to keep it moving.

[cnnc97]

On the way to work this morning I finished The Devil in the White City. It wasn't quite what I was expecting, but it was ok, got a little bogged down with details on building the World's Fair at times.

[njpaddy]

11/22/63, Stephen King's new book. Loved King in the '70's & 80's, but gave up on him in the early '90's. The Kennedy assassination hook in his new book was too hard to pass up as I was in high school back then.

[Argonaut]

"Farewell to Arms"

[goatee]

i am not a big fan of reading..... at all!! but a book was recommended to me today and i think i may go buy it.
the name of the book is
ATLAS SHRUGGED

[Laz]

11/22/63, Stephen King's new book. Loved King in the '70's & 80's, but gave up on him in the early '90's. The Kennedy assassination hook in his new book was too hard to pass up as I was in high school back then.

I am interested that that one as well - Let us know, if you like it>

[marvin100]

i am not a big fan of reading..... at all!! but a book was recommended to me today and i think i may go buy it.
the name of the book is
ATLAS SHRUGGED

Just be aware that Rand's "philosophy" is a very big and controversial subject. AS, like her other books, it has a pretty fun little soap opera at its heart, but it can be hard to spot amid the pontificating about self-reliance and the evils of government intervention in the all-knowing market.

[riveragolden]

I hate reading....I just read harry potter a long time back..But for many years I don't even read a single book...I don't like this type of sensible things..

[hotreds]

Beyond Shock and Awe: Warfare in the 21st Century by Eric L. Haney

[cnnc97]

11/22/63, Stephen King's new book. Loved King in the '70's & 80's, but gave up on him in the early '90's. The Kennedy assassination hook in his new book was too hard to pass up as I was in high school back then.

I'm interested in your thoughts on this one as well. I have it on request at the library, probably be a month before I can get it.

You said you gave up on King in the 90's, have you read The Dark Tower series? I hadn't read King in a long time until I started the series last winter. I read all 7 books in a few months and thought it was really good. The Gunslinger is a little hard to get through, but it picks up from there.

[Luc]

I was given a hard cover version of Dracula by Bram Stoker last week so I am now re-reading this classic. I finished the introductions and the version I got has even an interview that Bram Stoker did with Winston Churchill in 1902 or 1909... Should be good!

[kroberts]

The Reivers by William Faulkner. Also doing a reread of the Robert Jordan Wheel of Time series, while mixing in a few Terry Pratchett novel rereads as well.

[njpaddy]

I'm interested in your thoughts on this one as well. I have it on request at the library, probably be a month before I can get it.

You said you gave up on King in the 90's, have you read The Dark Tower series? I hadn't read King in a long time until I started the series last winter. I read all 7 books in a few months and thought it was really good. The Gunslinger is a little hard to get through, but it picks up from there.

Re: 11/23/63. About 200 pages in, but got sidetracked with a home project and starting to lose interest. King grabs you early like he usually does, but he's starting to overdue the 1958 product and advertising references (like name dropping of cigarette brands, sodas, Aqua Velva and everything else you would have seen or heard back then). I'm a little older than King so it was fun for awhile but it's becoming a distraction. I need to sit down tomorrow and knock out a good chunk to get back into the story.

I think I made it through the first 4 Dark Tower books before I lost interest. I liked the first one the best. I have a 2nd ed of the Donald Grant Limited of The Gunslinger and 1st Grant editions of the 3 that followed. I had a King AD that finally faded in the late 80's.

[Trajan]

At the moment I'm tackling Walden Pond by H.D. Thoreau. It's tough sledding because he moves from topic to topic so subtly, the narrative is chock-full of early 19th century jargon/slang, and it reads as if he included everything that popped in to his head as he was writing. Don't get me wrong, I find his thoughts and ideas revolutionary as well as fulfilling, but it's not an easy, quick read. Does anyone have a different take on it?

[Laz]

It has been a while since I have posted, so I will try to make a quick list here:

Firestarter by Stephen King
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie
The Harcombe Diet by Zoe Harcombe
20 Diet Myths by Zoe Harcombe
The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron
Living Close to God by Gene Edwards
If you enjoy young adult The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian is a great read.

I am still working my way through
A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge and I just started In Season by Wayne Jacobsen.

[cnnc97]

Re: 11/23/63. About 200 pages in, but got sidetracked with a home project and starting to lose interest. King grabs you early like he usually does, but he's starting to overdue the 1958 product and advertising references (like name dropping of cigarette brands, sodas, Aqua Velva and everything else you would have seen or heard back then). I'm a little older than King so it was fun for awhile but it's becoming a distraction. I need to sit down tomorrow and knock out a good chunk to get back into the story.

I think I made it through the first 4 Dark Tower books before I lost interest. I liked the first one the best. I have a 2nd ed of the Donald Grant Limited of The Gunslinger and 1st Grant editions of the 3 that followed. I had a King AD that finally faded in the late 80's.

The last 3 DT books are pretty good, you should try them some time.

[Dennard]

At the moment I'm tackling Walden Pond by H.D. Thoreau. It's tough sledding because he moves from topic to topic so subtly, the narrative is chock-full of early 19th century jargon/slang, and it reads as if he included everything that popped in to his head as he was writing. Don't get me wrong, I find his thoughts and ideas revolutionary as well as fulfilling, but it's not an easy, quick read. Does anyone have a different take on it?

I love Thoreau and all the Transcendentalists.

[ustacood]

Recently, Cutting for Stone and I can't say enough good about it.

[echotron]

I'm reading the Obituaries ... Nope! I'm good! :thumbup:

[Samurai-5]

Ice Station Zebra (Much better than the movie if you can believe it!)

[garyg]

Ice Station Zebra (Much better than the movie if you can believe it!)

When was a movie ("produced" after the book) ever better than a book? I know this is a book thread, but come on, I'd like to hear just one where the movie transcended the book (I am assuming basic literacy here)

[Picaro]

When was a movie ("produced" after the book) ever better than a book? I know this is a book thread, but come on, I'd like to hear just one where the movie transcended the book (I am assuming basic literacy here)

Iron Man !! Dude where you been? :w00t: Do I win a Gel strip uber razor or something ?

[OldAF]

When was a movie ("produced" after the book) ever better than a book? I know this is a book thread, but come on, I'd like to hear just one where the movie transcended the book (I am assuming basic literacy here)

The Godfather

[garyg]

Iron Man !! Dude where you been? :w00t: Do I win a Gel strip uber razor or something ?

Of course, how could I forget, remind me of your address Rob & I'll send the prize right down there.

[garyg]

The Godfather

Reasonable men might disagree, but Godfather the movie might be close to as good as the book, but not overwhelmingly so. So now we have two, I'm sure Superman and Batman are just over the horizon as well ..

Back on track, just took Abuse of Power by Michael Savage back to the library, the political whining on nearly every other page made it unreadable, at least as fiction. I picked it off the NY Times Best Seller list, it will likely make a crappy movie as the characters stop mid-action to deliver a political soliloquy ..

[njpaddy]

Finally finished SK's 11/22/63 and it was no easy task. In a word...bloated. I now remember why I stopped reading him in the early '90's. It might have been good had it been 450 pages shorter (or even better yet, a novella) and if the whole Kennedy plot line had been left out. The intertwined love story was far more interesting than the whole Kennedy plot.

[The Count of Merkur Cristo]

Now, I'm reading Ian Flemings James Bond novels;

Dr. No

The Man with the Golden Gun

Casino Royale

From Russia with Love

http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff318/peprita628/Smilies/ReadingSmiley.gif "The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn the more places you'll go.” Dr. Seuss

[njpaddy]

Killing Floor - Lee Child.

Back to the Kindle for this one after several real books. Not crazy about the Kindle, but it's easier on my eyes than a paperback and easier to hold than King's latest monstrosity.

[jazzman]

It has been many years since I could honestly say that a book changed my life, but Younger Next Year by Chris Crowley and Henry S. Lodge, M.D., has done so. It blends recent scientific knowledge with real-life examples to explain why the things we've always known about health are true: Don't eat crap; exercise in a very serious way (considering your current level of health) at least 6 times a week, and don't try to lose weight because that will happen if you do the first two things. Something about the explanations just clicked for me, and I haven't felt this good in years.

[njpaddy]

Finally found a book I enjoyed reading on the Kindle, Lee Child's Killing Floor (the first Jack Reacher book). Apparently mindless, fast reads are made for the Kindle. Have now downloaded #2, Die Trying. Junk food for the brain.

[Moondancer]

My taste in reading runs toward entertainment, so...
Dead of Night - A Zombie Novel by Jonathon Maberry.

[themiz]

i am reading Bram Stoker's Dracula.....

[Legion]

I just finished reading The Ice Man, a biography of mob hitman Richard Kuklinski.

I've just started to read Catcher in the Rye again.

[LOSTHSV]

Just finished Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five and now reading Le Carre's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. Richard Adams' Watership Down is next. With my son, we're reading The Phantom Tollbooth which is a great "kids" book.

[marvin100]

The Phantom Tollbooth is great. A real classic. So much zany wordplay, it's even fun for adults.

I'm reading Eichtzeitmusik Berlin: self-defining a scene (http://www.burkhardbeins.de/releases/ezm.html).

[King of Kailua]

Finishing up Fire (http://www.librarything.com/work/book/74281743), by Sebatian Junger (http://www.librarything.com/author/jungersebastian), the author that wrote The Perfect Storm. Fire is an easy, fluid read. A collection of essays about areas of conflict. Many interesting stories about heavy places and people. Whale hunting, forest fires, Kashmir, Kosovo, Cyprus, etc.

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[auk1124]

About a third of the way into The Forever War by Joe Haldeman. A page from the Starship Troopers playbook, with lots of casual sex amongst the co-ed soldiers sprinkled in. It must have been hip or controversial to portray sexual relations in this manner back in the time this book was written (I remember Heinlein threw a lot of promiscuous sex into some of his books as well), but in today's world of Hepatitis C and HIV, it seems dated, and kinda gross.

So far this story is not living up to its hype and I'm not impressed.

[Badger & Bengall]

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[Badger & Bengall]

I was given a hard cover version of Dracula by Bram Stoker last week so I am now re-reading this classic. I finished the introductions and the version I got has even an interview that Bram Stoker did with Winston Churchill in 1902 or 1909... Should be good!

I re-read that only recently. The version I have doesn't have that interview; please let us know all about it!

[camjr]

Hemingway's Old Man and the Sea for about the 20th time. Before the time of iPods, iPads, Kindle's etc., I would carry this little paperback in my briefcase when travelling in the event I was stuck in an airport. I put it away about 5 years ago and recently ran across it again while looking through my shelves for a different book. I knocked off most of it last night, and will finish it up this evening. I discover something new each time I read it. Evidence that a literary masterpiece doesn't need to be 500+ pages.

Cheers!

[garyg]

Hemingway's Old Man and the Sea for about the 20th time. Before the time of iPods, iPads, Kindle's etc., I would carry this little paperback in my briefcase when travelling in the event I was stuck in an airport. I put it away about 5 years ago and recently ran across it again while looking through my shelves for a different book. I knocked off most of it last night, and will finish it up this evening. I discover something new each time I read it. Evidence that a literary masterpiece doesn't need to be 500+ pages.

Cheers!

That is one great one - the measure of a book should be that it can be read multiple times over decades, by many generations, and still resound. And, not have ever been made for TeeVee. I just took back Jeff Shaara's "Final Storm", a very very good story but a notch below Papa's ..

Starting

[hotreds]

Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025? by Pat Buchanan

[ThePatrician]

I have also been reading a little Sherlock Holmes spattered throughout my normal reading.

Sherlock Holmes is TERRIFIC. The Batman Handbook suggests reading and owning his entire library, and just as a classic lit. fan it's not a bad idea either.

I have a few Scarlet Pimpernel books to read, then The Brewmaster's Table, and finally a biography of Genghis Khan. I also have Savage Tales of Solomon Kane to read. Hopefully after that I will be able to focus enough to read Omnivore's Dilemma.

[brucea]

In the process of reading every book written by Nelson Demille. Right now half through Word of Honor

[DamnFineBob]

I'm about 2/3rds through Jules Verne's "Master of the World." Its pretty good, but has many similarities to his more popular work, "10000 Leagues Under the Sea," and I dare say the latter is the better of the two.

[AndreasDK]

Run for life By Rikke Rønholt

[AndreasDK]

Enjoy!


Hemingway's Old Man and the Sea for about the 20th time. Before the time of iPods, iPads, Kindle's etc., I would carry this little paperback in my briefcase when travelling in the event I was stuck in an airport. I put it away about 5 years ago and recently ran across it again while looking through my shelves for a different book. I knocked off most of it last night, and will finish it up this evening. I discover something new each time I read it. Evidence that a literary masterpiece doesn't need to be 500+ pages.

Cheers!

[Obsessed]

The Phantom Tollbooth is great. A real classic. So much zany wordplay, it's even fun for adults.

Ah, Dictionopolis and Digitopolos. I may have to get that to read with my kids.

[njpaddy]

Reading some free ones on the Kindle this week. Finished Island of Dr Moreau and started Dracula.

[Legion]

Wait until spring, Bandini by John Fante.

[BigRich]

The Night Gardener by George Pelecanos.

[xXClockwork]

Desiring God by John Piper.

[njpaddy]

I was given a hard cover version of Dracula by Bram Stoker last week so I am now re-reading this classic. I finished the introductions and the version I got has even an interview that Bram Stoker did with Winston Churchill in 1902 or 1909... Should be good!

Luc, which hardcover version do you have? I'm finding the Kindle version very annoying and looking for a print version. I went on Amazon, but they don't separate their reviews by edition.

[njpaddy]

The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love and the History of the World from The Periodic Table Of The Elements (http://samkean.com/disappearing-spoon) by Sam Kean. If I had read this book 50 years ago, I might have done a lot better in high school chemistry. It's quite entertaining considering the subject matter. Who wouldn't want to find out things like Why did Gandhi hate iodine or why did the Japanese kill Godzilla with missiles made of cadmium? The intro kicks off talking about playing with mercury from broken thermometers, something I can remember doing as a kid.

[themiz]

The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas (http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_1?_encoding=UTF8&sort=relevancerank&search-alias=books&ie=UTF8&field-author=Alexandre%20Dumas%20p%C3%A8re) 205716

[OldAF]

Doc: A Novel on my Kindle.

[inkcoffee]

White Noise

[njpaddy]

DRACULA. Couldn't go on reading the Kindle free version so I ordered this hardcover edition (http://www.fourcornersbooks.co.uk/Dracula.html). A beautiful book that reminds me of the Stephen King Limited Editions that I used to buy. Interesting that they can sell a book this well made for $20 when most hardcover books with crap binding and paper are only a couple of dollars cheaper.

[noahpictures]

It has been many years since I could honestly say that a book changed my life, but Younger Next Year by Chris Crowley and Henry S. Lodge, M.D., has done so. It blends recent scientific knowledge with real-life examples to explain why the things we've always known about health are true: Don't eat crap; exercise in a very serious way (considering your current level of health) at least 6 times a week, and don't try to lose weight because that will happen if you do the first two things. Something about the explanations just clicked for me, and I haven't felt this good in years.

Right on! Thanks for sharing.

Began reading Happier by Ben-Shahar.

[Dennard]

Gods In Alabama by Joshliyn Jackson.

[Altair]

World War Z

[Laz]

World War Z

I am interested in reading this one as well - Let us know how it is.

[Greglam]

Darwin's Black Box by Dr. Michael Behe

[tommyguns]

reading the third book of the "city" trilogy first two i liked but this third one is just tough to get through for some reason........

[tommyguns]

World War Z

good book i just have a problem with brooks the guy bugs me for some reason, i dont think if it were for his dad people would not take him so serious. I read the survival guide and i think after that i kind of said meh to him...

[rAZor]

Hell at the Breech​ by Thomas Franklin

[Schick_Fan]

Carte Blanche - Jeffery Deaver

The newest of the 007 series, and so far quite a good read. I never liked Ian Fleming's writing style and thus never read any of the earlier Bond series. I do hope that Deaver writes some more 007 books.

[The Count of Merkur Cristo]

I'm now reading Robert K. Massie's "Nicholas and Alexandra" which tells the story of the intimate account of the last of the Romanovs and the fall of Imperial Russia.


http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-AW0x1pWMS6Q/TdTk2UymZPI/AAAAAAAAANg/2UsfFMmbrw0/s1600/RUS69.jpg


http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff318/peprita628/Smilies/ReadingSmiley.gif "Reading is to mind what exercise is to the body". Joseph Addison

[jazzman]

Thunderstruck by Erik Larson, author of Devil in the White City.

[njpaddy]

THE FIFTIES by David Halberstam.

[doug1066]

I'm now reading Robert K. Massie's "Nicholas and Alexandra" which tells the story of the intimate account of the last of the Romanovs and the fall of Imperial Russia.


http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-AW0x1pWMS6Q/TdTk2UymZPI/AAAAAAAAANg/2UsfFMmbrw0/s1600/RUS69.jpg


http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff318/peprita628/Smilies/ReadingSmiley.gif "Reading is to mind what exercise is to the body". Joseph Addison

Excellent book!

I am reading The Outline of History by H.G. Wells.

207962

[mdevine]

This past week, I was on vacation and finished book three of the First Law series, Last Argument of Kings by Joe Abercrombie. It's a great series and the Bloody Nine is one of the more interesting characters I've come across in the fantasy genre. After that, I breezed through Ernest Cline's Ready Player One. It is a future tale of the hunt for an Easter Egg in a massive on-line world. The prize is the fortune of the video game developer who created it. Before he died, he was a huge fan of everything related to the 1980s. Any sc-fi fan will enjoy it. However, fans of RPGs and 1980s trivia (video games, music, movies, comics and books) will really love it. I haven't noticed a post on B&B about the book and I think there are many here who find it appealing. I found it through Amazon's recommendations where it had excellent reviews.

[joshmpdx]

After the first 100 pages, I'm really enjoying the new Steve Martin Book:

209801

[TenorClef]

The House of Silk: The New Sherlock Holmes Novel by Anthony Horowitz

[Bigsurprise]

World War Z

I really liked that one. I am a zombie freak though.

I am finishing up Mostly Harmless. So far, it is hard to believe it is the last book in the series.

[colaim]

The last books I read were the Millennium trilogy by Stieg Larsson, and that was last summer. Since then, it's been nothing but bloody textbooks. Can't wait til I can read for pleasure again!

[mdevine]

I'm currently a quarter of the way through John Ringo's There Will Be Dragons​. It is offered as a free ebook from Baen Books web site.

[garyg]

The Magnificant Ambersons, Booth Tarkington. Not sure anyone at B&B is old enough to appreciate that one, Tried just before that "The Finkler Question", and that fell dead

[johnnyxxl]

starting the Game Of Thrones

[hotreds]

After America: Get Ready for Armageddon by Mark Steyn

[jazzman]

1493 by Charles C. Mann. I really enjoyed his last book, 1491, and this appears to be just as good, through the first 125 pages.

[saltypete]

Just purchased an iPad and am exploring the world of ebooks. I found a free app called FreeBooks which offers downloads of thousands of classic books for nothing. I have been reading the work of H P Lovecraft. Just finished The Whisperer in the Darkness and have started The Call of Cthulu.

Pete

[JM]

The Trial of Job by Silas Durand.

[coyotewhisper]

Each morning I am Tony Dungy's "Uncommon Life Daily Challenge". It is a devotion to bring my walk with Christ closer.
I am also reading Elizabeth George, " What Came Before He Shot Her".

[xXClockwork]

The Holiness of God by R.C. Sproul.

[JM]

Jesse, that's the classic. The chapter on Luther was amazing.

@johnnyxxl, Game of Thrones is on my list.

[xXClockwork]

Jesse, that's the classic. The chapter on Luther was amazing.

@johnnyxxl, Game of Thrones is on my list.
It's so good. Only about 50 pages in so far, but it's already wonderful. He's such a good writer, and is great at building his points around scripture.

[mdevine]

Just purchased an iPad and am exploring the world of ebooks. I found a free app called FreeBooks which offers downloads of thousands of classic books for nothing. I have been reading the work of H P Lovecraft. Just finished The Whisperer in the Darkness and have started The Call of Cthulu.

Pete

Baen books web site offers a host of free sci-fi books. Often, they are the first of a series but not always. Because they offer this, if a book is for sale both there and at other on-line sites, I will purchase it from them. I think I read that the authors make out better when bought from them.

[Lamb Root]

The Bad Girl: A Novel by Mario Vargas Llosa

[Bowhnter]

Just finished these below throughout Dec to yesterday and starting Takedown by Brad Thor tomorrow.
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[Madhighlander]

Open season by C J Box.
I am about a quarter of the way through and I am really enjoying it.

[garyg]

Open season by C J Box.
I am about a quarter of the way through and I am really enjoying it.

The Joe Pickett books are very good!

I'm at page 400 or so of Gone With the Wind

[Madhighlander]

The Joe Pickett books are very good!

I'm at page 400 or so of Gone With the Wind

I will have to get the rest of the series.Amazon kept on recommending it to me so I thought I would give it a try,glad i did now.

[garyg]

I will have to get the rest of the series.Amazon kept on recommending it to me so I thought I would give it a try,glad i did now.

I'm working through the Pickett books (through Out of Range so far) , I found them similar to a couple other series about so-called "woods cops" .. Joseph Heywood's UP series is my favorite, followed closely by Wm. Kent Kruger's tales of northern Minnesota. When I get through another 400 pages of Margaret Mitchell I'll be ready for some of those probably.

[breadstick]

Fated by S.G. Brown. I loved Breathers: A Zombie's Lament by him and this one isn't disappointing at all.

[TonyH]

The Hunger Games. So far, it's awful.

[Landri]

Duino Elegies and the Sonnets to Orpheus, Rainer Maria Rilke

[Laz]

The Hunger Games. So far, it's awful.

That's a bummer - I was looking forward to reading it before the movie is released.

[Kal-el]

That's a bummer - I was looking forward to reading it before the movie is released.

Next time you're in a book store pick it up and read the first page. I knew within about fifteen seconds that it was not the book for me.

[TonyH]

That's a bummer - I was looking forward to reading it before the movie is released.


Next time you're in a book store pick it up and read the first page. I knew within about fifteen seconds that it was not the book for me.

I gave up. I read the first 100 pages or so, and it only seemed to get worse and worse.

I moved on and read First Blood last night. I'll be reading The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy this week before I have to start classes again next Wednesday.

[Earcutter]

GMAT for Dummies ... sigh.

[Angry__Panda]

I will be reading every work by Neil Gaimen this year. He is one of my favorite authors (regardless of what age range he is writing for).

But before I start that I am reading Damned by Chuck Palahniuk. Good book, great description of hell lol. Ready for the action to start but I enjoy his writing style so I'll probably finish it in the next couple of days.

I also have a copy of Machine Man by Max Barry waiting to be read.

[Legion]

I gave up. I read the first 100 pages or so, and it only seemed to get worse and worse.

I moved on and read First Blood last night. I'll be reading The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy this week before I have to start classes again next Wednesday.

I read that recently. The ending was a bit different to the movie, hey?

[TonyH]

I read that recently. The ending was a bit different to the movie, hey?

Significantly different - and better, IMHO. As much as I love the movies, the book is so much more effective because you really get into the motivations of the characters. The film was basically a chase involving a couple of caricatures. The way I see it, the book couldn't end any other way.

[Laz]

First Blood was a great book. The author David Morrell also did one of the audio commentaries on the DVD of the movie. I am usually disappointed by many of the audio commentaries that I listen to, and although I can't remember any of the details, I enjoyed his quite a bit.

[noelekal]

I'm finishing up "Addison's Essays" by Joseph Addison of "Tatler" and "Spectator" fame. There is nothing new under the sun, as is proved in some of his political essays written 300 years ago.

Also into "The Memoirs of Field-Marshal The Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, K.G." An autobiography that is just a bit self-indulgent. Worth reading for the picture it paints of Montgomery as an arrogant commander who flirted with insubordination to Eisenhower. If I'd have been Eisenhower I'd have canned him. Monty needed to be canned but politics probably wouldn't allow it and he knew it. A legend in his own mind, Monty's not much different than many whom we've all encountered in life.

I'm still trying to chew through Plutarch. It's an unedited version and I'll probably chew at it for life.

[JoshuaNY]

Hey everyone,
I did not like reading as a child. In college I was bored one day and picked up my roomates copy of Talon of the Silver Hawk. Since that day I have devoured books. Fantasy is my genre of choice, but I have been known to read other forms of fiction as well.

I am an avid reader and thought it would be fun to discuss the books we are reading.
I recently finished the Harry Dresden Series by Jim Butcher and thought I would try his fantasy series Codex Alegra. I am now reading Captains Fury. They are not as good as the Dresdens books, but I am still enjoying them.

What are you guys reading?

[tommyguns]

darren shan's the city trilogy i used to read some of his book when i was younger and liked them then he started writing more adult books and now..... not as much i am struggling to get through the last book but i have to because it is the last one lol

[tchudson]

Re-reading Band of Brothers by Stephen Ambrose.

[SiBurning]

I was never a big reader of fiction. Maybe read 40 books total. A few years ago, I started reading old horror short stories, and haven't stopped.
Currently reading one of the Weird Tales anthologies, Ghosts for Christmas (ed. Richard Dalby), and a collection of 6 Agatha Christie novels.

[bluetip84]

Just finished reading George RR Martins Game of thrones series for the second time. And started to read Jack Whytes The Camulod Chronicles (again). It is a fantastic historical fiction series that I would recommend to anyone.Also Over the wine dark sea by H.N Turteltaub is another great book. Its a historical adventure about some merchants and their travels during the roman times.

[jones2289]

Just finished Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. It was a great book; highly recommended to anyone who likes fantasy, video games, futuristic books, etc.

[oc_in_fw]

"Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy", "Dead or Alive" Tom Clancy, "Origin of Species" Darwin, and re-reading "The Brothers Karamazov"

[airmech]

Umberto Eco - "Prague Cemetery"

Tom

[vertelselaar]

I always enjoyed reading. I collected something like a library over the years. At the moment I'm finishing off "Vermilion sands" by J.G. Ballard.
At the moment I prefer weird fiction, ancient ghost stories and cyberpunk.

[DeaconKC]

Just finished Clive Cussler's The Race, very fun read and a biography Black Gun, Silver Star.

[JM]

From Here to Eternity by Jones