What are you reading?...Part 2 [Archive]

A.J.

10-20-2005, 04:28 AM

Well, I remember there was a "what are you reading thread" a while ago, but it had gotten pretty long and cumbersome...and i'm too lazy to look for it...SLACKER.Actually, this is more like Part VI.  Here are previous threads for your reading pleasure:<a href="http://www.ronfez.net/messageboard/viewmessages.cfm/Forum/80/Topic/40792/page/What_are_you_reading_now_.htm">http://www.ronfez.net/messageboard/viewmessages.cfm/Forum/80/Topic/40792/page/What_are_you_reading_now_.htm</a>   <a href="http://www.ronfez.net/messageboard/viewmessages.cfm/Forum/80/Topic/31594/page/So_what_are_you_reading_.htm">http://www.ronfez.net/messageboard/viewmessages.cfm/Forum/80/Topic/31594/page/So_what_are_you_reading_.htm</a>   <a href="http://www.ronfez.net/messageboard/viewmessages.cfm/Forum/80/Topic/20891/page/What_Are_You_Reading_.htm">http://www.ronfez.net/messageboard/viewmessages.cfm/Forum/80/Topic/20891/page/What_Are_You_Reading_.htm</a>   <a href="http://www.ronfez.net/messageboard/viewmessages.cfm/Forum/52/Topic/18122/page/what_are_you_reading___.htm">http://www.ronfez.net/messageboard/viewmessages.cfm/Forum/52/Topic/18122/page/what_are_you_reading___.htm</a>    <a href="http://www.ronfez.net/messageboard/viewmessages.cfm/Forum/52/Topic/9727/page/What_are_you_reading_.htm">http://www.ronfez.net/messageboard/viewmessages.cfm/Forum/52/Topic/9727/page/What_are_you_reading_.htm</a>

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Furtherman

10-20-2005, 06:18 AM

quote: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time. Fantastic book. I just finished Lonely Planets by David Grinspoon - probably the greatest book I've ever read.  If you want to know why we're here and how the universe works, this is the book to read.  

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kindred

10-20-2005, 07:15 AM

I'm reading Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett.  This is actually the second time I've read this 1000 page book...it's that good.  It takes place in England's twelfth century and chronicles the building of a Gothic cathedral.  It's an unbelievable story of power, revenge and betrayal.

K5Banger

10-20-2005, 07:28 AM

I'm reading this Thread!  C-YA ,,!,, ,,!,, Put on your shit kickers and kick some shit

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Mike Teacher

10-20-2005, 07:57 AM

'Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why'Gotta love a book with a chapter; 'We're All Going To Fucking Die!'It's essentally about how people act and react in situations, from everyday life to landing a jet on a carrier; how, say, calling into a radio show, the body goes through, for many, a chemical cascade such that you the abiity to reason, to even speak, just flies out the window. In so many disaster situations, fear takes over, as it is quick, while reason is too slow.For carrier landing guys, from a real briefing, they deal with the fear, unlike the old days, when it was often seen as verboten to even bring up being scared that you're going to try to take off and a jet on a carrier at night:'It *will* scare the living shit out of you. If you taxi to the cat[apult] and you don't have a knot in your stomach, there's something wrong. You're going to go right off into a black hole. You're sitting there sucking oxygen, you'd better have a plan. Because if you don't, you're screwed, and then you're fucked.'A Pilot: 'You're a quarter mile out and someone asks who your mother is: you don't know. That's how focused you are. Your IQ rolls back to that of an ape.'They talk about the 'Survivor-types' who literally laugh as the artillery fire begins, or the ship capsizes, or the lead climber gets hit by a rock the size of a TV, seems insane, but they can often reason while others just freeze.<img src="http://members.aol.com/miketeachr/esig" border="0" />

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badorties

10-20-2005, 09:06 AM

david sedaris "dress your family in corduroy and denim" and sarah vowell "radio on"

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10-20-2005, 09:10 AM

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10-20-2005, 09:19 AM

Slaughterhouse-Five. 

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Sheeplovr

10-20-2005, 09:42 AM

Kiss Me Like a Stranger : My Search for Love and Art Gene Wilders book it's so far kinda creepy

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Crippler

10-20-2005, 10:57 AM

Finally got around to reading "Angels & Demons."  Really enjoyed that & wish I had read it before reading "The DaVinci Code."  Then I read a couple of quick, guilty pleasures: "WrestleCrap" & "Gasping for Airtime."Reading Michael Crichton's "State of Fear" right now.  I'm about 80 pages in & it's still a bit slow going, but he's never disappointed before.  Mick Foley's "Scooter" is on deck.

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PhishHead

10-20-2005, 11:22 AM

quote: "Now I Can Die In Peace" by Bill Simmons.  just read this as well...i found i was more interested in the footnotes then anything else after awhile.Just moved onto "My Friend Leonard" by James Frey. Its ok. 

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10-20-2005, 02:08 PM

<img src="http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a350/stankfoot/wife.jpg" align="middle" border="0" />The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger.I'll read anything relating to time travel. I'm only about 50 pages in but so far I like it. 

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PanterA

10-20-2005, 03:02 PM

I'm reading "The Da Vinci Code" right now. I saw the special on it and had to read this book. It's amazing.My girlfriend told me I have to read "The 5 People You Meet In Heaven" next

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XMRonFez

10-20-2005, 03:11 PM

I just started reading The Jim Morrison Biography. I saw the movie years ago, but I finally decided to really Break On Through...<img height="475" src="http://www.scottmurray.com/images/jerryHjimbook2.gif" width="283" border="0" />

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samnyc

10-20-2005, 07:35 PM

murder at 1600 ... actually i just saw the movie

Mike Teacher

10-21-2005, 02:44 AM

Reading Michael Crichton's "State of Fear" right now.  I'm about 80 pages in & it's still a bit slow going, but he's never disappointed before. =His last books, especially State of Fear, are horrific disappointments. Theyre the same damn plot done over and over:-Peeps discover new technology-Corporate peeps fuck with it; nasty stuff happens-A team of people come to the rescue-Team gets in a race between fixing the thing and dying from it.Yawn-o-rama

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LordJezo

10-21-2005, 04:36 AM

Just finished the latest Dune novel.  Total crap when compared to the original 6 but it's Dune so I keep on reading. 
 
Now reading Watchmen.  The graphic novel by Alan Moore. 

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Furtherman

10-21-2005, 06:12 AM

quote: My girlfriend told me I have to read "The 5 People You Meet In Heaven" next I'm sorry. 

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Knowledged_one

10-21-2005, 06:20 AM

Dark Tower books again I - VIIUnder the Tarnished DomeFriday Night Lights

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badorties

10-21-2005, 07:07 AM

Now reading Watchmen.  The graphic novel by Alan Moore.<a href="http://www.capnwacky.com/rj/watchmen/chapter1.html" target="_blank"><img height="90" src="http://www.capnwacky.com/rj/watchmen/title.gif" width="393" border="0" /></a>

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Yosammity

10-21-2005, 07:57 AM

I just finished reading "13 Dreams Freud Never Had" and I just started "Song of Susannah" by Stephen King.

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kindred

10-21-2005, 08:12 AM

I just started "Song of Susannah" by Stephen King I've had the last book of the Dark Tower series since the day it came out.  I just can't bring myself to read it yet since I know it's his last book.

UtopiaBanished

10-21-2005, 10:57 AM

Just finished the Chronicles of Narnia.for those who care. its certainly no lord of the rings. but definitly close (to greatest book ever)prior to that i think i read the entire UNCLE JOHN'S BATHROOM READER series..the one on the universe is great

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Tall_James

10-21-2005, 11:41 AM

<img height="228" src="http://www.any-book-in-print.com/images/book_covers/g_web/giraffes_cant_dance.gif" width="162" border="0" />I mostly just have time to read to my kids.

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Tenbatsuzen

10-21-2005, 12:27 PM

This may sound really sick and twisted, but I'm actually re-reading "Zodiac" by Robert Greysmith....for work. 

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10-21-2005, 03:39 PM

This thread and your minds!

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canofsoup15

10-21-2005, 03:52 PM

Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk. V for Vendetta is on deck (as long as I remember to get it). 


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babaz

10-21-2005, 09:39 PM

quote: Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk. V for Vendetta is on deck (as long as I remember to get it). <img src="http://scripts.cgispy.com/image.cgi?u=Canofsoup15" border="0" /> I got the glass, I got the steel. I got the love to hate. All I need is your head on stake.i Palahniuk is GREAT.  I just finished Fight Club. and I am now reading his book Diary. good shit!!! i

torker

10-22-2005, 06:06 AM

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Mike Teacher

10-22-2005, 06:23 AM

klaus_kinski_Jr

10-22-2005, 07:24 AM

Just finished the first five Myth books by Robert Asprin. About to start Spy Catcher - Peter Wright former head of the MI-5.

Also anyone who has not read it read Jarhead before the movie comes out cause I've got the feeling they will puss out.

smiler grogan

10-22-2005, 08:39 AM

I just finished "I Claudius" and i'm searching for whats next.

bobrobot

10-22-2005, 08:44 AM

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Lumber

10-22-2005, 02:32 PM

The Little Engine That Could.

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Yosammity

10-23-2005, 04:20 PM

quote:  I've had the last book of the Dark Tower series since the day it came out.  I just can't bring myself to read it yet since I know it's his last book. I know, I haven't even picked it up yet.

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convert

10-24-2005, 07:44 PM

Skinny Dip by Carl Hiaasen. I highly recommend this author...I'm working on reading all his books.

JustJon

10-25-2005, 09:13 AM

Chronicles of Narnia.  Just finished the fifth book, but not living up to all the hype. 

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spoon

10-25-2005, 02:51 PM

I believe you're reading the wrong hype as well.

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Heather 8

10-25-2005, 03:10 PM

quote:Skinny Dip by Carl Hiaasen. I highly recommend this author...I'm working on reading all his books.

I LOVE Hiaasen.  Clinton Tyree is my favorite fictional character. In
fact, I just finished two (TWO!) books by him: Skin Tight and Lucky
You.  I just started reading Vickie Lewis Thompson's Gone With The
Nerd tonight. 

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Hottub

10-25-2005, 03:24 PM

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spot

10-25-2005, 04:13 PM

<img src="http://www.ronfez.net/messageboard/editmessage.cfm/Forum/52/Topic/47218/Message/<a%20href=" border="0" />http://www.spectropop.com/JackNitzsche/shakey.jpg" border="0" />Just finished this, very informative and well written. sorry, i messed this up..Shakey a Neil Young biography. 

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PapaBear

10-25-2005, 08:15 PM

<img height="240" src="http://www.mywingsbooks.com/inventory/00182-The-Bear-and-th.jpg" width="192" border="0" />It's taking forever, because I only read it on the can.

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Sangreal

10-26-2005, 01:22 AM

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Dougie Brootal

10-26-2005, 05:15 AM

heavier than heaven

LouTheFrFghtr

10-26-2005, 06:58 AM

the jay morh book and chuck palinuik's new book. Yes i know i spelt it wrong.

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East Side Dave

10-26-2005, 07:02 AM

My favorite book is the player's manual for Super Mario Cart.

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nate1000

11-17-2005, 11:47 AM

An Instance of the Fingerpost- Iain Pears.

El Mudo

11-17-2005, 08:43 PM

Waiting (eagerly) for my copy of "Loose Balls: The Short, Wild Life of the American Basketball Association"

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Smalls

11-18-2005, 05:29 PM

Something Happened by Joseph Heller

furie

11-18-2005, 05:43 PM

the gangs of new york 

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tele7

11-18-2005, 05:49 PM

quote: 'Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why'Gotta love a book with a chapter; 'We're All Going To Fucking Die!'It's essentally about how people act and react in situations, from everyday life to landing a jet on a carrier; how, say, calling into a radio show, the body goes through, for many, a chemical cascade such that you the abiity to reason, to even speak, just flies out the window. In so many disaster situations, fear takes over, as it is quick, while reason is too slow.For carrier landing guys, from a real briefing, they deal with the fear, unlike the old days, when it was often seen as verboten to even bring up being scared that you're going to try to take off and a jet on a carrier at night:'It *will* scare the living shit out of you. If you taxi to the cat[apult] and you don't have a knot in your stomach, there's something wrong. You're going to go right off into a black hole. You're sitting there sucking oxygen, you'd better have a plan. Because if you don't, you're screwed, and then you're fucked.'A Pilot: 'You're a quarter mile out and someone asks who your mother is: you don't know. That's how focused you are. Your IQ rolls back to that of an ape.'They talk about the 'Survivor-types' who literally laugh as the artillery fire begins, or the ship capsizes, or the lead climber gets hit by a rock the size of a TV, seems insane, but they can often reason while others just freeze.<img src="http://members.aol.com/miketeachr/esig" border="0" /> This message was edited by Mike Teacher on 10-20-05 @ 12:00 PM "Call the Ball"...  Sounds like an interseting read.

WhistlePig

11-18-2005, 06:15 PM

Just finished this. It was fucking hilarious.

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PapaBear

01-09-2006, 01:49 AM

quote: <img height="240" src="http://www.mywingsbooks.com/inventory/00182-The-Bear-and-th.jpg" width="192" border="0" />It's taking forever, because I only read it on the can.<img src="http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y229/snowmaninva66/ingacopy.jpg" border="0" />1 people are so scared of 9 peopleWHATSOEVER... I had no legitimate reason for doing this, but I succeeded in reading this book ENTIRELY on the crapper (all 1,028 pages of it). It was a meaningless goal... but the goal was accomplished.I've done many impressive things in my life, but this is something that I will think of on my Deathbed.

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jax

01-09-2006, 03:49 AM

Bangkok 8- by John Burdett

TheRealEddie

01-09-2006, 04:06 AM

I just finished the the Star Wars novel, "Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth
Vader". I like how the books fill in a lot of the story providing
background and motivation for the stuff that is seen in the movies.
Sadly, out of all the SW books I've read, this is one of the worst. The
books by Timothy Zahn are actually very well written for SW novels. ANf of course, there is the Bounty
Hunter series, because everyone loves Boba. 

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01-09-2006, 07:20 PM

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Don Stugots

01-09-2006, 08:08 PM

currently I am reading THE DICE MAN by luke rheinhart.  it takes place in the '70's and is pretty interesting book about how we become bored with our lives no matter how exciting they may be.  next up, is a star wars book, at the same time, I am looking through WEDDING PLANNING for DUMMIES.  

Mike Teacher

01-09-2006, 10:40 PM

About halfway through 'First Man'. Neil Armstrong finally authorized and contributed to an official biography, before that, though almost all the astros had written several books on going to the moon, Neil still never has. At least this is out now, and it rules, filled with how really weird these guys were, and how insane the stuff they went through was.

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01-10-2006, 06:26 AM

"<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0671027638/qid=1136906833/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-7431345-9888621?s=books&v=glance&n=283155" target="_self">The Fuck Up</a>" <a href="http://www.justtotheleft.com/">Just To The Left</a>

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Jennitalia

01-10-2006, 06:53 AM

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01-10-2006, 07:38 AM

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Yosammity

01-10-2006, 02:49 PM

Humor in PsychotherapyI forget the editor's name.

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Heather 8

01-10-2006, 03:00 PM

Sick Puppy, by Carl Hiaasen.  My boyfriend and his folks bought me a bunch of Hiaasen books for Xmas. 

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KC2OSO

01-10-2006, 03:18 PM

A COURSE IN MIRACLES 
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extracheese

01-10-2006, 06:56 PM

Someone mentioned Pillars Of The Earth by Ken Follet. FANTASTIC book - my favorite book of all time.Now im reading The Liege Killer and The Paratwa by Cristopher Hinz. The first book was incredible and the second one seems great as well ( i just started it).I may read NIGHT FALL by Nelson Demille next because it has to do with flight TWA 800 that exploded over the long island sound in 1987.

fluffernutter

01-11-2006, 04:55 AM

I always wanted to try and read books of fiction but never had much
luck. I don't know if the books I tried were just boring or if I am
actually unimaginative and too stupid to follow along. My reading
comprehension was awful in High School. Especially wanting to write and
produce my own cartoons I should maybe give it a shot again. I have
these Terry Pratchett boks staring me in the face. 
However, I can get into a Biography like nothing else. I think
because I can relate to that. I just got done reading BELUSHI which was
fantastic. The R & F interview really sold the book to me. That and
being a huge John Belushi fan.I am also reading THAT BOOK of
Completly Useless Information. I am a apparently a know it all of sorts
(according to family and extended family), spilling out my useless
knowledge all over the place so my wife's sister figured, hey, why not
let him know more. Really interesting book. 

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extracheese

01-11-2006, 03:58 PM

For you sience fiction fans, the website below is an invaluable resource for book reviews. They are written clearly and based on the books ive read..i totally agree with his assessment.<a href="http://www.sfreviews.net/">http://www.sfreviews.net/</a>

booster11373

01-11-2006, 04:10 PM

Designated Targets: World War 2.2<img height="273" src="http://www.uchronia.com/covers/b/birm1405036834.gif" width="180" border="0" />Its similar to that movie The Final countdown

Nazi cows are on the loose

booster11373

01-11-2006, 04:14 PM

quote: the gangs of new york You might like this book <img height="475" src="http://www.sopranosuessightings.com/StripMall/Five%20Points%20NYC%20book.jpg" width="319" border="0" />Its a pretty good supplement to Gangs of New York

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Sangreal

01-12-2006, 02:30 AM

<a href="http://www.ozon.ru/context/detail/id/1232293/?partner=ljh4t5rt"><img height="297" alt="The Man Who Would be King and Other Stories" hspace="5" src="http://mmedia.ozon.ru/multimedia/books_covers/1000029847.jpg" width="200" align="left" vspace="5" border="1" /></a>This is one of the best books ever. Rudyard Kipling is the same guy that wrote jungle book and stories like that. You guys should read it.<a href="http://www.litrix.com/mbking/mbkin001.htm">http://www.litrix.com/mbking/mbkin001.htm</a>Here's a link...

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El Mudo

01-12-2006, 03:47 PM

I'm currently reading a book on the battle of Saratoga, during the American Revolution....It's
a good book, but it seems sometimes the author gets into these spasms
of gradidose composition that really distract from the main point of
the text...other than that, im learning a lot of stuff, namely, most of
the Germans used by the British weren't Hessians, and General Burgoyne
was actually a pretty good general, except he was kinda ruined by his
ambition... 

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XMRonFez

01-12-2006, 07:24 PM

I read my first Grisham Book a few months ago and I can't stop. They are to easy to read and very addictive. I like the ones about Young Lawyers that triumph over adversity. <img src="http://www.ronfez.net/messageboard/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/images/dry.gif" border="0" /> I'm reading this one right now.<img height="300" src="http://www.booksamillion.com/bam/covers/0/44/024/157/044024157X.jpg" width="200" border="0" />This will be my next.<img height="300" src="http://images.bestwebbuys.com/muze/books/54/0385510454.jpg" width="200" border="0" />

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Greggie44

01-12-2006, 08:38 PM

I'm into a killer one right now. Financial Modeling using Excel and VBA.

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hammersavage

01-12-2006, 09:39 PM

"Love all the People"-Bill Hicks : genius inspiration 
"The Biggest Game In Town"- A. Alvarez : best non-teaching poker book ever written"Harrington on Hold 'Em, Vol. 2"- Dan Harringtion : best teaching poker book ever written 

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Freakshow

01-12-2006, 09:45 PM

I'm reading a lot scripts lately.  It's a lot cheaper than actually going to the movies.

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spoon

01-12-2006, 11:36 PM

quote: My favorite book is the player's manual for Super Mario Cart.<img src="http://www.richstillwell.com/ESD.gif" border="0" /> Click this link (http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/thenight/ppr/index.shtml) to hear my show on 90.5 The Night FM; Friday and Saturday Night: Midnight to 5 AM you bastards! my journal- http://journals.aol.com/didvod/DaveysJournalTime/ I knew it!  See, ESD/Betty's a closet Blue Jay fan!!

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Heather 8

01-13-2006, 11:23 AM

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire.  I'll be reading its sequel, Son of a Witch, afterwards. 

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Gvac

01-15-2006, 05:27 AM

"Angela's Ashes" by Frank McCourt.

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Smalls

01-15-2006, 10:19 PM

Massage For Dummies (a long book, full of many diagrams and pressure points)andThe CIA Book of Dirty Tricks, which you can find free on various websites.

PapaBear

01-15-2006, 10:43 PM

Just started reading The Sun Also Rises. Thought I'd get back to basics.

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Mike Teacher

01-16-2006, 03:19 AM

'Stress Factors in Titanium'its a book about metals.

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booster11373

01-16-2006, 06:32 AM

quote: 'Stress Factors in Titanium'its a book about metals.  <img height="480" src="http://blog.zipfel.dk/uploads/20050303-heat.jpg" width="350" border="0" />

Nazi cows are on the loose

kevcala

01-16-2006, 06:44 AM

I just finished Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk. It wasn't my favorite of
his books, but I started it on a MetroNorth going to Grand Central on
Friday and Finished it pulling into the Tarrytown Station on Sunday, so
not much time was invested. 


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Tazz

01-16-2006, 06:48 AM

samnyc

01-16-2006, 06:52 AM

Brian Vaughn's RunawaysEd Brubaker's Captain AmericaDan Slott's She HulkGrant Morrison's All Star Superman

bobrobot

01-16-2006, 07:03 AM

It's woith the price of admission for the chapter on Yiddish Curses alone!!!<img height="500" src="http://a1204.g.akamai.net/7/1204/1401/05100310011/images.barnesandnoble.com/images/10190000/10192874.jpg" width="331" border="0" />

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canofsoup15

01-16-2006, 07:33 AM

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01-16-2006, 09:56 AM

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bobrobot

01-16-2006, 09:57 AM

HA HA HA!!! that is hysterical!!!Oy Vey!!!

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PapaBear

03-28-2006, 10:51 PM

Yes... this book is the first one that Oprah chose after the "Million Little Pieces" fiasco. My reason for reading it is only partly based on Oprah's reading list.This book was on my son's summer reading list a year ago. I had trouble finding it at the time. No one I talked to had ever heard of it. Since it made the news, as being Oprah's next choice (and the book was already in my home), I decided to start reading it. Oprah has some real power. Even though this book was first published in  1960, it is now #1 on the New York Times (non-fiction/paperback) Best Seller list!I'm not very far into it, but damn...  this is a good read!<img height="475" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0553272535.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" width="290" border="0" />

bobrobot

03-29-2006, 02:39 AM

Holy Shite!!! How old is yer kid? That's an intense book for a child! What do they show on movie day, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre? Tho, I think it's cool that you, as a parent, are reading something from yer kid's reading list, even if it's ex post facto!!!<img height="378" src="http://www.scienceplace.org/IMAGES/video/images/Scared%20Kids_psd.jpg" width="504" border="0" />

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Don Stugots

03-29-2006, 03:12 AM

I just picked up the book I Hate Other Peoples' Kids. I will start to read it today, and will let you know how it is if anyone is interested.

PapaBear

03-29-2006, 03:39 AM

bobogolem wrote: Holy Shite!!! How old is yer kid? That's an intense book for a child!  He read it in the summer between 8th and 9th grade (as per his upcoming Honors English teacher's instructions). He's now finishing 10th grade (though he dropped down from "Honors" to "College" English).

Coach

03-29-2006, 05:30 AM

PapaBear wrote: bobogolem wrote: Holy Shite!!! How old is yer kid? That's an intense book for a child!  He read it in the summer between 8th and 9th grade (as per his upcoming Honors English teacher's instructions). He's now finishing 10th grade (though he dropped down from "Honors" to "College" English).That's about the time I read it in Catholic School

iscream22

03-29-2006, 07:16 AM

"The Doors Of Perception" by Aldous Huxley And I think i read "Night" in 9th grade.

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JustJon

03-29-2006, 09:30 AM

The Once and Future King by T.H. White

suggums

03-29-2006, 09:49 AM

<img width="265" height="400" border="0" src="http://images.bol.de/images-adb/87/6b/876bd229-d367-410e-8279-36846109e9d5.jpg" />i'm a sucker for the post-da vinci code, historical mystery/adventure genre that's getting a lot of play these days. labyrinth is my current read that fits that bill. these were both good fun reads: <img width="331" height="500" border="0" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0060828579.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" /> <img width="327" height="500" border="0" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0316011770.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" />

Dougie Brootal

03-29-2006, 10:00 AM

<img height="471" src="http://www.thewhite.net/articles/motley_crue_the_dirt.jpg" width="315" border="0" />the greatest book ever written

suggums

03-29-2006, 10:12 AM

i respectfully disagree<img width="314" height="475" border="0" src="http://hull534.freeshell.org/DeliciousExported/images/245" />

Badinia

03-29-2006, 10:31 AM

<img height="406" src="http://www.elliottbaybook.com/events/nov05/covers/hodgman.jpg" width="256" border="0" /> This is a funny, funny book, if you like (or better, can tolerate) the somewhat precious McSweeney's-type humor.  It's an almanac in which all the information is made up.  There's a lot of information about Hobos.Regards, Badinia<img height="100" src="http://www.badinia.com/uploaded_images/craZYlady-719391.jpg" width="300" border="0" />

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terryc35

03-29-2006, 10:39 AM

The Brothers Bulger....great book so far.  Whitey Bulger is by far the best gangter of all time.  I recommend reading Black Mass before the BB though.

FezPaul

03-29-2006, 03:18 PM

Just finished "Take walk on the dark side" by R. Gary PattersonIt's about Rock evil legends and untimely deaths. The 27 club:Robert JohnsonBrian JonesJimi HendrixJanis JoplinJim MorrisonKurt Cobain

MuleBrenner

03-29-2006, 06:09 PM

Various comic books and Peter F. Hamilton's latest - Judas Unchained

bobrobot

03-29-2006, 06:58 PM

This book was a lotta fun if yer into Americana (as in the music & the cultural trends)!!!<img height="512" src="http://chronicle.augusta.com/images/headlines/032804/19579_512.jpg" width="412" border="0" />

bobrobot

03-29-2006, 07:00 PM

suggums wrote: i respectfully disagree<img height="475" src="http://hull534.freeshell.org/DeliciousExported/images/245" width="314" border="0" /> Excellent choice there!!! The Negative Dialectics of Poodle Play by Ben Watson is a good'n too!!!<img height="475" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0312141246.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" width="313" border="0" />

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spazemunky

03-29-2006, 08:27 PM

i am reading The Da Vinci Code, and by reading i mean its sitting on my table while i play videogames.

ShelleBink

03-29-2006, 09:01 PM

suggums wrote: these were both good fun reads: <img width="327" height="500" border="0" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0316011770.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" />  I almost bought this a few weeks ago, I'm glad it got a decent recommendation; I'll have to get it for the summer.  Right now, between college texts and such, I'm trying to finish "Spirals" by Koji Suzuki ((its the second book in a series based on "The Ring"))

Billy Staples

03-29-2006, 09:32 PM

"I'm really worried about our work cat" thread at the moment

Halo Five

03-31-2006, 01:23 PM

Right now I am reading TIME QUAKE by Kurt Vonnegut

A.J.

07-26-2006, 06:32 AM

Christopher Moore: "A Dirty Job".

Dougie Brootal

07-26-2006, 06:41 AM

Dougie Brootal

07-26-2006, 06:41 AM

sorry, double post<img height="613" src="http://www.patchenmack.com/images/1984/bb.jpg" width="462" border="0" />

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nate1000

07-26-2006, 12:03 PM

On the boat: Teacher Man-  Frank McCourtAt work on the crapper: An instance of the Fingerpost- Iain PearsAt home (currently located next to the crapper): The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time. All great books (so far)

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mendyweiss

07-26-2006, 12:22 PM

I have been rereading "My Secret Life" by Anonymous.THis is a one of a kind book!!

scorpion

07-26-2006, 12:43 PM

Get Me Out of Here: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder by Rachel ReilandVerg good read

scorpion

07-26-2006, 12:46 PM

TooCute wrote: I just read The Wisdom of Crowds  I recently read that also.

Thebazile78

07-26-2006, 04:35 PM

Currently reading: the McCullough biography of John Adams (recommended by my 8th grade teacher), which is really interesting, but since I read so much fiction, it's hard to switch gears, and I often find McCullough a bit. . .long-winded and showoffy. On the to re-read list (for a book-club blog I started with 2 friends of mine from back home): 'Salem's Lot (Stephen King) [This puppy scared me as much as Dracula, which gave me some nasty nightmares, and made me wake up in a cold sweat. Perfect summer reading!] Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (Gregory Maguire) [I've read all of Gregory Maguire's novels and recommend all of them EXCEPT Lost which wasn't what I'd expected, and was really clunky. Which hurt a LOT because I think he's a better writer than that!]  Recently read (and re-read): Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)  On the farther in the future to-read list are:Cell: A Novel (Stephen King)Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Mary Roach)My Sister's Keeper (Jodi Picoult)Dry (Augusten Burroughs) And then there's the perpetual cycle list. . .which includes varying genres, lengths and age levels, but it's too long to post.Oh, and for the person who's wondering what comes after I, Claudius (which I loved, btw), especially if you liked it, I recommend Claudius the God and, if you're interested in the reign of the emperor Augustus, definitely check out the Res Gestae of the Divine Augustus which is available online through the Gutenberg Project. Or, at least it was about 9 years ago. At any rate, Imperial Rome is a neat area of history and it's amazing the impact the Roman Empire STILL has on our world!

PapaBear

07-26-2006, 05:20 PM

I just picked up this                                                                                    <img height="240" src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0425188434.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" width="240" border="0" />and this <img height="240" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0440225701.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" width="240" border="0" />

docgoblin

07-26-2006, 05:54 PM

I'm currently reading this (because I was told that this dog is exactly like my dog):http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/3562/marleyww7.jpgI'm also in the middle of this (which, if you're a fan of the origins of talk radio, I recommend highly!):http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/6193/shepgu3.jpgAnd my next book is this:http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/1756/teamofrivalssi2.jpg

OGC

07-26-2006, 06:06 PM

docgoblin wrote: I'm also in the middle of this (which, if you're a fan of the origins of talk radio, I recommend highly!):<img src="http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/6193/shepgu3.jpg" border="0" />Wow, that one is now at the top of my next to read list. I loved listening to Jean Shepherd on the radio in my teens. I was elated to find out that a ton of his shows are available as mp3's. They bring back a ton of memories.

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DirtyJersey

08-27-2006, 12:45 PM

2 Chapters left of Watchmen, Its as good as everybody says it is. On deck, Batman: The Long Halloween.

badorties

08-27-2006, 01:06 PM

i have the joy of being out for four weeks from a ruptured appendix (and some peritonitis) ... i've got stacks of books in my immediate futureright now, i'm reading<img height="350" src="http://images.barnesandnoble.com/images/8450000/8458784.jpg" width="228" border="0" /><img height="356" src="http://images.barnesandnoble.com/images/11300000/11307626.jpg" width="222" border="0" />

narc

08-27-2006, 01:07 PM

<img src="http://www.bloomsburymagazine.com/images/ezine/riddley_front2.jpg"
 
I'm enjoying it so far. It's a classic blend of post-nuclear holocaust sci-fi, spirituality and the meaning of religion, and puppets. It's damn hard to find though.

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ADF

08-27-2006, 02:50 PM

<img width="241" height="363" border="0" src="http://www.aca.ch/salt.jpg" />An interesting book.  The previous book was a biography of Stalin.

reeshy

08-27-2006, 03:03 PM

<img width="280" height="280" border="0" src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B00006K3AZ.01._AA280_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" />Even though I don't practice anymore..... I like to keep abreast!!!!!!!

GwEnYpOo

08-27-2006, 04:20 PM

<img src="http://www.thewavemag.com/images/articles/9001-10000/9643.jpg" border="0" /> awesome book

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Yerdaddy

08-28-2006, 03:01 AM

<img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0593055780.02._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_V54701052_.jpg" border="0" />I read this the other day. Decent introduction to living in and working as a journalist in the Middle East. Part travel book, part tale of recovering from tradgedy, part story of spread of al-Qaeda since 9-11. I'd reccommend it to beginners to the Middle East. Only available in the UK though, because everyone knows Americans can't read.Working on this again: <div class="typelist-thumbnail"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0553211439/1c848w810311-20"><img alt="MARK TWAIN: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Bantam Classic)" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0553211439.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" border="0" /></a></div><div class="typelist-description"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0553211439/1c848w810311-20">MARK TWAIN: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Bantam Classic)</a> (*****)</div>And still working on this:<a href="http://www.ronfez.net/gp/reader/0374528373/ref=sib_dp_pt/102-0762248-8244931#reader-link"><img onmouseover="sitb_showLayer('bookpopover'); return false;" onmouseout="sitb_doHide('bookpopover'); return false;" height="240" alt="The Brothers Karamazov" src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374528373.01._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_AA240_SH20_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" width="240" border="0" /></a>Starting to work on this:<a href="http://www.ronfez.net/gp/reader/1864503335/ref=sib_dp_pt/102-0762248-8244931#reader-link"><img onmouseover="sitb_showLayer('bookpopover'); return false;" onmouseout="sitb_doHide('bookpopover'); return false;" height="240" alt="Lonely Planet Syria & Lebanon (Lonely Planet Syria and Lebanon)" src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1864503335.01._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_AA240_SH20_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" width="240" border="0" /></a>

AppleBoy

08-28-2006, 03:17 AM

I am reading all of the James Bond books written by Ian Fleming in order (14 in all).  Right now, I'm on the 5th book, 'From Russia With Love'.  I'm probably going to work 'The Name of the Rose' by Umberto Eco in with the other books just to switch it up a little.

TheGameHHH

08-28-2006, 08:26 AM

Last night I started Plato's "Republic"

DreamWeaver

08-28-2006, 08:35 AM

<img height="500" src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0553804790.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_V1134068361_.jpg" width="500" border="0" /> Great book, easy read. The movie is already in the works.

feralBoy

08-28-2006, 08:44 AM

Nightwatch by Sergei LukyanenkoI watched the movie first, but the book is much different.  It's pretty cool.  Worth a read, if you like fantasy, vampires, magicians and stuff like that.<img height="500" src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1401359795.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_V1136847549_.jpg" width="500" border="0" />

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suggums

08-28-2006, 09:29 AM

<img width="500" height="500" border="0" src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/076531178X.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_V64008260_.jpg" />brandon sanderson is the best thing to happen to fantasy in many years.  even his covers are good.  i rarely read fantasy, more of a sci-fi junkie, but this guy can Write.  his first one, elantris, was just as good.

blakjeezis

08-28-2006, 10:45 AM

I just finished Catch-22 and Player Piano, each for the first time. I also just finished my first John Grisham novel, The Broker. It will be my last John Grisham novel.

I've gotten out of fantasy since Terry Goodkind basically lost all connection to reality. But Suggums, you've piqued my interest. Maybe I'll give this Sanderson character a shot.

I'm always thumbing through my E.E. Cummings and Dylan Thomas collections as well.

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Recyclerz

08-28-2006, 01:29 PM

The Quiet American by Graham Greene.A 1950's tale set in Vietnam wherein a naive, idealistic American secret agent type blunders into the country he really knows nothing about (but with the best of intentions for improving it) and winds up getting a lot of people, including himself, killed. I don't know why it felt like the right time to read this book.  <img src="http://www.ronfez.net/messageboard/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/images/sad.gif" border="0" />

Don Stugots

10-12-2006, 05:36 PM

i just got done readin "the book of fate" by brad meltzer.  pretty good lite read.  i enjoyed it and you might too. 

romey79

10-13-2006, 02:55 AM

DreamWeaver wrote: <img height="500" src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0553804790.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_V1134068361_.jpg" width="500" border="0" /> Great book, easy read. The movie is already in the works. I love Koontz, but I'm surprised they're making a movie.  He usually doesn't allow that, as he feels they really water down his characters.  The last one I remember was "Intensity" on FOX.  One of his best, ruined on the screen.  Currently reading this...<img height="240" src="http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n319/happyembolism/book.jpg" width="240" border="0" />

PhishHead

10-13-2006, 03:12 AM

I just re-read the Prestige since the movie is coming out, and I probably shouldnt have considering the movie seems like it barely follows the book whatsoever.

AppleBoy

10-13-2006, 03:28 AM

Chigworthy

10-13-2006, 05:24 AM

I feel a rare Raymond Chandler spree coming on.  I just have to get my books out of storage now.<img height="320" src="http://www.todayinliterature.com/assets/photos/c/raymond-chandler-200x320.jpg" width="200" border="0" />

Yerdaddy

10-13-2006, 09:10 AM

I'd kill for some Raymond Chandler right now. I'm actually stoked today because I went into my first bookstore in two years today. Yemen aint got shit for books. They keep them out of the country, the paranoid fucks. But in Cairo I bought Seven Pillars of Wisdom by TE Laurence, In Cold Blood, A Short History of Modern Egypt, and Novelists on the Novel. Tomorrow I'll buy some Hemmingway, which I've been craving since I left the States. I also bought a DVD of The Great Escape for $2. Booyah!

IamFogHat

10-13-2006, 09:24 AM

I'm ashamed to say this but I'm only now reading Crime and Punishment.  Don't know what took me so long.  I also just finished Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.

Chigworthy

10-13-2006, 02:52 PM

Yerdaddy, what's yerfavorite flavor of Hemmingway?

furie

10-13-2006, 03:43 PM

Do Androids Dream of electric Sheep? by Philip Dick

it was the basis for Blade Runner

DarkHippie

10-13-2006, 03:44 PM

Wyrms--Orson Scott Cardbefore that was Neverwhere--Neil GaimanI've been on a Spec fiction kick lately

Badinia

10-13-2006, 03:45 PM

nate1000 wrote: At home (currently located next to the crapper): The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time.        That book was really interesting, I couldn't put it down!<img src="http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/0099450259.02.LZZZZZZZ" border="0" />       Because of my crippling OCD's!       I really liked it, though.

UnknownPD

10-13-2006, 03:53 PM

PapaBear

05-30-2007, 05:51 PM

DonInNC

05-30-2007, 05:56 PM

Let us know what you think. I might try one of his books.

Right now I'm reading The Trouble With Physics by Lee Smolin.

BoondockSaint

05-30-2007, 06:04 PM

I'm about to start Don Delillo's Underworld. Anyone ever read it? Did you like it?

MadBiker

05-30-2007, 06:13 PM

Finished The Road by Cormac McCarthy.

Read it, it really affected me in ways I could not describe.

Currently working on Cat's Cradle by Vonnegut and 1000 Years of Solitude by Marquez.

I have more books piled up in my house than I will be ever be able to read, I am afraid...

Sarge

05-30-2007, 06:46 PM

Just finished "Disco Bloodbath"
Currently re-reading "Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas"

GameRelatedSig

05-30-2007, 07:49 PM

"Only Revolutions" by Mark Z. Danielewski.

Recyclerz

05-30-2007, 07:54 PM

I'm about to start Don Delillo's Underworld. Anyone ever read it? Did you like it?

You are in for a treat. This book is greater than I have the ability to describe. It wouldn't surprise me if history winds up rating it one of the top 5 books of the 20th century.

As for me, I'm trying to catch up with my Atlantic and Harper's magazines.

Landblast

05-30-2007, 08:07 PM

The Five Dysfunctions Of A Team
Lencioni

Sarah J

05-30-2007, 08:25 PM

One of the best books that I have read recently was "I Know This Much Is True" by Wally Lamb. This book stayed with me all day. I found myself thinking of the characters throughout the day. CRAZY.

Right now I am kinda going through a reading slump. I am reading a few books but none of em grabbing me. I've been reading a lot about Buddhism lately.... kewl stuff.

El Mudo

05-30-2007, 09:28 PM

I'm reading The Fredericksburg Campaign - Winter War on the Rappohannock by Francis A. O'Reilly and flipping around Long Time Passing - Vietnam and the Haunted Generation by Myra McPherson

Yerdaddy

05-31-2007, 01:23 AM

I've never read him before. After the interview on R&F I've been wanting to. I had no idea where to start. I just got back from Borders where I picked up...

http://www.schwartzbooks.com/mas_assets/full/0060083964.jpg and...http://www.bookreporter.com/art/covers/140w/0060008776.jpg

Which one should I start with, when I'm done reading Grisham's "A Painted House"?

I've been meaning to read Mr Paradise for a while now. It sounds like the kind of story he does best. I read Pagan Babies in Bangkok and it was good, but not his best. I like the Rwanda elements but there's not a whole lot of it. You won't be disappointed. His best is Freaky Deaky, I think. Get Shorty is great, as are Maximum Bob and Rum Punch, (Jackie Brown).

I just finished Absurdistan, which I remembered reading about in the Washington Post this year. It was an outstanding pisstake on shitty little unheard of oil states and U.S. involvement in them with a rich, fat, lazy, Russian Jew as the antihero and his shriveled, scarred up penis is practically his sidekick. I can't reccommend it enough.

I'm working on another Twain now - Roughing It. It's everything I've dreamed it would be.

nate1000

05-31-2007, 05:41 AM

1000 Years of Solitude by Marquez.

Beautiful book....One of my favorites. Marquez writes prose almost poetically.

"it was as if time was going in a circle."- Ursula is truly one of the most memorable matriarchs ever written. I was so struck by her, I gave this book to my Mother on Mother's Day a couple of years back.

If you haven't read, I'd also recommend picking up "Love in the Time of Cholera" by Marquez. It is painfully sweet at times.

outlawfrank

05-31-2007, 05:47 AM

I am reading Atlas Shrugged-Ayn Rand and The Big No Where-James Ellroy

DarkHippie

05-31-2007, 08:12 AM

I'm about halfway through the road by cormac mccarthy. fantastic!

I'm also reading SLAB Magazine (www.slablitmag.com to order) cause there's a short story in there by some fat douche named Craig Sanders in it (me). Its by far the weak link in the journal. I don't even know why they would publish such crap.

JustJon

05-31-2007, 09:08 AM

I keep getting sidetracked but I'm almost done with The Once and Future King by T.H. White

Was reading Make this morning, since I picked up the latest issue this weekend - http://www.makezine.com

torker

05-31-2007, 09:13 AM

The Velveteen Rabbit

mildly amusing

05-31-2007, 09:31 AM

I just picked up Rant by Chuck Palahniuk...i hope it's better than Haunted...

Andomray

05-31-2007, 08:44 PM

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/0872860744.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

and hopefully will finish this soon:

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y26/Andomray/thebomb.gif

PapaBear

05-31-2007, 09:01 PM

I've been meaning to read Mr Paradise for a while now. It sounds like the kind of story he does best. I read Pagan Babies in Bangkok and it was good, but not his best. I like the Rwanda elements but there's not a whole lot of it. You won't be disappointed. His best is Freaky Deaky, I think. Get Shorty is great, as are Maximum Bob and Rum Punch, (Jackie Brown).

I just finished Absurdistan, which I remembered reading about in the Washington Post this year. It was an outstanding pisstake on shitty little unheard of oil states and U.S. involvement in them with a rich, fat, lazy, Russian Jew as the antihero and his shriveled, scarred up penis is practically his sidekick. I can't reccommend it enough.

I'm working on another Twain now - Roughing It. It's everything I've dreamed it would be.
Thanks for the suggestions, Yerdaddy. When I read a new author, I usually end up reading several of their books. I'll save Freaky Deaky for last. I wouldn't want the rest to be a let down.

BoondockSaint

05-31-2007, 09:01 PM

You are in for a treat. This book is greater than I have the ability to describe. It wouldn't surprise me if history winds up rating it one of the top 5 books of the 20th century.

As for me, I'm trying to catch up with my Atlantic and Harper's magazines.

Got through the beginning today. The whole Sinatra, Gleason, Shor, Hoover dynamic was hysterical. I saw where the Times ranked it runner up in the best American fiction of the last 25 years.

Yerdaddy

05-31-2007, 11:39 PM

I was going to read something by douche, fat, but the link don't work.

DonInNC

08-13-2007, 01:52 PM

bump

Just finished The Assault on Reason by Al Gore. I'm a long time Gore supporter, but this book is a piece of shit. What a rush job. For one, its obviously dictated with no effort to go back and clean it up. Also, while there's a ton of references listed in the appendix to back up his assertions, nothing is referenced paranthetically.

------------------------Spoiler----------------------------

Bush sucks.

Also - Just started Einstein, His Life and Universe by Walter Issacson. 100 pages in, good read so far.

DarkHippie

08-13-2007, 02:22 PM

I am reading . . .
MY OWN BRILLIANCE at http://www.editred.com/CSanders

(the stories are better than the poetry)

Landblast

08-13-2007, 03:05 PM

Choke
-Chuck Palahniuk

joethebartender

08-13-2007, 05:36 PM

I'm back and forth between two reads:

Brother One Cell
(true story about this guy who is in Asia as an ESL teacher...he mails himself a block of hash from Thailand to Seoul and gets busted)
http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/51PueNl370L._AA240_.jpg

AND...This one:

http://www.wonderclub.com/images/LEGSHOW/LEGSHOW200708.jpg

Love,
Joe

waltermitty

08-13-2007, 09:31 PM

I am currently reading The Godfather By Mario Puzo...
I've seen the movie too many times to have never read the book...

I just finished 102 Minutes....
It is a great minute by minute telling of 9-11....

Ritalin

08-14-2007, 04:54 AM

Falling Man by Don DeLillo.

I admire DeLillo (I recommend White Noise to anyone who hasn't read it), but I don't know about this one yet.

Just finished Then We Came To The End by Joshua Ferris, and I really liked it. A good summer read. Funny, interesting, and very well written.

envirogator

08-14-2007, 05:23 AM

Also - Just started Einstein, His Life and Universe by Walter Issacson. 100 pages in, good read so far.

I really hope you enjoy it...I've read a number of books about Einstein and found this to be the best by far.

Yerdaddy

08-14-2007, 09:56 AM

I'm stoked because I just found a book called The Soccer War by Abunchofconsonants Kapuscinski. It's his story of being Poland's only foreign news correspondant for about 30 years, covering 27 revolutions and other crazy shit as a roving broke-ass journalist. I've searched six countries for this book and I just glanced into a shop today and saw it. Noice!

I also found another book in the store that turned my chubby into a full woody: "The Long Goodbye" by Raymond Chandler. I was reading Chandler's Philip Marlowe stories when I came over the Cambodia-Thailand border last month and almost got myself shot acting the tough guy with a smart mouth and tomorrow I'll be reading this one for five hours before I cross back into Cambodia at an even more dodgy border crossing. So I guess you can look for another 3,000 word story in my travel thread soon - or no more posts at all from me.

Crispy123

08-14-2007, 10:01 AM

http://images.barnesandnoble.com/images/10940000/10945721.jpg

Just finished this. Very interesting. The ending was kind of a let down.

JustJon

08-14-2007, 10:07 AM

Confessions of an Economic Hitman

Yerdaddy

08-14-2007, 10:51 AM

Confessions of an Economic Hitman

I predict that the choice of title for that book is supposed to hint that, like Chuck Barris' book about how he was a hitman for the CIA while hosting the Gong Show, this guy's story is total bullshit. It sounds like a good read but I'm just not buying it.

hedges

08-15-2007, 02:05 AM

I've been reading off and on "Fire In the Minds of Men - Origins of the Revolutionary Faith"
by James H. Billington.
and Charles Bukowski "The People Look Like Flowers At Last" , his final book to be posthumously published

Yerdaddy

08-15-2007, 02:44 AM

klaus_kinski_Jr

08-15-2007, 03:07 AM

I just found a copy of "No Country for Old Men" - the Cormac McCarthy book the Coen Brothers just adapted to film - but it was expensive and I didn't buy it. Has anyone read the thing and can tell me if it's worth paying more than I usually pay for my books?
I picked it up with a gift card. It's a great book and the film looks amazing. But I totally understand not wanting to drop 14 bucks or whatever it is for a paperback. Check some used book store in your area is my best suggestion.

DonInNC

08-15-2007, 04:30 AM

keithy_19

08-18-2007, 01:44 AM

Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman.

Considering it was written in 2003 I feel a little bit behind. I always saw it at Barnes and Nobel but never thought to pick it up. Today I did . And, with certain things in it, like

"It appears that countless women born between the years of 1965 and 1978 are in love with John Cusack. I cannot fathom how he isn't the number-one-box-office star in America, because every straight girl I know would sell her soul to share a milkshake with that motherfucker."

and,

"It does not matter that Coldplay is absolutely the shittiest fucking band I've ever heard in my entire life, or that they sound like a mediocre cophotocopy of Travis (who sound like a mediocre photocopy of Radiohead), or that the greatest fucking artistic achievement is a video where their blandly attractive frontman walks on a beach on a cloudy afternoon."

I love it.

PapaBear

08-18-2007, 01:49 AM

"It does not matter that Coldplay is absolutely the shittiest fucking band I've ever heard in my entire life
You've piqued my interest!

Garyisajoke

08-18-2007, 02:46 AM

Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light

It's a bit dry at this point (he's about 25 - it's a biography obviously) but a lot of the details the author has included thus far is interesting. I'm sure it'll pick up when Hithcock begins directing films, not arranging furniture. I'll keep you posted on how it turns out if anyone cares.

He dies at the end... I skipped forward. Couldn't help myself.

RapistWit

08-18-2007, 04:25 PM

Thanks to Ron I just picked up The Illustrated Man by Bradbury. I was reading Underworld but I just can't seem to get into it.

WhistlePig

08-18-2007, 04:59 PM

DarkHippie

08-19-2007, 07:19 AM

I just finished "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K LeGuin. i was surprised that for a novel with so much gravitas about it, its a really short book

stinkbud

08-19-2007, 08:15 AM

I just finished "The Dark River" by John Twelve Hawks, and I enjoyed the hell out of it.

Before that I read the new Chuck Pahlaniuk book, "Rant" which I also really got into.

Ay Kay Forty2

08-19-2007, 09:32 AM

klaus_kinski_Jr

08-19-2007, 09:34 AM

I'm reading "Youth in Revolt: The Journal of Nick Twisp". I just heard about it recently because i guess their making a movie of it and it's starring Michael Cera (Arrested Development and Superbad) as the lead. It's basically about a 14 year exploring sex and life and such. Really absurd humor and funny stuff.
Great book read it when it came out back in 94 or 95. But there is no way they will do justice to it. Or even be able to film some of it.

Right now reading The French Connection - Robin Moore

Bulldogcakes

08-19-2007, 04:15 PM

I predict that the choice of title for that book is supposed to hint that, like Chuck Barris' book about how he was a hitman for the CIA while hosting the Gong Show, this guy's story is total bullshit. It sounds like a good read but I'm just not buying it.

Its pretty conspiratorial (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_an_Economic_Hit_Man).

Economic hit men (EHMs) are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. They funnel money from the World Bank, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and other foreign "aid" organizations into the coffers of huge corporations and the pockets of a few wealthy families who control the planet's natural resources. Their tools included fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex, and murder. They play a game as old as empire, but one that has taken on new and terrifying dimensions during this time of globalization.

The US rapes the world as nations lay there defenseless. Someone needs to explain Venezuela to me (or the billions in 3rd world debt forgiveness). Venezuela basically screwed the World Bank out of a good sized nation's annual GDP a few years back. I heard the author interviewed on NPR a few years back and wasn't impressed.

Sounds more like a Hollywood script than a serious book to me.

paulisded

08-19-2007, 04:43 PM

I'm reading this:

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/511pe1IGjfL._AA240_.jpg

It's Laurie Lindeen's memoir (she's the wife of Paul Westerburg and was in the punk band Zuzu's Petals). It's really good so far and I can relate to all the bands she mentions since I grew up around the same time.

I love that book.

Back in June, I went to a really cool show that was taped for MPR. Westerberg's sister, Mary Lucia (a MPR DJ) would interview Laurie, and then there'd be a music segment that fit the topic.

First she talked about going to shows in Madison, WI, and the Dream Syndicate were her favorite band. Steve Wynn then came out to play her favorite song.

She then talked about her family's love of show tunes. Mary's reply, "your family sang show tunes together. Our family drank." The next segment talked about her move to Minneapolis, and the awful cook that worked with her on her first job. That cook was Mark Olson of the Jayhawks, who then came out.

Laurie's band, Zuzu Petal's then reunited for a song (and another later).

The real thrill came after the intermission. Asked to fill some time, Westerberg came out and played two Stones songs with a band that included some members of the Jayhawks and Son Volt. He came out again later in the show to perform a tune from one of Laurie's favorite musicals, and a new song called "Goddamn Angel". Lori Barbero from Babes in Toyland also performed.

The show ended with everybody onstage to play Laurie's favorite song of all time - the Monkees' "Daydream Believer".

It was one of the coolest experiences ever.

PapaBear

10-21-2007, 09:03 PM

Yerdaddy

10-21-2007, 10:16 PM

I recently read Pagan Babies by Elmore Leonard. In one part, the Mob boss mentions a quote from Larry Czonka where he stated that if he had ever done an end zone dance, Howie Long would have punched him in the head. Was there another Howie Long, because Czonka retired before Howie Long started playing. Or am I just remembering the names wrong?

I rememebr that quote. He probably just made the quote up. Odd thing is Leanard's lived in Detroit all his life and that book, like many of his others, is set in Detroit, yet neither of the two players played in Detroit. Maybe just wanted to use two players people would recognize? I got nothin. You just rooned the whole book for me. Now I'm going to go live in a Rwandan orphanage so I never have to see another Elmore Leanard book again.

Fezticle98

10-22-2007, 11:49 AM

Finally got around to reading The Aquariums of Pyongyang, about a North Korean defector who spent years in a prison camp there. It was a quick read, I finished it in 2 sitting. Hell, even George W read it (allegedly).

JustJon

10-22-2007, 12:22 PM

On the verge of finishing Confessions of an Economic Hitman.

Thinking my next book is the Adventures of Cavalier and Cly by Michael Chabon

Badinia

10-22-2007, 12:39 PM

http://www.uncrate.com/men/images/2006/06/chuck-klosterman-iv.jpg

It's really funny and occasionally thought-provoking. I enjoyed Sex, Drugs, And Cocoa Puffs earlier this year.

Dougie Brootal

10-22-2007, 12:41 PM

just picked up the heroin diaries, by nikki sixx. looks cool, and i LOVED the dirt.

Fezticle98

10-22-2007, 12:46 PM

I'm undecided on my next book.

It's either going to be Monday Night Jihad (http://cbs4denver.com/sports/local_story_268072003.html) by Jason Elam or this:

http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/421/417sjrvzrilss500df9.jpg

buzzard

10-22-2007, 12:47 PM

http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z82/a1958wil/51lUM1ayzcL__AA240_.jpg

by Donna Hogan,I needed something really light and full of rumors and inuendos. I think Rita's book might be better.:dry:

EliSnow

10-22-2007, 12:50 PM

I'm re-reading this:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51sTPE5BslL._SS500_.jpg

And then afterwards, I'll read the next book:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51MQCZ8FVAL._SS500_.jpg

danner1515

10-22-2007, 01:28 PM

I've had my friend's copy of The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler sitting on my dresser for about eight months. I'm thinking about picking it up some time this week.

midwestjeff

10-22-2007, 01:56 PM

Just finished "Breakfast of Champions" by Vonnegut. :thumbup::clap::smoke::smile::happy:

Started "Wonderful Tonight" by Pattie Boyd last night.

sailor

10-22-2007, 03:32 PM

ZigZagBigBag

10-22-2007, 03:58 PM

'the prince of nothing' series by r. scott bakker last part, 'the thousandfold thought'. this is some of the best epic fantasy evvvvvvveeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrr.

PapaBear

10-22-2007, 04:06 PM

so the mob boss got the his facts mixed up. doesn't mean it's a failing on the writer's part.
I thought about it some more. Maybe it really is a real Czonka quote. It could be that Czonka said that on a sports show, when Howie Long was still playing. He might have meant that, if Long played in Czonka's day, he would have hit him in the head for doing an end zone dance. He might have been putting down modern defensive players for not putting offensive players in their place.

badorties

10-22-2007, 05:47 PM

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1891830465.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg http://webcontent.harpercollins.com/images/large/0060731427.jpg

waltermitty

10-22-2007, 10:00 PM

Just got my copy...... It is a tough read only because it's hard to keep my place while I laugh....

http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/51PAGtDfxPL.jpg

Also picked up this at the bookstore... Already read it, but not in years....

http://scienceblogs.com/deepseanews/upload/2007/04/cats-cradle.jpg

Yerdaddy

10-22-2007, 10:09 PM

PapaBear

10-22-2007, 10:12 PM

Oh, I loved it! The parts with the Mutt cracked me up the most.

BTW... read my last post about the Czonka thing. It may "un-ruin" the book for you.

Yerdaddy

10-22-2007, 10:57 PM

http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z82/a1958wil/51lUM1ayzcL__AA240_.jpg

by Donna Hogan,I needed something really light and full of rumors and inuendos. I think Rita's book might be better.:dry:

That might be the best title for a biography ever.

I've had my friend's copy of The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler sitting on my dresser for about eight months. I'm thinking about picking it up some time this week.

Pick it up or Bogie will slap you.

I'm in the middle of these two:

http://www.thingsasian.com/content/2600/26/images/InRetrospect.jpg

and

http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/1f/6e/3409024128a0ed5e2ff0a010._AA240_.L.jpg

The McNamara book is much the same as The Fog of War with more focus on Vietnam. While it is the most honest mea culpa I've seen from a political figure, and it's full of admissions of guilt by him and his colleagues on every page, there's still something missing that's been bothering me. He says periodically throughout the book that, while well-intentioned and all that, most of their failings while leading us into that war were failures to consider certain possibilities - most glaringly the possibility that "the domino theory" might be wrong, (which it proved to be), but more disturbingly he very casually mentions on about every tenth page that they failed to consider the probable cost of their decisions in terms of human lives, both Vietnamese, (and Cambodian and Laoation), and American. (I'm just getting to the part where they send in ground forces so maybe there's more thought given to the American lives, but in pondering bombing campaigns of North and South Vietnam and Cambodia and Laos they didn't consider the cost in human lives. In other words, while McNamara is proving to be one of the most honest men formerly in government in our history with the books and documentaries trying to get his version of events into the public to learn from, and I believe he's sincere and don't see any damning information he's left out, he and his colleagues, in determining the course of a war did not consider the human lives they would be sacraficing into their numerous equations. They explained in their many speeches their concearn for human lives, but almost never in the back rooms where the decisions were made. I find that really amazing and depressing.

It is a really good book however. McNamara is an excellent writer who knows how to get to the point and the book only drags where the progress on the war drags and he seems to not be holding anything back. Halfway through he's addressed the Gulf of Tonkein, (it happened and we were innocent), and the assassination of Gen Diem, (we were guilty), and all the other major events to that point - as they pertained to Vietnam, but not so much Cambodia or Laos. I'd certainly consider this a must read for anyone interested in that war.

After this I've already bought:

http://chpbooks.com.ru/img/502f303831353431323234582e30312e5f53434d5a5a5a5a5a 5a5a5f.jpg

http://www.dcothai.com/images/products/yearofliving.jpg

http://media.npr.org/programs/totn/features/2005/falcon/falcon200-2.jpg

http://www.greenmetropolis.com/covers/full/42/9780140277142.jpg

and "Cambodia: Report From a Stricken Land". Here's a PBS interview with the author from '98 when it was published. (http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/asia/july-dec98/cambodia_12-29.html) Looking at his major themes in the book, and starting research on several subjects in the country in preparation for doing journalism there, have shown me that things in Cambodia today are worse than I thought. The main issues are laid out in the interview.

danner1515

10-23-2007, 03:11 AM

Also picked up this at the bookstore... Already read it, but not in years....

http://scienceblogs.com/deepseanews/upload/2007/04/cats-cradle.jpg

Great book. I need to re-read that one. I haven't read it since my freshman year of college.

TeeBone

10-23-2007, 03:19 AM

Brad Thor - 'Takedown'

If you like Jack Ryan stories, you will like this author's style and approach to more current topics.

EddieMoscone

10-23-2007, 06:00 AM

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41bZbCdMhJL._SS500_.jpg

I put this in my bag on the way out today to try and finish it up. I read 75% of it during the summer, but once classes started again I dropped it.

Badinia

10-23-2007, 08:21 AM

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Tell me about this one? What's it about, what do you think? The cover's awesome. Is it a graphic novel or a regular printy one?

BrooklynKat

10-23-2007, 12:02 PM

I'm getting looks for reading this on the subway cause I'm a chick and an adult. :bye:

http://www.imagehosting.com/out.php/i1289673_Watchmen.jpg

Chris from TX

10-23-2007, 12:16 PM

http://i21.tinypic.com/23m3og2.jpg

Reading Empire Falls again cause it makes me happy, and random Clowes graphic novels.

Yerdaddy

10-23-2007, 12:26 PM

I'm a chick and an adult. :bye:

How you doin? :smoke:

RoyMunson

10-23-2007, 12:46 PM

http://www.elizabethgilbert.com/images/lastAMan-pb.jpg

Furtherman

10-23-2007, 12:52 PM

http://www.blueheronwyoming.com/bookart/Tender%20Bar.jpg

AND

http://www.booksamillion.com/bam/covers/0/46/505/185/0465051855.jpg

BoondockSaint

10-23-2007, 01:41 PM

The Tender Bar was a great book. A lot of it hit close to home.

IamPixie

10-23-2007, 01:48 PM

Just finished "Breakfast of Champions" by Vonnegut. :thumbup::clap::smoke::smile::happy:

I read breakfast of champions in one day. I literally couldn't put it down. I gave slaughter house five a shot but it didn't grip me the same way breakfast did.

http://i21.tinypic.com/23m3og2.jpg

and random Clowes graphic novels.

David Boring was pretty cool. Clowes is so fucking random though.

zen

10-26-2007, 10:05 AM

just re-read "dubliners" and "a portrait of the artist as a young man." gearing up to tackle "ulysses." anyone struggled with this tome? any suggestions?

Badinia

10-26-2007, 10:20 AM

Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury is a good warm-up for Ulysses- when you get used to parsing Benjy's point of view, it'll make Ulysses seem less inscrutable, or more scrutable as Dave might say.

zen

10-26-2007, 10:25 AM

done "the sound and the fury." read most of faulkner's catolouge. some good bourbon helps with faulkner's stream of consciousness. would jamison help with joyce?

IamFogHat

10-26-2007, 10:25 AM

http://www.harperacademic.com/coverimages/large/0380002930.jpg

Thebazile78

10-26-2007, 10:52 AM

Thinking my next book is the Adventures of Cavalier and Cly by Michael Chabon

I LOVED Kavalier & Clay! I think you will enjoy it a great deal, Jon.

Someone (I think it was AJ) mentioned A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore . . . I want to share that this is the book that almost made Matty toss me out of the Presidents' Club in the Honolulu Airport because I laughed so hard.

I've also read Bloodsucking Fiends, which made me laugh just as hard, but since we were sitting by the pool or in the hotel room at the time I read it, Matty didn't care as much. Once the sequel (You Suck! A Love Story) comes out in paperback, I plan to buy that too.

Currently, I'm reading another Christopher Moore:

Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

I started it this morning on the train and have been giggling ever since.

In the queue is yet another Chris Moore novel - Practical Demonkeeping

If anyone has any recommendations on biographies of Ben Franklin, Abigail Adams, Thomas Jefferson and George Washington please PM me with tips.

Also, has anyone read 1776 by David McCullough? Recommend it or pass on it?

weekapaugjz

10-26-2007, 11:03 AM

I haven't had time for much leisure reading the last few weeks but I have been rereading a lot of my old history books for school.

I did pick up Maus the other week and started reading it the other day. Even though it is based on the holocaust, it is a very enjoyable read so far.

chili

10-26-2007, 11:06 AM

I'm reading "The Ghost Map" right now, about a cholera outbreak in Victorian England.

led37zep

10-26-2007, 11:23 AM

http://chpbooks.com.ru/img/502f303734333237333137362e30312e5f53434d5a5a5a5a5a 5a5a5f.jpg

Its a really good book for any baseball fan. Its more or less transcripts of interviews Fay Vincent did with players from the 30's and 40's. I'm digging it!

Chigworthy

10-26-2007, 11:52 AM

I LOVED Kavalier & Clay! I think you will enjoy it a great deal, Jon.

It's an awesome book, despite the

disturbing scene where one of the protagonists gets forced to go ass to mouth by a bad cop.

envirogator

10-26-2007, 12:59 PM

Also, has anyone read 1776 by David McCullough? Recommend it or pass on it?

Classic McCullough...great read...wonderful details, very entertaining. I'm reading Ike by Michael Korda right now. I would recommend it highly.

Chip Vaughn

10-26-2007, 01:09 PM

Just finishing up The Day of Islam by Paul Williams.
It brings to light some facts about terrorists obtaining and planning the use of nuclear weapons.

http://w3.newsmax.com/a/summerattacks/dayofislam_book.jpg

RoyMunson

10-26-2007, 01:21 PM

PapaBear

01-11-2008, 08:01 PM

After seeing the movie about a hundred times, I thought I'd give the book a shot. I found a discounted hardback for seven bucks. I'm about a third of the way through (just finished "Book One"). What surprises me the most is how true to the book, the movie is. It seams like most of the lines from the movie are directly quoted from the book. It's a fun read.

Edit... One difference though, is there wasn't a kid wearing short pants in the snow.

Chip196

01-11-2008, 08:10 PM

http://gothamist.com/attachments/food_laren/2007_08_beard.jpg

It's pretty interesting thus far.

Freakshow

01-11-2008, 08:31 PM

I read breakfast of champions in one day. I literally couldn't put it down. I gave slaughter house five a shot but it didn't grip me the same way breakfast did.

I hope you all are reading the illustrated version. You lost out on half the experience if you don't.

I'm reading Steve Martin's book, it's ok. Well suited to reading in the bathroom.

GonzoStyle

01-11-2008, 08:56 PM

Lies My Teacher Told Me

even though ill end up having to teach those same lies, standardized testing rules!

The Chairman

01-11-2008, 09:23 PM

In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan and
What To Eat by Marion Nestle

just finished Tractatus (in German) by Wittgenstein, Love In The Time of Cholera (again) and Little Fur Family by Margaret Wise Brown.

The Chairman

eeroomnhoj

01-12-2008, 04:20 AM

I read breakfast of champions in one day. I literally couldn't put it down. I gave slaughter house five a shot but it didn't grip me the same way breakfast did.

Really, I felt the same way. In the end I thought Slaughter House was the better book though.

David Boring was pretty cool. Clowes is so fucking random though.

Jughead

01-12-2008, 04:23 AM

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51en0RVwWDL.jpg And it is really really good....The recommendation came from Ken Burns documentary THE WAR....

EffMeBoobs

01-14-2008, 02:23 PM

Just finished The Kite Runner in time to see the movie this week.

DiabloSammich

01-14-2008, 02:27 PM

Re-reading some selected chapters of Freakonomics and then I'm gonna hit Fast Food Nation. I have a feeling I won't be having a McRib when I finish that one.

Chigworthy

01-14-2008, 02:30 PM

In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
I'm going to read "The Omnivore's Dilemma" after I'm done reading this:
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n34/n170060.jpg

Which is pretty decent. I've never read Simmons before, but I gather that he kind of oscillates between Sci-Fi and horror. This story isn't a corny horror story, it's a historical fiction tale about one of the most interesting and disasterous "man vs nature" events, The Franklin Expedition. Simmons does a very good job of extrapolating a possible story of what happened, while tying in a semi-believeable monster subplot. It's written from the viewpoints of many of the different men that were on the expedition. Also, the paperback that just came out is bound beautifully, with a great cover, paper, and font.

Bulldogcakes

01-14-2008, 03:27 PM

In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan

Just got it in the mail today. He's been making the rounds lately and was on C-SPAN over the weekend. It sounds good, have you read it yet? What did you think?

djjd

01-14-2008, 03:42 PM

alternating between these two right now

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51E4wtvoSRL._SS500_.jpg
Heroes: The Champions of Our Literary Imagination

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51h-3SCjv1L._SS500_.jpg
The Golden Thread: A Reader's Journey Through the Great Books

Bruce Meyer (born April 23, 1957) is a Canadian poet and educator.

He has been the Director of Writing and Literature at the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies, and has taught at the University of Windsor, McMaster University, Trinity College at the University of Toronto, Seneca College, Humber College, and Skidmore College. He has been Visiting Writer at the Universities of Southern Mississippi and University of Texas at Austin, and the Whidden Lecturer at McMaster University.

Meyer currently teaches English at Laurentian University - Barrie Campus, where he is chief editor of The In Site, a poetry and short story magazine for Laurentian Barrie campus students. His broadcasts on "The Great Books" for CBC's This Morning are the network's best-selling audiocassette series.