What are you reading?

[khashka]

Me...

Tailchaser's Song

Beauty ("I know I am loquacious, but it is no great sin.")

And of course rhe latest Nat. Geo.


Khash.

[RetroLounge]

1. Red Dragon - Thomas Harris

:shudder:

RL

[reyd reid reed]

15. The best of the three

IMO.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

57. That is a great one!

I spent the entire book imagining the blind girl as Chloe from 24. Don't know why.
Duckie

[terrya]

2. "Kate" by William J. Mann.....

And "The Way We Live Now" by Anthony Trollope.

[jobycom]

3. Your thread. When I get home, I'll try to read "Love in the time of Cholera"

but that may be too much of a chore for me to handle.

[RetroLounge]

7. Very Good Book...

Worth the time and effort...

RL

[jobycom]

12. I'll stick with it, then. So far I can't manage more than a few pages

without falling asleep or suddenly realizing I haven't even noticed what I've read for the last two pages. Maybe it's the translation.

[Xipe Totec]

96. Great book, I recommend it! n/t

[mainegreen]

4. Devil in the white city.

Interesting book.

[huskerlaw]

5. That is a good book

More interesting than I thought it would be. Enjoy!

[RetroLounge]

8. On my want list...

one day i'll read it.

RL

[flamingyouth]

24. I just got his new book, "Thunderstruck"

I loved "The Devil in the White City." Great book. :thumbsup:

[terrya]

28. I've ordered "Thunderstruck" from the History Book Club.

I also loved "The Devil in the White City". :-)

[flamingyouth]

30. It's great so far. He's a wonderful writer.

:hi:

[terrya]

37. That's what I thought. Thanks.

I love readable, enjoyable history. And Erik Larson excells at it. :-)

:hi:

[Sequoia]

48. Excellent. Perfect for Halloween.

Still holding steady on the best seller list for over two years. Being made into a movie.

[FredStembottom]

99. EXCELLENT book. It gives so much more than you might expect.

It goes so effectively into the World's Exposition and the men who just about killed themselves to bring it off that the serial killer is just an amazing, dumbfounding bonus.

The book could easily have been obvious and lame. The 180 degree contrast between the Festival of Light and an unusually industrious serial killer right in it's midst almost demands that any book about it would simply lather/rinse/repeat that simple contrast over and over and over.

But this book provides so much more! :thumbsup:

[Cygnusx2112]

6. Two Books.

A Short History Of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson. Science, but very easily understood. Highly recommended.

Still Life With Woodpecker - Tom Robbins. Jury is still out on this one.

[RetroLounge]

10. Still Life With Woodpecker

One of my all-time favorites...

:hi:

RL

[Cygnusx2112]

17. And with that vote of confidence, RL, I will continue on...

Its rare I won't finish a book (Valis by PK Dick being a recent exception)

But Woodpecker was a gift, not something I'd pick up on my own and I keep wondering where its going.
There's no question Robbins is somewhat funny and can turn an interesting phrase.

However, I can't help picturing him taking bong hits while he's cranking this out on his Remmington SL3... :)

[RetroLounge]

23. Probably because he DID take bong hits

at least I figured he did...

:rofl:

RL

[JitterbugPerfume]

27. I absolutely love that book

and Tom Robbins

[RetroLounge]

52. Well, then you should have used one of his books

as your DU name...

:rofl:

RL

[JitterbugPerfume]

53. what a good idea

:rofl:

[Merrick]

63. I'd check out Jitterbug Perfume

the best Robbins book I've read so far. Another Roadside Attraction and Half Asleep in Frogs Pajamas are also quite good.

[johnnie]

9. Elmore Leonard "The Hot Kid"

I just started it. I haven't read one of his books in a while and needed a break from the "heavy" shit I usually read.

[huskerlaw]

11. Water for Elephants

by Sara Gruen.

It's so good that I lost track of time on the subway this morning and got off at the wrong stop!

Doh.

[RetroLounge]

55. I keep wanting to buy this one....

I think next bookstore trip I get this one...

RL

[huskerlaw]

56. Definitely do!

I almost didn't buy it because I have absolutely no interest in the subject matter.

The circus? Seriously don't care.

But it's really very good!

[jane_pippin]

72. That's a good book

I read it over the summer. Love stories aren't usually my thing, but this one has just enough weirdness thanks to the setting and the structure of it to make it more than just a love story. (Not that a book needs to be weird to be good. I just mean it's got a lot more going for it than the plot.) She does a good job giving the characters depth too.

[mvd]

13. I'm still on..

9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA by Webster Griffin Tarpley. It's a good read so far. I haven't decided yet just how much I believe. He does a good job of getting into the reasons for state-sponsored terror, but I'm not sure there's no genuine terror.

[BarenakedLady]

14. "Wintersmith"

Terry Pratchett.

[ThomCat]

33. OMG, A Terry Pratchett book I haven't read yet!

I have to get that now.

[BarenakedLady]

38. It's actually

A young adult series :blush: Started with "Wee Free Men" about a young witch named Tiffany Aching. Of course Granny Weatherwax makes appearances.

[ThomCat]

40. I love reading about the Nac Mac Feegle!

:)

[BarenakedLady]

42. Ach crivens!

Oh waily, waily, waily!

:rofl:

[reyd reid reed]

16. I'm still reading The Memory Keeper's Daughter

I probably ought to bring it in from the car, though. I took it with me to read at work a few nights ago and forgot to bring it back inside.

I have no idea what's next, though. Depends on my mood. Anyone got any suggestions?

[huskerlaw]

75. I just finished

The Memory Keeper's Daughter. It was good. Not fabulous, but definitely worth the time and effort.

I'm recommending "Water for Elephants" to everyone at the moment. That's what I'm reading now and it's great.

Otherwise, if you haven't read The Time Traveler's Wife, The Kite Runner or The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime...I highly recommend all 3.

[reyd reid reed]

83. I've read Time Traveler's Wife and Kite Runner...

absolutely loved both of them, especially Kite Runner...I was looking at The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime the other day...but I'd already spent WAY too much money that day so I put it down.

It's on my 'want' list, though...and my birthday's in about an hour now...

Maybe one of my kids will take pity on their poor old decrepit mom...y'think? Stranger things have happened, y'know.

Water for Elephants, huh?

Thanks.

[bluethruandthru]

18. "What Came Before He Shot Her"

by Elizabeth George

[RebelOne]

19. Marley and Me. It's on the NY Times best-seller list.

Great book so far. n/t

[patrick t. cakes]

20. Fiasco

by thomas ricks.
anybody read it.
just borrowed it from my uncle
and havent started it yet.
looks good though. all about the iraq war.

great title

[Cygnusx2112]

21. When I saw your post, I thought you meant Fiasco by

Stanislaw Lem...another great book.

I have Ricks' Fiasco on my list!

:hi:

[patrick t. cakes]

26. it looks good

my uncle highly recomends:hi:

[Ariana Celeste]

22. In between books at the moment.

I plan to start reading LotR (again) soon... Probably tonight, or this weekend. I just finished rereading The Tommyknockers a few days ago... I hadn't read it in years so I had forgotten most of the story. :)

[trackfan]

25. The Diaries of Victor Klemperer,

The English Language by Burchfield,

and Augustine's City of God

[_testify_]

29. Neuromancer, by William Gibson. Long overdue for me.

Written in '84, he envisioned cyberspace way before it became a reality. It's also obvious that the Matrix crowd borrowed heavily from it.

[MrCoffee]

44. a classic. probably my favorite work of fiction.

"The sky was the color of a television tuned to a dead channel."

[_testify_]

86. Yeah. I don't know how I went 30 years without reading it.

Considering I love all things cyberpunk...kinda embarassing actually!

But it was fantastic...have you read any of his newer books? Pattern Recognition in particular?

[ThomCat]

31. Just finished A Guide to Jewish Prayer

by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz.

Now I'm reading Racism and Education by Barry Troyina.

[JitterbugPerfume]

32. I just can't seem to get interested in anything

--got the blahs

I am thinking about re -reading Orryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

[bikebloke]

34. The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Just finished Thirteen Moons by Charles Frazier. I liked it.

[jonnyblitz]

35. just finished "the Kite Runner" by khalid Hosseini and now

I am reading "The Palestinian People: A History" by Baruch Kimmerling and Joel S. Migdal.

[huskerlaw]

76. I *loved* the Kite Runner

Fabulously written.

[rockymountaindem]

36. "The Rise of Russia in Asia"

A book for my Foreign Policy of Russia and the USSR seminar.

[XemaSab]

91. I am reading

a Kyrgyz dictionary.

Good strong use of vocabulary, but the plot tends to wander a bit. :hi:

[rockymountaindem]

92. Heh, for serious?

I saw the Lonely Planet Kyrgyzistan episode, and it seemed like a cool place to visit until the tribal chief offered the host a goat's eyeball to round off the banquet as a gesture of friendship.

Bishtek, the national caiptal of Kyrgyzistan, is a sister city of my hometown, Colorado Springs. So I already have a connection!

[XemaSab]

93. Yeah, the goat head thing...

It's one of those ancient rituals you just have to go with. :shrug:

[Neoma]

39. Gulliver's Travels.

[bridgit]

41. The Areas of My Expertise - John Hodgman

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Areas_of_My_Expertise :rofl:

[LostinVA]

43. Without Apology: Girls, Women, and the Desire to Fight

Leah Hager Cohen. Really good so far.

Actually, I was just going to tell Haruka about this.

From PW:

"Learning to box alongside four inner-city teenage girls, Cohen delivers a sensitive, nimbly written account that is part memoir, part sports story and part critical inquiry into the nature of aggression. With a novelist's flair for detail (she's written two novels and two previous works of nonfiction), Cohen tells the story of sisters Jacinta, Sefina and Candi Rodriguez, their friend Nikki Silvano and their diminutive coach, Raphaëlla Cruz, one of the first amateur female boxing champions. Most of those drawn to the Boston-area Somerville Boxing Club are troubled in some way, Cohen suggests. Jacinta and Nikki are best friends, but some see them as too close; Nikki has an oppressive, difficult mother; before boxing, all the girls were quick to use their fists in disputes. Aggression is an essential aspect of female behavior, Cohen says, and its sublimation can result in the "relational aggression" discussed in Rachel Simmons's Odd Girl Out and other similar books. Cohen links her own forays into the ring to her own issues with weight, parenting and violence. "It was like falling in love with the last possible person on earth you thought you could be attracted to," she writes. Though the narrative turns away from the teenagers to focus, less rewardingly, on Cohen's experiences, this is an incisive look at female psychology and the surprising world of female boxing."

[northernsoul]

45. The First Man in Rome

huuuuge historical epic by Colleen McCollough. I'm only about a third of the way through.

[hippywife]

59. I've read all of that series so far

and enjoyed it. It does bog down at times but I was always completely enthralled by the stories. I'm reading Morgan's Run now and really enjoying it.

[Sequoia]

46. "The Worst Hard Time", by Timothy Egan

Page 220:

Inside a blackened room in Pampa, Texas...a 22 YO itinearte folk singer thought up the first line of a song about the world coming to an end. Woody Guthrie was with several people clustered around a single light bulb; the glow was so weak it looked like the end of a cigarette. For the last two years, Guthrie had been wandering around the Texas Panhandle, doing odd jobs, hopping trains. Whle working at a root beer stand that sold corn whiskey under the counter, he'd picked up the guitar during idle times and learned how to strum a few chords. As he watched the Black Sunday duster approach, he thought of the Red Sea closing in on the Israelites.
"This is it," said one of the people in the room, citing Scripture. "the end of the world."
Guthrie started humming. He had the first line of a song, "So Long, It's Been Good to Know Ya."
______

and that first line (from memory) is: A dust storm hit, and it hit like thunder. It dusted us over and covered us under.

The day was April 14, 1935 Palm Sunday around 6pm.

FAB BOOK!

[bif]

47. Extremely Close & Incredibly Loud & History of Love

[plcdude]

49. the Secret Message of Jesus

by Brian D. Mclaren. I am really enjoying his back to basics for the christian religion.

[LeftyMom]

50. Let's see

The China Study
My godawful PoliSci text
My Law and Society and Human Sexuality texts
I haven't got time for anything fun at the moment :(

[plcdude]

51. Human Sexuality

could be interesting.

[LSK]

54. State of Denial - Woodward

[YellowRubberDuckie]

58. PREDATOR (It's an acronym)

By Patricia Cornwell.
I don't give a shit if she is a Republican. The woman can write.
Duckie

[unsavedtrash]

60. Foundations of Library and Information Science,

and other exciting textbooks.
x(

[Fox Mulder]

61. The Nightmare Encyclopedia: Your Darkest Dreams Interpreted

by Jeff Belanger, Kirsten Dalley

[Left Is Write]

62. Still working my way through my Ann Rule library.

[Skittles]

64. A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines

Janna Levin

[TOhioLiberal]

65. I'm reading...

'Hubris' by Michael Isikoff and David Corn, and 'Tempting Faith' by David Kuo.

[Goblinmonger]

66. 3 going right now

End of Faith by Sam Harris
Sabbath's Theatre by Phillip Roth
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (teaching it to my 10th graders and I reread every book I teach along with the kids).

Ain't I a pretentious summbitch.

[Generic Brad]

67. I'm embarrassed to reveal it

I alternate between reading novels of substance and non-fiction. But occasionally I succumb to my guilty pleasure -- hack science fiction serial novels. That is what I am reading now. A Star Trek Next Generation novel. Sue me.

[femmocrat]

68. "State of Denial" by Bob Woodward

[ornotna]

69. Static

By Amy Goodman and David Goodman. Just started it, I'm in the first chapter.

[jane_pippin]

70. "The Uses of Enchantment" by Heidi Julavits

I'm about halfway through. It's very good so far. It's set in the suburbs of Boston and a woman's mother, who was very cold, prim and distant during the woman's life, dies so the woman goes home for the funeral. She's been estranged, more or less, from her mother for fourteen years because of something the woman did when she was a high school student. So now the woman is trying to sort out just what it was that she did and whether or not her mother ever forgave her and maybe even if she can forgive herself. It's a family drama as well as a psychological character study with a good bit of mystery thrown in for good measure. The way I've described it sounds a bit hokey because I'm leaving some of the plot turns out, (I don't like to give too much of what happens away when I talk about books here in case someone wants to read it and be surprised, but if anyone is interested in knowing what the "something" the woman did is, feel free to send a PM.), but it's intense, surprising and a compelling read.

Oh, and for those keeping score, (and I know you are), :D I finally finished "The Children's Hospital" last week. Read it! It's great!

[philosophie_en_rose]

71. Constitutional Law by Sullivan and Gunther.

worst. textbook. ever.

[huskerlaw]

77. I beg to differ.

Wait until you take Corporate Taxation.

;)

[philosophie_en_rose]

88. Perhaps. If the text is translated into Klingon, then into freeper, then into english.

And Moran guy is hired to edit.

[progressoid]

73. The God Delusion

[Abies]

79. I finished it last night.

It's an outstanding read.

[Burma Jones]

74. Gibbons, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Appropriate reading for these days. I also enjoy Gibbons' writing. I also appreciate his Age of Enlightenment take on Religion....

[Ptah]

78. Bountiful Container.

So I can grow better flowers









:hi:

[yvr girl]

80. DU

Duh.





















:hi:

[leftofthedial]

81. umm, posts in the Lounge at DU

:shrug:

[StellaBlue]

82. Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady

By Florence King, who is somehow a RWer (to read her book you would swear she's far far left!).

HILARIOUS.

[cedahlia]

84. "Reading Deadwood: A Western to Swear By"

and I'm also about to get started on "Bitchfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine." I just got a fresh shipment of books from Amazon, and I am loving life! Courtney Love's new bio "Dirty Blonde" is next in line (comes out on Halloween! Yay!)

I do love me some books, yes I do! :D

[NJ Democrats]

85. The Greatest Story ever Sold by Frank Rich

[gemdem]

87. John Adams

by David McCullough

Recently finished re-reads of 'Night' by Elie Weisel and 'Gideon's Trumpet' by Anthony Lewis. Next in queue is 'Barrel Fever' by David Sedaris. My better half read it while we were on vacation in August and really enjoyed it. During that getaway I read 'October 1964' by David Halberstam.

Was out the reading habit for a LONG time, but have been getting back into it in a big way over the last few months.

[Deja Q]

89. Real World Bryce

It's a book re: landscape generation software. A couple of editions old (v4, I have v6) it's still useful...

Hope to have something up eventually...

[Jamastiene]

90. Please Kill Me

The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain

[TheCentepedeShoes]

94. From the library

The Architect (about KKK Rove) and Dead Towns and Living Men by Leonard Woolley, an early 20th century archaeologist.
I wanted SO badly to buy a new book today. Hastings has opened their shiny new neighborhood store so I just had to stop in on the way to the sooper market. Saw alot of things I wanted, but not in the budget this week.

[BreweryYardRat]

95. I'm meaning to finish off Robert Graves' "Count Belisarius."

Historical fiction done right.

[Lady Freedom]

97. Well besides my text books, I am reading three books.

Dracula by Bram Stroker
Dracula: The Vampire and his Critics which is basically a group of articles about the book
And last but not lest How to Hunt Ghost: A Practical Guide by Joshua P. Warren

[Xipe Totec]

98. Re-reading "The Two Faces of Tomorrow"

by James P. Hogan.

Much more interesting now, after taking an A.I. course.

[elocs]

100. The only thing I seem to read nowadays is my computer monitor. n/t