What does everyone like to read?

[shesemsmom]

I just finished Clinton's book and now I am reading John Edwards *Four Trials* I usually read true crime and I love Ann Rule. What about everyone else?:bounce:

[Slowhand16]

1. Reading eh?

I am into Crime fiction and such... Robert Parker, Stuart Woods, Tom Clancy, etc.. Bios are cool too, long as they are rock n' roll related... lol. Robert Frost kicks ass too!

[Ardee]

2. Compulsive reader

Currently reading Neal Stephenson's new trilogy The Baroque Cycle, first book is Quicksilver, the story of Daniel Waterhouse (if you read Cryptonomicon he's an ancestor in the late 1600's)a modern thinker and conflicted Puritan pursuing knowledge in the company of the greatest mids of Baroque era Europe....and much, much more.

I generally read Science Fiction and have read everything of this author with great glee.

[LearnedHand]

8. Stephenson ROCKS!

I read Cryptnomicon, but haven't yet read Quicksilver. Glad to hear a good recommendation of it.

If you haven't yet read SnowCrash, do so by all means!

[Ardee]

14. read it

Zodiac and Diamond Age too.........If you liked Cryptonomicon you will devour Quicksilver. The Shaftoe family and the Waterhouse clan will be familiar to you (but in 1665).......

[MissMarple]

3. I'm currently reading "Brimstone" and "Moral Politics".

The first is by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Childs who also wrote "The Relic", "The Reliquary", "Cabinet of Curiosities" and my personal favorite "Still Life With Crows".

"Moral Politics" is the new favorite read of many DUers by George Lakoff.

[shesemsmom]

7. Thanks, that may be my next

[datasuspect]

4. currently reading

journal of the plague years by dafoe and dark night of the soul by st. john of the cross

[ilovenicepeople]

5. I.m reading The New Inquisition by Robert Anton Wilson

and just ordered Bloodlines of the Illuminati by Fritz ???????????

[datasuspect]

6. who is

contemporaneous with wilson?

i don't think i've read any of his stuff.

is it very interesting?

[ilovenicepeople]

11. Even though I'm at DU

I'm not smart enough to know what "contemporaneous" means,help me out

[datasuspect]

15. sorry

what other authors are from his time/era? who are his contemporaries?

[ilovenicepeople]

16. Timothy Leary,Israel Regardie are some people he worked with

He has a PhD in psychology,talks about quantum physics orgone theory (Wilhelm Reich)He co-authored The Illuminatus Trilogy with Robert Shea(great book) Robert Anton Wilson(RAW)is put out by Falcon Press in Phoenix AZ.

ON EDIT:Nick Caves: And the Ass Saw the Angel is a good! book that I would recomend.

[KlatooBNikto]

9. Today, I finished reading John O'Hara's great work.

APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA.I had read it during my college days a long time ago and wanted to revisit the work because the name in the title evoked Iraq.O'Hara uses a quote from W.Somerset Maugham in his introduction: DEATH SPEAKS

There was a merchant in Baghdad who sent his servant to market to buy provisions and in a little while the servant came back, white and trembling, and said, Master, just now when I was in the marketplace I was jostled by a woman in the crowd and when I turned I saw it was Death that jostled me. She looked at me and made a threatening gesture;now, lend me your horse, and I will ride away from this city and avoid my fate.I will go to Samarra and there Death will not find me.The merchany lent his horse, and the servant mounted it, and he dug his spurs in its flanks and as fast as the horse could gallop he went.Then the merchant went down to the marketplace and he saw me standing in the crowd and he came to me and said, Why did you make a threatening gesture to my servant you saw him this morning? That was not a threatening gesture ,I said,it was only a start of surprise.I was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.

O'Hara takes this theme and chronicles the destruction of a Julian English in the upper class suburb of Gibbsville through a series of self destructive acts.The power of O'Hara's prose which derives from its simplicity and the parable like characteristics of the novel itself is unmatched in my opinion.This was O'Hara's very first work and he never quite reached the greatness of this work since. His Nobel Prize for Literature was entirely based on the power of this novel.He fully deserved it, IMO.

I have never quite forgotten this work.It haunts me to think about it.

[blueblitzkrieg]

10. I'm reading the Autobiography of Malcolm X. nt

[flobee1kenobi]

12. about halfway through

http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0802135587/ref=sib_dp_pt/104-6597987-0945510#reader-link

Che

[KlatooBNikto]

13. Talking of autobiographies, I have a funny tale to relate.Charles

Barkley the Basketball Player, published an autobiography some years ago and one of the TV talking heads asked him about a piece in that autobiography and said" Charles, is that true?" Sir Charles replied" No comment, I haven't read it yet". LOL.