Last book you read was???

[hedgetrimmer]

"The Re-enchantment of Everyday Life" by, Thomas Moore.

[Sweetpea]

1. The Four Agreements

again.

[truthseeker1]

8. Awesome awesome book

I reread it all the time.

[Cats Against Frist]

2. Tristam Shandy -- I'm reading it now

Last poetry book was "Macular Hole," by Catherine Wagner.

[kiahzero]

3. Against All Enemies

Just read it a few weeks ago. Before that, "Supreme Injustice" by Dershowitz.

[GingerSnaps]

4. Nickeled and Dimmed

One of the best books that I have read in years.

[Kool Kitty]

5. I'm now reading

"Bush Must Go", written by Bill Press. It's terrific so far.

[hrhdeb]

6. "Still Life with bombers"

I just read "Still Life With Bombers" by David Horovitz. It's very interesting, and a little depressing, but answers questions I've always wondered about. Things like what is it like to raise kids in a place where bombings are a matter of course?

Deb

http://www.votewhileyoustillcan.com

[Rabrrrrrr]

7. "Cosmopolitan" by Toby Cecchini

who was the "inventer" of the Cosmo (he actually says he's the perfecter, since a very similar drink was invented decades ago, but he brought it back to life and made it better). Great, great book, with a healthy dose of railing against people who want sugary, hide-the-alcohol type drinks, who go drinking just to get drunk, and about how the Cosmopolitan (and the Martini) have been totally bastardized by the "trendy" set.

[bloodyjack]

16. so, uh, what IS wrong with people who drink just to get drunk

[Rabrrrrrr]

18. They tend to be obnoxious, clueless, break glasses and bottles,

and not really give a whit about the taste or the qualities of the drinks they are imbibing, slamming down cheap booze with little or no quality of taste as fast as they can in order to reach the nirvanic point of throwing up, making a fool of themselves, falling on the floor, or any combination of all three and more.

or they tend to be older alcoholics, for whom the drink is merely an escape, and has nothign to do with conviviality or taste. These are the sad cases, as alcholism is pretty damned rotten.

The first group I mentioned tend to be youngish, inexperienced, and filled with our stupid American "Booze is taboo/no it's great! Can't wait to be 21 to go get shitfaced, since alcohol must be TOTALLY awesome since you have to be 21 to have it and every says it's really bad but that they love it!" I was that way in my first couple years of college, and I find it said that America doesn't tach our people how to enjoy and appreciate alcohol. Seems to be either feast or famine for the most part.

[HEyHEY]

9. Finally finished "The Proud Highway"

[Pithlet]

10. Lamb

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

Hilarious. I highly recommend it.

[jus_the_facts]

11. Robots and Murder ~ Isaac Asimov

....a 3 in 1 collection of 'The Caves o'Steel'...'The Naked Sun' and 'The Robots o'Dawn'.....enjoyed and recommend it HIGHLY! :)

Just started Stephen King's third installment o' The Gunslinger Series..'The Wastelands'...so far soooo good! :thumbsup:

[countmyvote4real]

12. Geek Love by Katherine Dunn

In truth, it was about 3 books ago, but it's still my recent favorite. Do check it out.

From there I went to:

Villa Incognito by Tom Robbins
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris

Now I'm reading an early Robertson Davies trilogy.

[Dookus]

14. heheh...

Geek Love is one of my all-time favorites. I've probably convinced 20 people to read it, and they've ALL enjoyed it.

[gate of the sun]

13. space

by stephen baxter.

[mhr]

15. Out Of The Flames

Out of the Flames : The Remarkable Story of a Fearless Scholar, a Fatal Heresy, and One of the Rarest Books in the World
by Lawrence Goldstone, Nancy Goldstone

From Publishers Weekly
When Michael Servetus was burned at the stake for heresy in 1553, he had spent much of his life running from the Church. Born into a noble Spanish family, he studied medicine and the humanities extensively. By age 20, he had written a treatise on the Trinity that incensed Church authorities and led him into self-imposed exile. But the book that doomed Servetus was Christianismi Restitutio (Christianity Restored), which challenged, among other ideas, John Calvin's doctrine of predestination and argued that God exists in all people and all things. The reaction to Servetus's text was so vehement that all copies discovered were destroyed. As the Goldstones (book collectors and authors of Used and Rare, etc.) reveal, three copies of the book still exist. In this lively account, the authors vividly recreate a Renaissance world of revolution and reform in which the dissemination of ideas flourished thanks to the printing press. They also trace the paths of the surviving copies of Christianismi Restitutio as they make their way through the hands of Voltaire, Rousseau, Jefferson and physician William Osler. More than a theological treatise, the Christianismi Restitutio contains a paragraph that explains pulmonary circulation, decades before William Harvey generally credited with this discovery announced his find.

Snip ......

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0767908376/qid=1089354865/sr=8-1/ref=pd_ka_1/102-9773402-0037766?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

[bloodyjack]

17. "Less Than Zero" -Ellis

might re-read Platforme, for the heck of it

[ThatPoetGuy]

19. Funeral Rites

by Jean Genet.

[gold_bug]

20. Guns, Gems, and Steel

[MallRat]

38. I'm in the middle of "Guns, Germs, and Steel" myself.

I bought the book years ago, but finally got around to reading it now.

At this rate, I'll be reading "Against All Enemies" in 2006, and "Plan of Attack" sometime in 2008.

:-)

[blindpig]

44. Absolutely required reading, n/t

[tainted_chimp]

21. Dry ~ by Augusten Burroughs

next up: Running With Scissors by same author...sadly i should have read this first, Dry being the sequel.

Typical. :spank:

[Angelus]

22. "Curious George Goes to the Zoo"

I was at the doctor's office...it was the only book there.

[bookfreak]

23. Jane Eyre (again)

I've been reading it and re-reading it since I was about 13 or 14. Before that it was "Crime and Punishment".

Now I'm getting ready to read "Buddhism for Dummies". :dunce:

[orthogonal]

24. The Tangled Wing (rev. & updated ed.) by Melvin Konner

Full title: The Tangled Wing: Biological Constraints on the Human Spirit

As thought-provoking as the classic original (which I read several years ago) but completely updated so even more worth buying. Most of the research Konner describes postdates the book's original publication in 1984.

[REP]

25. "The Devil in the White City"

Before that: "The Definition of Everything." Right now: "Spoken Here."

[no_hypocrisy]

26. "Ship Ablaze: The Tragedy of the Steamboat General Slocum" by

Edward T. O'Donnell.

Fascinating story of "lost" NYC history. A steamboat with mostly women and children from Little Germany set sail for a church outing/day trip. A small fire started in a room with lamp oil, wood, and other flammables. The crew inadvertently propelled the fire. The hoses didn't work. The lifejackets were old, rotten, and actually made the people sink to the bottom of the East River when worn. The lifeboats were wired to the boat and could not be released. 1,031 perished out of 1,300 passengers. This was the greatest loss of life in NYC history pre-9/11. Virtually nobody has heard this story in contrast to the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire or the Titanic.

[RebelOne]

27. "The Face," by Dean Koontz

Not one of his best, but typical Koontz scary stuff.

[Red State Rebel]

40. I'm in the middle of this one now...creepy! n/m

[tkmorris]

28. Another Roadside Attraction-Tom Robbins

Well ok, I'm re-reading it now but it counts. The last book I completed was The Da Vinci Code (finally). I don't get the fuss about that one frankly, there was little new in it. It was as good as Dan Brown usually is, but all of the ideas in it were rehashed from other works. The only explanation I can see is that it scared the religious establishment, and the only reason it could have done so was because it got close to the truth.

By the way, for those who haven't read Tom Robbins, do so. Right now. It doesn't matter which title, just read em all. FWIW the one I am currently re-reading may be the worst of the lot but it is STILL better than anything else on the bestseller list by far. If you have a choice I recommend "Skinny Legs and All" as a good place to start.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

29. "Petersburg" by Emily Hanlon

Historical fiction about pre-revolutionary Russia...leading up to the first days of the Revolution...

theProdigal

[marigold20]

30. Reversible Errors

..

[LWolf]

31. The curious incident of the dog in the night-time

by Mark Haddon

Before that, Oryx & Crake, Margaret Atwood.

[GOPisEvil]

32. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris

[Anaxamander]

33. "Shine Hawk" by Charlie Smith (nt)

[Kitka]

34. Naked by David Sedaris

[curse10]

35. Thus Was Adonis Murdered by Sarah Cauldwell

I love my murder mysteries

[King Of Paperboys]

36. "My Pet Goat."

I couldn't put it down. I ignored everthing that was going on around me, it was so engrossing.

[Beware the Beast Man]

37. "Band of Brothers" by Stephen Ambrose

Currently, I'm working on "Call to Service" by John Kerry and "Black Box Voting" by Bev Harris.
I love my local library :)

[Khephra]

39. "The Eyre Affair" by Jasper Fforde

From Publishers Weekly

Surreal and hilariously funny, this alternate history, the debut novel of British author Fforde, will appeal to lovers of zany genre work (think Douglas Adams) and lovers of classic literature alike.

The scene: Great Britain circa 1985, but a Great Britain where literature has a prominent place in everyday life. For pennies, corner Will-Speak machines will quote Shakespeare; Richard III is performed with audience participation … la Rocky Horror and children swap Henry Fielding bubble-gum cards.

In this world where high lit matters, Special Operative Thursday Next (literary detective) seeks to retrieve the stolen manuscript of Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit. The evil Acheron Hades has plans for it: after kidnapping Next's mad-scientist uncle, Mycroft, and commandeering Mycroft's invention, the Prose Portal, which enables people to cross into a literary text, he sends a minion into Chuzzlewit to seize and kill a minor character, thus forever changing the novel. Worse is to come. When the manuscript of Jane Eyre, Next's favorite novel, disappears, and Jane herself is spirited out of the book, Next must pursue Hades inside Charlotte Bront‰'s masterpiece.

The plethora of oddly named characters can be confusing, and the story's episodic nature means that the action moves forward in fits and starts. The cartoonish characters are either all good or all bad, but the villain's comeuppance is still satisfying.

Witty and clever, this literate romp heralds a fun new series set in a wonderfully original world.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/-/books/0142001805/reviews/104-7599163-6255900#01420018057299

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

41. Fiction : "Still Life With Woodpecker" - Non: "Autobiog. of Miles Davis"

n/t

[blindpig]

42. The Confusion, The Baroque Cycle Vol 2, Neal Stephenson

Well, 50 pages to go out of 800+. Great.

[Az]

43. Currently reading Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer

Also currently reading Ringworld's Children by Larry Niven.

Under the Banner of Heaven is an examination of the Mormon religion and its history with a focus on the fundimentalist sects supporting polygamy that still exist and are growing.

[sus]

45. "Oryx and Crake" Margaret Atwood

[russian33]

46. 'Up Country', Nelson DeMille