What are you reading, DU?

[jpgray]

I'm working my way slowly through Snorri Sturluson's Heimskringla.

[name not needed]

1. Stupid White Men

[ilovenicepeople]

49. DITTO!

[flamingyouth]

2. Oddly, I'm reading Njal's Saga

From the jacket: "Full of dreams, strange prophecies, sexual slander, violent power struggles and fragile peace settlements, Njal's Saga is a compelling chronicle of a fifty-year blood feud."

[madmax]

3. The Republican Noise Machine by Brock n/t

[LynneSin]

58. me too - I'm loving it

It's like all the stuff we already know but so much more connected with the names of who is paying all of this and the history of it all.

[XNASA]

4. I'm revisiting "All Quiet on the Western Front" for the first time...

in 30 years.

I've been taking my time with it because it's just too depressing to read in big chunks.

I actually had to stop reading it on the train on the way home because it was fouling up my mood at the start of my evening.

Great book though.

[JohnKleeb]

awesome, I read it last summer

its very sad, but I loved it.

[XNASA]

33. When I first read it, in high school, it changed me forever.

It was a pivotal moment in my life.

[JohnKleeb]

34. yeah as did I

summer I was going in to junior year, reading Gulag and Tour of Duty right now, those books are great.

[Richardo]

5. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

First time in about 25 years.

...as your attorney I advise you to read this book.

[tigereye]

8. Shakespeare

Macbeth, surprise. Sophie's World, a wonderful Swedish novel about a young girl's learning about philosophy, and a few mysteries.

[pagerbear]

40. I love Sophie's World!

[tigereye]

41. I just started it

I love philosophy and it seems to have a great presmise

[bobja]

6. Six Moon Dance

good sci-fi by Sherri Tepper. I've been going through book after book of hers this summer.

[phantom power]

7. "The Confusion", by Neal Stephenson

Also, "The Years of Rice and Salt", by Kim Stanley Robinson

[Tardisian]

9. Oscar Wilde's "Intentions",

and, for contrast, "Test your Science IQ" by Charles J. Cazeau. One that I finished not too long ago is "The Fundamentals of Extremism" edited by Kimberly Blaker; that's a really good look at fundamentalism, showing that in any form, extreme thinking is harmful to society as a whole.

[Mr. McD]

10. Piobaireachd and its Interpretation

Piobaireachd - pronounced pee-brock - is the classical and mystic music of the Great Highland Bagpipe.

[Synnical]

11. Politics

"The Price of Loyalty" Suskind on John O'Neil
"The Buying of the President 2004"
"My Life" Bill Clinton

[LiberalVoice]

12. Re-reading Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk

Awesome book!

[graywarrior]

14. Banker to the Poor

by Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank.

[johnnie]

13. Awakening the Buddha Within

Again

[Stew225]

About Behaviorism by

B.F. Skinner Trying to figure out the American psyche.

[Radical Activist]

15. My Life

I'm slowly working my way through Bill's book. My smaller coffee shop book right now is Losing America, the very good new book by Robert Byrd.

[Paradise]

16. The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter! nt

[Screaming Lord Byron]

17. A Confederate General from Big Sur by Richard Brautigan.

[Rainstorm]

18. I'm a history buff and....

...I just finished reading a great book about the Civil War. It is Far, Far from Home by Gary Loderhose. It is a non fiction account of the Ninth Florida Regiment during the Civil War. Central to the book are the letters written by a man during the war telling of his accounts. He joined the Florida Militia and so did his 18 year old son. Their first job was to defend Florida and to protect the routes of food supply from Florida to the Confederate Army. They fought at the Battle of Olustee when the Union Army tried to invade Florida. Later the Regiment was drafted into the Confederate Army and sent north to defend Richmond. The Regiment fought in the battle of Cold Harbor. The man was wounded in the leg during the last days of the war and died of infection. The son came home alone without his dad.

It is a great story and the letters give you great insights.

[histohoney]

22. I have a friend

who is a history buff too. He Loved GODS and GENERALS. Have you read it?

[histohoney]

23. I have a friend

who is a history buff too. He Loved GODS and GENERALS. Have you read it?

[histohoney]

sorry

[histohoney]

24. I have a friend

who is a history buff too. He Loved GODS and GENERALS. Have you read it?

[histohoney]

26. sorry

computer glich

[histohoney]

19. My bi-yearly

re-visit of Harper Lee's TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD. I love, love this book, it was my first "real grown-up" novel I ever read.
My father is very much like Atticus, and I have several East Texas family members that seem to have lived in this story.

[mrboba1]

20. Richest Man in Babylon

[JohnKleeb]

21. well

Gulag by Anne Applebaum who is also an editoralist not sure if shes lefty or righty but that woman gives me a great picture of the soviet gulags, and I am reading Tour of Duty by Douglas Brinkley about John Kerry. Gonna do one of these for my summer reading for school, but am undecided.

[BurtWorm]

25. "What's the Matter with Kansas?" by Thomas Franks

"Guns, Germs and Steel" by Jared Diamond
"Albion" by Peter Ackroyd
"The Origin of Species" by Charles Darwin
"The Anatomy of Melancholy" by Robert Burton

[pansypoo53219]

27. well....

i started reading a 1906 10 volumn set of famous orations edited by william jennings bryan. i have been also reading a 1903 encyclopedia britanica and also kevin phillips' book on the bush dyNASTY.

[dmr]

28. The Price of Loyalty

by Suskind

I have a huge list of books - oh, if only to have more time.

Plus, I am totally behind in reading the Plame threads. I have each of them saved on my hard drive for safe keeping.

[Richardo]

37. Great book!

[Eurobabe]

29. 1984 and Moral Politics (Lakoff)

n/t

[Redneck Socialist]

30. The Brothers Karamazov

and I just finished Bushwhacked by Molly Ivins. I've also sucked down a bunch of mysteries and thrillers this summer. Hillerman, Tapply and Brown, stuff like that.

[Sabriel]

31. Nickel and Dimed

I stayed in a motel this week, and all I could think about was the person who would clean my room. After reading Ehrenreich's disturbing expose of low-wage workers, I have new respect for them.

[terrya]

32. Ron Chernow's biography of Alexander Hamilton.

Very slow going.

[Commendatori]

35. "Red Wind" by R. Karl Largent

[Connie_Corleone]

36. Republican Noise Machine

n/t

[Radical Activist]

38. Is that any good?

I've seen it at the bookstore and didn't buy it because I thought it would just tell me what I already know.

[pagerbear]

39. Currently it's this

My friend Glenville Lovell's new detective novel, Love and Death in Brooklyn.

Next it will be my friend Michael Simon's new detective novel Dirty Sally.

I normally don't go for detective novels or mysteries or that sort of thing, but these are both friends, so I bought them and am reading them.

The last book I read was the charming Anthony Trollope's novel Doctor Thorne. Gotta love Victorian literature!

[mrboba1]

42. why, yes I am reading DU!

:P

[Kool Kitty]

43. Just finished "Banana Republicans",

working on "Bush Must Go" by Bill Press and Noam Chomsky's "Hegemony or Survival". I just picked up an older book at the library, "Atomic Soldiers" by Howard Rosenberg, about the soldiers that were basically guinea pigs during the A-tests in the fifties and the sixties.

[lil-petunia]

44. 3 at this time

9/11 report ( a great read)
History of Knights Templar
Dresden - taylor's description of the pre and post attack city.

[bif]

45. "The Curious Inciident of the Dog in the Nite-time"

Actually, I just finished it. Excellent book.

[terrya]

47. I saw the copies of this at Barnes and Noble. I almost picked up a copy.

I will, now. I've heard such great things about it...and your recommendation clinched it for me.

[LWolf]

57. I finished that one last week.

And I loved it. I didn't know if it would appeal to a wide audience; as a teacher, I was fascinated with the author's treatment of the main character.

[TheCentepedeShoes]

46. 9/11 Report

The End of Oil by Paul Roberts
and Joe Wilson's book

[Dan-W]

48. Judgment Ridge:

The True Story Behind the Dartmouth Murders. by Lehr & Zuckoff

Next up = "Against All Enemies: ..." by Richard A Clarke.

[tishaLA]

50. Believe it or not

I'm reading an anti-masturbation tract by Cotton Mather, "Onanism."

[Lizz612]

51. 9/11 Report and Germinal

Can I get more wonky? I'm not sure I can....
Some of those chapters in Germinal must be read in the back yard where you can see the sun and the birds, lest you forget you are only reading about being a couple hundred metres below ground.

[LiveWire]

52. Hey Rube -Hunter S Thomson

FUCKING BUNCH OF PIRTATES!

[DrWeird]

53. Nightwatch by Terry Pratchett.

Oddly relevant for this day and age.

Just finished, "Under the Banner of Heaven," by Jon Kraukauer.

Picked it up after reading "Into Thin Air," by the same.

Which I picked up after reading, "Touching the Void." I forget the name of the author, it's another mountain climbing story.

And I realized mountain climbing makes for great story telling after reading "Stardock," and a series of other Leiber "Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser" short stories.

[adriennel]

54. Running with Scissors

just finished it...man, the situations/characters in that book are messed up!

[kodi]

55. no boundary, ken wilber.....my brain hurts

just finished re-reading spengler's decline of the west.

man, did ozzie have bush pegged decades before he was even born

[AlFrankenFan]

56. Too many books hehehe

- "My Life" by Bill Clinton
- "Who Let the Dogs In?" by Molly Ivins
- "The South Was Right!" by the Kennedy Brothers (not the famous ones...this is my "fair and balanced" book ;-))

[LWolf]

59. I finished these in the last 10 days or so:

The curious incident of the dog i the night-time; mark haddon

The Lovely Bones; Alice Sebold

The Time Traveler's Wife; Audrey Niffenegger

Blessings; Anna Quindlen

Peace Like A River; Leif Enger

I Heard the Owl Call My Name; Margaret Craven

I'm starting this one today:

The Robber Bride; Margaret Atwood

I love vacation; I can finally get enough to read! :loveya:

[Nikia]

60. Read a PD James novel yesterday

A Certain Justice. I own the book and read it for the first and only other time about 2 years ago. I had forgotten enough of it that it was still interesting. Mysteries are usually better the first time though.

[The Great Escape]

61. Croatia: A Nation Forged In War

[AwakeAtLast]

62. The Devil in the White City

For those who haven't read it, the White City is the World's Fair Exposition in Chicago - 1893. The devil is a person who outdoes Jack the Ripper in the same time frame. Lots of twists and turns. If you know anything about Chicago, the author writes about many landmarks and historical events.

[Speck Tater]

63. Joseph Cambell, Myths to Live By

[Dukkha]

64. Neil Gaiman

Stardust right now

Before that Smoke and Mirrors
and Neverwhere

[CO Liberal]

65. Right Now? Topic Names in the DU Lounge

:-)

[Ithuilwen]

66. The Grapes of Wrath

Have to read it and write an essay on the "American Dream" for an AP English class. I hate summer assignments.