what is everyone currently reading?

[arcane1]

I'm re-re-reading "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors" by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan


vividly reminding me of just how much I still miss him :evilfrown:

[StopTheMorans]

1. your post

[arcane1]

4. lmao

ok perhaps 'currently' wasn't the best word-choice :)

[BurtWorm]

5. That's wild. I'm currently reading MY post.

I'm reading my post as it is being written. I wish I had something else to read. Maybe if I stop writing this post, I can go on to read something else.

[StopTheMorans]

10. whoa man, you're making my head hurt

:crazy:

[BurtWorm]

15. Now I'm reading my post again.

And again! And again! And again! And again! And again! And again! And again! And again! And again! And again! And again! And again! And again! And again! And again! And again! And again! And again! And again! And again! And again! And again! And again! And again! And again! And again! And again! And again! And again! And again! And again! And again! And again! And again! And again! And again! And again! And again! And again! And again! And again! And again! And again! And again! And again! And again! And again! And again! And again! And again! And again! And again! And again! And again! And again! And again! And again! And again! And again! And again! And again! And again! And again! And again! And again! And again! And again! And again! And again! And again! And again! And again! And again! And again! And again! And again! And again! And again! And again! And again! And again! And again!

[arcane1]

whoah, is this some kind of zen thing?

[Tweed]

2. Homegrown Democrat by Garrison Keillor

Great book, especially for Midwest Democrats. I highly recommend it. It's good for framing too.

[chicagojoe]

9. Same here.

[terrya]

3. "The Inner Circle" by T.C. Boyle

Fictionalized account of Alfred C. Kinsey. Decent book so far.

[arcane1]

8. just saw the Kinsey movie the other day

any connection?

[terrya]

11. Not really.

The narrator of "The Inner Circle" is a fictionalized character. It's just a coincidence...this book and the excellent film.

[arcane1]

34. Liam did a great job, IMO

and overall a great movie

[tigereye]

38. I keep trying to read TC Boyle

but I never suceed. I have a few sitting around that I never got through. Boyle is the kind of writer you feel you should read... but I have not been able to. Must be lack of will. ;)

[terrya]

40. Try starting out with "The Road to Wellville"

That's a good start to reading Boyle. :-)

T

[El Fuego]

43. Started reading "Drop City," never finished...

[Tyrone Slothrop]

85. I like his short stories much more than his novels n/t

[motely36]

6. Whiteout by Ken Follett

[Joe Power]

7. Jack Kerouac Windblown World

A collection of his journal entries.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

12. best democracy money can buy

good facts....terribly written

[arcane1]

30. agreed.... Palast is best when he's speaking

I was just the other day wondering where my copy was :dunce:

[Dora]

13. The Namesake, by Jhumpa Lahiri

Great read, tore through it from beginning to end on New Year's eve.

[yardwork]

14. I'm reading posts in the Lounge

[auburngrad82]

47. A most satisfying read. eom

[Vanje]

16. Moving em: A Guide to Low Stress Animal Handling

No really! Its a great book .....if you're a sheeptramp like me.

[jandrok]

17. I'm currently reading "Shadow Divers"

Deep wreck divers discover an undocumented German U-Boat off of the New Jersey coastline and go to great lengths to identify the sub. True story. PBS did a special on these guys a year or two ago. Interesting stuff.

[Cuban_Liberal]

18. "Case Closed", by Gerald Posner.

:hi:

[XNASA]

19. Just finished "Digital Fortress" this morning.

Sheesh. How anti-climatic. I figured out the key to the code 8 pages before the characters in the book did.

I hate when that happens.

Please tell me that "The DaVinci Code" is better.

[motely36]

24. It is, but Demons and Angels is better

or is it Angels and Demons???

[tigereye]

41. DIdn't make it through the DaVInci code

if you like that type of investigatory/arty/academic mystery, I highly recommend Ian Pears. Much better writer, IMO.

[Richard Steele]

44. Feel free to SKIP "The DaVinci code"

You want to read Umberto Eco's "Focaults Pendulum"

The DaVinci Code is slightly better than an in-flight magazine....

[XNASA]

51. That's funny. Because I read 90% of "Digital Fortress"......

On an airplane.

I think I'll skip TDC.

Thanks.

[CrownPrinceBandar]

20. "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman.......................

Not bad, but moves kinda slow so far.

[Fleshdancer]

Bloodline of the Holy Grail

My mom raved about it so I've just started it. So far so good.

[underpants]

21. This thread

You read two things simultaneously?

[arcane1]

33. oh you'd be surprised

I multi-task

[bif]

22. Rose Tremain's latest

Can't remember what it's called.

[sniffa]

23. rereading, 'foLey is good'

by mick foLey.

the phrase is, "foLey is god" but he feLt too bLasphemous to give his book that titLe.

[tigerbeat]

25. "America- The Book"

i'm also re-reading the Neil Gaiman "Sandman" graphic novels.

[arcane1]

31. how is America?

:shrug:

[tigerbeat]

36. every 5 minutes or so at work i snicker uncontrollably....

....it's a pretty spot-on parody of high school textbooks. and frankly just looking at steven colbert's shit-eating smirk makes me spray coffee all over my monitor.

[arcane1]

39. sweet

I'm putting this one on my to-read list

along with People's History of the United States

[Squatch]

26. Lost Mountains: Climbs in the Himalayas by S Venables

Good read.

[Lavender Brown]

27. Kristin Gore's book

"Sammy's Hill" ... it's like Bridget Jones goes to Washington, silly but funny, and you can see the real people behind the fictional ones.

[achtung_circus]

28. Various things

but at night we generally read a chapter of the Complete Idiot's Guide to the Kama Sutra.

[Sweet Freedom]

29. America The Book

Just finished Sammy's Hill

[buddhamama]

32. Hegemony or Survival, Noam Chomsky

a x-mas present from my son.

[petron]

76. Reading this too

I bought it about a month ago and damn is it good. Noam gives some good background on US imperialism but I think I've got a lot more reading to do to get a solid grasp on US aggression.

[the Princess]

35. "Catastraphobia"

by Barbara Hand Clow

It's a mind blower!

[jswordy]

37. "You Have the Power," Howard Dean n/t

[El Fuego]

42. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

45. The newest Onion compendium

And PMBR flash cards.

[Jack_Dawson]

46. "I am Charlotte Symons"

I like Tom Wolfe...I don't care what you say.

[loudestchick]

48. "The Red Tent"

[Az]

49. Zombie Survival Guide

In case the Repukes attack.

[Tafiti]

50. "Trials of the Monkey" by Matthew Chapman.

An "accidental memoir" by the great great grandson of Charles Darwin. Awesome book so far, very well written.

[noshenanigans]

52. The Unthinkable Thoughts of Jacob Green- by Joshua Braff

By boyfriend gave it to me for Christmas- er, Hannukah, or something (he's Jewish, I was raised Southern Baptist, but we're both pretty agnostic) because of my adoration for Garden State and love of Zach Braff.

I like it a lot, though- it's a very quick read but an interesting coming-of-age kind of story, very funny in parts, very touching in parts, that sort of thing.

Now I get to start the other book he gave me, "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" by Dave Eggers.

[bif]

53. Also reading "Lamb" by Chrstopher Moore

[Dorian Gray]

54. I'm finishing up

the third book of His Dark Materials trilogy. (The Amber Spyglass.) Loving it.

[billyskank]

55. Srimad Bhagavad-Gita

with commentaries by Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura and Srila Bhaktivedanta Narayana Maharaja (my Guru Maharaja). You did ask. :)

[Beware the Beast Man]

56. "The Official Scrabble Player's Dictionary"

My wife and I are looking to become tournament players, the nerds we are.

[NoSheep]

78. Have you read Word Freak?

[devilgrrl]

57. American Monsters by Jack Newfield, Mark Jacobson

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1560255544/qid=1104956113/sr=2-1/ref=pd_ka_b_2_1/104-1280005-2029502

An excellent read!

[arcane1]

59. that sounds rather interesting

[democracyindanger]

58. Re-reading "Siddartha"

[greyfox]

60. Tom Brokaw's

A LONG WAY FROM HOME

[justgamma]

61. The Nazi Seizure of Power

The parallels of the this and RW are frightening. The demonizing of the opposing party, the propaganda, the lies told, the use of the church as a mouthpiece.

[arcane1]

62. sounds like a scary read

I think I'd have to sleep with the lights on! :scared:

[MissMarple]

63. "Dead Famous" by Carol O'Connell

It's a bit dark.

[u4ic]

64. In Praise of Slow by Carl Honore

It's taking me awhile.

btw...there is also a movie called Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors...not based on that book; a weird 60's Ukrainian film...medieval Carpathia meets LSD. Very strange indeed.;-)

[arcane1]

65. sounds rather strange...

yet curious...

[imenja]

66. Mystic River, by Dennis Lehane

[TyeDye75]

67. The Biography of Anthony Keidis (Red Hot Chili Peppers)

Fascinating band, fascinating man, fascinating story

[obreaslan]

68. Lord of the Rings....AGAIN!!!!!

:hi:

[Catchawave]

69. Re-reading John Edwards' "Four Trials"....

...especially that Bush started his malpractice-tort reform campaign so gynnies can "practice their love".

[Dzimbowicz]

70. The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848

I'm re-reading this entire series of books (The Age of Capital: 1848-1875 and The Age of Extremes, A History of the World, 1914-1991) by Eric Hobsbawm.

[NewHampshireDem]

71. Leadership and the New Science by Margaret Wheatley

If you like quantum physics in a layperson sort of way--as I do--you'll enjoy it. The book explores using quantum theory as a metaphor for effective leadership. As long as you suspend your disbelief--that is, read the science as a metaphor and don't get too caught up in her oversimplifications--her parallels are thought-provoking. Anyone who is into Eastern philosophy would probably also enjoy it.

[Squeech]

72. Investment Biker

Cool title, huh? Sucks you right in...

It purports to be non-fiction. The story is, Jim Rogers, the author, was a Wall Street hotshot in the '80s. Having made his millions and lost interest in the unalloyed pursuit of dollars, he decided what he really wanted to do is ride his motorcycle around the world.

So far I've read where he rode across Eurasia and back. He went east via the Silk Road, and then came back through Siberia (which doesn't have a lot of good roads; for the most trackless of the wasteland he had to cheat and ride on the Trans-Siberian Railroad). The part I'm reading now is down the length of Africa. He has just had to bribe a couple of corrupt cops in Zaire.

The slice-of-life reportage is fascinating, but it's interspersed with kneejerk Republican memes about how socialism always screws up an economy and no polity can succeed unless and until it establishes a laissez-faire capitalism. He interprets his Zaire experience as the lingering aftereffects of their dalliance with the Soviet Union (even though he admits that Mobutu just wanted the aid money), when the real answer is obviously just simple corruption, which happens in all sorts of systems, from Zaire to China to Florida.

But I'm pressing on. I really want to read the South America chapter.

[RUDUing2]

73. Isabella of Castile.

[LWolf]

74. Understanding by Design

Grant Wiggins and someone else.

A professional book; when I get done with it, I have a box full of young adult novels to read, and then I can get back to the stack of personal choices waiting for me.

[bemildred]

75. Books, mostly, some stuff on the internet, too. nt

[NoSheep]

77. Slaughterhouse 5. Again. n/t

[Az]

79. There is irony in that statement

:D

[arcane1]

89. good choice

:thumbsup:

[Patiod]

80. Catching up on un-read issues of "The New Yorker"

and just finished last week's issue.

Absoultely the best entertainment value for the dollar, bar none. Fifty bucks a year for amazing stuff, week after week.

Can't deal with the city, but LOVE the magazine.

[jus_the_facts]

81. The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower ~ Stephen King

.....think I'll go finish it now...sure HATE this is the last of this series too... :cry:


...I wanna read Sagan's Demon Haunted World really bad!! RIP Carl... way out there in the cosmos!! :loveya:

:hi: :hug:

[Frogtutor]

87. That's what I'm reading, too! Got about 3/4" to go...n/t

[KurtNYC]

82. Dylan - Chronicles

good - really takes you back

[liberalitch]

83. the damned human race by mark twain...

my beau the commie gave it to me for xmas....

[arcane1]

88. ah, that sounds like a good one

how is it?

[liberalitch]

91. everyone ought to read it....

[arcane1]

92. I think I'll add it to my to-read list

along with Zinn

thanks!!

[furrylitldevil]

84. Johnny Got His Gun

About 50 pgs. into it as of last night.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

86. London Fields by Martin Amis

So good...

[TheCentepedeShoes]

90. The call alert

from the dog groomer. My puppy's done and we can pick him up. :bounce:

[MissMillie]

93. The Great Unraveling

by Paul Krugman

[arcane1]

95. how is that?

I've heard great things about it

[huskerlaw]

94. Just finished Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azir Nafisi. Next up...

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon

[Hardrada]

96. Friendly Fascism by Bertram Gross

Excellent analysis of US corporate capitalist society. Written in 1980 so it is also a useful book to see how much of his predicting has come true and how much the progressive and societal situation has deteriorated in nearly every way since then.

[TheCentepedeShoes]

100. Curious is a really wonderful book

Cried at the start 'cause my puppy is just like Wellington. It's a terrific book.

[GOPBasher]

97. A book called "The Science of God," by

something Shroeder. He's a PHD in physics and a bibilical scholar. It's pretty cool.

[x-g.o.p.er]

98. Semi-True, by Russ Ringsak, who works with Garrison Keillor

It's a collection of short stories about driving the tractor-trailer for "Prairie Home Companion" when they went on the road. Ringsak is also the Stage manager and gives Keillor the messages to read during the show.

He's a great writer, I highly recommend it.

[Worst Username Ever]

99. 1L

a book about 1st year law school.

[Bullwinkle925]

101. Just finished "The Book of Salt"

[Dancing_Dave]

102. Chris King, the Gandalf of the Aukland Math Department

Has written some fascinating pieces about Chaos, Fractal Quantum Consciousness and other groovy, cutting edge stuff!
http://www.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/preprints.html


Yes, this relates to the growing progressive global underground centered on college students, the most amazing counter-culture since the '60's and '70's:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x2375421

[SarahB]

103. I just finished two books on cardiac arrhythmias.

:boring:

[outraged2]

104. Bodyguard of Lies - Anthony Cave Brown

Great book I just finished about the deception and cover operations during Word War II, but especially D-Day. Massive book, 800+ pages I think, but very well written and moves along nicely.

[MergeLeft]

105. Mother of Kings

by Poul Anderson

[msgadget]

106. Twisted,

by Jonathan Kellerman

[Cadence]

107. Physics of the soul by Amit Goswami

[Mojambo]

108. I read from many books at the same time

Rather than one at a time.

Right now in the rotation I have...

Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation - Peterson
The Golden Bough - J.G Frazer
Revolutionaries - Hobsbawm
Red Mars - Robinson

Reading a little from each one every day keeps me from burning out.

[WCGreen]

109. Kevin Phillips, Wealth and Democracy

Forty Years aof Playboy Short Stories,

[6000eliot]

110. Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters