What book are you reading?

[Reciprocity]

I’m reading ....


Synopsis
Twelve-year-old Ernesto Cata (Zuñi) is practicing to be the Fire God in a local ceremony. His best buddy George Bowlegs (Navaho) is a Zuñi wana-be.

Ernesto is missing and there is a pool of blood by his bike. The next day his buddy George runs off. It is up to Sgt. Joe Leaphorn to find the boys before anything happens to them (if it has not already.)

[KitchenWitch]

1. Cool of the Evening

A book about the 1965 Minnesota Twins.

[murielm99]

2. I like his Joe Leaphorn books.

I will have to get that one.

I just finished reading Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

[KitchenWitch]

3. Did you enjoy the Harry Potter book

So far it is my favorite of the six.

[Reciprocity]

8. I liked it but , Goblet of Fire is still my favorite.

[Reciprocity]

5. So did I as of a about half an hour ago.

This was my 2nd go around with HBP. So now I’m back to the book I was reading before it (HBP) was published.

[Heidi]

4. Two or three.

Foucault's Pendulum, Umberto Eco (much better book than "The DaVinci Code")

War Against the Weak: America's Campaign to Create a Master Race, by Edwin Black

The Dharma Bums, Jack Kerouac

[Reciprocity]

7. Good book The DaVinci Code.

I finally got around to reading it about two months ago. I got the hardback illustrated volume, which was great as I didn’t have to go looking for all the art work. I hear that the movie version is going to be toned down as to be less offensive to Catholics. We will see god willing next year.

[Heidi]

11. Try "Foucault's Pendulum" . . .

It's much more historically detailed and better written than "The DaVinci Code." And many say that Dan Brown borrowed parts of his book from Eco's work. It's a longer and more ponderous read than "The DaVinci Code," but worth it. (I'll be interested in seeing the movie, too, though.)

[WCGreen]

6. John Irving's a widow for one Year....

And Corelli's Mandolin by Louis De Bernieres.....

Wealth and democracy by Kevin Phillips

[Whoa_Nelly]

9. People of the Raven

http://www.gear-gear.com/people_of_the_raven.htm
Award-winning archaeologists Michael and Kathleen Gear spin a vivid and captivating tale around one of the most controversial archaeological discoveries in the world, the Kennewick Man---a Caucasoid male mummy dating back more than 9,000 years---found in the Pacific Northwest on the banks of the Columbia River!

A white man in North America more than 9,000 years ago? What was he doing there?

It's based on this:
http://www.tor.com/Gears/kennewick_man.html

THE KENNEWICK MAN CONTROVERSY
SCIENCE VS. RELIGION
WHO WERE THE FIRST NATIVE AMERICANS?

The controversy started in July 1996 when two young boat-racing enthusiasts stumbled across a skull alongside the Columbia River in Kennewick, Washington. Today, this discovery has evolved into a skirmish between American Indians, who believe nature should be left to take its course with the remains, and scientists who want to study them.

In the fall of 1996, Dr. Jim Chatters, adjunct professor at Central Washington University, and deputy coroner for Benton County, Washington, held in his hands an archaeological discovery that would rock the nation. The specimen would come to be called "Kennewick Man," and prove to be one of the most controversial archaeological finds in the history of the world.

When Kennewick Man was discovered eroding out of the banks of the Columbia River, it appeared to be a simple case. Obviously he was a Caucasoid male, 45-55 years of age, probably a White pioneer.

But then a CAT scan revealed a "Cascade" point, a distinctive leaf-shaped prehistoric spear point, embedded in his hip. Shortly thereafter, the radiocarbon laboratory at the University of California at Riverside returned their analysis of the date: Kennewick Man was between 9,200-9,500 years old.

But what was a Caucasoid man doing in America more than 9,000 years ago? Prior to this, it was assumed that only "Indians", or Mongoloid people, were here during that time period.

This stunning discover has the potential to completely rewrite our understanding of the migration and peopling of the Americas.

[Wetzelbill]

10. "Sleeping with The Devil" by Robert Baer

[AVulgarianHue]

12. The Name of the Rose

Umberto Eco

I had set it aside years ago because of the unreadable typeface. Righto. Looks fine now with TRIFOCALS!!

[Heidi]

13. I love Eco.

Tri-focals? My optometrist last week told me that I might not be able to continue wearing contact lenses, since my eyes are "getting old." Geez, I'm only 42! :eyes:

[AVulgarianHue]

16. Eyes "getting old"...

sounds creepy.

My optometrist spoke more, erm, diplomatically..or optometristically.

Here's a hug for ya:hug:

[shockra]

14. Older Women, Younger Men

By Felicia Brings and Susan Winter

Actually, I'm rereading it. It's inspiring.

[enigmatic]

15. "Lead, So I Can Follow" by Harold Adams

Great Mystery series featuring Carl Wilcox, one of my favorite literary charectors..

http://www.thrillingdetective.com/wilcox_carl.html

[Peachhead22]

17. The Skeleton in God's Closet

by Paul L. Maier

It's about archeologists in Israel who find something that totally freaks everybody out. Especially Christians. Decent book, but gets a little disjointed about 2/3rds through.

I just finished The Cobra Effect by Robert Preston. It's about a bio-terror attack. Damn good book, but again gets a little disjointed about 2/3rds through. Maybe it's me.

[SKKY]

18. Narcissus and Goldmund by Herman Hesse

For the 10th or 11th time now. I learn something new every time I read it.

[bicentennial_baby]

19. "Camus & Sartre: The Story of a Friendship and the

Quarrel that Ended It"

Most excellent :thumbsup:

[ahem]

20. Johnny Got His Gun

By Dalton Trumbo (1939)

From the Publisher
This was no ordinary war. This was a war to make the world safe for democracy. And if democracy was made safe, then nothing else mattered--not the millions of dead bodies, nor the thousands of ruined lives...This is no ordinary novel. This is a novel that never takes the easy way out: it is shocking, violent, terrifying, horrible, uncompromising, brutal, remorseless and gruesome...but so is war.

This book will rip your guts out. Amazing read.

[NMMNG]

21. Buddhism Without Beliefs by Stephen Batchelor

I'm also a third of the way through Dolores Claiborne.

[tjwmason]

22. Herodotus - The Histories

(In translation I fear)

von Clausewitz - On War

Timothy Judah - The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia

[Clintmax]

23. "The Stand - the uncut version" by Stephen King

Been reading this book again recently. LOVE IT!

[Heidi]

24. Why are you reading horror novels

instead of celebrating Feast of the Assumption, young man? That's what I'd like to know. :rofl:

[Clintmax]

25. MORNING, MISS HEIDI!

:rofl:
"Feast Of The Assumption"? Ok, I'm totally adrift...

[Heidi]

26. It's the reason my Post didn't come today!

We have so many religious holidays where I live that I can't keep up. But today, indeed, is Feast of the Assumption in our Italian part of the country.

You can go back to your reading now. :rofl:

[Clintmax]

27. Ummm...it was also Sunday yesterday you know...

Don't you know those mailmen NEVER hardly get a day off?!

[Heidi]

28. It's a rough life for postal workers everywhere.

:eyes:

But I've gotta give props to the Swiss Post: I never have to buy stamps; I can just put letters in the mailbox with some money and they'll bring my change to me tomorrow. They'll pick up packages and gently correct me when I forget to put a customers declaration on the front. With all that extra stress, I expect them to begin gunning one another down behind the counter in the near future. :rofl:

[progmom]

29. Take the Cannoli : Stories From the New World - Sarah Vowell

I love her! :)

[T_i_B]

30. "City of the Sun" by Sarah Bryant

About a gifted child in a post nuclear Russia who is wanted to grow up to lead the the Soviet rebels on one hand and the government of a Plato obsessed tyrant on the other.

and next after that is "Tell No One" by Harlan Coben.

[Reciprocity]

31. Thanks all, you given me lots of ideas for my next book.

[liontamer]

32. intimate behaviour by Desmond Morris

It's interesting although evolutionary psychology really must be taken with a grain of salt.

Desmond Morris is an incurable romantic so his writing always leaves me wanting to pair bond. sigh

[Chovexani]

33. Demon Lord of Karanda by David Eddings

Middle book of a series. I've read all the books (12 total, if you count the series it was a sequel to, and the two prequels) maybe a dozen times, but I love them. It's my literary crack.

[Reciprocity]

38. Fantastic books, funny and entertaining.

I love the Eddings books so much that I have them all paperback, and most all of them, hardback too.

[Chovexani]

42. Fun aren't they?

The only ones I haven't read yet are the new Dreamers books. As soon as I can track down some cheap paperbacks, I'm all over them.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

34. Several, as usual

1. Rereading the Harry Potters
2. Freedom at Midnight (about India's independence from Britain and the creation of Pakistan)
3. The Making of the President 1960

[XNASA]

35. Catch-22

"The frog is almost five hundred million years old. Could you really say with much certainly that America, with all its strength and prosperity, with its fighting man that is second to none, and with its standard of living that is the highest in the world, will last as long as. . .the frog?"

[Richardo]

44. "Won't you fight for your country?" Colonel Korn demanded...

"Won't you give up your life for Colonel Cathcart and me?"

"What's that?" exclaimed. "What have you and Colonel Cathcart got to do with my country? You're not the same."

"How can you separate us?" Colonel Korn inquired with ironical tranquility.

"That's right," Colonel Cathcart cried emphatically. "You're either for us or against us. There's no two ways about it."

"I'm afraid he's got you," added Colonel Korn. "You're either for us or against your country. It's as simple as that."

"Oh, no, Colonel. I don't buy that.

Colonel Korn was unruffled. "Neither do I, frankly, but everyone else will. So there you are."

[seemunkee]

36. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America

Interesting but not a great book.

[sakabatou]

37. The I Hate George W. Bush Reader

[flamingyouth]

39. The Historian. Just started it last night and like it so far.

http://www.reviewsofbooks.com/historian/review/

[Parrcrow]

40. Wicked by Gregory Maguirre

just finished Until I Find You by John Irving

prior to that

Harry Potter and the Half-wit Prince.

[Telly Savalas]

41. The Rebel Sell by Andrew Potter and James Heath

(In the U.S. it was published under the title Nation of Rebels for some reason: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/006074586X/qid=1124136726/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-3144121-3936018?v=glance&s=books&n=507846 )

It's an attack on counterculture ideology by a couple of academics who are sympathetic to the progressive political agenda. The writing is clear and witty, and it's nice to see healthy and insightful criticism of the Left. I don't agree with everything they say, but it's good food for thought.

[Richardo]

43. 1776

...it's great.