What are you reading right now?

[Chichiri]

I'm on a Michener kick -- last night I finished "Hawaii," and started "Space."

[GinaMaria]

1. Just finished Radical Leap

by Steve Farber. It's a business book but doesn't read like one. He compares leadership to extreme sports like surfing. Most inspirational biz book I have read and it's an actual story with a bit of a mystery in it. Great quick read.

Just about to start Writing Down the Bones.

[NMMNG]

2. "Incendiary" by Chris Cleave

also "A People's History of the United States" by Howard Zinn

[ornotna]

4. I'm reading that as well

A People's History of the United States

[Fenris]

3. Just finished "What's The Matter With Kansas?"

Insightful.

[Ladyhawk]

6. Was it scary insightful or hopeful insightful? n/t

[Fenris]

63. Being a red stater, it was neither.

It simply offered insight into the subtlties and causes of rural conservatism.

[Ladyhawk]

5. Why, I'm reading this thread.

:silly:

[Floogeldy]

8. Uh . . .

Yea.

;)

[knowbody0]

7. i can't get enough of Hunter S Thompson lately

he makes me smile at the madness and then have strange dreams.

[WCGreen]

9. Try his Novel

The Rum Diaries....

[knowbody0]

12. thanks WCGreen

what a life he had.

[SlavesandBulldozers]

53. i read his latest. . "Kingdom of Fear"

about a year ago. I loved it.

[WCGreen]

10. I'm reading the sequel to the Godfather that

a guy I know from Cleveland, slightly, wrote....

Pretty good, actually.....

[CaliforniaPeggy]

18. Mario Puzo?

Did he write that sequel?

:shrug:

[WCGreen]

21. No, a writer from here in Cleveland

Mark Wienburger, I think his name is....

[Floogeldy]

11. You could try the bible.

It's got, like, words and shit in it. You can read it.

I tried that. Once.

[WillParkinson]

13. Well, DUH!

This thread. :O)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

14. "Rage" by Jonothan Kellerman....

Great reading...

:kick:

[Debbi801]

38. Is that an Alex Delaware one? I love his writing! (nt)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

42. YES!

It is the newest Alex Delaware...and it is wonderful...Sometimes I even recognize the settings he uses, since I live near LA....

[Debbi801]

73. I'll have to look for that one at the library...

I love both his and his wife's writing.

I've been reading both of them for so long, that I feel like I really know the characters in his books--they've almost become real people. :-)

[6000eliot]

15. Orley Farm by Anthony Trollope

I only read British Victorian fiction for pleasure.

[trackfan]

16. Travels With My Aunt by Graham Greene

among other things

[Heidi]

17. "Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader" . . .

Find out more about it here: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/080213694X/102-1554587-4677760?v=glance

[Whoa_Nelly]

19. Until I Find You--John Irving

After seeing him on TDS, had to get the book. It is really good!

[terrya]

32. I tried to read it.

I just lost interest in it...very early. When Jack Burns and his mother is travelling through Europe, looking for Jack's dad. I just couldn't get through it.

[mestup]

20. "Hitler's Willing Executioners..." - Goldhagen

"...Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust." Daniel Jonah Goldhagen

Recommended by a friend. It's fascinating, but not always an easy read - reads like a thesis. (As in, the author has an impressive command of the English language, but evidently I don't.)

I've penciled him in on my Christmas list.

Goldhagen: box of commas.

[terrya]

22. Your post.

It's succinct, but interesting. :-)

[Rising Phoenix]

23. I"m about to start The Witching Hour by Anne Rice

[AlCzervik]

24. "Rising Tide" by John Barry, it's about the 1927 flood in mississippi.

[Trigger Hippie]

25. Just started What's Bred in the Bone by

Robertson Davies. I love his Deptford Trilogy. I hope this is as good. :)

[WeRQ4U]

26. I'm re-reading "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" n/t

[XNASA]

27. "The Jungle"

And for some reason, I've completely lost my appetite for pork.

[progmom]

29. I was actually thinking about picking that one up again.

Seems appropriate lately.

[RandomKoolzip]

28. Paul Krugman: "The Age of Diminished Expectations"

[jane_pippin]

30. "Love All The People"--Biography of comedian Bill Hicks

with letters, and routines of his in it. I just started it last night and so far so good. Except I find this puzzling: The cover has a quote from Dennis Miller on it praising Hicks. As if they were even in the same league! Puhleeze.

[LSK]

31. about to start "The Zero Game" while also reading some Krugman

Just finished "The Road to Air America"
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1590790650/qid=1126547359/sr=2-2/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_2/104-0580283-9705504?v=glance&s=books


Now Im in the mood for some fiction:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0446530980/qid=1126547274/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/104-0580283-9705504?v=glance&s=books

[BroadwayBrat]

33. Three to get Deadly - Janet Evanovich

I have become obsessed with the Stephanie Plum novels, it helps that I grew up in Jersey and my parents worked in Trenton for over 30 years...I know all about every where she describes... :)

[Debbi801]

39. Aren't they great? I just finished 11. Can't wait for the next one. (nt)

[BroadwayBrat]

41. I am reading them for the first time...

they are really addicting...I cant wait for my mom to send me the next one...she has all of them and is going to be sending them one at a time....

[Richardo]

34. Just now finished 'Three Nights in August'

Baseball fans, you'll like it.

[mvd]

35. Just got done with Lisa Scottoline's "Killer Smile," and am..

now just reading "9/11 Revealed: The Unanswered Questions."

[Debbi801]

36. I'm re-reading the complete Amber Chronicles....

By Roger Zelazny. I read them in high school and loved them. After finishing the 6th Harry Potter, I was still in the mood for fantasy, so I decided to re-read them.

:hi:

[Chichiri]

51. I've been trying to get those on eBay.

So far everyone's been sniping me out of them. :-p

[Debbi801]

71. They're hard to find....

I had them all in high school, but that was 25 yrs ago and during one move or another, they disappeared. :-( I managed to find an "all in one" book at a paperback book sale a couple of years ago and snatched it up. I figured at some point, my kids would probably want to read them. The book is cumbersome (1258 large pages), but I'm glad to have them.

Good luck!

[Danmel]

37. This Thread

OK, I'm being literal

I'm reading "The Luckiest Man" a biography of Lou Gehrig.

[no name no slogan]

40. "Kingdom of Fear" by Hunter S. Thompson

entirely appropriate for the times we're living in. I am also re-reading "Hell's Angels", too.

I'm also re-reading "Rotten: No Blacks, No Irish, No Dogs"-- John Lydon's auto-bio-- and also reading "Orientalism" by Edward Said. I usually read 4-5 books at a time, though, because I find I get bored/distracted easily otherwise.

[northzax]

43. five things-

in five different locations.

"the System of the World" Neal Stephenson, the third book in the baroque cycle.
"The Historian" Elizabeth Kostova
"Landscape Turned Red" Stephen W. Sears

the other two are textbooks for my oceanography class.

[MissMillie]

44. I'm waiting for Vonnegut's new book

He was fabulous on Real Time w/ Bill Maher last week, so I really want to read it.

[StraightMaleNurse]

45. "Motorcycle Diaries"

Or at least the diary kept by the OTHER guy.

[JimmyJazz]

46. Let Fury Have the Hour - the Punk Rock Politics of Joe Strummer

it's very good

[caty]

47. "The Winds of Change"

by Martha Grimes. A murder mystery.

[fudge stripe cookays]

48. "The Spanish Civil War" - Anthony Beevor.

And I just finished "The Undomestic Goddess" by Sophie Kinsella. I'm nothing if not eclectic.

FSC

[BreweryYardRat]

49. Re-reading...

Dave Weber and Steve White's The Shiva Option.

[chaska]

50. Robert Bly. The left BADLY needs to discover the men's movement....

I'm just about to start 'Iron John' and just finished his 'The Sibling Society', which I highly recommend to all, not just men.

Edit: I also recommend 'The Secret Life of Men' by Australian something Biddulph.

[xmas74]

52. Dune (again) and more Dune.

I'm rereading the entire series.

After that I might have to read some erotica or something. I love really good erotica-I like the imagery.

[AVulgarianHue]

57. Rereading "Dune" also! n/t

[xmas74]

68. Seems like a good time to read it.

Always seems like an autumn book to me.

[Merrick]

54. Tom Sharpe - "The Throwback"

About a landlord who goes about tricking and sabotaging his rent controlled tenants into abandoning their homes so he and his idiot wife can sell them at a tidy profit. He hasnt flooded anyone out yet, but judging from the illustration on the cover he utilizes this technique as well. How very ironic. Good book, though. Very funny - very British style humor.

[khashka]

55. Fay Weldon - The Heart of the Country

and John Varley's The Barbie Murders.

Khash.

[usedtobesick]

56. John Perkins Confessions of a Economic Hit Man and

Attack the Messenger: How Politicians Turn you Against the Media Craig Crawford

[kitkatrose]

58. Trying to mow through the Vampire Huntress Legend series

by L.A. Banks. I think I'm succeeding. I bought all five of them today and yesterday. I'm halfway done with the second one. :bounce: Of course my work is suffering, but hey, it's just physics and microbiology--who cares? :D

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

59. The Historian

[SarahB]

60. Nursing texts.

Pharmacology
Nursing diagnosis
Nursing skills

over and over and over unitl my brain falls out :crazy:

[Pale Blue Dot]

64. Oooooo... that shit's HOT!

Did you get to the chapter about insertions and emissions? Or the part about "sticking" people with your "needle"?

I don't want to give away the ending, but someone ends up feeling much, much better.

:evilgrin:

[SarahB]

65. Oh bite me before I cathaterize you!

:evilgrin:






:loveya:

[Pale Blue Dot]

67. Yikes!

:scared::hide:





















:loveya:But only if you PUT DOWN THE CATHATER!

[sniffa]

61. a DU Lounge thread

[ContraBass Black]

62. DU.

Sorry, I just had to.

There are a couple of books I'll pick up when I get around to them.

[antigone382]

66. It Can't Happen Here--Sinclair Lewis

Karl Rove is SO Lee Sarason

[TransitJohn]

69. H. P. Lovecraft

Never checked him out before, and he's pretty good.

[BamaGirl]

70. Collapse, Jared Diamond

and I picked up Black Ice by Anne Stuart and Outlander by Diana Gabaldon this week. Also have several magazines and websites waiting for various research projects. :P There are not nearly enough hours in the day lol.

[deadparrot]

72. "Under the Tuscan Sun." nt.

[raptor_rider]

74. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

Got it the day it came out. Have less than 200 pages to go. It has been slow going with all of the things that I have going on after work with my family and stuff. I feel so lucky when I can sit down and read for an hour. I have been smart though to stay away from spoilers.

[Lilith Velkor]

75. Samurai Executioner by Kazuo Koike

[sakabatou]

76. Hamlet

[Ikonoklast]

77. "Tommy" by Richard Holmes

Non-fiction historical account of the British soldier on the Western Front, 1914-1918. Horrific. When you realize that the British lost over 60,000 men on just the first day of the Battle of the Somme, let alone the rest of the war, it staggers the mind.

[BluePatriot]

78. Democratic Underground *snerk*

;)

[auntAgonist]

79. Death of Innocents: Sister Helen Prejean.

author of "Dead Man Walking"
Very good book about two innocent men killed by the state.

[Greyhound]

80. Re-reading Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix in preparation for

...and the Half-Blood Prince. :applause:

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

81. My goal is to reread everything in my study

Right now I'm on my second voyage through "Justice at Nuremberg" and "The Assassinations" (about JFK, RFK, MLK & Malcolm X).

[enigmatic]

82. these:

http://www.foxall.com.au/users/mje/PowrBoys.htm

I collect the Whitman Young Adult Books from the 50's and 60's; they are a blast to read, and sifter spending most of my childhood and adulthood reading "heavy" fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, reading these books are a not only a nostalgia trip, but a prefect reality break on what's going on today..

[chaska]

83. I got on a Jack London kick over the weekend....

I went to the mountains and, expecting the hot weather to continue, I wanted something set in a cold climate (Alaska, obviously). The weather changed as soon as I got there. Spent the whole weekend shivering.

[Graf Orlok]

84. The Crow

After that, I'm going to re-read the Vampire Chronicles (Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, Queen of the Damned, The Tale of the Body Thief, and Memnoch the Devil) by Anne Rice.

Currently, my #1 priority is my Drugs and Human Behavior class text. It's a :boring:.

[Jamastiene]

85. Your post. Sorry. I couldn't resist. n/t