What Is DU Reading?

[Parche]

Me reading this.........
:woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :hi:




:patriot:

[terrya]

1. I just finished reading "Havana Nocturne" by T. J. English

I picked it up at the library. It's an interesting look at Cuba in the years right before Fidel Castro's revolution took over Cuba...the connection between the Mafia's ownership of the casinos and hotels in Havana and the corruption of the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista's government.

[Rabrrrrrr]

2. FInishing Harry Potter book 6

also reading a bunch of other books, the names of which aren't coming to me right now.

[RadiationTherapy]

79. Snape did it. nt

[RubyDuby in GA]

3. John Adams

Shhhh...don't tell me how it ends :)

[DebJ]

30. One of my favorites of all time. Have you seen the Hank's miniseries?

[RubyDuby in GA]

34. Oh yes! It was magnificent!

It better win every emmy its up for.

I love all of David McCullough's books. The Truman one was amazing.

[AlCzervik]

4. The Historian.

[yellowdogintexas]

13. I just finished that one. Are you liking it? nt

[AlCzervik]

17. so far so good but i'm only 50 pages in and i had no idea what the book was about

until i got to "Dracula Vlad is still alive".

[reyd reid reed]

66. I loved that book...

as I recall, it was a little hard to follow because it jumps around, but I absolutely loved it.

[China_cat]

5. A whole bunch of Agatha Christie

again.

[Mr. Blonde]

6. Don Quixote

So far so good.

[RebelOne]

7. "The Good Guy," by Dean Koontz

Just finished it. Not one of his best, but anything he writes is good.

[YankeyMCC]

8. The Landmark Thucydides

Also, the September "Asimov's Science fiction" issue

And I just finish reading "Eon" by Greag Bear again and plan to start the sequal Eternity. This is in prep for his upcoming new book: http://www.cityattheendoftime.com/

[Z_I_Peevey]

9. Be Here Now, by Baba Ram Dass;

Armageddon in Retrospect by Kurt Vonnegut; and Apocalypse 2012: A Scientific Investigation Into Civilization's End by Lawrence E. Joseph--and some other cheesy self-help paperbacks.

[southpaw]

10. When You Are Engulfed in Flames

David Sedaris' new essay collection.

[mdmc]

45. just finished it last week or so

:toast:
I'm gonna go listen to him in Albany later this year.

[southpaw]

73. He's scheduled to be in Nashville in October

Right around the time that my wife and I will be celebrating our anniversary. We've talked about getting tickets. I love to hear him read his stories!

I finished '...Flames' last night. Not his funniest work, but I did enjoy it.

My favorite Sedaris is probably 'Naked,' though 'Me Talk Pretty One Day' and 'Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim' have some great essays in them.

Do you also read David Rakoff? How about Augusten Burroughs?

[mdmc]

80. Thank you for the names of those authors

right now I have been on a Charles Bukowski and Jimmy Carter kick. I;ve read all of Sedaris, most of Hunter Thompson, and now I am making my way through Bukowski and Carter. I will definitely check out your suggestions as well.

Peace and low stress and thanks for the replies.

ps- I also read multiple cartoon books along with my "real" books. I read R. Crumb, Doonesbury, Simpsons, Dilbert, Bloom County Outback, Fat Freddy'sCat - Freak Brothers, Baby Blues, Peanuts, For Better or for Worse, Tom Toles, and the Far Side.

[MrCoffee]

76. I started this on the bus this morning.

[one mean sheath]

11. Six books, at last count.

My summer reading habits are getting a little ridiculous:

Rose of No Man's Land/Michelle Tea
Rules of Attraction/Bret Easton Ellis
Bomb the Suburbs/Someone Upski Something
Middlesex/Jeffery? Jeremy? Euginidfelas? You know, the Virgin Suicides guy.
A book about Genie/wild children and linguistics
A book of folk tales from around the world.

I like to keep a good mix, you know. Incidentally, read anything of Michelle Tea's that you can get your hands on.

[philosophie_en_rose]

12. Bel Canto

It's beautiful.

[Fire Walk With Me]

14. "Disturbing the Universe" by Freeman Dyson; and "The Essential Kaballah".

[yellowdogintexas]

15. His Dark Materials

Just finished The Subtle Knife, moving into The Amber Spyglass.


good reading.

[XemaSab]

29. Just finished "The Golden Compass"

for about the 10th time.

They get better with each read. :D

[hellbound-liberal]

16. Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson

It's a very well written book and it gives a great deal of insight into the experiences and influences that helped Einstein develop his "radical" theories. I decided to read it because, as a teacher, I was curious to learn more about the man that said "Imagination is more important than knowledge". Many of my students would certainly agree.:D

[azmouse]

19. As a follow-up book to that I'd suggest 'Driving Mr, Albert' by Michael Paterniti

It's subtitled A Trip Across America With Einstein's Brain.

When I bought the 'Einstein' book the clerk at the bookstore recommended this one to me.

[hellbound-liberal]

42. Thanks azmouse! I'll check it out.

[RetroLounge]

43. I really liked it. It was a fun and interesting read.

FYI: I have a copy in the store.

http://www.alibris.com/booksearch.detail?invid=9501245557&quserid=XENITHBS&qtit=einstein&qsort=&page=1

:hi:

RL

[Pierre.Suave]

25. That sounds like a very good book

I will have to go check it out.

[LeftyFingerPop]

18. Reading? You mean like...a book?

[pokerfan]

20. This...

I started on page one but I'm having trouble progressing because hyperlinks keep getting me sidetracked.

[BOSSHOG]

21. The Assassin by W.E.B. Griffin

I mostly read Military Non-fiction but I like to mix it up on occasion. And its very interesting in this Griffin's Badge of Honor Series set in Philadelphia in the early 70's where the cops don't have cell phones and spend a lot of time looking for phone booths.

[OmahaBlueDog]

53. I just finished "Death & Honor"

It's a lot of fun. I think the "Men at War" and "Honor Bound" series have improved wince WEB IV took a hand. Until now, I've resisted the "Badge of Honor" series, but I may give it a shot. I loved the "Corps" and "Medal of Honor" books, but I'm not crazy about the new "Presidential Orders" books -- they spend way too much time hyping FAUX News and acting like the Iraq oil-for-food fiasco was the worst calamity to befall humanity.

[Chan790]

22. I'm between books.

I just finished The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon.

I'm about 6 pages into The Wind-up Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

[southpaw]

33. I really liked the Haddon book

Read it back in the spring.

[Chan790]

38. Edit:

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

[madinmaryland]

23. DU.

:shrug:

[Parche]

35. Butt Thats NOT A Book

:grr: :rofl:

:hi:

[T_i_B]

24. Given how much time I spend on US message boards...

...I'm trying to brush up on American History! Currently it's America by George Brown Tindall and David Emory Shi.

Thoughts on what I've read so far? Well I don't think too highly of John C Calhoun, and I don't think I would have liked President John Tyler one little bit!

[madinmaryland]

36. Actual it is. The "DU Lounge Compendium of Inane and Silly Threads"

:hi:

[Pierre.Suave]

26. I am currently reading

Bill Moyers' new book, Moyers On Democracy.

[Crazy Dave]

27. Smithsonian Intimate Guide to Human Origins

[VenusRising]

28. A Farewell to Arms

I don't like it as much as Hemingway's other works, but it's alright so far.

:hi:

[Rambis]

31. John Harvey: Darkness and Light

just started it last night-

[Rambis]

39. delete

v:

[Lydia Leftcoast]

32. A one-volume paperback that contains Robertson Davies' Deptford Trilogy

Fifth Business
The Manticore
The World of Wonders

I'm still on the first one. :-)

I'm also working on an anthology called Best British Mystery Stories 2006.

[Tyler Durden]

37. Re-reading Savage Inequalities.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51YA3XRS5WL._SL500_BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_.jpg

seems appropriate for the times.

[stuntcat]

40. The Story of B by Daniel Quinn

I know it's old news, so what I never read it before x(

[stuntcat]

41. (it's

[RetroLounge]

44. The Street of Clocks - Poems by Thomas Lux

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/3139VV7QYBL._SL500_BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_.jpg

:hi:

RL

[mdmc]

46. Struggling with HOOK UP by Tom Wolf

not even sure if that is the name...

[Kutjara]

47. Three at the moment:

The Political Mind - by George Lakoff

http://www.amazon.com/Political-Mind-Understand-21st-Century-18th-Century/dp/0670019275/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1216773042&sr=8-1

Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army - by Jeremy Scahill

http://www.amazon.com/Blackwater-Powerful-Mercenary-Revised-Updated/dp/156858394X/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1216773148&sr=1-1

The Black Hole War - by Leonard Susskind

http://www.amazon.com/Black-Hole-War-Stephen-Mechanics/dp/0316016403/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1216773259&sr=1-1

[BlueStateGirl]

48. Just finished The Brother's K by David James Duncan.

[femmocrat]

49. The Kite Runner.

Just finished Dreams from My Father.

[Cant trust em]

50. I'm reading a fascinating history of jet airliners.

:thumbsup:

[TroglodyteScholar]

51. Philip K Dick - The Man In The High Castle

[PassingFair]

61. I've read that one TWICE...

and I still don't QUITE get it.

:)

[last_texas_dem]

52. Re-reading _The Catcher in the Rye_

I finally finished A Reader's Guide to J. D. Salinger, which I had had checked out for months but hadn't had a chance to get to b/c of all the reading I'd be been having to do for classes, and that got me interested in reading Catcher again.

I've also been skimming a bunch of articles in books w/ titles like Portrait of a Profession, Recruiting, Retaining, and Supporting Highly Qualified Teachers, and Who's in Charge Here? The Tangled Web of School Governance and Policy as I try to finish a 20-page paper on No Child Left Behind's "Highly Qualified Teacher" provision that is due in less than 24 hours! (And, oddly enough, I'm not even an education major, but a poli-sci grad student!)

[Redstone]

54. "The God Machine."

A great book on the development of the helicopter.

Redstone

[JTG of the PRB]

55. I just finished this one:

Next up:

[applegrove]

56. Hawaii by James A. Mitchener.

[spindrifter]

57. A suitable boy by Vikram Seth

[Broken_Hero]

58. Duma Key, S. King, nt

[BurtWorm]

59. The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation, by Philip Shenon

Also. War and Peace, Madame Bovary, and Your Inner Fish by Neal Shubin

[mnhtnbb]

60. At the beach for 5 days and read these books:

The Unthinkable Who Survives When Disaster Strikes--and Why by Amanda Ripley

Lost in the Forest by Sue Miller

What to Keep by Rachel Cline

My Liar by Rachel Cline

Going home tomorrow and will take with me:

Notes on a Life by Eleanor Coppola

[PassingFair]

62. I'm reading "The Autograph Man" by Zadie (Smith?)

I really liked "White Teeth", her first book,
but this one is really a struggle to get through.

I just finished "Slam" by Nick Hornby.

It wasn't as good as the other books I've read
by him, but this was written for "Young Adults".

[PBS Poll-435]

63. The bottle of hand soap

:hurts::hurts::hurts:






:rofl::rofl::rofl:

J/K

[datasuspect]

64. "The Story of Ass, Volume 3"

[Kali]

65. Rereading "Deer Hunting With Jesus" before I pass it along.

Before that I read "A Thousand Splendid Suns" and "Water for Elephants." Next up is "The Law of the Somalis."

[BlueDissenter]

67. I just started reading.......

New Worlds, Lost Worlds: The Rule of the Tudors, 1485-1603

[sarge43]

68. I'm reading

Athenais: The Real Queen of France, Lisa Hilton

Letters from the Hive: An Intimate History of Bees, Honey and Humankind, Stephen Buchmann

[Maine-ah]

69. It's Potty Time!

with a little button you push that sounds like a toilet is flushing.


Or anything about doggies....

x(

[callous taoboy]

70. My Pet Goat. Third time to try to get through it arggghhh!

[old mark]

71. Tanenbaum. Some of the Butch Carp series

I found that I haven't read before, or not for several years.


mark

[billyoc]

72. Calculus Wars

It was the furthest thing from political nonfiction I could find. :hi:

[TZ]

74. Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind

I've read it before..I got irritated and dropped this series for awhile (The Sword of Truth) when he started ranting agaisnt anti-Iraq war people..but the series has finally been finished so I'm curious..and I'm rereading since its been a couple of years.

[moriah]

75. Finished with Scott McClellan's "What Happened"....

... now re-reading the Ender saga, on Xenocide right now.

[nels25]

77. Harry Turtledoves alternate history

about the second world war as fought between the CSA and the USA (who had one the Great War in this AU)

The CSA is lead by a Hitler like leader at the head of the so called Freedom Party and is obvious take on the Nazi party.

The us President is Al Smith.

The name: Victorious Opposition

In my car I am listing to Janet Evonovich's Twelve Sharp. A Stephanie Plum novel.

[SCDem]

78. Just finished reading Mr. Pip by Lloyd Jones

Great book. Finished in less than 24 hours!

[Norwood]

81. I Am America And So Can You!

I love this book!

I'm also thumbing through this gem.....


I'll be ready for the zombie apocalypse