What are you reading, or, alternatively, any good books?

[shunoshi]

I am a big Chuck Palahnuik fan (Survivor is one of my all time favorite books). Also Dave Eggers and Denis Johnson. Anything by those 3 and I am in.

Survivor is up there as one of my all-time favorites as well! Palahniuk is a great writer. As for right now I'm reading book four of the Song of Ice and Fire series by George R R Martin, A Feast for Crows. Anyone who is a fantasy fan owes it to themselves to read these books. They may be a little intimidating at 1000+ pages a piece, but you'll fly through them faster than you'd believe.

 

[todd_k]

The Book of Honor. It's all about the "blank" names listed on the wall and in the Book of Honor in the lobby of the CIA headquarters. These are people who's missions were too top secret to reveal their names. Well, this author did all the research and interviews and found out every single name and tells their story. It's kind of weird to start reading their story when you know how it's going to end.

 

[Professor Frink]

John Irving's latest "Until I Find You". Good book so far, it takes me forever to read his books though.

 

[Petunia]

Based on the truth might be how some would describe it...You might be interested in this one too:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1883056241/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20

freakonomice was very entertaining.

Just read the reviews of that book and I'll have to say 'no thanks'. Sounds like a fellow diver just venting. The authors of Shadow Diver may or may not have gotten the original destruction scenario down correctly, but the story line of the wrecks discovery and the ensuing fight to hide the discovery and still explore it is a good one. My daughter still quotes from that book, "When the crabs are talking, it's time to go home"

Jennifer

 

[david_42]

If you are a hard science fiction fan and haven't sampled Cathrine Asaro's work, you have a real treat ahead.

 

[Baron von BeeGee]

Alan Dean Foster (early works)

I read a lot of ADF when I was younger. He wrote a couple of books of short stories that I like a lot, With Friends Like These and Who Needs Enemies.

 

[Baron von BeeGee]

I like Sci-Fi myself, especially the real sci-fi. If you've never read the series, I'd suggest the Dune series by Frank Herbert. There's a lot of human intrest lessons you can pick up from that whole series. They have something called 'Spice Beer' that I'd love to try and replicate. Darn, now I've got an idea to try and bring to life.

I was a Sci-Fi/Fantasy hound when I was younger. I read all of the Dune series (only liked the first one, though, tbh).

 

[Baron von BeeGee]

Before that I read "Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam" by Mark Bowden (Black Hawk Down writer), the story of the failed rescue attempt of the Iran hostage crisis. It was absolutely fascinating.

I saw the TV series on that book with Mark Bowden as one of the interviewees and will definitely read the book at some point. I was only 10 when it was going on, so there were a lot of the finer points I missed.

Interesting aside...my Dad had a business near Ft. Bragg and hired a lot of retired military. There was an old Colonel who took me to an arms demonstration one day at the base and we actually had breakfast at the table that morning with Gen. James Vaught. I was 16 and had no idea who he was, but I'd love to go back and see what he would actually talk about!

The arms demonstration was pretty cool, too.

 

[Chairman Cheyco]

I'm currently addicted to Bernard Cornwell's books. He's an awesome historical fiction writer. I'm just finishing the King Arthur series, and have a couple more of his on deck. I also really enjoyed Coleen McCulloch's books about Rome and Morgan's Run about settling Australia is awesome too.

 

[Baron von BeeGee]

I'm currently addicted to Bernard Cornwell's books. He's an awesome historical fiction writer. I'm just finishing the King Arthur series, and have a couple more of his on deck. I also really enjoyed Coleen McCulloch's books about Rome and Morgan's Run about settling Australia is awesome too.

Dude! Where ya been, eh?

 

[talleymonster]

HELL YEAH! Read that whole series, bad ass

Oh yeah, I love O.S.C. I have read the whole Ender series, as well as the Shadow series. I get all the books from a book-swapping site. It's free, except to ship a book to someone else, which usually only costs 2.13$.

Here is a thread I posted about it.

I also got a couple HB books there as well.

 

[Chairman Cheyco]

Dude! Where ya been, eh?

Oh yeah, where have I been?

Uhh... around, I guess. We're gonna get in trouble for OT posting though...

:cross:

 

[EdWort]

I just finished reading all of Lee Child's books on his Jack Reacher series. Great action/thriller with gratuitous violence for the bad guys.

 

[brewt00l]

Just read the reviews of that book and I'll have to say 'no thanks'. Sounds like a fellow diver just venting. The authors of Shadow Diver may or may not have gotten the original destruction scenario down correctly, but the story line of the wrecks discovery and the ensuing fight to hide the discovery and still explore it is a good one. My daughter still quotes from that book, "When the crabs are talking, it's time to go home"

Jennifer

I can understand that point of view. However, I say it goes a little beyond just venting and I do think that there are a number of points in Shadow Diver that do require correction for it to be considered a true story. Course, true isn't always the most entertaining

 

[Ize]

Funny to see this thread since I just really haven't had the time to get started on a book in a long, LONG time. So I sat in a chair and started on Stephen King's "Cell" this week. The mayhem begins right out of the box and at warp speed. :rockin:

Ize

 

[Baron von BeeGee]

Funny to see this thread since I just really haven't had the time to get started on a book in a long, LONG time. So I sat in a chair and started on Stephen King's "Cell" this week. The mayhem begins right out of the box and at warp speed. :rockin:

Ize

I hadn't read much in the last year, either. Between changing diapers or reading work-related material I felt like I didn't have time for elective reading. Of course, then I figured out how much TV I was watching in a day and got back to reading...

 

[Ryanh1801]

Finished Lone Survivor a few months ago, it was an awesome book. Have not had much time to read for fun with school going on, but have been trying to read "My men are my hero's"

 

[jbraas]

I'll chime in as another historical fan... either non-fiction of fictional novel. I recently finished "Sarum" by Edward Rutherford. Pretty good.. really long. Dals with the history of England literally from the start to modern times, revolving around on specific region.

Then I finally read "Johnny U" about Unitas. I do like football, not usually into these kind of books, but it was a gift and not to bad.

I just joined the History Book Club and I am waiting on my first order:

"Almost a Miracle" - John Ferling
- About the American Revolution
"The Battle for Spain" - Antony Beevor
-The Spanish Civil War; one of my other interestes is historical wargamming.
I'm jut finishing a game dealing with this period and realized I knew very little
about it, so thought I would learn
"The Rising Tide" - Jeff Shaara
-I've read all of his other stuff (son of the guy who wrote "The Killer Angels" -
the Gettysburg movie. This one is WWII.)
"The Pale Horseman" - Bernard Cornwell
-I am a Cornwell fan also as he was mentioned earlier with his King Arthur
novels. I also recommend any / all of the Richard Sharpe novels if you are
interested in the Nepoleonic era

 

[Baron von BeeGee]

Then I finally read "Johnny U" about Unitas. I do like football, not usually into these kind of books, but it was a gift and not to bad.

I'm usually not, either, but I did enjoy Three Nights in August which is basically a ghostwriter shadowing LaRussa during a 3-game series between the Cards and Cubs. Really fascinating to get into the thought process of a great manager before, during, and in between games of the series.

 

[Bernie Brewer]

I've been on a crime novel kick lately:

The Last Templar, Raymond Khoury

Proof Positive, Philip Margolin

Shadow Man, Cody McFadyen

Triptych, Karin Slaughter

Blindsighted, Karin Slaughter- still reading

Faithless, Karin Slaughter-next up

Oh, and I realy like Dan Brown's stuff, too. And Stephen King, but I haven't read anything from him in a few years.

 

[DraconianHand]

I am reading Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore.

It really isn't a book about religion and isn't historically accurate, but it is pretty damn funny.

 

[mummasan]

just finished 'The Progress Paradox; How life gets better while people feel worse' by Gregg Easterbrook - refreshing and readable in small doses

also recently read 'The Omnivore's Dilema' - about what we eat and where it comes from -

 

[alemonkey]

Oh yeah, I love O.S.C. I have read the whole Ender series, as well as the Shadow series. I get all the books from a book-swapping site. It's free, except to ship a book to someone else, which usually only costs 2.13$.

Here is a thread I posted about it.

I also got a couple HB books there as well.

Just got done reading the Ender and Shadow series, too. I'm not a big Sci-Fi fan, but they were really good. I also just read Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse, and I'm working on Demian by the same author. It's very.....German.

 

[BierMuncher]

Adult onset of ADHD has me in a "can't read more than one page without getting distracted" stage of life.

My senior year in college (1981) I read the Tolken trilogy in one summer...while I was partying and getting laid a lot.

 

[ScubaSteve]

Tolkien is great reading. I'm with ya, BM...I can't read anything more than magazines/instructional books...in fact I prefer to do all my reading on the internet....which probably encourages ADHD

 

[DeadYetiBrew]

Oh yeah, I love O.S.C. I have read the whole Ender series, as well as the Shadow series. I get all the books from a book-swapping site. It's free, except to ship a book to someone else, which usually only costs 2.13$.

Here is a thread I posted about it.

I also got a couple HB books there as well.

Haven't read those series yet... I have some from the series here and there, but i don't read a series unless i have book 1 and i always go in order...


Hammer's Slammer's Series by David Drake also...

Can ya tell i read mostly Sci-fi/fantasy/mil-sci

 

[Baron von BeeGee]

Adult onset of ADHD has me in a "can't read more than one page without getting distracted" stage of life.

My senior year in college (1981) I read the Tolken trilogy in one summer...while I was partying and getting laid a lot.

Bragger. Getting laid and partying a lot is cool, too.

 

[Cregar]

I'm in the middle of "The Buddha in your Mirror"

Been interest in Buddhism for awhile now.

 

[Evan!]

Well, I'm finishing up the latest "Left Behind" entry....

Seriously...

I'm simultaneously reading Atlas Shrugged and Lichine's The Wines of France. I usually have one fiction and one non-fiction going at the same time.

I recently read The God Delusion...excellent stuff.

 

[uuurang]

Just started reading "God is not great. How religion poisons everything" by Christopher Hitchens. Saw a interview on c-span book review with him that intrigued me. The book was very popular at the public library. Had over 250 hold requests for it, which is unheard of.