What are you Reading?

[triangleforge]

Since I got a lot of cool ideas for downloads from NAKID's "What are you listening to?" thread, thought I'd see if I can drum up some interesting stuff for the nightstand.

I'm a chapter away from finishing re-reading Edward Abbey's "Desert Solitare" which is a totally different book now that I'm surrounded by rocks and cactus day after day instead of deciduous trees, grass and LOTS of asphalt like the first time I read it.

Next in line is Edmund Morris' "The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt," which I didn't even realize was in the bookcase until the other day.

After that, I'm up for anything -- classics, new lit, trashy, graphic novels -- I'm kind of getting in a rut lately, re-reading old favorites, and wouldn't mind getting out of it. Whatta ya got?

[somegirl]

I just finished The Year of Living Biblically, was pretty interesting.

Now I gotta figure out what I'll be taking on my flight tomorrow, it's a long way to Singapore.

[Grampa]

Forever Odd

[teddy037.2]

I need a new book.

last thing I read was palahniuk's "snuff"

[maki]

At night I've been reading "The White Spider" the classic account of the first summit of the Eiger Nordwand by Heinrich Harrer and during the day at work I've been picking through "Economics in One Lesson" by Henry Hazlett off of Ron Paul's reading list.

[River]

Just finished the Twilight series (no comments from the peanut gallery, I LOVE vampires...)   

Now reading Shantaram.  Totally DIFFERENT and moving book.  It's a narrative about an Australian convict that escapes and moves to India.  It's quite beautiful and I'm about halfway through it.  I highly recommend it.   

[Kopfjäger]

Your thread.

[Speedbag]

The back of my morning Mountain Dew can. 

I had planned to read "House of Leaves" by Mark Danielewski (which I've had laying around for months) whilst unemployed, but other tasks came first and I'm back to work next week..... 

I need to read more, I miss it.

[metallimonster]

The Black Company Series by Glen Cook.  Very different and stripped down fantatsy.

[wbeck257]

Just finished the Twilight series (no comments from the peanut gallery, I LOVE vampires...)   

My girlfriend has read all four in the last week.
She expects me to see the movie with her.
I read the back of the book, and saw the preview -- fat make the beast with two backsing chance that is going to happen.



As for me -- Killing Mr. Waton by Peter Matthiessen. Some good `ole time Florida history.

[DCXCV]

In the middle of two different crappy books that I feel like I need to gut it through right now.  The last good one I read was Outrageous Fortune

My girlfriend has read all four in the last week.
She expects me to see the movie with her.
I read the back of the book, and saw the preview -- fat make the beast with two backsing chance that is going to happen.

A bunch of female friends have read it.  Asked if I wanted to borrow it to read.    They're planning on getting dressed up for the movie.  What is more pale - Trekkie or Twilightie?

The Black Company Series by Glen Cook.  Very different and stripped down fantatsy.

Very cool -  also read A Cruel Wind - chronicle of the Dread Empire

snip - I LOVE vampires - snip

Christopher Moore - Bloodsucking Fiends and You Suck

[eltristo]

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon

[Sinister]

"Race and Culture", Thomas Sowell 

I've got three others (not just Sowell) on deck, and about three more that I want to buy.  There's no time for indulging in fiction.

[bryant8]

Rereading On the Road by Jack Kerouac

Next will probably be a reread of a Kurt Vonnegut book

[LA]

Warped Passages, Lisa Randall: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions
It's about:  Supersymmetry, Standard Model observables, cosmological inflation, baryogenesis, grand unified theories, general relativity, and string theory.

Guns, Germs, and Steel, The Fates of Human Societies, by Jared Diamond
About: Human History- argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world. Societies that had a head start in food production advanced beyond the hunter-gatherer stage, and then developed writing, technology, government, and organized religionâ€"as well as nasty germs and potent weapons of war


The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy , by John J. Mearsheimer (Author), Stephen M. Walt (Author)
About:  "loose coalition of individuals and organizations who actively work to steer U.S. foreign policy in a pro-Israel direction." promotes "crimes perpetrated against the Palestinians" and also "hostility towards Syria and Iran" and is a primary cause for the United States to set aside its own security in order to advance the interests of another state [Israel]; and that U.S. Middle East policy has been driven primarily by domestic politics, especially the Israel Lobby.



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