What are you reading right now?
11-13-05, 11:00 PM
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Originally Posted by halfbiked
Yup. Interesting reads, though both written as an attempt at catharsis / excising some personal demons. An interesting rebuttal to "into thin air" was written by anatoli something-or-other (bourchev?), a guide on one of the teams that lost people who was criticized a bit by krakauer.
One of these days we'll pick up his latest, on the LDSers, which should be interesting...
One of these days we'll pick up his latest, on the LDSers, which should be interesting...
11-14-05, 10:04 AM
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I listened to Krakauer read "Into Thin Air" on book on tape last month when I went to visit my Dad. I'm interested in his, "Under the Banner of Heaven", because I recently read The "Mormon Murders" true crime book.
I just finished reading "A Man Without a Country" by Kurt Vonnegut, last night. Great stuff for people who are already fans of his work.
I just finished reading "A Man Without a Country" by Kurt Vonnegut, last night. Great stuff for people who are already fans of his work.
11-20-05, 08:40 PM
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Re-reading Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. Reading Pope Joan by Lawrence Durrell at the same time.
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11-22-05, 09:25 PM
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Making my way through W. Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage. Fantastic read. I have been reading it everywhere I go; even when shopping with my girlfriend.
Also reading Infidelity for First-Time Fathers by Mark Barrowcliffe. He's not as funny or readable as Nick Hornby but I just can't get enough of British humour. Oh yeah, my girlfriend thinks it's a how-to manual and she gives me the evil eye every time she sees me reading it. It's fiction, pure fiction - even though she doesn't buy it.
Also reading Infidelity for First-Time Fathers by Mark Barrowcliffe. He's not as funny or readable as Nick Hornby but I just can't get enough of British humour. Oh yeah, my girlfriend thinks it's a how-to manual and she gives me the evil eye every time she sees me reading it. It's fiction, pure fiction - even though she doesn't buy it.
11-22-05, 09:30 PM
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Bleak House by Dickens.
Poems of Coleridge and Shelly.
The World is Flat
Poems of Coleridge and Shelly.
The World is Flat
11-22-05, 11:44 PM
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The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
Steve
-those Germans...
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-those Germans...
11-25-05, 11:42 PM
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Just finished Maugham's Of Human Bondage. Loved it! A great read. I must say that reading a good book while my girlfriend did her shopping was a grand idea. I read the bulk of it at the mall today and when we came home I couldn't put it down.
So of course I must read some more on this lazy weekend so I've started Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha. I couldn't help also starting on Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage.
So of course I must read some more on this lazy weekend so I've started Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha. I couldn't help also starting on Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage.
11-26-05, 12:03 AM
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A few minutes ago I finished reading Saturday, by Ian McEwan. Very good book! I'd highly recommend it.
Now, I need to go through my piles of books (yes, I'm a biblioholic) and choose what to read next. Maybe some non-fiction . . .
Now, I need to go through my piles of books (yes, I'm a biblioholic) and choose what to read next. Maybe some non-fiction . . .
11-26-05, 02:40 PM
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Originally Posted by msviolin57
A few minutes ago I finished reading Saturday, by Ian McEwan. Very good book! I'd highly recommend it.
Now, I need to go through my piles of books (yes, I'm a biblioholic) and choose what to read next. Maybe some non-fiction . . .
Now, I need to go through my piles of books (yes, I'm a biblioholic) and choose what to read next. Maybe some non-fiction . . .
11-26-05, 04:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Ziggurat
I've been looking at those Krakauer books--with Shifty's recommendation above I'm definitely going to pick one up. 
11-26-05, 04:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Shifty
That is a good book, his other book is also great. Somebody is giving you good recommendations.
11-26-05, 10:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Brillig
Dessert Solitaire by Edward Abbey.
Very strange book, but very enjoyable.
Very strange book, but very enjoyable.
You are on a roll with books about the American west there Brillig, good for you.
Here is one of the strangest books you'll ever read The Circus of Dr. Loa by Charles G. Finney circa 1935. You may have to search for this one, a good library should have a copy, or search online, they are out there. Finney was an English professor at the Univ. of Arizona when he wrote this book in 1935.
Ziggy, this is a must for you.
11-26-05, 11:08 PM
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Speaking of Moab, Basin and Range, by John McPhee is a good non-fiction book about the geology of the West.
11-27-05, 08:58 PM
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Originally Posted by msviolin57
Speaking of Moab, Basin and Range, by John McPhee is a good non-fiction book about the geology of the West.
I've lost track of how many of his I've read, but I'll haven't read Basin and Range. I'll definitely have to read that next.
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12-08-05, 09:26 PM
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Here is a recommendation for a holiday novel:
The Stupidest Angel by Christopher Moore
Crazy funny tale of Christmas in a small town on the California coast. If you have read other books by Moore it has the same characters.
Happy Holidays ya'all!
The Stupidest Angel by Christopher Moore
Crazy funny tale of Christmas in a small town on the California coast. If you have read other books by Moore it has the same characters.
Happy Holidays ya'all!
12-09-05, 09:26 AM
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Yoritomo And The Founding Of The First Bakufu - Jeffrey Mass
Interesting and slightly revisionist view of the Kamakura Period of medieval Japanese history. Its perspective is mainly upon the far reaching socio-political ramifications of the ascendancy of the military class (which was to last close to 800 years), but by necessity also covers the key military campaigns.
Interesting and slightly revisionist view of the Kamakura Period of medieval Japanese history. Its perspective is mainly upon the far reaching socio-political ramifications of the ascendancy of the military class (which was to last close to 800 years), but by necessity also covers the key military campaigns.
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12-09-05, 01:32 PM
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Originally Posted by cycletourist
I am one of those annoying people that reads several books at once. There is a big stack next to my reading chair and I simply pick up whatever I am in the mood for and read a chapter or two.
Here is an inventory of the current stack:
An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afganistan by Jason Elliot
Word on the Street: debunking the myth of a "pure" standard english by John McWhorter
A Long Line of Dead Men by Lawrence Block (fiction)
Enough Rope by Lawrence Block
In The Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
Here is an inventory of the current stack:
An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afganistan by Jason Elliot
Word on the Street: debunking the myth of a "pure" standard english by John McWhorter
A Long Line of Dead Men by Lawrence Block (fiction)
Enough Rope by Lawrence Block
In The Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
12-09-05, 01:42 PM
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Originally Posted by halfbiked
Reading now: Join Me.
By Danny Something, some Brit. Tries to start a 'collective' (not a cult) by getting people to send him a passport photo, but doesn't tell them what they're joining. So far, its a Riot.
Weird 'philosophy' book: Wild Animus. They were passing it out free at the state fair last year. Its pretty damn weird. But I'll tell you why it was free: It Sucks.
By Danny Something, some Brit. Tries to start a 'collective' (not a cult) by getting people to send him a passport photo, but doesn't tell them what they're joining. So far, its a Riot.
Weird 'philosophy' book: Wild Animus. They were passing it out free at the state fair last year. Its pretty damn weird. But I'll tell you why it was free: It Sucks.
I cnat get more then 5 pages read in a sitting(about 40 total). I wouldn't have gotten that far except I really don't like watch TV when i'm bored.
12-09-05, 06:46 PM
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Ron Chernow | Alexander Hamilton
Jeffrey Eugenides | Middlesex
Chernow previously wrote about JP Morgan, Rockefeller and the Warburgs. Eugenides wrote The Virgin Suicides. Haven't read any of their previous work, but Sofia Coppola adapted and directed The Virgin Suicides as a movie. Hamilton is my favorite 'historical figure' and the Chernow book is great. 730pgs and I'm ripping through it, good stuff.
Jeffrey Eugenides | Middlesex
Chernow previously wrote about JP Morgan, Rockefeller and the Warburgs. Eugenides wrote The Virgin Suicides. Haven't read any of their previous work, but Sofia Coppola
adapted and directed The Virgin Suicides as a movie. Hamilton is my favorite 'historical figure' and the Chernow book is great. 730pgs and I'm ripping through it, good stuff.
12-10-05, 04:30 PM
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Another Robert Landrum book, The Janson Directive.
12-21-05, 02:03 PM
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Out of Control by Kevin Kelly
A Leap in the Dark by John Ferling
A Leap in the Dark by John Ferling
12-21-05, 02:16 PM
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After a spell of not reading much (dang, do 13 month olds have a lot of energy and want a lot of attention!), I kick-started my winter reading with something extremely light last weekend and read the first Artemis Fowl book. It's fun to root for both the good guys and the criminal genius! Also, I like reading far-off kind of fantasy stuff when it's freezing and snowy outside, so started reading George RR Martin's A Game of Thrones from this A Song of Ice and Fire series. Hopefully it lives up to the hyped reviews I have read. It's escapism for me...
