Whats everyone reading?!

[Marilynn92404]

Hi All,
Looking for a new book to read? Wanted to get a idea what everyone else is reading and how they are liking it. How's everyones Saturday going?

[Mars_302]

Currently reading Brave New World by Aldus Huxley

[Marilynn92404]

whats a general idea of whats its about?

[Brandon.]

Currently re-reading Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

[Marilynn92404]

I just finished reading the Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison and am reading a mix of my bridal magazines :) Isnt Breakfast of Champions a movie also?

[ms. kat]

The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins.

[perdition79]

I just read "Atlas Shrugged" and I'm currently working on "The Age of Turbulence" by Alan Greenspan. "Atlas Shrugged" kicked ass.

[Brandon.]

I just finished reading the Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison and am reading a mix of my bridal magazines :) Isnt Breakfast of Champions a movie also?


Yes, it's a movie. Haven't seen the movie yet, but I imagine the book is so much better.

I would check it out though, it's a great book. I also recommend Cats Cradle and Slaughterhouse Five from vonnegut.

[nikki.]

Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk

[MitchMitchem]

I just read "Atlas Shrugged" and I'm currently working on "The Age of Turbulence" by Alan Greenspan. "Atlas Shrugged" kicked ass.


Yes. Go read The Fountainhead if you have not already.

[SorsSalutis]

I've been flip flopping through about 4 books the last couple of weeks...I can't seem to figure out which to hold off on...

Dark Gold - David Angsten
Shadow Puppets - Orson Scott Card
The Atlas of the Universe - Multiple Authors
Pieces of Eight - Recovering the Riches of a Lost Spanish Treasure Fleet - Kip Wagner and L.B. Taylor Jr.

[Cal]

Dalia Lama - Ethics for the New Millenium

great book

[Rob]

I'm about halfway through the Complete Sherlock Holmes Collection.

[The Latin Spice]

just finished "treasure of the khan" by clive cussler, now im onto "moon shot" the inside story of America's Race to the moon , by Alan Shepard and Deke Slayton

[perdition79]

Yes. Go read The Fountainhead if you have not already.

Good suggestion. Rep for you. Anybody who wants to read a good story about the importance of the ideals of the individual versus the evils of the collective (without having to read 1200 pages) should read "The Fountainhead." If you like it, then move on to "Atlas Shrugged."

[Miles]

i just finished "writing for comic books" by peter david :dunno:

[eileen821]

I read "misery world" for three times, now I read it again

[Marilynn92404]

This thread did pretty good, its givving me such great ideas dont know what to choose first!

[BAMF]

Freakonomics. Its almost lifechanging for some people. It helps teach you how to think. The right way. I'm not reading it at the moment, but I plan to read it again soon - I recommend it to everyone who asks about a book.

[Holly Golightly]

still on my GG series. 12th book now

[Regina]

I'm reading too many books right now since I'm in a Childhood Literature class. For being 3rd-6th grade age group books, they are decent. I just finished Bud, Not Buddy, Because of Winn Dixie and The Apple and the Arrow.

[juke]

The Father - Allen Tate
The Grandesimmes - George Washington Cable
End of the Affair - Graham Greene

[Iroc Joe]

Finished Valhalla Rising by Clive Cussler a couple of weeks ago. I have so much reading to do in my senior seminar I don't have time for leisure books right now. But, when I'm done I literally have over 20 hardcover books stacked on my desk waiting to be read. Most of them are Cussler novels, I have all 18 Dirk Pitt adventures in hard cover and I read them in the cycle every couple of years. I stole Clancy's Rainbow Sixfrom my parent's house, I haven't read that since it first was published.

I really want to start reading the James Ellroy "L.A. Confidential" trilogy I bought on Amazon for cheap... The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, and White Jazz.

ETA - I did read The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett right before Valhalla Rising, I love the hardboiled detective/noir genre.

[Marilynn92404]

GG series?

[BAMF]

Finished Valhalla Rising by Clive Cussler a couple of weeks ago. I have so much reading to do in my senior seminar I don't have time for leisure books right now. But, when I'm done I literally have over 20 hardcover books stacked on my desk waiting to be read. Most of them are Cussler novels, I have all 18 Dirk Pitt adventures in hard cover and I read them in the cycle every couple of years. I stole Clancy's Rainbow Sixfrom my parent's house, I haven't read that since it first was published.

I really want to start reading the James Ellroy "L.A. Confidential" trilogy I bought on Amazon for cheap... The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, and White Jazz.

ETA - I did read The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett right before Valhalla Rising, I love the hardboiled detective/noir genre.


You need to read "Atlas Shrugged", you dirty, filthy libertarian. Seriously awesome book, by Ayn Rand(sp).

[Marilynn92404]

I use to be able to read a book in a whole day its harder not working a 9-5 cuz when i get home all i want to do is sleep i dont even want to make dinner! i use to average 3 books a week!

[Zealot]

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On of the funniest books I've read, although most women will find it quite offensive

[Queenie]

What To Expect When You're Expecting
Pregnancy For Dummies
What To Expect: The First Year

...and I've been meaning to finish a few books as well, but I think I'll save them for the hospital...

[:jen:]

Currently reading Brave New World by Aldus Huxley

My bf's currently reading that. Says its awesome.

I'm reading Interview With the Vampire. Hard to believe, but I've never read it.

I <3 vampire novels.

[The Latin Spice]

Finished Valhalla Rising by Clive Cussler a couple of weeks ago. I have so much reading to do in my senior seminar I don't have time for leisure books right now. But, when I'm done I literally have over 20 hardcover books stacked on my desk waiting to be read. Most of them are Cussler novels, I have all 18 Dirk Pitt adventures in hard cover and I read them in the cycle every couple of years. I stole Clancy's Rainbow Sixfrom my parent's house, I haven't read that since it first was published.

I really want to start reading the James Ellroy "L.A. Confidential" trilogy I bought on Amazon for cheap... The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, and White Jazz.

ETA - I did read The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett right before Valhalla Rising, I love the hardboiled detective/noir genre.

another cussler fan? noicee.. I just finished the latest one "treasure of the khan" good book!

[Iroc Joe]

another cussler fan? noicee.. I just finished the latest one "treasure of the khan" good book!

I have been reading Cussler since I was old enough to actually read them! I'm definitely a huge fan. :)

I do have a confession to make though, I have yet to read a Kurt Austin adventure or any other "From the NUMA Files" book. I grew up reading Dirk Pitt novels, like I said, I have all 18 in hard cover which was a bitch ($$$), and I don't know if I can read a non-Dirk Pitt adventure. It just seems sacrilegious to me, I can't get over it.:lol: :lol:

[The Latin Spice]

I have been reading Cussler since I was old enough to actually read them! I'm definitely a huge fan. :)

I do have a confession to make though, I have yet to read a Kurt Austin adventure or any other "From the NUMA Files" book. I grew up reading Dirk Pitt novels, like I said, I have all 18 in hard cover which was a bitch ($$$), and I don't know if I can read a non-Dirk Pitt adventure. It just seems sacrilegious to me, I can't get over it.:lol: :lol:

I feel ya.. I'm the same way. i've thought about thumbing a kurt austin or numa files... since i already read all the dirk pitt ones.. but i dunno.. it just doesnt seem the same.. :lmao:

[Marilynn92404]

we should start a bookclub!

[m0nk3y]

A National Party No More - Zell Miller

[Marilynn92404]

A National Party No More - Zell Miller

im a graphic designer also graduated from IADT would love to see some of your stuff

[tespo125]

I'm working on:
--One Flew Over the Kuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey... so far it's way better than the movie, and the movie kicked ass...
--A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking... I have to admit, I'm 6 chapters deep and it's starting to get a bit difficult to comprehend this stuff. This is considered the world's #1 Unread Best Seller...
--The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud... Freud always has an interesting point of view on things...

[ms. kat]

Just started, Incredible Shrinking Son of Man: How Reliable Is the Gospel Tradition? by Robert M. Price

[Bellissima]

On of the funniest books I've read, although most women will find it quite offensive

Tucker is one of my top guilty reads.

I have his book still sitting in a box from moving that I'm seriously going to dig out right now because I'm sick and could use a good laugh. I always find myself having to put it down at least a few times so I can breathe. :lmao: I truly believe every woman should read his material - really gives you a first hand perspective on the workings of your everyday, typical asshole.


And what is thiiiis? People on TF that read books?! And some killer good ones at that?!!
I have some new-found respect going on after browsing this thread. :P

[MianoSM]

I'm working on:
--One Flew Over the Kuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey...

Ken has some really good books that didn't make it into mainstream as well...like Demon Box I think it was called....he was big friends with the beat writers back in the day....

I just got a library card, and was pretty disappointed by the selection at the Largo Library, but picked up:

Henry Miller - Opus Pistorum.

[Marilynn92404]

Ken has some really good books that didn't make it into mainstream as well...like Demon Box I think it was called....he was big friends with the beat writers back in the day....

I just got a library card, and was pretty disappointed by the selection at the Largo Library, but picked up:

Henry Miller - Opus Pistorum.

the westchase library in tampa as a awesome selection of books

[J-Dizzle]

Eurosport

[nikki.]

I work at Barnes & Noble and a lot of people are reading Twilight now.

[Miles]

"production sound" by scott clements

textbooks are way more interesting reading than anything else, ever.

[MianoSM]

Don Bajema - Boy in the Air.

[Kristin]

"The Girls Who Went Away. The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade"


and, "The Lovely Bones"

Amazon.com
On her way home from school on a snowy December day in 1973, 14-year-old Susie Salmon ("like the fish") is lured into a makeshift underground den in a cornfield and brutally raped and murdered, the latest victim of a serial killer--the man she knew as her neighbor, Mr. Harvey.

Alice Sebold's haunting and heartbreaking debut novel, The Lovely Bones, unfolds from heaven, where "life is a perpetual yesterday" and where Susie narrates and keeps watch over her grieving family and friends, as well as her brazen killer and the sad detective working on her case. As Sebold fashions it, everyone has his or her own version of heaven. Susie's resembles the athletic fields and landscape of a suburban high school: a heaven of her "simplest dreams," where "there were no teachers.... We never had to go inside except for art class.... The boys did not pinch our backsides or tell us we smelled; our textbooks were Seventeen and Glamour and Vogue."

The Lovely Bones works as an odd yet affecting coming-of-age story. Susie struggles to accept her death while still clinging to the lost world of the living, following her family's dramas over the years like an episode of My So-Called Afterlife. Her family disintegrates in their grief: her father becomes determined to find her killer, her mother withdraws, her little brother Buckley attempts to make sense of the new hole in his family, and her younger sister Lindsey moves through the milestone events of her teenage and young adult years with Susie riding spiritual shotgun. Random acts and missed opportunities run throughout the book--Susie recalls her sole kiss with a boy on Earth as "like an accident--a beautiful gasoline rainbow." Though sentimental at times, The Lovely Bones is a moving exploration of loss and mourning that ultimately puts its faith in the living and that is made even more powerful by a cast of convincing characters. Sebold orchestrates a big finish, and though things tend to wrap up a little too well for everyone in the end, one can only imagine (or hope) that heaven is indeed a place filled with such happy endings. --Brad Thomas Parsons



Both I loved readying though they both caused a few tears.

[hacker style]

Ron Paul - A foreign Policy of Freedom

[Regina]

My bf's currently reading that. Says its awesome.

I'm reading Interview With the Vampire. Hard to believe, but I've never read it.

I <3 vampire novels.

Oh how I love them, too. I actually enjoy listening to the audiobooks while I'm in bed. I'm listening to The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice currently.