What ya reading now?

[50 Mission Cap]

Inside the Third Reich by Albert Speer. Totally messed up about Hitler's architect buddy that survived the war and nuremburg. Not a closet nazi or anything, just wanted to read about what really motivated these guys (some of whom were fairly intelligent), and how they could so mindlessly follow an assh*le like Hitler.

[Spalls]

Did I hear somebody say history repeats itself?

You might want to pick up a copy of Trading with the Enemy. It outlines how major U.S. and British corporations continued to do business with Germany during the war.

[jerman]

The World Made Straight by Ron Rash. It is set in the mountains of North Carolina, and deals with a young man coming of age and how his decisions not only affect him but those around him. Very good book.

[poison idea]

the illuminatus! trilogy -generally i'm not into conspiracy type stuff but this is f'n great. secret societies, drugs, mysticism, assasinations. it's fiction (at least i hope it is) but there is a lot of history in there. actually, the LSD worship and sex grate on me but overall i'm really digging it

heart of a dog -repressed russian classic. a mangy ammoral mutt gets organs transplanted into a human

[grizphrog]

I've got a few on my bedside table:

Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv - a book about children and Nature-Deficit Disorder, some of today's problems with youth can be solved by letting them play outdoors (a real simplified explaniation).

Collapse by Jared Diamond - how societies of yesteryear destroyed themselves, a follow up of his book Guns, Germs, and Steel, a book on how some societies thrived and others failed.

Hayduke Lives by Edward Abbey - my man is back at it again.

Just some light reading until the new Harry Potter book comes out.

[Fook...I'm Dave]

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

i just started it over the weekend so i can't say too much about it yet other than it's a post-apocolyptic story about father and son travelling through a barren wasteland. i've heard a lot of good things about this author so i'm excited to get into it.

[cMc]

The Dirt Rag website. :cool:

[mimbresman]

Texas by James A. Michener

[zen84]

Orlando by Virginia Woolf

[BigFatGuy]

"12 Days on the Road, The Sex Pistols and America" by Noel E. Monk and Jimmy Guterman

[OTBSkinloss]

Maxicom2 pdf.

[ss29mtb]

From the bottom up

it is an account of a guy who decided to clean up the mississippi river.

[longhaultruker2]

this here thread:p

[phlatlander]

Goodnight Moon

[Tman]

Rereading two non fiction and one fiction book by chef Anthony Bourdain......................great reading.

[Fook...I'm Dave]

The Mole People: Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City by Jennifer Toth


The Road was fantastic.

[fudgedit]

Truck by Michael Perry

An awesome non-fiction read by the author of population 485. Dude is a roadie, but he lives in small town wisco and has fallen in love with an old pick up and a college professor.

Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank

A positive post-apocalyptic tale for those of you who have read The Road (awesome also)

Absurdistan- (forgot the author) reading it right now and it is hillarious. It is about an obese ex-pat russian obsessed with American hip-hop who is stuck in a messed up civil war being staged by Haliburton.

Returning to Earth by Jim Harrison. The man is a god of writing. I bow at his feet. If you have not read any Harrison, then I think you are missing out on the greatest living American writer.

[adam12]

How to make my own panniers.

[ironspoke]

Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.... I know how they all end as I've been reading the same book off and on since my college days. Turn of the century......here or across the pond. Airplanes, cars, medicine, lightbulbs. That 30-40 year period saw some amazing shit happen.

[dangerousdave]

in last couple a months...
The God Delusion. Richard Dawkins
The Sleeping Island. PJ Downes
13 Moons. Charles Frazier
Why I am not a Christian. Bertrand Russell
Letters From The Earth. Mark Twain
and currently:
God is Not Great; How Religion spoils everything. Christopher Hitchens
and now my own post... hmmmm.... de ja vu all over again?

[dangerousdave]

[QUOTE=fudgedit;152355]Truck by Michael Perry

An awesome non-fiction read by the author of population 485. Dude is a roadie, but he lives in small town wisco and has fallen in love with an old pick up and a college professor.
QUOTE]

Which small town?

[Jay13]

George RR Martin's series "The Song of Ice and Fire" I just finished the third book, Storm of Swords. Great stuff.

[Cressers]

I've just read this...

http://www.jasonroberts.net/holman.html

I'd reccomend the book.

[Marticus]

"The Pirate Coast" ... it's about the formation of the Marines and the first secret mission undertaken by the U.S. Good stuff. I learned soemthing interesting in the very first chapter: the first country to declare war on the U.S. was Tripoli (modern day Libya.)

[Ruralakay]

The Pendragon book series, currently on book #4. My daughter's best friend talked me into trying them, in an attempt to assert that well-written books for teens could captivate an adult audience, as well. Guess it worked, if I'm on the 4th book, and I started reading them less than 3 weeks ago.;)

After that, I will move on to more of my favorite author, James Patterson. I have Step On a Crack, but haven't started it yet. I also need to get his latest two freshly released books.

Phlat...Goodnight Moon made me smile. I guess that book is a staple in every home with kids. We have two copies.

[danheckler]

I'm reading "Among the Thugs" by Bill Buford. It's about Soccer Hooligans, er, I mean Football Supporters. The current topic, the fans of Manchester United, is quite entertaining so far...

[Fook...I'm Dave]

George RR Martin's series "The Song of Ice and Fire" I just finished the third book, Storm of Swords. Great stuff.



oh man, this is one of my favorite series. its been so long since i've read the earlier books, i have to go back and refresh myself before the next one comes out.

[shozdijiji]

Reading a bunch of Cory Doctorow's works. If your not familiar with his stuff, it is Sci-fi and something similar to Orwell, Asimov or Philip K. Dick. He has been around but his latest colection of shorts will probably soon be in the public's eye more and more. Comics are coming and after that I would not be surprised about a movie or two.

Cory's latest is a collection of shorts (Overclocked):
http://www.craphound.com/overclocked/

He releases all his stuff under the Creative Commons Licenses (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/legalcode) so it is all free to download, and there are many electronic versions.

Give it a look.

[FBX]

At the moment, I'm reading The Portable Thoreau. It's a compilation of Henry D. Thoreau's most memorable writings. Living in the Alaskan Bush, I'm trying to foster an appreciation for the natural world as it is, just as Thoreau did. (And I really admire Thoreau's appreciation for everything from forests to fighting ants to fireplaces)
I'm also reading on and off Mark Twain's Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Soren Kirkegaard's The Present Age. The latter is to prepare myself for my Contemperary Philosophy class in the fall.

[50 Mission Cap]

and Soren Kirkegaard's The Present Age. The latter is to prepare myself for my Contemperary Philosophy class in the fall.

You should read "The Sickness Unto Death". I've more or less patterned my life after it.

Mick

[dangerousdave]

The latter is to prepare myself for my Contemperary Philosophy class in the fall.

sounds like you need a copy of HL Menckens work on The Philosophy of Friedrich Neitzsche. Its an awesome starter for that path.

[50 Mission Cap]

The Mole People: Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City by Jennifer Toth


The Road was fantastic.

Just got Mole People from the library... read the first 10 pages.... very very interesting. Thanks for the tip. Is the Road that oprah book?

[OTBSkinloss]

The Coalwood Way, by Homer Hickman.
About half way through, so far, it's great. If you've seen October Sky, you know who he is.
I freakin love this stuff. :D

[S. cerevisiae]

has my head swimming. After having to read all of the texts required of us in the biology curriculum way back then I have leaned more to the light end.

Have read Grisham, John Irving, (the late) Vonnegut, and most recently the Harry Potter series.

If I want to read something heavy that will cause me to rant and be aggravated I'll roll over to the Politics forum.

Good Night, Moon is a classic. Probably read it hundreds of times to my kids, and their cousins.

[rockyrider]

Was someone looking for this thread perchance?

[Fook...I'm Dave]

Is the Road that oprah book?

haha it may well be. i don't know much about her show but its cool that she gets people to read and if she is recommending a book like The Road then kudos to her.

[cMc]

The Original Wild Ones, Tales of the Boozefighters Motorcycle Club and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

[longhaultruker2]

...and various monthly zines,the Good Book by various authors (but inspired by One Almighty),divorse your car by katie alvord,and the art of urban cycling:lessons from the street by robert hurst

[MrTits]

The Assault on Reason by Al Gore

[OTBSkinloss]

The Assault on Reason by Al Gore

LOL. Why? Do you want to be a Jim Jones follower?

[myron]

LOL. Why? Do you want to be a Jim Jones follower?

Man, I hear it's like utopia there, and they got's this wicked purple Kool Aid too.

Shotguns on the Tarmac,
Senetor

[EatDirt]

China, Inc. by Ted Fishman...non-fiction...mighty scary. We're doomed.

[dangerousdave]

Was someone looking for this thread perchance?

A gentleman and a scholar! thanks RR..

[sommerfliesby]

Scandalmonger by William Safire. It's wild how politics hasn't changed since the birth of the nation...cool look at Alexander Hamilton vs. Thomas Jefferson when the nation was still in premie clothes.

[ironspoke]

I'm working on some period fiction from the turn of the last century and I decided to do my research based on the history books of the day.

You want to look at some fascinating stuff go and read a history book from 1897. The lightbulb was credited to Brush and there was no mention of Edison at all. It was all railroads and farming. The Industrial Revolution was just taking off. There were political parties formed based on the platform of enacting anti- Chinese laws. There was also a belief that the US Govt should own the telegraph wires instead of private companies. At the time the telegraph was the only means of long distance communication. The states were way more powerful than the federal government and the amount of content contained in a 400 page book would fill up 3000 pages today.

It makes you realize how things have been manipulated over the years. A researcher putting together a history book today...where are they getting their info from? The internet?

[Johnny]

Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk. Pretty twisted, pretty awesome.

[50 Mission Cap]

Reading East of Eden by Steinbeck. Funking awesome. Check it out. Maybe better than Cannery Row... or maybe not... but awesome. Almost as chubbin as kill creek. Pretty sure I saw John Brown's ghost last night... or maybe it was Nancy Clutter....

[rockyrider]

Anyone read Douglas Coupland's J Pod (http://www.coupland.com/books/books13.html)?

CBC TV is about to do a TV series based on the book. It's supposed to be quite true to the book which will make it a very trippy TV show.

[OneSpeedWonder]

When it's cool enough-and the mosquito's are not biting- I am at the moment trying to get stuck into the most recent re-re-re-re-print!!! of On The Road,my Oldest Bro was into that hitching around the world scene mid 80's so I heard a lot about Kerouac from him,bought the book at Melbourne Airport on the way to Kansas, had wayyy too much fun travelling with the Budgie to find time to read so have only just got into it,very interesting....

[mscotch]

Truck by Michael Perry

An awesome non-fiction read by the author of population 485. Dude is a roadie, but he lives in small town wisco and has fallen in love with an old pick up and a college professor.

Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank

A positive post-apocalyptic tale for those of you who have read The Road (awesome also)

Absurdistan- (forgot the author) reading it right now and it is hillarious. It is about an obese ex-pat russian obsessed with American hip-hop who is stuck in a messed up civil war being staged by Haliburton.

Returning to Earth by Jim Harrison. The man is a god of writing. I bow at his feet. If you have not read any Harrison, then I think you are missing out on the greatest living American writer.

did you like population 485

[mscotch]

just finished a health book called Younger Next Year. Very good to anyone who desires not only a long life but a long quality one. Gets into how our bodies evolved as a hunter/gatherer and why that conflicts with our sedentary lifestyles.

[cMc]

Welcome to the Monkey House. Finally finished One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.

[Spatafore]

Just started The Science of Leonardo

[AM Radio]

Worth a re-read:
20183

[mimbresman]

I've been reading the classic, The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins, but I haven't hit it in a few days.

[AM Radio]

Or some other cellophaned covers:
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StewMeat

[myron]

Or some other cellophaned covers:
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StewMeat

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[AM Radio]

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He got sad. It was the watermelon, salmon and or kool-aide that made him 'Do,' it.

[myron]

He got sad. It was the watermelon, salmon and or kool-aide that made him 'Do,' it.

enabler........

[Ripp]

Just finished Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje. Yes it's spelled correctly, yes I had to go get the book to check. :)
It's about a Sri Lankan woman who had left the country before the civil wars of the mid 80's-early 90's started to study and accepts a job going back to do humanitarian research in her field of Forensic Anthropology. Interesting story, and very well written, but never really grabbed me the way a great book can.

About to start a book called Fugitve Pieces written by Anne Michaels. Both books were given to me by my aunt (English Teacher, retired) who almost always recommends great literature.

[AM Radio]

enabler........

Or disabled?
20196
Sheep go Baaah

[Mo0se]

Yes, I have been reading this (http://www.gibson.com/whatsnew/pressrelease/2002/dec26a.html) every since we left the musicians house of ill repute... The guitar center.. they got me today.. and I was minding my own business... now I have to go back there tomorrow.

Sorry for the hijack jacks..

[Ripp]

Sorry for the hijack jacks..

Terrorist! :D

Hope you enjoy that new geetar you don't own yet!

[rockyrider]

Yes, I have been reading this (http://www.gibson.com/whatsnew/pressrelease/2002/dec26a.html) every since we left the musicians house of ill repute... The guitar center.. they got me today.. and I was minding my own business... now I have to go back there tomorrow.

Sorry for the hijack jacks..Now here's the 6" travel geared (http://www.gibson.com/robotguitar/) version of that dream device (http://www.gibson.com/robotguitar/RobotGuitarVideoVoting.aspx)