What are y'all reading?

I loved the movie, but I haven't gotten past the first paragraph, er sentence :D. If the book>movie formula works for this book, then the book will be spectacular.
 
Just started The Great Gatsby, largely, I fear, due to the fact that I was never required to read it during my school years and fear I may have missed out on something.
 
Rick in KY said:
Just started The Great Gatsby, largely, I fear, due to the fact that I was never required to read it during my school years and fear I may have missed out on something.
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My 15 year old memories are telling me you didn't miss much, but I'm probably wrong.
 
Tiewas said:
Not currently reading anything, however I am looking for pretty much any book that has to do with the post-apocolypse... which is why im asking you guys if you know of any books of this type.
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Have you ever read George R. Stewart's Earth Abides? or On The Beach by Nevil Shute? Both classics. I also love Bavid Brin's The Postman, a wonderful, heartfelt little novel that Kevin Costner turned into a terrible, overwrought "big" film.
 
The first three books could be called post apocalyptic, but I really liked the Dark Tower series, written by Stephen King. The Gunslinger, the Drawing of the Three and the Wastelands, which was the best of the first three. If you haven't read it, it's about a gunslinger (sort of a sinister man with no name style gunfighter that made Clint Eastwood's characters look like little schoolgirls) and his journey through a wasteland. The first book was intriguing enough for me to buy the next two, and the Wastelands is my favorite, especially when they're riding through the Wastelands. The fourth, fifth and sixth books were crap, and the seventh almost redeemed itself, before the end of the book that was just the laziest move ever on Kings part. This series also ties into most of the other books in Kings library of novels and short stories, sometimes needlessly, most of the time it just clutters up his mythos.


The Gunslinger- not even a true introduction to the character, King could have condensed this into a short story

Drawing of the Three- get this one to identify the characters, an interesting read

Wastelands- a neat book, my favorite of the series, the last half is really neat

Wizards Glass- if someone gives this to you for free, read it, if not, don't buy it

Wolves of the Calla- goofy book, sort of a Magnificent Seven story, check it out from the library

Song of Susannah- same as Wizards Glass, don't buy this drivel

Dark Tower- wait for it on paperback, this is like your old high school car, it would sometimes have promise, would be rolling along, and then die on you. the end almost made me throw the book out the window.


There was also a Dark Tower short story in one of Kings recent short story compilations, I don't remember the name of it, but it was a really good story. Vampires, gunfighters, mutants, spiders, what else could you want.
 
Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett
Basket Case by Carl Hiassen
Both these authors write some funny, weird and just plain interesting stuff.
 
Just finished a old(1948 vintage) history book called The March of Muscovey. Its about the growth of Moscow from a fur trading post to its pre-Soviet empire. A little dry, but a interesting read anyways.

The Russian settlement from Moscow to the Pacific has some interesting paralells to the American settlement of the West. Fur trappers and miners opened the way for farmers and settlers there, just like here. We had the Sioux and the Cheyenne, the Russians had the Tatar clans to contend with.

Also had alot of differences also, mostly cultural and governmental. I've always felt the Americans and Russians had more in common as people than we did to divide us, this book showed some of that common ground.

No vampires, zombies, or orcs in history books, but this one did have a long section on Ivan the Terrible. When you got him, who needs orcs.
 
The catechism of the Catholic church and Catholicism for dummies. Damned post Vatican II catholic school education. I am realizing how much they didn't teach us.
 
I am reading Parachute Infantry: An American Paratrooper's Memoir of D-Day and the Fall of the Third Reich by David Kenyon Webster.

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Ken, you can read? ;)


I'm re-reading the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I never fully got the ending of the series the first time I read it through. Plus, I'm finding a bunch of things I didn't notice before.

Next on the list is Generation Kill.
 
A Long Strange Trip, the inside history of the Grateful Dead.

Great book, more of a historical accounting of the bands years between 1965 and 1995.:thumbup:
 
Chris Mapp said:
Ken, you can read? ;)


I'm re-reading the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I never fully got the ending of the series the first time I read it through. Plus, I'm finding a bunch of things I didn't notice before.

Next on the list is Generation Kill.
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Great books, just remember your towel and the answer,(42).:D
 
K.V. Collucci said:
I am reading Parachute Infantry: An American Paratrooper's Memoir of D-Day and the Fall of the Third Reich by David Kenyon Webster.
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Good read, very interesting companion to Ambose's Band of Brothers. Webster seemed to have more than a little bitterness from his experience as an enlisted man, the line I remember is "I'll never Sir another man as long as I live".
 
Hey folks, I'm looking for a recommendation for a really, really great book. I've got an idea that it's going to be a fiction thriller, but I'm open to suggestions

Here's what I'm looking for: Remember when Tom Clancy first came out with 'The Hunt For Red October' and everyone who read it went "wow!" and forced their friends to read it? That's what I'm looking for. I can't do Tom Clancy anymore, because I think he stopped writing decent novels about 10 years ago.

All of the Stephen Coonts/Dale Brown style military thrillers seem to be too dumb for me these days. I loved them in high school, but they're just not up to what I'm looking for.

I like spy thrillers. . . but I'm kinda sick of of the Ludlum formula.

I really liked Neal Stephenson's "Cryptonomicon" and the Diamond Age, but his other stuff doesn't do it for me. I got bored halfway through the second book of his trilogy.

Farley Mowat's "The Grey Seas Under" was pretty amazing. (semi-fictional recount of a deep see salvage tug in the north atlantic).

I'm a corporate attorney by day and by the time I get home my brain is tired of thinking so hard. I want something fun, intelligent, and gripping. Manly men, adventure, fighting to the death, overcoming insurmountable odds, survival, and ever so sweet revenge.

My problem is that I really don't read enough . . or at least I stay too far away from book culture . . to know what's out there. Sci Fi? Don't know if that would be my game. Dune was ok. Historical adventure? Maybe.

Can anyone recommend a few for me?

Thanks in advance - you guys rock!
 
Stephen Hunter is an author you might like, I read the Bob Lee Swagger series a few years ago. One title was Point of Impact. Can't remember the other titles, but they are easy to find with a search.
 
I have some time off coming up at Christmas, so I just got the book Evolving Eden: An Illustrated Guide to the Evolution of the African Large-Mammal Fauna. Some light reading...:D
 
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