What book are you reading?

Vorpal -- thanks for rec -- adding Stardust to top of my amazon wish list.... maybe I will read it out loud to my daughter to boot...
 
Dr. Mudd,

Try "Something of Value" by Robert Ruark. It is truly a classic.

M. Otter,

Simon Schama! Wow. Perhaps the greatest British historian (other than Churchill).

Mine: To the Last Man and Rising Tide by Jeff Shaara. Wonderful.

M.
 
Peter_E_Ryt said:
I went through about 50 pages of Fluke (wonderful!) as Borders.
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I finished Fluke, and recommend that as well. just picked his "The Stupidist Angel", but haven't started it yet.

also enjoyed "The Many Aspects Of Mobile Home Living" by Martin Clark.
 
1. Sideways by Rex Pickett (book was made into a movie)

2. The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams (autobiograph)

3. Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societes (anthropology/history) Must confess still have not read this entirely yet.
 
A County Built on Iron: a history of St. Louis County Minnesota and the importance the early iron mining had to play in it's history and on it's people.
 
I got sucked into Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series, after my group of friends pestered me for weeks to read it.
 
I've been getting into Daniel Silva lately - just read 'The English Assassin'. Before that it was 'The Road' by Cormack McCarthy.

Then, of couse, I've also been re-reading the manuscript of my book, tentatively titled 'Shadow Warrior', which will be published by Penguin in Australia in July 2008 (sorry folks - just had to throw that in:D).
 
enderwiggin said:
I got sucked into Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series, after my group of friends pestered me for weeks to read it.
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I've got the first 5 or so of those books, including the poorly received prequel in my collection. Haven't touched them yet but I've heard good things about them. I plan to get to them sometime around late fall / early winter.

Right now I'm working my way through...

Rand - Atlas shrugged
S.M. Stirling - The Protector's War, then Meeting At Corvallis
J.V. Jones - A Cavern Of Black Ice, then A Fortress Of Gray Ice and then the third book if I can find anyone who has it

I've got maybe 2 or 3 other fantasy series I was thinking about starting in addition to the Wheel Of Time. I've been meaning to focus on non-fiction too. So much for that.
 
I just finished Charles Stross' The Glass House, a far-future sci-fi effort. Stross is an impressive young Brit author, very tech-savvy and with a background love of horror and spy fiction. Makes for quite a ride.

Currently, it's dry old science, Evolving God. A primatologist looking at our closest relatives looking for the evolutionary roots of human "belief".
 
I just finished Karen Traviss's Republic Commando series "Hard Contact" and the 2nd book "Triple Zero". Republic Commando is a story about 4 clone commandos (Omega Squad) in the Star Wars Universe during the 3 year Clone War. I don't like sci-fiction, but I love this story line. The 3rd book (True Colors) comes out this October and a 4th book (Republic Commando 4) comes out in the summer of '08. I just can't get enough of the Clone War saga and these books have really re-ignited my interest in Star Wars that I haven't had since I was a kid.
 
Gollnick said:
Krakauer's books, on the other hand, I can't stand. They're, IMHO, just stupid books about stupid people and reading two of them annoyed me.
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Iger Dreams was the the first Krakauer books that I read. I like the part about the bodies hanging off ropes for years and no one being able to cut them down.
 
Just finished Never Let Me Go by Ishiguro - decent near future dystopia book told in the first person... bleak ending.

I am currently reading Shalimar the Clown by Rushdie -- I know he is famous, well respected and I love the thumb he put in the eye of the Iranian regime... but dear lord he loves himself some wordy exposition -- been hard to wade through.
 
I'm mostly listen to books on CD now rather than read, as I can listen in the car, and at night as I'm conking out.

Most recently listened to David McCullough's "John Adams" and "1776", each of which I listen to about once a year. Both are awesome. When I rule the world, each will be required reading to graduation from high school.
 
Right now I'm reading Seals in Action. I'm waiting to finish the second Bourne book. The Bourne Supremacy. My favorite book that I read about twice a year is Last of the Breed by Louis Lamor. Awesome book.
 
I just finished an excellent book entitled "The Devil In The White City" which has a dual theme........the 1893 Chicago World's Fair and a little known serial killer that preyed on a certain segment of the attendees.
 
"a Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini. It covers about 30 years in the lives of some people in Afghanistan. Pretty good so far. After that I guess I will read "The Kite runner" by the same author. Makes you glad to live in the United States.
 
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