I just finished reading John Le Carre's "Absolute Friends" and am starting

[bobthedrummer]

in on Chalmers Johnson's "The Sorrows of Empire". I took them out from my local library, as per usual.

What book(s) are you currently reading? Did you buy them or get them from your library?

[Career Prole]

1. Just finished "The Celestine Prophecy" and started

Paul O'Neill's "The Price of Loyalty". The paper I work for sells off the review copies we get about 4 times /year in big book sales. A buck for hardcover, half a buck for paperbacks. The selection isn't always great but ya can't beat the price! :)

[bobthedrummer]

4. Wow, those are great prices for new books! I usually buy books at

thrift shops or rummage sales.

I've read "The Celestine Prophecy" and will read "The Price of Loyalty" when it's available at the library.

[Career Prole]

10. O'Neill's book is teaching me a lot about economics...

...a subject I know far too little about, I must confess. From what I've read so far I'd say Bush knows even less about the subject. :)
As soon as the election's over I'm going to settle down with the new Ted Williams biography...I want to be able to concentrate!

[Redleg]

2. I loved "Absolute Friends."

I just finished "Fields of Fire" by James Webb and am re-reading "Catch-22" for the third or fourth time. Funny stuff.

[bobthedrummer]

7. I read the first 150 pages or so and gave it a rest. But after that I

couldn't put it down and finished it. I'm 54 and could relate to some of it, I liked how he jumped through the life cycles and times, he's spot on about the political message.

[mopinko]

3. i am a buyer

although i love used book stores, and thrift shops. also like the quality paperback bookclub. do the amazon thing, tho.
i am a hoarder/packrat, and just too disorganized to keep track of library books. i try not to borrow from friends, either. i am so bad.
i am reading big dawgs book, and have molly ivins "bushwacked" waiting here. but i like thrillers. patricia cornwell, david baldacci, ron brown.

[Catch22Dem]

5. How was "Absolute Friends"

I'm a big fan, and heard about the book on NPR a few months ago. Sounded really interesting. I'm also big into Ludlum, DeMille, Cussler, and now Dan Brown.

Reading the Big Dog's book at the moment.

[bobthedrummer]

9. Really a good read, the first part (of character development) will appeal

to anglophiles and then it really takes off. I'm also into Len Deighton's work.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

6. A historical mystery called The Intelligencer

in which one of the main characters is Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe. It's very good for a first novel, although the parts that take place in modern times are a bit Robert Ludlum-like.

The last non-fiction book I read was Karen Armstrong's The Spiral Staircase, which tells how she left the convent and struggled with readjustment to secular life, all the while dealing with undiagnosed epilepsy. I found it interesting for the conclusions she has come to after years of studying comparative religions.

[MasonJar]

8. I am switching between the Clark and the Wilson books. I just

finished the newest Jahn Sanford novel the prey series.)

[phaseolus]

11. just discovered Terry Pratchett

...even though I'm prejudiced against the whole fantasy genre for being hopelessly geeky with all the imitation Welsh names and all the 'faeries'... But this stuff's hilarious in a pythonesque way & always seems to have a great point at the end.

I started with "Jingo" and "Good Omens" (which is now one of my favorite books,) both of which I recommend without reservations to all DUers. Also enjoyed "Guards! Guards!"

Just borrowed "The Truth", published in 2000 & a parable about people with printing presses destroying political figures they don't like.