What are you currently reading?

[Neoma]

I'm reading Hell Hath No Fury by Rosalind Miles and Robin Cross.

[CreekDog]

1. I was reading Faulkner's "Sound and the Fury" but I found it confusing

so I've put it down for a while to read something easier, like James Joyce. :eyes:

in the meantime i'm reading "Dreams from my father" by Obama. he's a very engaging writer, i'm enjoying it a lot.

[Neoma]

5. I have Dreams from My Father.

But I don't know which pile of books it's under...

[fishwax]

58. Sound and the Fury gets much less confusing once you get into the third day

The third day/chapter is much more linear than the first or second, and it also helps to fill in some of the comprehension gaps from the first two. I think putting it down for a while is generally a good strategy, though, and I did that the first time I read it as well :)

[LynneSin]

2. Your thread

well that's what I'm currently doing!

[JitterbugPerfume]

3. The Trial --Kafka

and it is beyond weird

[Neoma]

6. How weird?

Not sure that I've heard of that book.

[JitterbugPerfume]

9. it was unfinished at his death

and he told his friend to distroy it , but of course he didn't


A guy wakes up one morning to find police in his bedroom to arrest him , but he hasn't comitted a crime . He ends up going down strange streets looking for the court and people are speaking strange languages and every where he turns it just gets more and more bizarre. It is a truly disturbing story

[EastTennesseeDem]

4. A Confederacy of Dunces

for the third time.

[JitterbugPerfume]

7. I never get tired of that book!

[EastTennesseeDem]

8. Me neither

Ignatius J. Reilly is my favorite character in any medium of all time.

[BurtWorm]

10. What's Left of Us, by Richard Farrell

It's a memoir of heroin addiction that will be coming out in the summer. I'm reading it to give it an advance review.

I just read a memoir that I think will be a best-seller when it comes out this summer: Crazy for the Storm, by Norman Ollestad, about his survival of a plane crash in which his father, his father's girlfriend and the pilot were killed.

I'm also trying to finish The Challenge, by Jonathan (?) Mahler, about Hamdan v. Rumsfeld. That one I'm reading for my own pleasure, but books I'm paid to read keep getting in the way. (Fortunately most of those are worth reading.)

[JitterbugPerfume]

11. you have the best job

in the world!

[BurtWorm]

12. Amen to that!

If only it paid better. ;-)

[Neoma]

13. What's the requrements to get a job like that?

Ability to read?

[BurtWorm]

19. Ability to write as well as read.

And ability to convince the editor in charge of the publication I write for that you are well-read in the subjects covered by the books you write about.

[Neoma]

25. Takes awhile to be well-read in every topic.

Abe Lincoln alone has how many books on him?

[graywarrior]

14. I just finished The Night of the Gun by David Carr and I'm still reeling over it

What a book!

[ogneopasno]

18. Interesting! When I read the excerpts and so on from the NYT magazine, I wasn't impressed.

[graywarrior]

21. I mistakenly labeled him as an arrogant fathead until I got further into the book

His description of alcoholism and drug addiction is tragic and poetic at the same time. The fact that he develops cancer and then goes back out only to come back into recovery again while raising twin daughters on his own and struggling to get back into being a journalist just astounded me. I have to admit, I am a hardass when it comes to recovery stories but this one got to me.

[arcadian]

15. Pethouse Forum Vols. 25-27

Cloth bound.

[WCGreen]

42. I never thought I would be writing this....

[amyrose2712]

66. Don't forget

[ogneopasno]

16. I'm rereading "The Jungle" for the first time since I was 16. My consciousness has changed much

since then.

[PRETZEL]

17. I just started James Bamfield's

The Shadow Factory.

Too early to tell if I'll like it or not.

I would recommend Bart Gellmon's Angler. Fantastic book.

[Ptah]

20. The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie

[Broken_Hero]

33. Thats very good, I had to read that

for Creative Writing at my Uni. Sherman's latest "Flight" was the last book I read...it was pretty good actually, never read a book quite like it....:D Its an easy read, took me about 4 hours or so.

[Ptah]

62. I was recently exposed to the movie 'Smoke Signals'

I had no idea

This author has me hooked!

[azmouse]

22. Mr Capone by Robert Schoenberg

[newcriminal]

23. The Collector-John Fowles

[nomorenomore08]

31. I've read that - very good, and *creepy*.

Having the second half narrated by the captive herself definitely made it more interesting.

[SteppingRazor]

24. I'm currently on three:

Chapterhouse Dune, the last of Frank Herbert's six-part Dune series; The Executioner's Song, Norman Mailer's Pulitzer-winning work; and Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century by Hunter Thompson.

[Rambis]

26. Final account : an Inspector Banks mystery / Peter Robinson (nm)

x

[bamacrat]

27. The Wastelands by Stephen King.

It is the 3rd book in the Gunslinger series. Never been a Stephen King fan but this is not your average Stephen King book or series. Very cool. The whole series is about 3000 pages long im through about 1200.

[dixiegrrrrl]

28. The Known World by Edward P. . Jones

From the Amazon blurb:
"In a crabbed, powerful follow-up to his National Book Award-nominated short story collection (Lost in the City), Jones explores an oft-neglected chapter of American history, the world of blacks who owned blacks in the antebellum South.
Jones's thorough knowledge of the legal and social intricacies of slaveholding allows him to paint a complex, often startling picture of life in the region."

Good book, hard to put down.

[Sheltiemama]

29. Comm Check ...

The Final Flight of Shuttle Colombia. I should finish it tonight.

[rurallib]

30. "The Dark Side of Christianity" by Helen Ellerbe

ye gads, they skipped a few things in the Catholic school history classes.

[nomorenomore08]

32. Just finished 'I Was Dora Suarez' by Derek Raymond.

Which I highly recommend to anyone who can stomach a hefty amount of gore and perversion, not as a crime novel but as a work of literature, period. The writing is just that good.

[MrSlayer]

34. "Without Warning" by John Birmingham.

Birmingham does alternate history very well.

http://www.amazon.com/Without-Warning-John-Birmingham/dp/0345502892/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1238741369&sr=8-1

[enigmatic]

35. "Scar Lover"- Harry Crews

[Misskittycat]

36. The DU Lounge. n/t

[Neoma]

37. LynneSin already said something to that affect.

[Misskittycat]

44. You're right. I missed that; it was in the middle of the night.n/t

[seemunkee]

38. The Federalist

Wanted to read what some of the Founding Fathers thought.

[datasuspect]

39. Buttman volume 23

[RFKHumphreyObama]

40. The Reluctant Communist: My Desertion, Court-Martial and Forty Year Imprisonment in North Korea

by Charles Jenkins, the US soldier who lived in North Korea for forty years after deserting the US military. Fascinating to read for his insights into North Korea and its Stalinist dictatorship and way of life and also because of the story of his wife and other Japanese citizens abducted and taken into North Korea, some of them never seeing their families again

[ashling]

41. I am between books at the moment

Just finished a book on Melvin B. Tolson and I read his Rendevous with America

I'm giving a presentation on Tolson for a grad class next week.

[bikebloke]

43. Paradise Lost: Smyrna 1922 by Giles Milton

A cosmopolitan city in Turkey destroyed in 1922 by the Turks after the Greek invasion.

[trueblue2007]

45. I am a fan of SOPHIE KINSELLA. Reading THE UNDOMESTIC GODDESS.

I have read all the Shopaholic books.

I like chick lit.

[JitterbugPerfume]

46. The MonkeyWrench Gang by Edward Abbey

is ready for a re read .

Tim DeChristopher posed as a bidder on all of the public land to keep it from the oil and gas men referrenced it on Democracy Now this AM.

He is facing a possible ten years in prison with no regrets


sometimes anarchy is a good and needful thing:patriot:

[Forkboy]

48. I love that book, and it's sequel.

It even inspired a band I like to write a song about him.

Grotus - Edward Abbey

I know what's right
I know what's wrong
what would you do if someone was strangling your mother, just stand there?
well, someone is

I know what's wrong
the disruption of destruction is not violence
it's self-defense

I know what's right
the ghost of Edward Abbey says to me:
you're never a product of their world
unless you want to be

:hi:

[JitterbugPerfume]

49. --

:hi: Forkboy

I haven't seen Buddhamama (sp) ? aroud for a long time , and I adore her

Give her my love:hug: :loveya:

[Forkboy]

50. I'll be speaking to her this weekend, I'm sure.

And I'll most certainly pass on the message. I adore her, too. :)

[Renew Deal]

47. The National Enquirer while I drool all over myself.

:rofl:

[Pacifist Patriot]

51. Cosmopolitanism by Kwame Appiah and The Feeling of What Happens:...

Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness by Antonio Damasio.

Required reading. I'm reading Lady Chatterly's Lover for my recreational reading.

[mnhtnbb]

52. Peggy Guggenheim: The Life of an Art Addict by Anton Gill

Hubby and I were in Venice for several days on our recent trip to Italy and went to her museum. We were browsing through the Italian bookstore that had a section with English/German/Spanish/French books and I found the biography about her. I knew nothing about her--and now, ask me anything!

[Amerigo Vespucci]

53. Gary Gagliardi's "Sun Tzu's The Art of War Plus The Art of Sales: Strategy for Salespeople"

Fascinating book. Other authors have tacked the "Sun Tzu in business" motif, but none so potently as Gagliardi.

On the left side of the page, there is an English translation of Sun Tzu's "The Art of War."

On the right side of the page, there is Gary Gagliardi's text, which re-writes Sun Tzu's thoughts in the context of modern-day selling.

Right now, if you are small business owner (especially a sole proprietor like me) it is most DEFINITELY a war out there.

This book helps set a reasonable perspective.



:toast:

[guy]

54. Web of Debt

[YankeyMCC]

55. Silver Pigs by Lindsey Davis

It's been fun, the concept really had me intrigued because I enjoy fictionalized historical stories and noir type detective stories and it was fairly well written but just not strong enough to keep me from putting aside going any further into the series before reading some other titles on my list.

For a similar type of story in tone and style (although set in a futuristic society not a historical society) "Automatic Detective" by A. Lee Martinez was a lot more fun or at least grabbed and held my interest much more firmly.

[sniffa]

56. Brown's Boundary Control And Legal Principals, 5th Edition

:woohoo:

[hippywife]

57. Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen by

Larry McMurtry. A small collection of autobiographical essays. :hi:

[yellowdogintexas]

59. 'Wyrd Sisters' by Terry Pratchett, finally decided to check him out

after much Lounge discussion of his books.

So far, terribly funny

[amyrose2712]

60. The Shock Doctrine - by Naomi Klein...

You are all reading some very interesting things. I am saving this for ideas.

[Neoma]

61. I have that book!

So does my mom. :P

[amyrose2712]

67. Have you read it yet?

For me, it took a little while to get to the meat of it, but now I am reading and don't want to put it down. Page after page, I grow more furious.

[Catshrink]

63. The Princes of Ireland

The Dublin Saga by Edward Rutherford. I needed a change from Feynman and physics so decided to dive into one of Rutherford's books. They're great page turners and claim to be historically accurate -- the story around the families anyway. I've read London and Sarum and have The Forest somewhere but haven't touched it yet.

[Juche]

64. The intention experiment

[Maccagirl]

65. Comedy At the Edge by Richard Zoglin

A very nice, easy and interesting read about stand-up in the 70's.

I just bought "JFK and the Unspeakable" by James Douglass. I don't have the heart to open it yet.