What book are you reading now?

I'm just finished with "Mugabe" by David Smith & Colin Simpson (1981).

 

choke by chuck palahniuk

 

Networking for Home and Small Businesses. :cry

 

I recently went back to college (never too late i guess) and I need some foreign language credits. I decided on taking Arabic 101 (and 102 next semester) . We have a mid-term project/report about an Arab country. I got the UAE. So, i'm currently reading The origins of the United Arab Emirates : a political and social history of the Trucial States.

 

Choke is written by the same author who wrote Fight Club.. he has such a dark analytical writing style, his stuff is always a good read. Survivor is also another great book I read before starting this one :cool

 

I'm re-reading John Varley's Persistence of Vision, whew!!! Hugo and Nebula award!

 

Street Soldier by Eddie Mac - its about his time working as an enforcer for Whitey Bulger whos the Irish mafia boss

its interesting, whitey is really smart but he runs an illegit business while his brother whos not so smart does politics LOL

 

"A Purpose Driven Life" by Rick Warren and "A Million Little Pieces" by James Frey.

I must say that if any of you have a family member who is addicted to drugs or alcohol, this book is incredible source of info! This is about a guy who consumes so much drugs and alcohol on a daily basis that it would kill a normal person. This is his story about his going through rehab... absolutely gut wrenching read!!!

 

Ya I have an uncle and cousins (Father and daughters) who are extreme Heroin addicts. I will give it a read.

 

The Bourne Supremacy.

 

cool... you won't regret it... just be prepared for reality! this guy is no writer, but he knows all about keeping it real. very real! hope you enjoy and learn something.

 

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Again. Before that, it was Long Walk To Freedom, Mandela's autobiography. Unbelievably easy to read. Before that, The Last Gang In Town, a biography of The Clash.
Give me a toilet and something to read and I'm the happiest gadge on the planet. Bliss.

 

Give me a toilet and something to read and I'm the happiest gadge on the planet. Bliss.[/QUOTE]


Yeah... my ex always told me I couldn't put a bookshelf and reading lamp in the latrine... Hmmm... single now... sounds like a project!!!

 

I haven't read anything else by him, to be honest, but I really enjoy these so far. I mooched The Bourne Ultimatum as well, so when I'm done with the Supremacy I have the third to enjoy.

 

The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge: by Carlos Castaneda. It was a well written series but really got bad after the third one.

 

"The Catcher in the Rye" by Salinger. Started reading it while my wife was in hospital undergoing a procedure last Friday. Just now finishing it. Not read it since school.

 

When I read it in school I found it to be a dark, disjointed, meandering, and gratuitously vulgar tale without any real artistic style or merit . . . and I couldn't really understand why it was so highly thought of.

Upon reading it decades later as an adult, I . . . find it to be a dark, disjointed, meandering, and gratuitously vulgar tale without any real artistic style or merit . . . and I can't really understand why it is so highly thought of.

I just don't care for it. I read it all again, to give it a fair shake . . . I mean, some of the prose is ok, but hardly remarkable. Maybe it's just beyond me? I do not, like so many others, see it as some deep insight into the problems facing youth in the 1950's . . . perhaps I could buy that in a microcosm of society at that time, but not the society as a whole.

 

I agree, mostly.

did just finish another book recently, Dog Soldiers, by Robert Stone. from 1973. Not like others ive read from that time, was well done.

 

The only Ludlum in the series I liked was The Bourne Identity the First. Plodded my way through the rest.
Get your hands on a James Clavell. Whirlwind being my favourite by far. Thousand +pages fine print! Shogun was nice, as was Nobel house.
Willbur Smith another all time great. Just don't bother to read his last two!!

Cheers..

 

Musashi, The Samurai, by Eiyi(sp?) Yosikawa

 

"Sea Of Swords", R.A. Salvatore - The awesomest (Yes, I know it's not a word, but it's still awesome) writer of fantasy ever, excepting no more than 6:-D.

I'm really dying to read the new Matthew Reilly one, Five Greatest Warriors. The ending of the last one was horrible, and left me with high expectations. I mean, the main character falls into this bottomless abyss, and we wait 2 years for the next one?

Best out of any action I have ever read, excepting a few.

AAARGH!!!
I have to read that next year for Year 10 English Literature!!!

 

"Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph" by T.E. Lawrence

AKA Lawrence of Arabia - an account of his exploits with Arab allies who were revolting against the Ottoman Empire during WW1 (or the Big War, as my grandfather put it).

 

Yeah!
Just got the new Matthew Reilly one from a friend.

 

I've just received a copy of Animal Farm from Amazon. Read it once as an English exam topic nearly 30 years ago. It is one of the most riveting books ever written and I think that this book was the germination of the seed that saw the onset of my hatred of injustice and unfairness. It is that old cliché: Unputdownable. I passed with a grade one, by the way.

 

Since NASA definitively said today that there is water on/in the moon, I'm rereading Heinlein's 'The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress' where the 'Loonies' finally revolt against the earthen politicos and start lobbing rocks at Earth to make their point!:-D

Much better than throwing good tea into a harbour I say! Let's just say that a large rock can easily equate to a nuclear bomb in effect at the proper speed. Hey USA, watch out for the colonialists!roflmao

 

All animals are born equal. It's just that some are more equal than others. Right...?

It's an amazing book. The fact that it still affect generations in how they approach the world proves it several times over.

 

I'm reading the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. Currently I'm in the 8th book.. Believe me, I've never read this much in this short time during my whole life, this series is teh stuff.

 

Because i am so stupid, how windows 7 works.

 

You don't need it Bill.

 

Auggiedog,
Would die without books. John Grisham's "The Associate", good, but like some of his other legal thrillers better.
Sheena

 

You know me Augie, i learn something today and tomorrow i have to learn all over again.

 

No, actually it's just that some are more tasty then others . . . :yum

:-D

 

P-O-R-K!:yum

 

i have almost 1,000 ebooks on my iPhone...only around 100 are purchased (mostly James Patterson, Clive Cussler, Raymond Khoury, Chris Kuzneski, Andy McDermott, more. not so keen on modern romances unless they involve major action/adventure and/or serial killers...preferably both). LOL

just finished Andy McDermott's "The Tomb of Hercules" the protagonists are my new "Dirk Pitts" DO check out Chris Kuzneski; his first, "The Plantation" was AWESOME!

the majority of my books are free classics from Project Gutenberg (Conan-Doyle, Dickens, Austen, Shakespeare, Homer, Dumas, tons more). currently re-reading Robert Service's "Tales of the Yukon" and Edgar Allen Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue"

i'd DIE without books; i read every day.

 

The Woman Men Adore...and Never Want to Leave

 

"Ship of the Line" by C. S. Forester.

Historical fiction about the British Navy during the Napoleonic Wars. It's the second book in a series I have read more then once.

To anyone interested in the days of wooden warships I highly recommend the series. Description of the operations of such vessels is very detailed and hailed as among the most accurate available.

Forester also wrote "The African Queen" which was made into the famous movie starring Humphrey Bogart; other famous movies were based on his novels, including "The Pride and the Passion" and "Sink the Bismarck!"

Excellent writer, and one of my favorites.

 

Body of Evidence by Patricia Cornwell

 

This book is excellent. I don't think I have read any of her books that weren't good..... She is one of my favorite authors. I highly recommend her books. If you like forensics and fictional crime drama... You will love her books!

 

Haven't yet read "Body of Evidence"

But "Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper, Case Closed" was a very good read. She convinced me she solved the mystery of who the Ripper was . . .

A long while ago I started reading a fiction novel by her, and was not really impressed with it . . . I forget the title now. I may have to dig it out of my library and give it another go.

 

"Battlefield Earth" by L. Ron Hubbard (yes - THAT L. Ron Hubbard . . . :-D Hey - he was actually a good fiction writer!).

Felt like a little science fiction - and this book is one of the best pure science fiction books I have ever read. Ignore the movie if you were unfortunate enough to have actually seen it . . . it has nothing to do with the book except some names are the same.

Huge paperback . . .

 

Christopher Hitchen's "God is not Great". Now I'm trying to imagine a world without any religion. There is no way around most of his arguments - what would people do if they had only reality and themselves with no recourse to a higher power?
:wine

 

Just finished Heavy Metal Islam, by Mark LeVine. now I'm reading The Creature from Jekyll Island By G. Edward Griffin

 

Not long since finished " Behind Closed Doors " Jenny Tomlin very similar " The Boy David " hurtful books to read, and what these children went through is sinful especially from parents ! :cry:cry

 

The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin. Nebula and Hugo award winning book of which she has many trophies for her other works too, including the fantasy series of Earthsea which was delightful.

Of course, the Dispossessed is sci-fi though as most good sci-fi it deals more with peoples interactions in a different reality to our own, this one doesn't have any battles.