What are You Reading?

[cranseiron]

And for my 100th post-- drum roll, please......... Tobacco Culture: The Mentality of the Great Tidewater Planters on the Eve of Revolution.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

I am enthralled with Hanukkah Murakami's Wind Up Bird Chronicles. It has been about the most thought provoking book I have read in a long time. I find myself going over passages in my memory over and over throughout the day. I highly recommend it.

 

[bluegrassbrian]

I picked up 2 books over the weekend..

"Death of a Rebel" a Phil Ochs bio..
And while I'm not a voracious consumer of fiction, I do enjoy short stories here and there..
"No One Belongs Here More than You" Stories by Miranda July

 

[wyfbane]

Tim O'Brien The Things They Carried

 

[averagegent]

Eric Ambler's The Mask of Dimitrios

 

[cosmicfolklore]

I finished my fourth Murakami novel last night, and just picked up a copy of David Wallace's Infinite Jest. I am excited to start reading that one tonight.

 

[indianafrank]

Rereading "Civil Disobedience" by Thoreau
Rereading "The Road To Serfdom" by F.A. Hayek
Just started to read, "The Crowd: Study of the Popular Mind " by Gustave LeBon
"Gold Warriors" by Sterling & Peggy Seagrave,

 

[darthcider]

Started reading Girl on the Train, on the recommendation of wifey, soon stopped, so boring.
Gone back to The Complete H P Lovecraft, much happier.

 

[aquadoc]

Finishing my umpteenth reread of the Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian - Blue at the Mizzen

Reading The Ancestor's Tale by Dawkins

About to start my third run through the Malazan Books of the Dead, Deadhouse Gates by Steven Erikson

And about halfway through Tortilla Flat by Steinbeck

 

[josephcross]

Aquadoc...Love The Malazan Books!!!!!!

 

[josephcross]

Not reading much of anything, but I am writing a comparitive essay on Robert Frosts "Neither Out Far Nor In Deep", and Roo Borsons "Waterfront". What I would like to re-read is:

 

[aquadoc]

Joseph Cross, the Malazan books are must reads for anyone that likes fantasy. The characters are possibly my favorite in all of fiction. They blow the doors off the "winter is coming" books. and if you are a military fan, ... Just a bit of everything from religion to magic to tribal traditions. And nothing is sacred. Cannot remember if there are any pipe smokers.

 

[instymp]

Daniel Silva series. Sorta like whats going on today written years ago.

 

[addamsruspipe]

What I'm reading is not high literature but it's really enjoyable light reading and the author comes out with a new book about every other month or so. The Kurtherian Gambit(The Queen Bitch series). It's an extremely light/fun/fast series if you are into SciFi/Fantasy.

 

[brian64]

The Lovecraft Code, by Peter Levenda...his first attempt at fiction. Sort of like the Da Vinci code but based around Lovecraft's writings. Not very far into it yet, but pretty good so far. I've read other Levenda books and I think he's a good writer who knows his way around this type of material, so it promises to be intriguing.

 

[Snow Hill]

Flipping through Charley Harper's Birds.

 

[pagan]

Re-reading the Federalist Papers, something I do every few years

 

[oldgeezersmoker]

Rather Be the Devil, Ian Rankin.

 

[darthcider]

Seed catalogues to decide which veg goes in the allotment this year.

 

[bonanzadriver]

Started a re-read of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged about a week or so ago.
Don't know what it is, but every time I've read this book it seems like the first 80 pages or so are a whuppin. But then things start clickin and next thing you know you're 600 pages in and don't want it to end.