What are You Reading?

[unclearthur]

Capn, have you been looking in my sketch books? LOL

 

[kingsmedic]

Lamb by Christopher Moore

The Secret Holocaust Diaries by Nonna Lisowskaja Bannister

 

[capnbellamy]

Haha, perhaps I have Arthur.
Currently rereading I Shall Wear Midnight by Terry Pratchett.

 

[hobie1dog]

Natural Cures "they" don't want you to know about. by Kevin Trudeau

 

[seanz]

Doing LOTR Again seems i get the urge to revisit middle earth every couple of years

 

[simpledesign]

Islands in The Stream by Hemingway

 

[unclearthur]

Just finished The Science of Discworld I and II

 

[misterrogers]

Politics by Aristotle.

 

[clanobucklin]

Murgunstrumm and Others by Hugh B. Cave - famous pulp master of the 30's and 40's. If you like Sccccarrry stories this one is a fun one to read late at night during a thunderstorm. BWWWWWAAAAAHHHHHAAAHAAAAHHHAAA!!!!

 

[punkpiper]

Elric of Melnibone. Lord of the Rings works for most, but I prefer Michael Moorcocks doomier adventures.

 

[unclearthur]

I enjoyed Moorcock's earlier works a lot. Sort of lost interest when they started to all overlap though.

 

[punkpiper]

Yeah, I have to say when it reached that point I lost interest, plus it smacked of dishonesty when he said it was intentional from the beginning.

 

[ssjones]

I just finished "The Terror of Living" by Urban Waite. A pretty good thriller type read. A little similar to Cormac McCarthy's "No Country for Old Men", which is one of my favorite books. Promising for a new, young, author, give it a shot.
Next up: "The Savage City" by TJ English, a review of crime in New York City in the '68-'73 era.

 

[jankomatic]

In the last two weeks I read Too Big To Fail by Sorkin, first two books of Patrick Rothfuss's new series The Wise Man's Fear and The Name of the Wind, Brandon Sanderson's first book in his new epic series The Way of Kings and the two books in Scott Lynch's newest series Lies of Locke Lamora and Red Seas Under Red Skies.

 

[lonestar]

Over the Edge of the World, Magellans Circumnavigation Of The Globe by Laurence Bergreen.

Absolutely recommeneded ! Riveting read from start to finish, with lots of explanation on the larger world of life and politics in 1519.

If you're not familiar with the details, Ferdinand Magellan fled Portugal for Spain to lead an armada of wooden ships 60,000 miles around the world. He lost men, lost ships, quelled mutinies, suffered scurvy and starvation, and died in the surf of the Phillipine Islands by the spears and arrows of natives.

Five ships and 260 men sailed from Spain in 1519, one ragged ship with 18 sailors returned in 1522.

They were the first men in history to sail the entire circumference of the globe.

It was 60 years before anyone could accomplish the same feat again, despite repeated attempts with bigger and better supplied fleets.

If you enjoy adventure, history, or just a damn fascinating story, this is a good one.

 

[wolf]

Just finished reading "The Hobbit" again, one of my favorite reads... I find myself wishing I was a hobbit every time I read this book haha.

 

[unclearthur]

Yep! It's a very Hobbit forming book!!

 

[locopony]

For whom the bell tolls, a philisophic over view from Socrates to Sartre, The Wolves of the Calla (the Dark Tower series), and The complete works of Lewis Carroll.
Yea I know..... abit ADD I guess.

 

[jankomatic]

I just finally put down It Never Snows in September by Robert Kershaw took my a couple of weeks to get through it with all my other reading and some times historical books are just slow. The book tells the story of the Market-Garden operation from a German perspective for the first time.
On another note, I have almost reached a new milestone in book reading for me. According to my spreadsheet two more books and I will have read 7000 books in my life.

 

[collin]

A couple of recipes for Braised Short Ribs.