What Books Are You Reading? (2018)

[johnsteam86]

Hey everyone,
What books are everyone reading to start out the new year. Mine is 48 days to the job you love. So far pretty good makes you think of whether or not you are doing it for you or by expectation.
Edited by jvnshr: Title capitalization (please check Rule #9)

 

[perdurabo]

I'm On a fantasy kick right now. I started reading Terry Goodkind's Wizards First Rule. I was going to take a break from there and read something else, but I went ahead and started the second book Stone Of Tears. Which is better than the first book, IMHO. I'll try to to finish the 19 book series, but probably won't do it all at once. Fill in with westerns, thrillers, and some science fiction, if the Sword of Truth series gets dull.

 

[ukbob]

Colin Dexter - Inspector Morse novels.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

I've been re-reading some of the books from my youth. So, I have been tearing through Edgar Rice Burrough's John Carter or Barsoom series. I am currently on Thuvia Maid of Mars.

 

[olkofri]

Textbooks.

 

[anthonyrosenthal74]

Like Perdurabo, I'm on a fantasy kick as well (when am I not?) and I'm just about to start reading The High King's Tomb, book three of the Green Rider series by Kristen Britain.

 

[mikethompson]

I'm going to dive into the Dune trilogy again

 

[B18]

The books i'm currently reading is "Blockchain Revolution" for a school assignment (and for myself).

The books i normally read in my spare time is a fantasy serie from BlackLibrary (Warhammer 30-40k) called The Horus Heresy and i also love to read the other books from Warhammer 40k.

 

[giacomo]

Just finished Origin by Dan Brown and started a Mozart biography. Also textbooks for my re-certification exam in October.

 

[derekflint]

Just finished I heard You Paint Houses. Its about the Irishman.......

 

[workman]

Moby Dick. I've read it once when I was a teenager and I find that my english has deteriorated significantly. So it is going to take me a while.

 

[madox07]

I have picked up a book by a guy called Albert Wass this week. It's called "By the seat of God". The individual is a former, or better yet was, a former austro hungarian nobleman, that was accused of war crimes by the People's Tribunal in 1948 in Romania - fled to the US where the authorities refused to extradite him. The book is a fiction piece taking place around the a mountain region in Transylvania by the river Maros.

 

[sumusfumus]

I started to watch the TV series, so, I have decided to read the book: "The Alienist" by Caleb Carr. Very interesting mini-series.
Frank

NYC

 

[jaytex1969]

Yesterday, I snagged a copy of The League Of Women Voters Guide to Voting in the 2018 Primary Election.
They produce the closest thing to a nonpartisan guide I have found.
My weekend assignment. Not very exciting but very necessary.

 

[3rdguy]

The Diary of Samuel Pepys.

 

[thomasw]

JRR Tolkein's The Monsters and The Critics. Have spent January re-reading through his three main works as well as The Lost Tales, Beren & Luthien, The Fall of Arthur and Beowulf.

 

[seacaptain]

Moby Dick. I've read it once when I was a teenager and I find that my english has deteriorated significantly. So it is going to take me a while.

Excellent book. I was surprised at how much humor was in it since it never seems to be mentioned in critical reviews.

 

[lasttango]

I'm teaching a new course this year and just about everything I'm reading is concerned with fortifying my knowledge in that class.... So... it's the rise of authoritarian states from Mussolini to Mao.

 

[lochinvar]

As usual I have about 4 going. I've got the RE Howard Conan and Kull short stories for light reading. In addition, I have a biography on Hannibal and one on Julius Caesar going, and this afternoon at work I started re-reading Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco.
THOMASW- How are you liking The Monsters and the Critics? I have meant to get it but have never got around?

 

[brightleaf]

I do about an hour of reading every night. The books currently on my book stand are:
Three New Deals - Reflections on Roosevelt's America, Mussonlini's Italy, and Hitler's Germany, 1933-1939 by Wolfgang Schivelbusch (A fascinating comparison of the similar trends in politics that happened around the world at the same time.)
The Death of Democracy - Greece and the American Conscience by Stephen Rousseas (A well written first and second hand account of the military coup that took over Greece in the mid 1960s)
Political Ponerology - A science on the Nature of Evil adjusted for Political Purposes by Andrew Lobaczewski (I haven't gotten far into this book yet but it is promising. It looks at the nature of evil in people and how it manifests on a larger scale in society)
Gangs of America - The Rise of Corporate Power and the Disabling of Democracy by Ted Nace (A look at corporate power and how it is used to shape our society, important to understanding how government uses the corporation and how corporations use the government. Is the United States a corporation or our government?)
Psycho Politics by Peter Sedgwick (It is written by a socialist-humanist and argues against the conservative under-currents in psychiatry during the 60s and 70s. An interesting expose of the political influence in psychiatry)