- The Last Don by Mario Puzo
- An old Sports Illustrated with an article about the World Ice Golf Championships
- A Haynes manuel concerning my Mazda
- The People’s Almanac, a classic
Just finished re-re-re-reading Joshien Gartners “Sophies World”. Great book.
Am cstarting Dennis Millers “I rant, therefore I am”, after finishing “Ranting again”.
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I Love this series! Can’t wait for the next one.
East and west, by the last British Governor of Hong Kong, Chris Patten.
If you want a good read, check out the Captain Najork series by Russell Hoban, with wonderful watercolour illustrations by Quentin Blake. Whaddaya mean they’re kids’ books?
“Snow Crash” by Neal Stephenson
Just finished reading Lord of the Rings. I hadn’t read it since HS because the ending depressed me so much. Well, the ending still depressed me, and I’ll probably never read it again.
So now I’m on to something light - a collection of historical romance short stories called “In Praise of Younger Men”
A False Spring by Pat Jordan. It’s excellent, very melancholy, though. A real baseball-but-not-just-baseball book, and an excellent follow-up to Ball Four.
Fool on the Hill by Matt Ruff
Good so far…
Since I pick my reading material based on pop-culture and T.V., I have not a single classic waiting to be read.
I waste many brain cells on romance books, of which I can read 2 a day, depending on the length. Right at this second, instead of reading Mr. Midshipman Hornblower, I’m posting to the boards. I better get crackin’ too because if my husband gets to Lieutenant Hornblower before I do, I’ll be waiting for a month to read the next installment.
Slow readers are so. . . slow!
Lesse… like some people here I often read a bunch of books at one time. Mainly because I carry the paperbacks with me and leave the hardcovers at home since I don’t need extra weight in my backpack. Right now I’m reading…
The Redemption of Althalus by David and Leigh Eddings
Silence of the Lambs for the first time (I haven’t seen the movie either so don’t spoil it for me!)
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
Out of Time a fantasy one about this woman who learns she can travel through time to fight curses.
Something by Andre Norton that I can’t recall the title to off hand.
And a couple of books I got from the library giving tips on writing novels.
I’m forgetting something too but I can’t remember what…
I just finished reading the Imortality of the Incarnations series by Piers Anthony. All 7 books in this series are fantastic! Time was a little strange (Hi Chronos) Death, Nature, and Satan are all tied for the best book in the series. Has anyone else read these? If so what did you think?
Also I am snailing my way through “The Tebetian Book of the Dead”, and reading “Crime and Punishment” for the third time. I am finding C&P a hard book to get through as I keep confusing who is doing what.
I am also reading “Windows NT for Dummies” and “New Ideas From Dead Economists” (I can’t seem to decide between Economics or Computers as a major, in fact it seems my career is night school. What I do during the day is just a way to continue my quest for knowledge.)
Hey, Tabeitha I loved the Incarnations series- Fate and Death were my favorites.
I like Piers Anthony a lot. The Xanth series began to get a pretty silly (I discovered them in high school, so I could have been a little older than the target audience) and I absolutely loved his Blue Adept series. I started reading the Tarot series but somehow lost track and interest.
As usual, I have several going all at once.
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[li] The Oxford History of the Crusades - Edited by Johnathan Riley-Smith[/li][li] Targeting Guns: Firearms and Their Control - by Gary Kleck[/li][li] The Innocents Abroad - by Mark Twain and[/li][li] Ethics for the New Millennium - by the Dalai Lama[/li][/ul]
And various periodicals, of course.
Sorry about the double post. User error! Is there a way I can delete it? If not can one of the Mod’s do it for me?
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I’ve got a few things going at the moment -
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco - it’s for my book club. I’ve read it before, but it’s been a while and I’m always eager to come back to Eco’s work to see if I can pick up any more of his weird references.
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood - she’s my favorite writer. My sister gave this to me months ago, but I haven’t had the time to sit down and devour it in the way I would like to. I got about 50 pages in and stopped until I can take a couple of days to devote to it.
C for Dummies by somebody - reviewing some basics for work.
Managing Your Documentation Projects by somebody - more of the same.
The March Of Folly by Barbara Tuchman. Well written, interesting premise.
An Anthropologist On Mars by Oliver Sacks. Very good, will read more of his stuff.
Pseudoscience and the Paranormal by Terrenace Hines. A bit dry for my taste.
You Just Don’t Understand! by Deborah Tannen. Still at the “hmmm” stage with this one.
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. Rereading this one for the third or fourth time.
The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky. Better than Ambien for insomnia.
The Great and Secret Show by Clive Barker. Just finsished this as well. Pogey bait for the brain.
Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith. Just finished this one too. Even better the second time around.
The Generals Daughter by Nelson DeMille. Will start this one tonight.
Biggirl -
If you have not yet got to “Beat to Quarters”, “Ship of the Line”, and “Flying Colours” in the Hornblower series, prepare yourself for a treat. These are some of my favorite books of all time, and I can quote chunks of each verbatim.
I just started “How Hitler Could Have Won World War II”, by Bevin Gallagher. Next up after that is Heinlein’s “Job - A Comedy”.
I recently just finished A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, by David Eggers, which just came out in paperback. Liked it.
Now I’m starting two books. First, I’m re-reading Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk, the guy who wrote Fight Club. (No, it has nothing to do with the TV show of the same name.) I’ll be alternating between this book and On Writing by Stephen King.
Previously: Humboldt’s Gift by Saul Bellow.
Now: American Pastoral, by Philip Roth.
Next: Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner.
I’m working my way through Pulitzer Prize-winning books (not in order, obviously).
Paddy’s Lament by Thomas Gallagher, about the Irish potato famine. I’m only a few chapters into it, but as yet I’m not overly impressed - it’s a bit too sensationalistic for my tastes. I’ll reserve judgment til I’ve completely finished it but at so far I’d recommend Cecil Woodham-Smith’s The Great Hunger over this one to anyone wanting to educate themselves on the subject.