What are you reading?

[jledou]

Wrapped up A Pirate Looks at Fifty now onto The Dilbert Principle and lmao.

[Starchild]

I'm reading Magician: Apprentice (Riftwar Saga) by Raymond Feist

I do most of my reading while smoking cigars on the back deck. Doesn't get much better than that!

I read probably 10 books into that series a few years back. Really enjoyed it.

[Emjaysmash]

I'm listening to The Law of Nines by Terry Goodkind. I find it is easier to listen to a book while out on the porch...

[Walt]

I'm listening to The Law of Nines by Terry Goodkind. I find it is easier to listen to a book while out on the porch...

I read that shortly after it was released. It had a Sword of Truth, set to current day, feel to it. Its a decent novel.

[bsmokin]

Yea... I've heard a lot of really good things about it.

I'm about 200pgs into the first book. It's pretty good so far, if a little slow...


I read probably 10 books into that series a few years back. Really enjoyed it.

[Samsquanch]

Reading One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez and just finishing up listening to The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America by Tim Egan. Both excellent books and highly recommended!

[CigarNut]

Just started the second Farseer Trilogy (The Tawny Man) by Robin Hobb on my Kindle. Book 1 is Fool's Errand.

I also love the Raymond Feist Riftwar series. I have read a lot of the related books, but have not started the Darkwar and Demonwar series yet.

[hockeymaniac]

Reading the Golden City by John Twelve Hawks. It's the last book in his Fourth Realm Trilogy. Good stuff.

[Walt]

Just started the second Farseer Trilogy (The Tawny Man) by Robin Hobb on my Kindle. Book 1 is Fool's Errand.


I enjoyed that trilogy (also enjoyed Farseer). Have you read Liveship Traders? (Liveship is the second trilogy, chronologically, in Hobb's world)

[CigarNut]

I enjoyed that trilogy (also enjoyed Farseer). Have you read Liveship Traders? (Liveship is the second trilogy, chronologically, in Hobb's world)I have not read Liveship Traders... I hope it still works when I read it out of order :)

[Chinogobraap]

I'm reading JIHAD: The Trail of Political Isalam by Gilles Kepel , its for a class and its pretty boring. The only way I've been getting through it is cigars, usually a churchill for every 2-3 chapters. It details how ISLAM evolved, the proliferation of of ISLAM through Petro dollars and the involvement from the house of SAUD(Saudia Arabia). Pretty cool but boring

[Samsquanch]

Just finished the latest Stephen King book - Blockade Billy. It's a really short read but pretty good, especially if you like baseball.

[akumushi]

Finished Little Children by Tom Perrotta not too long ago and it was an
interesting read; very well written and quickly paced although the characters
weren't a particularly sympathetic lot. The movie was actually a little better for
once in this case.
I'm making my way through If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
right now, it's brilliantly written, but the very nature of its conception is
designed to frustate and impeded the reader, so the going is slow. Damned
postmodernists.:r

[smokehouse]

Been reading Got the Life, by Fieldy one of The band members from my favorite Band Korn.

[LasciviousXXX]

Ugly Americans: The The True Story of the Ivy League Cowboys Who Raided the Asian Markets for Millions by Ben Mezrich.

Great read so far!

[kaisersozei]

Reading the Golden City by John Twelve Hawks. It's the last book in his Fourth Realm Trilogy. Good stuff.

I'm gonna have to pick that up, really enjoyed the first two.

Along the same literary lines, I'm finishing up Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood. My first book by her--she's an excellent writer. This was a follow-up to Oryx and Crake which I may have to go back now and read.

[King James]

I read both Sh*t My Dad Says and I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell over the weekend two weeks ago. Both had me laughing out loud and in tears, really funny books.

[pmwz]

started reading lush life by richard price

[hockeymaniac]

If Chins Could Kill The autobiography or Bruce Campbell, Mr. B movie.

[The Poet]

Here's the thing: I gave a copy of Ulysses to a friend, and she has started reading that . . . or trying to, according to her assessment. But I felt a bit guilty, so to share her pain and show her support I started reading Joyce too. However, since I've read Ulysses at least three times already, I decided that it wasn't fair of me to go the "easy" route. So, I've started Finnegan's Wake again.

Onlest eyev'd misscontreved, his ist hayleerylust. :r

[Darrell]

Anthony Bourdain: Medium Raw

[gettysburgfreak]

Just bought the 1936 Pulitzer Prize edition 4 volume set R.E. Lee by Douglas Southall Freeman.

[Mr.Maduro]

Jack Kerouac - On The Road
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[688sonarmen]

A biography about Tesla, the scientist not the band:D

[markem]

Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid

[M1903A1]

Just finished a book titled "Grandfather's Tale: The Story of a German Sniper". I bought it a few years ago thinking it was a memoir, and only recently sat down and started reading it. Turns out it's fiction...and it reads like it was written by a fifth grader.

[Emjaysmash]

"Forward Freemasonry: A history of Freemasonry in Wisconsin"

[timj219]

Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braidwoo-hoo!! One of my favorite books of all time. I'm going to start on "I am a strange loop" some time next month.

[Powers]

Just bought the 1936 Pulitzer Prize edition 4 volume set R.E. Lee by Douglas Southall Freeman.

Nice! my dad got me a second edition hardback set a couple christmases ago. next on the list is Lee's Lieutenants

http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt201/thegeneral320/fig11-1.jpg

:salute:

[Buena Fortuna]

The Charm School ~ Nelson DeMille

[gettysburgfreak]

Nice! my dad got me a second edition hardback set a couple christmases ago. next on the list is Lee's Lieutenants

http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt201/thegeneral320/fig11-1.jpg

:salute:


Lee's Lieutenants is also on my bookshelf. I bought a set from the 70s a few summers ago and love them. They are a wonderful read. Got them off here http://www.alibris.com/

[floydp]

Under the Dome - Stephen King.

[stevefrench]

Darkly Dreaming Dexter - Jeff Lindsay

[qwerty1500]

The Last Stand by Nathaniel Philbrick ... a history of Custer, Sitting Bull and the Battle of the Little Big Horn. Only a couple of chapters into it and it has totally captured my attention.

[markem]

Fermat's Enigma by Simon Singh

I'm pretty sure that I've read it before, but don't recall, so off I go

[kelmac07]

My son got me listening to Jason Derulo this afternoon.

[markem]

okay, I'm strange and will admit it.

"A Course in Number Theory and Cryptography" by Neal Koblitz, Second Edition. Springer Verlag "Graduate Texts in Mathematics" Series.

I'm designing a graduate course that will never be taught by implementing and augmenting the major algorithms in the text with special attention to OpenSSL (which is what is used when the URL says "HTTPS"), performance, and grid computing.

I'm a geek, but my dog is better.

[Azaelius]

The Chapter's Due by Graham Mcneill

Great so far! Much more exciting than Courage and Honor.

[CigarNut]

I just finished reading Robin Hobb's Tawny Man trilogy and have started the Liveship Traders trilogy (same author).

[Jack1000]

The Given Day by Dennis Lehane. Just finished the Millennium Trilogy--those were awesome.

[hotreds]

The E-Bomb: How America's New Directed Energy Weapons Will Change the Way Future Wars Will Be Fought by Doug Beason

[Steve]

The Best of Robert Service

[shvictor]

Who's looking out for you? by Bill O'reilly

[Mugen910]

Girl who played with Fire - Stieg Larsson

[htown]

The Rise of Christianity: How the Obscure, Marginal, Jesus Movement Became the Dominant Religious Force in a Few Centuries by Rodney Stark

[sevans105]

On the Origin of the Species....Charles Darwin. Its a re-read, but I like it.

[timj219]

On the Origin of the Species....Charles Darwin. Its a re-read, but I like it.Great choice. I have a copy of this bound in a sort of twofer with "The Descent of Man" but I haven't picked it up in years. I should probably dig around and put it on the "to read" pile.

[Starscream]

Rising Stars vol. 3

[eber]

Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain

[Chingas]

Behold A Pale Horse

[bsmokin]

I just finished reading Robin Hobb's Tawny Man trilogy and have started the Liveship Traders trilogy (same author).
I finished the Farseer trilogy a few months back... great series! started the Liveship tril, but decided I needed a break...

Trying to finish up Reymond Feist's Magician: Apprentice

[pnoon]

Just finished Ice Cold by Tess Gerritsen.
A real page turner.

[jledou]

Finished DarkVision by Bruce Cordell and now onto Daemon by Daniel Suarez.

[Ranger_B]

The Overton Window by Glenn Beck. Just finished up the Stuff of Thought by Steven Pinker.

[massphatness]

Dirty White Boys

[Diesel Kinevel]

Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks. Good info for the coming invasion.

-Z

[Chingas]

Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks. Good info for the coming invasion.

-Z

That sounds awesome! I'll have to look it up!

[GHC_Hambone]

I just finished reading Buyology by Martin Lindstrom. Its about the subconscious thoughts and processes that we go through when purchasing goods and stuff like that. A really interesting read.

[markem]

SSL and TLS
Theory and Practice
by Rolf Opplinger

[Ogre]

Anatomy and Physiology I & II

[Powers]

Anatomy and Physiology I & II

For pleasure Larry? All I know about anatomy is that the party bone's connected to the drinking bone :tu

[sevans105]

I just finished reading Buyology by Martin Lindstrom. Its about the subconscious thoughts and processes that we go through when purchasing goods and stuff like that. A really interesting read.


Does it explain why I keep ordering hundreds of cigars from CBID?!?!?!?! ;)

[sevans105]

Currently reading "The Law" by Frederik Bastiat. Excellent libertarian treatise written in the mid 1800's. Very prophetic. Warns of the dangers of a government that tries to rule any and all aspects of its citizen's lives.

[holli4pirating]

I'm currently reading through the Southern Vampire Mysteries. Just started book 3. It's the series the TV show True Blood is based on.

[MrPlatypus]

The Germans in Normandy by Richard Hargreaves.

[GHC_Hambone]

Been on a John Grisham kick lately. Re-read The Rainmaker, read The Client, and now re-reading The Testament.

All great books.

[BeerAdvocate]

Obsessed by Ted Dekker - great read so far!
I have really been getting into his books, after reading the Circle Series

[pektel]

I've been reading The Power of Now - Eckhart Tolle. Though I haven't picked it back up in a while.

[Samsquanch]

Clockers by Richard Price - this is the guy who has done a lot of writing for the show "The Wire" on HBO. Really great author.

Also just finished Born to Run by Christopher McDougall - really good book, makes me want to take my shoes off and start running!

[Mugen910]

The Girl who kicked the hornet's nest.

[pektel]

The Girl who kicked the hornet's nest.

That sounds like it would be better as a movie.

[Lucky_Hippo]

Just finished

Around the world in 80 days

Just started

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

[Samsquanch]

The Girl who kicked the hornet's nest.

How is it?

[markem]

ETSI EN 300 175-{1-6} V2.x.x (2010-06)
Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications (DECT)
Common Interface (CI)
Parts 1-6

No fun time reading for me for a while.

[hotreds]

Real Change: The Fight for America's Future by Newt Gingrich

[Mugen910]

How is it?

1 good....2 didn't like the end...3 just starting..
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[Emjaysmash]

Read the short story "Colour from Space" by H.P. Lovecraft last night, starting on Lord Foul's Bane by Stephen R. Donaldson momentarily.

[Ogre]

Obsessed by Ted Dekker - great read so far!
I have really been getting into his books, after reading the Circle Series

I have also read allot of his stuff. Great Books!!!

[pnoon]

Cigar Asylum.
Duh.

[Chingas]

Cigar Asylum.
Duh.

:tpd:

[DrDubzz]

Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

I'm 4 chapters in so far, it's good

[Emjaysmash]

Cigar Asylum.
Duh.

We've got a book??!!? Sweet!

[Mugen910]

Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

I'm 4 chapters in so far, it's good

I like this book very much...His other two were also very interesting reads.

[lightning9191]

Cigar Asylum.
Duh.

How is it so far? Like? Dislike? Good plot?

[pnoon]

How is it so far? Like? Dislike? Good plot?

Pretty good.
A bit of drama at times. But all in all, it's a good read.

[lightning9191]

Pretty good.
A bit of drama at times. But all in all, it's a good read.

Is it in the Oprah Book Club?

[pnoon]

Is it in the Oprah Book Club?

fkuc Oprah. :fl

[lightning9191]

fkuc Oprah. :fl

Is that how you get in the Book Club? If so, I'd say don't do it. Might be better off selling your soul to the devil.

[SaltyMcGee]

A Game of Thrones - George R.R. Martin

[Chingas]

Guidance, and it has pictures!


http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd23/XXchingasxx/Cigars/465c1f74.jpg

[MrPlatypus]

Guidance, and it has pictures!

Reading up on how to drop a better bomb are you? :)
Now that's one I think I will be adding to my library in the near future.

[MrPlatypus]

Next up: The War of the World- Twentieth Century Conflict and the Descent of the West by Niall Ferguson. (I'm on this weird military history kick.)

[akumushi]

The Makioka Sisters, by Junichiro Tanizaki. Very good so far, it's set in wartime Japan and follows four sisters from an old fashioned and once illustrous family as they struggle to find a place in modern Japan. Surprisingly refined and sensitive when compared to his later, more fetish obsessed works.

[bigdix]

Bone in the Throat-Anthony Bourdain

[Samsquanch]

Just started Lush Life by Richard Price, it has some great dialogue.

[TXRebel]

Just finished "The Ether Zone: U.S. Army Special Forces Detachment B-52, Project Delta" by R.C. Morris.

[Samsquanch]

Started The Executioners Song by Mailer, my first Mailer and it's pretty awesome.

[CigarNut]

Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher

[MedicCook]

I need to find a book. Finshed the one I was reading the other night.

[The Poet]

Started The Executioners Song by Mailer, my first Mailer and it's pretty awesome.

Norman's a good novelist, but a much better journalist. I met the man once, talked to him and shook his hand . . . lord, what a total flaming @$$hole he was.


As for me, I've gotten through about 270 pages of Finnegan's Wake, or about twice as much as I've ever managed to do before. Hey, I've read some difficult books in my life, but this one . . . sheesh!

[CigarNut]

Been doing a lot of reading lately... started and finished a short story by Brandon Sanderson called Firstborn -- nice little read. I also read Warbreaker and Elantris by Brandon Sanderson. Would like to see some sequels to these books -- I thought they were both very good.

Also read Containment by Christian Cantrell an SF novel about the first colony on Venus. And I read Treason by Orson Scott Card. This was an early work from Card that he touched up a bit before publishing.

Now I am trying to decide whether to read The Great Santini or The Count of Monte Cristo... Tough choice :)

[TXRebel]

The Cigar Maker by Mark Carlos McGinty.

[sikk50]

Devil's Knot. It's about the west Memphis 3. Some infuriating displace of abuse of the criminal justice system in there

[sevans105]

Just finished Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Had never read it before and had heard good things about it. Picked up a hard copy for a quarter at a garage sale. Good read.

[BeerAdvocate]

I hope they serve beer in hell - Pretty vulgar, but funny as hell!

[Bunker]

Stephen Hunter - Night of Thunder

[Samsquanch]

Go Go Girls of the Apocalypse

[BeerAdvocate]

Day by Day Armageddon

[BloodSpite]

No Man's Land: Combat and Identity in World War I by Eric J. Leed

[drob]

The Little Book that Beats the Market, by Joel Greenblatt.

[bowhnter]

Vince Flynn, just released "American Assassin"

[Don Fernando]

Just got myself a few more Andy NcNab books for my upcoming vacation.

[qwerty1500]

Just finished The Shia Revival: How Conflicts Within Islam Will Shape the Future by Vali Nasar. It gives a good historical perspective about why there is tension between Shias and Sunnis. Lots of insight about Iran's rise as a regional power.

Now, I'm about half way through Fall of Giants by Ken Follett. Really enjoyed his sagas about 12th and 14th century England. This is his first of a three book series that follows several fictional families from just before WWI to the Cold War. So far, it's great read.

[hammer26a]

Mediterranean Caper by Clive Cussler

[kydsid]

Vince Flynn, just released "American Assassin"

Any comments on that one? I just picked up a couple Flynn books. Not bad for thriller pop fiction.



Currently I am reading "The Looming Tower" by Lawrence Wright - It is his analysis, based on interviews over many years on the road to 9/11, its justifications and impact.

[bowhnter]

I am just starting it, about 1/3 done so far. It ts MItch's early life. So far I like it, but I have liked all of them.

[MedicCook]

Just finished 'Consent to Kill' by Vince Flynn. After I finished it I found out it was book #6 in a series of books. Waiting for #1-5 to arrive now.

[bowhnter]

Just finished 'Consent to Kill' by Vince Flynn. After I finished it I found out it was book #6 in a series of books. Waiting for #1-5 to arrive now.

That's my favorite and they plan to make a movie based on it! I'm excited!
don't worry about where you start, they all weren't in chronological order anyway I found out.

[hotreds]

Americas Secular Challenge: The Rise of a New National Religion by Herbert London

[Thammy]

"Way to wisdom" by Karl Jaspers, as well as Bram Stoker's "Dracula"(for English class!).

[junkinduck]

Hell's Angles Hunter S Thompson

[docdoty]

Medical Textbooks thats all I have time for right now. If any of you are having trouble sleeping try reading a medical textbook you will be out before you get done with the first page.

[Walt]

Took me forever to get through The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie, but I think I'm back in a reading groove. Finished up Amnar: The Execution by IJ Black recently, then moved on to Before They Are Hanged by Joe Abercrombie.

[BluesGuy]

D-Day by Steven Ambrose

[CigarNut]

SQL Queries for Mere Mortals®: A Hands-On Guide to Data Manipulation in SQL by Michael J. Hernandez, John L. Viescas [Kindle Edition]

and

Joe Celko's SQL Programming Style by Joe Celko's [Kindle Edition]

[potlimit]

"The Family" by Jeff Sharlet when I'm in the bathroom (where most of my serious reading takes place, actually).
"Half Empty" by David Rakoff when I need a break from the above.
"The House of Rothschild: Volume 2" by Niall Ferguson when I'm feeling ambitious.

[Powers]

C. Vann Woodward's Origins of the New South: 1877-1913. For my Major Problems in Southern History course

[hotreds]

Air Warriors: The Inside Story of the Making of a Navy Pilot by Douglas C. Waller

[smelvis]

The purpose driven life by Rick Warren!

[Stig]

I'm reading a thread about other people reading books on this very cool cigar chat board.:r

[Bunker]

The Survivors Club: The Secrets and Science that Could Save Your Life - by Ben Sherwood.

I have had this book on my Kindle for about 6 months, not a real page turner but I seem to go back to it for a chapter or two every time I finish something else.

[RevSmoke]

Lutheranism 101
Jeremiah (yes, the book of the Bible)
Grant Comes East (Newt Gingrich 2nd vol. of a fictional revisionist history of the Civil War)

[hscmit]

just started the girl who played with fire

[yourchoice]

Just finished The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. A great book. Prompted me to reserve The Girl Who Played with Fire at the library. I also put a hold on Foreign Influence by Brad Thor and American Assassin by Vince Flynn.

Since none of those are currently available, I'm picking up A Drink Before the War by Dennis Lehane, tomorrow. Thanks Marianne for the Lehane recommendation (from your best of 2009 list :)). Well...I guess thanks, as I haven't read one of his novels yet, but loved The Wire (HBO) for which he wrote a few episodes.

[qwerty1500]

Just finished The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. A great book. Prompted me to reserve The Girl Who Played with Fire at the library. I also put a hold on Foreign Influence by Brad Thor and American Assassin by Vince Flynn.

Since none of those are currently available, I'm picking up A Drink Before the War by Dennis Lehane, tomorrow. Thanks Marianne for the Lehane recommendation (from your best of 2009 list :)). Well...I guess thanks, as I haven't read one of his novels yet, but loved The Wire (HBO) for which he wrote a few episodes.

Let us know how you like A Drink Before the War. Haven't read it but I really enjoyed his Shutter Island and The Given Day.

Just finished Ken Follett's Fall of Giants. Lots of inter-related characters and plots. Always enjoy his books.

Just started George Bush's Decision Points.

[jledou]

just finished up A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin. I will definitely be reading the next three in the series.

[BloodSpite]

Just finished The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay for the second time. Hadn't read it since High School and enjoyed it greatly. My wife found me a copy for my Birthday and finally got around to rereading it.

Starting The Coming Fury by Bruce Catton, part of a trilogy including Never Call Retreat and Terrible Swift Sword. Hoping to have all three done before Christmas

[RevSmoke]

Grant Comes East (Newt Gingrich 2nd vol. of a fictional revisionist history of the Civil War)

Now on the 3rd vol., Never Call Retreat.

[Emjaysmash]

The Watcher's Omnibus by William Meilke

[kelmac07]

Anthony Bordain "The Nasty Bits"

[MedicCook]

I finished Vince Flynn's 'Seperation of Power' last night. Have now moved onto the next book in the seres, 'Memorial Day'.

[hotreds]

Rangers at Dieppe: The First Combat Action of U.S. Army Rangers in World War II by Jim Defelice

[Chainsaw13]

Rereading "Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan.

[yourchoice]

Just finished The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. A great book. Prompted me to reserve The Girl Who Played with Fire at the library. I also put a hold on Foreign Influence by Brad Thor and American Assassin by Vince Flynn.

Since none of those are currently available, I'm picking up A Drink Before the War by Dennis Lehane, tomorrow. Thanks Marianne for the Lehane recommendation (from your best of 2009 list :)). Well...I guess thanks, as I haven't read one of his novels yet, but loved The Wire (HBO) for which he wrote a few episodes.

Well...the three books I put on hold all came in rather quickly, and I've already finished them.

The Girl Who Played with Fire was exceptional. I'm anxious to read the final installment.
Foreign Influence and American Assassin were also both very good, but reading them back to back could lead to confusion. Scot Harvath and Mitch Rapp are too similar to keep straight! :r If anyone is the fan of one author, I strongly suggest the other as well.

I now plan to read A Drink Before the War. I don't think I'll have a lot of time to read over the next week though.

[SvilleKid]

Re-reading (from my teen years) "Riders of the Purple Sage" Zane Grey

[TheFool]

Just finished "Crime and Punishment" (for school), "Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates" and starting "Theaetetus" also by Plato.

[hotreds]

Just finished "Crime and Punishment" (for school), "Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates" and starting "Theaetetus" also by Plato.

They lose a lot in translation FYI.

[rebelknight]

Currently reading Predictably Irrational. Can't wait for my finals to be over so I can get back to actually reading it though. I have a huge list of books that I would like to read but I am always open to suggestions.

[TheFool]

They lose a lot in translation FYI.

Plato's works? Yeah I remember reading two different translations of the cave I Hated the first disagreed with everything it said, but loved the second. But, I gotta deal with what I've got. Not to mention I can't read or speak or read Greek (which I assume they were originally written in), maybe on of these days. . . :)

[jmsremax]

Just started Keynes: Return of the Master.

[Pat1075]

The Diamond Age by Neil Stephenson

[Ranger_B]

Rangers at Dieppe: The First Combat Action of U.S. Army Rangers in World War II by Jim Defelice

Great book! One of the first Ranger books my dad sent me after I joined the Army!

[Ranger_B]

Im currently reading: Decorative Fusion Knots: A Step-by-Step Illustrated Guide to New and Unusual Ornamental Knots by J. D. Lensen. I have always liked tying knots but mostly it was because they kept me safe and alive. These are not as useful but sure are pretty!

[Starscream]

Batman: Gotham Knight

[mikethegoalie32]

Moneyball

[Bunker]

I just ordered the Memoirs of Ulysseys S. Grant and the complete works of Mark Twain for my Kindle - both for $.99 ea.

That should keep my busy for awhile.

[TheFool]

I just ordered the Memoirs of Ulysseys S. Grant and the complete works of Mark Twain for my Kindle - both for $.99 ea.

That should keep my busy for awhile.

Mark Twain is amazing, (so is the kindle), Just watched part of a documentary about him the other night, crazy life from nothing to wildly rich to nothing and back. Also smoke about 40 cigars a day!

[Savvy]

Currently reading George W.'s autobiography "Decision Points." Written in a very interesting style for an autobiography, focusing on the major decisions he made in office and what lead him to make those decisions. It's an interesting read, and truly shows what the reality of Washington politics is. Also, just started Keith Richard's autobiography "Life" enjoying it as well.

Recently just finished "In Search of Pipe Dreams" by Rick Newcombe, a great book on insight into the pipe smokers industry and a lot of focus into high grade manufacturers. I read through it in two days. Was a nice, interesting read. Recommended if you have an interest in that part of our forum here.

[Savvy]

Finished "Decision Points" by George W. Now onto "Life" by Keith Richards.

[Mugen910]

Not sure if I should post this here or in the "What are you listening to" thread but I just finished "City of Thieves" which I very much enjoyed.

I just started an audio book called "Hunger Games"

[D_A]

Had to take a break from leisure reading to learn some stuff. Almost finished with MySQL, up next Java.

[ylo2na]

Vince Flynn's novels are worth their weight in golden cigars...
Ylo2na

[acruce]

The girl with the dragon tattoo trilogy. These are great books. I am on the last one. The girl who kicked the hornets nest. I highly recommend these books. you won't be able to put them down.

[Ranger_B]

Recently just finished "In Search of Pipe Dreams" by Rick Newcombe, a great book on insight into the pipe smokers industry and a lot of focus into high grade manufacturers. I read through it in two days. Was a nice, interesting read. Recommended if you have an interest in that part of our forum here.

I thought this was a great book as well. Rare Smoke: The Ultimate Guide to Pipe Collecting is not a bad book either but mostly if you are interested in old pipes. Confessions of a Pipeman is another pipe book I flew through reading.

[Mugen910]

The girl with the dragon tattoo trilogy. These are great books. I am on the last one. The girl who kicked the hornets nest. I highly recommend these books. you won't be able to put them down.

I read through 2/3rds of the trilogy I just couldn't get into it. :sh

[timj219]

Had to take a break from leisure reading to learn some stuff. Almost finished with MySQL, up next Java.I feel your pain. "Using VBScript, WMI, and ADSI to Automate Windows® Administration"

[timj219]

I just ordered the Memoirs of Ulysseys S. Grant Maybe the best military history book I've ever read. Grant really describes military logistics and tactics in a way even a layman can clearly understand. He admires and respects courage and fighting spirit. And he shows many instances where a failure to press the advantage through timidity or uncertainty can cost a victory. But he makes it clear that getting to the decisive zone with the most trained men, food, and ammunition usually makes the difference between victory and defeat. And even the bravest and most spirited force or commander can be destroyed by a more numerous, better armed, or better placed enemy. It was never so clear to me before reading the memoires that a battle can be lost because of muddy supply roads or starving horses or failure to keep backup ammunition close to the front. Maybe it's his experience as a quartermaster that gives him that emphasis?

[timj219]

Rereading "Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan.I bought four more copies of this after I read it and gave it as gifts to family and friends. My copy is out on loan now. I've never looked at food the same way since reading it.

[Zeuceone]

The Joy of Home Brewing - Charlie Papazian

[forgop]

My MIL got me Coming back Stronger by Drew Brees for Christmas, so I'm starting that today.

[SilverFox]

Re-Reading the Deed of Paksenarrion...........might be the best of the genre other than Tolkien.

[MedicCook]

Almost finished with 'Pursuit of Honor' by Vince Flynn.

[hotreds]

We Who Are Alive and Remain: Untold Stories from the Band of Brothers by Marcus Brotherton

[TheFool]

Love in the Time of Cholera, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (again), and The Wind Up Bird Chronicle(again)

All good books as far as I'm concerned.

[Beagleone]

Hackers by Steven Levy. Talks about the old school hackers from the early days of computing at MIT to the beginning of the digital age in the 80s, with several updates and follow ups since it was first released in 1985.

[htown]

Re-Reading the Deed of Paksenarrion...........might be the best of the genre other than Tolkien.


Really- I thought A Song of Ice and Fire was better as was The Sword of Shannara series.

[mikethegoalie32]

The new james duthie book - filled with great articles.

[Ranger_B]

F.u.b.a.r. Soldier slang from WW2

[acruce]

Break Heart Hill
by Tomas H. Cook

[acruce]

I read through 2/3rds of the trilogy I just couldn't get into it. :sh

If by 2/3rds you mean the first 2 books you should read the last one it was probably the best of the 3

[kaisersozei]

The Joy of Home Brewing - Charlie Papazian

:tu

[pnoon]

The girl with the dragon tattoo trilogy. These are great books. I am on the last one. The girl who kicked the hornets nest. I highly recommend these books. you won't be able to put them down.

I read through 2/3rds of the trilogy I just couldn't get into it. :sh

Just started the first book. Slow start but I'm a quarter of the way through it and it's starting to pick up.

[acruce]

Just started the first book. Slow start but I'm a quarter of the way through it and it's starting to pick up.

Don't give up on it. It will get MUCH better as you get into it. All three books really are a great read. Its a shame the author passed away. I read there was going to be a series of 10 books in all. After I finished the last one I was kind of bummed out that there was not another in the series to read.

[Thammy]

So your going to be a dad? by Peter Downey.

[Salvelinus]

The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins

[Krish the Fish]

Finished Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand) over vacation. 2 chapters left in The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde). Have The Prince (Machiavelli) on deck.

[Tauma]

I'm juggling the "Book of Genesis" and "Novo Clavis Esoterika"

[Krish the Fish]

Started reading Machiavelli. Interesting read. I think Vonnegut might be on deck, or Fountainhead by Rand.

[timj219]

The Selfish Gene - Richard DawkinsA great book - even better IMO than his "Blind Watchmaker"

[qwerty1500]

Just started the first book. Slow start but I'm a quarter of the way through it and it's starting to pick up.

Read the first two and I'm now 2/3rd through The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest. Enjoy the plots and characters. But, it's still hard to cope with all the Swedish names.

[zappaFREAK]

Started reading Machiavelli. Interesting read. I think Vonnegut might be on deck, or Fountainhead by Rand.

The Fountainhead is one on my all time favorites!!
Rereading 20000 Leagus under the sea. Classic!!

[RBOrrell]

"They call me Baba Booey" by Gary Dell'abate and "Life" by Keith Richards.

[CigarNut]

Dragon Keeper (Rain Wilds Chronicles, Vol. 1) by Robin Hobb.

[timj219]

Just picked up "Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America" by Matt Taibbi at my local barnes and noble today. Have to finish "Your Inner Fish" this weekend and then dive in to it.

[Savvy]

Read the Hunger Games trilogy over the last week. Really quick reads, took me a couple days to read each book. Now to bounce around between the six other book I'm in various stages of reading as well as some school texts

[massphatness]

Under the Dome
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[rebelknight]

Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut

[MedicCook]

Just finsihed the George Carlin sortabiography. A must read for all Carlin fans.

[rebelknight]

Darkly Dreaming Dexter

[CigarNut]

Dragon Haven (Rain Wilds Chronicles, Vol. 2) by Robin Hobb.

[mpd340]

Rumor of War-Caputo

[hotreds]

Rumor of War-Caputo

Great book!


Onward We Charge: The Heroic Story of Darby's Rangers in World War II by H. Paul Jeffers

[Thammy]

Getting started on Social analysis in Canada..My Sociology textbook lol good read.

[hscmit]

started the lord of the rings trilogy, again

[tsolomon]

Bram Stoker's Dracula, I'm enjoying the free Kindle books.

[BSB]

"The First Rule" by Robert Crais

[pnoon]

"The First Rule" by Robert Crais
I've read a number of books by Robert Crais. All of them page turners. I prefer the Elvis Cole series to the Joe Pike series but both are good.
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[zappaFREAK]

The Life of Abe Lincoln by Henry Ketcham

[acruce]

The Chatham school affair


Thomas H. Cook

[bscottskangum]

Bram Stoker's Dracula, I'm enjoying the free Kindle books.

:tpd: Read that one a little while ago. Been loving alot of Jules Verne's books that way.

[zappaFREAK]

^^
+1
Just finished 20000 leagues under the sea!!

[jledou]

Finished up Dan Brown's Lost Symbol last night. Entertaining but still liked Angels and Demons better. The one thing it does make me realize though is that I do need to take a trip to DC to check out the monuments and the Smithsonian.
I also started reading Atlas Shrugged on my trip last week.

[BSB]

I've read a number of books by Robert Crais. All of them page turners. I prefer the Elvis Cole series to the Joe Pike series but both are good.
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I've read them all, one of my favorite authors. Agree, like the Cole over the Pike, but that is the direction he seems to be going in.

[BSB]

Started "The Lonesome Gods" by Louis L'amour, couple nights ago. So far, so good.

[chand]

I'm fighting through Glen Cook's The Many Deaths of the Black Company.

[BSB]

Man, I hate "fighting" thru a book. Now days, if I'm not digging it, I put it down and find something else.

[Superbad]

Just finished Choke by Chuck Palahniuk. Crazy but good book.

[chand]

Man, I hate "fighting" thru a book. Now days, if I'm not digging it, I put it down and find something else.

I hear ya. I've been fighting it since it's release date. I put it down. Pick it. Repeat times infinity. It's the worst part about a series, you feel compelled to continue whether you want to or not. Maybe I'll put it on the shelf and move on to Stoned, Naked, and Looking in My Neighbor's Window: The Best Confessions from GroupHug.us

[qwerty1500]

I've been reading a lot of economics lately and was in the mood for a historical fiction. So, I picked up Interretation of Murder by Jed Rubenfield. It's a turn of the 20th century novel about Sigmund Freud's only visit to America. Didn't know anything about the book or the author. It's nothing heavy and total fiction but I really like it.

Happened to see the author interviewed on television totay. He has just written a new book called The Death Instinct. It has some of the same main characters and is centered around the 1920 terrorist bombing of Wall Street. It too will probably be on my list sometime soon.

[rebelknight]

Dearly Devoted Dexter

[BSB]

I've been reading a lot of economics lately and was in the mood for a historical fiction. So, I picked up Interretation of Murder by Jed Rubenfield. It's a turn of the 20th century novel about Sigmund Freud's only visit to America. Didn't know anything about the book or the author. It's nothing heavy and total fiction but I really like it.

Happened to see the author interviewed on television totay. He has just written a new book called The Death Instinct. It has some of the same main characters and is centered around the 1920 terrorist bombing of Wall Street. It too will probably be on my list sometime soon.

I really enjoy historical fiction. Jack Whyte is my favorite. Camulod Chronicles and The Templar trilogy are both excellent. Knights! Camelot, King Author and the Knights of the Templar, awesome reading.

[E.J.]

Slap Shot Original - Dave Hanson w/ Ross Bernstein

[Bluetick]

Just finished The Book Thief

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_Thief

This book should be required reading in public schools.


Re-reading the Sword of Truth series next.

[Whipper Snapper]

Some stuff by Octavious Winslow.
Bunch of literature in middle english (Beowulf, Gawain and the green knight)

[massphatness]

Greatness: Reagan, Churchill, and the Making of Extraordinary Leaders

[BSB]

Greatness: Reagan, Churchill, and the Making of Extraordinary Leaders

That sounds good.
Just started "The Celebrated Cases of Sherlock Holmes" I'll be at this one a while.

[mpd340]

"God's Warriors: Crusaders, Saracens and the Battle for Jerusalem"

Good read very eye opening.

[sikk50]

"Paradise Lost"

[12stones]

Just finished "Brute: The Life of Victor Krulak, U.S. Marine"

Absolutely fantastic!! Oo-rah!

[rebelknight]

I'm currently reading two things. I have to read Fun Home for my English class. It's a graphic novel and not something I would typically read, being a student sucks. However in my free time I'm enjoying more Vonnegut, my favorite. This time I'm going with Deadeye Dick.

[taltos]

Rereading Process and Reality by Alfred North Whitehead. Haven't read this since my junior year in college. Brings back memories of a special professor and an exceptional honors seminar.:tu

[Ranger_B]

Just started: What color is your parachute. I feel like I am back in High School with the end of my time in the Army headed at me quickly. This book is helping me arrange my thoughts.

[CigarNut]

Seventh Son by Orson Scott Card

[bscottskangum]

Sisters of Glass

Just got a new Nook Color and this is my first book on it, free off of B&N :D
Good read, I would recommend it if you are into the dystopian/science fiction/drama type of book, which I am.

Anyone know of other free stuff along the same lines?

[Gophernut]

Arctic Drift by Clive and Dirk Cussler. My first book by Cussler. Not bad. My son bought it for me when I was in the hospital having some tests done.

[Mugen910]

Just finished Hunger Games and now on part two of the series.

[Bunker]

Moonlight Mile by Dennis Lehane

[OHRD]

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls...and it's tearing me apart!

[bigpedunn]

Keith Richards ( Life )

[LasciviousXXX]

Just Genes: The Ethics of Genetic Technologies by Carol Barash

[qwerty1500]

Moonlight Mile by Dennis Lehane

I've read a couple of Lehane's books and enjoyed them. This is his new one. Let us know if you like it.

[gravelman]

Well Im not much of a book reader, although a great friend of mine just bought me the V For Vendetta comic series...so far it is a fun read, and equally interesting to compare to the movie.

[rebelknight]

Currently reading the possessed and deadeye dick

the possessed is for school and deadeye dick is just because Kurt Vonnegut is the best. I can't wait to be done with these school readings so I can get back to attacking my book list.

[hscmit]

Just finished Choke by Chuck Palahniuk. Crazy but good book.

good book, I really like his writing, but the last couple books havent been as good (pygmy, tell-all)
hoping damned will be better than these

[tsolomon]

Towers of Midnight, book number 13 in the Wheel of Time series. The Kindle version became available last Monday. :noon

[taltos]

Bertrand Russell's Why I am not a Christian and Other Essays.

[kaisersozei]

Towers of Midnight, book number 13 in the Wheel of Time series. The Kindle version became available last Monday. :noon

My wife gave me this for Christmas (well, I bought it for myself and gave it to my wife to give to me :D) I'm enjoying the writing more than Sanderson's last--this one feels more like RJ's original style.

[kaisersozei]

Also, since I spend so much time driving, I'm also listening to Stephen King's Under the Dome on CD. Unabridged, it's 30 discs. :jd

[CigarNut]

Just finished:

- Red Prophet: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Volume II
- Prentice Alvin: The Takes of Alvin Maker, Volume III
- Alvin Journeyman: The Takes of Alvin Maker, Volume IV

In the middle of:

- Heartfire: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Volume V

by Orson Scott Card

[timj219]

Bertrand Russell's Why I am not a Christian and Other Essays.What's next? Principia Mathematica?