What Books Are You Reading? [Archive]

Geor!

01-06-2009, 05:40 PM

A Slobbering Love Affair by Bernard Goldberg.

I'd like to read Ann Coulter's new book but I get pissed off with her about as much as I agree with her.Currently, for me? None until I get finished with the fiction book I'm working on.

Next up: Outrage by Dick Morris, Do the Right Thing by Mike Huckabee, and
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TexasDevilDog

01-06-2009, 05:52 PM

How to solve it. -Polya :fing02:

http://press.princeton.edu/images/k669.gif

tenacious j

01-06-2009, 05:53 PM

i just started that book that they were giving obama shit about. its called the post american world. i wanted to see what all the fuss was about. its decent so far.

32VfromHell

01-06-2009, 05:58 PM

The Yom Kippor War by Abraham Rabinovich.

Strychnine

01-06-2009, 05:59 PM

564826

01-06-2009, 06:00 PM

Re reading 1984...

mopar63

01-06-2009, 06:03 PM

Choke - Tony Romo

Fixed!

The lies about money- Ric Edelman
Trying to learn something, any other financial book recommendations?

Geor!

01-06-2009, 06:05 PM

Currently reading:

Choke - Chuck Palahniuk

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science - Tom Bethell
the subtitle is "Liberals have hijacked science for long enough. It's time to set the record straight. :cool:

Recently finished:

Warrior Soul - Chuck Pfarrer
The memoir of a Navy SEAL

In the Company of Heroes - Michael Durant
Blackhawk pilot captured in Mogadishu

To Hell and Back - Audie Murphy
memoir of the USA's most decorated soldier in history (WWII)

Pushing the Limits - New Adventures in Engineering - Henry Petroski
Choke is the fiction book I'm working on. Don't know what to think of it yet and I'm nearly finished. It kinda keeps jumping all over the place, never really finishing a topic that the chapter is about. Weird, but a bit hard to follow.
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talisman

01-06-2009, 06:06 PM

You'll love Choke, man. That book rocks.

Right now I'm in the middle of Stephen Kings new short story anthology. It's slow going because I'm not a big fan of short stories.

Recently finished:

Requim For A Dream
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Revolutionary Road
A Clockwork Orange
Jennifer Government.... I highly recommend.

Recently picked up but haven't gotten to yet
All the Presidents Men
Fear and Loathing on The Campaign Trail '72
Angel Dust Apocalypse
Watership Down
and the Collected short stories of Amy Hempel.

Looks like we've got a new addition from Chuck Palahniuk coming out in a few months with an interesting story line. I can hardly wait.

Why is this in the political forum? lol

Geor!

01-06-2009, 06:08 PM

Because, Eric, I meant for it to be about political works.
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talisman

01-06-2009, 06:11 PM

Because, Eric, I meant for it to be about political works.
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Ah. Well, Jennifer Goverment was a little bit of political/consumerist satire. Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 and All the Presidents Men in my To Read pile should qualify I guess.

blue302stang

01-06-2009, 06:13 PM

Invisible monster by Chuck Palahniuk

White trash wagon

01-06-2009, 06:30 PM

Just finished Supercapitalism by Robert Reich, ans before that Where have all the heroes gone? by Lee Iacocca.

Also read a book about the Mayan prophesies as well as the Chinese Iching prophesies, both say life as we know it will end Dec 21, 2012. Two cultures seperated by 8000 miles came up with the same date.....and both were written over 800 years ago.

5111

01-06-2009, 06:34 PM

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

I just finished The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Taylor

01-07-2009, 08:42 PM

The Forgotten Man

The history of the 20s, 30s, and the Great Depression - who caused, it what caused, who fixed it, who hurt it, etc. Great read.

slow99

01-07-2009, 08:44 PM

The Black Swan
Beating the Street
Warren Buffett's Interpretation of Financial Statements

32VfromHell

01-09-2009, 02:33 PM

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

I just finished The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

The kite runner movie was incredible.

I'm JUST about done with Yom Kippor, Next ill either move onto Berlin by Antony Beevor or onto Imperial Grunts.

Geor!

01-09-2009, 02:45 PM

This is slightly off of the intended topic, since the book isn't of a political nature, but I just bought "Too Fat to Fish" by Artie Lange today.

5.0LiterRiceEater

01-09-2009, 03:03 PM

Twilight

J/K but my wife is and its driving me nuts. Im fucking sick of hearing about it.

DamonH

01-09-2009, 03:04 PM

Not political or anything, but I'm reading:

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Geor!

01-09-2009, 03:09 PM

Not political or anything, but I'm reading:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5134JYSY8AL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA240_SH20_OU01_.jpg

I'm sure that book won several awards, including the coveted Caldecott Medal.

stinginstang

01-09-2009, 03:11 PM

Hope is Not a Strategy - Simple Solutions for Doing Business in the 21st century by Ted Gee

GhostTX

01-09-2009, 03:19 PM

I've been going through all my Calvin and Hobbes collections.

mikeb

01-09-2009, 03:38 PM

arctic drift by clive cussler. I'm a little disappointed because clive seems to have become politically correct and has written global warming into this book.

01-09-2009, 03:42 PM

Delta Force - Charlie Beckwith

About to start Sudden Threat - AJ Tata

AdamLX

01-09-2009, 03:57 PM

Epicenter - Joel Rosenberg

MadMax404m

01-09-2009, 04:47 PM

What If by Harold Charles Deutsch

Sgt Beavis

01-09-2009, 05:45 PM

I'm currently between books. I need to get my Cisco CCNA, so I figured I would get a CCNA book to read on my flight to Mumbai. That way I'm sure to get plenty of sleep ;)

talisman

01-09-2009, 05:59 PM

arctic drift by clive cussler. I'm a little disappointed because clive seems to have become politically correct and has written global warming into this book.

I stopped reading Clive Cussler after the first books with Dirk Pitts kids. No one wants to read that shit. I think he also has a ghost writer that is putting together a majority of his books these days. His writing has just flat sucked since around Inca Gold. It's a shame. Raise the Titanic was the first novel I ever read.. In 3rd grade. Met Clive about 14 years ago at a book signing and he was a pretty nice guy.

mikeb

01-09-2009, 06:33 PM

I stopped reading Clive Cussler after the first books with Dirk Pitts kids. No one wants to read that shit. I think he also has a ghost writer that is putting together a majority of his books these days. His writing has just flat sucked since around Inca Gold. It's a shame. Raise the Titanic was the first novel I ever read.. In 3rd grade. Met Clive about 14 years ago at a book signing and he was a pretty nice guy.

Yeah, i've always liked his books and you are right, the writing has been a little flat as of late. With the new twist toward politically correct stuff in the latest book I may be done with him.

FSON

01-09-2009, 06:39 PM

Encyclopedia Americana

I have about 30 books that I need to read:
Chinese/Tibetan Philosophy/Internal Martial Arts/Meditation/Medicine
Late 1800s early 1900s English literature
Art Theory/Philosophy
PostModern Philosophy
Religion Theory

Trip McNeely

01-09-2009, 06:43 PM

The Almanac of World History.

Slowhand

01-13-2009, 08:14 PM

The Stranger by Albert Camus

5.0_CJ

01-13-2009, 08:45 PM

American Alone - Mark Steyn

Yale

01-14-2009, 01:33 AM

I'm working on a few:

Battlefield Earth by L. Ron Hubbard
Paradise Lost by John Milton
Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Stiff by Mary Roach
The Edinburgh and Dore Lectures on Mental Science by Thomas Troward
No Death, No Fear by Thich Nhat Hanh
Oil! by Upton Sinclair
The Dark Tower - The Gunslinger by Stephen King
and
Children of Dune by Frank Herbert

I slide back and forth between them, but that's pretty much my "to-read" list. I can handle more sometimes, but I've got some new video games, I work ~50 hours a week, and I'm trying to get back into college. I've had a few periods where I've ignored life for a few months at a time, and I tend to withdraw and devour books by the shelf-load.

Denny

01-14-2009, 02:07 AM

Generation Kill by Evan Wright

Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America and the new face of American War

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Kill_(book)

elzoro

01-14-2009, 02:32 AM

The Black Swan
Beating the Street
Warren Buffett's Interpretation of Financial Statements

I liked the Black Swan. Interesting theory.

elzoro

01-14-2009, 02:33 AM

Delta Force - Charlie Beckwith

About to start Sudden Threat - AJ Tata

Delta Force is maybe my favorite book of all time.

FSON

01-14-2009, 08:24 AM

The Stranger by Albert Camus

Skip Camus, hit Kafka.

5111

01-14-2009, 09:22 AM

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

I just finished The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
I finished both of this one and am now reading Troy: Shield of Thunder by David Gemmell and next up is A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. I'm reading them on my new Kindle!

Who Needs 8

01-14-2009, 09:34 AM

I'm reading Dfwstangs.net

tex

01-14-2009, 09:43 AM

Those of you reading Choke, do NOT watch the movie.

Thank me now.

Strychnine

01-14-2009, 12:14 PM

Those of you reading Choke, do NOT watch the movie.

Thank me now.

I make it a point to never watch a movie after reading the book.

5111

01-14-2009, 02:18 PM

I usually watch the movie first and then read the book. The movie almost never ruins the book, but the book always seems to ruin the movie.

mikecobra95

01-14-2009, 02:21 PM

Judge and Jury by James Patterson

Recently read

Darklore Vol 2
A few Harlen Coben books
A few Lincoln Child and Douglas Preston books as well:)

talisman

01-14-2009, 04:41 PM

Those of you reading Choke, do NOT watch the movie.

Thank me now.

Yeah, it left a lot to be desired.

Big Pencil

01-14-2009, 04:44 PM

Just finished Wally Lamb's new book "The Hour I First Believed"

mardyn

01-14-2009, 04:58 PM

Currently reading "Auschwitz"

The story of one of the Prisoner Doctors working for Dr Mengele.

Some of those Nazis (but not all) were some evil bastards for sure.

mardyn