How often do you read (books)

[patsfan1379]

Patsfan made a great point in another thread, many people use little summaries or opinions on google as a replacement for reading thoroughly researched books from experts or reputable sources. Wikipedia is a great example. Good for quick information, but not good for comprehensive history or facts.

My grandma used to read every night and when I'd stay at her house over the summer I'd do the same. In high school and college I didn't read anything except textbooks for studying, but after college I got back into the habit of reading every night, even on vacations I take a book and try to get at least 15-20 mins in before bed. I vary my reading material usually something informative follwed by something fun. Sometimes when I get a really good book I'll stay up until 2 or 3am reading and pay the price the next day. Sometimes I'll spend an entire day on the weekend and burn through an entire book.

Do you read and what were the last few books you read? Here is my latest list:

We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda (AMAZING book, depressing, but a must read)
http://www.amazon.com/God-Not-Great...bs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1201124175&sr=1-1

Why People Believe Weird things
http://www.amazon.com/People-Believ...bs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1201124092&sr=8-1

How We Know What Isn't So
http://www.amazon.com/How-Know-What...bs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1201124126&sr=1-1


Slash (fucking GREAT book)
http://www.amazon.com/Slash/dp/0061351423/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1201124147&sr=1-1

God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons everything
http://www.amazon.com/God-Not-Great...bs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1201124175&sr=1-1

Scar Tissue
http://www.amazon.com/God-Not-Great...bs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1201124175&sr=1-1

I keep my head out of the facts. I like to make outrageous claims and false accusations. It's much more fun and less demanding of my brainpower.

 

[velvett]

I reccomend it, but it is depressing.

Really, maybe I'll wait on that one.

 

[KillahBee]

what books bro! share your recent reading list

One is a Bukowski book, the other is a Stephen King book called On Writing.

Just finished the latest Bret Easton Ellis novel called Lunar Park.

Reading is truly one of the greatest pleasures in life, IMO.

 

[velvett]

Just finished the latest Bret Easton Ellis novel called Lunar Park.

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How was that one?
I was eyeballing that one too.

 

[patsfan1379]

One is a Bukowski book, the other is a Stephen King book called On Writing.

Just finished the latest Bret Easton Ellis novel called Lunar Park.

Reading is truly one of the greatest pleasures in life, IMO.

Not into felching then eh...

 

[alien amp pharm]

Read??? They invented video games to cure that.

 

[patsfan1379]

Read??? They invented video games to cure that.

Are you on Halo 3?

 

[KillahBee]

How was that one?
I was eyeballing that one too.

Weird (kind of a requisite with his novels tho). In a different way than his others. From my book review thread:

Lunar Park (Bret Easton Ellis)
I have read all his other books, this was the last one on the docket. Written quite strangely, to the point that you don't really know what is fact and what is fiction. It's clearly written with Bret as the narrator and the first part of the book discusses his past, which of any of you know him, is very interesting and laced with debauchery and self-hate (thanks to daddy). Then it gets into the typical Ellis type novels, with an odd mix of science fiction, torrid self reflection and love story. I really enjoyed it. His novels are always good for an interesting ride - at times his stories are almost too weird to take seriously and at others you actually feel the fright that he so often discusses. The ending loops the first part of the story (I hate my daddy and it's ruining my new life as a father) back in and addresses it pretty well. Read it.

 

[curvymommy]

I'm always reading. I read mainly non-fiction -- lots of motivational type stuff, stuff about financial planning, how to books, etc.

Me too. If I sit and stare at my personal library and think about all the titles long enough it makes me very emotional. The titles themselves read like a book on the shelf of what I have been doing in life.

Right now I am ordering this:
http://www.amazon.com/Into-Mist-Deb...bs_sr_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1201125092&sr=8-3
The topic sucks but it's a must read for me sadly.


Also, I am constantly reading to my kids. They learn so much from books and have many memorized and they "read" to each other with a flashlight everynight when they are supposed to be asleep. Literacy is Priceless, or in their case pretending to be literate is at least pretty cute.

 

[alien amp pharm]

Are you on Halo 3?

Well I can see how you'd think I was on roids, but no. I'm natural.


(no, I dont have live)