You reading anything right now?

[from zero]

Yesterday I started reading an autobiography of Marilyn Manson. First book I've picked up in a long time.

 

[Irie]

The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren, pretty good.

 

[from zero]

I've found myself visiting a Brentano's near where I work the past couple days. I think I have a new hobby. Seriously.

 

[NoDaddyNo]

I've spent a lot of time recently playing hearts and Scrabble, giving my brain a rest from the other stuff it normally does.

I'm looking forward to reading Wolfram's beast, and Stephenson's new Quicksilver.
I don't know if the new Gibson is out yet or not, if so, that too.
I will get those when I get to the States for Thanksgiving.

Other than that, I read a lot of technical books - I try to alternate one easy fiction with one interesting non-fiction.

I also am looking forward to getting/reading Confederacy of Dunces.

My Amazon Wishlist is very long and I would be thrilled to get through half of it in a year - instead I get through about 1/10th of it.
(I'm sure Amazon would be thrilled too)

 

[jerkbox]

my Free Stuff and Maxim mags i started getting in the mail.

that and books on Mortgages and Freelancing

 

[Irie]

I've found myself visiting a Brentano's near where I work the past couple days. I think I have a new hobby. Seriously.

Is that like the Blue Oyster Bar?

 

[jnuts]

Automated Coding of International Event Data Using Sparse Parsing Techniques

 

[from zero]

my Free Stuff and Maxim mags i started getting in the mail.

LOL, I just got my first ones the other day.

 

[onerepmaximum]

Chemical Pink. It's fiction about female bodybuilders. It's alright, I guess.

 

[Y_lifter]

I'm on the 4th in the fiction series "Left Behind"

Though it is Religious(Revelation) in nature and would not appeal to many here, the premise, story, characters and action are very interesting reading..

 

[vixenbabe]

"Perfect I'm Not- Boomer on Beer, Brawls, backaches, and baseball" by Dave Wells.

I'm not even a baseball fan! I liked his rough edge style though!

 

[supersizeme]

lol i couldn't finish the first of the Left Behind series. i didn't realize how religious they were. i thought it was going to be a cool thriller about people on a plane disappearing and then the subsequent apocalypse. then i noticed i was getting preached to every 5 pages and ended up saying "no more!!"

right now i'm reading Dostoyevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov"

how is Manson's autobiography??

 

[velvett]

Davinci's Code

 

[Alkybanshee]

Runaway Jury

 

[from zero]

how is Manson's autobiography??

I only got about 8 pages in yesterday (I was on the train, and I can't read with my head down in car or train, or I can get motion sickness), but so far, I'm very interested. Seems to be pretty well-written so far. I've heard it's a very good book.

 

[from zero]

Davinci's Code

I saw that the other day, and it intrigued me. Almost sat down and read some of it. What's it about? Do you like it?

 

[hellboy]

I'm looking forward to reading Wolfram's beast, and Stephenson's new Quicksilver.
I don't know if the new Gibson is out yet or not, if so, that too.

Gibson and Stephenson are some of my favorites too. If you like these guys vocabulary and if you haven't already read any of Gene Wolfe's New Sun books you should pick one up asap.

 

[NoDaddyNo]

Gibson and Stephenson are some of my favorites too. If you like these guys vocabulary and if you haven't already read any of Gene Wolfe's New Sun books you should pick one up asap.

Stephenson is sort of like Gibson-lite.

I enjoy them both a ton. Cryptonomicon was fantastic IMO.

I will add a Gene Wolfe book to my wishlist on Amazon.
Thanks for the tip.

 

[NoDaddyNo]

Another great nerd-fiction book is Acts of the Apostles. The first chapter (maybe the whole book?) is available online somewhere.

I also have enjoyed the books from the Foundation series that I have read.

Anything by David Sedaris is good. Running with Scissors was along the same lines, but not as good IMO - I want to read some other books by that guy (agusten burroughs I think) to see if they are any good.

I love reading, but I frequently get distracted because I only have so much time and I have to weigh out if I would rather read for N hours and therefore give up that time that I could have been doing something else.
I absolutely can't stand it when someone wastes my time for their own benefit - and that is probably why I hate my job right now (I see it as wasted time).

I'm rambling yet again.

 

[tiger88]

i like read history books, i just got a book about prsioners of war in ww2

 

[from zero]

I'm rambling yet again.

Yep. Take it elsewhere, sister.

 

[velvett]

I saw that the other day, and it intrigued me. Almost sat down and read some of it. What's it about? Do you like it?

FROM HIS WEB SITE

While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. Solving the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned to discover it leads to a trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci…clues visible for all to see…and yet ingeniously disguised by the painter.

Langdon joins forces with a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, and learns the late curator was involved in the Priory of Sion—an actual secret society whose members included Sir Isaac Newton, Botticelli, Victor Hugo, and Da Vinci, among others. The Louvre curator has sacrificed his life to protect the Priory's most sacred trust: the location of a vastly important religious relic, hidden for centuries.

In a breathless race through Paris, London, and beyond, Langdon and Neveu match wits with a faceless powerbroker who appears to work for Opus Dei—a clandestine, Vatican-sanctioned Catholic sect believed to have long plotted to seize the Priory's secret. Unless Langdon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine puzzle in time, the Priory's secret—and a stunning historical truth—will be lost forever.

In an exhilarating blend of relentless adventure, scholarly intrigue, and cutting wit, symbologist Robert Langdon (first introduced in Dan Brown's bestselling Angels & Demons) is the most original character to appear in years. THE DA VINCI CODE heralds the arrival of a new breed of lightening-paced, intelligent thriller…surprising at every twist, absorbing at every turn, and in the end, utterly unpredictable…right up to its astonishing conclusion.

http://www.danbrown.com/novels/davinci_code/plot.html

 

[from zero]

fFROM HIS WEB SITE

But do you like it?!

 

[velvett]

But do you like it?!

Oh it's awesome.

It's one of those books you don't want to put down and you can relate and/or admirer the characters.

I totally recommend it.

 

[WODIN]

Five Points

 

[FreeballinDC]

Group: Six People in Search of a Life (or something like that)

The author sits in a years worth of group therapy sessions to give insight to how group therapy changes peoples lives, for better and for worse. It's a true account, but he changes the participants names to protect them.

Some compelling stories, and an interesting view of how some people use excuses to keep themselves suffering for no reason.

 

[jackangel]

Wolves of the Calla

(The Dark Tower - Book 5)

Stephen King

 

[hellboy]

Stephenson is sort of like Gibson-lite.

Yep. You'll find this hard to believe, but Gibson is actually Gene Wolfe-lite.

 

[hellboy]

Oh it's awesome.

It's one of those books you don't want to put down and you can relate and/or admirer the characters.

I totally recommend it.

I read this this summer and I agree. It's full of interesting stuff and fast paced enough to keep me interested. I want to read his earlier Langdon book next.

 

[The Shadow]

The Man Who Came To dinner


DIvine Comedy


The Use Of The Method for todays actors


....waiting on THe WOlves Of Calla

 

[hellboy]

Has anyone read any of the Douglas Preston/Lincoln Child books?

Ice Limit
Still Life with Crows
Riptide

I love their stuff too. Semi-spooky novels with enough factual science thrown in to suspend the disbelief.

 

[PHATchik]

For pleasure, I've been reading the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Finally into book 2.

For class, I've been reading books on Southern Politics.

 

[from zero]

For pleasure, I've been reading the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Finally into book 2.

I was thinking of buying all three in one huge book at Waldenbooks/Brentano's. It's only like $19.99.

 

[PHATchik]

I was thinking of buying all three in one huge book at Waldenbooks/Brentano's. It's only like $19.99.

That's what I have. I got it at Wal-Mart for like $14 I think.

 

[from zero]

That's what I have. I got it at Wal-Mart for like $14 I think.

Whoa.

 

[PHATchik]

Whoa.

Yep. My brother's fiance had bought the exact same one at a bookstore for like $20ish. I was happy.

 

[hellboy]

For pleasure, I've been reading the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Finally into book 2.

For class, I've been reading books on Southern Politics.

Which southern politics books have you read? Have you read Zell Miller's book? I want to get that one.

 

[WODIN]

DIvine Comedy

Now that's an acid trip.

 

[Dial_tone]

DNS & Bind, 4th edition.

 

[WODIN]

The other two I'm reading.

The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems

 

[sh4dowf4lcon]

I've found myself visiting a Brentano's near where I work the past couple days. I think I have a new hobby. Seriously.

are you joking?

 

[from zero]

are you joking?

Why is wanting to read a joke?