What books are you reading now?

[BikeWriter]

I'm rereading the Doyle books at Project Gutenberg.

Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir (1859-1930)
http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/d

[swag]

1. Inspired by bicentennial_baby's favorite books' thread,

I'm reading my five most-read books yet again (my goodness, how self-broadening of me), starting with Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.

[BikeWriter]

6. Lolita! It's been years since I read that.

[El Fuego]

15. "Lolita" is one of my favorite books.

I need to read it again.

[Spider Jerusalem]

2. Here's a link to an online edition with better fonts and formatting...

plus illustrations... http://www.bakerstreet221b.de/canon/index.html

And right now I'm reading "Guns, Germs and Steel" by Jared Diamond and "Saturday" by Ian McEwan.

[BikeWriter]

7. Thank you; I'll give that site a try.

I've been enjoying Doyle's novels on topics other than Sherlock Holmes, too! :-)

[Spider Jerusalem]

11. I think "The White Company" and "The Lost World"...

are the only non-Holmes novels of his I've read. Some of his other short stories are pretty good, too ("The Croxley Master" is a damned good boxing story, IMO).

[BikeWriter]

17. I hope you'll try these two of Doyle's:

"The Adventures of Gerard" and "The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard."
I love all his works. :-)

[Spider Jerusalem]

18. I'll check those out.

I have Project Gutenberg bookmarked. :)

This is also a pretty decent site for free ebooks (multiple formats, including PDF and Microsoft Reader): http://www.blackmask.com/cgi-bin/newlinks/page.cgi?d=1

[BikeWriter]

42. That's an interesting site, thank you.

[GOPNotForMe]

3. "Too Close to Call" by Jeffrey Toobin

"American Gods" by Neil Gaiman
"The Palm at the End of the Mind" by Wallace Stevens

I know I shouldn't but I always end up reading 3 books at once. I just enjoy different genres a lot and like to mix it up... all at once.

[Ladyhawk]

4. The Mammoth Hunters - Jean M. Auel

I'm re-re-re-reading books in my library because our local library sucks and I don't have the funds to get new books right now. I think I'll read It by Stephen King again. That's a good one...

[BikeWriter]

10. I loved Jean Auel's books! I should read them all again.

[NMMNG]

53. I'm coming due for an "Earth's Children" review myself

I re-read the series about once a year--it is so enthralling, as well as educational. I'll admit the love scenes between Ayla and Jondalar get to be a bit much, and the number of discoveries/inventions she is credited with are a bit too many but otherwise the series is magnificent.

[baron j]

54. Go to a local B&N, Hoarders, or Media Play. They have chairs,

and don't care if you sit there all day reading, day in, day out.

[XemaSab]

5. Harry Potter 5

:evilgrin:

[smbolisnch]

8. The F-Word: Feminism In Jeopardy - Women, Politics and the Future

:hi:

[Deja Q]

9. A book about L-arginine, hawthorne berries, bilberry extract, and anti-

dents.

Trying to work with improving my blood circulation to my fingers and toes...



Edit: Spelling

[Lone_Star_Dem]

12. "Watergate" by Fred Emery

Excellent read on the event so far.

[jane_pippin]

13. The Problem of the Media by Robert W. McChesney

Just started it. So far, so good.

[swag]

31. McChesney saw our current predicament more than a decade ago.

Corporate Media and the Threat to Democracy, great and prophetic as it was, is a severe understatement of the sorry, fraud-complicit state of the corporate-totalitarian media we suffer from today.

I reckon the book your reading is an even more dour assessment, given what has come to pass.

[jane_pippin]

38. I just started it so can't say much yet...

This is the first I've read of his and so far, it's making my happy only because I know I'm not completely nuts about the corporate media and what I think of it.

But yes, it's a dour assessment so far to say the least. It's very interesting though. I was thinking of posting about it somewhere once I finish it but wasn't sure where it would make sense to do it and if anyone would care.

[WhollyHeretic]

14. The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan, Eco-Renovation and

The Devil's Race-Track by Mark Twain (a collection of some of his darker works)

[El Fuego]

16. "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd

[yellowdogintexas]

19. 'Fool's Fate" by Robin Hobb...almost done, and then on

to Harry Potter 6

[bertha katzenengel]

20. Under the Banner of Heaven

Jon Krakauer (I think - don't have the book in here)

About a very unhappy portion of the history of the Mormon church.

Excellent read.

[bertha katzenengel]

21. and after that, time for a fluff piece

maybe one of the new Southern humor books Mrs. V. just got.

After this book I need a fluff piece.

[eallen]

39. I'll second that recommendation.

[alarcojon]

22. Mine

Down These Mean Streets (Piri Thomas)

Huasipungo (Jorge Icaza)

[ovidsen]

23. 1776

The Revolutionary War history by David McCullough. It's a bit wordy, but quite good! I don't know how that George Washington and those wacky Founding Fathers ever pulled it off.

[no name no slogan]

24. rereading "Psychotic Reactions and Carbeurator Dung" by Lester Bangs

...the infamous music critic for RS and Creem in the 1970s-1980s. I've been listening to the Stooges lately and figured it would go along well with the music.

Plus, it's one of the few books in my collection currently in my possession-- but that's changing soon!!!

[jonnyblitz]

25. "Vile Bodies" by Evelyn Waugh and "the Battle for God" by

Karen Armstrong. i usually read 2 or 3 at once.

[TheCentepedeShoes]

40. Have "Vile Bodies"

on my bookshelf, hadn't read it yet. Do you like Wodehouse, too.?

[Clintmax]

26. "The Stand" by Stephen King (the unabridged version)

For like the millionth time!

[PassingFair]

27. Ha! I'm reading Insomnia, by the self-same maniac....

and I swear it has screwed up my sleeping patterns. Damn him!

[orleans]

50. god--the stand used to be my comfort book--i read it over

and over again. what's the difference between the original book and the unabridged version?

[Clintmax]

55. The uncut version...

Is just that...uncut. It is quite a bit longer than the standard version and the characters are more developed. There's a lot more going on. You should see if you can find a copy and read it sometime!

[graywarrior]

28. Harry Potter. I fell like a 10 year old. It's great!

[Ronnie]

29. Kingston by Starlight

by Christopher John Farley. It's like reading poetry. Except I understand it.

[TheCentepedeShoes]

30. Guns, Germs and Steel

by Jared Diamond, The Art of Happiness at Work by Howard Cutler and the Dalai Lama, Spy Handler by Victor Cherkashin and Gregory Feiffer, and An Embarassment of Riches by James Kunstler.

[Glorfindel]

32. "Harry Potter & the Half-Blood Prince" and

"Baudolino" by Umberto Eco; after that it's going to be "State of Fear" by Michael Crichton - all good summertime reads.

[indypaul]

33. 1776, David McCullogh and Greenspan's Fraud, Ravi Batra n/t

[texas1928]

34. Rereading the Band of Brothers.

But also just read a book on the office of the OSS, and the biography of Richard Winters.

[CrownPrinceBandar]

35. Illium............

by Dan Simmons.

[KitchenWitch]

36. "Cool of the Evening" by Jim Thielman

It is about the 1965 Minnesota Twins

[mike_c]

37. Dan Simmons' Ilium...

...and bunches of professional stuff.

[tarkus]

41. Wings of the Dove by Henry James. It is taking a while. NT

[trackfan]

43. History of Italy and Her Invaders by Hodgkin

I'm on volume 4 of 8.

[deadparrot]

44. "There and Back Again: An Actor's Tale," by Sean Astin.

Details his experience filming LotR.

[EstimatedProphet]

45. The Republican Noise Machine by David Brock

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/104-3730483-2982345

[Aristus]

46. "The Final Days" by Bob Woodward and Carl Berstein

Nixon going doooooooowwwwwwwwwwn, baby! Remember when Bob Woodward wasn't a suck-up, ass-kissing clown? Neither does anybody else; that was thirty years ago!

[khashka]

47. I'm reading:

So Vile A Sin - Kate Orman and Ben Aaronovitch
Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates - Tom Robbins
Mammoths, Mastodons, and Men - Robert Silverburg.
Catwatching - Desmond Morris.
The Lazarus Heart - Poppy Z. Brite
and the Collected works of W.H. Auden.

Khash.

[LSK]

48. Paul Krugman - the Great Unraveling

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0393326055/qid=1123047910/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_sbs_1/002-2367243-5101660?v=glance&s=books&n=507846


Next up is:
Road To Air America: Breaking The Right Wing Stranglehold On Our Nation's Airwaves (Hardcover)
by SHELDON DROBNY

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1590790650/qid=1123047842/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-2367243-5101660?v=glance&s=books

[6000eliot]

49. I just taught "The Purloined Letter."

I'm reading "Lady Anna" by Trollope and "War of the Worlds" by Wells.

[orleans]

51. i usually read two or more books at once (low attention span?)

here are my two latest ones:




and refer madness

[NMMNG]

52. I just finished "Freakonomics" and "Table for One: The Loners Manifesto"

So I need to find something else to read.

Freakonomics was very intriguing BTW.

I may just read Dolores Claiborne, which I picked up at the library for a dime a few weeks ago. I've seen the movie several times but have never actually read the book. Yesterday I found a copy of Bellamy's Looking Backward, a classic Utopian novel, which I might re-read soon.

I'm also going to read Chris Cleaves' Incendiary (which, incidentally, was released on 7/7/05) when it comes in to my local library. It was recently reviewed in The Economist and seemed quite interesting.

[peacefreak]

56. Just finished Last Days of Dogtown--Anita Diament

And started A Breath of Snow & Ashes by Diana Gabaldon. Nope, neither are out yet. I'm doing it for my job--really. (Both are excellent by the way).

This one was out & one of my favorites of the year--The Greatest Man in Cedar Hole by Stephanie Doyon.

[Richardo]

57. "1776", "Acts of Faith" and "The Codex"

Yes I have three going at once :eyes:

[Richardo]

58. Dupe

Is what I am.

[peacebuzzard]

59. Ben Franklin, The Life of Mammals, Mac for Dummies (2000), Social Security

Handbook.

[ladeuxiemevoiture]

60. "Summer Cooking" by Elizabeth David, "Shrike" by Joe Donnelly,

"Dress Your Family in Corduroy" by David Sedaris and "Mort" by Terry Pratchett.

[Z_I_Peevey]

61. I'm somewhat embarrassed.

I'm reading Green River, Running Red by Ann Rule.

[edbermac]

62. Playboy's Party Jokes #7

And I'll keep reading volume after volume until I find a joke that's actually funny...

[terrya]

63. "Alexander Hamilton" by Ron Chernow.

I'm getting ready to tackle "Anna Karenina" by Tolstoy after I finish this one. :-)