Bookstore binge!

[XemaSab]

The Art of War
Travels of Marco Polo
The Far Pavilions
Flashman (which I already read, and it cracked my shit up)
Don Quixote
Kim

Anyone else buy/read anything good lately?

[Spider Jerusalem]

1. If you liked Flashman...

the other books in the series are worth a read (other than the first one, my favourites are Flashman at the Charge and Flashman in the Great Game).

Right now I'm on an Umberto Eco kick--rereading Foucault's Pendulum, The Name of the Rose, and Baudolino...and I just read about eight of Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels before deciding I needed a bit of a break from them.

[LSK]

2. i did that saturday

Learning Java
Java Unleashed
Professional JSP
Some book on iPods
Red Hat Linux Unleashed

I found a place selling computer books for $2.99 each.

My home keeps getting stuffed with more books, I cant control myself sometimes!

[XemaSab]

12. u nerd

[RetroLounge]

3. "Anyone else buy/read anything good lately?"

:spray:

:hi:

RL

[Richardo]

4. .

:rofl:

How goes the store, RL?

[RetroLounge]

5. Have you heard to concept

of "don't get high on your own supply?"

I gotta stop reading and keep listing them :rofl:

I keep finding great stuff I want to keep :D

RL

[Richardo]

6. LOL! I can relate...

...that would be my exact problem if I were in your position. :rofl:

[RetroLounge]

9. I keep finding books I want.

I have 2 boxes filled so far.

At least after I read them, I can sell them.

RL

[Fleshdancer]

7. I can't put down the Golden Compass series

My mom told me about this book called the Golden Compass that she described as "like Harry Potter only the main character is a girl" but it is so much more than that. The series is aimed at young readers like Harry Potter is but the plot is sophisticated enough to hold the attention of all ages. Plus they're making a movie out of it.

I'm in the middle of the third book and so far we have an epic battle against organized religion and two gay angels who are madly in love with each other. What's not to like? :D Apparently the series is very popular but I had no idea until now.

[XemaSab]

13. Seriously... I LOVE those books...

:bounce:

[Kutjara]

14. The "His Dark Materials" trilogy...

...to give it its proper name (The Golden Compass, The Amber Spyglass and The Subtle Knife) is brilliant. So much deeper and more satisfying than Harry Potter, with much more detailed characters, a more coherent and complex storyline and real philosophical depth. This should be read by people of all ages.

Read it now before the film gets made and fowls-up your mental landscape with its images.

[Fleshdancer]

21. exactly. I just found out who's playing Ms. Coulter in the movie:

Nicole Kidman. I'm still undecided about that decision.

[LostinVA]

8. "Bowerman and the Men of Eugene"

VERY good bio of Bill Bowerman and the UO running dynasty... written by an Olympian and ex-runner of Bowerman's -- as well as a contemporary of Steve Prefontaine's.

[trackfan]

10. The Diaries of Victor Klemperer

Quintilian: The Lesser Declamations
Commentaries of Pius II
Planet of the Umps
Thieves in High Places

[RubyDuby in GA]

11. My hubby got Lewis Black's latest and the latest by Barbara Ehrenreich

Bait and Switch : The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream

And I got - :woohoo:

Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her by Melanie Rehak


It is awesome!

[hippywife]

15. Helen of Troy

by Margaret George. 611 pages - read it in 3 days. Then read Ken Follett's A Place Called Freedom. A little trashy romp. Waiting for At Play in the Fields of the Lord from the library right now.

[cobalt1999]

16. A few...

The Omnivores Dilemma
Freakanomics
Fermat's Last Theorem
Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and how it transformed our world
The God Delusion

all well written and very entertaining.

[Kutjara]

17. "Perdido Street Station" by China Mieville.

A wonderfully dark novel in the vein of M. John Harrison (Viriconium) and Mervyn Peake (Titus Groan). Mieville creates a very real and believable world, populated with aberrations, horrors and wonders that, somehow cut to the heart of the human condition. Some reviewers have labeled it a 'steampunk' novel, but it's much much more than that.

[rug]

18. I think Retrolounge picked up some books recently.

[WCGreen]

19. Right now I am reading the Jane Austin Book Club...

I just finished 100 Years of Solitude

[ChoralScholar]

20. I am the junk-food addict of readers.

I read plenty of substantive material in my professional life.... so when I read, I read:

The Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need - Dave Barry
CoupleHood - Paul Reiser
New Rules - Bill Maher
When will Jesus Bring the Porkchops? - George Carlin
Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Series

[JitterbugPerfume]

22. I hit a mother lode at a used bookstore

Hiroshima--John Hershey

Collected Stories--Issac B Singer

Talking to Myself--Studs Terkel

Tess of the D'Ubervilles--Thomas Hardy

Collected Stories--- Franz Kafka

[terrya]

23. I'm reading Mark Haddon's new novel "A Spot of Bother"

A superb read so far.