What Are You Reading?

[Parche]

Me......





:woohoo: :woohoo::woohoo: :hi:

[NightWatcher]

1. me, to be closely followed by the sequel

then

[tanngrisnir3]

2. The immortal Mr. Zelazny, and the compendium of the.....

Chronicles of Amber.

Of course, nothing can top "Lords of Light"

[leftyclimber]

41. Lords of Light is PHENOMENAL.

It knocked my on my ass when I read it. I keep checking the local bookstores for a copy (I'd borrowed it from a friend) so I can read it again and have had no luck finding it. I guess the next time I go textbook shopping online I'll have to try to remember to pick that up as well.

[tanngrisnir3]

48. It's about as differently imaginative a novel as I've read.

Not only well-written, but it's not often when voracious readers come across a novel, unexpected plot line.

[leftyclimber]

50. Definitely.

I didn't enjoy Creatures of Light and Darkness nearly as much, but Lords of Light is IMO one of the most brilliant books I have read in a long time.

[skygazer]

3. This - really good

[rrneck]

17. Very good indeed. nt

[EastTennesseeDem]

4. Cormac McCarthy's "The Road"

for about the sixth time. It melts my heart each time.

[applegrove]

24. I have that one on my nightstand. Haven't started it though. I'm going through a junky time

and reading alot of paperbacks. It seems a real novel will have to wait.

[datasuspect]

5. A People's History of Fuck by Ambrose Vandevier

[RetroLounge]

6. Apologizing to Dogs

by Joe Coomer

:hi:

RL

[femmocrat]

35. About what? Intriguing title!

Do you recommend it?

[RetroLounge]

42. Yes, and I recommend Joe Coomer

"The Loop" was real good also...

RL

[Sisaruus]

7. The Abstinence Teacher by Tom Perrotta and

The Canon: A whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science by Natalie Angier.

With approximately 2,000 other books stacked in the to-be-read pile on the bedside table.

[femmocrat]

8. "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle" and seed catalogs!

And dreaming of spring!

[Flaxbee]

27. I LOVED that book! Barbara Kingsolver is such

a wonderful writer (have you read her fiction?) and A,V,M was just fascinating.

:hi: Parche! :hug:

[femmocrat]

34. Not yet. This was my first Kingsolver book. But I am inspired to read more!

What do you recommend? :hi:

[Flaxbee]

54. Heavy fare: The Poisonwood Bible, an excellent

story told by sisters who lived through some very tumultuous times in Africa after their rather crazy evangelical father uprooted the family from Georgia (I think) to "convert all the heathens" ... Beautifully told, very interesting, but a long, detailed book. Loved it. But the last time I really cried while reading a book was when I read The Poisonwood Bible.

The Bean Trees and Pigs in Heaven go together and are very good, lighter fare (though some serious social issues are dealt with). Kingsolver has a way of making you laugh even when dealing with serious issues, and I never, ever feel like I'm being preached to.

I *really* liked Prodigal Summer, and Animal Dreams was good, too.

She's just an incredible writer. I'd start with one of the shorter ones (my first introduction to her was The Bean Trees) and if you like her style, read a few more and then move to The Poisonwood Bible.

[madinmaryland]

9. Uhh. DU?? Well. I actually do read DU!!

[kentauros]

10. I'm reading some old pages on the Internet Archive

about the "Seven Waves of Children".

[auntAgonist]

11. The Death of Innocents by Sister Helen Prejean

[petronius]

12. "The Year's Best Science Fiction, 25th Annual Collection"

And yes, I've read the other 24 - just not all in one day...

[pipi_k]

13. "Tender Is The Night"

F. Scott Fitzgerald.

I got it cheap at the local Goodwill store

:)

[Ikonoklast]

14. An American fable.

[yellowdogintexas]

15. just finished this one

http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/031228795X/ref=sib_dp_pop_fc/177-5803243-6177508?ie=UTF8&p=S001#reader-link


now about to start this one
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/0452289076/sr=1-11/qid=1235350368/ref=dp_image_0?ie=UTF8&n=283155&s=books&qid=1235350368&sr=1-11

[DarkTirade]

16. Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchett

[MedleyMisty]

46. Pratchett is a genius

The top two shelves of one of my bookcases is just my Terry Pratchett collection. And the more I read and learn, the more I realize just how much of a super genius he is and the more I appreciate (and perhaps, aspire to) the width and depth of his knowledge and insight. I would say that of any living author he's the one who most deserves to be assigned in school and to be in the classics section.

But god, the blurbs make me so mad because they're totally about the surface of the books. And even then, it's like the view of the surface of the books by a person in the shallow end of the gene pool. It's like "Lulz, this is slapstick and it made me laugh like someone getting a pie in the face, hurr." and it makes me weep for my species.

It's so sad that he's developing Alzheimer's.

[DarkTirade]

52. The man writes both brilliant satire and brilliant stories... together in one piece.

And he does it over and over and over again. I wish I could be half the genius he is. :)

[Jamastiene]

18. I finally found a paperback copy of Duma Key by Stephen King on sale.

I grabbed it. I'm reading it now. I have decided that due to my age, financial situation, and genuine laziness, that I will only buy paperbacks from now on. I'm getting too damn old to lug a hardback around. They cost too damn much and I like reading in bed, which is hard to do with a hardback.

So far, I like it. It doesn't seem as long as most Stephen King books though.

[no name no slogan]

19. Just starting this:

It's about the 1905 Thanksgiving storm on Lake Superior. 23 ships sank that night, including one that was only meters off the Duluth pier.

[BarenakedLady]

20. The Road, Cormac McCarthy

Pretty bleak so far. I just finished Ember City by Jeanne Duprau. I enjoyed that. I'm interested in reading the rest of that series.

[Inchworm]

22. OMG BNL!

:woohoo:

Hi!

:*

[Parche]

28. i just read band of brothers

in less then a day.......:woohoo: :hi: :hug:

[mainegreen]

21. 'The Secret Life of Dust' and 'American Buffalo'

[rrneck]

23. Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved

by Frans de Waal

[Sheltiemama]

25. "The Lovely Bones"

It's really not as depressing as it sounds.

[fishwax]

26. The Revolt of the Cockroach People

by Oscar Zeta Acosta ...

[MrSlayer]

29. "The Pirate King" by R.A. Salvatore.

Which is the latest Drizzt Do'Urden adventure. Outstanding series.

[TheCentepedeShoes]

30. Miss Fortune

by Sara Mills. Mystery set in 1947 NYC. Pleasant read
Also on the nightstand, Crunch by Jared Bernstein
Have some stuff coming from Amazon...just where is that brown truck anyway?

[Callalily]

31. Suite Française

by Irène Némirovsky. Excellent!

[abq e streeter]

32. A Freewheelin Time by Suze Rotolo, and just finished The Republican Noise Machine

by David Brock . Brock is a former rightwing insider who saw the light, and Suze Rotolo is the girl walking with Bob Dylan on the cover of his "Freewheelin" album ( his girlfriend in his early Village days).

[leeroysphitz]

33. A littlt self help.

[leftyclimber]

36. Justice, Nature, and the Geography of Distance by David Harvey

(continuing from last week), and Power/Knowledge (Foucault). Both for my dissertation. And a bunch of boring academic articles, too.

Right now I'm not reading anything. I am slacking off so hard that I'm watching Cats 101 on Animal Planet to avoid reading. :rofl:

[Fleshdancer]

37. Are You There Vodka, It's Me Chelsea

So far so good! :rofl:

[leftyclimber]

51. What? Is this a real book?

:rofl:

If it is, I may need to read it, based on the title alone. If not, well done. Win either way!

[Fleshdancer]

53. It's real! Written by Chelsea Handler

[Left Is Write]

38. The Romanov Prophecy by Steve Berry.

[libodem]

39. Great stuff everybody

I'm bookmarking this because what everyone else is reading looks so darn good. I'm still reading the Covenant, by Mitchener. Ask me again in a couple of months and I'll probably still be reading it. I've just finished a few Grisham books that went very quickly and the sequel to Pillars of the Earth which was not nearly as good as the original.

[leftyclimber]

40. The Covenant's a really long haul.

I really enjoyed The Drifters, which is one of Michener's short novels.

[Career Prole]

43. This'n...

[MedleyMisty]

44. Ivanhoe, by Sir Walter Scott

I started it and said to my husband "Hey, I think this is set in the same era as Robin Hood." And then Robin Hood shows up, lol.

It inspired me to download a ton of medieval content for my Sims 2 game and take another stab at the royal kingdom challenge.

[leftyclimber]

45. I need to have another whack at that.

I tried to read it when I was 12 or 13, but I just wasn't ready for it (thought the first few paragraphs were dense and boring, and that was the end of that). Now that I'm (omitted) years older, I think I'd find Ivanhoe a good read.

[Canuckistanian]

47. Book of Lists II

I don't know why.

[falcon97]

49. DU n/t

[nomorenomore08]

55. 'The Used World' by Haven Kimmel

[Are_grits_groceries]

60. I love Haven Kimmel.

"A Girl Named Zippy" was hilarious.

[nomorenomore08]

61. Yeah, I guess this one is more "tragicomic" than straight-up comedic.

And her latest, 'Iodine,' is *extremely* dark. But on the other hand it's probably the best new book I've read in years.

[ghostsofgiants]

56. I just re-read Chomsky's "Hegemony or Survival"

Now I'm trying to think of what to read next. In the meantime, lots of Znet and Rabble.ca and Dollars and Sense Magazine.

[huskerlaw]

57. The Cloudy Patriot ~ Sarah Vowell

Next up: Fade ~ Lisa McMann (a DUer!)

[Lethe]

58. Just started The Long Goodbye

from Chandler

[SidneyCarton]

59. The collected works of Robert E. Howard

It's kinda interesting, seeing some the roots of modern Sci-Fi Fantasy. That said, his work is a little disturbing, not in its content, which is standard pulp fare, but the vicious racial stereotypes which were disgustingly common in the pulp writings of the late 20's and early 30's. Seriously, the descriptions of Africans and African-Americans which Howard uses could only get published in a rag cranked out by the Klan.

[PassingFair]

62. Just finished "The Crash of 29" by Galbraith

Also slogging through (still) "The Shock Doctrine"

and just started "The Poisonwood Bible".

[Eyerish]

63. "Castaways" by Brian Keene...

Not as heavy as most of the stuff here, but the next one on my list is "Lies my Teacher told me" by James Loewen.

Edit: to fix spelling

[bikebloke]

64. Lost Paradise by Kathy Marks

Lost Paradise : from Mutiny on the Bounty to a modern-day legacy of sexual mayhem : the dark secrets

[Sequoia]

65. Team of Rivals

The paperback is heavy to carry around.