What are you reading now?

[superconnected]

I'm finishing Oliver Twist. I started it for a Chrismas novel to read.

[Fed_Up_Grammy]

1. Your post.

[superconnected]

2. You really need to read something better.

[babylonsister]

3. 'Third Degree' by Greg Iles~

:scared:

[pansypoo53219]

4. 'they said we wouldn't fight'

by floyd gibbons. WWI embedded reporter. and still working on the 1891 encyclopedia britannica set.

[Superargo]

5. "The Road"

by Cormac MaCarthy and "Motherless Brooklyn" by Jonathan Lethem. "The Road" is wonderful, but so bleak, I have to put it down from time to time.

[Orrex]

9. Hey, welcome to DU!

The Road is an extraordinary book.

[Staph]

6. With Masterpiece featuring the works of Jane Austen,

I've decided to reread her novels. I've just finished Persuasion, and started Northanger Abbey. (BTW, Masterpiece is what PBS calls the Show Formerly Known as Masterpiece Theater. Don't know why they dropped the Theater. It's not like they were showing filmed plays before this season!)

[bbinacan]

7. Just got "Texas" by

James Michener. I've heard it's good and plan to start reading it this weekend.

[fadedrose]

8. KILLER WAVES by Brendan DuBois

THere are several books about Lewis Cole, former DOD analyst. Takes place in NH.

Already read SHATTERED SHELL by DuBois. It's pretty good.

Started on Detective Jack Daniels mysteries, but am waiting for the 2nd book to be available at the library. Read WHISKEY SOUR last week and liked it.

Was at Kroger's and saw THE EXILE on sale, Allen--forgot his last name. Anybody read?

[raccoon]

69. Have you read RESURRECTION DAY, also by Dubois? An alternate history book about if

the Cuban missile crisis ended in nuclear war.

[bikebloke]

10. The Risk of Infidelity Index by Christoper G. Moore

Not to be confused with Christopher Moore of Blood Sucking Fiends et al.

[BOSSHOG]

11. Halsey's Typhoon

A harrowing story about how weather kicked ADM Halsey's butt near the Phillipines in December 1944.

[TheCentepedeShoes]

12. I just finished The Ghost

by Robert Harris who wrote Fatherland (which I've read) and Imperium (which I haven't read). It's about a guy helping an ex British PM, who is under indictment by the Hague for war crimes (abetting torture), with his memoirs.
I thought it was very good.

[MaineDem]

13. It's what I'm reading now

"Reading" it on audibook.

[TheCentepedeShoes]

33. You must be finshed by now

What did you think?

[MaineDem]

34. I'm missing disk 6

:mad:

I have to go back to the library and get it.

[YankeyMCC]

14. Endymion by Dan Simmons

the 3rd book in his "Hyperion Cantos"

An excellent compelling story.

[Dr. Strange]

30. Oh yeah.

:thumbsup:

Supposedly a movie is in the works too.

[YankeyMCC]

31. That's pretty exciting...

All throughout the series I've been thinking of the excellent potential this story has for a good movie. But of course it depends on who and how it is done. Do you have any references?

[Dr. Strange]

32. From the author's website:

http://www.dansimmons.com/news/movies.htm

It sounds like it might be a while. Apparently the ILIUM-OLYMPOS saga has been optioned too, so those might become a movie. (I haven't read them, but my BIL says they're good.)

[terrya]

15. I just finished "Hotel De Dream" by Edmund White.

Marvelous novel about the last days of Stephen Crane...and Crane's novel of a same-sex relationship between a "painted boy" (a young gay man) and a married man in New York in the late 19th century.

[saltpoint]

18. I haven't heard of this book. White is from Cincinnati/Chicago, isn't he?

Is the Crane novel a real book or a fictional title for White's own novel?

[saltpoint]

19. (misplaced topic...sorry)

[Mz Pip]

16. Spook Country

by Gibson. I heard an interview with him when the book first came out and it sounded interesting. I'm about half way through and hope it starts to go somewhere real soon.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[fadedrose]

17. what's it about?

spook like ghost, or spook like spy?

[Mz Pip]

22. Spook as in spy

The best that I can figure out is there is a shipping container that was placed on a ship in Iran then the container disappeared. A bunch of different people are trying to locate it even though no one seems to know what's in it. THe characters are very rich guy, a former punk rock band member, a drug addict who speaks some obscure Russian dialect, a virtual reality artist who doesn't sleep in the same place twice and a couple of other people who people who slink in and out of people's apartments. :shrug:

I'd read "Mona Lisa Overdrive" a few years ago by the same author. It was sort of a weird not too distant futuristic novel - sort of a Bladerunner in cyberspace kind of feel to it.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[saltpoint]

20. 'am enjoying CREATION by Gore Vidal.

A word of advice to us all: if you're ever asked to debate Vidal on History, run for your life the other direction. He's REALLY good.

[Clintonista2]

21. "The Etruscan" by Mika Waltari

[JitterbugPerfume]

23. I'm reading

The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins

cool book

[freesqueeze]

24. White Teeth - Zadie Smith

So far (100 pages in) ... pure greatness.

[terrya]

25. "The Senator's Wife" by Sue Miller

Excellent novel so far.

[TheCentepedeShoes]

26. Results of today's trip to the library

Blasphemy by Douglas Preston (supercollider meets fundie preacher)
The Loch by Steve Alten (scary Nessie)
Enigma by Robert Harris (WWII code breaking)

[silverweb]

78. Just finished "Blasphemy."

It has jumped to very near the top of my list of all-time favorites that I will insist on owning in hard cover. A wonderful book!

[flamingyouth]

27. "My Sister's Keeper" by Jodi Picoult.

It's the first book I've read by her and so far I really like it.

[Tesha]

28. Barbara Kingsolver's "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle"

I keep wondering what I would do without coffee.... chocolate.... anything fresh in January... This book MUST be fiction.

Even I know :donut: donuts don't grow in NH!

[hippywife]

67. My favorite book of the year!

Followed by The Omnivore's Dilemma as a very, very close second. :hi:

[superconnected]

29. I never read a tree grows in brooklyn or saw the movie

so now I've just started it. I Don't know what it's about.

[yellowdogintexas]

49. I loved that book, I think I read it in tenth grade, or therabouts. very very good nt

[LWolf]

55. I read and re-read that book as an adolescent.

I really related to Francie.

[superconnected]

61. Loved a tree grows in Brooklyn! I didn't realize it had a theme so involved with

poverty. I adored Francies family.

I'm reading Charlotte Bronte's Villette now. I read Jane Eyre, and Wuthering Heights, back in the 90's. This is good, but doesn't come close to those two.

[eleny]

35. I'm working my way through Nancy Atherton's Aunt Dimity Series

[benld74]

36. Playing for Pizza- Grisham

Funny, quick read

[goddess40]

37. Can't Wait to Get to Heaven by Fannie Flagg

I'm not to far into it but I'm enjoying it so far. I don't do fiction too often so it's a nice change of pace.

[RetroLounge]

38. Children's Hospital by Chris Adrian

Fascinating so far...

RL

[Tindalos]

39. The Decameron

by Giovanni Boccaccio. It's a lot raunchier than I expected. :blush:

[sueh]

40. Charles Dickens "Martin Chuzzlewit" and Al Gore's "Assault On Reason"

[pscot]

41. 1491 America before you-know-who

This one has really got me to thinking about some wholly new ideas.

[terrya]

42. I'm now reading "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers.

Superb novel.

[LWolf]

56. Is it as devastingly sad as the movie?

I've always been afraid to pick up the book.

[fadedrose]

43. Just finished BLUE HEAVEN (Box) and almost done with TURNING ANGEL (Iles)

Both very good

[jannyk]

44. True Evil - Greg Iles

It's the third book of his I've read in the last 4 weeks - will finish it this weekend - then......?

[fadedrose]

45. Picked it up at the library

Haven't started it yet - 2 week limit on it cause it's new.

Any good?

[jannyk]

47. Yes - very good! nt

[fadedrose]

46. Oops, 3rd DEGREE (Iles) newest

I didn't read it yet, but also picked up 3rd DEGREE by Iles. TRUE EVIL is not his newest, 3rd DEGREE is his newest. I picked up both of them yesterday. Am stil on Harlan Coben's ONE FALSE MOVE.

[yellowdogintexas]

48. "The Dante Club" a period piece set in the Harvard University community

involving a group of well known literary figures who are translating Dante's Divine Comedy and get involved in solving a series of murders which appear to be derived from The Divine Comedy

It is very good

[Lydia Leftcoast]

51. Yes, thumbs up on that one

:thumbsup:

[Lydia Leftcoast]

50. I'm finishing The Yiddish Policeman's Union

an alternative history novel that posits that the Alaska Panhandle becomes the Jewish homeland.

Very well written, a unique premise, thoroughly imagined by the author of the Cavalier and Klay.

[yellowdogintexas]

73. that sounded like a good book, I will probably get it when it is in paperback nt

[Richardo]

52. I'm in the last 20 pages of 'Breakfast of Champions'

First Vonnegut I've read since 'Slaughterhouse 5' about 25 years ago. :blush:

[YankeyMCC]

53. Olympos

by Dan Simmons - Just finished this as part of his Ilium/Olympos duology. Very excellent read, great characters, great descriptive writing, I love the Iliad and Odyssey and Simmons pays great homage to these stories IMHO.

I'm torn between these books and his Hyperion Cantos as to which are my favorite of the two.

I've just picked up "Primary Inversion" by Catherine Asaro

[TheCentepedeShoes]

66. Have you read The Terror?

It's the only book of his I've read. I bought it and I don't usually purchase fiction books. It's loooong but very interesting.

[LWolf]

54. Stuff for work.

Juvenile fiction, young adult fiction for middle schoolers.

Just finished "The Schwa Was Here." It was really good.

Next up: re-reading a box full of old paperback classics just donated.

I don't put anything on my classroom library shelves without reading it. If it's been too long, I re-read it. It's hard to fit the student to the book without knowing the book.

[Forkboy]

57. Just started Crooked Little Vein by Warren Ellis

[vssmith]

58. Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler

I read Parable of the Sower recently also

[CaliforniaPeggy]

59. "Love in the Time of Cholera"

It's very strange, and vivid.

I've only read about 50 pages...

Not sure I like it, yet...

[Rowdyboy]

62. Its next on my list....currently halfway through "Pillars of the Earth" but I'm

looking firward to reading Allende.

[AngryOldDem]

74. I really didn't like it.

And I was disappointed that I didn't. I won't say any more in case you're still reading it. I'd be curious to know your thoughts when you finish.

[TheCentepedeShoes]

60. This weekend I read

The Abduction by Mark Gimenez and Capitol Conspiracy by William Bernhardt.

[Sugarcoated]

63. Naked in Death

by J.D. Robb &
still trying to finish A Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin

[MilesColtrane]

64. Just finished "No Country for Old Men"

Now reading Marcus Aurelius' "Meditations".

In the To Read pile: "Difficult Loves" -Italo Calvino, and "Tell Me a Riddle" -Tillie Olsen

[TheCentepedeShoes]

65. Got Shock Doctrine from

the library today. Hope my little 'ole brain can wrap itself around it. Also got The Bee's Kiss by Barbara Cleverly, a mystery writer I like.

[AngryOldDem]

68. Just finished "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" by Milan Kundera

Really thought-provoking. Now I'm in the middle of "Chocolat." An enjoyable read.

[superconnected]

71. Good taste!

I saw the movies and will be reading the novels.

[Sequoia]

70. "Layfaette", by Harlow G. Unger

I never knew how he acutally got here. In school history you just get that he came and was Washington's friend. He was a pretty rash guy, bought a boat and high-tailed it out of France; not even telling his wife and family good-bye. The French gov and father-in-law was mighty mad and was going after him. Every ship flying a French flag was stopped and searched. The people of Paris cheered him and thought of him as a hero though. Only 19 years old.

[bixente]

72. The Count of Monte Cristo

Almost finished. Absolutely loved it/loving it.

Next up, Jane Eyre.

[Lost-in-FL]

75. 1984

Just finished "A year in the merde" and a few non-fiction books.

[bluescribbler]

76. Just finished "A Million Little Pieces", by James Frey

Yeah, I know it's a fake autobiography, but the writing really is powerful.

[Zomby Woof]

77. "The Civil War: A Narrative" by Shelby Foote

'Volume 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville.'

One must read Foote with that whiskey-soaked-in-molasses Mississippi drawl of his in mind. A pure pleasure of a read.