What books are you planning to read

[spindrifter]

in '06? Little Spinnie screwed up and deleted the earlier post. Anyway, the 'drifter has so many books in mind, where to start?

[IndyOp]

1. "Fooled Again: How the right stole election 2004 and will steal the next

elections, unless we stop them" by Mark Crispin Miller

Mike Malloy interviewed him on Thursday (on the Randi Rhodes show) and Mike repeated about 10 times - *read* *this* *book*.

:bounce:

[azmouse]

13. I read that a few weeks ago

and I can't get it out of my mind. I wish I knew how to get
every RWer to read it.... but sadly most of them can't read.

[Onceuponalife]

21. Right now I'm reading "Republican Like Me"

by "infiltration journalist" Harmon Leon. He infiltrates various groups on the loony right wing and tells us what goes on. Hilarity ensues.

I'm also reading "Shadow of the Lion" by Mercedes Lackey, Eric Flint and Dave Freer. Astoundingly good read. And epic length at over 900 pages. Next up will be "The Sky So Big and Black" by John Barnes. Fantasy and sci fi rock my world.

[jobycom]

2. Aside from Chevalier's "Fallen Angels," most of the books on my list are

retro. I've gotten into a Raymond Chandler kick lately, and I've started in on Ian Flemming, as well. Not sure why. I've never been one for thrillers or mysteries, until this recent spree.

I do plan to catch up on some short stories, with a few "Best Of" anthologies.

[Geoff R. Casavant]

3. I got a mess of books for the holidays

A biography of Admiral Nelson, two "Rumpole of the Bailey" books, and an annotated Sherlock Holmes volume.

On edit -- I've already got my pipe and a bottle of rum handy.

[punpirate]

4. As for fiction...

... I've just picked up Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Memories of My Melancholy Whores, and, feeling my education deficient for having never read anything but excerpts of Proust, just got the entirety of Remembrance of Things Past. That will likely keep me busy for a while. :)

[acmejack]

5. Mark Twain's "Weapons of Satire".

"Anti-Imperialist Writings on the Philippine-American War", it was really difficult to obtain. I have a lot more, but that is the one I am looking forward to.

[wavesofeuphoria]

6. Our Endangered Values ...

Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis by Jimmy Carter
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Carrie's Story by Molly Weatherfield B-)

[NJCher]

7. oops

Mine were nonfiction. Didn't notice this was the fiction forum.


Cher

[Bosso 63]

8. Reading?

Hello? Reading books is like soooo 20th century. For the spring season book BURNING will be the fashion. Oh yea, and earth tones. Stock up now on brown shirts before prices go up.




"Outside of a dog, a book is mans best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."
G. Marx

[morningglory]

9. Bukowski Never Did This, by Jack Saunders n/t

[niallmac]

10. Some DUer suggested a cover to cover read of 'The Rise and Fall

of the Third Reich' would be timely. I am well into the book and it is amazing in it's detail. I am sure that when I finish I will be much better informed about then and now.

[Psephos]

11. Magical Thinking by Augusten Burroughs

Also, The Wonder Spot by Melissa Bank, and The Civil War: A Narrative, by Shelby Foote.

And about a hundred others.... :-)

Peace

[Goblinmonger]

12. Master and Margarite

After that, I don't know.

[Psephos]

19. fabulous choice

Mirra Ginsburg's is the best translation for capturing the vivacity and playfulness of the original, IMO.

Peace.

[azmouse]

14. Everyone should read...

"The Plot Against America" by Philip Roth.
Simply put, it's amazingly accurate to what we see happening in this
country today. And for that reason, it's amazingly scary!

[bammertheblue]

15. For classes:

Dante's Inferno, Paradiso, and Purgatorio.
The Jew of Malta
Borges fiction in general
Dante's Vita Nuova
Sophocles' Oedipus Cycle
and many many MANY more

for fun:
The Satanic Verses
anything new Stephen King comes out with, and
perhaps a Robin Cook med thriller.

[Democrats_win]

16. Neoconomy: George Bush's Revolutionary Gamble with America's Future

by Daniel Altman

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00076F09I/ref=pd_bbs_null_1/102-4366367-3496917?v=glance&n=283155

--snip from Amazon
The book "examines the driving forces of the "neoconomy" with clarity, force and a sense of mission. According to Altman, Bush’s tax cuts, which were billed as a quick fix to overcome recession, serve goals driven by so-called neoconservatives: eliminating taxes on inherited wealth, investments and corporations. Altman offers a critical blow-by-blow of the hows and seeming whys of these "revolutionary" cuts as they unfolded in 2001 and 2002. Anyone with or without a job knows that the cuts ushered in an economic world full of "uncertainty." The main value of this book is its analysis of the rhetorical mechanics by which the cuts happened, the players in the process and the parts of government (and industry) they represent. While he tries not to take sides, Altman warns that, aside from any short term economic improvement, there are certain to be "Casualties of the Revolution." With careful and clear number crunching, a modulated and inviting tone and a judicious presentation of historical precedent, Altman gives the lay of the post-revolutionary land."

[Mz Pip]

17. Reading 'Wicked"

right now.

My son bought me "Eureka Street" a novel about Ireland and a friend got me "Villages" by Updike. I have "A Soldier of the Great War" by Mark Halprin and a whole pile of mysteries for stress relief.

Mz Pip
:dem:

Happy New Year from the edge of the western world.

[spindrifter]

18. What a fantastic picture!

Seems like that would be relaxation!

[MaineDem]

44. I wondered if "Horrors" was from that book

:)

I enjoyed "Wicked". The sequel "Son of a Witch" is entertaining, too. I "read" them both on audio books.

[bikebloke]

20. On my library reserve list

The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
Fooled Again by Mark Crispin Miller
Voltaire Almighty by Roger Pearson
And They All Sang by Studs Terkel
The Western Limit of the World by David Maisel
The Pale Hosreman by Bernard Cornwell.

[terryg11]

22. stuff I've had and not gotten around to reading in a while

Watership down, the final dark tower book, The Poisonwood Bible, Scott Card's Alvin the Maker series among others

[RebelOne]

23. Dean Koontz' latest "Forever Odd."

It's the sequel to "Odd Thomas."

[peacefreak]

24. A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore.

I have an advance copy in my hot little hands. The rest of the world gets it in April.

[Bridget Burke]

25. Here are a few....

"Locked Rooms"--the latest Mary Russell novel by Laurie R King--comes out in paperback this March. Mary Russell is, of course, the young woman who married Sherlock Holmes after he "retired" to keep bees. They've had some quite extraordinary adventures so far.

"The Blood Knight: Book Three of The Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone" will be released this July. I'll probably spring for the hardback version--although I'm angry that Greg Keyes was so tardy in getting this installment to print. Fine original fantasy (or perhaps science fiction) & NOT a 3rd rate Tolkien ripoff!

Kim Newman's "Judgment of Tears: Anno Dracula 1959" is on its way. "Anno Dracula" & "The Bloody Red Baron" preceded it. The series is an original take on vampires--with cameo appearances by historical & literary characters.

Also on the way, an essay collection titled "Finding Serenity: Anti-Heroes, Lost Shepherds & Space Hookers in Joss Whedon's Firefly." Need I explain?

--Plus whatever looks good at Half Price Books.

[yellowdogintexas]

26. The Red Tent, a couple of Carole Nelson Douglas's Midnight Louie

books, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, currently on my to read shelf

[terrya]

27. "Middlemarch" by George Eliot

Next on my list.

[JitterbugPerfume]

28. truth is my choices are

usually serendipidous




did I spell that right?

[CAcyclist]

47. serendipitous nt

[Dulcinea]

29. "Case Histories" by Kate Atkinson.

I just started it & am enjoying it immensely.

Also "Twilight" by Katherine Mosby and the next one in the Sue Grafton alphabet series.

[dalaigh lllama]

30. Ah, if only Rex Stout were still alive.

Lately I've felt in dire need of some comfort reading, so I'm re-reading "The Doorbell Rang" by Rex Stout (1965). It's the one where Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin are hired by a woman who is being harassed by the FBI for mailing 10,000 copies of a book exposing the FBI to everyone she knows (needless to say, she's well-to-do). Their job -- to "make them (the FBI) stop." Needless to say, they do.
I'd love to see Wolfe and Archie take on THIS bunch...

[LWolf]

31. I don't have a plan.

:shrug:

I have to get through a lot of professional reading; outside of that, whatever I run across that catches my interest.

[NMMNG]

32. I don't have a set plan

I just finished reading "1984" for at least the 10th time. Now I'm reading "Ethan Frome" yet again. Then I'll re-read "The Handmaid's Tale". I'm also listening to "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" on CD. After that I'll just go to the library and peruse the classics until I find something else of interest.

[flamingyouth]

33. Just started "Madison House," by Peter Donahue

For a little early Seattle history, circa the Denny Regrade era...

http://www.hawthornebooks.com/catalogue/excerpt/13/

[Democrats_win]

34. ***So how did everyone do?****Since last Jan/Feb

I finished mine.

[yellowdogintexas]

35. I finished mine. All were wonderful fun. I acquired a bunch of

cheap paperbacks from my church's garage sale, currently reading a series on pre WWII Nazi Germany by an author named Bodie Thoene. Very good books, and would be wonderful reading for an advanced youth reader. Excellent telling of the evil that was Hitler and his minions. I am in book 4, now have to hunt down the rest of the series. The characters are awesome.

after that, who knows?

[terrya]

36. "Middlemarch" is...still sitting on the shelf. Haven't started it.

I'm now reading "A Rage to Live" by John O'Hara. It's a pretty good read...it's a multi-generational look at a family in Pennsylvania in the years right before Worl War I. It does give a good sense of time and place...a snapshot of America at that time.

I'll get to "Middlemarch" sometime. Promise. :-)

[GymDude]

37. lots of Donald Harington, 100 Years of Solitude, Alex. Quartet

[Killarney]

38. Harlan Coben "Promise Me" Stephen King "Lisey's Story"

[MemphisTiger]

39. Dan Brown - Angels and Demons

and

Sideways - I can't remember the author off the top of my head.

[skyblue]

40. DaVinci Code was excellent more Dan Brown, and some wierd

stuff i will probably read by Haruki Murakami. I like that kind of "surrealistic" fiction. I went to many library book sales so I have all sorts of books which i need to finish because they take up so much space. But I will certainly read more Dan Brown as the DaVinci Code rocked my world as did the movie. I also like Amy Tan and I'd like to read Steven King's Bag of Bones. But I doubt I'll get to much of that.

[senaca]

41. 1906 A Novel by James Dalessandro

Has anyone else read it? It's about the political corruption of the times interwoven with the earthquake and subsequent burning of San Francisco. I'm looking forward reading it.

[Mz Pip]

42. I have a huge stack of books

A Soldier of the Great War
The Kite Runner
American Theocracy (non fiction)
The Stones of Summer
The Bear Comes Home

That should keep me busy until Thanksgiving.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[aaronbees]

43. Cormac McCarthy....

"All the Pretty Horses" ... just started it and love it ... takes some attention but there's gorgeous use of language. I'm a sucker for that kind of thing.

[MaineDem]

45. Janet Evanovich's "Twelve Sharp"

This next Stephanie Plum novel is being released on June 20. I can't wait!

[redqueen]

46. I re-read Slaughterhouse Five (love that book)

only took me a morning but I love it so!

Read some new King...

Tried to read Focault's Pendulum, abandoned that.

Now reading Lolita.

Next will be Mason & Dixon.

Other books on my list are:

The Disciplined Mind
Home Land
Confederacy of Dunces
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Solipsist

many others on my list that I forget just now...

[elehhhhna]

48. All of Didion.