What books are you reading this summer?

[pstans]

School is out and I hope to do a lot of reading this summer. First on my list is Thom Hartmann's Screwed and I'd like to finish Thoreau's Walden (I have started it 3 times, but never finished it).

Any other recommendations? What books are you planning on reading this summer?

[marmar]

1. "The Assault on Reason" by a certain Mr. Gore, "No Logo" by Naomi Klein.....

"The Italian Letter" (I forget the authors' names, but it's about the BS letter that led to the bogus Niger uranium claims), and "The Ecology of Commerce."

[graywarrior]

2. Everything by Greg Isles and Stephen King's new book Lisey's Story

[flamingyouth]

3. "The Cigarette Century," by Allan M. Brandt

Interesting.

[Rydz777]

"a farsighted and powerful manifesto for clear thinking"

You guessed it. That's how one critic described "The Assault on Reason" by Al Gore.

[Rydz777]

"a farsighted and powerful manifesto for clear thinking"

You guessed it. That's how one critic described "The Assault on Reason" by Al Gore.

[Rydz777]

4. "a farsighted and powerful manifesto for clear thinking"

You guessed it. That's how one critic described "The Assault on Reason" by Al Gore.

[Rydz777]

5. Sorry for the triple post, Not intentional.

[Mind_your_head]

6. The Assault on Reason

and "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho.... no special reason - just b/c it would be fun (and I can suggest something to read to my smartneck kids mebbe ;-) )

[Viva_La_Revolution]

7. so far...

Assault on Reason
Conservatives Without Conscience (finally!)
It Can Happen Here
Collapse
and for fun...
Brave New World
Map of Bones

That will get me through June anyway...

[Bjornsdotter]

10. "Conservatives Without Conscience"

...was great, I think you'll enjoy it.

Cheers

[Viva_La_Revolution]

13. $5 at Amazon!

:woohoo:

[PDJane]

15. Um..........

"Assault on Reason" by Gore
"Holding the Bully's Coat" by Linda McQuaig
"Heat" by Monbiot.
Cherry's latest Foreigner book, "Deliverer"
"I, Richard," "Playing for the Ashes," and "A Place of Hiding," by Elizabeth George.
"Smoke and Mirrors" and "Smoke and Ashes" by Tanya Huff
"Web Of Deceit: The History Of Western Complicity In Iraq, From Churchill To Kennedy To George W. Bush" by Barry Lando
"The Washington Diaries" by Alan Gottleib
"They Thought They Were Free" by Milton Mayer
"The Mess They Made: The Middle East After Iraq" by Gwynne Dyer.
"Lawless World" by Phillipe Sands
"A People's History of the United States: 1492 to the Present" by Howard Zinn
"Ultimate Punishment" by Scott Turow
"NATO's Secret Army; Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe" by DANIELE
"Heros" by John Pilger

That should cover June.

(please remember that I don't own a television set!!!)

[Bjornsdotter]

8. "The Assault on Reason" by Al Gore

....I'm only on chapter 3 but so far it's been great.

I'm not sure what I'll read next.

Cheers

[MountainLaurel]

9. the updated edition of Armed Madhouse

Plus a few fic classics my spouse has been on my ass about reading.

[reichstag911]

11. It's not yet summer, but...

The Assault on Reason (hardly the only one here, I see), "Big" Al Gore
The Yiddish Policemen's Union, Michael Chabon
The Castle in the Forest, Norman Mailer
Darkly Dreaming Dexter, Jeff Lindsay
Dearly Devoted Dexter, Lindsay again
The Portrait, Iain Pears
Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone, Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Rant, Chuck Palahniuk

and more to come, no doubt

[Mind_your_head]

14. Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone, Rajiv Chandrasekaran

I've been tempted to buy this one many, many times.....but I'm afraid it will end up making me waaaay too angry, so I've refrained thus far.

It sounds like a good read though, for sure!

[EVDebs]

12. Hey, I got Screwed not long ago ! but seriously folks

I finished Perfectly Legal by David Cay Johnston

and am starting The Great Risk Shift by Jacob Hacker, and also

Debunking the 9-11 Debunkers by David Ray Griffin.

Also, Love Me, Hate Me about Barry Bonds by Jeff Pearlman.

[Jim__]

16. "I am a Strange Loop" - Douglas Hofstader

Assault on Reason - Al Gore
The Motion Paradox - Joseph Mazur
Americana - Don DeLillo - I'm thinking of reading through all of DeLillo's books.

[LSK]

17. a ton - Armed Madhouse, Assault on Reason ,Fiasco,

and John Kerry's This Moment on Earth are on the short list.

[jellybeancurse]

18. The Ancestor's Tale

by Richard Dawkins

[ChazII]

19. Who Becomes a Terrorist & Why: The 1999 gov't Report on Profiling Terrorists

Quite interesting. Predicts terrorists using planes to hit the Pentagon, buildings in Manhattan as well as Congress. Pres. Clinton is also a target.

It is by Rex Hudson and the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress. I have only completed the first 20 pages/

[pscot]

20. I'm reading the Illiad right now

Hard to believe I'm just getting around to it. The plays of Aeschylus are next. Then I have the fourth volume of Flexner's biography of George Washington. I'm looking for suggestions for Detective fiction to fill the gaps with. I can't tell you how much I miss John D. MacDonald.

[Reverend_Smitty]

27. I've had a gold leaf leather bound copy of the Iliad and the Odyssey...

sitting on my shelf for about 7 years. I read The Odyssey in high school but have never managed to get around to The Iliad, but it's definitely on my list

[Iris]

21. "Sleeping Where I Fall" by Peter Coyote.

Picked it up at the library after seeing a Summer of Love program on PBS.

[Odin2005]

22. My summer reading list:

Endless Universe: Beyond the Big Bang by Paul Steinhardt
Out of Thin Air: Dinosaurs, Birds, And Earth's Ancient Atmosphere by Peter Ward
The Fall of the Roman Empire by P. J. Heather
The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization by Brian Fagan
Among Empires: American Ascendancy and Its Predecessors by Charles S. Maier
Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate by William Ruddiman
Designer Evolution: A Transhumanist Manifesto by Simon Young

[Adsos Letter]

23. well, here is what's on tap so far...

"Angry Saints" by George Knight
"From 1888 to Apostasy" by George Knight
"The Assault on Reason" by Al Gore
"The Bible" by various Authors
"American Originals" by Conkin

:D

[terrya]

24. "Fun Home" by Alison Bechdel

This book is magnificent. Period.

Highest recommendation. It's now in softcover.

[MedleyMisty]

25. A lot

I bought The Nature of Prejudice last night. I also have Gore's Assault on Reason, Noam Chomsky's Failed States, Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States, various collections of Bertrand Russell essays, finishing the Tao of Physics, Alienable Rights: The Exlusions of African Americans in a White Man's Land, To Be a Slave, Black Like Me, The Fabric of the Cosmos, Twisted Passages, The Best Buddhist Writing 2006, The Closing Circle: Nature, Man & Technology, and rereading Elie Wiesel's Night.

Because I'm also addicted to net forums and Lord of the Rings Online, this may take a few months.

[Reverend_Smitty]

26. I just started reading Assault on Reason today

I've read "End of Faith" by Sam Harris and "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72" by Hunter S. Thompson in the past month. Both were great reads

Some books that I have on tap for the summer are "Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon" by Daniel Dennett, "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins, "I'm a Stranger Here Myself" by Bill Bryson (just to lighten things up a bit) and I just picked up a copy of "The Zinn Reader" by Howard Zinn

[RJRoss]

28. My short list

Just finishing up "The Assault on Reason", got sidetracked by yesterday's arrival of "Deer Hunting with Jesus" by Joe Bageant (subtitled "Dispatches from America's Class War"). Plowed through about half of it last night, quite an entertaining read about why the "working class rednecks" (Bageant's words) vote against their own self-interest.

On the shelf:

Woodward's "State of Denial"
Hedges' "American Fascists"
Chomsky's "Hegemony or Survival"
that guy whose name I can't spell's "Imperial Life in the Emerald City"
Halberstam's "War in a Time of Peace"

[BlueDissenter]

29. My never ending list

At the moment I'm finishing "The Infernal Machine: A History of Terrorism" by Matthew Carr. Up next is "101 People Who Are Really Screwing America" by Jack Huberman. After that it's a toss up between "No Regrets" by Ann Rule and "Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq" by Stephen Kinzer.

[wordsaladwithranch]

30. The Truth- AL Franken

also, Why People Believe Weird Things- by Michael Shermer (for about the 20th time) and Winkie (I can't remember the author).

[Lindsey]

31. I'm getting "Assault on Reason" this weekend. N/T