What are you reading?

Post by **squeezindlemmon** » Tue May 03, 2005 6:12 pm

Here's a part of my list, feel free to let me know if some of them are not worth reading:

1. 1984 by George Orwell
2. A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (I think there was a thread about this)
3. The Continuum Concept by Jean Liedloff
4. Zen & The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
5. An Encounter With A Prophet by C.A. Lewis
6. Not My Bowl of Rice by Escober
7. Dream Jungle by Jessica Hagedorn

Blue Like Jazz and The Secret Knowledge of Water are both in that list too... so is Richard Carlson's Don't Sweat The Small Stuff for lunchtime reading.

Post by **lordjim_2001** » Tue May 03, 2005 6:13 pm

Damn I just answered this in another forum this morning.

Raymond Chandler : Collected stories.

Post by **kentuckysarah** » Tue May 03, 2005 6:15 pm

Night Comes to the Cumberlands by Harry Caudill

I just read this for my history class and it was very good...had a lot of factual and interesting history about eastern Kentucky.

Post by **Horatio Felacio** » Tue May 03, 2005 6:19 pm

it's interesting to hear other peoples perspective (people that have helped work on his property) of eustace conway. quite different that the last great american man or whatever.

Post by **squeezindlemmon** » Tue May 03, 2005 6:20 pm

Where do I get that, Ho? Is there another book out there about it? I guess I can do a google search...........

Post by KD » Tue May 03, 2005 6:22 pm

liked "Zen and the Art of MM" a lot too. Latest reads were "Liars and the Lying liars that Tell Them" - Al franken. 'Stupid White Men" - Michael Moore. Have to read a lot of content stuff for my job - lot's of historical biography etc. - that doesn't count as really reading though.

Post by **Ascentionist** » Tue May 03, 2005 6:23 pm

At the moment:
Children of the Mind by Orson Scott Card
Hitchhiker's quintet (have read before many times) by Douglas Adams

Over the past few years have been working through the list of Hugo and Nebula winners. Have read a few and still want to read a few more. Probably won't read the entire list. But the best so far have been:

Dune
Rendezvous with Rama
Ender's Game
Ringworld (actually Ringworld Engineers is better)
Starship Troopers (one of my all time favorites)
Mars trilogy by KSR (sci-fi version of LOTR)

I've also read Into Thin Air recently because my half Italian father-in-law harassed me until I had an offer I couldn't refuse. I'm glad I did. Also read Into the Wild by Krakauer (reminded me too much of Steve Freas) and Ascent by Laurence Laumer which is about Willi Unsoeld.

Post by KD » Tue May 03, 2005 6:29 pm

had a freshman summer class one year that was all boys about 14 - 15 and had them read "Into the Wild." really good book and got them prepared for authors like London et al. They were problem and reluctant readers at best but really turned on to that one.

Post by **ReachHigh** » Tue May 03, 2005 6:31 pm

Ender's Game was great. I have purchased the rest of the series but have yet to start on them.

Post by **skychick** » Tue May 03, 2005 6:37 pm

My fav's:
One Hundred Years of Solitude -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Love in the Time of Cholera -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

(The first is a bit more fantastic & the second is a bit more romantic)