What are you reading?

Post by **Huggybone** » Tue May 03, 2005 6:45 pm

My favorite easy reads
Lamb by Christopher Moore
Cayote Blue, by the same author
Anything by Ayn Rand (despite the extent I disagree with her, her fiction is great, save atlas shrugged)

Post by **Horatio Felacio** » Tue May 03, 2005 6:48 pm

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

nope, there's no book that i know of. i've got a good friend who worked with that guy, and i've met several other people.

Post by **marathonmedic** » Tue May 03, 2005 6:51 pm

1984 is a great book. I can't ever remember being drawn into the plight of someone as much as that one. It's also rather depressing, but still an excellent read.

The two I have open right now are Pathology and Calvin and Hobbes. They complement each other well.

I'd also highly recommend:

Don Quijote by Miguel de Cervantes
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russel
Battlefield Earth (a bit slow in the middle, but worth it in the end)

Post by **Horatio Felacio** » Tue May 03, 2005 6:53 pm

a really good book that i thought would really suck was the count of monte cristo.

Post by **Wes** » Tue May 03, 2005 6:57 pm

I read constantly. Not to many book lately, mostly magizines and on-line stuff. Newpapers, etc. I usually read a novel stright through if I am into it. Usually pop fiction or philosophy stuff. Not to into the "classics" as they just don't really grab my intrest and seem more like school work then recreational reading.

I was paddled in 2nd grade for always reading instead of doing math and other schoolwork...

Post by **haas** » Tue May 03, 2005 6:58 pm

meetVA wrote: Skinny Legs and All - Tim Robbins.

Not to be picky, but it's Tom, not Tim in case anyone searches for it. I also liked another book he wrote, Still Life with Woodpecker

Post by **kato** » Tue May 03, 2005 7:58 pm

Uncle Tungsten - Oliver Sachs
Pillars of the Earth - Follett
Walking the Bible - Feiler (and anything written by him)
What Just Happened - Gleick (and anything written by him)
More sci-fi than I can list (plowed through all of James White's books this winter)
....and I hesitate to mention this here, but every year around this time, I get the next volume in C.S.Forester's Horatio Hornblower series.

Waiting on H.H.George Martin's next and J.K.Rowling's next.

Post by **kafish2** » Tue May 03, 2005 7:59 pm

Huggy... in a poll of the CEOs of the fortune 500 hundred companies over most influential book first place was the Bible and a close second was atlas shrugged. I am not a fan of rand's thinking but I thought since you brought her up this would be a nice thing to note.

Currently reading: chronicles of narnia, and buddha by karen armstrong (was given a copy when she was a guest on my radio show)

Post by **Paul3eb** » Tue May 03, 2005 8:16 pm

recently 9ie: past two or three months)..

this side of paradise - f. scott fitzgerald
cannery row - steinbeck
the winter of our discontent - steinbeck (currently reading this one)
the essential rumi
traveling mercies - anne lammont (surprisingly good read)
cadillac desert - marc reisner
state of fear - michael crichton (this book kind of sucked.. a carbon copy of jurassic park and lost world.. read it only if you don't realize that people have biases and that science is no different)

i've read so many books lately.. they're all so great

Post by **squeezindlemmon** » Tue May 03, 2005 8:34 pm

Paul, both Jared and I immensely enjoyed Crichton's State of Fear. Other books I just finished recently, but are mediocre, are Angels and Demons and The Da Vinci Code (both by Dan Brown), and Honeymoon by James Patterson... The more interesting ones are God's Debris and The Religion War by Scott Adams (both quick reads - about 3 hours apiece). I fly a lot, so I always need something to read.