The official "What book are you reading?" thread....

[keine30]

Someday I will read the Dark Tower series since I have hears so much about it.

Great series. They took me the better part of 2 years to get through, but they were fantastic.

I've found that when you're reading a super long series like that, as soon as you get tired of reading the books, take a break. Read something by another author, or just a break from reading in general haha. You'll enjoy the books that much more when you're voraciously waiting for the chance to read the next chapter :D

Did this with both the Game of Thrones books and these, and it worked out well.

[Roadsterd]

This is what I'm reading right now

[Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance]

ZAMM is an excellent read, one of my favorite books. Lila, Pirsig's continuation of his delve into "Quality", is on the shelf; I plan to read it over the holidays.

Currently reading Sellar's Stoicism.

[AndrewBird]

Just about finished with the Bourne Identity. Honestly, I didn't really like it. Maybe it's because it was published in 1975, but it's very dry and drawn out and just kind of boring. I love the movies, but they are nothing like the book.

[mrsleeve]

existing thread on this kinda thing

http://www.r3vlimited.com/board/showthread.php?t=130675

Current Down Load on my tablet that is next on my list. (should not come as much of a surprise to most of you though)

[quikveedb2]

Good read, if we're going for car-themed books. I've been making my way through the complete works of H.P. Lovecraft, but that's a different kind of reading.

And another, if you're an F1 guy;

[decay]

re-reading the Takeshi Kovacs trilogy by Richard Morgan right now.

[flyboyx]

The Guns of August. great info for anyone interested in world war I. the author won a pullitzer prize for this one. the problem is that it was written by a chick and i fucking hate her prose. it is a painful read with so much great information i am forcing myself to trudge through it.

if you have any interest in war history, check out an author named jeff shaara. he can actually write.

[agent]

Just about finished with the Bourne Identity. Honestly, I didn't really like it. Maybe it's because it was published in 1975, but it's very dry and drawn out and just kind of boring. I love the movies, but they are nothing like the book.

I've read just about every one of Ludlum's books, and I was a fan of his writing - especially the Bourne series. I didn't think the movies did the books justice (isn't that pretty much always the case though? The Clancy books/movies had the same problem), though part of that is because they were done in different generations. The way Ludlum's books are written I can understand the need to jazz them up a bit for a movie, especially in these short attention-span times. There's a whole lot of plot and character development in them that just can't be effectively squeezed into < 120 minutes.

[Todd Black 88]

Just finished the last two books in the Ender's Game main series (Xenocide, Children of the Mind). I read the first one for a high school English class in 2002, then around 2006 I found the book and re-read it in college. Read Speaker for the Dead shortly after, and decided to finish the last two in the past couple of weeks. Great reads, if anything I can appreciate them a lot more being a bit older and married since they are basically all about the relationships between characters. I may pick up some of the other books that focus on the other characters. I was actually sad when I was done with the main series since it really sucks you into the characters' lives and I wanted to keep reading.

Someday I will read the Dark Tower series since I have hears so much about it.

Most of the books that I have read in the last few years have been science-related. Feynmann's QED was a really interesting read, and Schrodinger's Rabbit was another one that put quantum theory into layperson terms that I could understand. Feynmann's The Pleasure of Finding Things Out was a very good read and gave some neat perspective on life, and Faster Than The Speed of Light was interesting and entertaining at the same time (contained f-bombs lol).

Best series of books he has written IMO.

[drumad]

Great series. They took me the better part of 2 years to get through, but they were fantastic.

I've found that when you're reading a super long series like that, as soon as you get tired of reading the books, take a break. Read something by another author, or just a break from reading in general haha. You'll enjoy the books that much more when you're voraciously waiting for the chance to read the next chapter :D

Did this with both the Game of Thrones books and these, and it worked out well.

Might have to do this. I ran thru GOT and ACOK but am having a hard time staying with ASOS.

My back log of shit to read is long.

[kickinindian]

Might have to do this. I ran thru GOT and ACOK but am having a hard time staying with ASOS.

My back log of shit to read is long.

I've heard from my SO that ASOS is pretty slow. I'm almost done with ACOK I just get bored on Cat chapters and put it down for 4 days, I understand why she has to be in there but it just gets to be a broken record kinda thing...


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[srvE30]

20,000 leagues under the sea.

[ST1G]

These are the two books I've been reading.

[Stanley Rockafella]

very true and changed my views a little bit. good read imo

When I was an undergrad studying toward a Psych major, I loved watching his short documentaries from the 80's-90's. One of the more interesting and entertaining (to me) psychologists of our time.

[Bavarian Performance]

Just finished reading Memoirs of a Hack Mechanic by Rob Seigel, a writer for Roundel magazine. Really good read about his history of owning a ton of different BMW's and his take of how owning them has built life long friendships. Great read for any car person, specifically BMW owners. Felt like I was having a conversation with another car guy while reading it, if that makes any sense. lol

http://www.bentleypublishers.com/bmw/history/memoirs-of-a-hack-mechanic-by-rob-siegel.html