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

[mrsleeve]

Is that by Howard Zinn? I have read his People's History of the United States. Its interesting, but Zinn is too much of a commy bastard

No Darrin is right its counter to that commie bastard its very good book but the info comes at you so fast that its hard to soak it all in and make any progress. I had to take a break for a bit as it was getting kinda discouraging

its by 2 guys Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen.

really it is a good book, I will go back to here in the next few days just needed a break.


Darrin Pick up so when you do get to it you have laying around, thats normally what I do

I may actually get zinn's peoples history here some time soon just for shits a giggles. I have not read it, so it might nice to indulge the other argument for a bit

[CorvallisBMW]

^No, it's kind of the antithesis to People's. Zinn's book takes a populist, left-leaning view of American history and this new book was written to be a kind of counter argument from a more capitalist, right-leaning perspective. I am very tempted to pick it up but I don't have a lot of free time to devote to any reading, let alone 830 pages :(

[Be30mer]

Currently about 100 pages into 830 or so of "A patriot's History of the United States"

Is that by Howard Zinn? I have read his People's History of the United States. Its interesting, but Zinn is too much of a commy bastard

[E30 Wagen]

currently reading Anathem by Neal Stephenson. I've also read his book Snow Crash. Awesome reads so far.

Daemon by Daniel Suarez is pretty good, too.

[mrsleeve]

had to pull out of the history book for a while it was all getting very starchy an blendign togeather.

Now about 1/2 though "The Survivors Club" by Ben Sherwood.

Interesting book on who lives and who dies in bad situations and why

[Turd]

John Lydon's book Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs. Very neat book told from a very neat guy.

[chadthestampede]

Just read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

And onto A Scanner Darkly

[88driftIS]

I am about 4 books into the dune series(by Frank Herbert, his son, and Kevin J. Anderson). I started with the first one his son and Kevin wrote, and working my way to Frank"s original books. I believe there is 11 in the series.

If you like scifi, look into these.

[mrsleeve]

Currently about 100 pages into 830 or so of "A patriot's History of the United States"

[Restoman]

"The Sun Also Rises" - Ernest Hemingway

Next "The Purple Land" Hudson it's mentioned in the above book and my library has a copy, why not.

[wildstoats]

Reading "Shogun" -James Clavell (all 1200 pages of it, OMG!)

Excellent read! I read that back in high school and thoroughly enjoyed it. Some of my favorites thus far have been Cradle to Cradle and The Elegant Universe. If you are at all interested in physics I would recommend The Elegant Universe, it is heavy reading but should be comprehensible to anyone with at least a high school level knowledge of physics. I'm looking to pick up a new book but I'm not sure what topic I'm after yet. However, reading through this thread is definitely giving me ideas. Thanks everyone!

[xphiledan]

Halfway through Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol. So far, it's the best read out of the three (Angels & Demons, Da Vinci Code).

[aworthybrother]

I just finished reading "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" - by Stieg Larsson. I just got the DVD and will be watching it this weekend.

Just started reading "Client" by John Grisham. Old book but a good read while riding the subway to work.

[BobombETA]

I just finished "The Lost City of Z" and I recommend it to everyone.

It's about the real life story of an explorer who went missing in the Amazon looking for El Dorado.

[hugh jass]

The Art of Racing in the Rain