A good book and a cigar.

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It's getting that time of year again when my reading habits pick up a little more than usual, probably the best accompaniment to a great book besides a comfy chair is a good cigar, I am blessed to have a lot of each to look forward to in the coming months. I also wondered what the fine folks here have on their reading lists.

My to-read list for the near future looks like this:

Fiction

Thomas Pynchon - Against the Day (Nov 2006)
Irvine Welsh - The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs
Haruki Murakami - Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Mark Z. Danielewski - Only Revolutions

Non-Fiction

Winston Churchill - History of the English Speaking Peoples Vol I
Allan McDonnel - Prisoner of X


Lots to add to the list but thats starters, will try and offer some reviews as I go and also mention some of the cigars I enjoy along with my reading. How about your picks?
 
Now that you mention it I was thinking of picking up my reading habit. I have my smoking room; which is also my tool room in the basement. I think I might have to get a space heater down there and a good comfy chair; and some good books to read. Reading is exercise for the mind. And my mind is out of shape right now.
 
I just finished readin Christine, by Stephen King. It was just as creepy as I remembered it to be.

Now I am reading another Ian Rankin - very good police detective, a bit like Columbo but with more edge - a lot more edge.
 
I'm working my way through the Dark Tower series by Stephen King. I just finished book 5 and I'm now reading the sixth and picked up the last one too for next.
 
Motion, I was thinking picking up the DT series as I'm a big Stephen King fan. Is it as good as his other stuff?
 
Good yes....but just as different as the rest of his stuff. The story line can get kinda far fetched at times but he makes it work. I think the first book will be all it takes to figure if the series will do it for you.
 
As a big SK fan myself. I have read I think all his books. The one that stands out was the green mile. The movie sucked after reading the book as many of his books seem to. But the book / Books was a experence. Using the serial novel made it even better. Anyone who has not read this one I would recomend it at the highest rating.

Travis
 
Check out the books from Laurell K. Hamilton. they are into vampires and werewolves and such, I have read them all at least three times.
 
Now I am going to check out the Green MIle, I saw the movie and enjoyed it - now that I think about it, it makes sense that Stephen King wrote it, he can do fantastic stuff!
 
Bikeman said:
Now I am going to check out the Green MIle, I saw the movie and enjoyed it - now that I think about it, it makes sense that Stephen King wrote it, he can do fantastic stuff!
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I refuse to watch that kind of movie before I read the book. The book explains so much more. I do try to read a book a week.
 
Reading a book a week is a good idea, but its hard to smoke that many cigars!! :lol: :lol:
 
Picked up the Mark Z. Danielewski book today...What to say? It's looking incredible even before I have read a page. It's two books in one, the same tale told by a boy and a girl as they travel time. The kicker is that the stories start from different ends of the book (literally) and converge someplace inbetween. This means that I have to start reading the book and then flip it upside down to read the other half. That not the only thing that makes this book unique, theres a ton of stuff that does that, I can't wait to get started. If the writing itself from his previous novel House of Leaves is any indicator then this book will be just as unique in writing style as it is in alinear narrative.

Only thing is I am still 160 pages away from finishing another great novel...lol. It's rare that I get so fired up over a book but this one has me salivating already. Will share my thoughts when I do get started.
 
I am reading a Biography of the artist Redon.
Very interesting - I started to look at the pictures & then
was very surprised at the content.
Deep in a way only pictures can express.
 
I just finished The Inferno by Dante Alighieri. Touhg book, son this next one I decided to take it down a notch by reading Moby Dick.
 
Hey angryman, if you can finish Moby Dick, you are doing better than I am, I tried twice this year, got bogged down both times.

I am reading Jane Eyre right now, maybe that way I can work up to Moby Dick again.
 
Finished Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri. It was a great book of short stories. Nearly all of the characters in the book were Indian so I learned a lot about their culture as well. Last week I finished Heaven's Prisoners by James Lee Burke. Great mystery series featuring Dave Robicheaux, a Cajun cop. I highly recommend both. If you're interested in Heaven's Prisoners, read Neon Rain first; it's the first book in the series.
 
Aubrey, you should check out Tony Hillerman - his storys are set in the four corners - AZ, NM, CO, UT, and are about a Navaho policeman named Jim Chee. Very good reading, and you will learn a lot about the Navaho and their beliefs.
 
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