What are you reading?

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I was recently given a book to read by a friend titled Mark of the Grizzly, by Scott McMillion. Basically stories of bear attacks in recent years, through-out Alaska, Alberta and the Yellowstone region. It is well written and a pretty gripping read to say the least, hard to put down. Haven spent a number of years in the Alaskan bush and the back country of New Mexico these kind of stories just entrigue the hell out of me. It's a pretty different kind of read for me but has been entertaining non the less.

Are you reading anything good?
 
I recently finished Other Worlds than Ours: The Plurality of Worlds Studied under the Light of Scientific Researches by Richard A. Proctor. It's an astronomy book which was written in 1899. Since this work was written before space exploration (at least for humans :) ) what's interesting are the scientific presumptions of the planets in the solar system (i.e. what the inhabitants of each planet would look like and the environment in which they live).

This past week I began reading The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri. Back in high school we read passages from it, but I'm reading the Italian version now.
 
wow.....heavy reading there axe. I read some exerts from Dante's Devine Comedy in a college literature class many moons ago, couldn't tell you today what it was about. I did reread some classics this past winter, Treasure Island and Call of the Wild. That requires a little more focus than my ussual light reading.
 
I'm reading the water is wide by pat conroy. It's about a tiny island that has no road access that is right next to hilton head island (where i live). I have been to the island a few times and the book is a true story about pat conroy going over there and teaching.

After this book is done im going to read You remind me of me.
 
The only thing I am reading now is a book on Slavery in New Orleans...nothing fiction at the moment....
 
bildo792 said:
I'm reading the water is wide by pat conroy. It's about a tiny island that has no road access that is right next to hilton head island (where i live). I have been to the island a few times and the book is a true story about pat conroy going over there and teaching.
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I'll have to check that out bildo. I remember watching the movie "Conrack" with Jon Voight when I was in middle school which I guess is based on that book.
 
i know there was a movie based on the book. The island is changing a lot since the book was written. There are a couple golf courses and a bunch of million dollar homes now.
 
my favourite books are 1984 and Animal Farm by George Orwell, not read them for a while at the moment I am working my way through 'Zombie Survival Guide' by Max Brooks and just for kicks 'Awaken the Giant Within' by Anthony Robbins
 
Animal farm was awesome....

Some fiction I enjoy is Selby Jr., Kafka etc...some of the older stuff. I tend to read more history than anything else just for research on stuff that I am writing
 
I am rereading "The Story of B" which is an interesting look at society and religion. It is by Daniel Quinn (one of my personal favorite authors).

If anyone is looking for a great book, he wrote "Ishmael" which is my all time favorite book. It changed my entire life.
Not a big fan of his later works.
 
I'm currently reading Wicked by Gregory Maguire. That was a break from Stephen King's Dark Tower series. I reread the fourth novel a couple weeks ago and wanted a break before I started on the last fifth, sixth, and seventh novel. I have the 5th and 6th novels on my shelf right now but still have to go out and buy the seventh.

Another novel that is lined up for me to read is Iron Counil by China Mieville. He is an amazing novelist - if you're into industrial, gritty, earth-like-world, sci-fi thrillers. His novel Perdido Street Station is amongst my top5 favs!
 
Went back to school recently at a community college in San Francisco. I'm stuck reading Nickel and Dimed Has the biggest "So What?" factor of any book I've ever read. Basically it takes her 200 pages to explain that if you're uneducated and unskilled your job, finances, boss will suck :roll: . But it's all the fault of anyone that's not poor like you.
 
Oh forgot. I am also reading "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu. God I love philiosophy and sociology :D
 
Macallan said:
Oh forgot. I am also reading "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu. God I love philiosophy and sociology :D
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Great book, I did that as summer reading before 12th grade.
 
i just finished the wheel of time series by robert jordan for the second time around -- godlike
in the middle of the bourne identy --pretty good writing, not my favorite style of book
need to get some new old conan books -- robert e howard, who created the character, does it best
also want to pick up cats cradle by vonnegut (sp?)
 
An intimate history of killing. Its essentially all about how war gives the everyday human the right to kill and how throught history they have subconciously enjoyed it. Very interesting but the author escapes me now. Last book I read was BIOHAZARD which was a history of the soviet bioweapons program written byt the director of it who defected in 1992. Scary stuff in that one.
 
"THE CLOSERS" by Michael Connelly which has mythical Homicide Detective Harry Boshe working to solve old cold murder cases. If, you enjoy crime fiction you would be hard pressed to do better than Connelly who has taken the Harry Bosch character from rookie to near retirement in LAPD.
 
Roma Sub Rosa

My favorite set of books is the Roma Sub Rosa series by Steven Saylor. They are a series of mystery novels set in ancient Rome. The author is a Univ Tex Austin-educated historian and does a lot in his novels to give one a very realistic sense of what ancient Roman life was like (at least I assume it's realistic!). Secret meetings in ancient Rome would be held at a table with an upside down rose hanging from the ceiling over them; thus, the title of the series. The first book is called _Roman Blood_, and the 9 that follow are all excellent, with just one or two clunkers. The main character is a detective named Gordianus the Finder. The detective stories are fictional, but the back stories are the political lives of Cicero, Pompey, Julius Caesar, and number of other historical figures who make prominent appearances in the novels. The books are highly recommended.
 
I finished reading Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh for the umpteenth time. One of my favourite books.
 
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