What books have you recently read?
 

Left Behind
The Da Vinci Code
Bloom County (re-read)

Discuss amongst yerselves....

Weber Carbs by Pat Braden

Great write up on Weber carbs in general and a great section on the IDA carbs.

Cryptonomicon

Double Indemnity

Hello, He Lied

The Kid Says in the Picture

Final Cut

Reading: Devil in the White City, Villa Incognito

Just read The DaVinci Code. Fun, but kind of light weight. If you liked it, try Foucault's Pendulum.

The Gold Plated Porsche
A Purpose Driven Life

Troy

Slouching Towards Gomorrah. Bork
A Republic Not An Empire. Buchanan
Flags Of Our Fathers. Bradley
Diplomacy. Kissinger
Off with Their Heads. Morris
Death of the West. Buchanan
Guns, Freedom and Terrorism. LaPierre
Reagan's War. Schweizer
The Longest Day. The best book on D-Day written IMHO.
Currently:
The Art of War. Sun-tzu This is the fourth translation I've read, I'm still looking for the "best".

Churchill's "Great Contemporaries"

Pete,
What are the variations that you've found in the translations? What are you looking for?

Umberto Eco, isn't he the one who wrote "Name of the Rose"?

I'm working my way thru my classic sci-fi collection (again).

Just finished "Nightfall" (the novel based on A's short story) by Asimov and Silverberg and "The Ringworld Throne" by Niven (yes, I often read 2-3 books at once).

Also "The Futurological Congress" and "His Master's Voice" by Stanislaw Lem.

Right now, I'm embarrassed to admit, I'm reading "Caesar's Bicycle" by John Barnes but I'm countering that with "The Stars My Destination" by Alfred Bester. Bester's work sings.

currently reading GRAVITY'S RAINBOW by Thomas Pynchon.

Yes, I'm brave.

Fast Food Nation - Stay away if you like fast food or cow.

Currently re-reading "Sometimes a great notion" by Ken Kesey. Probably because it so accurately reflects life in Oregon during my formative years... Another I'd suggest? "Against the Gods, the remarkable story of risk" By Peter L. Bernstein. But only if market investing is your bag. It's probably a basic 1st grade text to many who post here...

Read these last month for a Southwest Lit class. Good stuff.

Bless me Ultima
Desert Reader
Ceremony

I am reading the James Clavell version now - I didn't realize their were many translations - any significant differences.

I've yet to finish "Gravity's Rainbow." I've decided to blame Pynchon's self-importance rather than my own reading abilities, though. Last thing I read was on Bosch Fuel Injection systems, but I'm in the middle "Small Town" by Larry Block. After that is the new Walter Mosely

Emanuel

Recently:

Da Vinci Code

The Fabulous Trash Wagon, by B.S. Levy

Eddie Would Go, the story of Eddie Aikeu

& I re-read Fire on the Mountain, by Steve McClean. It's the story of the 14 firefighters that died on Storm King Mountain in Colorado in 1994. Re-reading it every know and then keeps me from getting complacent.

I'm now half way through "The Gold Plated Porsche" by S. Wilkenson.

Very nice!!


There's some good readin'!

Any more?

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Godel, Escher, Bach
Chaos Under Control

(in no particular order, kind of doing 'em all at once, a bit at a time).

The Charles Probst book on Bosch Fuel Injection, (excellent text and helping me understand both of my cars), also I have been into biographies of great artists such as:

Divided Soul, The Life of Marvin Gaye by David Ritz (excellent and heartbreaking), and

"Q" the autobiography of Quincy Jones (excellent and uplifting), and

Letters to a Young Contrarian by Christopher Hitchens (good book for the Pelican OT brawler), ;) and

Jews Who Rock by Guy Oseary (amusing and informative register of the enourmous contribution of Jewish people to popular culture + my good friend wrote it). :cool:

While I won't say that Pynchon isn't self-important or self-indulgent, the crime is somewhat forgivabledue to his virtuosity. It is a tremendously difficult book - probably the most complex and time-consuming I have yet attempted - but it is also one of the most rewarding.

It also isn't fair to feel bad about your reading abilities:

When I admitted to a senior literature professor that I was finding GRAVITY'S RAINBOW difficult, his response was somewhere along the lines of, "there's no shame in that, most literary critics find GRAVITY'S RAINBOW to be difficult."

The Prince