What book are you currently reading?

[PacificBlue]

I just picked up "Diet for a New America by John Robbins...How your food choices affect your health, happiness, and the future of life on earth"... today at the bookstore. I've been wanting to read it for several years and I'm finally going to suck it up and do it.

What about you?

 

[Debbie]

The Hellfire Club by Peter Straub

 

[Adoratrice]

"Fast women" by Jennifer Crusie.


Nothing beats a feminist turned romance writer

 

[shadowsource]

nonfiction -

"The Basque History of the World" by Mark Kurlansky. Odd history of a strange and interesting people.

 

[Laurel]

"Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot" by Al Franken.

Yep, I'm the only one in America who hasn't read it yet, I know.

Also finishing up "Not In Front of the Children" by Marjorie Helms.

 

[lavender]

 

[Never]

"In Defense of Elitism" by William A. Henry III
"The History of Hell" by Alice K. Turner
and I'm rereading "The Four Agreements" but Don Miguel Ruiz.

 

[Starfish]

I've got some shite too!!!

Business Communications in Context
Computers: Information Technology in Perspective
Supervisory Managment


Not shite......
A Field Guide to the Birds of North America

 

[curvacious]

text books

I need to pick up a new Nancy Friday book--or actually if someone reads this and wants to actually part with theirs.........

 

[Laurel]

I'm reading some riveting pieces of shite!

Oil & Gas Law
Getting to Yes
Getting Past No
International Law and the New World Order

Laurel - I'll trade ya!

No thanks! Al Franken's much more fun. His idea for solving the social security problem AND advancing the space program at the same time? Shoot the elderly into space.

 

[PacificBlue]

No thanks! Al Franken's much more fun. His idea for solving the social security problem AND advancing the space program at the same time? Shoot the elderly into space.

ok, that gave me a visual! I almost spit my soft drink out on my screen.

 

[Desert Amazon]

 

[scylis]

The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley

just finished Expendable by James Alan Gardner. very good.

do comics count?

 

[vlvtelvis]

trying to stay cought up on Hegel's Philosophy of History right now.

one of these years i'll have time to read for pleasure

 

[shadowsource]

Now I know you're an impostor!

trying to stay cought up on Hegel's Philosophy of History right now.

one of these years i'll have time to read for pleasure

Elvis only read comic books.

 

[Lou Cypher]

"Steppenwolf" by Hermann Hesse

He's rather profound and sometimes a difficult read, but it's worth the effort.

 

[Darowyn]

Just finished "Legend, the Genesis of Civilisation" by David Rohl.
It's a book of speculative Egyptology attempting to put some archeolgical evidence to the stories in Genesis, without ever straying from the strictly rational scientific explanation.
No comfort here for the "literal word of God" believers or the UFO freaks, but a very plausible explanation for Eden, what the god of Moses actually was called, and where the pharoanic culture of Egypt came from. Fascinating stuff!
Also, for light relief, "Babycakes" by Armistead Maupin

 

[gleam]

Just finished "Consciousness Explained" by Daniel Dennet.

I am now reading "Cryptonomicon" by Neal Stephenson.

I just realized that my post count is pathetic. One of these days I'm going to have to arrange a posting blitz for myself and jack the count up to 1000 at least

Maybe I should actually start talking about porn as opposed to politics

 

[ShyGuy68]

I'm currently reading the 2nd book in the Harry Potter serie, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. I got the first book in a good offer from a bookclub, and now I've brought the 2nd one as well, and ordered the last two.

Pretty soon I'll also start reading The Dragon Reborn by Robert Jordan.

 

[nasty]

A few

Patriot Games, By Tom Clancy
The Tale of The Body Theif by Anne Rice
AND, I FINALLY started the Lord Of The Rings trilogy.

 

[OUTSIDER]

What book are you currently reading?......

"How to run windows and not lose your fucking mind"

 

[gleam]

I'm currently reading the 2nd book in the Harry Potter serie, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. I got the first book in a good offer from a bookclub, and now I've brought the 2nd one as well, and ordered the last two.

Pretty soon I'll also start reading The Dragon Reborn by Robert Jordan.

The Wheel of Time is great up until the 7th book. Then it goes downhill FAST!

I am unfortunately hooked. I derive no enjoyment from the books anymore though. More like a drug

 

[SimplySouthern]

Thanks alot, people. I was prepared to write what I was actually reading and why and now it makes me look like an idiot...and a hornball. You guys were the ones who screwed up the curves in school, weren't you?

I just started John Saul's "Punish the Sinners" for the 2nd time last night. I came across it while I was cleaning my basement. I can remember this being the first "adult" book I read as a budding teenager. It actually had S-E-X in it and I can recall being both riveted and repulsed by it. I always knew (even then ) that some of the things talked about in that book were a little "away from the norm" yet, I couldn't stop reading it nor could I keep myself from marking the pages to re-read later.

I was too sleepy to really get into it last night, but as far as memory serves me and the first chapter goes, I believe this is about a little boy who, at age 4, goes into his parents room to look around in Mommy's closet. He hears someone enter the room so he shuts the closet door, effectively hiding himself. He watches his parents have sex (No, not during the day. says the mother. You need a touch of the whore in you, says the father.) not quite understanding what is going on. Relief comes when his sister enters the room and he is sure that she will know what to do. Surprise, she's there to kill Mom and Dad and then hang herself. Horrible way to end a perfectly good sex scene, but I didn't write it. I only read it.

More sex scenes...I remember that much.

This makes me a freak. I can tell.

 

[Shy Tall Guy]

I kind of read multiple books at the same time, especially if I am researching something:

"The Constitution of Liberty" - Hayek
"Ominpotent Governmet" - Ludwig von Mises
"Capital" - Marx
"Marxism" - Sowell
"Marxism - Essential Writings" McLellan

 

[CelestialBody]