BOOK THREAD! PART DEUX

[HombrePequeno]

Building Capitalism - for a class
Financial Crises - sadly this one is for pleasure
Breakfast of Champions
The World is Flat

 

[pg22]

There are the books I've read while working abroad the past 6 months:

? The Elegant Universe
? Game of Shadows
? Guests of the Ayatollah
? The World is Flat
? The Bridge to Terrabithia
? The Agony & the Ecstasy
? Freakanomics
? For One More Day
? One Hundred Years of Solitude
? Brave New World
? Housekeeping
? Nobody?s Fool
? A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
? Year of Wonders
? The Curious Incident of the...

 

[judasmachine]

Break Point by Richard A. Clarke

 

[Bryophyte]

Currently, I'm reading some of the Redwall books by Brian Jacques. I've got Steven Erikson's 'Deadhouse Gates' sitting next to my bed waiting for me to finish 'Loamhedge'. Since I read all the books I buy my kids, I go back and forth between books aimed at kids and books for adults.

 

[Canun]

Phantom by Terry Goodkind

Forrest Mage by Robin Hobb

The Combat History of German Heavy Anti-Tank Unit 653 in World War II

I have very strange tastes.

 

[jacob0401]

Journey to the End of the Night by Celine

have to read it for class...

 

[K1052]

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

Mining and Industrial Applications of Low-Density Explosives

 

[mundane]

Cryptonomicon again. I'll probably tackle The Baroque Cycle (again!) afterwards, or try to find some cyber-punk I haven't read.

 

[lokiju]

Brimstone by Douglas Preston.

It's "meh" so far.

I'm looking forward to reading "The Harsh Cry of the Heron", the last book of the "Tales of the Otori" series.

 

[JDub02]

The Hunters by W.E.B Griffin. It's the 3rd book in his "Presidential Agent" series. The whole series is absolutely amazing. Very similar to Tom Clancy, but more streamlined. Clancy has a tendency to get bogged down in some of the details, IMO.

 

[marulee]

DIG by C.R.Corwin 'A Morgue Mama Mystery'

 

[BooGiMaN]

i just finished The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon pretty interesting boo..though im not sure how i feel about the ending.

Set in Spain..it is about the son of a bookshop owner who reads a book and is so enthralled by it that he searches out more books by the author..only to discover that someone is finding and buying out all the remaining books and burning them..

he sets out to find out why and thus his adventure begins.


Now I am starting Swan Song in book format and since i have an hour drive to and from work this year i have decided to give audio books a try so im listening to The Talisman by Stephen king and Peter Straub

someone recommended Offspring and the Girl Next door by Jack Ketchum..anyone read these?

 

[trmiv]

Path of the Fury by David Weber

 

[Ktulu]

The Bible

by God

/runs and hides

 

[Crono]

Originally posted by: Ktulu
The Bible

by God

/runs and hides

That's my favorite book Been on the #1 Bestsellers of All-Time for quite a while now

 

[lucasorion]

Originally posted by: Canun

Forrest Mage by Robin Hobb

How is this series? I read the Tawny Man and Farseer trilogies last year.

I just read "All the Pretty Horses" and am waiting for the follow-ups to arrive. Also reading "The One Percent Doctrine" by Ron Suskind (non-fiction)

 

[Malak]

I'm reading Rainbow Six by Tom Clancy.

It's my second time through, I found it a very good story. In fact I can totally see it being played out like the TV show 24. I have some other Tom Clancy books I haven't read yet, but I think I'm going to get some more first and read them in order.

 

[oogabooga]

Originally posted by: Malak
I'm reading Rainbow Six by Tom Clancy.

It's my second time through, I found it a very good story. In fact I can totally see it being played out like the TV show 24. I have some other Tom Clancy books I haven't read yet, but I think I'm going to get some more first and read them in order.

I really enjoyed Rainbow Six

Originally posted by: BlinderBomber
The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins.

I just finished The Language of God by Francis Collins and found it largely unconvincing, however it does offer a decent counterweight to Dawkins who, although I agree with much he has to say about religion, can sometimes rove too far. Overall, I would say that Dawkins lays down an extremely convincing argument in a well-written book. If anyone wants to debate the merits of this book, let's do it in the God Delusion thread, not here.

I'm reading The God Delusion, and have a copy of The Language of God sitting around up at bat next. To be honest I opened both books, and The God Delusion looked more interesting just from reading.

I have a copy of Ulysses I've slowly been chugging through

 

[purepolly]

The Masnavi

The Bible

The Philokalia

 

[everman]

Blink
Flatterland
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
War and Peace - Taking a while just because while it's interesting but I keep getting distracted by other books. I've probably read at least 4x the length of this book in other books since I picked it up

 

[shortylickens]

The Puppet Masters.
I've read it about 3 times but its just so darn good.

Also, we are rapidly aproaching the timeline set in the book.
I think it starts on July 17th, 2007 or something like that.

EDIT:
Just got done running through all of Pat McManus's stuff last month.

EDIT 2:
Dont normally do this but sometimes by RPG buddies have more mind-opening discussions than the average AT thread.
http://forums.palladium-megaverse.com/viewtopic.php?t=67752&

We actually had a decent little discussion about literacy in this thread.
I also just noticed I've been quoted! :Q

 

[SirStev0]

http://www.amazon.com/Ilium-Simmons-Dan/dp/0380978938

 

[anxi80]

The Tipping Point & Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas

 

[Arcex]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_History_of_the_United_States

...which I can only take in short dosages before I start chanting "Urge to kill rising" so I'm rounding it out with...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neverending_Story

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Title: Very Bad Deaths
Author: Spider Robinson
Genre: Science Fiction

Comments: Well, the spine of it says it is science fiction. It's really more of a Dean Koontz or Stephen King style of book, though not necessarily horror.

The protagonist of the book is minutes from taking his own life to join his now-deceased wife when his former college roommate from forty years ago shows up on his doorstep. He has some information about a serial killer that changes locations and methods so often that his killings aren't even linked together. He also knows the rough location and profile of the next victims. Unfortunately, the reason he knows is also the reason he can't even get close enough to tell anyone.

He is a telepath, but he can't turn it off. In fact, it actually pains him to be around most people, which is why he has been living as a recluse for the last many years. He only found out about the killer's plans when the man was flying a plane that nearly crashed on the island he lives on. Unfortunately, for all he does know, he doesn't know who the man is, and he doesn't have enough to go to the police with, and if he did, they likely wouldn't believe him anyway.

So he goes to the one person who's mere proximity doesn't make him writhe in mental pain, a newspaper columnist he once shared a dorm room with, and they are left to figure out how to discover the man's identity and figure out how to stop him before he kills his next victims.

It was a very strange book. The author has a lot of flashback time, and spends more time than seems necessary in the book drawing comparisons between the United States and Canada, the latter being where the author and the characters in his book live. It is relevant at some points, but after a while it seems he is just trying to rub the reader's nose in it.

Some things definitely needed to be expanded on, like the history of the killer. The female cop character was barely developed at all, nearly all of the development for the characters in this story was centered around the protagonist and his former college roommate.

Overall, the book was enjoyable but it could have been deeper. Not recommended for those that enjoy the horror stories where chapters upon chapters are dedicated to the history and makings of killers, but not bad for a "light" version.