What are People Reading?

[oddzy]

rereading angela's ashes

[AAFitz]

Pirate lattitudes by Mike Crichton
Innocent by Scott Turrow
State of Fear by Mike Crichton
Eaters of the dead by Mike Crichton
Prisoner of Birth by Jeff Archer
Bear and the Dragon by Tom Clancy
Physics of the Impossible by Michio Kaku
The Next 100 years by George Freedman(this one was free)

Two more:
Nightfall by An interesting fusion between fiction and real events..a must for conspiracy theorists
The Bone Vault by Linda Feinstein...eh...It filled the day I guess.

Adventures of sherlock Holmes Sir. ACDoyle
return of sherlock Homes Sir. ACDoyle

Dark Tower IVWizard and Glass by Steven King. (turns out, I had already read it, but it was interesting having the memory jarred as I heard it being read to me. In a thousand years I couldnt recount what happened, but as it was read, I remembered almost all of it.
next..Dark tower V. Wolves. Done.
Nearly done with DT VI Done
Dark tower VII Not sure I want it to end, though it will be nice to get out of Kingland for a while.



I signed up for audible.com for the audiobooks, but I need an even cheaper source for some. Any ideas that I may not have thought of?

[AAFitz]

Bear and the dragon, Tom Clancy...starting today...last of the Jack Ryan books for me. Hope its good, though with Jack in it, it wont matter. Ill like it anyways.

Tom Clancy, f*ck yeah.

Red Storm Rising... awesome.

I think my favorite was Without Remorse, which as I recall was about Clarks beginings and life story.

[wanegilly]

I just finished Jonathan Kellerman's When the Bough Breaks and found it to be a pretty solid mystery. I'll probably be picking up his other books from time-to-time.

[muy_thaiguy]

Nothing at the moment, though I am trying to decide on what to read next.

[Woodruff]

I'm currently reading "To Your Scattered Bodies Go" by Philip Jose Farmer. It's quite interesting so far...and quite odd.

It stayed odd, but it was an entertaining read. Definitely a bit different from the stuff I usually read - I would recommend it.

I've just started (as in I've read only four pages) "A World Out Of Time" by Larry Niven. Sadly, with school starting back up, I probably won't get to page five until Christmas.

[Army of GOD]

The Spongebob Movie complete script

[Woodruff]

The Spongebob Movie complete script

It would not surprise me at all if this were true. I don't believe you've got all your groceries in the same bag.

[tzor]

The Politically Incorrect Guide™ to the Middle East - Martin Sieff

[Phatscotty]

The Politically Incorrect Guide™ to the Middle East - Martin Sieff

Crude Politics - Paul Sperry
Peace, War, and Politics - Jack Anderson
Taking Sides: Clashing views on controversial Global Issues - James E. Harf
The Middle East: 10th Edition (some dudes name in Arabic or something)
Western Heritage ---
The Iraq War Reader - Sifry & Cerf
House of Bush House of Saud - Craig Unger
Almost History - Bruns
State of War - James Risen


Tragedy and Hope - Quigley

[tempest-n-a-tcup]

To Save America - Newt Gingrich
Ranger's Apprentice: The Ruins of Gorlan - John Flanagan
Ranger's Apprentice: The Kings of Clonmel - John Flanagan

Just picked up

Financial Peace - Dave Ramsey

[CouchSerf]

I'm going through Système des contradictions économiques ou Philosophie de la misère by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon again right now, but when I finish it I'll probably pick up Homebrew Industrial Revolution: A Low-Overhead Manifesto from Kevin Carson.

[nietzsche]

I'm currently re-reading The Worldly Philosophers by Robert Heilbroner in order to come up with erudite comments about economy theory to amaze PhatScotty and saxi.

[tkr4lf]

About to start reading either The Sword and the Grail: Of the Grail and the Templars and a True Discovery of America by Andrew Sinclair or Born in Blood: The Lost Secrets of Freemasonry by John J. Robinson.

Just got finished reading The Messianic Legacy by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh & Henry Lincoln, which is the sequel to Holy Blood, Holy Grail by the same authors. I thoroughly enjoyed both books. Although mainly speculation(as I see it), they were quite interesting and very entertaining. I would recommend these to anyone who hasn't read them.

Before that, I re-read my books by Daniel Quinn. Ishmael, The Story of B, and My Ishmael. All three are fantastic books about society and religion and that kind of stuff. Very illuminating. I HIGHLY recommend these to absolutely everybody. Even if you've already read them. Read them again. They are that good. And pertinent. (In my opinion, anyway.)

Also another that I finished a while back was Listening to Prozac by Peter D. Kramer. Quite interesting if you are at all interested in psychology, pharmacology, that sort of thing.

Oh yes, and I forgot to mention that I have been trying to pick back up Foucalt's Pendulum by Umberto Eco. I started to read it a while back and go to chapter two or three and just haven't picked it back up. It's something like 6 or 7 hundred pages, so I can't seem to make myself continue on. Anyway, there's some of my books.

[Baron Von PWN]

Recently (in the last month) I finished

The Decline and Fall of the British Empire:1781-1997 by Piers Brendon(http://www.amazon.co.uk/Decline-Fall-Br ... 0224062220).
The Proof House by KJ Parker (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Proof-House-Fen ... 276&sr=1-1)
The Gathering Storm By Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wheel-Time-12-G ... 365&sr=1-4)
Box Office Poison by Alex Robinson (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Box-Office-Pois ... 454&sr=1-1) Read this one in a day.

Not sure what is next to read but probably non fiction.

[Phatscotty]

Wow, lots of reading going on out there. Keep in mind though when reading books and being introduced into new information...

The nature of the human organism and its relationship to the outside world dictate that it must receive and process information in a sound manner in order to prosper and live happily. Accurate integrations of concrete perceptions into higher-level abstractions called concepts are necessary for a human organism to apply Reason, its method of survival. These higher-level concepts are essentially a person's beliefs about the nature of reality. A belief can be defined simply as "any guiding principle that provides a sense of certainty about meaning and direction in life." Beliefs are a person's prearranged, organized filters to his or her perceptions of the world. The beliefs held by a human mind allow that mind to assign meanings to the events it perceives through its senses. Accurate beliefs, i.e. beliefs in agreement with objective reality, provide a person with the guidance necessary to select the optimum survival choice in a given situation. Inaccurate beliefs, or myths, misguide the believer and are always harmful long-term.

I can't tell you what book that is, but I can tell you that "The Matrix" borrows from it heavily

[Woodruff]

Wow, lots of reading going on out there. Keep in mind though when reading books and being introduced into new information...

The nature of the human organism and its relationship to the outside world dictate that it must receive and process information in a sound manner in order to prosper and live happily. Accurate integrations of concrete perceptions into higher-level abstractions called concepts are necessary for a human organism to apply Reason, its method of survival. These higher-level concepts are essentially a person's beliefs about the nature of reality. A belief can be defined simply as "any guiding principle that provides a sense of certainty about meaning and direction in life." Beliefs are a person's prearranged, organized filters to his or her perceptions of the world. The beliefs held by a human mind allow that mind to assign meanings to the events it perceives through its senses. Accurate beliefs, i.e. beliefs in agreement with objective reality, provide a person with the guidance necessary to select the optimum survival choice in a given situation. Inaccurate beliefs, or myths, misguide the believer and are always harmful long-term.

I can't tell you what book that is, but I can tell you that "The Matrix" borrows from it heavily

What does that have to do with the subject?

[Phatscotty]

Wow, lots of reading going on out there. Keep in mind though when reading books and being introduced into new information...

The nature of the human organism and its relationship to the outside world dictate that it must receive and process information in a sound manner in order to prosper and live happily. Accurate integrations of concrete perceptions into higher-level abstractions called concepts are necessary for a human organism to apply Reason, its method of survival. These higher-level concepts are essentially a person's beliefs about the nature of reality. A belief can be defined simply as "any guiding principle that provides a sense of certainty about meaning and direction in life." Beliefs are a person's prearranged, organized filters to his or her perceptions of the world. The beliefs held by a human mind allow that mind to assign meanings to the events it perceives through its senses. Accurate beliefs, i.e. beliefs in agreement with objective reality, provide a person with the guidance necessary to select the optimum survival choice in a given situation. Inaccurate beliefs, or myths, misguide the believer and are always harmful long-term.

I can't tell you what book that is, but I can tell you that "The Matrix" borrows from it heavily

What does that have to do with the subject?

which part, and what is the subject?

[Woodruff]

Wow, lots of reading going on out there. Keep in mind though when reading books and being introduced into new information...

The nature of the human organism and its relationship to the outside world dictate that it must receive and process information in a sound manner in order to prosper and live happily. Accurate integrations of concrete perceptions into higher-level abstractions called concepts are necessary for a human organism to apply Reason, its method of survival. These higher-level concepts are essentially a person's beliefs about the nature of reality. A belief can be defined simply as "any guiding principle that provides a sense of certainty about meaning and direction in life." Beliefs are a person's prearranged, organized filters to his or her perceptions of the world. The beliefs held by a human mind allow that mind to assign meanings to the events it perceives through its senses. Accurate beliefs, i.e. beliefs in agreement with objective reality, provide a person with the guidance necessary to select the optimum survival choice in a given situation. Inaccurate beliefs, or myths, misguide the believer and are always harmful long-term.

I can't tell you what book that is, but I can tell you that "The Matrix" borrows from it heavily

What does that have to do with the subject?

which part, and what is the subject?

All of it, and the subject where you're not trying to derail it.

[AAFitz]

2010-
Pirate lattitudes by Mike Crichton
Innocent by Scott Turrow
State of Fear by Mike Crichton
Eaters of the dead by Mike Crichton
Prisoner of Birth by Jeff Archer
Bear and the Dragon by Tom Clancy
Physics of the Impossible by Michio Kaku
The Next 100 years by George Freedman(this one was free)

Two more:
Nightfall by An interesting fusion between fiction and real events..a must for conspiracy theorists
The Bone Vault by Linda Feinstein...eh...It filled the day I guess.

Adventures of sherlock Holmes Sir. ACDoyle
return of sherlock Homes Sir. ACDoyle
You See But You Do Not Observe By Robert J. Sawyer

Dark Tower IVWizard and Glass by Steven King.
Dark tower V. Wolves. Done.
DT VI
Dark tower VII Not sure I want it to end, though it will be nice to get out of Kingland for a while.
Full Dark, No Stars By Stephen King
Cell By Stephen King
Duma Key Steven King
Insomnia By Stephen King
Dead or Alive By Tom Clancy, Grant Blackwood

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents Earth By Jon Stewart (most of it)

The Cobra By Frederick Forsyth

Breathless Dean Koontz Life Expectency Dean Koontz
Key to Midnight Dean Koontz

2011
The Kennedy Detail By Gerald Blaine, Lisa McCubbin current

[thegreekdog]

Some of the books I read in 2010 (all fantasy or sci fi):

Jacqueline Carey:

Banewreaker
Godslayer

A two-book series told from the perspective of the bad guys. Not as good as I hoped it would be.

Gene Wolfe:

Calde of the Long Sun
Exodus from the Long Sun
In Green's Jungles
Lake of the Long Sun
Nightside the Long Sun
On Blue's Waters
Return to the Whorl

Excellent continuation of The Shadow of the Torturer, possibly some of the best books I've ever read.

Steven R. Lawhead:

Arthur
Merlin
Avalon
Grail
Pendragon
Taliesin

The writing was okay. Not really a recommendation unless you really like the Arthur legend, but want it turned on its head a little.

Glen Cook: I read the entire Black Company series. I highly recommend these books, especially the first few.

Sergei Lukyanenko:

Night Watch
Day Watch
Twilight Watch
Final Watch
The Last Watch

Suck it Harry Potter!

[rdsrds2120]

The Mortal Instrument Series. Here are some of them if you recognize them by their unique and noted coverart:



They're surprisingly good.

-rd

[Hannibał]

Jack London - The Road is my current read on Android Kindle, if you don't have it check it out, its free.

[naxus]

Bernard Cornwall, the Sharpe series. Very long but very good also

[Baron Von PWN]

Just finished
The fighting Canadians by: David Berguson
Europe As Empire:The nature of the Enlarged European Union by : jan Zielonka.

Currently reading Anna Karenina, by Tolstoy