What are you currently reading?

Jonny_B said:
I have a Bill Bryson audio book. It's many cds, but I haven't listened to it yet. I hear he's good.
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Ya hes pretty good. This book he spends a lot of time berating and hating on the park services and talking about how the parks are all withering away, but in a way that keeps it from getting boring. Plus he tells good poop stories.
 
I am currently reading:
[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Forgotten-Man-History-Great-Depression/dp/0066211700/ref=pd_sim_b_title_3"]Amazon.com: The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression : Books: Amity Shlaes[/ame]


If we are lucky it will only be Jimmy Carter bad. With the wrong person in power it will be worst then the Great Depression. :(


Will read next:
[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Inconvenient-Book-Solutions-Biggest-Problems/dp/1416552197"]Amazon.com: An Inconvenient Book: Real Solutions to the World's Biggest Problems : Books: Glenn Beck[/ame]

[ame="http://www.amazon.com/5000-Year-Leap-Great-Changed/dp/0880801484/ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_b"]Amazon.com: The 5000 Year Leap: The 28 Great Ideas That Changed the World : Books: W. Cleon Skousen[/ame]
 
I'm currently reading "It must have been something I ate: The return of the man who ate everything", by Jeffrey Steingarten, Vogue food editor and judge on Iron Chef America.
 
I dislike reading most books, other than autobiographies or non-fiction. I also don't read very fast so I only have the patience to read a few pages a night.
I'm currently re-reading: [ame="http://www.amazon.com/Into-Thin-Air-Personal-Disaster/dp/0385494785/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1200000156&sr=8-1"]Amazon.com: Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster: Books: Jon Krakauer[/ame]

I had to read this book years ago for a college English Writing course, but the teacher assigned us like half the book to be read in one day, which obviously I didn't do. Recently I found this book in some boxes and decided to actually read the book through, and so far it is rather enjoyable. Not that I'd ever climb Everest, but interesting to read about how one goes about doing so, the costs (in lives and money), skills or lack of skills to climb, etc.
 
Jonny_B said:
I have a Bill Bryson audio book. It's many cds, but I haven't listened to it yet. I hear he's good.
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I read his book [ame=http://www.amazon.com/Short-History-Nearly-Everything/dp/076790818X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1200008516&sr=8-1]A Short History of Nearly Everything[/ame]. It was pretty interesting. Although the man must be full of himself, if you click on the link you'll see that his name is bigger on the book than the actual title.
JPatrick said:
I just finished a walk in the woods.
Excellent read.
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I've got that book up next to read. Glad to hear you liked it.

I'm currently reading:

[ame=http://www.amazon.com/Legacy-Ashes-History-Tim-Weiner/dp/038551445X/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1200008660&sr=1-1]Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA[/ame]: A frighteningly awesome book. It goes back and recaps many of the failures of the CIA from its very beginning. It's easy to understand why other countries hate us after reading this.

[ame=http://www.amazon.com/Prince-Marshes-Other-Occupational-Hazards/dp/0156032791/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1200008752&sr=1-2]The Prince of the Marshes: And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq[/ame]: This is the second book of his that I've read and its excellent. It speaks of the trials and tribs of trying to run Iraq. Some of the good things we did and some of the bad.

[ame=http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Exchange-Server-2007-Unleashed/dp/0672329204/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1200008911&sr=1-2]Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Unleashed[/ame]: This is a boring book. Although full of good information, its also full of spelling and grammatical errors. Some of it is painful to read.
 
I just finished reading The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star by Nikki Sixx and then started reading Crazy in Alabama by Mark Childress.
 
Dream said:
I just finished reading The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star by Nikki Sixx and then started reading Crazy in Alabama by Mark Childress.
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ooo ooo...have you read gods in alabama? and also water for elephants by sara gruen. and anything by mary kay andrews. and the sweet potato queens books by jill conner browne. and memoirs of a geisha. and the THORN BIRDS. :D
 
ChikkenNoodul said:
Oooh, actually I have been reading something real recently, I started reading this last night

Anti-Gravity and the Unified Field
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Thanks! I just added that to my wishlist. Please let me know how it is.

edit: And you may want to add this, as it was an AWESOME read
[ame=http://www.amazon.com/Hunt-Zero-Point-Classified-Antigravity/dp/0767906284/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1200017724&sr=8-1]The Hunt for Zero Point: Inside the Classified World of Antigravity Technology[/ame]
 
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[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Autodesk-Inventor-2008-Essentials-Plus/dp/1428311645/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1200020712&sr=8-1"]Amazon.com: Autodesk Inventor 2008 Essentials Plus: Books: Daniel T. Banach,Travis Jones,Alan Kalameja[/ame]
 
ChikkenNoodul said:
How was that? Seeing him on VH1 a few years back makes me sad.
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I loved the book. It was very raw and really shocking at times. The life he lived! The life they all lived....crazy. The book is actually a collection of his actual diary entries, so you get some crazy writings from when he is completely fucked up.
 
Thorn Bird said:
ooo ooo...have you read gods in alabama? and also water for elephants by sara gruen. and anything by mary kay andrews. and the sweet potato queens books by jill conner browne. and memoirs of a geisha. and the THORN BIRDS. :D
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They are all on my wish list. I am currently in search of a good used book store in town. I found one so far, but it is more of a rare book store and did not have a very wide selection of modern writings.
 
in-depth assessment of the biochemistry of 3 types of chemotherapy drug for an exam in 2 hours... groan...
 
Dream said:
They are all on my wish list. I am currently in search of a good used book store in town. I found one so far, but it is more of a rare book store and did not have a very wide selection of modern writings.
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Check out www.alibris.com! I'm a book snob, in that I prefer hardcover books. When they are out of print, Alibris is the first place I check for used books.

edit: Goddammit, I just found a new, first edition of [ame=http://www.amazon.com/Choke-Chuck-Palahniuk/dp/9875661708/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1200058395&sr=8-1]Chuck Palahniuk's Choke[/ame] over at Alibirs for $60, which is CHEAP and probably a price mistake.

Choke said:
Victor Mancini is a ruthless con artist. Victor Mancini is a med-school dropout who's taken a job playing an Irish indentured servant in a colonial-era theme park in order to help care for his Alzheimer's-afflicted mother. Victor Mancini is a sex addict. Victor Mancini is a direct descendant of Jesus Christ. All of these statements about the protagonist of Choke are more or less true. Welcome, once again, to the world of Chuck Palahniuk.
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