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[Undaunted]

What book are you currently reading?  Or if you don't have the time to read a Novel, what magazine are you currently reading?
I'm halfway through the 4th book in the Game of Thrones series.

[charlesdupuy]

I'm currently on book three of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time Series, really enjoying them. I'd definitely recommend them to anyone who's a Lord of the Rings fan, it's weird becasue the books have so many parallels to TLOTR that if you sat back and analysed it you wouldn't think that they're anything but a rip off, yet when you're reading them you just get lost in the story and don't think of it once, it least that's what it is like for me anyway.

[dubbie]

Kill Shot by Vince Flynn

[Gupps01]

Just finished Eric Clapton's Autobiography, God Hates Us All from the TV series Californication, am most of the way through Life by Keith Richards and will then move on to Steve Job's biography

[Myherobobhope]

Currently re-reading Ready Player One, which is a love letter to 80s pop culture in a cyberpunk setting... it's fine, but it's no Neal Stephenson.

Read Reamde last month, and it was awesome.

I'm waiting on:
Final Game of Thrones book
Cold Days by Jim Butcher (18th (?) book in the Dresden Files)
Doors of Stone (final book in the Kingkiller Trilogy by Rothfuss)

I think those are the only uncompleted series I'm tied up in right now... I feel like I'm missing one.

[Shipwreck]

Demonic by Ann Coulter

[nmccarthy94]

Brave New World by Alduous Huxley

[Undaunted]

charlesdupuy, on 01 March 2012 - 06:53 AM, said:

I'm currently on book three of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time Series, really enjoying them. I'd definitely recommend them to anyone who's a Lord of the Rings fan, it's weird becasue the books have so many parallels to TLOTR that if you sat back and analysed it you wouldn't think that they're anything but a rip off, yet when you're reading them you just get lost in the story and don't think of it once, it least that's what it is like for me anyway.

I'll have to read up on this series, it sounds interesting.

[Dr. Shankenstein]

The Hunger Games. My  son just read it and insists that I read it too. It's a pretty good and quick read so far.

[Boogaloo_Jones]

The "Go the F*** To Sleep" children's book.  It's great

Especially when Samuel L. Jackson does a reading of it.

[mac94]

Flatland. Just finished hunger Games and metamorphosis by Kafka.

[J-Tizzle]

Hunger Games and Map of Bones.  

Hunger seems good so far, so I'll probably finish it and then get to the rest of the series.  Map of Bones is good just didn't keep me completely interested so I kinda switched mid book.

[Rich1234]

Re-reading volume 3 of Shelby Foote's Civil War series.

[ZBigStick]

Bury Me in a Potbunker, Pete Dye.

[tpmillsfan72]

The One Minute Manager by Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson.  Can't wait to get the copy of Haney's Book.  Also Jim Hardy's newest book called Solid Contact will be out March 15th.  Can't wait to check that out.

[bobfoster]

Usually have several on my night table (I usually read before I go to sleep) ... but currently ...

Freedom Evolves by Daniel Dennett

Death With Interruptions by Jose Saramago

The Prose of the World by Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Zero History by William Gibson

Statecraft by Margaret Thatcher

The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb

[Petethreeput]

I will be the lone magazing reader so far.  I read The Economist every week.

The one book I have read in the last couple of years that I would definitely recommend is "The Wal Mart Effect" by Charles Fishman.  Very interesting read.

[PedronNiall]

charlesdupuy, on 01 March 2012 - 06:53 AM, said:

I'm currently on book three of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time Series, really enjoying them. I'd definitely recommend them to anyone who's a Lord of the Rings fan, it's weird becasue the books have so many parallels to TLOTR that if you sat back and analysed it you wouldn't think that they're anything but a rip off, yet when you're reading them you just get lost in the story and don't think of it once, it least that's what it is like for me anyway.

I just finished reading book 5 for the third time or so. Just have to last two books to read, but I thought I'd start all over. Ridiculously epic.

If you like fantasy, stay far, far, far, far, far away from Sword of Truth series. It will pull you in and then completely disappoint you in the last three books. If you read it anyway remember that you were warned.

[Mazeoso11]

The odyssey by homer... For a freshman in high school for humanaties

[bobfoster]

Mazeoso11, on 02 March 2012 - 07:37 PM, said:

The odyssey by homer... For a freshman in high school for humanaties

That is an amazing, foundational book in western culture. And if you like the book? Get the movie with Armand Assante ... it is amazing.

[bubbagump]

Any of the serioes that Vince Flynn has.  guy is a great author and his political thrillers are great.

[Mazeoso11]

bobfoster, on 02 March 2012 - 07:53 PM, said:

Mazeoso11, on 02 March 2012 - 07:37 PM, said:

The odyssey by homer... For a freshman in high school for humanaties

That is an amazing, foundational book in western culture. And if you like the book? Get the movie with Armand Assante ... it is amazing.

thanks i will check that out an i like the book, and we are starting book 11

[jholz]

Mazeoso11, on 02 March 2012 - 07:37 PM, said:

The odyssey by homer... For a freshman in high school for humanaties

Nice to see someone is still forcing Homer on students. I was appalled the other day when I found that not a single student in my American Lit. survey had ever read Huckleberry Finn. There is a reason why these classic works have been celebrated for centuries. I hope the tide of education is turning a bit these days and we will again force our kids to read these works.

If you develop a taste for ancient authors reading Homer, you should try some of the ancient Greek and Roman historians - Herodotus and Polybius are personal favorites. Lots of boring parts to be sure, but some of the most hysterical and goofy stories you will ever come across as well. Very entertaining. Most of their stuff is available in Penguin translations and can be picked up used for pennies.

Edited by jholz, 03 March 2012 - 01:55 AM.

[PedronNiall]

Mazeoso11, on 02 March 2012 - 07:37 PM, said:

The odyssey by homer... For a freshman in high school for humanaties

When you finish that and the Iliad check out Ilium and Olympos by Dan Simmons. Great books with the classics as a partial basis.



Also, for anyone wanting more fantasy check out the Night Angle Trilogy by Brent Weeks. A bit of Wheel of Time, etc, a bit of Assassins Creed. A ridiculous amount of story in three books.

[Myherobobhope]

PedronNiall, on 03 March 2012 - 11:33 PM, said:

Mazeoso11, on 02 March 2012 - 07:37 PM, said:

The odyssey by homer... For a freshman in high school for humanaties

When you finish that and the Iliad check out Ilium and Olympos by Dan Simmons. Great books with the classics as a partial basis.



Also, for anyone wanting more fantasy check out the Night Angle Trilogy by Brent Weeks. A bit of Wheel of Time, etc, a bit of Assassins Creed. A ridiculous amount of story in three books.

Night Angel trilogy was pretty good... a little odd at times, but still very good.

I'm currently re-reading The Dresden Files (on book 3 now)... I need to find a new author to dig through.

[TundraToad]

Myherobobhope, on 04 March 2012 - 09:44 AM, said:

PedronNiall, on 03 March 2012 - 11:33 PM, said:

Mazeoso11, on 02 March 2012 - 07:37 PM, said:

The odyssey by homer... For a freshman in high school for humanaties

When you finish that and the Iliad check out Ilium and Olympos by Dan Simmons. Great books with the classics as a partial basis.



Also, for anyone wanting more fantasy check out the Night Angle Trilogy by Brent Weeks. A bit of Wheel of Time, etc, a bit of Assassins Creed. A ridiculous amount of story in three books.

Night Angel trilogy was pretty good... a little odd at times, but still very good.

I'm currently re-reading The Dresden Files (on book 3 now)... I need to find a new author to dig through.

Looking for a fantasy series? I highly recommend Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen. It's a massive 10 book series of epic scope. Book 1 is average and after that it takes off.

Very dark.

[GAL007]

The Rum Diary by Hunter S Thompson

[OpusX20]

I'm on a kick of reading post-apocalyptic books.  I've recently finished The Road, by Cormac McCarthy, by Richard Matheson and On the Beach, by Nevil Shute.  I just starte Alas Babylon, by Pat Frank.  I also just finished re-reading Centennial by James Michener, for the third time.

[Myherobobhope]

OpusX20, on 06 March 2012 - 08:13 PM, said:

I'm on a kick of reading post-apocalyptic books.  I've recently finished The Road, by Cormac McCarthy, by Richard Matheson and On the Beach, by Nevil Shute.  I just starte Alas Babylon, by Pat Frank.  I also just finished re-reading Centennial by James Michener, for the third time.

I recommend some Cyberpunk... a different take on post apocalypse... Word War Z is also great.

Stephenson and Gibson are 2 authors I highly recommned, though.

[MT_Sens]

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