Which book are you currently reading?

[NotThePrez]

I'm about 3/4's of the way through The Red Badge of Courage. Don't really like it, but I have to read it for school (which starts next week. )

I'm also reading this:

 

[Daniel]

Not really, at the mo', I'm reading a Lee Child book: Die Trying

 

[Golfman]

Read all of Clancy's novels up to 'Executive Orders', but finding that one a really hard one to get into.
Thought I'd try some fantasy instead. So I've started Terry Brooks 'Shannara' series.
Reading 'The First King Of Shannara'.

 

[Danster]

Roots: Alex Haley.... Just Finished it... best book i've ever laid eyes upon.

 

[Neal]

Zog (Julia Donaldson) The latest book from the author of The Gruffalo. Obviously this is one for parents with younger children but it's one of her better books. I didn't really like her last book which can get mighty annoying when you kid says "again" after you've just finished reading it for the second time!


At my own bedtime I'm currently reading The Girl Who Played With Fire which looks like it's about to get interesting, hopefully I'll have finished it before the movie is out at the end of the month.

 

[Beliall]

I've just finished all of Andy Mcnabs books, so I'm now reading Steven kings "Under the dome"

 

[Public'sTwin]

Just finished:

The Iliad by Homer - halfway through this, lots of blood and gore, can be quite a slog to read at times due to this edition's tiny typeface.

Metamorphosis & Other Stories by Kafka - delving in and out of it due to it's bitty nature, it's the first time I've read Kafka and this man's imagination is brilliant, though trying to decipher what he's getting at through his use of the absurd takes a lot out of you at times.

These two are what I'm also reading next.

If you want a more lucid Kafka reading experience, The Trial is highly recommended.

 

[boiltheocean]

Just started

 

[allent2]

 

[Golfman]

I've just finished all of Andy Mcnabs books, so I'm now reading Steven kings "Under the dome"

Andy McNab? Was he not a soldier with the SAS in the first Gulf War? Didn't know he wrote books!

 

[sn00pie]

It's a first hand account of the 1996 Mount Everest disaster where on one bad summit day eight people died.

 

[Dotini]

I'm currently halfway through The System of the World, Volume III of the Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson. The first two Volumes are Quicksilver and The Confusion.

These are brilliant historical novels which cover the period from about 1665 to 1714, and although mainly centered in England and northern Europe, also span the globe. Each volume is almost 900 pages, and is illustrated with maps and genealogies.

These are NY Times bestsellers, and very fun, high quality reading.

Respectfully submitted,
Dotini

 

[Crash]

It's a first hand account of the 1996 Mount Everest disaster where on one bad summit day eight people died.

I know that post is from a couple of months ago, but I know the son of one of those people who died. Really sad story.

Right now I'm reading:

Pretty interesting read about some of the inside decisions that were made, and some of the thought processes and tactics of the Obama administration.

 

[SlipZtrEm]

I swear, eventually, I will finish this...

 

[emacs]

Ysabel by Guy Gavriel Kay.

on a side note, i just wish George RR Martin would finish 'A Dance with Dragons'. i heard he's just a few chapters away from completion, finally.

 

[striderx]

I've been playing GT5 since release day and having a blast. As I've driven some of the tracks unfamiliar to me I've come to learn about their history and Circuit de la Sarthe in particular. What a beast of a track!

During the holiday break I was walking past the end cap in our local Borders and the cover of a book caught my eye.

"Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari, and Their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans" by A.J. Baime. Since a kid I've loved the Ford GT40 and had a vague recollection of its history at Le Mans. I bought it immediately.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0618822194/?tag=googhydr-20&hvadid=3795979217&ref=pd_sl_38djzoocag_e

What a great story. The "gentleman's agreement" between U.S. auto makers to avoid promoting speed and performance and its effect on Ford sales in particular proved to be a crucial factor in Ford's entry in to autoracing in the early sixties. At the same time, Ferrari was attempting to save face in the safety backlash following some high profile deaths in the European racing circuit. This lead to Ford courting Ferrari to bolster their pursuit of performance and entry into racing. Ferrari was looking for a way to distract from their role in the racing deaths. Ferrari's snub of Ford's attempt to purchase a share of the company pissed off Henry Ford II resulting in Ford pursuing their own racing program to get back at Ferrari.

The rest is, as they say, history. A.J. Baime's book is a terrific read and a must for a fan of the sport. I have a totally new appreciation for the drivers and the machinery they used to compete in those races. And while reading the book I could take my "personal experience" racing the same circuits - Circuit de la Sarthe, Monza - and have a great vision of what Baime was writing about.

Pick it up. I don't think you'll be disappointed.

striderx

 

[Harley45]

Dammit striderx thats another £6.49 gone on a Book

Good find 👍

Probalby the Best Book i've read in the Last 10 Years 👍

read it Cover to Cover in two Days , couldn't put it down .

Tells the True Story of a British Sniper team in the Deep End .

Rivetting Read , thourghly reccomend it , if this type of Book is your thing .

 

[DK]

I'm currently trawling through Stieg Larsson's famed "Millennium" trilogy. It's great if you don't mind trudging through endless walls of text and hearing about places you know nothing about unless you're Swedish.

 

[Peter3759]

It's not bad.

 

[35mm]

Arturo Pérez-Reverte - The Club Dumas​

 

[bradford]

I read Larsson's Millenium lately, great books.
I also read most Jeremy Clarkson's books.
At this moment, I'm roughly halfway through "The man in white suit" by Ben Collins aka The Stig. When I'm done with it, I'm going to read 'Between summer's longing and winter's cold' by Leif Persson. Then Alexandra Marinina's "Black note" I got for Christmas.

 

[RUI]

 

[Omnis]

If you have any interest in food whatsoever, you must, MUST read this book:

Not your ordinary cookbook.

 

[Daniel]

Gonna start on shifty tonight, seems like a good book 👍

 

[Crash]

This book is an analysis on certain aspects of how people drive, with an emphasis of American driving. An interesting read in that it talks about some statistics and some of the strategies traffic engineers and controllers use to try and encourage certain traffic behaviors, and their results.

 

[illuminationx]

And I'm not actually "reading" it, per se. Just... Getting a quick lesson from good old spark notes. Lulz.

 

[Omnis]

This book is an analysis on certain aspects of how people drive, with an emphasis of American driving. An interesting read in that it talks about some statistics and some of the strategies traffic engineers and controllers use to try and encourage certain traffic behaviors, and their results.

Does it have a chapter featuring the philosophy of the late Hans Monderman? His was a perfect and beautiful example of Order Out Of Chaos, with beautiful civic design as a result.

 

[niky]

Damn Fanfiction.net!

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5782108/1/Harry_Potter_and_the_Methods_of_Rationality

If you like Harry Potter and consider yourself at least halfway intelligent, you should read it.

If you're reasonably intelligent, and thus absolutely hate Harry Potter, object to it not because it's children's literature but because it's an incomprehensible and unbelievable mess that makes no logical sense... and isn't even self-consistent the way good fantasies should be... you should read it.

It's a bit slow in parts, but quite absorbing, and sometimes laugh-out-loud hilarious. Unfortunately, you have to be hardcore nerd-ish, understand quite a bit of science and be familiar with Harry Potter canon to enjoy it. That's as rare a combination as a Buffy-loving MENSA member who's actually read Twilight. I've got a 200 page Magazine to proofread for printing and I can't, for the life of me, stop reading this stupid book!

 

[terminator363]

 

[prisonermonkeys]

Ah, Jetlag Travel. It's brilliant. There's also MOLVANIA - a send-up of Eastern Europe - and SAN SOMBRERO, which spoofs Latin America, but the jokes get a bit repetitive if you read them all together.

Anyway, I'm reading this:

I picked up TOWERS OF MIDNIGHT recently, and with some of the revelations in the latest run of books, I decided to go back to THE EYE OF THE WORLD and start over. It's amazing how much some of this stuff is foreshadowed eight books before it is revealed.