What'cha reading right now?

[severine]

Aside from the obvious forum... I know you guys are literate--what books are you enjoying? Or at least suffering through?

I get to start The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler tonight. Prof said it's cheesy, but it's something like THE first cheesy detective novel. :lol: Also reading Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn for another class and Emerson's early speeches for my American Studies project.

 

[Hawkshot99]

I only read forums. And magazines.

 

[AMAC2233]

Bringing Down the House, which is the book version of the movie 21. It's really good. I only saw the first 20 minutes of the movie and was inspired to read the book before seeing the rest of it.

 

[ctenidae]

Just finished "A Brieef History of TIme"- really good. Understnadable, well written.

Now reading "The Predictioneer's Game" by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita. Sort of a games-theorist handbook for negotiating. Pretty interesting so far.

 

[billski]

Accident reports from Appalachia. :roll:

 

[Warp Daddy]

"The Wild Marsh ,4 seasons at home in Montana" by Rick Bass a new book and the Queen's got a pretty good one too-- "Whistling Dixie in a NorEaster" a new novel by Lisa Patton

 

[HD333]

Just finished Crazy for the Storm by Norman Olstead good read, now reading Where Men Win Glory - The Odyssey of Pat Tilmam by Jon Krakauer.

 

[4aprice]

My daughter has a copy of the Saprano State by Bob Engle about the total corruption that is the goverment of the State of New Jersey. As soon as she finishes her school project I'll sit down with that one for a good laugh.

Alex

Lake Hopatcong, NJ

 

[Geoff]

I'm reading "Children of Dune". I think I last read it in the early 1980's.

 

[gorgonzola]

read cormac mccarthy's the road before the movie comes out in few weeks, my daughters reading my copy now. i'm reading the new dan brown but i keep gettinng it confused with the other ones....

 

[bvibert]

Refreshing my memory on lift operations training guides and Everything the Instructors Never Told You About Mogul Skiing by Dan DiPiro. Gotta get ready for the season!

 

[severine]

Refreshing my memory on lift operations training guides and Everything the Instructors Never Told You About Mogul Skiing by Dan DiPiro. Gotta get ready for the season!

Wait, you read something other than magazines?

 

[severine]

I have a list of about 15 books I want to read when I have time... just found out today I have another to add to the list, too. My winter break will be a full one!

 

[jaja111]

read cormac mccarthy's the road before the movie comes out in few weeks, my daughters reading my copy now. i'm reading the new dan brown but i keep gettinng it confused with the other ones....

Just started this. What an uplifting novel!

 

[severine]

read cormac mccarthy's the road before the movie comes out in few weeks, my daughters reading my copy now. i'm reading the new dan brown but i keep gettinng it confused with the other ones....

Just started this. What an uplifting novel!

Just saw a preview for that movie. How was the book (other than the obvious downer)?

 

[ctenidae]

i'm reading the new dan brown but i keep gettinng it confused with the other ones....

I refuse to read any more Dan Brown. I just can't subject myself to that much pain any more.

 

[Marc]

Just finished "A Brieef History of TIme"- really good. Understnadable, well written.

Now reading "The Predictioneer's Game" by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita. Sort of a games-theorist handbook for negotiating. Pretty interesting so far.

Go get Hawking's follow up, The Universe in a Nutshell. As well written as BHOT, but with more pictures! And updated (relatively speaking... physics pun!) science.


I'm still waist deep in Tocquville's Democracy in America. It's a heavy tome.

 

[severine]

Go get Hawking's follow up, The Universe in a Nutshell. As well written as BHOT, but with more pictures! And updated (relatively speaking... physics pun!) science.


I'm still waist deep in Tocquville's Democracy in America. It's a heavy tome.

He was mentioned a few times in my American Studies class. We read his buddy Gustave de Beaumont's book Marie Or, Slavery In The United States: A Novel Of Jacksonian America. Interesting fictionalized perspective...

 

[ctenidae]

Go get Hawking's follow up, The Universe in a Nutshell. As well written as BHOT, but with more pictures! And updated (relatively speaking... physics pun!) science.


I'm still waist deep in Tocquville's Democracy in America. It's a heavy tome.

I read the 10th Anniversary edition (sad to realize it's been on my "need to read" list for 10 years). I think the major update is admitting that he may be wrong about black holes (the whole singularity, loss of information thing)

 

[Marc]

I read the 10th Anniversary edition (sad to realize it's been on my "need to read" list for 10 years). I think the major update is admitting that he may be wrong about black holes (the whole singularity, loss of information thing)

But even that's still way up in the air. There's still the theory about vacuum fluctuations giving rise to virtual particle pairs appearing on the event horizon that may account for Hawking radiation.