What book are you reading right now?

**japollner** · 06-12-2007, 10:57 AM

Well, summer is hear meaning there is alot more time to just sit around and read a good book. What are you reading right now?

Last week I finished up Tom Perrotta's Little Children. Think a satire of how childish adults can be when put in certain situations.

Started My Friend Leonard by James Frey on Sunday. Couldn't put it down. Finished all 400 pages in 2 days. The sequel to A Million Little Pieces. Despite all the controversy around this "biography" the book itself is well written and super engaging. Definatly a recommended book.

Amazon Links:

Little Children

My Friend Leonard

**adam** · 06-12-2007, 10:59 AM

1984 by George Orwell.

**GBB** · 06-12-2007, 11:06 AM

Just finished:
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
The Last Templar by Raymond Khoury

Just started The Race of My Life, Hermann Maier's autobiography.

Isn't there a forum for this?

**snow_slider** · 06-12-2007, 11:25 AM

Just finished: Atlantis Found by Clive Cussler. Looking for my next one.

I liked The Last Templar. A good read!

**ICEHOCEY77** · 06-12-2007, 11:28 AM

Ask and it is Given by Esther Hicks and Jerry Hicks

**mushmouth** · 06-12-2007, 11:31 AM

Just about to start: Green River, Running Red

**jbach** · 06-12-2007, 11:33 AM

Finished some non-fiction books last week...

The 4 Hour Workweek -- great book, must read

The Dip -- short, it was ok

And now I'm reading The Grapes of Wrath...seems slow right now, I'm not really getting into it, but we'll see...

**mc_roon** · 06-12-2007, 11:41 AM

Origins of Totalitarianism

**Mr.Scruff** · 06-12-2007, 11:46 AM

Mentally preparing to tackle Atlas Shrugged

**pappag** · 06-12-2007, 11:51 AM

"How to Navigate the Forums" by Sir Jongalot.

**japollner** · 06-12-2007, 11:57 AM

Originally Posted by Mr.Scruff

Mentally preparing to tackle Atlas Shrugged

I was thinking of starting that...It looks long, and the print is small...

**PowTron** · 06-12-2007, 11:58 AM

Balance Point, New Jedi Order by Kathy Tyers...

and yes, I am a MAJOR Star Wars nerd

**snowsprite** · 06-12-2007, 11:59 AM

Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho --superb!

Rescuing Patty Hearst by Virginia Holman-- awesome!

and

Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert --having some trouble really getting into this one

Sprite

**tex1230** · 06-12-2007, 12:10 PM

Clive Cussler - Just finished Treasure of Khan, now Starting The Navigator.

I read Atlas Shrugged years ago...I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy.

**skinny_kid** · 06-12-2007, 12:28 PM

On my way back to the States I found a really good book called The Damage Done Twelve Years of Hell in a Bangkok Prison.

It was written by an Australian named Warren Fellows that was arrested in Bangkok for trying to traffic heroin back to Australia. The book, as you can tell from the title, is about the twelve years of a life sentence he served in four different Thai prisons. It wasn't a hard read at all and I flew through the book but I still would recomend it to everybody. I wish I could tell the story right now. Go grab it

And I was making my way through and original copy of The Theory and Practice of Communism but lost it. I gots to know what my enemies be thinkin

**lemon boy** · 06-12-2007, 12:35 PM

Originally Posted by adam

1984 by George Orwell.

Nice Adam!

right now: Island - Aldous Huxley
just done: Lenin in Zurich - Solzhenitsyn

**Mrs Roo** · 06-12-2007, 12:37 PM

Fundamental Statistics for the Behavioural Sciences

and

Gait Analysis: An introduction

Boooooooooooooo!

**lemon boy** · 06-12-2007, 12:43 PM

Originally Posted by Mrs Roo

Git Analysis: An introduction

tantalizing!

**Odin** · 06-12-2007, 12:45 PM

Originally Posted by lemon boy

just done: Lenin in Zurich - Solzhenitsyn

Dear Diary,

Zurich is great. I hate that new kid trotsky, he keeps on talking about me behind my back calling me dome head.

I think I'll rename a city. Then everyone will love me.

I like pansys too.

Love Lenin
XOXOXOXOXOXO

**Joey Joe Joe Junior Shabadoo** · 06-12-2007, 12:47 PM

Finshed last week: Bringing Down the House and Ugly Americans
Reading: Cold Mountain(for the second time, waayyyy better than the movie) and The Mystery of Capital

**SafteySquad** · 06-12-2007, 12:48 PM

The Count of Monte Cristo (full version)...

It's taken me forever because the library lost the second volume of the book and I'm forced to read it off the internet. Reading through a computer screen is unpleasant to say the least (although it makes for a nice time waster at work).

**MakersTeleMark** · 06-12-2007, 12:48 PM

One Man's West by David Sievert Lavender:

http://tinyurl.com/26tj8z

Highly recommended for the coloraggots.

**Hutch** · 06-12-2007, 01:03 PM

Just finished The Big Sky on Monday morning

Just started Quicksilver last night.

**maniloff** · 06-12-2007, 01:22 PM

I'm one of those people that reads a ton of things at once, not making progress on any, but enjoying all.

Experience and Education, John Dewey

Mathematics for Economists, Simon & Blume - I've gotten rusty since college.

something or other whose title I forget, Tom Robbins

August 1914, Solzhenitsen

Main Street, Sinclair Lewis

Entreprenurial Economics, Alex Tabarrok - if you like Freakonomics but want something a little meatier, I'd reccomend this.

BIKE, Powder, SI, the usuals

**flatlander#2** · 06-12-2007, 01:29 PM

Sometimes a Great Notion, Ken Kesey
Winter of Our Discontent, Steinbeck

In addition to the nightly reads of the adventures of Clifford, the Great Gracie Chase and others.