What are you reading?

[pigskin]

No I haven't he was just recommended to me and I started with that book. I will be getting his others, it looks like he has a couple of different series.

[Mister Hoarse]

2 noirish recommends:
The Wheelman by Duane Swierczinski
Live By Night by Dennis Lehane

[Millionaire Wussy]

Ok, I'm a book nerd. An omnivorous book nerd. I LOVE books. Mostly fiction, but I once was so bored I read a college textbook on Social Structure in Middle Ages Europe.

What are you reading right now?

I was going to read the newest J.D. Robb "In Death" book, but I found out I missed one that had been released in between, so I need to track that one down.

Otherwise, I'm re-reading Stephen King's Tommyknockers (about the 5th time).

Hey Karl, that seems pretty interesting (social structure in Middle ages Europe). I found a CliffsNotes version of it. I liked "The Rise and Fall of the Feudal System in Europe" part at the end. Brief but well stated.

http://www.thefinertimes.com/Middle-Ages/government-in-the-middle-ages.html

[Lightningwill_420]

I've been re-reading Exodus.
Wish I could read Hebrew.

"I, the Lord, your G-d, am a jealous G-d, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me."

For those who like quicker reads, Bob Marley has a good "Cliff Notes"-style audio version of it.

[KarlC]

Hey Karl, that seems pretty interesting (social structure in Middle ages Europe). I found a CliffsNotes version of it. I liked "The Rise and Fall of the Feudal System in Europe" part at the end. Brief but well stated.


http://www.thefinertimes.com/Middle-...ddle-ages.html

The one I read was Feudal Society Volume 2 by Marc Bloch (translated by L. A. Manyon).

Speaking of Feudal Europe, I just finished yet another non-fiction book: A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain
by Marc Morris. Dry as hell if you don't like history, but very interesting and informative if you do. It really fleshes out the before-and-after of "Longshanks" reign, not to mention making him more than the one-dimensional villain he's been portrayed as in Braveheart. It really does the history more justice than the movie.

[KarlC]

2 noirish recommends:
The Wheelman by Duane Swierczinski
Live By Night by Dennis Lehane

If you're into noir, have you ever read any Raymond Chandler? I finally read The Big Sleep in the late 90s, and I gotta say it exceeded my expectations. It was certainly better than any of the film adaptations.

I'd really like to try some book versions of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer. I saw a movie version of one of them and it looks like a seedier, more immoral Marlowe, but interesting.

[KarlC]

For fiction fans, I've ben reading a fun one lately called:

Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination

It's an anthology that deals with - you guessed it- Mad Scientists or some kind of corollary. Some stories are comical, some tongue-in-cheek, some tragic, but so far, they're all really good. One even deals with a kind of sewing circle of mad scientist's daughters. Very cool.

[Coachmarkos]

Finished Game of Thrones Book 1. (Finally!)

Reading Dr. Drew's Cracked, and Jim Gaffigan's Dad is Fat.

Needed to read something different.

Will probably go back into fiction when I finish these.

[Mister Hoarse]

Last Kind Words Saloon by Larry McMurtry
Good western and a quick read. Got a new eye prescription for readers and I'm taking full advantage of being able to read!

[bonehead]

One Summer: America, 1927
by Bill Bryson
Non-fiction enthusiasts, it does not get any better than this book.

I'm reading this now and you are right it's an excellent read.

[Mister Hoarse]

I'm reading this now and you are right it's an excellent read.

I was fascinated by the aeronautics story line. Before Lindbergh, the avaition industry was mostly inventors building death traps in barns and garages. Amazing how the world turned in a few months.

[Mister Hoarse]

Reading The Burning Room by Michael Connelly right now.
Latest in the Harry Bosch series.