Topic: What are you reading?

[Ghandi]

So much talk about a book forum and no one even posted a thread. I'll take the initiative...

I'm reading The Given Day by Dennis Lehane (who also wrote Mystic River and Shutter Island). It's a lengthy read, I'm only about halfway through thus far but it is quite good.

[Pugnate]

I started Atlas Shrugged. It is pretty good so far. The characters seem to have very complex psychological profiles, which makes it absorbing.

[TheOtherBelmont]

Atlas Shrugged is great, took me awhile to get through it since it's a pretty heavy read.  Right now I'm currently reading William Gibson's Count Zero which started off a little slow but is now going full steam and is great so far.

[K-man]

Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain

[TheOtherBelmont]

Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain

I've been meaning to check that out sometime since I love his show, No Reservations.

[Schlotzky5]

Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain

I read that over the summer. Really liked it. It got repetitive, but you cant beat the colorful anecdotes.

I just got done reading Superfreakonomics and I am now reading A Briefer History of Time.

[Ghandi]

and I am now reading A Briefer History of Time.

I picked this up and started reading it at the store and now I really want it. Let me know how you like it.

[MysterD]

What are you reading?

This thread.

[Quemaqua]

I just finished The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (ねじまき鳥クロニクル) by Haruki Murakami.  Had to read it in English, of course, as it would have taken me 40 years to translate a book that big with my limited knowledge, and I'd probably have only understood a quarter of it if I was lucky.

Not for everyone, but a pretty amazing book, and one that hit me in very personal places for a number of reasons.  I'll just say that by the end of it, I needed a smoke.  I needed one during the last half hour of reading, so I went and got one and finished it after parking my car somewhere random on my way home from work.


Very surreal, very long and rambling, and not the kind of thing you can recommend to everyone, but an amazing novel for a variety of reasons.  I loved every second of it.

[Xessive]

MediaArtHistories, a look into media against the backdrop of art history.

Not an entertaining read but quite insightful.

[TheOtherBelmont]

Well I finished up Count Zero yesterday and liked it.  I am now reading the follow up book to it, Mona Lisa Overdrive

[nickclone]

I just read Kick-Ass, pretty good ( especially since I not a comic book reader). I hope the movie is as good as the book.

[Ghandi]

Just finished The Given Day. Fantastic read. I'm now starting Dostoevsky's The Idiot.

[ren]

In the last few weeks I've read:

The Catcher in the Rye
100 Years of Solitude
The Lovely Bones
Catch 22

The Catcher in the Rye was good. I've been meaning to read it for a while but the author dying pushed me over the edge. It was good. I think I would've gotten more out of it had I read it in high school. We were supposed to read it then but instead we had to read a Canadian book which turned out to be a complete waste of time.

100 Years of Solitude was fantastic. I think it could have been about 50 pages shorter and I would have liked it much more. Not that the ending was bad, it just dragged on a bit at times.

The Lovely Bones was not that good. I picked it up because I remembered hearing really good things about the author. After reading it I think I may have confused her with somebody else.

Catch-22, couldn't do it. I really liked the first 50 pages or so and then got to 100 and couldn't read anymore. It was all just too much of the same. I randomly flipped through the book and I didn't feel like I was missing anything. I'll keep going with it gradually but it isn't engaging enough to read continuously.

Right now I'm reading The End of Food. Non-fiction about the food industry.

Next is Crime and Punishment. I'm really excited to read this one because I loved Notes From Underground.

[scottws]

True to my military/spy thriller form, I'm reading A Ghost War by Alex Berenson.  I just finished The Silent Man by the same author.  Before that it was Critical Mass by Whitley Strieber.

[TheOtherBelmont]

I finished up Mona Lisa Overdrive a couple of weeks ago and I'm now reading the first of the Watch series, Nightwatch by Sergei Lukyanenko which has been pretty good so far.

[beo]

helter skelter - it's not the easiest read, but it's definitely interesting.

[Quemaqua]

I haven't read anything in seemingly forever.  My brain has completely shut down.

Catcher in the Rye is one of my favorite books, though.  I should read it again.

[PyroMenace]

I haven't read anything in seemingly forever.  My brain has completely shut down.

Catcher in the Rye is one of my favorite books, though.  I should read it again.

Yea I need to do that too, I read it in high school and now I forgot most of it.

[Raisa]

Childbearing year

yeah yeah..shut up.

[Ghandi]

Catch-22, couldn't do it. I really liked the first 50 pages or so and then got to 100 and couldn't read anymore. It was all just too much of the same. I randomly flipped through the book and I didn't feel like I was missing anything. I'll keep going with it gradually but it isn't engaging enough to read continuously.

This is probably my favorite book ever. You should really stick with it, you won't regret it.