What Are You Reading

[carebear]

Ah! Then on to A History of the English-Speaking Peoples? A mere four volumes, after all.

I've had the box set on my shelf for years, and just never had the commitment to start it. It sits and waits, like The Fountainhead. I have so much reading that I should be doing, that guilt prevents me from picking up anything I that I can't read in a weekend! lol This thread will probably get me into trouble, too, dhermann!

HESP is on my once a year or so list, like Tolkein, Fehrenbach and "Naked Came the Sasquatch".

 

[Medusa]

I am reading 'The Virtue of Selfishness' by Ayn Rand

and

"On the Genealogy of Morals" by Friedrich Nietzsche

 

[Sunny]

Thanks Harp...I haven't read Junction Boys yet, but I have read more than a half dozen more books on the man. I wish there were more fedora-wearing coaches around these days. I guess its a bygone era. Oh well, I can always hope

Oh, our beloved Tom Landry... *sniff*

 

[skwerl-hat]

just finished Dostoevskys novel "the double" really brilliant.
i love classics :eusa_clap

 

[carebear]

Oh, our beloved Tom Landry... *sniff*

That makes me think of Hank Hill's moments of silence and salutes whenever Tom Landry is mentioned. (King of the Hill)

 

[Harp]

just finished Dostoevskys novel "the double" really brilliant.
i love classics :eusa_clap

Fyodor D's The Grand Inquisitor dialectic in TBK is a favorite
passage of mine.

 

[BegintheBeguine]

The Shroud of the Thwacker

 

[carebear]

Just finished "Purity of Blood", the second "Captain Alatriste" novel. (sword for hire in Inquisition Spain)

and

Ruark's "Something of Value" about Kenya and the (poppa-oo-) Mau-Mau.

 

[Jovan]

Casino Royale, by Ian Fleming.

 

[Orgetorix]

Heaven on Earth: Capturing Jonathan Edwards's Vision of Living In Between, by Stephen J. Nichols

 

[Feraud]

For you biography fans -

LOS ANGELES - A new biography of Ingrid Bergman casts fresh light on the making of the 1942 classic "Casablanca," in which none of its three stars wanted to appear. They never suspected that their roles would become the best-remembered of their careers.
In the newly published "Ingrid," Charlotte Chandler tells of a lunch Bergman and Humphrey Bogart had before filming. She comments that "Ingrid remembered that the only subject they found in common was how much they both wanted to get out of `Casablanca.'"

Link to the article.

 

[Harp]

...but they needed studio letters of transit!

 

[Adelaidey]

Maybe slightly boring, but oh well....

I always read two books at a time-- something substantial and a fluff book. Just started Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond.... all about the history of the world's prominent cultures, and why some became the superpowers they are today while others continue to languish in poverty...
... some days I even bore myself! lol :eusa_doh: lol
And my fluff book is Voyage of Slaves in the Flying Dutchman series by Brian Jacques, an author who was a favorite of mine during childhood whom I still follow religiously .

 

[Helen Troy]

Just loved TWC: the New Orleans stay is my favorite chapter.

I haven`t gotten so far yet, but looking forward to it! And even if I really don`t like poodles, I love Charlie!

 

[ClayBob]

Jack Kerouac, On The Road.

 

[carebear]

I always read two books at a time-- something substantial and a fluff book. Just started Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond.... all about the history of the world's prominent cultures, and why some became the superpowers they are today while others continue to languish in poverty...

Good book and very illustrative. I would recommend that after you finish it you look online for other historians and sociologists responses to many of Diamond's conclusions.

Or feel free to PM me for some links and synopsis.

 

[ShooShooBaby]

i'm always reading multiple things at once too!

right now i'm reading:
- the way we never were: american families and the nostalgia trap by stephanie coontz

- odd girls and twilight lovers: a history of lesbian life in the 21st century, by lillian faderman
- the anti 9-5 guide: practical career advice for women who think outside the cube by michelle goodman

i just finished the time traveler's wife and i have to admit, i really enjoyed it! i'm ready for another novel now to balance out the heavier and more though-provoking stuff.

 

[Steve]

Starting tonight:

The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler

 

[Harp]

Michel Foucault's The Hermeneutics of the Subject.

 

[Mojave Jack]

HESP is on my once a year or so list, like Tolkein, Fehrenbach and "Naked Came the Sasquatch".

How many time shave you read it, then?! Great Scott, I'd better get started!

...and when reading Churchill, brandy and cigars are mandatory.

Hmm. Too true. I have the cigars, but I'd better stock up on some brandy.

Matthew, have you read any of Les Hiddens' books? I've read of him, but I haven't laid my hands on any of his books, nor have I seen any of his TV episodes. He is quickly jumping to the top of my must read list. This is my kinda guy! On a side, sartorial, note, I told my wife that Blunnies went with shorts just fine! She forbade me to wear mine with shorts. Maybe if she sees the Bush Tucker Man in his, she'll let me wear mine! lol

Oh, and BTW, I think you're thinking of Messin' with Sasquatch! What's this naked stuff?!