What'cha Reading?

[Doc Durian]

Benjamin Franklin - The Autobiography and Other Writings

A remarkable character he was.

[Gigabitch]

Finished "on the road" by jack kerouac a week ago.
Great book.

Let me guess. You're 22 and come from a very stable, middle-class home.

I keep meaning to read Clive Barker. I love a good horror story.

Weave World isn't horror, though. I loved it.

I tried to get into Neal Stephenson's "Anathem" and just couldn't. I got a couple hundred pages in and put it down for now.

Usually, his stuff really grabs me.

[Spicy]

True... Weave World is Clive Barker's one and only fantasy book, and in my humble opinion, his best.

[little pingoin]

Crime and Punishment ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky (really good) {classic literature}
Princeps' Fury ~ Jim Butcher (Codex Alera series ~ freaking awesome) {sci-fi/fantasy}
Blood Noir ~ Laurel K Hamilton (eh) {it's in the horror section, but I don't know why... should be in erotica}
Beyond the Shadows ~ Brent Weeks (The Night Angel Trilogy ~ freaking awesome... I want to be a wetboy!) {sci-fi/fantasy}

I'm always reading multiple books.

[little pingoin]

I tried to get into Neal Stephenson's "Anathem"

Awesome! This book was recommended to me, but I couldn't remember what the hell it was called. Now I do. Thanks!

[CAM]

I write books and articles for a living, which isn't conducive to reading for enjoyment.

Let's see...I'm trying to plow through "The Clash of Orthodoxies" by Robert George. Pretty good--very thought-provoking.

Wish I could read more, but I get so lonely in the evening, that it hurts to much to be quiet and yet I can't fall asleep.

[IndiReloaded]

I really like this series, tho the number of books is getting a bit lengthy and too similar. Hope she wraps it up soon:

[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreigner_universe[/url]

[Gribble]

I read Killing Rommel a couple weeks ago. Great book. It's historic fiction, which sounds like crap, but the author, Steven Pressfield, is very talented. The book reads like a very good memoir. It follows a pack of British desert rats as they hunt Rommel through a no-man's land of inhospitable terrain, grueling heat and enemy patrols. Hunt is probably the wrong word. More like flee from one bunch of Nazis to the next, struggling to keep their ragtag collection of vehicles running with chewing gum and shoestrings. Excellent read.

[IndiReloaded]

Here Gribble, a non-fiction book on Globalization

[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lexus_and_the_Olive_Tree[/url]

[Cbrider]

I managed to put down Where's Waldo? Lost in Europe.

I picked up the newest sportrider to read the liter bike shootout.

Prodigy of the modern education system, I am.

[MVPlaya]

Lexus and the Olive Tree was a terrible book, one of the few that really made me hate Friedman for a while. His data is so stretched especially when he talks about the effects of globalization on Africa. For his data he cites growth from 1960 and then compares it to 2000, noting that sub-Saharan Africa is doing better, but his data doesn't include the fact that most African nations pursued a government-driven socialist-esque development model from 1960 to 1980, during which time the majority of their growth came, and that many of these nations entered decline from 1980 to 2000 when the policies he espouses were put into action.

If you want to read a better book on Globalization I'd recommend Globalization and Its Discontents, by Joseph Stiglitz. He won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2001 for his work on informational asymmetry, that book is one of the main reasons I studied Economics.


I'm currently reading Ulysses by James Joyce. I'd also heavily recommend Dune by Frank Herbert, the movies were a pile of shit, but the books are a pretty brilliant blend of philosophy, politics, economics, and geology. There is a lot of depth to the stories, the dialogue, and plot twists that you will only notice if you micro-analyze a lot of the passages, and I enjoy doing that if there is a reward for it. Dune is good brainy fiction. All the way through Dune 4 (God Emperor of Dune). 5 & 6 are so-so. 7 (two-part, written by his son and Kevin J. Anderson) is an affront to the series.

[xxseyixx]

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[vashti]

I'm currently reading Ulysses by James Joyce.

Good god, I hated the stream-of-consciousness portion... I really liked his short stories, though. Especially Araby and The Dead.

[IndiReloaded]

Friedman is more readable to the general public than Stiglitz's book, which is why I suggest it. As an economist (PhD?), MVP, you will have a more discerning opinion. But a lot of those books are just too heavy going for the general reader.

Dune is a good set of books. I read them about 20 years ago now. LOL. Still, the first three are classic.

Not a fan of Joyce. Boring, IMO.

[Aeradalia]

Finished reading "Clan of the Cave Bear" by Jean Auel, about midway through "1984" by George Orwell, and looking forward to reading either Leo Tolstoy or Ayn Rand.

"A Brief History of Time" by Stephen Hawking was a fascinating read as was "The Selfish Gene" by Richard Dawkins.