What are You Reading Right Now

Discussion in 'Quackenbush's' started by salonghorn-70, Jun 19, 2008.

  1. salonghorn-70

    salonghorn-70 2,500+ Posts

    I'm reading Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds - science fiction. I just started it and have not read this author before. So far, it is interesting.
     
  2. overmaars

    overmaars 1,000+ Posts

    Customers for Life - Carl Sewell
     
  3. mia1994

    mia1994 1,000+ Posts

    Moonraker - Ian Flemming
     
  4. kevwun

    kevwun 1,000+ Posts

    Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947 by Christoper Clark. It's interesting, but not a fast read for me. I've been slowly working my way through it.
     
  5. IRC

    IRC 1,000+ Posts

    The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde.

    Part Shakespeare and part Monty Python.
     
  6. Fievel121

    Fievel121 2,500+ Posts


     
  7. YChang

    YChang 500+ Posts

    The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
    The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
     
  8. Larry T. Spider

    Larry T. Spider 1,000+ Posts

  9. Fievel121

    Fievel121 2,500+ Posts


     
  10. Doperbo

    Doperbo 25+ Posts

    Quicksilver/Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson. I have no idea how to classify it, steampunk maybe, but it's pretty damn good.
     
  11. overmaars

    overmaars 1,000+ Posts


     
  12. pmg

    pmg 1,000+ Posts

    Wilderness and the American Mind; Roderick Nash.
    Ghosts of Everest: The Search for Mallory and Irvine; Hemmleb, et al.
     
  13. THEU

    THEU 2,500+ Posts

    The Great Train Robbery, M. Crichton
     
  14. wewokahorn

    wewokahorn 250+ Posts

    The Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis
     
  15. Puffer

    Puffer 250+ Posts

    Finishing: The Silmarillion, Tolkien
    On deck: The Looming Tower, Wright
     
  16. GT WT

    GT WT 1,000+ Posts

    "The Gates of the Alamo" by Stephen Harrigan.

    Pretty good historical fiction. The author accepts many of the stereotypes for Travis, Crocket, Bowie, & Santa Anna. Had he not, I suspect many readers would be disappointed that he got these characters 'wrong.'

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  17. texashorne

    texashorne 250+ Posts

    Just finished Freakonomics. Just started The Tipping Point.
     
  18. dahorns

    dahorns 250+ Posts

    The First American - Benjamin Franklin

    he was one kickass, smart, no-holds-barred kind of man
     
  19. someone

    someone 250+ Posts

    Blackwater

    Very interesting read on the outsourcing of the military to merc companies.
     
  20. Fievel121

    Fievel121 2,500+ Posts


     
  21. TXHookem

    TXHookem 1,000+ Posts

    50 Rules Your Kids Won't Learn in School - Charles Sykes
    Il Minotauro - Benjamin Tammuz (reading the Italian language translation)
    La Invencion de Morel - Adolfo Bioy Casares (stumbling through the original Spanish)

    About to start either an Evelyn Waugh book or a Graham Greene book while on vacation
     
  22. sanf81

    sanf81 100+ Posts

    Oil
    Guns, Germs, and Steel

    On deck - No Country for Old Men, Garden of Last Days, Collapse, John Adams
     
  23. HookEm

    HookEm 100+ Posts

    texashorne - after Tipping Point, read Blink - also by Gladwell. I like Blink much more than Tipping Point.
     
  24. Coelacanth

    Coelacanth Guest

    Now: King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild.
    Next: The Birth of the Modern by Paul Johnson
     
  25. ppahorn

    ppahorn < 25 Posts

    Barbarians at the Gate

    What Hath God Wrought
     
  26. Ahab

    Ahab 100+ Posts

    Golda - by Elinor Burkett. Good biography of a great leader and interesting insight into the early days of Israel.

    Just finished - Tao of Willie
     
  27. Larry T. Spider

    Larry T. Spider 1,000+ Posts


     
  28. RayDog

    RayDog 500+ Posts

    Rereading Van der Waals Forces: A Handbook for Biologists, Chemists, Engineers, and Physicists
     
  29. jmatt

    jmatt 1,000+ Posts

    Rereading "Dune" for the first time in probably ten years.
     
  30. Mistadobalina

    Mistadobalina 100+ Posts

    King of the Club - about Grasso's stint at the NYSE
    Guns Germs and Steel - why did societies evolve at the rate they did
    Fooled by Randomness - interesting, better-than-thou take on random events in the markets
     

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