What book are you reading?

[AntMan530]

I usually read nonfiction stuff, but I'm open to any suggestions if you have any.

 

[dug777]

I'm rereading the HitchHikers Guide for the 11ty billionth time

 

[PhoenixOrion]

My wife picked up Tuesdays With Morrie from the bargain bin. I'm 2/3rd's done with it. It's short and it's a feel good novel.

Next up: I plan to check out Robin Cook's latest hardcover thriller.

 

[BudAshes2]

I just read Frank Herberts Dune series for the first time since I was a kid and really enjoyed them. You probably have read it but if not id say give them a shot.

 

[OREOSpeedwagon]

Angels & Demons and 1984 again

 

[deadlyapp]

Bourne Identity - Bourne Supremacy - Bourne Ultimatum

Awesome books.

 

[ForumMaster]

Originally posted by: OREOSpeedwagon
Angels & Demons and 1984 again

weird. same thing. i also recently finished "Time Enough for love" by Robert heinlein for the 11th time and also Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. ZAMM is a really good book. you shoulkd read it if you haven't thus far.

 

[iamaelephant]

Cosmos by Carl Sagan, one of my favourite books thus far.

 

[ubercaffeinated]

Ender's Game

/QED I WINNAR.

 

[compuwiz1]

20000 leagues under the sea - Jules Vern

 

[LordMorpheus]

Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson, it's a good blend of pseudo history and fiction - it's set in WWII and in the early 90's (a couple story threads going, they all tie in).

Nonfiction: "The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors" by Hornfischer, or something like that. Excellent book about the Battle off Samar, a pretty good story.

 

[shortylickens]

A Second Chance at Eden, by Peter F Hamilton.
Almost finished.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

All Quiet on the Western Front

high school reading =P

usually i dont do it but its a war book and i get hooked on war books

 

[imported_Zeke]

If you like nonfiction, I recommend Jared Diamond's Guns Germs and Steel. I know its become very trendy in recent years, but its a solid read and it should keep you busy for awhile. I picked up a copy around 2000 I think, read it a couple times now.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

Originally posted by: Zeke
If you like nonfiction, I recommend Jared Diamond's Guns Germs and Steel. I know its become very trendy in recent years, but its a solid read and it should keep you busy for awhile. I picked up a copy around 2000 I think, read it a couple times now.

i have to read that for an AP class, whats it about?

 

[imported_Zeke]

Originally posted by: AznAnarchy99

Originally posted by: Zeke
If you like nonfiction, I recommend Jared Diamond's Guns Germs and Steel. I know its become very trendy in recent years, but its a solid read and it should keep you busy for awhile. I picked up a copy around 2000 I think, read it a couple times now.

i have to read that for an AP class, whats it about?

See, very trendy. Its actually a fairly large academic peice, so I am really not going to be able to do it justice here. The basic idea is that the current dominance of western culture is not brought on by some genetic advantage possed by europeans, but rahter that they had the proper environmental influences and advantages to allow for their increased dominance.

 

[sao123]

Fiction:
Enders Game
by Orson Scott Carde

Nonfiction:
The elegent universe
and
the fabric of the cosmos
by Brian Greene

 

[shortylickens]

Originally posted by: Zeke

Originally posted by: AznAnarchy99

Originally posted by: Zeke
If you like nonfiction, I recommend Jared Diamond's Guns Germs and Steel. I know its become very trendy in recent years, but its a solid read and it should keep you busy for awhile. I picked up a copy around 2000 I think, read it a couple times now.

i have to read that for an AP class, whats it about?

See, very trendy. Its actually a fairly large academic peice, so I am really not going to be able to do it justice here. The basic idea is that the current dominance of western culture is not brought on by some genetic advantage possed by europeans, but rahter that they had the proper environmental influences and advantages to allow for their increased dominance.

Books like that scare me. If enough people believe it and the government keeps bending over backward, I may have to pay increased taxes just because I'm white.

 

[imported_Zeke]

Originally posted by: shortylickens

Originally posted by: Zeke

Originally posted by: AznAnarchy99

Originally posted by: Zeke
If you like nonfiction, I recommend Jared Diamond's Guns Germs and Steel. I know its become very trendy in recent years, but its a solid read and it should keep you busy for awhile. I picked up a copy around 2000 I think, read it a couple times now.

i have to read that for an AP class, whats it about?

See, very trendy. Its actually a fairly large academic peice, so I am really not going to be able to do it justice here. The basic idea is that the current dominance of western culture is not brought on by some genetic advantage possed by europeans, but rahter that they had the proper environmental influences and advantages to allow for their increased dominance.

Books like that scare me. If enough people believe it and the government keeps bending over backward, I may have to pay increased taxes just because I'm white.

I dont folow the logic here.......the general message is anti-racist........

 

[Wapp]

A Feast for Crows by GRRM. I'm just about done with it and I'm pissed because the sequel won't be out for another eleveny-billion years

 

[imported_Zeke]

Originally posted by: Wapp
A Feast of Crows by GRRM. I'm just about done with it and I'm pissed because the sequel won't be out for another eleveny-billion years

If we are lucky. Solid fiction series by the way.

 

[shortylickens]

Originally posted by: Zeke

Originally posted by: shortylickens

Originally posted by: Zeke

Originally posted by: AznAnarchy99

Originally posted by: Zeke
If you like nonfiction, I recommend Jared Diamond's Guns Germs and Steel. I know its become very trendy in recent years, but its a solid read and it should keep you busy for awhile. I picked up a copy around 2000 I think, read it a couple times now.

i have to read that for an AP class, whats it about?

See, very trendy. Its actually a fairly large academic peice, so I am really not going to be able to do it justice here. The basic idea is that the current dominance of western culture is not brought on by some genetic advantage possed by europeans, but rahter that they had the proper environmental influences and advantages to allow for their increased dominance.

Books like that scare me. If enough people believe it and the government keeps bending over backward, I may have to pay increased taxes just because I'm white.

I dont folow the logic here.......the general message is anti-racist........

Oh, I'm not arguing what the author was trying to focus on.

My general bitch is people complaining they didnt have all the advantages of whites and are entitled to everything we have.

Then I realized I wasnt in P&N and now I'll shut my mouth.

 

[pontifex]

pretty much anything by Robert E. Howard (creator of Conan)

I'm just about to start reading the Mars series by Edgar Rice Burroughs (the creator of Tarzan)

Can't forget Terry Pratchett's Discworld books either. Its fantasy but the author parodies real life stuff and its hilarious.

 

[lokiju]

Grass for his pillow Book two of three in the "Tales of the Otori"

Second time reading it and still love it, one of the must underrated series of books IMO.

 

[SilthDraeth]

Cyteen by Cj Cherryh

Read it. In fact everyone who vies this thread needs to read it.