Books, Movies, Music & Entertainment - What are you reading right now?

The Engines of God, Jack McDevitt

Imperial Ambitions : Conversations on the Post 9/11 World- Noam Chomsky
Why I am not a Christian-Betrand Russell

American Born Chinese - Gene Luen Yang
'Shortcomings' - Adrian Tomine
Classic Mountain Bike Rides - Nicky Crowther (http://apps.facebook.com/facebookshelf/entities?q=Nicky+Crowther)
Lakas and the Makibaka Hotel /Si Lakas at ang Makibaka Hotel (http://apps.facebook.com/facebookshelf/entities/1317580/external_partner) by Anthony D. Robles (http://apps.facebook.com/facebookshelf/entities?q=Anthony+D.+Robles)
Willie Wins (http://apps.facebook.com/facebookshelf/entities/1317598/external_partner) by Almira Astudillo Gilles (http://apps.facebook.com/facebookshelf/entities?q=Almira+Astudillo+Gilles)

Curious George Rides a Bike
The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge
Knuffle Bunny
Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus
Where the Wild Things Are

noteon,
i am reading a few similar. my favorite reading to do.

good night moon- unknown
oh, the thinks you can think- suess

I always explain that the reason Curious George can ride a bike backwards is because it's a fixed-gear single-speed.

right on. curious george is on top of it.

"Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand.

I'm almost done with it, and it's way better than I expected it to be. I would recommend it to anyone.

Finished listening to Full Throttle: The Life and Fast Times of Curtis Turner by Robert Edelstein and The Boys of Pointe du Hoc: Ronald Reagan, D-Day, and the U.S. Army 2nd Ranger Battalion by Douglas Brinkley.

Started listening to Barbarous Coast by Ross MacDonald.

Recently finished: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Phillip K. Dick

Now reading: The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan

Also, in the midst of: The Children of Men by P.D. James
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Up next: I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Want to read: Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
Snow by Orhan Pamuk
My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk

now reading bits and pieces of "Bicycling the Natchez Trace" in addition to my Robert Jordan book.

"The Revolution; A Manifesto"- Ron Paul. So far one of the best books i have ever read.

Notes From The Underground
American Psycho
and this book about A Native American Medicine Man... pretty cool stuff

How Fiction Works by James Wood.

I'm about halfway through and find myself actually nodding in agreement every few pages.

Water for Elephants

Anne Rice: Servant of the Bones Nick Hornby: A Long Way Down

I just finished Heretics of Dune and I'm on page five of Chapterhouse Dune. They are books five and six in the Dune series.

Re-reading The Catcher in the Rye.

I read it for the first time around four years ago. I didn't like it much at the time, but in this second read through, I love it.



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Finished listening to Barbarous Coast by Ross MacDonald and Beverly Hills Dead by Stuart Woods.

Now listening to Jump the Shark by Jon Hein

Road of the Patriarch...R. A. Salvatore. Just treading water here, waiting for the new Terry Brooks release in two weeks.

I'm reading two books at the moment. "Merle's Door" which is a book about a free thinking dog. And "Heft on Wheels" which is alright.

Re-reading The Catcher in the Rye.

I read it for the first time around four years ago. I didn't like it much at the time, but in this second read through, I love it.



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The first time for Catcher is always strange, but the second, third, fourth, all much better. :thumb:

In The Wake Of The Plague: The Black Death And The World It Made
Norman F. Cantor

Tidy little history book about the plague in the 14th century and how it affected men and women from all social positions. Also questions whether the Black Death was the bubonic plague or was it anthrax that nearly obliterated England. Good read, not to scholasticky, not at all dry.

"Blood Meridian" by Cormac McCarthy, cause "The Road" was dark and brilliant. Meridian is darker, more brilliant, bewildering and bloody.

Waiting for "B is for Beer" by Tom Robbins. C'mon write faster, ya sod.

"Blood Meridian" by Cormac McCarthy, cause "The Road" was dark and brilliant. Meridian is darker, more brilliant, bewildering and bloody.

More brilliant than THE ROAD?

The mind boggles.

The mind boggles.

Quite frequently, yes.

Finished listening to Jump the Shark by Jon Hein

Listening to The Landsman by Peter Charles Melman. Think I'll ride a couple extra times around town this weekend and finish this real audio "pageturner."

Finished listening toThe Landsman by Peter Charles Melman.

Started listening to Killing Rommel by Stephan Pressman

Just finished reading The Catcher in the Rye.

Now I'm reading Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis.

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Currently reading The Man With the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren.

Finished listening to Killing Rommel by Stephan Pressman

Started listening to Living Dangerously: The Adventures of Merian C. Cooper, Creator of King Kong by Mark Vaz.

Right now I'm reading Master and Commander by Patrick O'brian. It's the first in the Aubrey-Maturin series. They made a very good movie based on the series starring Russel Crowe a few years ago.

Hey Mercier-- how is The Metamorphosis?
I'm reading:
-Oliver Twist (I'm a big Dickens fan, but I have never read this one)
-The Shack-- more crap post-modern Christianity, but all my stupid peers read it, so I have to be up with it. Gnosticism; Universalism; yuck.
-Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals- Immanuel Kant-- just finished it and I loved it.
-The Nature of True Virtue-- Jonathan Edwards-- just finished and I loved it even more. Edwards is probably my favorite writer of all time.

"The Poet" by Michael Connelly.

"Master of the Delta" Thomas H. Cook
"Katherine" Anya Seton

Finished listening to Living Dangerously: The Adventures of Merian C. Cooper, Creator of King Kong by Mark Vaz. What a guy!

Finished reading Sunset Limited by James Lee Burke.

Started listening to The Sweet Science by A.J. Liebling.

Started reading The Dark Frontier by Eric Ambler

I just finished The Devil in the White City, a piece of page-turning nonfiction on par with In Cold Blood, Seabiscuit, and All the President's Men. I'm starting to re-read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. It might be fresh again, now that I'm learning a bit of bicycle maintenance. I don't know how far I'll get. The narrator's condescension is annoying, right down to labeling his own brand of thinking "classic" and its opposite "romantic." Blatantly sexist references or anecdotes are conspicuous in their absence, as if Pirsig had been protected by a heavy-handed editor, although a few of the narrator's opinions and observations of Sylvia come close.

I think I just talked myself into Little Dorrit.

Finished listening to The Sweet Science by A.J. Liebling, and The Chill by Ross McDonald
Finished reading The Dark Frontier by Eric Ambler.

Started listening to The Far Side of the Dollar by Ross McDonald
Started reading Journey into Fear by Eric Ambler

I just finished The Devil in the White City, a piece of page-turning nonfiction

Agree about the page turning power, though I listened to the Audio rather than read it. I liked the juxtaposition of the architect and the building of his White City with the nefarious serial killer operating in its shadow. The Ferris Wheel story was particularly interesting.

"Red Leaves" Thomas H. Cook
"The Real History Behind The Templars" Sharan Newman
"Jane Eyre" Charlotte Bronte

Catch 22

Not sure how many David Foster Wallace fans are here, but his struggle for meaning ended Friday night.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/158935

Finished listening to The Far Side of the Dollar by Ross McDonald.

Started to listen to Hollywood Crowes by Joseph Wambaugh.

Not sure how many David Foster Wallace fans are here, but his struggle for meaning ended Friday night.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/158935


Yeah, this really bummed me out. I only read Infinite Jest...it was remarkable.

Just finished:
The Good Fairies of New York and Lonely Werewolf Girl, both by Martin Millar. Very funny stuff.

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'What are you reading right now?' thread on Bike Forums.

'What are you reading right now?' thread on Bike Forums.

Is anyone keeping tabs?

I'm reading this whenever I hit the can....

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Just finished The Bedford Boys by Alex Kershaw. Very good.

On the Road: the Original Scroll (Jack Kerouac; edited by Howard Cunnell) and The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court (Jeffrey Toobin).

Finished listening to Hollywood Crows by Joseph Wambaugh.
Also recently finshed listening to Baseball and Other Matters in 1941 by Robert W. Creamer, and The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler. I read the latter a long time ago but wanted to refresh my enjoyment.

Will start listening to The Blue Hammer by Ross Macdonald on this afternoon's commute.