Whats everyone reading these days?

[Mehdi]

Started reading Leaving Microsoft to Change the World by John Wood yesterday. Kept me awake until 3am.

[mjh]

man, this thread makes me resent all the readings I'm doing in my history studies. Don't get me wrong, I love studying history, but the theory gets a bit much at times. Working in a secondhand bookshop doesn't help, as I spend my time browsing the books in the literature, business and politics sections, but don't have the time to read any of them.

[JasonLB]

mjh, do you find as you continue your education that you are becoming less and less interested in your subject? I have no interest, whatsoever, in reading history for pleasure these days. It's a downright chore most of the time, in fact. Lately I've been on a science kick -- Michio Kaku's stuff. It almost makes me regret my history degree.

[vibragreen]

The deeper you go into anything the more tedious the details and the less interesting it becomes. You have to have a real passion to study anything passed the bachelor level. Some people simply push themselves to do it if it's for enough money anyway.

I'm an English and Chem double major. Interesting choice huh.

[Guillaume31]

Right now i am reading 'Dance, dance, dance' By Haruki Murakami, and i just finished 'Lines' by Ryu Murakami.
I really like 'Ryu M.' so i decided to try reading 'Haruki M.' .. both are good authors and it fits me as i am in a japan-litterature related period

Next i will start reading 'Histoire de la Legion Etrangere' (story of the Foreign Legion) by George Blond. It's supposed to be the best book on the subject and a miliary classic. Also my little cousin enrolled in the Legion 4 months ago so the book will hopefully give me a better view on what he might be going through right now.

[vibragreen]

Currently reading Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. I like a lot of contemporary Spanish literature (Gabriel Marquez, Juan Rulfo, Isabelle Allende) but I haven't read many Spanish classics. I can't wait to get into it, but it really is a monster of a book at some 1000 pages.

[Lefty]

recently finished:
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Malcom Gladwell)
Living in the moment (Ariel & Shya Kane)
Warrior of the Light: A Manual (Paulo Coelho)
The Laws of Spirit: A Tale of Transformation (Dan Millman)

at the moment i´m reading:
The Life and Zen Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki
The Master Key System (Charles, F. Haanel)

[Wellhairedbeast]

Currently reading Count Zero by William Gibson, i'm finding like Neuromancer that the first half of the book just didnt grab me but that it really picks up in the last half as things start coming together.

Some other books i have read (fairly recently) and would recommend:
Shadow in the wind - carlos ruiz zafon
The Raw Shark Texts - Steven Hall
The Road - Cormac Mcarthy

[JasonLB]

The Road - Cormac Mcarthy

Have you read Blood Meridian? It's an absolutely incredible book. If you like McCarthy, he's at his best in Blood Meridian...

[ArshNZ]

Currently reading: The Snowball - Warren Buffett and the business of life. Its 900+ pages book and at my pace it will take me rest of the year just to finish this one off.

[Dave70]

'The Rum Diaries'
Hunter S Thompson.

'The Tao of Jeet Kune Do'
Bruce Lee.

Hows that for a combo?

[Wellhairedbeast]

The Road - Cormac Mcarthy

Have you read Blood Meridian? It's an absolutely incredible book. If you like McCarthy, he's at his best in Blood Meridian...

I have heard it being described as his "magnum opus" and i do have a copy but i never finished it, i only had time to dip into it and i didn't dislike it i just got into and from sporadic reading had trouble remembering where i left off, ill try it again sometime.

[JasonLB]

The Road - Cormac Mcarthy

Have you read Blood Meridian? It's an absolutely incredible book. If you like McCarthy, he's at his best in Blood Meridian...

I have heard it being described as his "magnum opus" and i do have a copy but i never finished it, i only had time to dip into it and i didn't dislike it i just got into and from sporadic reading had trouble remembering where i left off, ill try it again sometime.

I think you'll really like it. It's one of those novels you can read over and over again just for the aesthetic value -- it's kind of like a really captivating painting, it just never gets old.

[Mehdi]

"Marco Polo didn't go there" - Rolf Potts

[Billy]

"Strong Enough?" by Mark Rippetoe