Whats everyone reading these days?

[bigwhat62]

Penguin as in the publishing company. So, a survey history of the US, published by Penguin. Don't think I'd be likely to pick up a history of American penguins. But you never know...

haha, for sec i thought maybe you liked hockey and were reading about the NHL team. i was way off. that sounds like an information loaded book.

[Mehdi]

sorry mehdi, didnt try to put words in your mouth. i got that assumption since you have referred to it a few times. i will look into the 4 hour week, thanks for the recommendation.

no need to appologize, the books that influenced me the most are "law of success" by napoleon hill & "awareness" by anthony de melo. 1st one is basic skill set you need in life, and 2nd one just opens your eyes on life in general by trashing a lot internal beliefs.

[Noexit]

Right now I'm re-reading the "Lord of the Rings", I'm in the middle of "Gravity's Rainbow" and during some down time at the office I pick up "The Elegant Universe".

Oh, and random bathroom walls looking for a date. Anybody have a cute sister?

[MysCat]

In rotation, Starting Strength and Strength Training for Women. Also, Please Kill Me: The Oral History of Punk for a little reading for fun. And because I have a 3 yr. old daughter, Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales and other assorted childhood classics.

[helm]

just received Stuart McGill's Low Back Disorders. still reading Offshoring Information Technology and Stephen King's Duma Key

[MikeM]

Just finished "Three Cups of Tea" by Greg Mortenson- excellent book about a mountaineer turned philanthropist who builds schools for rural children, especially girls, in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Currently reading "The Lizard Cage" by Karen Connelly- a very thought provoking novel about a political prisoner in Burma/Myamar.

[bigwhat62]

finished velvet elvis.

[hazmat]

Am currently reading The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde and First Man in Rome by Colleen Mccoulough. Just finished Save Me, Joe Louis by Madison Smartt Bell...pretty good read, actually.

[Andy Mc]

I am reading a book called - 'Do we plan our life challanges before birth' by a guy called Robert Shwartz
Basically, its coversations with people who have had 'real' challenges in life like, blindness, disabled children, addictions to name but a few. Who are looking for answers. It suggests that we plan our major life challenges before we incarnate into these bodies that we are striving so hard to 'tune' with squats and nutrition.

They speak with with various mediums and spiritualists throughout the book who offer this information.

Obviously, not everything that happens in life is a result of these choices but it highlights that there is a definitive gap between our 'soul charactristics' and 'personalities charactristics'' which we pick up from are surrounding peers and environments.
It has helpded me to make some light of things i see on a day to day basis anyway.

Peace
Andy

[7611masari]

And because I have a 3 yr. old daughter, Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales and other assorted childhood classics.

I hope you read her "The Elephant's Child". That was my favorite story when I was a kid, especially the way my dad read it to me. It's a Rudyard Kipling story, so I'm sure you can find it somewhere. The other story I really liked when I was little is probably impossible to find now because of our political correctness thing: "Little Black Sambo". If they just called it "Little Sambo", nobody would have a problem with it.

I'm actually in between books right now, but I'm about to read Chris Matthews' Hardball because it's assigned for my AP Government class.

[hazmat]

And because I have a 3 yr. old daughter, Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales and other assorted childhood classics.

I hope you read her "The Elephant's Child". That was my favorite story when I was a kid, especially the way my dad read it to me. It's a Rudyard Kipling story, so I'm sure you can find it somewhere. The other story I really liked when I was little is probably impossible to find now because of our political correctness thing: "Little Black Sambo". If they just called it "Little Sambo", nobody would have a problem with it.

I'm actually in between books right now, but I'm about to read Chris Matthews' Hardball because it's assigned for my AP Government class.

Hard to find Sambo no matter how it's titled. Also hard to find are any Brer Rabbit/Uncle Remus folktales. I had to have one ordered off the internet. I think amazon.uk has them. Good stuff, if you can get used to the dialect the stories are written in.

[honesty]

Just finished reading:
Toll The Hounds By Steven Erikson
House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds
Karate-Do: My Way of Life by Gichin Funakoshi
Currently reading:
The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall

[hazmat]

If there are any fantasy fans in here, I highly reccommend George R.R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire saga. It's currently at 4 books, with the 5th due out in the next few months. Fantasy generally stops for me at the end of Return of the King. Most everything else I've tried to read in that genre has left me wanting and/or I just have been unable to finish it. The stuff Martin is doing with this saga is unbelieveably well-written and he keeps you guessing from one page to the next. Characters are believeable and Martin has no qualms about killing off the characters you'd least expect to be killed off. Despite the fact that it's fantasy, in a land that's completely in the author's imagination, he doesn't go too far trying to make up "stuff" in his world. Diamonds are diamonds, pearls are pearls. Beasts may have different names, but if you can't figure out what a striped zorse is, you may need to go back to grade school

[benjamin]

I'm presently reading:
The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara - this is the book that the movie Gettysburg is based on, and I'm enjoying it a lot.
The Romans Debate by Karl Donfried - this is for a class this coming semester, and I'm struggling to even make it through the introduction.
The Jesus Storybook Bible by Sally Lloyd-Jones - this is a children's Bible storybook, but it's quickly becoming one of my favorite books. It says it's for children 4 and up, but I'm 27 and I love it, so I highly recommend it.

[Rugger]

Finished reading Fight Club for the millionth time, and am about halfway through Firestarter by Stephen King.