Whats everyone reading these days?

[hazmat]

Just finished A Flag for Sunrise by Robert Stone. Interesting. Also, The Road by Cormac McCarthy...I'm really digging this guy. Am currently in the middle of Blood Meridian, also Cormac McCarthy and working on Underworld by Don DeLillo.

[Mehdi]

Mehdi,

Where do u find your novel choices? I find myself coming to this site and read what others say they are reading and then make a choice, but there must be some other sources that I'm missing

I read the reviews on Amazon. I check what amazon recommends as similar book that might interest me. When I see books quoted in articles/reviews/books/whatever, I'll check amazon's reviews and see if I like it.

Vagabonding => was quoted in 4 hour work week book
spiritual polyamory => recommended in one of pavlina's latest article
the prophet => also recommended on pavlina's blog somewhere, it was it's favorite book or so
letters from a stoic => saw a passage quoted on tim ferris blog

If the amazon review resonates with me, and I like the first free chapter on amazon, i go with it. I don't overthink this much, books are cheap, the reward is great.

[taifun]

The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint by Bradley Udall which was brilliant, and The Last Templar by Raymond Khoury which was horrible.

Sinking my teeth into The Black Book by Orhan Pamuk. It is making Ulysses seem like a cartoon...

[Jim Slade]

Just started "Shantaram" by Gregory David Roberts.

[Cleave]

Just started Benjamin Franklin's autobiography.

After that another Clive Cussler novel, Arctic Drift. After that....I've been wanting to read something on Winston Churchill but haven't decided on a title yet.


Cleave

[taifun]

Just started Benjamin Franklin's autobiography.

After that another Clive Cussler novel, Arctic Drift. After that....I've been wanting to read something on Winston Churchill but haven't decided on a title yet.


Cleave

Read this one when it came out some years ago. Fairly good if I remember correctly.

[mjh]

I don't overthink this much, books are cheap, the reward is great.

With non-fiction, you can still benefit from reading the occaisional book that you hate. If you're reading something that you think "this is bullshit", take some time to clarify why you think that. You can build your opinions and beliefs from opposition as much as agreement.

Likewise, if you hate reading it because it's written poorly, identify why, and resolve not to make the same mistakes in your own writing.

[tenkev]

Leftism Revisited by Erik von Kuenheldt-Luddin -- Very informative survey of the history of leftism and the damage it has unleashed on the world from the French Revolution to today. Learned more about European history than any other book I've ever read.

Sartor Resartus by Thomas Carlyle -- Beautfully written and many amazing passages but Carlyle is a little too Calvinist for my taste. I can see why Emerson and Thoreau were such fans though.

Leisure: The Basis of Culture by Josef Pieper -- Not so great. Some insight; but, I expected more.

Lost Victories by Field Marshall Erich von Manstein -- Interesting history of WWII from a brilliant tacticians perspective. Stop reading after the battle of Stalingrad because it got too boring.

[TheUniqueOne]

Right now reading:

Eric Cressey- Maximum strength
Colin Rose-Accelerated learning

After that:
Tony Buzan- Mind mapping

[thunderdownunder]

Wow where do I start?
At the moment reading a mixture of fiction and non-fiction. I am reading or have recently read:
'Man's Search for Meaning' - Viktor E Frankl
How Tiger Does It - Brad Kearns
It's Not about the bike - Lance Armstrong
7 Habits of Highly effective people - Stephen Covey
A time of Exile - Katherine Kerr
Wrath of a Mad God - Raymong E Feist

Have just ordered Think and Grow rich - Napolen Hill and Feel the Fear and do it anyway - Susan Jeffers.

My wife also just bought me Lance Armstrongs most recent autobiography so I have a LOT to get through. Oh...and I read the Bible every day as well.........

[Gvonf]

Johannes Angelos by Mika Waltari

Novel by maybe Finland's most famous author, which tells a story of a merchant man in his fourties falling in love with a lady of high breed. The love affair is main theme from the lovers' point of view, but actually depicts the situation of the 15th century Constantinople before the turkish invasion. The greek and latin christians are not exactly on civil terms, and political intrigue, religious zealotism and overall tensions are high.

A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility by Taner Akcam

This is next on my list, a controversial book from a controversial author dealing with an light-sensitive subject.

[helm]

I recently finished Stephen King's Duma Key and Blaze, followed by Lee Child's Bad Luck and Trouble.

Now it's time for some non-fiction, so currently I'm having Knock 'Em Dead (Martin Yate), Think and Grow Rich (Napoleon Hill), Getting to YES (Roger Fisher) and Starting Strength on my table.

Next ones will be the new Stephen King, James Joyce's Ulysses and Albert Camus' L'Étranger. Also need to pick up de Sade's 120 Days of Sodom again, stopped somewhere in the middle a year ago because it became repetitive and boring.

So there's always a nice change between fiction and non-fiction - not thinking and thinking

[thunderdownunder]

So there's always a nice change between fiction and non-fiction - not thinking and thinking

I can really relate to that bud!

[TakeFive]

Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.

The first 300 pages have been a really good read. Honestly! Highly recommend this book.

[From Amazon]

History's first billionaire and the patriarch of America's most famous dynasty. Born the son of a flamboyant, bigamous snake-oil salesman and a pious, straitlaced mother, Rockefeller rose from rustic origins to become the world's richest man by creating America's most powerful and feared monopoly, Standard Oil.

http://www.amazon.com/Titan-Life-John-Rockefeller-Sr/dp/1400077303/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1236013456&sr=1-1

Just picked up The One Best Way: Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency. The engineers around here would probably appreciate this one.

[From Amazon]

Taylor invented what became known as "Scientific Management," or simply "Taylorism," an approach to organizing factories and offices that placed workers within a rigid system designed for maximum productivity. Taylor broke down the machinery and management of industrialization, measuring each movement with stopwatch precision to deduce how the whole could operate more efficiently. A man perfectly suited to his times, he lived during the peak of the Industrial Revolution, providing him a grand stage for displaying his ideas. Today his legacy may be viewed by some as a sort of curse; the modern workplace he helped to create pits employees in a race against the clock, virtual slaves to a system created nearly a century ago. The One Best Way is a fascinating history of the man who revolutionized the way we do business and, in turn, the way we live.

http://www.amazon.com/One-Best-Way-Effi ... 835&sr=1-1

[bigwhat62]

man, everyone is reading all sorts of good stuff. i am rereading "practical programming" by rippetoe. i finished the purposeful primitive not too long ago and it was good. i recommend it.