Whats everyone reading these days?

[hazmat]

Just added All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy to my current list of reading materials. Awareness should be showing up on my doorstep any day now.

[mjh]

I started my history grad classes yesterday, so for the next 10 months it's going to be about 10,000 variations on a theme:

Historiography

fun times.

[ukdudeinuk]

Reading "Secrets in the Cellar" which is the story of Josef Fritzl, the Austrian who imprisoned his daughter in an underground basement and forced her to have 7 of his children.

It's a good read, but it is making me really, really angry.

[hazmat]

Reading "Secrets in the Cellar" which is the story of Josef Fritzl, the Austrian who imprisoned his daughter in an underground basement and forced her to have 7 of his children.

It's a good read, but it is making me really, really angry.

Normally these types of books appeal to me because of the psychological aspect of them, but I don't know if I could get through this one without getting to the point that you are. I've read Whoever Fights Monsters by Robert Ressler, which is about his career working with and catchign serial killers, a bazillion times and I never get angry at what they've done, just more and more interested and mystified in regards to what makes a human being go off the reservation like this. But this Fritzl cat is a whole other level of evil. Shudder to think of it.

[guru]

After a discussion here, started reading ILLUSIONS by Richard Bach again (forgot how many times I've read that already). Have almost all his books. Will be reading the following later -

The Bridge across Forever
Nothing by Chance
One
Running from Safety

Recent reads -

History of the United States of America - found this old book in the closet of my uncle when he was shifting to a new place.
Small is Beautiful - by E.F. Schumacher.

[hazmat]

Awareness arrived yesterday and I've begun reading it. This is some heavy stuff. Going to have to read it a few times before it really soaks in, methinks.

[thunderdownunder]

Just received Mark Rippetoes' 'Starting Strength' in the mail today. Had a bit of a nosey in there on the bus on the way to work tonight. Looks good.

[thunderdownunder]

Turning into a right royal bookworm I am. Just received ''Never Give Up - the extraordinary character of Winston Churchill" by Stephen Mansfield. Souns like a good motto for strength training.....

[hazmat]

Turning into a right royal bookworm I am. Just received ''Never Give Up - the extraordinary character of Winston Churchill" by Stephen Mansfield. Souns like a good motto for strength training.....

Nothing wrong with that, my friend. Wait until you've got 4 or 5 books going at once. That's when you really earn your pocket protector

[baughmjk]

I just joined a book club to expose myself to more fiction, since all I've been reading lately is non-fiction. The first book we chose is "Beloved" by Toni Morisson. It's on Time's list of the 100 greatest novels. I'm only into the first chapter so I can't say much about it, but it's pretty interesting so far. Should be a good read.

[BarbellEnthusiast]

Atlas Shrugged

[lovestolift]

Currently reading the following:
-Starting Strength (Rippetoe and Kilgore)- everyone should have this one and it should be dog-eared and well-worn
-The Audacity of Hope (Barack Obama) - wanted to make sure the captain was awake at the wheel after Dubya's disastrous turn at the helm
-The god Delusion (Richard Dawkins) - I like to be a well informed atheist
-The Once and Future King (T.H. White) - re-reading it, it's a personal favorite

[Ghost]

Just finished Making a killing: The explosive story of a hired gun in Iraq.
True experiences of James Ashcroft who worked as a private security contractor in Iraq between 03 and 05.
Very interesting description of what Iraq is like from a mercenary's pov, also gives good insight on iraqi culture and tells a few stories that never came up in the main press but really should've imo.

[Jim Slade]

Just finished Making a killing: The explosive story of a hired gun in Iraq.
True experiences of James Ashcroft who worked as a private security contractor in Iraq between 03 and 05.
Very interesting description of what Iraq is like from a mercenary's pov, also gives good insight on iraqi culture and tells a few stories that never came up in the main press but really should've imo.

Looks interesting I'll add that to the ol' Amazon list.
I've just started "Berlin, The Downfall 1945" about the end of the Third Reich and the Soviet advance into Germany.

[RobCosimo]

Just started To Have and Have Not by Hemmingway - I like Hemmingway, and it's good so far.

Also got out Chekov's The Shooting Party from the library, his only full-length novel.