What are you reading?

Me | 12/21/05 | Darkwolf377

[Darkwolf377]

Anyone reading anything good?

[7thson]

I read this many years ago. I thought it was excellent. I agree with you - many memorable scenes throughout the book. By the way, I finished Forever Odd by Dean Koontz and Black Rednecks and White Liberals be Thomas Sowell. I started John Adams by McCollough and also Unhinged by Michelle Malkin.

[angcat]

How Was this book?

[Seamoth]

I rather enjoy Soul of Fire by Terry Goodkind, because it features Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton as villians, as Brent & Hildemara Chamberood (or similar). It's... well... hilarious because it's in a fantasy setting. He describes them both in a very brutal way that every Freeper would appreciate... Hildemara's fat ankles, their plain-looking daughter, Brent's pudgy figure & sexual appetite. And Brent is arrogant enough to try to ascend to the position of Pope. Very surreal and a bit too much like real life for comfort!

The only problem, it's number 5 in a fantasy series, but, it's the only fantasy series I've stuck with. Mr. Goodkind uses the genre as a vehicle for social commentary, without being over-the-top. (Despite all the hints, very few fans catch onto the Bill Clinton parallels, for example.)

[dennisw]

Easy to read. Entertaining account of life in the CIA

[MarkL]

Edgar Rice Burroughs' Barsoom series is available free via Project Gutenberg. Just finished the fifth book, and all I can say is WOW!. The first book is A Princess of Mars.

The earliest books I remember my mother reading to me (and eventually teaching me to read) were the ERB Barsoom series, his Tarzan of the Apes books, and CS Lewis' Out of the Silent Planet.

Great books! If you liked the Barsoom books, you might also be interested in his (ERB's) Pelucidar series as well.

Mark

[PureSolace]

The Bible ;-)

[Political Junkie Too]

I'm reading the free Microsoft Reader ebooks of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories.

-PJ

[Darkwolf377]

I'm glad someone's resurrecting this thread!

The Holmes stories are some of the best reading around if, like me, you write fiction, too. Harlan Ellison recommended all budding writers to immerse themselves in them because they are models of perfect story construction.

I am reading Steinbeck's "Winter of Our Discontent" myself, recently finished:

Orphans in the Sky--Robert Heinlein

The Terminal Man--Michael Crichton

Arslan-M.J. Engh

The Real Story--Stephen R. Donaldson

...and various anthologies of SF and horror stories.

[RavenATB]

Currently reading "Do as I Say," and anxiously awaiting "6-6-06," for the book I'm really looking forward to reading... I won't post the author's name, because I don't have a pic to post. And, I know the rule.

[Political Junkie Too]

I like the first-person writing from the perspective of the secondary character. It's also interesting to read about England at the turn of the century.

-PJ

[Darkwolf377]

Currently reading "Do as I Say,"

I have to get that--what I've read of it in the bookstore was engrossing. The writer encapsulated some of it in a speech posted on Front Page, and it was great stuff which, of course, got zero coverage in the MSM.

[Crawdad]

On the recommendation of a fellow-Freeper, I just read 'Replay', by Ken Grimwood. Very good.

[Darkwolf377]

What's "Replay" about?

I am having the urge, after "Arslan", to read a good, different end-of-the-world novel, myself.

[Crawdad]

From Library Journal
The possibility of traveling back in time to relive one's life has long fascinated science fiction writers. Without a single gesture toward an explanation, this mainstream novel recounts the story of a man and a woman mysteriously given the ability to live their lives over. Each dies in 1988 only to awaken as a teenager in 1963 with adult knowledge and wisdom intact and the ability to make a new set of choices. Different spouses, lovers, children, careers, await them in each go-round of the past 25 years, as well as slightly altered versions of world events. Their deep commitment to one another continues through the centuries of their many lifetimes. This delightful and completely engrossing story will appeal to a wide variety of readers. Literary Guild selection. Marcia R. Hoffman, M.L.S., American Hoechst Corp., Somerville,

[BnBlFlag]

"Shalom America: The Perlstein Success Story" by Elanor Perlstein Weinbaum
The story of the Perlstein family of Beaumont, Texas beginning with the arrival of in Beaumont of Hyman Asher Perlstein in 1889 with a suitcase and $21.00 to his becoming one of the most prominent businessmen in Southeast Texas and his descendants.

"Marine Sniper: 93 Confirmed kills"
The story of famed Marine sniper Gunnery Sergeant Carlos Hathcock and his storied career in Vietnam.

[BnBlFlag]

I've been impatiently waiting for the next "Corps" book!

[PeoplesRepublicOfWashington]

I'm rereading A.B. Guthrie, Jr.'s The Big Sky. The greatest western novel ever written, and the first book in a very worthwhile series.

[Philistone]

Re-reading Hayak's "The Road to Serfdom".

Just finished "Emergence: The connected lives of ants, brains, cities and software" by Steven Johnson and David Foster Wallace's book on the history of infinity: "Everything and More".

[Old Professer]

Get a copy of Raintree County; if you're still sane by the last page, get back to me.

[Old Professer]

I already know all that stuff.