Summer reading recommendations -- What are you reading?

July 13, 2009 | ChocChipCookie

[wildbill]

At a used book store, I found a treasure trove of books by Ross Thomas, the old master of comic suspense and mystery, most all of them out of print now, but your library will have a selection.

What a great writer. He was honored by the Mystery Writers of America, but so few remember him now.

Missonary Stew, written in 83, about Central America, could be right out of today’s news.

[IronKros]

Is that kindle app offered for the iPod Touch as well?

The Kindle is a hardware ebook reader released by Amazon. However, there is also the Kindle application which is available in the iTunes App Store.

After having tried several ebook apps in the iTunes store, I settled on Stanza. It is easy to read, turn the pages and adjust the auto-scrolling.

The best feature is it's auto-hook into Project Gutenburg to download ~30,000 open domain books for free.

[IronKros]

Legend by David Gemmel... very good fantasy.

That is funny, I just read about that book on a Glen Cook discussion board today.

[Sawdring]

The Unincorporated Man by Dani Hollin and Eytan Hollin.

[gOOsefmalOOsef]

Hey thanks, I wish I would have known that earlier, I have only 4 chapters left, however my dad is reading next and so I have sent him a mail with the links.

[Bodleian_Girl]

Peter Jennings, nah, I’d never read anything he wrote.

I just happen to have a little free time this summer, so I am reading a LOT while I can.

Work will pick back up soon and I’ll be bookless for weeks and weeks. Sadly.

[bt_dooftlook]

You might enjoy “Unintended Consequences”; also, Diane West’s “The Death Of The Grown-Up”; also, “The Collected Works of Raymond Chandler” (2 vols.); and lastly, the Bible (esp. Revelations)

[bt_dooftlook]

“America Alone” was quite good, as is Sowell’s “Race & Culture”

[Clemenza]

Finally got around to reading "A Bend in the River" by VS Naipaul. Great book about post-colonial Africa told from the point of view of an apolitical East Indian merchant. Even better is the subtext about man finding one's place in the world.

Have also read "The Ascent of Money" by Niall Ferguson. Good, but not great. Ferguson is very good when writing about recent crises (the credit and real estate bubble), less so when writing about the roots of money and credit (see Rothbard on that issue).

Currently reading "The Everything Learning Brazilian Portuguese Book." Hopefully, it will help me to figure out what certain people are saying about me. :)

[mathluv]

Anything by Karen Kingsbury. I just finished Amy Wallace’s trilogy ‘Defenders of Hope’. I listened to Joel Rosenberg’s ‘Inside the Revolution’. I always have something going in the car on CD.

[bt_dooftlook]

“Yeager” is great, the follow-up not so much. Best part about Gen. Yeager is his humility, his matter-of-factness, and his gratefulness for the opportunities the AF afforded a young man with a high school education, good eyesight, and guts (along with an impish and irrepressible sense of humor)

[Billthedrill]

From Dawn To Decadence by Jaques Barzun

Atlas Shrugged - line by bloody line, thanks, Publius - ;-)

So Long And Thanks For All The Fish - Douglas Adams. Can't believe I missed it the first time through.

[KC Burke]

The Uncrowned Kings of England: The Black History of the Dudleys and the Tudor throne, by Derek Wilson and about a dozen other things scattered throughout the house and my luggage. I like the detail of Wilson, who I haven't read before. I hope to pick up some of his other works in historical commentary or general history.

[alarm rider]

Bump for later.

[BunnySlippers]

I loved “Daniel Deronda”.

My submission is odd .. but a true American story. The book is “My Lobotomy” by Howard Dully. He was one of tens of thousands of Americans who were given a transorbital lobotomy in the 50s and 60s. It means having an ice pick shoved under your eye socket and waved back and forth in the brain.

It was used like Ritalan back then. He was a child at the time & photos were in the book. He survived but some did not.

Here is the book:

http://www.amazon.com/My-Lobotomy-Howard-Dully/dp/0307381269/ref=ed_oe_h

[colorado tanker]

I working through Churchill's history of WWII. It's interesting to read the Winston-centric view of it all. Someone gave me a copy of the Gipper’s diaries for my birthday and it is calling my name, though.

[Mmogamer]

Ok finished Legend by David Gemmel... Very good,, one of the most satisfying books I’ve read in a looong time...

[Ag88]

Sure is. See:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000301301