Summer reading recommendations -- What are you reading?

July 13, 2009 | ChocChipCookie

[ChocChipCookie]

I haven't seen a good summer reading thread, so I thought I'd start one. What books have you read so far this summer, what are you currently reading, and what is in your book stack?

I just started reading The Doomsday Key by James Rollins. So far it has an interesting premise, genetically altered foods, but I am only about 1/8 of the way through.

I will probably read Glenn Beck's Common Sense and maybe Dred Scott's Revenge by Judge Napolitano.

I love hearing what everyone else is reading!

[jalisco555]

Stay away from Stranger in a Strange land. Talk about a 180.

You got that right. I tried re-reading it a while back and couldn't get through it. And speaking about re-reading Heinlein I recently re-read Door Into Summer, which was one of my favorites when I was growing up. This time I found the relationship between the main character and the little girl borderline creepy.

[iceskater]

Finished “The Forgotten Man” about a month ago. Liked it.

Switched to a couple of Steve Berry novels “The Venetian Betrayal” and “The Alexandria Link.” Good fluff.

Back to more serious stuff shortly: Mark Levin’s new book, 5,000 Year Leap, Liberal Fascism.

Then more fun stuff - I have an anthology of Jane Austen’s novels that I want to read.

[jazminerose]

That is a must read!

Next month: Obamanutz: A Cult Leader Takes the White House. www.joytiz.com

[Mamzelle]

bookmark bump

[jalisco555]

Maybe when you’re done with your conventional Austin you can check out the revised version of Pride and Prejudice called “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance - Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!” by Jane Austina and Seth Grahame-Smith. It’s on my list!

[CollegeRepublican]

So far this summer I have read:

Lone Survivor - About Navy Seals in Afghanistan.
The Great Bridge - About the Brooklyn Bridge.
Cemetery Dance - Fiction.
Public Enemies - Hoover, the FBI, Dillinger, Bonnie & Clyde and the War on Crime from 1933-1935.
Surfer Magazine, Forbes Magazine, and Surfers Journal

On Deck:
All for A Few Perfect Waves - A Biography of Miki Dora
Atlas Shrugged - No explanation necessary.
Chesapeake - Michner. My favorite book. I read it every year.

[iceskater]

Hmmmm....sounds..uh..interesting. Is it available on Kindle?

[Malsua]

Robin Hobbs

Assassin’s Apprentice.

[FourPeas]

Goldberg’s “Liberal Fascism”
C.S. Lewis’ “Out of the Silent Planet”

[jalisco555]

Hmmmm....sounds..uh..interesting. Is it available on Kindle?

Indeed it is. I love my Kindle.

[listenhillary]

http://www.amazon.com/Pride-Prejudice-Zombies-Classic-Ultraviolent/dp/B0023ZLILK/ref=ed_oe_k

[IronKros]

You got that right. I tried re-reading it a while back and couldn't get through it. And speaking about re-reading Heinlein I recently re-read Door Into Summer, which was one of my favorites when I was growing up. This time I found the relationship between the main character and the little girl borderline creepy.

I hadn't heard of that book so I had to wiki it.
I think I'll skip it. :)

"The early Heinlein biographer and critic Alexei Panshin, in his 1968 biography Heinlein in Dimension, took note of a controversial theme: "The romantic situation in this story is a very interesting, very odd one: it is nothing less than a mutual sexual interest between an engineer of thirty and a girl of twelve ('adorable' is Heinlein's word for her), that culminates in marriage after some hop-scotching around in time to adjust their ages a bit."

[Skooz]

“A. Lincoln: A Biography” by Ronald C. White Jr.

Quite good.

[iceskater]

Well, I’m in the process of moving. And the thought of moving all my books makes my back hurt.

So, the Kindle is looking more and more inviting all the time. :)

[urtax$@work]

Fire over the islands; the coast watchers of the Solomons, Horton, Dick Crofton.

The happy isles ; a diary of the Solomons , Horton, Dick

Next: Where the sun stood still : the untold story of Sir Jacob Vouza and the Guadalcanal Campaign, Richter, Don.

[ctdonath2]

The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
Survive! - Les Stroud
Holy Terror - Richard Marcinko
Political Control of the Economy - Edward Tufte
The Unthinkable

[lonestar]

Common Sense

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

I'm reading the Gnostic Religion, by Hans Jonas.

[ctdonath2]

Beowulf is a “must re-read periodically” book. Dig out Tolkein’s discussion of it. The Seamus translation was quite good.

[tnlibertarian]

Thanks. I’m glad you don’t have to take all 4 parts at once, anymore. Passed 2, wating on one score, one (hopefully) to go.