What Are You Reading?

[Dr Grump]

Put down the last five books you've read and your favourite book of all time.

Last Five
Detroit: An Autopsy by Charlie Leduff
With the Old Breed by EB Sledge
A Helmet For My Pillow by Robert Leckie
Soccernomics by Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski
Evil Men by John Dawes

Favourite book of all time:
Game of Thrones (all of them so far)

 

[Gracie]

I need to get GOT. But...until I can get to the library, I have to wait. Soooo....in the mood for IT by Stephen King. I read a little bit every night before turning off the light. I have read it numerous times, but I have a hankering to relive the kids building their dam.

I flip the pages when it gets to the puppy though. Can't read that shit.

Oh..sorry..didn't see the rest of your post.

Hmm.

Swan Song, Robert McGammon
Taltos, Anne Rice
Vampire chronicles (all of them) and Blackwood Farm, Anne Rice
Witching Hour, Anne Rice
The Stand, S. King

Favorite of all time...Swan Song.

 

[Dr Grump]

Oh yeah, you have to get Game of Thrones. Saw the first series and then read all the books. I got told that the books were better than the TV series. When I saw the TV series, I thought, "no way, the production values are fantastic, there is no way the books are better". I was wrong...

The Stand would be my favourite King book...

 

[Gracie]

If you loved The Stand...Swan Song is better.

 

[jillian]

Put down the last five books you've read and your favourite book of all time.

Last Five
Detroit: An Autopsy by Charlie Leduff
With the Old Breed by EB Sledge
A Helmet For My Pillow by Robert Leckie
Soccernomics by Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski
Evil Men by John Dawes

Favourite book of all time:
Game of Thrones (all of them so far)

Ragtime -- E.L. Doctorow
Zealot -- Reza Aslan
Name of the Wind -- Patrick Rothfuss
Game of Thrones (Book 1) -- George RR Martin (not finished yet, but up next)

I can't remember the other i read before thoset right now (no coffee yet).

I think my favorite book of all time is still The Stand by Stephen King.

 

[Dr Grump]

I seem to be reading a lot of non-fiction lately...

 

[jillian]

I seem to be reading a lot of non-fiction lately...

you do! i don't love non-fiction as much. i find that when i have the time to read, i prefer disappearing into other realities.

although Lincoln is in my "to read" pile.

 

[Disir]

I am reading Humanitarianism Contested: Where Angels Fear to Tread by Michael Barnett.

1. The Citizen Machine: Governing by Television in the 1950s America by Anna McCarthy
2. The Devil in the White City by Erik Lawson
3. Sin in the Second City by Karen Abbott
4. The Last Pagan: Julian the Apostate by Adrian Murdoch
5. Law and People in Colonial America by Peter Hoffer

Favorite? Hmmm... maybe the Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz.

 

[editec]

I just started BACK TO BLOOD by Tom Wolfe.

Haven't been reading books much of late.

Spending lots of time reading on the net.

 

[Unkotare]

Merchant of Venice - again

America: A Narrative History - again

The Sound of Water - again

Selected Stories of Shen Congwen - again

Don't Give a Damn: How to Cope with the Fears, Frustrations, and Challenges of Daily Life by Dr. Bill Chun MD - again

Favorite: The Great Gatsby or The Tale of the Genji

 

[Swagger]

There isn't a single book on my book shelves that isn't about the Romans. And apart from some the engineering journals I've read - along with some of my wife's web development books - I have absolutely no interest in reading non-fiction. If it ain't got blood, gore, hope, intrigue, sex, romance, tenderness and betrayal set in ancient times, I'm not interested. Might write one of my own one day.

My favourite authors, in no particular order, are: Simon Scarrow, Anthony Riches, Manda Scott, Steven Saylor, Ben Kane, Rosemary Sutcliffe and Conn Iggulden.

PS. Hooked on Game of Thrones (the TV series).

 

[SayMyName]

"Eagle in the Snow," by Wallace Breem. A fictional novel of a group of soldiers in the Roman army.

 

[Gracie]

It. By stephen king.
Been awhile since I read it. Hated the movie.
Anywho...reading it is like going home to my own childhood..minus the monsters. I have read it many times. I also bypass the chapter about the puppy in the dump. Yep...pass it right on by. First time I ever read it, that was enough.

 

[hjmick]

If you liked The Stand, read The Passage and The Twelve by Justin Cronin. The third book in the trilogy comes out this fall...

 

[Connery]

The Ambler Warning.....by Robert Ludlum

 

[Gracie]

Still working on It.

 

[Harry Dresden]

"Peaceable Kingdoms"...by Dayton Ward.....Star Trek:The Fall...book 5.....

 

[BDBoop]

Am currently wrapping up book one of the Merlin trilogy, not sure of author - but this cracked me up, so I am sharing.

 

[Gracie]

Still working on IT, by S. King..but I bought a book at a yard sale this last saturday called Angelology. Looks interesting so I will be starting that one soon.

 

[BDBoop]

Just started Upstairs at the White House: My Life With the First Ladies. He started at age 29 with Eleanor Roosevelt and retired while the Nixons were in office. I think it's going to be a fascinating read.