any avid readers??

[sana]

I've been reading a lot of books lately. It started when I was riding the train for 3 hours a day. I'm still reading lots of books from the library now. But I've gotta cut down now cuz I'm studying for my CFP.

I just read 2 really good thrillers from David Baldacci - the camel club & the collectors.

Anyone read any good books lately??

[blm]

Into the Wilderness. Great book. Great soundtrack and I'm looking forward to seeing the movie when it hits dvd.

[sana]

oh that by krakauer?? Did u ever read any of his other books? I wanted to go climb everest after I read Into Thin Air. You should read Under the Banner of Heaven too if you like non-fiction like that. It's a scary history of the Mormon faith.

[The_Grinder]

i aint into all that fancy book learnin

[FitnessBrat]

I love to read but don't really find the time to do it as much as I'd like. I've read a couple of Baldacci's books - he is good. My favorites are James Patterson (murder mystery) and Robin Cook (medical mystery).

[sana]

when I go to the library this weekend, I'm gonna pick up a book by Vince Flynn. He's supposed to be a really good for the spy thriller type books

I have Atonement also that I have yet to read. I read the first few chapters ad it just feels too dense compared to the thrillers and suspense novels I've been reading lately.

[rado]

I read books on Chiropracting and it's field...I also read the Bible

[NewbieChris]

I just finished Greenspan's book. Planning on reading something by Bernanke sometime soon.

[sana]

How was the Greenspan book?

[NewbieChris]

He really tries to emphasize the fact that he is a classical economist. That is the thing that always sticks out in my mind. I'm thinking, okay, okay, I get it. Written very well so that it is easy to understand. All and all I say its a good read for anyone, especially to understand some basic economics concepts that everyone should really know.

[Stonecold54]

wow I have read all those, baldacci (great books), kraukauer (spelling, lol). his book on mormons is really good to. and I am reading the greenspan book right now. i just finished the lastest James patterson. reading a jeffery Deaver book and I have started reading WEB Griffins book series (yeah I am a nerd, lol). oh and I just finished Stephen Kinds latest DUMA KEY...one of the best books I have read in a very long time. great writing for stephen king.

[dna9488]

the recent book i read was "The Kite Runner" By Khalid Hosseini. Very good book and made me get emotional a few times. The movie is similar to the book, but the book has more story to it and goes in detail on some of the events.


Another good book that i was forced to read in English class was "The Pact" Great story about 3 friends that were raised in the Ghetto's of Newark, and now are 3 successful doctors. Very motivating and inspiring.

[barbender]

The God Delusion is a great book about the separation of religion and science.

[sana]

Cool ... I had seen Duma key on amazon's site but didn't look at reviews. I've been using amazon's reviews to find new books to borrow from the library.

Anyone read The Omnivore's Dillema yet?

[Stonecold54]

Originally Posted by barbender

The God Delusion is a great book about the separation of religion and science.

ooo read that too...good book

[sana]

stonecold, I never thought u to be such a bookworm

What's ur next book??

[Stonecold54]

Originally Posted by sana

stonecold, I never thought u to be such a bookworm

What's ur next book??

I should take photos of my shelves, I have so many books stacked deep and things that i HAVEN'T read, lol... well after I finish the 3 books I am reading now, I am not sure. My dad told me that stephen Kings "Liseys story" was suppose to be just as well written as DUMA KEY so i might check that out. I usually try to get 2 fiction and one non-fiction on my plate. I think I want to read The Art of War by SunTzu. I started to read it in Barnes and noble the other day and was interested. and I have been picking up the same asian cookbook lately a lot. I plan on buying that too and cooking my ass off...though I guess that is not a "Read", lol.

[sana]

Bouncer's been making fun of me b/c I've been borrowing so many books from the library.... It's been good b/c this way I'm not stacking books up. But I've got my eyes on an amazon kindle. I REALLY want one but since I just bought myself the iPhone, I probably won't get that until next year. I just like the idea I being able to carry hundreds of books in one device at once.

I truly haven't read Stephen King since like high school, but I used to love his books. I'm definitely gonna check some out from the library.

The book I have on deck right now is supposed to be a humorous novel by Christopher Moore called A Dirty Job. Lighthearted reading is always fun

[Stonecold54]

Originally Posted by sana

Bouncer's been making fun of me b/c I've been borrowing so many books from the library.... It's been good b/c this way I'm not stacking books up. But I've got my eyes on an amazon kindle. I REALLY want one but since I just bought myself the iPhone, I probably won't get that until next year. I just like the idea I being able to carry hundreds of books in one device at once.

I truly haven't read Stephen King since like high school, but I used to love his books. I'm definitely gonna check some out from the library.

The book I have on deck right now is supposed to be a humorous novel by Christopher Moore called A Dirty Job. Lighthearted reading is always fun

if you want a good series read "THE DARK TOWER" series by stephen king. it ties all his books together and is one of the best stories he writes...its 7 volumes long. it was an intense series to the point when characters die off I had tears in my eyes, you get so attached to them, they are so well written and life like.

[sana]

I read the first three dark tower books in high school. Hehe... I think if I were to pick up right frm the middle again I'd be so confused. I'm sure it's at the library form me to check out

[Stonecold54]

Originally Posted by sana

I read the first three dark tower books in high school. Hehe... I think if I were to pick up right frm the middle again I'd be so confused. I'm sure it's at the library form me to check out

I should get a library card. I could probably make a car payment with what i drop on books a month

[sana]

Most definitely. I find myself checking books out that I wouldn't buy yet b/c they're hardcover AND I check out books that I may not buy myself. If I don't like a book, I bring it back and feel absolutely no guilt

Put ur tax dollars to use and get yourself a library card!!

[Scrumhalf]

I posted on my reading habits in a recent thread from a couple of months ago.

I subscribe to Scientific American and National Geographic magazines and I generally read them cover to cover every month. I used to subscribe to the New Yorker and Atlantic magazines but I didn't find enough stuff there to always hold my interest, so I canceled them.

I read a *lot* of books. Probably a book every other week on average. A sampling of my book list over the last year - some of these are new reads, some are re-reads. As you can see, it is very diverse subject-wise.

Stephen Jay Gould: The Mismeasure of Man.
A great book on the misuse of IQ tests and miscorrelation of physical characteristics with intelligence and the tragic consequences when used to set government policy

The Crystal Desert: Summers in Antarctica
David Campbell
A wonderful essay on a biologist spending a summer in Antarctica doing research.

Fire
Sebastian Junger
A book of essays on dangerous occupations including sections on firejumpers in the western US, the Kosovo genocide and the diamond trade in Africa.

In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind
Eric Kandel
An autobiography as well as popular science treatise on the science of human memory by the Nobel Prize winning neuroscientist

Chasing Hubble Shadows
Jeff Kanipe
A book on the use of the Hubble Space Telescope to research distance galaxies and in doing so, the origin of the universe

Return to Wild America: A Yearlong Search for the Continent's Natural Soul
Scott Weidensaul
A marvelous book of luminous prose about a naturalist's trip around the US and all that's wonderful and not-so wonderful about wildlife conservation in North America.

The Snow Leopard
Peter Mathiessen
Part travelogue about a journey to Nepal to spot the elusive snow leopard, part essays and ruminations about Buddhism.

Eastward to Tartary
Robert Kaplan
Travelogue of the author's trip in the Balkans, Asia Minor, the Caucasus and the Middle East

Fermat's Enigma
Simon Singh
A book on the history and solving of Fermat's last theorem

The Guns of August
Barbara Tuchman
Probably the best book on the reasons for and early developments in World War 1

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
One day in the life of a prisoner in Stalin's gulag

When the River Runs Dry
Fred Pearce
A book about water in the western United States

Sherlock Holmes - Complete Works
Arthur Conan Doyle
Needs no description

[sana]

Scrumhalf- looks like u read mostly nonfiction huh? I've been on a fiction binge for a long time. I subscrbe to vanity fair but haven't been reading them lately, so I've cottons of back issues to catch up on.