What are YOU reading?

[sana]

Originally posted by trip

Sana,

You always come across confident to me, and also a very kind yet funny sense of humor.

So much humor is mean based these days it turns me off.

Good Day To All

wow - thanks for the compliment. i respect that coming from someone as seemingly grounded as you!

but - i have to say that i can't accept that without feeling some guilt because i do throw out some wisecracks and comments at other people's expense (read: bouncer :D)

lol - actually - if you can find that "which simpon's character are you" thread, i turned out to be krusty the clown, and the character description was... well - let's just say it hit pretty close to home :D cynicism and scarasm is not something one can live without on the east coast.

i just seriously was curious about what ppl on this board read though, to get an idea of what kind of ppl are around me. it's usually a bunch of joking around, but when you ask ppl what's in their library, it opens a slight window into what that person is like - or desires to be like. to me, my favorite is to look through a person's book collection at their house to see what they're like. it's an insight into their world. much like how a lot of ppl snoop through medicine cabinets to see how heavily sedated their friends are :p

[trip]

sana,

I'm a jersey boy so it took me years to delete the cynicism/sarcasm code from my brain, know what you mean.
It's fine and dandy up east, yet, it doesn't fly in the south, it's very off putting.

I've found compatibility wise in a relationship, have to be with a reader, just much more mentally stimulating.

[speedracer59]

Driver # 8 (Dale Ernhart Jr. 's book)

[trip]

Originally posted by FitnessBrat
I love anything by James Patterson.

Yup, he's good, read most of them.

[Tinfish]

The books that i have been reading lately all have about 3 words per page, the pages are hard cardboard and they all rhyme. My 9 month old seems to like it more than me.

[teekahty]

I just re-read Salinger's "catcher in the rye" I have read it 3 times now , and I still do not see why it is so great , LOL I am currently reading John Grisham's "Rainmaker"

[dreamgirl]

I'm reading Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4)

The best book I've read of the series is book 3--it's by far the scariest and most interesting it's Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban... it totally keeps you guessing... the movie this year should be the best of them all!

[trip]

Originally posted by FitnessBrat
Read anyone comparable?

John Sanford, has a series with "Prey" in the title,

Night Prey
Secret Prey
Night Prey

etc.

Also, Lawrence Sanders, has a series "Deadly Sins" in the title,

First Deadly Sin
Second Deadly Sin

There's are two you can count on each time always quality.

Teek, yeah don't see big thing about Catcher in The Rye either.

Actual true story, saw that title at book store, bought it, and it was acually Bob Yewker's autobiography with some funny wording for like wrye, actually pretty good.


Favorite Book of All Time: A Time To Kill, by Mr. John Grisham,

the ending courtroom scene, where he makes you see in pictures and then he says, man, that just tore me up, whole book was so laden with southern struggles, and then the struggle of the family and lawyer, have spent half life in south and some in sleepy small towns so that stuff is so true

later

[spike1205]

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies -- Jared Diamond

and page after page of lawschool textbooks

[Stonecold54]

spike my dad said that was an excellent book it will be one of the next I read.

[Stonecold54]

Originally posted by alwaysgrowing
ayn rand atlas shrugged

read that 7 times, my alltime favorite book, that and The fountainhead. Excellent excellent fiction. I recommend them to everyone.

[blm]

What are they about?

[Gongshow]

yah, what they about...if u read it 7 times, it has to be great

[Stonecold54]

well in a nutshell they are both philosophical treatise by Ayn Rand who founded the Objectivist movement. Christ they are hard to descibe they are very in depth. The fountainhead is all about individualism vs the group. Atlas shrugged is a scenario where the men of mind leave society because they are told they are bad and bring nothing but evil to society. so they give society what they want and you will see where it leads too. and who actually needs who. These are bad descriptions the books are so much better than I just described. Go to the barnes and noble website and read the summaries. and just so you know atlas shrugged is the second most influential book ever written, it only finished second to the Bible. that should tell you something about how good it is.

[SEXYMAMA]

This damn board...... LMAO