any avid readers??

[Stonecold54]

stonecold, I never thought u to be such a bookworm :D

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 :staypuff:

[Stonecold54]

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 :staypuff:

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]

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!! :lm:

[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.

[Bouncer]

men that read books are gay. just thought i would add my knowledge to the thread. :P

[Scrumhalf]

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.

Sana - yes, I read almost exclusively nonfiction of late. I used to read a lot of fiction earlier but I a a great fan of 18th and 19th century English literature and I find very little in today's fiction that appeals to me.

A few exceptions that I enjoyed:

1. The Remains of the day - Kazuo Ishiguro
2. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
3. The Blood of Strangers - Frank Huyler
4. Bless Me, Ultima - Rudolfo Anaya

[sana]

I read The Remains of the Day a while ago. I have A Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera on my to read list.

Part of the reason I want to get the Amazon Kindle is also that I can get all the classics free through the Guttenberg project. Immediate free access to the classics is pretty damn cool if u ask me :staypuff:

[Timber]

I love to read, I am at the point that 1 book only sets up the characters and 5 tell the tale. I also wait till all the book are written before I start the series. I am also a big fan of books on tape especially when I drove full time