What's the last book you read?

**jakethedog** · 06-10-2008, 07:05 AM

teh interweb for dummies

**ADL Colin** · 06-10-2008, 07:14 AM

Wealth, War and Wisdom by Barton Biggs

**RevengeBucks_Monica** · 06-10-2008, 07:28 AM

'The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science' by Natalie Angier

**slapass** · 06-10-2008, 07:30 AM

Originally posted by Afrekete

Next up, I'm thinking about maybe some Sedaris. His latest book, When You are Engulfed in Flames, looks interesting.

Going to try and go to his book signing this weekend. Love the guy.

**The Truth Hurts** · 06-10-2008, 07:31 AM

Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States

bet ya didn't know that every major event in american history occured on october 8th...

**Klen** · 06-10-2008, 07:32 AM

Book?What's is that?It's been a while since i readed last book so i am not remember exactly what was it,but if a not wrong it could be book about Howard Stern.

**mrkris** · 06-10-2008, 07:33 AM

A couple web application design principles books. Weeee.

**Ashley023** · 06-10-2008, 07:34 AM

Orwell's 1984 and Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

**dready** · 06-10-2008, 07:36 AM

'Confessions of an Economic Hitman' by John Perkins. I'm just in the middle of it now actually.

John Perkins started and stopped writing Confessions of an Economic Hit Man four times over 20 years. He says he was threatened and bribed in an effort to kill the project, but after 9/11 he finally decided to go through with this expose of his former professional life. Perkins, a former chief economist at Boston strategic-consulting firm Chas. T. Main, says he was an "economic hit man" for 10 years, helping U.S. intelligence agencies and multinationals cajole and blackmail foreign leaders into serving U.S. foreign policy and awarding lucrative contracts to American business. "Economic hit men (EHMs) are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars," Perkins writes. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man is an extraordinary and gripping tale of intrigue and dark machinations. Think John Le Carré, except it's a true story.

Perkins writes that his economic projections cooked the books Enron-style to convince foreign governments to accept billions of dollars of loans from the World Bank and other institutions to build dams, airports, electric grids, and other infrastructure he knew they couldn't afford. The loans were given on condition that construction and engineering contracts went to U.S. companies. Often, the money would simply be transferred from one bank account in Washington, D.C., to another one in New York or San Francisco. The deals were smoothed over with bribes for foreign officials, but it was the taxpayers in the foreign countries who had to pay back the loans. When their governments couldn't do so, as was often the case, the U.S. or its henchmen at the World Bank or International Monetary Fund would step in and essentially place the country in trusteeship, dictating everything from its spending budget to security agreements and even its United Nations votes. It was, Perkins writes, a clever way for the U.S. to expand its "empire" at the expense of Third World citizens. While at times he seems a little overly focused on conspiracies, perhaps that's not surprising considering the life he's led. --Alex Roslin

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...CIGMrgLq_My9DA

**BVF** · 06-10-2008, 07:38 AM

When I do read, it's not fiction...I have television for that....The last book that I can remember looking through is Al Gore's book.

**CarlosTheGaucho** · 06-10-2008, 07:39 AM

Don't know what I finished last, but I always do read more books at once, currently:

Philip Agee: memoires from his service in CIA

Stephen Davis: The Hammer of the gods (a notoriously known Led Zeppelin biography)

A drink with Shane McGovan (title explains it all)

A.P.Cechov - novels

History of United Kingdom and Ireland

**Monique Niccole** · 06-10-2008, 07:40 AM

Originally posted by slapass

Going to try and go to his book signing this weekend. Love the guy.

Have you read "When You are Engulfed in Flames"? Is it as good as his other books?

**tranza** · 06-10-2008, 07:41 AM

The Hobbit! Is really good but i prefer The Lord of the Rings!

**The Duck** · 06-10-2008, 07:48 AM

children of the matrix

**pornguy** · 06-10-2008, 07:49 AM

Finished the Trystan Betrayal and now reading Cold Mountain.

**LauraLee** · 06-10-2008, 07:52 AM

Sight Hound by Pam Houston

I usually have 2-3 books on the go. I feel naked without, time to hit the bookstore.

**CherryV** · 06-10-2008, 07:52 AM

I read alot of books.

Just finished: Lone Survivor
US Navy seal team gets trapped in Afghanistan and only one makes it out alive. True story great read. Book is a bit pro-Bush but for the record I am not a Bush supporter or even a American I just like to read good stories.

**Twistys Tim** · 06-10-2008, 08:01 AM

Last book I read was "Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think"

Great read.

**escorpio** · 06-10-2008, 08:07 AM

Busting Vegas by Ben Mezrich

**ProducerCashDave** · 06-10-2008, 08:24 AM

**Brad** · 06-10-2008, 08:26 AM

Just finished High Rise by J.G. Ballard.

I highly recommend this to anyone who has or does live in a high rise building. Good mix of social commentary and comedy.

Reading Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk.

**Libertine** · 06-10-2008, 08:28 AM

http://www.amazon.com/Essential-Biol.../dp/081533480X
http://www.amazon.com/Textbook-Medic.../dp/072168677X
http://www.amazon.com/Robbins-Cotran.../dp/0721601871

**undersoul** · 06-10-2008, 08:28 AM

Slash's book. was pretty cool if you are a GNR fan

**datawookiee** · 06-10-2008, 08:50 AM

great book!

**datawookiee** · 06-10-2008, 08:53 AM

lets try that again.

**xato** · 06-10-2008, 09:36 AM

i dont remember

**Semi-Retired-Dave** · 06-10-2008, 09:37 AM

Porn 3.0

**DateDoc** · 06-10-2008, 09:40 AM

John Sandford's Phantom Prey - pretty good book.

**CaveCreek_Russell** · 06-10-2008, 09:44 AM

The Story of B

**RevengeBucks_Monica** · 06-10-2008, 09:44 AM

Originally posted by Twistys Tim

Last book I read was "Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think"

Great read.

Do you recommend that someone read "The Selfish Gene" before they read it?

**_Richard_** · 06-10-2008, 09:58 AM

play actually.. i just finished "The Crucible" by Arthur Miller

**Lonely immortal** · 06-10-2008, 10:46 AM

The Wide-Mouthed Frog: A POP-UP BOOK by Keith Faulkner.

I looked through it with my niece before anyone makes a smart remark lol

**jakethedog** · 06-10-2008, 10:48 AM

Originally posted by ProducerCashDave

great book .. fantastic actually ..

**Cyndalie** · 06-10-2008, 10:49 AM

The Broker

**AZSarah** · 06-10-2008, 10:49 AM

I started this one a year ago & only got a few chapters in. Picked it up the other day & started over, read it over the weekend. Not half bad.

I am looking for something to read next, now I have some ideas ... good thread.

**candyflip** · 06-10-2008, 11:33 AM

I'm halfway through Slash's autobiography.

**Imortyl Pussycat** · 06-10-2008, 11:35 AM

half way through Codependent No More right now. good shit

**GrouchyAdmin** · 06-10-2008, 11:35 AM

I'm also a fan of the Sedaris clan. Amy and David would be interesting one on one.

The last book I read was by Stan Lynde.

**CarlosTheGaucho** · 06-10-2008, 11:45 AM

Originally posted by undersoul

Slash's book. was pretty cool if you are a GNR fan

Yeah I wanted to buy me the Guns n Roses somehow authorized biography I saw I NYC, any experience with that?

**M0nk** · 06-10-2008, 01:59 PM

the mission of art by alex grey..

**webgurl** · 06-10-2008, 02:04 PM

"He is just not into you" hahahaa ....

**AZSarah** · 06-10-2008, 02:36 PM

Originally posted by slapass

Going to try and go to his book signing this weekend. Love the guy.

Awesome, he's one of my favorites as well.
I will have to get the new book for the weekend. I think I have read all of his others.

**Monique Niccole** · 06-10-2008, 02:40 PM

Originally posted by webgurl

"He is just not into you" hahahaa ....

Hahaha...are you serious?

If there's some guy who's "not that into you" webgurl, he's nuts!

You know they're making that book into a movie too. I saw the preview when I went to see Sex and the City.

**webgurl** · 06-10-2008, 02:58 PM

Originally posted by Afrekete

Hahaha...are you serious?

If there's some guy who's "not that into you" webgurl, he's nuts!

You know they're making that book into a movie too. I saw the preview when I went to see Sex and the City.

hey girl whats up !!! lol actually the title is " he's just not THAT into you "

very interesting read u should go check it out sometime just for shits n giggles.

**Brother Bilo** · 06-10-2008, 05:10 PM

I think Fear and Loathing was the last book I read. Shit, that was a few years ago now. I get my culture from the History channel now, let them read all the books and then dumb it down for me.

**Peaches** · 06-10-2008, 05:16 PM

Just finished Power of One and Gotham Tragic and now on 100 Years of Solitude, Audition, Eat, Pray, Love and Duma Key

**DefaultMan** · 06-10-2008, 05:20 PM

I am reading The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss right now. The last book I read was The Mist (what can I say, it came with the DVD)

**BusterBunny** · 06-10-2008, 05:22 PM

garfield the pirate

**slapass** · 06-10-2008, 05:29 PM

Originally posted by Afrekete

Have you read "When You are Engulfed in Flames"? Is it as good as his other books?

Just bought it on amazon. it will be at my house when I get there. Also bought the "kindle" as it is hard to get english books in Brazil.

What's the last book you read?

What's the last book you read?

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