What are you reading?
 

Just wondering what people here are reading, or even have read that shouldn't be missed.
I haven't read a book in a long time! Want to get back into reading something other than news. All suggestions welcome :thumbsup

If you're wondering what I might be most interested in:

True story, or something not stricyly true but based around historical facts.
Not really into Sci-fi, horror or rommance when it comes to books.
Or anything business/personal related like an auto biography by someone of importance.

I'm reading horror right now, so that won't help you, but an excellent autobiography that I can't recommend enough is:

Long Walk To Freedom by Nelson Mandela

http://www.amazon.com/Long-Walk-Free.../dp/0316548189

I haven't been into the books much lately but I've been researching stock trading a whole lot lately and have been reading up on game theory a bit, I'm still looking for some good books on these subjects though...

Game of Thrones. (first book in the series)

Pretty good so far.

Ummm not 100% on that one. Not really something I could probably draw from. Learnt a lot about him and his struggles at school aswell, but I will keep it in mind :thumbsup

Something like that could be interesting, anything educational is always more interesting in a book then anything fictional to me, unless it is a REALLY good story or has some kind of link to real stories or facts. Egyptian/Roman/Medieval/Japanese/Samurai/Ninja/etc

Will check that out! Something like would probably suit me, medieval is always interesting if it is fictional or factual.

Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

GFY.com :pimp

Prisoner of X by Allan Macdonell. It's a pretty good read about the inner workings of Hustler

I definitely go in phases.. but generally history never gets dull with me. I am not a huge fan of fiction normally but sometimes getting lost in the fantastical can be a nice escape, can also be inspirational.

That sounds different and interesting, just read the summary.

Thanks for the tip :thumbsup

Haven't read a book in years.

Just never seem to have time or at least make time to sit down and just read. Unless it's work related...

That sounds interesting!

Added that to my shortlist :thumbsup

Yeah you're spot on there. But I usually prefer fiction in a movie most of the time.

Me neither really, I'm looking to get back into it :thumbsup

I usually read a lot online related to work, but rather than watch tv before bed I'm going to start reading instead.

this thread

trying to read the 'the similarion', hard getting into the swing of it lol

so i decided to try 'the dharma boys' and have finally ended up on some brutally stupid fictional 'alt history' novel

reading it makes me feel dirty lol

somebody had to do it :1orglaugh

haha I was gonna say I am reading gfy right now. Grown up men bitching and arguing with each other.

I won't tell ...

Currently on a brain candy jag. Reading Breathless by Dean Koontz.

I'm suprised it took so long!

:1orglaugh

Nothing to see here! Carry on!

Couldn't find them on the site i'm looking. Reckon they are worth reading/looking up? Or should they be avoided? :upsidedow

The last non technical book I read and enjoyed was Waiting for Godot by Sam Beckett. I enjoyed it but the person I gave the book to after I was done with it did not :(.

Happy hunting. :thumbsup

Probably not for me, sounds like a good book though. Good ratings aswell by the look of it. :thumbsup

about space, time, bing bang

Over the weekend I read ReWork by 37signals and was so impressed that I am now reading their first book called Getting Real

:1orglaugh

Dead Sleep by Greg Iles

these guys have all the fun

story of how espn started and how it functions really interesting. goes back to the beginning, a million interviews

Sounds different, added it to my shortlist :thumbsup

Thanks Sharky :thumbsup that is definately along the lines of something that I want to read.

That sounds like an intriguing storyline and suspenseful, will add that to the list :thumbsup

That could be good :thumbsup Sports + Business sounds like a good combination to me.

all are worth reading

the similarion is a book about the story of middle-earth before the 'hobbit' or 'lord of the rings'.. its' supposed to be better than the others but it's kinda like reading Hemingway when you wanna just go outside lol

dharma boys is jack kerouac, i had read a book by him before which i really enjoyed, i think i just hit a 'readers wall' and need some junk before i get into thinking mode again

if you're looking light but interesting reading, check out the malazan book of the fallen series..

if you want a 'bucket list' book, war and peace for sure

I had another look and still couldn't find it, so I searched for J. R. R. Tolkien

And The Silmarillion came up, is that the one?

Also noticed one called The Children of Húrin by him, have you read that one? Sounds pretty good aswell, set long before the LOTR apparently.

Will try and find the other 2 :thumbsup

Biography of Ozzy Osbourne :)

Steve jobs biography

Right now i'm reading Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy: http://www.amazon.com/Blood-Meridian.../dp/0679728759


It's an American Western loosely based on historical events, namely the Glanton gang, which was a group of scalp hunters who were contracted by the Mexican and American government to clear Apache and Comanche Indians from the Texas-Mexico borderlands in the 1850's. It's a really good book. The only thing that's kind of annoying about it is you need to keep a dictionary next to you when you read it because he uses a lot of archaic words from the historical setting of the story.


Next up on the list is Memoirs of an Infantry Officer by Siegfried Sassoon: a British Infantry officer who fought in WW1 on the Western front. Then it's Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut.

Dog Sense: How the New Science of Dog Behavior Can Make You A Better Friend to Your Pet

a very interesting book

The Emperors New Mind by Roger Penrose.

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"Capital and Production"
by Richard von Strigl

interesting stuff on capital theory and business cycles....

I just finished reading "The Bunker" about the last month of Hilter in his little bunker there in Berlin. Now I'm reading "The Final Entries 1945" which is taken from the dairy of Joseph Goebbels, the Reich Minister of Propaganda for Nazi Germany.

Next up will be a break from my WWII reading - I'll just bought "The Lost Moon" by Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger, about Apollo 13. After that is a book by Albert Speer, the Minister of Armaments and War Production for Nazi Germany. I believe this is an autobiography.

I read a lot - daily.

World Changing, A User's Guide for the 21st Century.

I've read a lot within last few months.
Won't suggest you any of my books though as it is pretty specific literature :pimp

Finnegan’s Wake.

Thought I would update this thread.

I kinda went the wrong way then what I wanted to and bought the first 3 Assassin's Creed books by Oliver Bowden. They are pretty good if you have played the games, was nice to read the story without having to play missions in between.

They are the stories of Altair and Ezio, Desmond isn't involved which is also pretty cool.

Going to play revalations before the 4th book comes out, don't want to spoil it.

Also almost finished reading Kevin O'Leary's book. Which is very good aswell. Lots of business tips aswell his story which is also intresting.

Going to try and start on one of the suggestions here next, not sure which one though :thumbsup

yep my bad, the Silmarillion.. sorry..

only thing i have read for tolkien is the hobbit and the ring series

heard some great things about the rest of his works tho, think i am just having a phase in terms of why i can't focus on 'the silmarillion'

Just finished 11/22/63 by Stephen King. Pretty good book if you enjoy his wordy style.

Tutorials, tutorials, tutorials...Final Cut Studio, etc.

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Hours of online reading daily - all over the place.

ADG

had this thread on my short list and lo and behold, I'm done:winkwink:

Otherland series by Tad Williams...don't miss that one...

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"There is a place where time stands still. Raindrops hang motionless in air. Pendulums of clocks float mid-swing. Dogs raise their muzzles in silent howls. Pedestrians are frozen on the dusty streets, their legs cocked as if held by strings. The aromas of dates, mangoes, coriander, cumin are suspended in space.
As a traveler approaches this place from any direction, he moves more and more slowly. His heartbeats grow farther apart, his breathing slackens, his temperature drops, his thoughts diminish, until he reaches dead center and stops. For this is the center of time. From this place, time travels outward in concentric circles?at rest at the center, slowly picking up speed at greater diameters.

Who would make pilgrimage to the center of time? Parents with children, and lovers.
And so, at the place where time stands still, one sees parents clutching their children, in a frozen embrace that will never let go. The beautiful young daughter with blue eyes and blond hair will never stop smiling the smile she smiles now, will never lose this soft pink glow on her cheeks, will never grow wrinkled or tired, will never get injured, will never unlearn what her parents have taught her, will never think thoughts that her parents don?t know, will never know evil, will never tell her parents that she does not love them, will never leave her room with the view of the ocean, will never stop touching her parents as she does now.

And at the place where time stands still, one sees lovers kissing in the shadows of buildings, in a frozen embrace that will never let go. The loved one will never take his arms from where they are now, will never give back the bracelet of memories, will never journey far from his lover, will never place himself in danger of self-sacrifice, will never fail to show his love, will never become jealous, will never fall in love with someone else, will never lose the passion of this instant in time.
One must consider that these statues are illuminated by only the most feeble red light, for light is diminished almost to nothing at the center of time, its vibrations slowed to echoes in vast canyons, its intensity reduced to the faint glow of fireflies.
Those not quite at dead center do indeed move, but at the pace of glaciers. A brush of the hair might take a year, a kiss might take a thousand. While a smile is returned, seasons pass in the outer world. While a child is hugged, bridges rise. While a goodbye is said, cities crumble and are forgotten.

And those who return to the outer world?Children grow rapidly, forget the centuries-long embrace from their parents, which to them lasted but seconds. Children become adults, live far from their parents, live in their own houses, learn ways of their own, suffer pain, grow old. Children curse their parents for trying to hold them forever, curse time for their own wrinkled skin and hoarse voices. These now old children also want to stop time, but at another time. They want to freeze their own children at the center of time.
Lover who return find their friends are long gone. After all, lifetimes have passed. They move in a world they do not recognize. Lovers who return still embrace in the shadow of buildings, but now their embraces seem empty and alone. Soon they forget centuries-long promises, which to them lasted only seconds. They become jealous even among strangers, say hateful things to each other, lose passion, drift apart, grow old and alone in a world they do not know.

Some say it is best not to go near the center of time. Life is a vessel of sadness, but it is noble to live life, and without time there is no life. Others disagree. They would rather have an eternity of contentment, even if that eternity were fixed and frozen, like a butterfly mounted in a case."

love the play for sure

The Great A&P and the Struggle for Small Business in America.

Interesting book so far.

http://www.amazon.com/Great-Struggle.../dp/0809095432