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Monique Niccole 06-10-2008 08:02 AM
What's the last book you read?
 
I just finished reading some non-fiction -- Philistines at the Hedgerow: Passion and Property in the Hamptons.

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

Or maybe I'll just read Palahniuk's Choke again.

jakethedog 06-10-2008 08:05 AM
teh interweb for dummies

ADL Colin 06-10-2008 08:14 AM
Wealth, War and Wisdom by Barton Biggs

RevengeBucks_Monica 06-10-2008 08:28 AM
'The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science' by Natalie Angier

slapass 06-10-2008 08:30 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Afrekete (Post 14299766)

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 08:31 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 08:32 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 08:33 AM
A couple web application design principles books. Weeee.

Ashley023 06-10-2008 08:34 AM
Orwell's 1984 and Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

dready 06-10-2008 08:36 AM
'Confessions of an Economic Hitman' by John Perkins. I'm just in the middle of it now actually.

Quote:
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 08:38 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 08:39 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 08:40 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by slapass (Post 14299840)
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 08:41 AM
The Hobbit! Is really good but i prefer The Lord of the Rings!

The Duck 06-10-2008 08:48 AM
children of the matrix

pornguy 06-10-2008 08:49 AM
Finished the Trystan Betrayal and now reading Cold Mountain.

LauraLee 06-10-2008 08:52 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 08:52 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 09:01 AM
Last book I read was "Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think"

Great read.

escorpio 06-10-2008 09:07 AM
Busting Vegas by Ben Mezrich

ProducerCashDave 06-10-2008 09:24 AM
http://toolstolife.com/files/groupim...1171555853.jpg

Brad 06-10-2008 09:26 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 09:28 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

:disgust

undersoul 06-10-2008 09:28 AM
Slash's book. was pretty cool if you are a GNR fan

datawookiee 06-10-2008 09:50 AM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Goodomenscover.jpg

great book!

datawookiee 06-10-2008 09:53 AM
http://www.booklore.co.uk/PastReview...ett_01_100.jpg

lets try that again.

xato 06-10-2008 10:36 AM
i dont remember

Semi-Retired-Dave 06-10-2008 10:37 AM
Porn 3.0

DateDoc 06-10-2008 10:40 AM
John Sandford's Phantom Prey - pretty good book.

CaveCreek_Russell 06-10-2008 10:44 AM
The Story of B

RevengeBucks_Monica 06-10-2008 10:44 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Twistys Tim (Post 14299975)
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 10:58 AM
play actually.. i just finished "The Crucible" by Arthur Miller

Lonely immortal 06-10-2008 11:46 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 11:48 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by ProducerCashDave (Post 14300037)
great book .. fantastic actually ..

Cyndalie 06-10-2008 11:49 AM
The Broker

AZSarah 06-10-2008 11:49 AM
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/03...1.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

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 12:33 PM
I'm halfway through Slash's autobiography.

Imortyl Pussycat 06-10-2008 12:35 PM
half way through Codependent No More right now. good shit

GrouchyAdmin 06-10-2008 12:35 PM
I'm also a fan of the Sedaris clan. Amy and David would be interesting one on one. :thumbsup

The last book I read was by Stan Lynde.

CarlosTheGaucho 06-10-2008 12:45 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by undersoul (Post 14300056)
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 02:59 PM
the mission of art by alex grey..

webgurl 06-10-2008 03:04 PM
"He is just not into you" hahahaa ....

AZSarah 06-10-2008 03:36 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by slapass (Post 14299840)
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 03:40 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by webgurl (Post 14302113)
"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! :winkwink:

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 03:58 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Afrekete (Post 14302250)
Hahaha...are you serious?

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

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 " :1orglaugh
very interesting read u should go check it out sometime just for shits n giggles.

Brother Bilo 06-10-2008 06:10 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 06:16 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 06:20 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 06:22 PM
garfield the pirate

slapass 06-10-2008 06:29 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Afrekete (Post 14299883)
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.


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