What are y'all reading now?

[JMerring]

Originally Posted by 130R

I just started reading Atlas Shrugged by Ain Rand.

Has anyone here read the book? I hear the book is really good but the beginning 1/4 of the book is boring

i have. i enjoyed it. if you found the beginning 1/4 boring, chances are it'll only get worse for you from there.

i'm currently reading hans fallada's 'every man dies alone.' sobering read.

[William]

Originally Posted by rwsaunders

Just finished The Private Patient by PD James....on the hunt for a good cycling book.

[cmg]

Children of Men, PD James. in hopes of deciphering in the film. book and film are vastly different.

[pbbob]

does god hate women? by benson and stangroom
pride and prejudice and zombies.

[johnnymossville]

Originally Posted by Ray

Just finished that one too - overwhelmingly interesting and informative. God, we eat like *****. We've gotten really good at eating for energy (but most of us don't burn enough of it and the results are obvious) but nutritionally, this is a frickin' wasteland. I don't have anywhere to put a garden (unless I could convince my condo board to make some BIG changes - not likely) and I'm probably too old and set in my ways to change over to growing more than a token amount of my own food. But it sure makes me more aware and picky about what I'm buying.

-Ray

Great book Ray. I can't wait for the day I can afford to move back to the country and have my own garden. Luckily, my Dad still gardens and gives me coolers full everytime I go home. He always says this year is his last, but then ends up making his garden bigger the next year. It's about a full acre now, and that's not counting the sweetcorn patch.

[fiamme red]

Originally Posted by rwsaunders

Just finished The Private Patient by PD James....on the hunt for a good cycling book.

Fact or fiction?

[97CSI]

"Under the Banner of God - A Story of Violent Faith..........", Jon Krakauer. A scary group of folks with very unAmerican values.

"13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown", Johnson & Kwak. A story about a totally out-of-control group of people. Unfortunately, they have a big impact on your (and my) life.

Originally Posted by c77barlage

I recently finished "Into Thin Air" by John Krakauer and highly reccomend it; an exciting easy read. I'm now reading "Undauted Courage" by Steve Ambrose which is also enjoyable.

Both are excellent reads. Especially like the way Ambrose writes. Easy and interesting.

Originally Posted by 130R

I just started reading Atlas Shrugged by Ain Rand.

Has anyone here read the book? I hear the book is really good but the beginning 1/4 of the book is boring

Well..............its a slog and total BS. So repetitive that it could easily be cut down to 20% of its size. Amazing that some folks still hold it up as a model for any society.

[learlove]

"Cleared Hot" about a Marine Pilot In Viet Nam. Guy flew a tour in helos 65-66 then returned in 69-70 flying OV-10 Broncos.

[dimsy]

just finished this really nice read.
it's short and sweet. great quotables.

need for the bike - paul fornel

[Clydesdale]

Generation Me - an overview of the current generation of sub 30ish folks and their tendency toward rampant self esteem and self centeredness. The short version is that when everyone gets medals, wins, graduates every grade and is treated like they're the center of the universe and their happiness is the most important thing in the world... surprise - they think it's true. A really interesting read if you ever find yourself dealing with young people and feel like you/they are from a different planet.

[William]

Just finished....



And just picked up.....

[drewski]

Lost Cyclist by David V. Herlihy about Frank Lenz who attempted to ride around the world and mysteriously disappeared. Clever fellow and
incredibly strong. He was riding a single speed bicycle
that weighed 110 pounds fully loaded.

The descriptions of the riding around the world on early versions
of pneumatic tires and what was called the "safety bicycle" in the 1890's are
really interesting. Gives you an appreciation for what we ride today and
how much easier we have it. On the up side he did not have to compete
with as many motor cars just carriages and horses.

Lots of poetry by Rumi

The Pickaxe
Tear down this house.
A hundred thousand new houses can be built
from the transparent yellow carnelian
buried beneath it, and the only way to get to that
is to do the work of demolition,
and then the digging beneath the foundation.


With that value in hand all the new construction
will be done without effort. And anyway, sooner or later,
the house will fall on its own.


The jewel treasure will be uncovered,
but it will not be yours then.
The buried wealth is your pay
for doing the demolition,
the pick and shovel work.


If you wait and just let it happen,
you will bite your hand and say,
I did not do as I knew I should have.

[echelon_john]

Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel by Michio Kaku

http://www.amazon.com/Physics-Imposs.../dp/0385520697


Husker Du: The Story of the Noise-Pop Pioneers Who Launched Modern Rock by Andrew Earles

Reading in anticipation of the Bob Mould autobiography coming this summer

http://www.amazon.com/Husker-Du-Nois...3&sr=1-1-fkmr0

[Ray]

Most recently read an incredible book by Susan Casey about huge waves, from a surfing, shipping, and meteorological perspective - interesting and frightening and entertaining as hell.

Also read the book that 127 Hours was based on about the guy who got his arm pinned in a Utah slot canyon and had to amputate it to escape with his life. Fascinating book and a real character study, but I gotta say, that guy never should have lived long enough to find himself in that situation with all of the stupid risks he took long before that relatively mild risk that went bad.

And read Keith Richards' memoirs which is pretty much a must for anyone who loved the Stones over the years. That guy really was the heart of the band and it comes through in his writing.

I recommend any and all of them...

-Ray

[Steve in SLO]

I just started (and finished) another Louis L'Amour book last night. I didn't have anything unread on the bookshelf so I started after everybody went to bed. Comforting reads for me since my granddad always had a bunch lying around.