What are y'all reading now? - Page 8

72gmc · #**106** 03-26-2008, 05:20 PM

1. "The Confusion" by Neal Stephenson. My geekier friends can now include me in their Jack Shaftoe references.

2. Some book on sibling rivalry my wife has mandated. Clearly I'm taking it to heart.

3. "The Nightingale's Song" by Robert Timberg. Recommended here, and it's a very good read unless you are Oliver North.

Ray · #**107** 03-26-2008, 05:38 PM

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Originally Posted by julia

Dang, Ray, you radical! Bet it was fun too. . .

Nah, scared the ***** outa me. That's what let me know I wasn't cut out for a life of crime. Or activism. (Kinda like breaking even on Microsoft let me know I wasn't cut out for the stock market). We got everything set up, lit the fuse, drove about a mile away, hadn't heard anything. Stopped the car and got out. Waited, waited, just about to give up and go back. Then BOOOOM! We were idiots, all dressed in black so nobody would see us in the dark. But if a cop had stopped us, we looked just a wee bit more than a tad suspicious.

Straight and narrow pretty much ever since.

-Ray

Louis · #**108** 03-26-2008, 05:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Ray

Straight and narrow pretty much ever since.

... until they waterboard you to get the names of your co-conspirators. Then you'll 'fess up to all sorts of things. Need to crack that ELF cell.

Ray · #**109** 03-26-2008, 06:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Louis

... until they waterboard you to get the names of your co-conspirators. Then you'll 'fess up to all sorts of things. Need to crack that ELF cell.

The beauty part is I don't even REMEMBER their names. I remember one of the guys and can even pull up his first name. But I couldn't even tell you who the third guy was, let alone his name. They can torture me all they want - I'll never tell. Because I can't. I'll just claim we arrived and left under a hail of sniper fire - yeah, they'll believe that.

-Ray

Elefantino · #**110** 03-26-2008, 06:49 PM

My current required Liberal reading. It's a fascinating read.

shinomaster · #**111** 03-29-2008, 06:54 PM

Suzuki Goro is the Dario Pegoretti of shino potters.

rounder · #**112** 03-29-2008, 08:41 PM

Eric Clapton's autobigraphy. I don't read many books but the next ones will be On Walden Pond and On the Road.

KeithS · #**113** 03-29-2008, 09:36 PM

I am looking for suggestions for a new book now.

Read my first Steve Berry - The Venetian Betrayel
A friend gave me a couple of his older works, The Amber Room and The Templar Legacy, got read on spring break on the beach (between rides) on Marco island.
World Without End by Ken Follett - Sequel to but not as good as Pillars of the Earth but still a good read.
David Baldacci's latest - Stone Cold

Still on local (St. Paul) author jag:
Gary Keillors - Pontoon - not his best, but as an adherent to the cult of Lake Wobegon - still fun.
Latest John Sanford - Dark of the Moon - not as gory as the Prey series, he writes good cops and bad guy shoot 'em ups.
And if you like John Sanford, check out William Kent Krueger. Another on the same genre just a little less gory. His latest Thunder Bay, very good read.
Vince Flynn - Protect and Defend - he just gets better

Speaking of trashy spy novels, no new Lee Child until June 3rd. Jack Reacher is one tough SOB.

shinomaster · #**114** 03-29-2008, 09:52 PM

If you like the Bourne films the books are so much better. Way better. Read the Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum imho.

WadePatton · #**115** 04-01-2008, 08:13 PM

The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted, T. Colin Campbell, PhD and Thomas M. Campbell II.
--highly recommended--

The 80/10/10 Diet, Dr. Douglas N. Graham.
--raw veganism with performance in mind.

FTR, I just ate some venison...not as much as I used too.