What books have you read recently?

[Big Booger]

I am working on Harry Potter book 3. And I am also chewing through Stephen King's Dark Tower series. :D

Care to recommend anything that you consider interesting?

[chloroform]

I'm on a Robert Ludlum craze at the moment. I finished The Prometheus Deception as well as The Sigma Protocol this month, and I'm currently ripping through The Janson Directive. If you're into techno-thrillers, espionage and all that good stuff, can't go wrong with Ludlum.

[phishhead]

just finished Green Eggs and Ham.;) I read to my daughter everynight. My self indulged reading I'm just finishing the Raymond Feist collection of the Rift wars. All together I think theres about 12-14 books. starts from when pug was a kid and the series covers about 100-150 yrs thru his life to a master magician.

[rik]

Just finished 70-290 and 70-291 from the MS series...BORING!!!

:D

[SupaStar]

What is books?




LoL :p

[Conan]

Are we talking about E-books? :p

[cash_site]

I have lord of rings on Cassete tape, lol, its takes 17 years to hear the trilogy! I should drive to BB's house to hear it all :p

[Big Booger]

I think I read Robert Ludlum's "The Apocalypse Watch"... kind of Tom Clancy-ish. I liked it.

Reading is cool. And ebooks are fine for short stories. But for anything over 250 pages, you have to go with a paper book.. without a doubt.

:D

[Stripe]

Reading through the Foundation Series by Issaac Asimov (old series from the 70's)...I think my next target is the Pern Series by Anne Mccaffery.

[miner]

michael crichton - prey
stephen king - from a buick 8
michael connelly - the black ice
aldous huxley - brave new world (just started)

i cut cable tv in december so i have been reading more than normal

[zipp51]

5 People you meet in Heaven :D

[egghead]

I only look at the pictures

[petard]

Penthouse Forum, March 2004.
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[SupaStar]

Penthouse Forum, March 2004.
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Only you petard ;)

[Big Booger]

I just finished Harry Potter Book 4 and ordered book 5. Have been reading "The Art of Loving" by Erich Fromm:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060958286/qid=1082771006/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-1556924-3251020?v=glance&s=books

It's pretty good. I'd recommend it to anyone married or contemplating marriage.


ZIpp how is "5 People You Meet in Heaven"? I have the audio book but haven't listened to it yet.

[zipp51]

ZIpp how is "5 People You Meet in Heaven"? I have the audio book but haven't listened to it yet.

I liked it a lot BB.You know one of those "get you thinking about life books".In this case it's who you have met and had some sort of spiritual connection.Nuff said listen to the audio,I know it was well written. :D

[Big Booger]

To bring back an old thread:

I am about to finish book 4 in the Dark Tower Series (Wizard & Glass)... this is one of Stephen King's best series ever!

I bought books 5 and 6 as well and am waiting to get them finished before I buy the last, book 7!

http://www.stephenking.com/DarkTower/flash_movie.html

Check it out!

[tarun]

e-book (rar compressed .doc files) collection at http://www.greylib.align.ru/

[Linedawg]

I just finshed this one
Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: Edge of Victory 1: Conquest


http://www.randomhouse.com/delrey/starwars/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780345428646

[blackhat]

Halfway through " Windows for Dummies" and half through "Programming on the HP48SX". DRB

[cash_site]

Finished Firewall, now studying "Second World War" (with emphasis on social and political causes/effects)... then I'll hit the complete Bond Series, all 20 books :D

And hopefully, the Spartan series.

And in spare time, i play Cod_2 and lots of Sudoku puzzle books...LOL.

[bionicblond]

Just finished 70-290 and 70-291 from the MS series...BORING!!!

:D
Sorry, Dear, but I think I got you beat with Statistics, Informed Decisions Using Data, nothing could be more boring than sets of numbers and then being told "Now what do the numbers tell"...Nothing there just a bunch of damn numbers!!:msneyes:
Last choice reads were Monkey A journey to the West (mythical book translated into english I dont remember the author) and The Alchemist, Paulo Coehlo also all the David Eddings series of books (scifi fantasy);)

[tarun]

Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Mr. God, This is Anna - Fynn
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Holden
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemmingway
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

[bionicblond]

Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Mr. God, This is Anna - Fynn
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Holden
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemmingway
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
I wanted to see that, I did not know it was a book. I will have to put that on my reading wish list. Right now a friend of mine gavve me Salvatore to read...I will get to it eventually, right now Managerial Accounting:dunno:

[sydspirit]

Right now i am reading the ingredients on a Resers Beef and Bean burrito wrapper. My reading list is "The Memory of Earth" (Orson Scott Card) and "Godel, Escher and Bach" ( Douglas Hofstadter). Can you guess which is for entertainment and which is for enlightenment? As a side note, the original Foundation series is in my opinion the greatest book series ever written and Vonnegut by far our greatest living author.

[Tanglefoot]

Just finished 'The blue yonder' by Jeffery Deaver & 'Thud' by Terry Pratchet & Homers 'Oddssey'. Starting Ian Bothams biography and need to read 'Illiad' again. Some good, some necessary (but still entertaining).

[Curio]

Analysis of Shaolin Chin Na - Dr.Yang Jwing-Ming

Loved it.

[Dehcbad25]

I can't recomend you a book to read, but I can recomend you what not to read. Simply, stay away from anything that is MSPRESS. Man, I had had Active Directory 2003 Technica reference right on my night table for the last 6 months and I am in page 55 :p (And I skipped some of the intro pages)
Now, on the other hand, if you have trouble sleeping, grab one of these books, and you are surely guaranteed to get a good night sleep after the 5th page. The content of the books are good an educational, but imagine a history teacher talking non stop withouth changing of enthonation for the whole class. Well, that feels better :p

[ashish]

last read the Da Vinci Code and book 6 of the harry potter series :)

[Dehcbad25]

Is it good the Da Vinci Code?

[ashish]

yea its pretty good... sort of makes you go.. whoa.. if only that were true.... :)

[misskellibad1]

Just finished reading "Life On The Other Side" by Sylvia Browne (psychic)
My girlfriend's mom passed away and someone gave it to her to aid in her grieving process. Normally I'm not for or against these types of ideas but I recommend anyone who reads this needs to keep an "open wide" mind. Interesting read.
One chapter explains how we write our own life plans,continually improving on the past lives we've screwed up. We write our own "exit points" and choose whether to renege on them,hence the "near death experiences" people claim to have.
A suggested read for anyone who likes to expand on their ideas of the meaning of life.

[cash_site]

Half-way through "Eureka" by William Diehl and starting "Weapon of Choice WW 2.1" by John Birmingham.

[Dehcbad25]

well, I started to read "The Five Languages of Love" Not my readying material but I promised to finish it. Myabe after finishing I will go and buy a Resident Evil book to balance me out again :p

[rohitk89]

I've read the following this summer:

1. How to Have a Beautiful Mind by Edward de Bono
2. The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by Robin Sharma
3. Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld
4. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
5. It's Not About the Bike by Lance Armstrong
6. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
7. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

I'm currently reading Socialite Evenings by Shobha De

[Big Booger]

Just finished:
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And am now starting on:
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And I hope to finish this series with the last book by the end of August. :D

[Big Booger]

I ordered a new book this week:

"The World is Flat, A Brief History of the 21st Century by Thomas L. Friedman. I cannot wait to engulf myself in this book.

Thomas L. Friedman is not so much a futurist, which he is sometimes called, as a presentist. His aim, in his new book, The World Is Flat, as in his earlier, influential Lexus and the Olive Tree, is not to give you a speculative preview of the wonders that are sure to come in your lifetime, but rather to get you caught up on the wonders that are already here. The world isn't going to be flat, it is flat, which gives Friedman's breathless narrative much of its urgency, and which also saves it from the Epcot-style polyester sheen that futurists--the optimistic ones at least--are inevitably prey to.

What Friedman means by "flat" is "connected": the lowering of trade and political barriers and the exponential technical advances of the digital revolution have made it possible to do business, or almost anything else, instantaneously with billions of other people across the planet. This in itself should not be news to anyone. But the news that Friedman has to deliver is that just when we stopped paying attention to these developments--when the dot-com bust turned interest away from the business and technology pages and when 9/11 and the Iraq War turned all eyes toward the Middle East--is when they actually began to accelerate. Globalization 3.0, as he calls it, is driven not by major corporations or giant trade organizations like the World Bank, but by individuals: desktop freelancers and innovative startups all over the world (but especially in India and China) who can compete--and win--not just for low-wage manufacturing and information labor but, increasingly, for the highest-end research and design work as well. (He doesn't forget the "mutant supply chains" like Al-Qaeda that let the small act big in more destructive ways.) Friedman tells his eye-opening story with the catchy slogans and globe-hopping anecdotes that readers of his earlier books and his New York Times columns will know well, and also with a stern sort of optimism. He wants to tell you how exciting this new world is, but he also wants you to know you're going to be trampled if you don't keep up with it. His book is an excellent place to begin. --Tom Nissley

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0374292884/sr=1-1/qid=1156502946/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-7436285-9376159?ie=UTF8&s=books