What are you reading?

[robbie]

Originally Posted by Joe E Taleo

The Grapes of Wrath. I wish I had read this earlier, but at the same time I love the feeling of reading something this incredible for the first time.

**** that book and its use of the 'O' word.

 

[gorgekko]

An advance copy of Christopher Buckley's Supreme Courtship -- about a president who nominates a TV judge to the U.S. Supreme Court.

 

[Tumbleweed]

I've almost finished reading a 'borrowed' copy of The Dice Man which I think I'll decline to return.

 

[Kas]

Napoleon - On the Art of War
A collection of correspondence from Napoleon to his officers by Jay Luvaas.

Bret Easton Ellis - American Psycho
Getting it in the mail tomorrow.

 

[binge]

The History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell.

 

[lawyerdad]

Originally Posted by robbie

**** that book and its use of the 'O' word.

Okie? Did you burn your copy along with Huckleberry Finn?

 

[chiral]

Finishing up 'Phaedrus' and halfway through Pale Fire.

 

[XdryMartini]

Two books on reading and interpereting body language... Insightful so far...

 

[adamsnez]

Noam Chomsky's "Failed States" - a bit over my head on the intro, but we'll see how it progresses.
It assumes too heavily you know wtf he's talking about in the first place, as opposed to learning about it by reading. And i have a pretty wide ranged vocabulary [for my age], but some of the words he uses are just too much

 

[gnatty8]

The Economic Naturalist.

 

[bearlydavid]

Just finished Garden of Eden by Hemingway

Starting Heart of Darkness by Conrad and Confessions by Augustine for class

 

[Joe E Taleo]

Originally Posted by robbie

**** that book and its use of the 'O' word.
Okies are the only folks that Steinbeck had any respect for in this book. Just read a hilarious passage about 'Reds'. I'm paraphrasing so forgive me. 'What's a red?' 'A red's someone who would rather make 30 cents a hour than 25 cents a hour.' 'Well damn, then I guess I'm a red too!'

 

[eg1]

Originally Posted by bearlydavid

Just finished Garden of Eden by Hemingway

Starting Heart of Darkness by Conrad and Confessions by Augustine for class

That is one that rewards re-reading -- it is very densely allusive.

Right now, Peter Watson's Ideas: a history from fire to Freud

 

[Rubirosa]

Now: Peter Drucker - The post capitalist society

Next: Neil Gaiman & Terry Prachett - Good Omens

 

[johnapril]

Sarah Palin's Memoirs of a Hockey Mother