What are you reading?

Originally Posted by StephenHero

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I've been listening to Bill Bryson's Short History of Everything on audiobook. Enjoyable.
Great read, can't imagine it on audiobook though. It's extremely long and the dude reading must have a great voice; there's a lot of humor in that book which could be easily ruined. Right now:

Originally Posted by sle-z-e

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Was anyone else extremely disappointed by Cormac McCarthy's The Road?
Yeah, I thought it flat-out sucked for the most part. I like most of his other work I've read and thought No Country the easiest, quickest, and most enjoyable read I've had this decade...

A Little History of the Worlds - E.H. Gombrich

Bulkagow: The Master and Margarita. This is a very good book.

Originally Posted by Jerome

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Bulkagow: The Master and Margarita. This is a very good book.

I'm also in the middle of The Master and Margarita. It's lots of fun.

Originally Posted by Adam_Lee

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Yeah, I thought it flat-out sucked for the most part. I like most of his other work I've read and thought No Country the easiest, quickest, and most enjoyable read I've had this decade...
Did you guys have a dictionary on hand as you read it?

Atlas Shrugged - Just started it today.

Originally Posted by johnapril

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Did you guys have a dictionary on hand as you read it?

I don't remember having to look anything up, why do you mention?

Originally Posted by InsBrokerTX

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Atlas Shrugged - Just started it today.

Stop now.

Appointment in Samarra

Someone a few pages back mentioned that HBO's next big series was going to be A Song of Ice and Fire, based on George Martin's fantasy series. To whoever posted about these books: **** you. Ive wasted so many hours the past month making my way through these 4 book... They're just too entertaining and addicting. The books are everything Lord of the Rings (only other fantasy series Ive touched) would be if LOTR wasn't full of silly bullshit and faggotry.

Im wrapping up Wright's The Maze and the Warrior: Symbols in Architecture, Theology, and Music. It's a pretty thorough treatment of the symbols of the maze through history, from Theseus to modern corn mazes. The most interesting chapters are where the author analyzes labyrinthine structures in music (author is prof of musicology at Yale.) He relates the tonal and rythmic retrogression of Medieval hymns to the recursive aspects of Christ's journey represented in the maze motif.

Just started The Lost City of Z. The author is searching for new insight into Percy Fawcett misadventure into the Amazon. Fawcett disappeared with his son in the 1920s while searching for evidence of an advanced society in unexplored parts of the Amazon. It was a pretty huge story in the twenties.

Originally Posted by AndrewRyanWallace

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Stop now.

+1. There isn't a subject in that book that doesn't get a more rigorous, correct, and readable treatment from other thinkers. I can see this book being useful in the 1950s when this brand of liberal economic thinking was fairly cloistered, but in 2010 you can compile a better reading list with a little poking around on the web.

Originally Posted by Pennglock

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Just started The Lost City of Z.

Great book.

I have addicted to his writing. Wish I could find more writers like him.

A Tale of Two Cities by Dickens. I realized recently that I've never read one of his books before so I'm starting with what seems to be one of his most famous. I'll probably pick up another one or two after this, so any recommendations on which ones?

I just finished "The Lovely Bones", which was a very good novel overall but lost it a bit in the end game, wrapping things up in a rather maudlin fashion.

I've just started "City of Thieves" on the strength of a friend's recommendation.

DH