What are you reading?

Rambo · Nov 1, 2010

Finished the Twins series. Good read but it started to flag a bit at the end. Hopefully this is a nice continuance to the series.

DocHolliday · Nov 1, 2010

Halfway through "At Home: A Short History of Private Life," by Bill Bryson. I'm finding it easier to put down than his "Short History of Nearly Everything," but entertaining nonetheless.

Dedalus · Nov 1, 2010

Some lighter reading now after Eco. Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential, Christopher Kimball's The Kitchen Detective, and Jacques Pepin Celebrates. Bourdain is self-aggrandizing, his writing is contrived, and he rambles for the sake of name-dropping, but it's an interesting read in spite of that, for lack of a better source. Kimball/Cook's Illustrated have become my go to for "American" cooking and Pepin for "French."

limping_decorum · Nov 1, 2010

a clash of kings

kwilkinson · Nov 1, 2010

Originally Posted by Dedalus

Some lighter reading now after Eco. Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential, Christopher Kimball's The Kitchen Detective, and Jacques Pepin Celebrates. Bourdain is self-aggrandizing, his writing is contrived, and he rambles for the sake of name-dropping, but it's an interesting read in spite of that, for lack of a better source. Kimball/Cook's Illustrated have become my go to for "American" cooking and Pepin for "French."
Since it seems like you're in a cheffy/food kind of reading mode, you should pick up a copy of Heat by Bill Buford. It's a great read.

Dedalus · Nov 1, 2010

Originally Posted by kwilkinson

Since it seems like you're in a cheffy/food kind of reading mode, you should pick up a copy of Heat by Bill Buford. It's a great read.

Thanks. That looks right up my alley, I'll keep an eye out for it

clockwise · Nov 1, 2010

Just starting to read Mario Vargas Llosa - The Feast of the Goat (2001).
I have high expectations of this one, a story about the corrupt and violent Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republic.

I read his "masterpiece" (?) The War of the End of the World (1981) some 20+ years ago and found it good but a bit heavy going. Then read The Bad Girl (2006) a couple of years ago and I enjoyed that one a lot! Definitely a novel to be recommended - it has been called Vargas Llosa's Madame Bovary and is a story about a cruel but attractive and fascinating girl and the poor man for whom she becomes a life long obsession.

unrated · Nov 2, 2010

4 Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss.

nickleanderson · Nov 2, 2010

at this time i am reading php program basics e-book

onion · Nov 11, 2010

Going to see the author, Rick Rothacker, speak at the Charlotte Economics Club next week, so I figured I would read his book first.

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StephenHero · Nov 11, 2010

I'm reading The Fountainhead. I was becoming sick of listening to people express their love or hate of Rand without having the ability to chime in. I read about 5 chapters and I'm skeptical about how this could get stretched into 800 pages with the degree of obviousness that you are subjected to within the first two or three pages. I think I get it. Do the characters ever stop becoming caricatures?

phreak · Nov 11, 2010

Just finished Churchill by Jenkins American Psycho The Worldly Philosophers The Savage Detectives The Rum Diary All within the last month or so, but I have at least that long before I start my new job. I need recommendations. Nothing fantasy, American History, or by a Russian writer please. Maybe something on the French Revolution or just any fun, modern fiction

Lokesh · Nov 12, 2010

Gai-Jin by Clavell. 2nd attempt at this book. Loved Shogun so much, Tai-Pan was nice too but somehow this book didin't hook me the first time around. Maybe also because I was trying to read it while living with an annoying roommate. Now however, I have my own place and the book seems to be pretty awesome so far.

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