The Books/Reading Thread

[Susperia]

I recently started reading a novel (yes I read fiction sometimes as well!) called The Memory Keeper's Daughter. It starts out in the winter of 1964 in Lexington,Kentucky. A young doctor has to deliver his twins in a blizzard with no one else to help but a young nurse. His wife is knocked unconcious (as was the custom at the time) and he delivered a healthy boy and then a girl with what he recognized immediately as Downs Syndrome.

He decides to get rid of her, he wants to "spare his wife the pain" a baby like that would cause her and hands her to the nurse, telling her to take her to a home. He tells his wife their baby girl was stillborn.

The rest of the book deals with how this act affects their life, as well as the life of the nurse who took the girl, but didn't have the heart to send her to the home she was supposed to.

I'm also reading another book on midwifery, this one by Sheila Kitzinger, but I won't go into that.

And I'm still reading (listening to on CD) Infidel at work. I really recommend that to everyone here, above everything else.

 

[unknown]

I'm currently reading a book on CAFTA and World Trade


wheeeeee


it is actually really sad seeing so many people over the world getting fucked over

 

[Zephyrus]

I'm about 100 pages into Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. It's the required summer reading for the Honors program at UMaine. Has anyone else read this book? It's hard to form an opinion on it at this point. The story is bland, but some of the philosophical discourse is rather enlightening.

 

[S<issors]

Yeah, I got that feeling from just reading the back cover. It really doesn't matter to me though, I'm just looking to have a little fun with the book.

It bears little to no resemblance to American Gods (marketing ploy...), and it's excellent.

 

[RosesofShadow]

currently reading...

The Firm by John Grisham

Just Finished...

Ang Paboritong Libro ni Hudas by Bob Ong
A Time to Kill by John Grisham

 

[tagradh]

Picked it up on the way back from Wacken. I only just started reading this morning because I was exhausted yesterday but 100 pages in and it's great so far, easily as good as his previous books.

Before I went away I also started on 'Asgard' by Nigel Firth and 'Tau Zero' by Poul Anderson.

 

[Wolves83]

just have to mention this...

this book is my all time fave and a major influence for my creative writing.

 

[unknown]

^^always a good choice

I'm currently trudging through Umberto Eco's "Foucault's Pendulum". It's tough going. It's really dense, tiny font size and a lot of history

 

[Crimson Velvet]

Finished "The Poe Shadow" a few days ago, which is a largely fictional story that incorporates known facts about Poe's death in the form of a crime novel. It was for the most part pretty boring.

I should probably read something smart now, as it's been a while. Or I'll re-read some old Conan comics for the two hundredth time. Hmmmm...

 

[Death Aflame]

I just finished the last Harry Potter book *awaits flames* which was decent at best. Now I am starting:

I am not very far but its interesting to say the least.

 

[Alter]

The Republic. Always good to keep the mind sharp.

 

[Hatebreeder]

Just started this...

This book changed my life. It revealed to me a lot of things and helped me accept life as it truly is. It was also the precursor to the beginnings of my questioning of religion.

 

[RosesofShadow]

Just finished reading Michael Crichton's Rising Sun...

hmm, I wonder what to read next...

 

[DestructoSpin]

I read On a Pale Horse by Piers Anthony a while ago and that was a great book. Now I have to read "Death Be Not Proud" and as sad as it is....Its not interesting at all.

 

[Skepticism]

Just about done Beyond Good and Evil. I havn't read it in 2 weeks though, I've just had too much to do.

 

[Susperia]

The Wild Trees by Richard Preston


About scientists/tree climbers who explore Ancient Redwood canopies. It has convinced my friend and I to learn how to climb trees (I mean for real, with harnesses and ropes and stuff) and explore and document them, perhaps preserve them if we are asked to.

Someday I want to both sleep in a tree (they make special tree hammocks) and make love in said hammock.

Anyway this book is AMAZING I recommend it so much.

Also:

Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson

Pretty self-explainatory. Very long book about Einsteins entire life and works. He was very very weird. And interesting, obviously... Sometimes incredibly daft too unfortunately. But I suppose everyone is sometimes.

 

[Matt]

I just finished 'Lion of Ireland'. Great book

 

[skeptik]

Someday I want to both sleep in a tree (they make special tree hammocks) and make love in said hammock.

You are so fucked in the head.

 

[cookiecutter]

I just finished Sandworms of Dune. Nothing even close to his father's masterpieces but I still love all books in the Dune universe

 

[Hubster]

I'm reading up on one of the biggest assholes of all time.

... after reading about one of the biggest legends of all time