What Are You Reading?

[cgannon64]

A basic question. What are the OT posters reading?

I'm currently reading The Guns of August by Barbara Tuckman, and its fascinating.

 

[Mojotronica]

Michael Pollan's "The Botany of Desire." Love it!

 

[jack merchant]

Great choice, cgannon I'm currently rereading Harry Potter V for the 3rd time to pass the time, but before that I finished Graham Swift's decidedly disappointing "Light of Day".

 

[nixon]

"The Scourge of the Swastika" by Sir Russell of Liverpool. Shocking read.

 

[Dralix]

I am currently reading this thread.

 

[Ohwell]

Uncle Johns Bathroom Reader

 

[gael]

An ET book, 'Are we alone in the Cosmos '.

I've just started it, its seems good. Its taken from a scientists point of view, not a looney.

 

[jack merchant]

Originally posted by gael
An ET book, 'Are we alone in the Cosmos '.

I've just started it, its seems good. Its taken from a scientists point of view, not a looney.

I thought you had given up reading ?

 

[Jeratain]

Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson

 

[CivCube]

Canterbury Tales, though I might stop on this for now in favor of something else.

 

[Hitro]

Currently "The Liar" by Stephen Fry

 

[gael]

Originally posted by jack merchant


I thought you had given up reading ?

Reading beer bottle labels slowly got me back into it.

 

[Mojotronica]

As I get older I find it more and more difficult to read for pleasure. I'm like, all distracted and irritable at having to put forth any effort at all to absorb the text. Sometimes I'll space out for paragraph after paragraph as a random thought about something I read takes my mind elsewhere. Meanwhile my eyes move on.

The same thing happens to be in movies or watching a TV show -- I get anxious for it to be over w/ so I can move onto other things.

Little by little my brain is shutting out new material to focus on processing and re-processing the infotainment I've already taken in. It's like my mind is on roller coaster track, endlessly looping through the same twists and turns, while the theme park around me keeps changing themes...

 

[SanPellegrino]

Last I read was "stupid white men" by Michael Moore

 

[Phantom Lord]

"Pattern Recognition" by William Gibson.

 

[floppa21]

Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake

Mojo, maybe you need better reading material?

 

[Ohwell]

Originally posted by Mojotronica
As I get older I find it more and more difficult to read for pleasure. I'm like, all distracted and irritable at having to put forth any effort at all to absorb the text. Sometimes I'll space out for paragraph after paragraph as a random thought about something I read takes my mind elsewhere. Meanwhile my eyes move on.

The same thing happens to be in movies or watching a TV show -- I get anxious for it to be over w/ so I can move onto other things.

Little by little my brain is shutting out new material to focus on processing and re-processing the infotainment I've already taken in. It's like my mind is on roller coaster track, endlessly looping through the same twists and turns, while the theme park around me keeps changing themes...

Congrats Mojo, you've fallen to my level. Everything I do reminds me of something else, or makes me want to do something else that I can't keep out of my head.

 

[puglover]

The Whipping Boy
by Sid Fleischman

 

[Benderino]

Harry Potter 5!

 

[Zcylen]

Die Luftwaffe
Goering and his fliying soldiers