What book are you currently reading?

[Cutlass]

I just got the Washington biography by Chernow from the library. Haven't started yet.

 

[Smellincoffee]

Seven Ages of Paris, Alistair Horne.

 

[Kyriakos]

I just bought "The shadow over Innsmouth" in greek, and it contains a few more stories, some of which i think i have not read in this language before.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Learning to Labor: How Working Class Kids get Working Class Jobs - Paul Willis.

 

[Whiskey_Lord]

They apply for them. The end.

 

[Traitorfish]

You should probably at least read the synopsis of a book before making snide remarks about it.

 

[mghani]

Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita and Speak Memory.

 

[mghani]

Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita and Speak Memory.

 

[West 36]

Asked this in OT, hoping perhaps I'll get a response here:
What would you consider the best English translation of the Tao Te Ching?
Then I can 'currently read" it

 

[Yui108]

Finished A Dance with Dragons today and boy was it good . So much better than A Feast for Crows.
Of course it ended with some pretty nasty cliffhangers and now I have to wait 2 -10 years for the resolution

I thought the beginning was pretty good and the end great (

Spoiler :

if Snow really died)

, but the middle was nothing special by GRRM standards. So little really happened.

 

[Red Door]

I just went to Border's and picked up a history of the IRA and the new ESPN book for pretty cheap, so I'm probably going to start them both at the same time depending on my mood.

 

[Whiskey_Lord]

You should probably at least read the synopsis of a book before making snide remarks about it.

Jest, comrade. All in jest. I've been a 'working class kid' with a 'working class job' for about four years. At this point, I'd like nothing more than to relieve myself on the ashes of the exploitative owner/worker relationship.

 

[Truthy]

1776, David McCullough.

 

[SuperJay]

Asked this in OT, hoping perhaps I'll get a response here:
What would you consider the best English translation of the Tao Te Ching?
Then I can 'currently read" it

I have a good translation at home but I don't recall the author offhand. Also, it's the only translation I've read, so I have no basis for comparison... still, I'll check later and let you know which one it is.

As for me, I'm reading Siddhartha by Herman Hesse and Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster. I've read both books before, but it's been years.

 

[NovaKart]

You may want to find an annotated copy of the Tao Te Ching because it's extremely difficult to understand. I mean even if the translation is good it's a really esoteric book.

 

[SuperJay]

Smoke more, brah. It helps.

 

[Glassfan]

The Pacific (2010), by Hugh Ambrose (son of Stephen), a sort of companion piece to the HBO miniseries. The book of course, has extra characters, deeper stories and a fine set of endnotes...

 

[Tycho]

After hearing so much about A Song of Fire and Ice, I picked up Game of Thrones. Read it all in one weekend. Beautiful series, and chipping away at a Clash of Kings here and there.

 

[GoodSarmatian]

After hearing so much about A Song of Fire and Ice, I picked up Game of Thrones. Read it all in one weekend. Beautiful series, and chipping away at a Clash of Kings here and there.

That was fast. When I started reading the series it took me half a week for A Game of Thrones. The day I finished it I bought the other three books and it took me the rest of the month.

 

[holy king]

wait, you read like 5000 pages in two days?