What Book Are You Reading? Issue.8

[rhawn]

I just finished holidays on ice by David Sedaris. Its very funny but he tries to hard to for a moral into every short story(maybe just because they are christmas themed?).

I'm starting When You are Engulfed in Flames tomorrow also by David Sedaris, I'll enjoy it if its half as funny as the the first.

 

[Nylan]

Wow, while it could be interesting, i have imagine that is some dry reading. is there some end to this self torture you are seeking?

Rumor has it he's a lawyer

 

[Cutlass]

Will Durant, "The Story of Civilization part II: (1939). The Life of Greece."

 

[Fifty]

Augustine: A New Biography by James J. O'Donnell

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

I just finished Letters From a Stoic by Seneca. I am about to begin A Military History of Afghanistan from Alexander the Great to the Fall of the Taliban, by Stephen Tanner.

 

[bigdog5994]

ive been re-reading Jurassic Park in the bathroom

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Finished Rainbow Six, moving on to God Created the Integers by Stephen Hawking.

 

[Dachs]

Will Durant, "The Story of Civilization part II: (1939). The Life of Greece."

I liked the Durants' series. Too bad there was no scope to continue after Napoleon.

I am about to begin A Military History of Afghanistan from Alexander the Great to the Fall of the Taliban, by Stephen Tanner.

Anything on ma Euthydemid and Eucratid boiz in there?

 

[JollyRoger]

is there some end to this self torture you are seeking?

Probably around Volume 478 where I start getting Scalia.

 

[Japanrocks12]

more Haruki Murakami shorts that are now on my computer, Kokoro, Feast of the Goat

 

[Thorvald of Lym]

Recently finished The Little Prince by Antione de Saint-Exupéry.
I'm so ashamed. I've had it for years.

It's now one of my favourite books.

 

[Simon Darkshade]

Battle for the Fjords: NATO's Forward Maritime Strategy in Action by Eric Grove.

Read it before but it has more on Mainbrace than a lot of other texts.

Also reading The Red Shadow, but that doesn't really count.

 

[King of Town]

I just finished holidays on ice by David Sedaris. Its very funny but he tries to hard to for a moral into every short story(maybe just because they are christmas themed?).

I'm starting When You are Engulfed in Flames tomorrow also by David Sedaris, I'll enjoy it if its half as funny as the the first.

Don't know if you listen to it, but the radio show This American Life used to have him on there quite frequently. he reads a lot of his stuff, and it is even funnier when he reads it.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

I liked the Durants' series. Too bad there was no scope to continue after Napoleon.

Anything on ma Euthydemid and Eucratid boiz in there?

I'm sure there is. I'm still in the Alexander part right now. He's just invaded Arachosia.

 

[downtown]

Love in the Time of Cholera

 

[Ansar]

Love in the Time of Cholera

Gabriel García Márquez

 

[downtown]

Gabriel García Márquez

Yeah, Ms.DT got it for me for Christmas, and I'm really digging it, even though I'm not really the love story kind of guy. Even though it isn't a very difficult book, I'm having trouble reading very quickly. I prob won't finish it for another week...

 

[carmen510]

Recently finished The Little Prince by Antione de Saint-Exupéry.
I'm so ashamed. I've had it for years.

It's now one of my favourite books.

I read that book when I was 10, extremely good book.

Actually, my grandfather translated it from French to Chinese. I think he was the first to do so, not so sure.


As for me, I'm reading Stalin A Biography by Robert Service, A Little History of the World by E. H. Gombrich, and The Battle for New York by Barnet Schecter.

(The former is from my school library, the latter were $13 each at the Metropolitan Museum of Art store.)

 

[Dachs]

I'm sure there is. I'm still in the Alexander part right now. He's just invaded Arachosia.

Cool stuff. I shall look into it. (Though my priority at this juncture is finding an affordable copy of Thundering Zeus.)

 

[Mr. Keith]

The Given Day by Dennis Lehane. Also working my way through A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin.