OT - What are you reading right now?

TTC

Thought this might be an interesting thread given the wide range of knowledge that exists on this forum.

I've been on recent kick re-reading some of my all time favorites. Just finished The Gold Coast by Nelson DeMille, and currently deep into Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy. 

Fire away...

Spaightlabs

Young Men and Fire

SmokinBass

Permanent Record -Edward Snowden

Matt86m

TEXASBGE2018

This thread

lkapigian

JohnInCarolina

TN_Egger

Whatever I get for free from Amazon for my Kindle.  Hit or miss quality but usually helps me get to sleep.

bucky925

Brad Thor's Black Lash and Fly Boys.  I go through stages of reading, when I get something interesting I forgo sleep to finish.  

ilooklikeelvis

I just finished Perdido Street Station by China Mieville. It took a while to get into (he's kind of a dense writer) but enjoyed it by the end. Now starting its followup, The Scar.

kl8ton

ilooklikeelvis said:

I just finished Perdido Street Station by China Mieville. It took a while to get into (he's kind of a dense writer) but enjoyed it by the end. Now starting its followup, The Scar.

Welcome @ilooklikeelvis

I dare say you are the first to make your first post in the reading section of a cooking forum?   What have you been cooking lately?

EGGjlmh

My signed copy

DMW

This arrived the other day, I forgot that I had pre-ordered it.

I'll probably start it tomorrow.

TN_Egger

What's the deaf state?

Theophan

What I was reading this afternoon even I found a bit bizarre:  Agamemnon, the first play of the Oresteia by Aeschylus, a Greek tragedy from the 5th Century BC.  And I loved it!  I got a "warehouse clearance" catalog from the Great Courses company a month ago and found 2 of their courses that originally had been hundreds of dollars but now were $30, so I said what the heck, not that interested but for $30 I'll give it a shot.  One of them was on Greek Tragedy, so I've been watching video lectures about ancient Greek plays, and it's been surprisingly interesting.  The first one she went into in depth wound up being the Oresteia by Aeschylus, and it sounded good, so I bought a book and read the first play, and actually loved it!

Yeah.  Weird, I know.  I've always been an odd guy.  I usually have several books of different types going at once, and I'm also reading Talking to the Ground by Douglas Preston, which is about a 400 mile horseback journey he took with his wife and daughter, years ago in Navajo country, and so far it's really good.  I also read Old Bones a few days ago, by him and Lincoln Child, kind of a mystery/thriller, and it was good. And I read The Overstory by Richard Powers a few weeks ago, and it was amazing!

JohnInCarolina

EGGjlmh said:

My signed copy

You have a signed copy of a book written by a confessed federal felon!

theyolksonyou

JohnInCarolina said:

EGGjlmh said:

My signed copy

You have a signed copy of a book written by a confessed federal felon!

It would be better if it wasn’t federal.  Like a serial murderer or something.  But still.  Criminals have interesting stories. 

DMW

theyolksonyou said:

JohnInCarolina said:

EGGjlmh said:

My signed copy

You have a signed copy of a book written by a confessed federal felon!

It would be better if it wasn’t federal.  Like a serial murderer or something.  But still.  Criminals have interesting stories. 

See, the thing about this book, it has been audited, and most of it isn't true.

JohnInCarolina

theyolksonyou said:

JohnInCarolina said:

EGGjlmh said:

My signed copy

You have a signed copy of a book written by a confessed federal felon!

It would be better if it wasn’t federal.  Like a serial murderer or something.  But still.  Criminals have interesting stories. 

This guy is a complete zero.  All he managed to do was trip over his own Johnson and lie to the FBI.  

theyolksonyou

See, the thing is, I don’t give a shît.  I was just trying to be a smartaśs

DMW

theyolksonyou said:

See, the thing is, I don’t give a shît.  I was just trying to be a smartaśs

keener75

I am currently re-reading A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry. An amazing story about the struggles and hardship dealing with the caste system in India in the 1970's. The only other book that I have re-read is Barney's Version by Mordecia Richler. Amazing story teller and a canadian icon.

CornfedMA

Just started this. I liked the cover, so I bought it 🤷🏼‍♂️

ilooklikeelvis

kl8ton said:

ilooklikeelvis said:

I just finished Perdido Street Station by China Mieville. It took a while to get into (he's kind of a dense writer) but enjoyed it by the end. Now starting its followup, The Scar.

Welcome @ilooklikeelvis

I dare say you are the first to make your first post in the reading section of a cooking forum?   What have you been cooking lately?

Ha, good point. I was prepping to make pulled pork - photos posted separately last night - and came across the reading thread while doing some research!

Holepuncher

Charles and the Chocolate Factory......I rad it in the private reading room. Not sure whats next, almost finished.

ColbyLang

Black Dahlia series/trilogy by Elwood. On the 3rd book. Pretty good. Waiting for a few other pre-orders to hit my Nook

oldgeezeystax

Anyone for Sci-Fi? I'm currently reading The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin, good so far.

The few before this were:

• All You Need is Kill - Hiroshi Sakurazaka
• Childhood's End - Arthur C. Clarke
• The Forever War - Joe Haldeman
• The Mote in God's Eye - Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven

lkapigian

A book on Stockholm Syndrome, I hated it at first but loved it towards the end 

gdenby

oldgeezeystax said:

Anyone for Sci-Fi? I'm currently reading The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin, good so far.

The few before this were:

• All You Need is Kill - Hiroshi Sakurazaka
• Childhood's End - Arthur C. Clarke
• The Forever War - Joe Haldeman
• The Mote in God's Eye - Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven

Read sci-fi like eating pop corn when I was younger. Know all of the above except Sakurazaka. All good.

For LeGuin, books 1 & 2 of the Earthsea trilogy are very fine. #3 a bit less.

gdenby

Current reading, my goddaughter's dissertation. "The Diffusion of a Debate: Cultural Resonance and Resource Control in American Organizations’ Framings of Climate Change." A gripping tale of textual and contextual analysis.

theyolksonyou

lkapigian said:

A book on Stockholm Syndrome, I hated it at first but loved it towards the end