What Are You Reading

[Harp]

[QUOTE="*****" McD]... As you know, I'm quite a Joyce fanatic, Beckett less so, by a good deal....

"*****"[/QUOTE]


Beckett is a difficult Mick, not everyone's cuppa.
Pity Flann didn't stick around longer.
Leiyedh me Saragossa agur abair tu mo baruil.

 

[Diamondback]

Back to MHI, this time taking notes--I've been challenged to build "Abomination", and the author's helping me plan the build.

 

[BinkieBaumont]

"Biography of the right Hon Stephen Tenant"

 

[Panache]

The Case of Charles Dexter Ward

One last classic horror story to end the Halloween season with.

Cheers

Jamie

 

[LocktownDog]

I've just about finished Douglas Brinkley's The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America. Great TR biography concentrating on his conservation efforts from childhood on. It's a different perspective from the usual Kettle Hill, Panama Canal, Nobel Peace Prize stuff, although they all play a part.

Sue

It was an excellent read. Liked it very much.

 

[CliffG]

The Road

I recently finished a short book called The Road by Cormac McCarthy. it is tale of a journey taken by a father and his young boy over a period of several months, across the country blasted by what I took to be a nucular winter, I think they are making this into a movie to be released soon.
Cliff

 

[Feraud]

Viggio Mortensen will be in the film version of The Road.

Currently reading a biography of W.C. Handy written by David Roberston.

 

[imported_miss_molly]

Peter Pan.
However old I get that book never loses it's charm. And I believe one reads it with much more depth as an adult. Anyway.. I love it

 

[RebeccaDoll]

I've never read Peter Pan, maybe I should search the used book store for it.

I'm currently reading Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl. A very beat-up old copy too!

 

[Feraud]

I'm currently reading Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl. A very beat-up old copy too!

A great read!

 

[RebeccaDoll]

A great read!

It is Fantastic. I was lucky enough to stumble upon a box full of his books at a yard sale this year.

 

[mannySpaghetti]

I read the pictures

This book consists of mostly photos and speaks a little about the gang itself. Those were some tough guys there in Detroit, tough sociopathic guys.

 

[dhermann1]

"John Adams, Party of One" by James Grant. Just a wonderful portrait of an amazing, and endearing curmudgeon. Without John Adams we'd all still be speaking English!

 

[carebear]

"The Dark Side" about the Administration's response to 9/11.

 

[Edward]

I recently reread The Great Gatsby for, I think, the ninth time.... Quite a few years since I was introduced to it via studying the book for A-level. Still superb; my opinion remains that it is the finest novel in the English language. Other than that, the last few weeks' reading material has mostly been Charlaine Harris' Sookie Stackhouse vampire novels (upon which the television series True Blood is loosely based). These bring something new and fresh to the genre while retaining a truer form (insomuch as such can be argued to exist) of the vampire legend than the Twilight books. I found the latter a pleasurable bit of fluff for reading on the tube, but Sookie and her chums are much more interesting from an adult perspective.

 

[tuppence]

I'm doing the whole Harry Potter series at the moment. Currently on the fifth book

 

[ScionPI2005]

I'm currently reading False Memory by Dean Koontz.

 

[Mrs. Merl]

Mommy Dearest - after talking myself into it over the last few months. Well, at least I now understand references to wire hangers.

 

[The Lonely Navigator]

The Grand Scuttle by Van der Vat - It's about the scuttling of the High Seas Fleet in Scapa Flow at the end of WWI.

I've learned quite a bit reading this - I knew some small notable things, but this book certainly filled in some very large gaps.

 

[Diamondback]

Still working MHI, but also:
Guy Fieri: Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives: An All-American Road Trip... With Recipes!
Glenn Beck: Arguing With Idiots (had it sitting in the pile for a couple weeks now; thanks for the reminder, Tom!)