Anyone up for more "<A HREF="http://www.bookmagazine.com/issue21/capsules.shtml" target="_blank">capsule</a>" reviews of the book you've just finished.... unless, of course, there is a better thread in which to place such a post e.g. maybe the author/book was already discussed and you can "bump" an earlier thread!
Can't believe that I'm <i>still</i> reading the first Otherland book by <A HREF="http://www.space.com/sciencefiction/williams_intv.html" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none">Tad Williams</a>! Oh well.... maybe I'll be finished by the end of the month!
Alvis
04-04-04, 02:23 PM
Angels and Demons, Dan Brown.
DGibFen
04-04-04, 09:03 PM
Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller
Unceasing Worship by Harold Best
darkside
04-04-04, 10:55 PM
Just finished The Explainer by Slate Magazine. Nice little fact book.
Now I'm finally starting Dark Tower 3.
Quake1028
04-05-04, 12:58 AM
Still reading Day of Infamy by Walter Lord. Haven't had much reading time this last month at all.
n0fear88
04-05-04, 03:34 AM
50 pages to go till i finish The Iliad YAY!!! :D
gp98
04-05-04, 10:46 AM
I'm slowly working through a book called "Sex, Time and Power: How Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution"
by Leonard Shlain
It's fasacinating because he has some ideas that are hard to believe but he justifies them well. It's a slow read but it isn't too technical.
I'm also reading a bunch of young adult books. I'm a 6th grade teacher and our school is doing a staff readathon so I'm reading books that my students recommend to me. I really liked "Green Angel" by Alice Hoffman. It deals with the stages of grief after a loss. Definitely aimed for teenagers but enjoyable.
Rainman15
04-05-04, 12:53 PM
H.M.S. Surprise, the 3rd novel in the Patrick Obrian series
Geofferson
04-05-04, 12:57 PM
Still reading Laymon's To Wake the Dead.
PalmerJoss
04-05-04, 05:38 PM
Haven't been reading much lately, but I just picked up "Against All Enemies" by Richard Clarke and have been working my way through it very slowly. So far it's very, very interesting.
Drop
04-05-04, 07:09 PM
I just finished Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
Right now I'm reading Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla.
Then after that it's Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. I'm rereading the series in anticipation for the 3rd film.
Cedar
04-05-04, 07:30 PM
Finished Greg Iles books last week and now starting with Dennis Lehanes Patrick Kenzie series, A Drink Before War.
birdseye
04-05-04, 10:46 PM
Finished Black Cross by Greg Iles. It was as good as everybody said it was, and I recommend it also to anyone looking for a great WWII thriller. Next I'm going to read Chosen Prey by John Sandford.
NaturalMystic79
04-05-04, 11:45 PM
Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo. Good book so far!
BoatDrinks
04-06-04, 02:33 PM
By the bed: California Fire & Life by Don Winslow
In the car: Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
In the briefcase: Done for a Dime by David Corbett
On the to-read shelf:
Firecracker by Ray Shannon (Gar Anthony Haywood)
Homicide Special by Miles Corwin
The Grand Complication by Allen Kurzwell
Nuff
04-06-04, 04:47 PM
Dark Tower 5 here.
darkflounder
04-07-04, 02:32 AM
Apart from the 3 computer books I have around all the time (Programming PERL, HTML/XHTML reference, and Javascript Reference), I've got 2 other books I'm working through (MySQL and Flash MX).
For non-computer reading, I just finished Flood by Andrew Vachss. Started reading the next Vachss book (Strega), but got diverted into The Sum of All Fears by Tom Clancy. And I've always got a Discworld book I'm working through (currently Witches Abroad).
Tsar Chasm
04-08-04, 12:37 PM
Just finished Catch-22 Joseph Heller. I had forgotten how much damned word play there was in that book.
Now - The Last Place - Laura Lippman. A desperation book from my co-worker as I have nothing to read now.
n0fear88
04-09-04, 09:08 AM
ok its taken me about 2 weeks and 5 days to read but...YAY!!! ive just finished The Iliad...really enjoyed it, now i really cant wait for Troy!!!! :D
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Mountain Biker
04-09-04, 11:12 PM
The Karate Kid III
PalmerJoss
04-10-04, 01:10 PM
Just finished "Against All Enemies" by Richard Clarke. Very interesting and very informative, but a lot of it comes off almost like sour grapes.
Now I'm just beginning to wade my way through "Ghost Wars" by Steve Coll.
KTIK
04-11-04, 01:36 PM
Trying to finish <i>If Chins Could Kill</i> by Bruce Campbell, and then going to work on <i>The Cinema of Stanley Kubrick</i> for a school project I'm doing on Kubrick. After that, the plans are to read some Hunter S. Thompson before jumping into the <i>Lord of the Rings</i> or Beatle biography books.
Gdrlv
04-11-04, 01:52 PM
Just finished...
A&R by Bill Flanagan
MoveOn's 50 Ways to Love Your Country
The Last Honest Place in America: Paradise and Perdition in the New Las Vegas by Marc Cooper
Just starting...
The President of Good and Evil: The Ethics of George W. Bush by Peter Singer
Against All Enemies by Richard Clarke
rkndkn
04-11-04, 04:36 PM
The Jury by Steve Martini.
fumanstan
04-11-04, 06:06 PM
Just finished Da Vinci Code. Reading Digital Fortress now.
MrN
04-11-04, 06:20 PM
I have about 20 pages to go in Kubrick by Ciment. This is a treasure-trove of information if you're a Kubrick fan.
I'm also about half way in Galapagos by Vonnegut and really enjoying it.
Next up for me is Revolution by Peter Cowie.
n0fear88
04-12-04, 04:34 AM
just started reading 1st Chrons. of Druss the Legend by David Gemmell ( A Drenai Novel)
birdseye
04-12-04, 01:49 PM
Finished John Sandford's Chosen Prey. Going to start Cornelius Ryan's The Longest Day: The Classic Epic of D-Day
Tony Dvdfan
04-13-04, 12:43 AM
Just finished Cornelius Ryan's <b>The Longest Day </b>(best book i've read in quite a while, birdseye!), just started Ryan's next book <b>The Bridge Too Far </b>last night.
rkndkn
04-13-04, 02:22 PM
I'm halfway through Tim Green's The Fifth Angel.
Josh H
04-14-04, 12:44 PM
High Fidelity- Nick Hornby
rkndkn
04-14-04, 03:06 PM
Finished Tim Green's The Fifth Angel. Found it quite engrossing, though farfetched.
Just started Howard Roughan's The Up and Comer. Enjoying his amusing, breezy writing style.
jdpatri
04-14-04, 03:30 PM
Just started J.D. Salinger's Nine Stories for the bus to work and I'm somewhere in the middle of Bob Tarte's very funny Enslaved by Ducks.
Next up is Prague and William Gibson's Pattern Recognition.
hgar78
04-17-04, 10:48 AM
just finished Little Children by tom perotta (author of election)
trying to decide between lies, and the lying liars who tell them or the rule of four by ian caldwell and dustin thomas
IdgIe49
04-17-04, 12:18 PM
Finished reading The DaVinci Code last night. The King of Torts, is next.
Tsar Chasm
04-17-04, 01:58 PM
Just finished - Baltimore Blues - Laura Lippman
Now - Charm City - Laura Lippman
Next - Butcher's Hill - Laura Lippman
Damage
04-19-04, 10:47 AM
I May Be Wrong But I Doubt It (http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0812966287/dvdtalk/qid=1082386031/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_0_1/701-3969391-5373963) by Charles Barkley.
rkndkn
04-19-04, 10:05 PM
Finished Phillip Margolin's Wild Justice last night. Interesting, but quite predictable.
Now reading Gerald "To Live and Die in L.A." Petievich's The Sentinel.
Geofferson
04-20-04, 10:03 AM
Last night I finished Richard Laymon's To Wake the Dead (aka Amara)
Next up...not sure yet.
Beaver
04-21-04, 02:08 AM
I finished the Tawny Man series by Robin Hobb - good stuff. I'm now on the Da Vinci Code.
DataZak
04-21-04, 04:22 AM
I've just finished two memoirs, Howling at the Moon by Walter Yetnikoff and Confessions of a Tax Collector : One Man's Tour of Duty Inside the IRS by Richard Yancey. Great books especially 'Confessions of a Tax Collector'.
Am now reading Bobby Fischer Goes to War - How the Soviets lost the most extraordinary chess game of all time by David Edmonds & John Eidinow.
Next - Candyfreak: A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America by Steve Almond.
Geofferson
04-21-04, 10:11 AM
I just started in on T. Jefferson Parker's Little Saigon.
Rainman15
04-21-04, 11:02 AM
Patrick OBrian's "The Maritius Command"
Tsar Chasm
04-21-04, 12:32 PM
Finished Charm City Laura Lippman
Now - Lies and the lying liars that tell them Al Franken
Next up is my guilty pleasure the latest Stuart Woods Stone Barrington novel.
darth bird
04-22-04, 05:16 PM
Fourth Perimeter by Tim Green
The Flash: Stop Motion by Mark Shultz
n0fear88
04-22-04, 05:47 PM
Now: 1st Chrons of Druss...30 pages to go!
Nxt: The Legend by David Gemmell (A Drenai Novel)
IdgIe49
04-25-04, 05:13 PM
I decided to ditch the other two books that I was reading and am instead reading "Being and Nothingness" by Jean-Paul Sartre. My brain hurts.
Beaver
04-25-04, 10:24 PM
I finished the Da Vinci Code. I thought it was pretty overrated. The characters were all paper-thin. It was a decent pulpy mystery. Now I'm reading Angels and Demons.
silentbob007
04-25-04, 11:18 PM
Well, since it's getting into finals time, I've been hitting the comfort books.
I blew through Harry Potter: Order of the Phoenix this weekend. Probably going to work my way back to Azkaban in time for the movie release .... :)
n0fear88
04-26-04, 02:18 PM
i finished 1st chrons. of Druss over the weekend...
i soon start Legend :)
SpacemanSpiff
04-26-04, 07:05 PM
ive been reading Eon by greg bear
im about half way through and its quite enjoyable
rkndkn
04-26-04, 07:42 PM
Finished Gerald Petievich's The Sentinel. Was quite engrossing, then had a strangely hurried and abrupt conclusion.
Just started Scott Phillips' The Ice Harvest. Perhaps it was the late hour, but I wasn't too intrigued by the first few chapters last night.
birdseye
04-26-04, 08:42 PM
Finished Cornelius Ryan's The Longest Day. I thought it was an excellent book, very well researched. I like the way he told the story through individual soldiers on both sides involved in D-Day. Next up is Greg Iles Spandau Phoenix. Hopefully it's as good as Black Cross was.
TheDude
04-26-04, 09:14 PM
Just finished Paycheck, a collection of short stories by Phillip K. Dick, and just picked up Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian.
PalmerJoss
04-28-04, 07:46 PM
Now finishing up Ghost Wars by Steve Coll, and about to start Plan Of Attack by Bob Woodward.
mgbfan
04-29-04, 01:00 AM
Reading Summer of Night by Dan Simmons. Only about a fourth of the way in, but quite good so far. It's got sort of a Stephen King "It" feel to it, but is, IMHO, written much better, without all of that tired King cliche. Atmospherically, just a whole lot better, and the language flows more smoothly.
rkndkn
04-29-04, 06:00 PM
Ice Harvest just didn't grow on me after about 6 or 7 chapters. I think I'm going to quit, as I have Lawrence Block's Burglar on the Prowl waiting for me at the library.
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