What are you reading? (May 2008)

[Geofferson]

http://images.barnesandnoble.com/images/13970000/13979546.JPG

[tofu]

Just finished White Like Me by Tim Rice
Starting Dreams of My Father by Barack Obama

[Salo]

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41E2MJTPBEL._SL500_BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_.jpg

[kakistos]

Finishing:

http://images.barnesandnoble.com/images/19600000/19607117.JPG

Next:

http://a1055.g.akamai.net/f/1055/1401/5h/images.barnesandnoble.com/images/25180000/25184023.JPG

[mlemmond]

Currently reading...


http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51FMEXVD2JL._SL500_BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_.jpg

[SkipKassidy]

Recently finished Joe R. Lansdale's Rumble Tumble

Now reading: Megan Abbott's Queenpin

[grem458]

Still working on Betrayal of Trust by Laurie Garrett. I've had a lot to do outside this spring.

[Geofferson]

Just started:

http://www.mordlust.de/bilder/buecher2/hcc_40_faust_money_shot_0843959584.jpg

[LiquidSky]

http://i30.tinypic.com/fulzlj.jpg

"John Rechy, recipient of the Publishing Triangle’s William Whitehead Lifetime Achievement Award, wrote City of Night in 1963. This radical and daring work, which launched Rechy’s reputation as one of America’s most courageous novelists, remains the classic document of the garish neon-lit world of hustlers, drag queens, and men on the make who inhabited the homosexual underground of the early sixties."

[Trout]

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51K2FNA72QL._SL500_BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_.jpg

[PAG]

Just finished:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5105P2YMMAL._SL500_BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_.jpg

[lucasorion]

Reading "The Human Stain" by Philip Roth
Next up: "Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel" by Michio Kaku

[movieking]

Just finished:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21crfXpH2dL._SL500_AA180_.jpg

Not sure what is up next. Got a ton of used books at a book sale, and have no idea where to start. Bought 30 books for $45, and they include 4 Elmore Leonards, 4 Dennis Lehanes, the three Bourne books by Ludlum, a couple of Stephen Hunters and Michael Crichtons, and some other individual books, like American Gods and Big Trouble. What to do, what to do...

[DJLinus]

Still reading:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41CK9E8NH5L._SL500_BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_.jpg

Mere Christianity (http://www.amazon.com/Mere-Christianity-C-S-Lewis/dp/0060652926/ref=pd_bbs_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1209219418&sr=1-2) by C.S. Lewis

Periodically perusing:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51G6P2RVRVL._SS500_.jpg

The Pipe Book: A Guide to Nearly Every Pipe Created (http://www.amazon.com/Pipe-Book-Guide-Nearly-Created/dp/0517161877/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208953507&sr=1-1) by Alfred Dunhill

Bathroom reading (still):

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51fZRgowobL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_.jpg

Our Dumb World: The Onion's Atlas of the Planet Earth, 73rd Edition (http://www.amazon.com/Our-Dumb-World-Onions-Planet/dp/0316018422/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1207095174&sr=1-1)

[xmiyux]

Just started:

http://www.mordlust.de/bilder/buecher2/hcc_40_faust_money_shot_0843959584.jpg

That has been in my top picks for best of the HCC series books that i have read so far. Great book!

I'm reading a book called Possessed by Thomas Allen. It is supposed to be the true story of an exorcism.

I'm also perusing that book recommended in last months thread called Ghosts (something...) that is about CIA involvement in Afghanistan when funding the insurgents against Russia.

[rehmus]

http://i.somethingawful.com/inserts/articlepics/photoshop/05-25-07-books/Plisk.jpg
http://i.somethingawful.com/inserts/articlepics/photoshop/12-07-07-popups/SomewhatFraudulant1.jpg

[Darth Maher]

Just finished...

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/513o9TssHiL._SL500_BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_.jpg

LOVED IT!!! :up:


I just started reading...

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51VHMVFRTKL._SL500_BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_.jpg

and i'm liking it so far as well.

I just found out they are making movies for both of these.

[Lateralus]

Just Finished:

http://www.booksamillion.com/bam/covers/1/40/008/214/1400082145.jpg

Just started:

http://www.booksamillion.com/bam/covers/0/15/670/153/0156701537.jpg

[lattethunder]

http://i31.tinypic.com/of5xmb.jpg

[joefrog91]

Just started.

http://import.book.store.bg/prdimage/it-larger_image/id-2175222/book.jpg

You think since Dan Jenkins went to TCU like I did, I'd have read his books by now. I'm loving it so far and will read all of his books soon.

[SkipKassidy]

Just finished Queenpin by Megan Abbott.

Currently reading Gun Monkeys by Victor Gischler.

[Tom Banjo]

I just started reading...

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51VHMVFRTKL._SL500_BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_.jpg

and i'm liking it so far as well.



Ooh, I remember loving this one when I read it several years ago.

[movieking]

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/511EA9D7FJL._SL500_BO2,204,203,200_PIlitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_.jpg

Just finished Big Trouble. Really enjoyable book. Read it based on the number of positive reviews that I read here.

[PAG]

Just finished:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/518ATH1A6JL._SL500_BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_.jpg

[PalmerJoss]

Now reading:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51DC2gf0iLL._SL500_AA240_.jpg

[Baron Of Hell]

Just started Consider Phlebas

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/513mjlav0VL._SL500_BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_.jpg

[FantasticVSDoom]

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41oY4BoCA4L._SL500_BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_.jpg

[me12321]

I just finished:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51YC4MVXGXL._SL500_BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_.jpg

I found it to be enormously readable and I loved the characters - but I found the ending to be extremely frustrating and unsatisfying. Still, I really enjoyed his style and will read some more of his books in the future.

Next up:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41ZD4KCKNXL._SL500_BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_.jpg

[xmiyux]

Currently reading:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/519cG5fgzfL._SL500_BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_.jpg

A heavy read but very good.

[Salo]

http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165517852l/5148.jpg
...finished.
Starting Phineas...
http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-blank-133x176.jpg?1210647294
(no pic. annoying.)

[TheNightFlier]

Just started The Last Detective.


http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51TFDVAH49L._SL500_BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_.jpg

[mlemmond]

Read

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51FMEXVD2JL._SL500_BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_.jpg



Up Next

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51N2kxV1gIL._SL500_BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_.jpg

[xmiyux]

Up Next

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51N2kxV1gIL._SL500_BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_.jpg

Good book! I really enjoyed the entire series.

[Darth Maher]

"Youth in Revolt" by C.D. Payne
Ooh, I remember loving this one when I read it several years ago.

I'm really liking it so far.

The boys just left the French school.

But I find myself wanting to slap the crap out of Nick far too often. ;-)

[cornyt]

Finished:
A Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier

Still reading:
A Secret History by Donna Tartt

[PAG]

Just finished:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51xokylHeIL._SL500_AA240_.jpg

[SkipKassidy]

Finished:

Gun Monkeys by Victor Gischler

Now reading:

The Getaway Man by Andrew Vachss

[mlemmond]

Read

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51N2kxV1gIL._SL500_BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_.jpg


Up Next

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51CBNoP725L._SL500_BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_.jpg

[Lateralus]

Just started:

http://www.booksamillion.com/bam/covers/0/34/533/970/0345339703.jpg

EVERBODY I know have read these books and they laugh at me when I tell them I never read them.

[chris_sc77]

http://www.booksamillion.com/bam/covers/0/14/311/226/0143112260.jpg

[Hank Ringworm]

Just finished The Rose and the Briar, a collection of essays (and one cartoon and a collage) about American folk ballads. Interesting stuff.

Also been finishing up Will Durant's Story of Civilization, Vol. II (finally), and sneaking occasional peeks at a book of Gerard Manley Hopkins's poems and a great little book called Dueling in the Old South, which contains some hilarious anecdotes.

[Lateralus]

http://www.booksamillion.com/bam/covers/0/14/311/226/0143112260.jpg

I really enjoyed this book, the ending is very moving. Upton is one powerful writer and one of the main reasons why my political views are drifting towards a form of socialism.

And if you have not read it I would HIGHLY recommend The Jungle.

[lattethunder]

http://i27.tinypic.com/2mwxs3r.jpg

[Geofferson]

http://images.barnesandnoble.com/images/25780000/25785807.JPG

[PAG]

Just finished:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/514K8FXXVXL._SL500_AA240_.jpg

[ytrez]

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/514TWGP3ECL._SL500_BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_.jpg

[mlemmond]

Read

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51CBNoP725L._SL500_BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_.jpg


Up Next

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51J0SP2CN7L._SL500_AA240_.jpg

[Nick Danger]

http://i27.tinypic.com/2mwxs3r.jpg

This book and Frank Herbert's Dune gave me my basic ideas on husbanding natural resources when I was a teenager.

[Nick Danger]

http://cache.reelzchannel.com/assets/content/article/watchmenCoverA.jpg

I just finished it. There were a lot of things that I didn't catch when I read it 20 years ago.

[boredsilly]

All late

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/4187PQX4SKL._SL500_BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_.jpg

[sandman642]

I know I'm late to the month, but I just wrapped this up a week or so ago...
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51AHBY27B9L._SL500_BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_.jpg

And I just started this yesterday...
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/514571NYEYL._SL500_AA240_.jpg

[Tom Banjo]

These are kid's book, but decent so far. Just finished
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y256/tombanjo/ember.jpg

and just started
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y256/tombanjo/sparks.jpg

[Palpadious]

http://picjoint.com//files/92/cover1.jpg

http://picjoint.com//files/92/cover2.jpg

[lattethunder]

http://i28.tinypic.com/30sye6d.jpg

[Lateralus]

Just Started:

http://www.booksamillion.com/bam/covers/0/34/533/971/0345339711.jpg

[Lastyear]

Just finished both Child 44 by Tom Robb Smith and Knockemstiff by Donald Ray Pollock.
Just beginning Black Postcards by Dean Wareham(of the late lamented band Luna) and Matter by Ian M. Banks.

[Salo]

Finnished Phineas

Starting...
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/416JMGV7P4L._SL500_BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_.jpg

[solipsta]

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n0/n493.jpg

About 1/3 of the way through it.

[mlemmond]

Read

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51J0SP2CN7L._SL500_AA240_.jpg


Up Next

The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe - This may take awhile.

[SkipKassidy]

Finished:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41tv%2BVRP9iL._SL500_AA240_.jpg

Started:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51CTJbWlVsL._SL500_AA240_.jpg

[PAG]

Just finished:

http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/5b/1a/f46ceb6709a0defb72fe3110._AA240_.L.jpg

[AGuyNamedMike]

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41wcCIMpv7L._SL500_BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_.jpg

[Nth Power]

starting on :

http://www.booksamillion.com/bam/covers/0/84/395/962/0843959622.jpg

[xmiyux]

starting on :

http://www.booksamillion.com/bam/covers/0/84/395/962/0843959622.jpg

I just got this in the mail from the book club. You will have to let me know how it is since it will be a couple weeks before i get to it.

[DJLinus]

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51K2FNA72QL._SL500_BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_.jpg

I love this book and leaf through it periodically. Very interesting stuff.

[otto24]

Anything by Haruki Murakami. And Agatha Christie!

[DeputyDave]

http://www.theinfected.co.uk/AutumnCoverLarge.jpg

Just finishing the free download. Has anyone read any of the others? Are they worth actually paying for?