What is everone reading ?

“TB - good point. Emma won't sit still long enough to read much. Reece will sit there and be mad when the book is over. We alternate who reads to who, but each kid gets a book read to them at bedtime and my wife reads to them before naps too.

lyra - not trying to taunt you. It's not such a secret or even mystical ending. It just ties the book together really well.”

“hee hee hee, i'm just kidding! i just can't stand waiting for something...as in the ending. which you know, and i don't! LOL! that's very cool that there's something to look forward to at the end.”

“When's the new Potter book coming out? I want it now! NOW!”

“I could read a new Potter book. I read the first three when my mom gave them to my son at his first Christmas. They were for when he got older. I was looking for something that spring and went through them quick. I'd never heard of them. I was really impressed.”

“I was most impressed with how well she did with having the characters mature and change throughout the books. Usually when someone hit’s a homerun with a book out of nowhere they tend to stick with the same formula ever book thereafter. She does a lot of twisty stuff and the last book got downright dark.”

“Dayhiker - love the Narnia books!

I'm a little behind everyone else, but I've just started The DaVinci Code. There has just been so much hype about it I had to see what it was....”

“Anybody read Watership Down?”

“i read that in ninth grade, Nigal...i remember telling my teacher that i didn't like it b/c "it wasn't very realistic." LOL!! besides that, all i remember is that it had talking bunnies. i bet i'd like it now, bunnies kick butt.”

“Yeah, would have been a lot better with talkin' monkeys, huh? LOL!”

“em - I'm curious to see how they'll like them. Heck, I'm curious to see how I'll like them. I've read some of Lewis adult stuff, but didn't read Narnia growing up.”

“The twist at the end of *Life of Pi* is what makes you question what you have read and what beliefs stem from that. Another book with a great ending that kept me up all night was Hemingway's *Garden of Eded*. It was a great look at how relationships can be corrupted and how soon it all fall's apart.”

“I just finished *Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim* by David Sedaris. It was hilarious in spots and fairly touching in others. By the way, Yam, I am incredibly excited that someone else seems to have an appreciation for *Where the Red Fern Grows*.”

“I read Watership downd when I was in the 6th or 7th grade. I've seen the moive a couple of times to but I really can't remember the plot very well. I might have to reread it soon.

I loved the Narnia books. My grandpa had a drunken spell and through them away while I was in the Air Force though. Didn't get my copy of The Screwtape Letters though.”

“OOPS meant to say threw them away.”

“you're right dayhiker...*Pi* is getting better! i only have like a quarter of it left to go now. and i had a strange craving and had to get sushi for lunch today, LOL!”

“I just finished "Call of the Wild" by Jack London this morning. What a great read! Starting his masterpiece, "Sea Wolf" on the train home.”

“I'm 2/3 thru DaVinci Code. Pretty good so far.

I tried to get into Seasbiscuit, but just couldn't.

lyra - I'm curious to see what you think of Pi when finished.”

“I loved Seabiscuit! Did you see the movie DH?”

“I am staerting to read "how to be your dogs best friend" by The Monks of NEw Skete

It is supposed to be really good”

“I did see the movie.

I've only been able to get about 10 pages into it and just can't get any further. I've been pretty busy though.

The Davinci thing happened when I had to spend 10 hrs in the car this past Friday. I got the tape version for my trip.”

“these days, mostly TT :-)

also books on photoshop... & digital photography....

Started to read the lord of the Rings trilogy, but haven't had time to actually READ it....”

“Teeth of the Tiger by Tom Clancy”

“Ophiuchi Hotline, by John Varley.”

“CISSP Certification Exam Guide by Shon Harris and The CISSP Prep Guide by Krutz & Vines, 926 and 944 pages, respectively. Real thrillers. I also read a couple of chapters of the CISSP Training Guide by Roberta Bragg, but put it down because it did not have enough detail. I mean come on!...only 23 pages devoted to cyrptography...what a crock! ;-)

Hopefully, there will be some pleasure reading in my near future.”

“For Whom the Bell Tolls

Hemingway”

“*shudder,cringe,shudder* I think my brain would melt.”

“Re-reading "Get In The Van" by Henry Rollins.

I loaned this book out years ago, forgot about it, and recently had it returned. Seeing it again resparked my interest.

Rollins is one interesting dude. His perspectives certainly aren't mainstream, yet strike eerily close to home. He says the things that most of us won't even allow ourselves to think.

... and besides that it's cool to get the behind-the-scenes stories from the early days of Black Flag.


Ordin”

“I'm reading David Baldacci's "Split Second".

I have on hold "Night Fall" by Nelson DeMille that will come out in November. I'm on a list and I'm 110 on the list of 100 people that are on it already. So I will probably get it by the second month it's out or less.

Hubby is on the same list but for cds and is 5 on the list of 6 cds that will be purchased. Since I'm going to read the book, he will probably listen to the cds on the way back and forth to work so I don't hear it.”

“Hey, I saw Rollins do spoken word and it was great. I've alway's liked his film roles and music as well. Never picked up the book though. I think in the political arena he would be the next Jesse Ventura. Rollins for President!”

“I'd love to hear one of Rollins' spoken word performances. What did I get to see back in college? Jello Biafra do a rather weak sarcastic rant about society and our town. Yay.”

“I've seen Rollins Band live, but never seen one of his spoken word performances. I too have read "Get In The Van"...I think I have one of his spoken word albums though..."The Boxed Life" IIRC...he's a trip!”

“Dark Tower VII. Oy!”

“Read "Into Thin Air" at the end of our last trip (Sept 19-20).

Spent 24 hrs in the tent while it snowed and the wind whipped the tent around (40 mph?). No visibility so we couldn't backpack, it was cross country and no trail (Roper's Sierra High Route, not the Sierra High Trail). 7 deg in the morning, between 20-30 deg during most of the day in the tent. The next day we almost bailed, but someone told us conditions would be warmer so we stuck it out. It snowed again by 3pm, so we were back in the tent for the rest of the night (and finished the book). We did like MaryPhyl and her boyfriend and shared/passed pages of the book. We hiked out the next day.

Appropriate reading material for those conditions.”

“Yikes!”

“Snow, I loved the Anatoli Bhoukreev book about the same incident. It was great and another view point, more inline with other witnesses.

I just picked up Incubus Dreams (an Anita Blake Vampire Hunter book) by Laurell K Hamilton. I can't wait to start it! Woo Hoo.”

“Yah, I've read both those books about the Everest disaster. I think that what's-his-name (the other author) felt guilty and had an axe to grind.”

“Call of the Wild is one of my favorite books. You should also check out some of the Jules Verne books: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Journey to the Center of the Earth are good starters...”

“Hey PS, I have read both and loved both.

I started The Count of Monte Cristo, but am having a hard time getting into it.”

“Likewise, I've seen Rollins Band in concert(Buffalo, Jan '02). Awesome. For a guy that's my age, he can pour it out on stage.

I've read quite a few of his books as well. As a matter of fact, one of Henry's books, "See A Grown Man Cry, Now Watch Him Die", is the most powerful books I've ever read.

Henry wrote that book after his best friend, Joe Cole, was murdered in front of him. It's, at times, as if the words and thoughts are coming from a madman. At other times, it's as if he tries to wish his ownself dead. It's a book with no beginning and no end. It's more of a literary mobius strip of marginally connected thoughts.


Ordin”

“Yah, when I saw him, if it hadn't been for him, I think my friend and I would have been the oldest people at the concert. He really does put on a good show.”

“Strange thing was, I wasn't the oldest guy at the show!! It's funny seeing gray-haired dudes wandering around in leather jackets with Dead Kennedy's patches sewn on.

Ordin”

“He's totally different on stage than in person too. My friend and I saw him on the street outside the venue and spoke with him for a while. He seemed very shy, although I guess it's possible he was just pissed, lol. He did sign some CD inserts for us though.”

“i just finished *Pi* like one second ago, dayhiker! i can't believe i thought it was boring at the beginning, b/c by the end, it was SO good!! by the time i read the last page and everything, it made me cry in fact, LOL. that's pretty funny that i asked if it "really happened"...sort of ironic! now i almost want to go back and read the beginning again... coming-of-age stories are usually my favorites, especially when they involve religion, and this was a gooooood one.”

“bildungsroman, that's the word for the book i was trying to think of.”

“I'm reading "Chocolate Legs" by Roland Cheek
It's pretty interesting so far. Anyone read it?”

“lyra - Glad you liked it. I still need to go back and read the 3 chapters on the 3 different faiths. I'll try to find the Q&A with the author I had mentioned.”

“It's about half way down that link.”

“I have scanned earlier portion of the book and the line, "believe in the better story" is scattered around, you just don't know to look for it.


I'm almost done with DaVinci Code. I've enjoyed it but I don't get the whole, I'm protecting the secret of Jesus and his family to keep from having unrest on the planet among Christians, yet I'm a practicing pagan. All the knights that also protected my same secret were practicing pagans too, but they went on the Crusades to fight for/with Christians and rid the world of other faiths. Am I missing something?”

“Henry Rollins is a super nice guy. A close friend of mine used to know him pretty well. So I got to meet him. What a sweetie!

Reading: Second book in the Rune Blade Trilogy by Ann Marston. I like Sci Fi stuff.

Recently finished "Eye of the Needle" by Ken Follet. Someone here, I think it was Nigal was talking about Follet. It was good.”