What is everone reading ?

“I love to buy paperbacks, because I like crisp, unread books, and after I finish reading them, you can't tell they have been read or even flipped through.

My husband read 1/3 of a paperback and the cover was already falling off, lol.

The last book I got from the used book store. Then I finally decided to try the library. I just hate to, because I don't like to be on a schedule. If I buy a book, I may not start reading it for two weeks. I don't want to be watching the calendar on when to return or renew books, but alas, I have gotten a library book.

I just took out "Summer Sisters", by Judy Blume. If you are in your 30s, you may know her for writing coming of age books when you were a kid. That's what I've been told. This is one of her books for adults.

I have ecclentic tastes, and have read everything from "The Nanny Diaries", that was really bad to "A Beautiful Mind", which was made into a movie, and Up Country by Nelson De Mille.”

“david mccullough's biography of john adams.


i don't think mccandless was all that dumb.”

“walkabout1, what did you think of the McMurtry series? Lonesome Dove is my all time favorite book. I enjoyed the other 3 in the series too. About 5 posts above where this thread gets revived I'm telling a fellow about a 3 book series written in the 40's that I think McMurtry must have been very familiar with before he wrote Lonesome Dove. I loaned them to chili. If you'd like to borrow them I can see if he's through with them.

I really enjoyed "Into the Wild." It's probably been 3 years or so since I read it. The kid had major issues and was running from something, probably more than just his parents. OTOH, I enjoyed reading about someone willing to just get out there. Summering in a remote part of Alaska is something most of us here can identify with. He was stupid in that he was woefully unprepared. Seems like I recall that the guy that propped him off said he had basically no gear with him. When you don't have gear you don't have room for error. It wasn't his fault that the book he used to figure out what to eat only talked about the winter edibility of that plant, and not about the fact it pumps your body with alkalids in the summer. There was his one big error and it killed him.”

“i think i hated *Into the Wild* not so much b/c of the story itself, but b/c i thought it was a bunch of badly-written conjecture. i usually like "finding yourself" stories, like Hermann Hesse's, for instance...but this one was romantic and "oh, what if THIS was what he was thinking?" in a cloying kind of way. i think i have empathy for McCandless himself, but that book makes me angry. LOL! just my opinion, of course...i'm sure there are tons of other people who really liked the way it was written.”

“It's difficult to write an entire book about a dead, 24-year-old transient hermit. But I was a little annoyed too by "Into The Wild". I still thought it was a good story, but it seemed that just when it was about to get interesting, the author would go off on some wild tangent, like the entire chapter about his own experience climbing some peak in Alaska. I know he was just trying to give a little insight into the minds of postadolescent males, but it seemed a little much. It was obvious he was just trying to stretch his magazine article to book length. It's still a good read though.”

“I'm reading another one of Krakauer's now, "Under the Banner of Heaven", about the Mormon fundamentalists. Those guys are wackos; they want multiple wives! The horror!”

“oh, WAS it originally a magazine article? well, that makes a lot of sense, bitpusher! that's exactly what it seemed like he was doing.

and even though i hated that one, i'm still going to read *Under the Banner of Heaven*. wackos, my fave!!”

“Krakauer had written an article about McCandless for Outside magazine. I doubt if he did much more original research on McCandless before he wrote the book.”

“Has anyone ever read "The Last American Man" by Elizabeth Gilbert. If you liked *Into the Wild* it is of the same sort, with a much less tragic ending.”

“Dayhiker,I agree with you about Lonesome Dove being probably one of the best book I have ready.The Lonesome Dove series was great reading.Mcmurtry has a way with writing the best dialogue of any modern writer.The first and last books of the new series are the best but I believe you would have to read all of them in the correct order to understand them.I am an avid reader of anything Mcmurty writes ,most are good,some excellent but there are a few that after I have finished I wonder if I havent wasted my time completing them.”

“Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus! I'm actually listening to it on cd right now at work and its excellent!”

“Thanks for the tip walkabout.

fonsie - I've read it. Dunadan loaned it to me a couple of years ago. The funniest thing to me was the scence in NY in the Bronx...."There's Davie F'in Crockett!"”

“Miss Opie, I read "Life of Pi" last month...very inspiring...”

“DH-
Eustace Conway was somethig of an anomally for me. On one hand he could be seen as very inspiring with the life he preaches/leads, but his relationship with everyone else, and even himself make him seen pretty crazy at times.”

“I love westerns! It's so weird. I am a sucker for good old Larry's books. I loved the mini series of Lonesome Dove too. Even though Ricky Schroeder annoys me.
Lipstick: I am the same way with my books. Friends are afraid to borrow them because I am so anal about not bending or creasing or dog earing them.”

“Anyone read the "A Northwoods Reader" by Cully Gage? He's a local writter in the UP of Michigan and writes about growing up there in the early 1900s. Very funny!”

“OK, well, I won't be reading this...

Ugh.”

“White Death by Cussler”

“I enjoyed a lot of Cussler's books, but stopped reading them after the one where he navigates from Cuba to Florida? in a cast iron tub with a cork in the drain and an outboard motor on the back. It was a little too far-fetched.”

“Hey, if a chevy pickup can make it from Cuba to Florida, so can a bathtub!”

“I love the way cussler has to explain everything to the readers, makes me laugh.”

“:) So there!”

“I'm reading my fourth Flashman book, damn they're run. Been reading the O'Brien books too.”

“just finished the hobbit this morning”

“I was looking for my copy of I, Robot yesterday and found three of the four Earthsea books instead... I think it may be time to whip out that moldy old Ursula K. LeGuin (Nebula Award, 1982?).

(the second one, The Tombs of Atuan, was creepy as all get out)”

“I heard some Hubberd-ites going nuts on the radio talking about how bad the I, Robot movie is and picking it apart.

It was like listneing to Treky purists bltch about Deep Space 9. LOL!”

“Hey, bit.....does that Pam Anderson book have pictures? I might 'read' it then. ;-)”

“The article says her pic is on the cover, but that's about it.”

“Three of the four Earthsea books?
What was the fourth one?”

“There were at least five books of the Earthsea series.
Amazon is currently selling five in print.”

“I don't plan to see 'I, Robot' until it comes out on HBO.

I can't stand a Hollywood hack job of a classic book.”

“It's too bad we can't hook Isaac Asimov up to a generator.

We might as well get some good out of him turning in his grave.”

“I just finished reading the "What is everyone reading?" thread on TT.”

“A Wizard of Earthsea
The Tombs of Atuan
The Farthest Shore
Tehanu: The Last Book Of Earthsea (Earthsea Tetrology #4)
Tales From Earthsea
The Other Wind: Earthsea 05
Earthsea
Earthsea revisioned”

“Dang. I only remember the first three.

Ah well, it's a good thing. More stuff to read.”

“i cant stand the thought of something as intricate and thoughtful as an asimov story being turned into ANOTHER will-smith-as-smart-arsed-hero-vehicle”

“its immediately apparent how inane the movie is going to be when the trailer opens with dumbed-down 3 laws of robotics.

i resisted reading asimov for a long time because i thought that since he was a pioneering sci-fi writer, his work would be dated and corny. boy was i pleasantly surprised when i read one of his stories. theyre timeless because they deal less with technology and more with the implications and ethical and philosophical questions having the tech raises”

“My brother said, after watching the trailer, "So, what the movie is about is a world full of amazing robots that can do anything except kill Will Smith?"”

“HA! good one”

“zac, Roam, and pepsi are reading automotive manuals!”

“Exactly C!B!.
I shuddered at the thought of rocket car chases and things blowing up, called 'I, Robot' the Movie.”

“Have you read the Foundation series? It can get a little (tad bit) corny at times, but it doesn't detract from the quality of the stories.”

“bit - I just reread that series a few months ago. Great story.”

“It's about time for me to re-read it. Been long enough that it will almost be like a new book to me.”

“I'm reading Running with Scissors - it's pretty dang good so far”

“That's the great thing about having a crappy memory.
My memory is so bad, after a few years I can read a book again and I will have forgotten how it ended. LOL!”

“I was hoping that I, Robot would be an adaptation of the story to the screen. I knew I was hoping for too much when I saw the trailer and instead of "adapted from" it said "inspired by"

Why can't they just leave the title to a director who actually wants to tell the Azimov story in film format and call thier version something else? They did the same thing to Heinlien's Starship Troopers.”

“I'm currently reading 'The Cardinal of the Kremlin' by Tom Clancy again.”

“Did a web search on Starship Troopers and all that came up was that stupid movie. ;-)

I must have 50-60 of Robert Heinlein's books. I collected and read them when I was a teen.
Ha! Some of the cover prices of the paperbacks are 50 and 75 cents!”

“I'm still trying to get through "Spectrometric Identification of Organic Compounds".

Man, what a dry read.”