What is everone reading ?

“I'm reading "What's the Matter With Kansas?" by Thomas Franks. I recommend it to everyone, as the topic is about much more than Kansas.”

“An American Outrage by G. K. Wuori”

“Milton. A paradise lost.”

“On Writing- Stephen King.

Sci Fi- Anything by an author who's last name is Dick.

I'll leave your curiosity to do the rest of the descriptions.”

“Nigal - Y2 is talking about the books series I recommended.

Y2 - how are you liking ole Flashy? Which book are you reading in the series?

I'm still working on "Sand County Almanac." It's getting better. It had some pretty good cause and effect explanations about different things in nature. It also talks about wildness as opposed to wilderness. Dunadan, you'd probably like it.”

“my new car manual :)”

“by Dan Brown. Its really good! A suspenseful mystery. Easy to read and hard to put down. I read The DaVinci Code and then the prequel to it "Angels and Demons" all by Dan Brown. Angels and Demons included a 5 chapter preview of "Deception Point". I couldn't wait to buy it and keep reading.”

“Dayhiker, I'm reading the Flashman at the Charge now, read four others recently and Flashman and the Tiger a few years ago. All good stuff.”

“World Weekly News”

“Flashman at the Charge...is that the one about the Charge of the Light Brigade at Balachlava or is that the one where he is with Custer?”

“"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!"

Yes, I have a couple of his books but that was many years ago. I should pull them out again. I love his work!

I've finished The Da Vinci Code. I want to check out The Life of Pi but I haven't been to the library yet so I've started The Golden Compass. I'm thinking I should re-read the Bourne Identity since it will be out in the theaters soon. It's been years since I read that and The Bourne Supremacy.”

“Balaclava”

“Milton. A paradise lost."
sirpete
08:48:00 PM
07/20/04


sirpete, I am impressed.


In anticipation of the All About the Kids trip to N. Manitou Island in August and the Isle Royale trip in September, I am reading A Superior Death by Nevada Starr (per a TTer's recommendation) and a ton of UP guidebooks.”

“Ruby,
I read it years ago in college. I like his stuff and the also things like The Illiad and stuff from Homer. I guess I am a sucker for the classics.”

“Sirpete, That's when I read it, too. Along with The Symposium (Plato), Doctor Faustus (Marlowe), La Vita Nuova (Plato), Candide (Voltaire), Inanna. Haven't read them all in a long time, but I still have them and mean to. Hmmm...I remember some Joseph Conrad and James Joyce, too. These days though, that stuff is pretty heavy. I do tend to enjoy the classics much more than the current bestsellers. Have you ever read Living By Fiction by Annie Dillard?”

“Just started tonight re-reading the Foundation Trilogy. Boy, Asimov could write.”

“I'll take your recommendation, Dayhiker. You might like "Scratching the Woodchuck". Can't remember the author's name, but he's an Amish farmer living in Ohio. Very meditative and informative.”

“I brought back my Judy Blume "Summer Sister's" book because the book was, I don't know how to put it, but too simple to read.

I just took out David Baldacci's "The Winner"”

“lipstick, While I loved Judy Blume's children's books back when I was in the sixth grade, I read them all. I have tried to read two of her adult books and didn't get past the first chapter of either.”

“Dunadan - I'll check it out.

I've dog eared a few pages in the book I'm reading. I'll see if I can't remember to bring it to work and email you a passage or two.”

“Sunny, I have read somewhere around 8 or so of Cully Gage's books. Theyre excellant traveling books. Back before we had anyone in the backseat I used to read the stories aloud to Birch as he drove. They're a hoot!”

“without giving too much away, what is the foundation trilogy aboot?”

“It's about the creation of the Encyclopedia Galactica Foundation by Hari Seldon, psychohistorian, for the purpose of reducing the anarchic interregnum between the First Galactic Empire and the Second from 30,000 years to 1,000 years. Sounds hoky, doesn't it? It's actually about a lot more than that.”

“Had just started William Gibson's Pattern Recognition when a colleague left a book on my desk with a note that I might find it interesting and that he had gotten so engrossed in it that he read it straight through in 4 hours: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon. While I wasn't able to do a straight-through session, I was quickly 35 pages in the first evening. Finally back to it today and it's pretty fascinating. The narrator is a 15-year-old emotionally disturbed "special needs" kid in England, extremely bright in math, extremely obsessive about order and truth, with a variety of compulsive behaviors -- the story, in the first-person, is his investigation of the murder of his neighbor's dog, since the police don't consider it an incident worth pursuing.

The "voice" achieved by the author really nails it and allows a truly unique point of view on all the "normal" behavior that makes up our daily lives.

Hey sunshine, Cully Gage was the nom de plume of a fellow who was mentor to a Marquette professor friend of mine. As I recall, Gage grew up around Champion, where his father was the local doctor around the early 1900s.”

“In my Poli Sci course today, My Prof suggested we get "Sore Winners". It basically deals with the false diconimey (sp?) in America.

I'm looking forward to reading it.”

“I finished Life of Pi which is a survival story. I highly recommend it. However, it has left me wondering... Do bananas float?? I feel like the kid who tries to touch his elbow with his tongue. I will find out today if bananas float. To think that just early morning yesterday I used the last of my bananas to make banana blueberry muffins and chocolate chunk banana bread. *sigh* Looks like I'll be buying more bananas. LOL

Now, do I read Tom Clancy's The Teeth of the Tiger or the first book of the Left Behind series or maybe the second book of the trilogy His Dark Materials? I no longer have the Bourne Identity, Bourne Supremacy and Bourne Ultimatum books. I do have The Apolcalypse Watch, tho! Decisions, decisions.... :o)”

“If it were me, I'd go for Clancy.”

“I'm reading Chris Carmicheal's "The Ultimate Ride".”

“I'm reading Bourne Identity. So far it's great and pretty significantly different than the movie. Next up will be Life of Pi. The Youth Minister at my church just finished Pi. I'm going to borrow it from him.”

“I'm reading a pretty light history of Flagstaff AZ during WWII. Mostly about them building the Navojo Ordinance Depot, and the military training at the college.”

“Im reading -On the Beaten Path,an Appalachian Pilgrimage by Robert Alden Rubin ,for the third time lol What can I say its a good read!! Most here have prolly read this book but for those who havnt ,its the true story of Rubins Mid life crisis and job burn out that prompts him to quit his job and thru-hike the AT .”

“About thirty pages of the DaVinci Code left. Man, I have really been slow on that one. Then off to the library for some NEW fiction. Maybe the new(er) Krakauer book?”

“The Devil in the White City.”

“FYI

Bananas DO float.

:)”

“Eyes On The Prize by Juan Williams”

“What's the new Kraukauer??

I can tell you one thing. I'll be buying the Aron Ralston book muy pronto when it comes out!!!”

“The Krakauer book is "Under The Banner Of Heaven". Great read.
Just finished "What's The Matter With Kansas?" by Thomas Frank. Interesting political reading for anyone wondering about the current political balance in the USA.
Now, on to what? I think I'm in the mood to finish "Franklin" by Isaacson, but was having trouble staying interested in it the first time around. Isaacson is no McCullough, in my opinion.”

“I enjoyed "Franklin", but then I've always been interested in him.”

“I picked up Teeth of The Tiger while waiting in a Looong line at the Safeway pharmacy. By the time I got to the counter, I was hooked on the story. After this book I need to go back and get the latest two Jack Ryan novels.”

“Lizs: The Krakauer book is, I think, a bit of a divergence from his normal stuff. It explores two Mormon men (brothers?) who committed a murder and then goes into a whole exploration of the Mormon religion.

lessee, went the library and picked up Anatoli Boukreev's version of the Everest tragedy "The Climb", "Walking Up and Down in the World" by Smoke Blanchard and my first Colin Fletcher book, "The Secret World of COlin Fletcher"

Oh yeah. and the last Stephen King collection of short stories called "Everything's Eventual" to grease the wheels.

I love reading.”

“Roseymonster-I read Walking Up and Down In the World,by Blanchard A while back I thought it was an excellent book!! Hes a pretty interesting guy.”

“Cool Streamweaver! I'm looking forward to digging into it...”

“A Walk in the Woods.. read a few pages of it in the bookstore, thinking of getting it, recommendations?”

“Dont listen to most of the crap people spew about Brysons book,A Walk in The Woods!! Alot of people were under the false impression that it was suposed to be a serious book and some even thought it was a how to book. Its actually a great read as far as Im concerned ,Ive read it a few times .He does get a bit carried away with the enviromental stuff(almost sounds preachy) but theres alot of humor in it and even though he didnt finish the whole trail its seems that he had a good time,and aint that what its really all about?!”

“I thought A Walk in the Woods was hilarious.”

“H.W. Brands' Ben Franklin biography, "The First American," is a great read.

Just finished McCullough's "John Adams", he is a great writer.

Time now for something a LOT lighter though. I head about the "Left Behind" series on some talk radio today...who's that by and what's it all about?”

“Finally tired of everyone telling me to read The DaVinci Code & started it yesterday. I'm 1/2 way thru, it really is a "can't put it down" kinda' book, IMHO. Very well written, every chapter-end leaves you hanging!”

“It is written by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins. It is an end times story based off of Revelations in the Bible. It is pretty easy reading and there are about 8 or 9 books in all. I would definitely recommend it!”

“Picked up "Food for Fitness" by Chris Carmichael and the Bicycling Mag's repair manual. I had one, but the specifics on components were outdated.”