Anybody read a good book lately?

[Munson]

Just saw that whole re-read a book convo.

I just re-read The Great Santini for the hell of it. I forgot how much that book pissed me off when I first read it.

[shorebird]

I finished Cities of the Plain.

John Grady Cole and Billy Parham have catapulted themselves to the top of my list of favorite literary characters. I've heard and read reviews of this book that claim it pales in comparison to the first two books in the Border Trilogy. Bullshtein. It was phenomenal.

It was so good, and it impacted me so much that I had the urge to read something that was total fluff right away so I wouldn't dwell on the story. So I immediately went out and bought Contagious, by Scott Sigler. It's about alien invasion, so, yeah. It blends science and science fiction in an intelligent and totally entertaining way (so far) and is providing exactly what I needed.

Jesus Christ McCarthy books really farging get in my head.

You are one book reading mf. No way I'd have the time with my one page every 2 minutes to read like you do

[Susquehanna Birder]

Recently finished "The 5000 Year Leap." It's a bit melodramatic, a tad dry, and it needs to be read with an open mind. I don't agree with some of it, but overall, it has some good concepts about the history and principles of the Constitution.

Now I'm working on two books: "Escape from Cubicle Nation," by Pamela Smart, and "Vision Mongers," by David duChemin. I'm hoping that both of them inspire enough confidence so that I can leave the corporate rat race behind.

[Diomedes]

I have never been able to read more than one book at at time.  I rarely finish either of them and never both. 

[rjs246]

I finished Cities of the Plain.

John Grady Cole and Billy Parham have catapulted themselves to the top of my list of favorite literary characters. I've heard and read reviews of this book that claim it pales in comparison to the first two books in the Border Trilogy. Bullshtein. It was phenomenal.

It was so good, and it impacted me so much that I had the urge to read something that was total fluff right away so I wouldn't dwell on the story. So I immediately went out and bought Contagious, by Scott Sigler. It's about alien invasion, so, yeah. It blends science and science fiction in an intelligent and totally entertaining way (so far) and is providing exactly what I needed.

Jesus Christ McCarthy books really farging get in my head.

You are one book reading mf. No way I'd have the time with my one page every 2 minutes to read like you do

I spend a lot of time on planes/trains.

[Susquehanna Birder]

I have never been able to read more than one book at at time.  I rarely finish either of them and never both. 

Well to be honest, one of them is at work, and the other one is at home, next to the crapper.

[Diomedes]

I read a lot more when I commuted 2.5 hours a day by train.  Nowadays, I drive to work.  Plus, when I get home, I'm physically tired, which ain't exactly conducive to reading.

Then there's the marijuana, video game, and internet habits.  All of which put a hurt on my reading. 

[Susquehanna Birder]

I totally understand. Besides the internet, my main nemesis is the damned television.

[Diomedes]

I def. read less during the NFL season.  And Thursday nights I'm pretty much locked on The First 48.

[Sgt PSN]

I have never been able to read more than one book at at time.  I rarely finish either of them and never both. 

ha!  i was just thinking the same thing.  i know i've got some concentration issues because i'm farging lazy as hell and if i tried reading 2 books at the same time, i'd have a hard time seperating them in my head and they'd eventually just merge together and form 1 big story.

besides, i do enough reading here.   

[Susquehanna Birder]

I agree. It helps that I'm reading non fiction.

[PhillyPhanInDC]

I read a lot more when I commuted 2.5 hours a day by train.  Nowadays, I drive to work.  Plus, when I get home, I'm physically tired, which ain't exactly conducive to reading.

Then there's the marijuana, video game, and internet habits.  All of which put a hurt on my reading. 

Audio books. No shame in them, same exact stuff from the book, with cool sounding folks reading them. I get shteinloads form the public library and use them when I drive anyway, or just lay in a dark room and listen to them to unwind a bit. They also come in MP3 format at the libraries for IPods and the like.

[ice grillin you]

just finished an outstanding book called the immortal life of henrietta hicks about a dying black women in 1951 who unknowingly had a tissue sample snipped from her cervical cancer tumor by jonhs hopkins doctors...back then no human tissue cells had ever survived in a laboratory but this womens were different...they not only lived but they multiplied at an amazing rate

since then bilions of these hela cells have been used in treatments and cures of numerous diseases...the side story being that while all this happened this womens family remains piss poor and health insuranceless...its basically a real life story of modern medicine  bioethics and race relations

[hbionic]

Incase you didn't know already...this is probably one of the best threads in teh history of the internet. Ever.

I have purchased some books based on some of your suggestions and they are books I never would have thought of buying.

Keep up the good work bitches!

*now...to make time to read them all. 

[mpmcgraw]

just finished an outstanding book called the immortal life of henrietta hicks about a dying black women in 1951 who unknowingly had a tissue sample snipped from her cervical cancer tumor by jonhs hopkins doctors...back then no human tissue cells had ever survived in a laboratory but this womens were different...they not only lived but they multiplied at an amazing rate

since then bilions of these hela cells have been used in treatments and cures of numerous diseases...the side story being that while all this happened this womens family remains piss poor and health insuranceless...its basically a real life story of modern medicine  bioethics and race relations

are you sure you didn't just watch the daily show last night and are just pretending you read the book they talked about?