What are you reading?

[Noomi]

^I've read all three Hunger Games novels and I liked them.

I've just finished reading Fifty Shades Freed. Took me about 3 weeks to get through all three books. They are not bad, the second one was a little boring, though.

 

[BDBoop]

I'm reading three books right now. One Janet Evanovich, A Dance with Dragons, and B is for Burglar.

 

[Salt Jones]

The Trifling Times of Nathan Jones (NAN) by Moses Miller.

A writer for the Atlantic recommended it on his blog. I got it on my Kindle and read it in two days. I stayed up until 1 am to finish the book, I get up at 4am for work. I overslept for the first time in a year and a half. It was the best book I've read in a long time. I downloaded the other two books in the trilogy. Miller has a great writing style.

[ame=http://www.amazon.com/Trifling-Times-Nathan-Jones-ebook/dp/B003V8BU4I]The Trifling Times of Nathan Jones (NAN): Moses Miller: Amazon.com: Kindle Store[/ame]

 

[Zoom-boing]

I can't believe I'm reading Abraham Lincoln Vampire Killer.........

That's how I'm going to feel whenever I get around to trying out the Hunger Games. My little sister insists they are good, so I'll open the first one, but I'm expecting tweeny crap. Actually, that's probably what I'd expect from the Abraham Lincoln, too....

I'm currently reading some Battletech books.

Hunger Games are def written for a young audience. You know if a 15 year old is raving that it's the greatest thing in the world that they're just ok and nothing more. The second book was the best in the series, imo.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Sky of Stone by Homer Hickam...got this after reading "The Rocket Boys" by the same author.
Both excellent memoirs. You would need to read Rocket Boys first.

 

[Trajan]

right now-

-Black Ops, Vietnam: An Operational History of MACVSOG...Robert M. Gillespie


- Redshirts ....John Scalzi


- A History of the Peninsular War, Volume IV: December 1810-December 1811...Oman,

 

[strollingbones]

Still Missing - Chevy Stevens - Google Books


http://books.google.com/books?id=w0...a=X&ei=ZD0NUNzGIYOC8ATByI32Cg&ved=0CFIQ6AEwBA

 

[strollingbones]

finished still missing and a stolen life.....

you would think a stolen life by jaycee dugard would be a hard depressing read...it wasnt...

now on book 5....dancing with dragons

 

[American Horse]

Right now I'm working my way through all the Dean Koontz novels, which are crime/suspense. His plots are, so far as I can see, are flawless, and he is a master of some really fine prose. I find him using words strung together in quite lovely and moving combinations.

 

[strollingbones]

you would love jame less burke then....

 

[Zoom-boing]

Finished Stephen King's "Full Dark, No Stars" It was four short stories, all having to do with death.

This is the last book I"m reading by King. I've been a fan for years and years but he's starting to throw in his political pov into the stories and you know, I just don't need that shit when I'm just trying to enjoy a book. He managed to distract from the story with his little political interjections and after reading a recent article he wrote --- well, I'm so over him. Cya Stevie.

On to the third book in the Left Behind series: Soul Harvesting.

 

[midcan5]

What was it Yogi said, deja vu .... reading the book below reminds me how much things have not changed in the world of business opposition to worker rights and fairness. I'm also beginning to admire Eisenhower even more after reading the book below and a bit of 'The Healing of America' (see http://www.usmessageboard.com/healthcare-insurance-govt-healthcare/235883-a-moral-question.html) Eisenhower actually was his own man and not a corporate puppet as all republicans and even democrats are today.

"Historian Phillips-Fein traces the hidden history of the Reagan revolution to a coterie of business executives, including General Electric official and Reagan mentor Lemuel Boulware, who saw labor unions, government regulation, high taxes and welfare spending as dire threats to their profits and power. From the 1930s onward, the author argues, they provided the money, organization and fervor for a decades-long war against New Deal liberalism—funding campaigns, think tanks, magazines and lobbying groups, and indoctrinating employees in the virtues of unfettered capitalism." [ame]http://www.amazon.com/Invisible-Hands-Making-Conservative-Movement/dp/0393059308/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1247845984&sr=1-1[/ame]


http://www.usmessageboard.com/history/234593-america-as-farce.html

 

[Mustang]

"Storms of my Grandchildren" by James Hansen

James Hansen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://www.giss.nasa.gov/staff/jhansen.html

 

[IGetItAlready]

Mark Levin's Liberty and Tyranny, Daniel Hannon's The New Road to Serfdom and a copy of Obama's Dreams From My Father which I did not and will not purchase and which may require a half dozen renewals as more than a couple of pages at a sitting is enough to so infuriate that the book must be set aside for a while.

 

[Noomi]

I can't be bothered getting up to look at the title, but its a book by Linwood Barclay.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

WOOL - omnibus.
Feeling like mind candy right now...pretty decent sci-fi novel

[ame=http://www.amazon.com/Wool-Omnibus-Edition-ebook/dp/B0071XO8RA/ref=dp_kinw_strp_1]Wool Omnibus Edition (Wool 1 - 5): Hugh Howey: Amazon.com: Kindle Store[/ame]

 

[Noomi]

I can't be bothered getting up to look at the title, but its a book by Linwood Barclay.

Its called 'Never Look Away'.

 

[Mustang]

"It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism" by Thomas E. Mann & Norman J. Ornstein

It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the Politics of Extremism by Thomas E. Mann - Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists

 

[strollingbones]

i just finished...10 famous feuds in history and have started death eaters by crighton

 

[SayMyName]

"Into the Wild," by Jon Krakauer. The true and tragic story of a young man who leaves his life of priviledge and promise behind to trek through the Alaska wilderness.