What are you reading?

[trousers]

After a recent discussion with a friend about Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" I've been on a post-apocalyptic bent. Just read George R Stewarts "Earth Abides" and am about halfway through "Riddley Walker" by Russell Hoban.

[flintysooner]

3 Clint Murchison Jr biographies;
Love Is An Orientation by Andrew Marin;
The Power of Premonitions by Larry Dorsey;
The Angel Experiment by James Patterson;
In My Father's House by Nguyen Thi Mai Thuy.

On the "apocalyptic" front I've been reading some of the stuff about Planet X, Nibiru, and Dec 21, 2012.

[PennyQuilts]

The White Queen by Phillippa Gregory.
Hunting Ground by Patricia Briggs.
Wilderness Warrior by Douglas Brinkley.

[El Gato Pollo Loco!!!]

This message board!

[nik4411]

My favorite author is Jack Higgins...another fav is W.E.B Griffin. Anyone ever read either one of these authors?

And how are you guys reading so many things at once??

[metro]

Holy Bible (66 books actually)
The Millionaire Next Door
My Total Money Makeover
Operation Timothy

[PennyQuilts]

My favorite author is Jack Higgins...another fav is W.E.B Griffin. Anyone ever read either one of these authors?

And how are you guys reading so many things at once??

I like Griffin.

I tend to have a book by my bedside and one with me for reading while I'm out, which is why I generally have a couple going. I just got the one on Roosevelt and have been picking it up and down for the past couple of days, which is why I have three going.

[flintysooner]

My favorite author is Jack Higgins...another fav is W.E.B Griffin. Anyone ever read either one of these authors?

And how are you guys reading so many things at once??

I think I've read some stuff under one of Griffin's pseudonyms. He's the MASH guy right?

I have a Kindle but most of what I'm reading right now are dead tree books unfortunately.

[possumfritter]

Wide Angle on PBS.org
Jeremiah in the O.T.
"The Movement and the Sixties: Protest in America from Greensboro to Wounded Knee," by Terry Anderson

[OKCisOK4me]

The Undead Karma Sutra, Mark Avacedo
The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
A Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri

The first being light reading, lol.

Glad there's other people on here that read more than one book at a time!

[nik4411]

I think it's great you all can read more than one at a time. Seems like I would lose track of all of it haha

Flintysooner, I don't know anything about Griffin having any other pseudonyms, or being involved with MASH. I just looked at his site but couldn't find anything...

[flintysooner]

I think it's great you all can read more than one at a time. Seems like I would lose track of all of it haha

Flintysooner, I don't know anything about Griffin having any other pseudonyms, or being involved with MASH. I just looked at his site but couldn't find anything...

I think Butterworth was the pseudonym he used for the MASH books.

I've always read more than one book at a time. The Kindle has made that worse since I carry my entire library with me all the time. Reading several at a time it is not necessarily a good thing for sure.

[PennyQuilts]

I love my kindle. It is wonderful. Other than selected books I might want to add to my library or that my husband would like to read, I stick to it. It sure has cut down on the stacks of paperbacks at the house. We were drowing in them.

[flintysooner]

I love my Kindle, too!

I found W E B Griffin on Wikipedia. He has a bunch of pseudonyms:

# Alex Baldwin
# Webb Beech
# Walker E. Blake
# James McM. Douglas
# Eden Hughes
# Edmund O. Scholefield
# Patrick J. Williams
# W. E. Butterworth
# John Kevin Dugan

The MASH books he coauthored with Richard Hooker. His involvement began after the TV series. Interesting.

[nik4411]

Wow very interesting, thanks

[flintysooner]

Just started The Biology of Belief by Bruce H. Lipton. Very interesting.

[trousers]

On the "apocalyptic" front I've been reading some of the stuff about Planet X, Nibiru, and Dec 21, 2012.

zecharia sitchin?

[flintysooner]

zecharia sitchin?

No, just web stuff -- like december212012.com and a host of others. Just trying to keep abreast of popular culture and failing rather miserably.

[trousers]

Just finished Sam Shepard's "Day of Days" about to start John Hodgmans "More Information than You Require."
Anybody reading anything good?

[Jethrol]

I just got my Kindle about a month ago and now I'm finding that I LOVE IT!! I'm reading more than ever and reading books that I probably never would have looked at twice.

Just finished these:
The Island of Dr. Moreau
Deathworld 1 & 2

And I'm now reading:
Stumbling on Happiness which is quite good.

Post apocalyptic books sound good....perhaps I'll look into some of those suggestions. Anyone want to provide "Non-Spoiler" reviews?

[onthestrip]

Bicycle Diaries by Davd Byrne. It's especially a good read with all the things that are happening and will be happening in our downtown area.

[flintysooner]

Currently reading:
The First Rule by Robert Crais

Just finished:
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Introverts in the Church by Adam McHugh

Have several new titles I'm looking forward to reading including several C S Lewis books that were available for Kindle.

[Jethrol]

Currently reading:
The First Rule by Robert Crais

I have that on my Kindle...what do you think so far?

[buckt]

Currently reading:
The First Rule by Robert Crais

Just finished:
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Introverts in the Church by Adam McHugh

Have several new titles I'm looking forward to reading including several C S Lewis books that were available for Kindle.

What is "Introverts in the Church by Adam McHugh" about?? Sounds like something I might want to read....

[flintysooner]

I have that on my Kindle...what do you think so far?

I like it a lot. But I've always enjoyed the Joe Pike character. He's just really cool. I think I like him better than Elvis in fact. I enjoy Crais' stories and how he builds to and relates the action.

Are you a Crais fan?