JD Book Club: What Are You Reading Now?

[Vator]

Went book shopping on Sunday... New:

Used:

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And a ridiculous little book from 1947 on contemporary Near Eastern affairs, entitled: PAN ARABIA.

I'm reading the Tofflers' book and Cole's first. Thus far, interesting. I've adopted the Tofflerian First/Second/Third Wave dichotomy.

[Nathan]

Christ, that's your recreational reading? You sir are hard core.

[Vator]

This 7th letter of the English alphabet don't play, son. 

[King_Maul]

One of my collegues gave me The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho to read.  Not sure if she's trying to tell me something.     I haven't gotten too far, but I just want to find out if Santiago ends up with the shop merchant's daughter!   

[Nathan]

Just finished this:

[MetalJedi]

On Sunday I picked up:





Almost halfway through Monster Island.

[Nathan]

[Chris M]

I'm reading "In the Company of Soldiers" at the moment.  I'm a bit perturbed with it though.  It's a book talking about the commanders of the 101st during the start of OIF.  HOwever, the author is obviously anti-Bush, that's fine if he is, but it's tainted his writing severely and is making it frustrating to read.  He will often go off on a tangent complaining about the war.  I thought I was getting a history book, not an editorial.

[Scott]

Who here has read the "His Dark Materials" series (Golden Compass being book 1 of 3)  I picked up last night and absolutely love it so far.  Then I watched the trailer and love it even more...cool stuff

[Nathan]

I read them a few years ago, yeah. I loved the first two, but I agree with the overall consensus that the third one just goes completely to hell.

[Jeff]

Who here has read the "His Dark Materials" series (Golden Compass being book 1 of 3) 

The Mrs. just finished Golden Compass (which she really liked) and has handed it off to me... I'm only a few chapters in, but I'm liking it so far. 

[Nathan]

I'm gonna be up late.

[Darth_Anton]

Started reading Frankenstein, it's a bear. The interesting thing about it though is that, and I learned this from reading the forwards, Mary Shelly's husband rewrote the novel to make the language more reflective of literature at the time. He didn't change the substance of the story at all, just the way it was told. Apparently Mary's style was too "common." In other words, he changed "I love you" to "The depths of heart yearn with affection." She also wrote it on a bet.

[Phrubruh]

I just finished reading The Big Over Easy: A Nursery Crime by Jasper Fforde. It's a very funny mystery about who really pushed Humpty Dumpty. I'm going to pick up Jasper Fforde's The Fourth Bear later this week.

[Chris M]

Started reading a book called "Death Traps" by Belton Cooper who was with the 3d Amored Division during WWII as member of the Maintenance Battalion.  Really good read for WWII buffs or someone who is interested in exactly how inferior the American armor was compared to the German armor.  It really gets down to the nuts and bolts of keeping an armored division battle ready.