What are you reading? Book discussions and reviews

[hairlesswookiee]

Have to start reading stuff for work again. Currently reading "Assessment for Crisis Intervention" by Rick Myer.

 

[The Josh]

Finished FOTR last night and starting TTT tonight.

 

[meth head]

Just starting this

 

[Kibishii]

Just finished Game of Thrones...starting...

 

[Agent0028]

I'm reading Ptolemy's Gate. It's Book 3 of the Bartimaeus trilogy by Jonathan Stroud. I've really enjoyed the series so far, can't wait to see how it all ends.

 

[The Ween]

Finished FOTR last night and starting TTT tonight.

I finished the Hobbit some time ago and I'm half way through FOTR. The book is so different from the movie. I'm hoping Jackson does just as good a job with his vision of The Hobbit as he did LOTR.

 

[The Ween]

Can anyone suggest a good sci-fi or fantasy series?

 

[Kibishii]

Can anyone suggest a good sci-fi or fantasy series?

I have read most of the most popular fantasy series and this is by far my favorite:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wheel_of_Time

The first book is Eye of the World.

 

[Agent0028]

Jim Butcher's Codex Alera was a great read for fantasy, hs Dresden Files series is a great urban fantasy series.

 

[AllisonAmy]

If you want to really be moved by Twain, you should read The Diaries of Adam & Eve. I think I've said this a thousand times in a thousand different places, but it is the finest tribute to Woman ever penned. The last entry is one of the most beautiful lines in all world literature. Perfectly simple, and perfectly true.

It's also short. You could read it in an afternoon.

I read some excerpts from it that I found on line, tonight. I'll eventually pick up the book. I thought it was funny that Tonawanda was mentioned. I was born in Buffalo; I grew up in Tonawanda.

 

[devilof76]

Eden is New York. Niagara Falls is in the Garden (there's even a barrel).

 

[AllisonAmy]

I read that. The excerpts were rather lengthy.

 

[Michael Crawford]

Just finished up the fourth book in the Ender's Game series. I love the first two books - Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead - but the 3rd and 4th really started to drag.

Best series I've read in ages I just finished up before this one - The Hunger Games. Fantastic stuff.

I'm starting a short story collection that were all originally podcasts, called Podthology: The Pod Complex. I picked it up because one of the stories is by my favorite Michigan author, Scott Sigler. It's a pretty quick book, and after that I already have Sigler's two intergalactic football books, The Rookie and The Starter, on my Kindle.

 

[VASith]

This arrives any day now. 2,438 pages, 1,522 recipes, 4 pounds of ink used to print it and the six volumes weigh 47 pounds. Can't wait to tuck into it...

 

[wofford29]

I was looking at that on a site the other day. If you wouldn't mind posting a review after you've checked it out for a bit, that would be awesome.

 

[Devil_666]

Reeeeeaaading!? WTF is that!?

 

[VASith]

Just finished this. I've followed Grant's career throughout the years but hearing the firsthand accounts of his opening of Alinea and his battle with Stage 4 cancer of the tongue is amazing. I highly recommend it to anyone who is curious about food, opening a business or has dealt with cancer. A truly amazing book as I knew it would be.

 

[Kabukiman]

Can anybody here recommend a good Lincoln bio?

I was going to go with "Lincoln" by David Herbert Donald but if somebody has a good recommendation (especially if it is available in epub format), I'd love to hear it.

Another one I'm considering is "Team of Rivals" by Doris Kearns Goodwin as that is a recent publication that gets very strong reviews. However, I'm not sure that book would be a good "starting point" on Lincoln.

 

[wofford29]

Just finished this. I've followed Grant's career throughout the years but hearing the firsthand accounts of his opening of Alinea and his battle with Stage 4 cancer of the tongue is amazing. I highly recommend it to anyone who is curious about food, opening a business or has dealt with cancer. A truly amazing book as I knew it would be.

Is that the chef that lost his sense of taste?

 

[The Josh]

Finished The Two Towers and getting ready to start Return Of The King.