What are you reading? Book discussions and reviews

[karamazov80]

Great line from a book I'm reading now:

"God grant me the SERENITY to accept what I cannot change, the TENACITY to change what I may, and the GOOD LUCK not to ____ up too often."

 

[Agent0028]

That's pretty good.

I just started The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. I'm way behind on reading that one. I hope it lives up to the hype.

 

[The Ween]

I used to not be able to do this, but my problem is that I read too much Star Trek. If I stuck to one book at a time, I'd be reading Star Trek exclusively. So now I have a "during the day" book, and a nighttime book.

I used to read a lot of Star Trek novels but got out of it. Some of them are really good, but when you hit a bad one......man does that take forever to get through!

 

[The Josh]

Finished reading ROTK and the appendices. Next up will be The Children of Hurin.

 

[Kabukiman]

Can anybody here recommend a good Lincoln bio?

Answering my own question. I'm about 1/3 of the way through David Herbert Donald's enormous "Lincoln" and I think I can give it a recommendation. It's very thorough, but doesn't read like a school textbook.

If I'm not Lincoln'ed out by the time I'm finished with this, I'm gonna move on to "Team of Rivals" by Doris Kearns Goodwin.

 

[Agent0028]

I just finished The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. I don't see what all the excitement was about.

 

[wofford29]

I've not read the book. I've seen the movie, so my only guess as to its popularity is maybe a unique protagonist?

 

[jinxx]

Angela's Ashes which I "borrowed" from a library here in the turd world.

 

[Nuka Cola Kidd]

Just starting Harry Potter and the Oder of the Phoenix.

 

[Kabukiman]

Just starting Harry Potter and the Oder of the Phoenix.

My favorite of the HP books.

 

[The Ween]

Finished reading ROTK and the appendices. Next up will be The Children of Hurin.

Josh, would you mind giving me the order in which these books are best read?

 

[The Josh]

Josh, would you mind giving me the order in which these books are best read?

I personally always start with The Hobbit and then go through LOTR and the appendices. This will be my first read through of The Children of Hurin which takes place I well before The Hobbit even. Its dealing with parts of Middle Earth that are under water by the time of The Hobbit.

 

[Kabukiman]

The 3G nook classic is on sale at woot! today for $99.

 

[carbo-fation]

Josh, would you mind giving me the order in which these books are best read?

If you trying to read most of Tolkien's lore, I would read it as Josh suggested:

1. The Hobbit
2. The LOTR trilogy plus the appendices
3. Children of Hurin
4. The Silmarillion
5. The Unfinished Tales

Just be aware that The Silmarillion and The Unfinished Tales are more like a history book than an actual novel. They can be very dry at times. Have fun.

 

[The Josh]

I should have asked if she wanted more than what I suggested. I almost said but I wasn't sure. Thanks Carbo.

 

[The Entity]

I just finished reading the first Mass Effect novel, called Revelation. A really awesome book, especially if you're a fan of the games! It gives you some more background info on certain characters from the games which is awesome!
A good story and a good read!

 

[VASith]

Just finished this:

And about to start these 2 while on vacation:

 

[carbo-fation]

Are you try to go to culinary school or are you just reading about this for fun?

 

[VASith]

Are you try to go to culinary school or are you just reading about this for fun?

I'm already a chef. Read them for research and fun.

 

[fosing]

picked up "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" from a thrift shop.