For the book readers on STR, what are you reading?

ATLAS SHRUGGED! (Ayn Rand)

Great, great novel.

Other notables - Weaveworld (Clive Barker)
The Historian (Elizabeth Kostova)

 

Trader's Guns and Money by Satyajit Das. Drugs, hookers, and investments bankers. Technical derivitave terms next to f*** every other page...it's great.
Human Action by the great Ludwig Von Mises. From my MBA studies...I reread it every year or two...a masterpiece of economics.

 

Finished one hundred years of solitude by Gabrial Garcia Marquez last week - a much richer and intricate piece of literature that i had expected. Read the Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner while I was on Flagstaff and was disappointed by it...as much as I enjoyed Angle of Repose, this was almost the opposite - plodding, muddled, foretold way too much, just not a fulfilling read.
Been re-reading the Crossing by Cormac McCarthy this week, simply because it is such an involving, fascinating piece of work. The first section of that book could stand alone, and as part of a whole makes the work even stronger. My second favorite of his works, after Blood Meridian. Which is simply incredible.

Next up is going to be something from Partick White, either riders in the chariot or the tree of man.

Nice to see this thread rersurrected...

 

Just finished Robert Ludlum's, The Sigma Protocol

 

I'm about done with Robert A. Heinlein's "Starship Troops", then onto to Orson Scott's Cards new book, "Empire"

 

Empire was a fun read!

 

I'm currently reading The Last Jihad by Joel Rosenberg. His first in a series of political thrillers. Perhaps the most appealing characteristic of this fictional, future tale is its closeness to present-day reality.

I was drawn in by the attack on the president and the ensuing global consequences: a Gulfstream G4 crashes into the President's limo, the shootout in the former top Mossad agent's house in Jerusalem, and the sniper sequence prior to the memorial service for the secret service agents.

Read Brideshead Revisited and saw the film last weekend.
Beautiful work!

 

Naked Lunch
William S. Burroughs

This guy is seriously Effed up!
I feel the need to take a shower after i put it down.
Don't know if I can finish this thing.
Why didn't I just buy The Rum Diaries??

 

Bolo series (originally by Steve Laumer)

 

My days of intellectually stimulating literature are on hold for a while as by the time I get my 2 whippersnappers asleep I'm pretty cooked myself. A page a night -before I fall asleep - of The Iliad (I tried for a few months) doesn't cut it. Granted it's pretty involved reading. But we are reading some fun stuff:

Harry Potter with my 6 year old, along with the Watchmen.
Stuart Little with my 4 year old, and anything with big pictures of trucks. As active as they are, they love their books at night.

And one of my bedside favorites, Desperate Journeys, Abandoned Souls: True Stories of Castaways and Other Survivors.

And no, I don't read Hunter S. to my kids.:lol:

 

I loved The Rum Diary! It's not like reading Fear and Loathing, but you can see the elements of that that will come out in Thompson's later writing...

Naked Lunch is on my short list too...

 

I'm currently reading all of the Robert Ludlum books we have.

 

I'm reading a total smut book by Barbara Delinsky, Montana Man. Yummy!

 

summer light: "me talk funny one day", david sedaris (this american life). way funny.

but next i want to read fear and loathing, just saw the movie.

 

Last Breath: Limits of Human Adventure
Peter Stark

A breif History of Time
Stephen Hawkins

Stranger Than Fiction
Chuck Palantiuk

 

The 4 Hour Work Week
Timothy Ferris

 

Currently on my iPod:

Find Me
By Carol O'Connell

These Hands
By Kevin Brockmeier

Twilight: The Twilight Saga
By Stephenie Meyer

 

In the middle of Learned Optimism. It's a'ight.

 

"From so simple a beginning, the book of evolution".Philip Whitefield
"We were soldiers. Lt Col. Hal Moore" (intense book)

 

god is not Great, how religion poisons everything. By Christopher Hitchens.