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

[MTBJOE57]

Just finished To Have and Have Not. Getting started on Islands in the Stream. I've been on a Hemingway kick lately since I'm from Key West and everyone down there loves him so much, so I figured why not. I'm enjoying his work, but find some of the story lines a little disjointed. Maybe it's because he was a raging drunk.

Went on a Hemingway binge years ago. (I'm a Conch too.) Check out the Best of Bad Hemingway Contest. Some of them are great! Currently reading "East Eats West"

 

[Congo Kid]

Just finished "Generation Me". Fascinating about the 15-34 year old's and how their culture and brains are wired way different than those of us older that that. The impact of cell phones, internet, texting, facebook, etc.

Awesome read. I recommend it to everyone with teenage kids or employees in the 22-34 age range to better understand and manage them.

Jeff

 

[dirtvert]

...and before that The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad...

great book--and made more impressive by the fact that conrad (born in poland) wasn't even fluent in english till his 20's.

 

[A D NOH]

Just finished A Whole New Mind by Dan Pink. Great insight into the newly sought after mind.
Then I read Why We Make Mistakes by Joseph Hallinan- interesting views on the reasons we make certain choices

Im now reading Iconoclast... This book is about people and how they saw things differently and how that affected society. Talked about the creator of FM radio and how people thought that FM was not practical or even possible for example.
this is all from a nueroscience perspective

 

[jerell]

The Tipping Point

 

[A D NOH]

The Tipping Point

How do you like the tipping point? This is a malcolm gladwell book right? I became interested in him recently from a TED talk of his on spaghetti sauce But was a bit saddened by blink.

 

[bing!]

The Quants by s patterson

The greatest trade ever by g zuckerman

And Beasts of Burden graphic novel.

Who still reads comic books?

 

[sebaney]

"How Should We Then Live?: The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture" by Francis A. Schaeffer
"The Contemplative Pastor" by Eugene H. Petersen

 

[ManInAShed]

I just read this one single line in some cruddy place or another, and I'm more glad to have read it than anything in the last year:

The live not lived is not worth examining, and the life not examined, is not worth living.

Also, the book of historic nonfiction short-story obscura "Lost to Time" is freakin great. And for any biology/science/philosophy fans, "Bats Sing Mice Giggle" is AWESOME.

 

[Coach2win]

The Passage, Justin Cronin

 

[ridevryday]

Oliver Sacks, " The Man who mistook His Wife for a Hat and other clinical tales" for those of us who enjoy Neurology or ever wonder what happens when things go wrong with a philosophical view point.

 

[couchchangeracing]

Just finished "Take a Seat" about a guy that rides his tandem bicycle from Alaska to South America, talking people into peddling with him along the way. Fun read.

 

[jeepseahawk]

Hells Angels, life and times of sonny Barger, just before that The Black Hand (Mexican Mafia). Kind in the gang books right now, I like all true crime type books, especially mob and serial killer types as well.

 

[bvader]

The Windup Girl....poly/sci-fi not too distance future after fossil fuel collapse and all food has been gene-ripped / and there are gene wars between the Calorie companies..

 

[jcampbell]

Picked up Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back by Todd Burpo last week and gave it as a present to my wife on Sunday for her Graduation. She finished that afternoon and I read through it yesterday. Pretty interesting story.

Anyone read it? Thoughts?

 

[Steve C]

I'm about halfway through A Storm of Swords, by George R.R. Martin Recently read A Game of Thrones and A Clash of Kings.

 

[Rumpled]

Just finished "Take a Seat" about a guy that rides his tandem bicycle from Alaska to South America, talking people into peddling with him along the way. Fun read.

I saw the series on one of the cable channels of Share the Ride or something across the US with handicapped people. Interesting, but not nearly enough depth. I'll try to take a look at his book. I think there's a DVD or movie of the trip as well.

 

[Erik MM]

I am more non-fiction but i am am reading Anne Rice The Mummy right now.All I can say is ramses kicks ass and Henry strafford needs to get shanked.

Same here, non-fiction, but I just finished Blue Mars (I did not read any of the other books in the trilogy). Next read? Fukuyama is on my list, but I may trudge through The State, by Franz Oppenheimer.

 

[Abui]

"Good Calories, Bad Calories" (Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health) by Gary Taubes.

From the back cover - "Gary Taubes shows us that almost everything we believe about the nature of a healthy diet is wrong."
A well researched book that does what is promised. How "facts known to be true" are not, such as cholesterol is bad, fat is bad. How the government's recommended diet is political rather than scientific. An amazing exposition of how wrong the media and government have been in perpetuating misinformation.

A summary that stands out as applicable to other controversies -
The NIH Consensus Conference officially gave the appearance of unanimity where no unanimity existed. After all, if there had been a true consensus, as Steinberg himself later explained, "you wouldn't have had to have a consensus conference."

 

[melster]

Man-Kzin Wars Book IV. I bought the series on eBay because it's out of print. Great Sci-Fi series.