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

[melster]

Reading "The Two Towers" right now. Just finished "The Hobbit" and "The Fellowship of the Ring". This will be the 4th time I've read through the series, but it's been at least a decade since I last read them.

I know they'd taken some artistic license in the movies, but I haven't really noticed the major ones until my reading through them again.

 

[obie]

Great book. A classic.

A little Greene goes a long way. Went straight to "The Power and the Glory" and had to back off. Completly different vibe. Great read but best done somewhere south of Ensenada on a two week drunk.

 

[herzalot]

Tribes by Seth Godin.

Easy read, incredibly important viewpoint especially for any STR or other forum/blog follower. This may change everything you think you know about leadership, followership, marketing and influence.

 

[ohyeah89]

Two books that I've read recently that are awesome are; The Bogleheads Guide to Investing and The Bogleheads Guide to Retirement Planning (both by Taylor Larimore, Mel Lindauer, and Michael LeBeouf). The latter helped me much more than the former which is pretty basic.

Both are very easy to read and if you are interested in passive investing they will be tremendous help as you come up with your asset allocation, investment plan, and are good motivation to stay the course. Besides STR, the bogleheads forum is the forum I read most. Some good, helpful stuff!

 

[gooseaholic]

Cool. Been a bit since I posted this. Got some to add after work.

 

[jasonmason]

Just finished The Nice and the Good by Iris Murdoch.

Started The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow last night, though in all honesty I just picked it up and probably will not finish it soon. I have a few others in my queue that I need to finish yet - The Fall, Salt, and a few others that escape me at the moment.

 

[obie]

Wool sweaters, hemp ropes, handmade pitons, hanging all-nite bivvies on granite faces....as a teenager.

One of the icons of mountain climbing - Walter Bonatti. Essential reading to better understand the how/why of a mountain climber realizing the "impossible" and "beauty of great challenges".

 

[gooseaholic]

Tom waits on tom waits. A book of interviews

 

[obie]

'Marie Colvin's Private War' - Vanity Fair article, August 2012

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/2012/08/marie-colvin-private-war

 

[TMS]

Just read HOSOI, "My life as a skateboarder, junkie, inmate, pastor." Not the most well written book in the world, but a good read if you were a skateboarder in the 80's and/or early 90's.

 

[jasonmason]

About to finish up "the death of Artemio Cruz" by Carlos Fuentes. Very good book, had not read Fuentes before and am very impressed.

Picked up "Victory" by Joseph Conrad and "Returning to earth" by Jim Harrison earlier today, looking forward to both.

 

[badgas]

Who moved my cheese ?

by Spencer Johnson M.D.

 

[jasonmason]

Before I forget, read two books by Anthony Doerr recently: "About Grace", and "the shell collector". Both were excellent reads, the former a novel and the second a collection of stories. I would highly recommend both as excellent modern literature.

Oh, and as non-fiction, "the song of the dodo" by David Quammen. Very interesting look into modern extinctions and ecological interrelationships. Fascinating stuff.

 

[Albacore]

Read Finding Myself On A Bumpy Narrow Path recently from our own Allison.

 

[nailknot]

Life and Death of Adolf Hitler
by Robert Payne

 

[geek]

No easy day. Good read, interesting to hear how it all went down.

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[Schecky]

Narrative of the Coronado Expedition
Relación de la Jornada de Cíbola (Spanish) by Pedro de Castañeda

Narative of the first European exploration of the Southwest in 1540


Mark Twain, A Life by Ron Powers
An excellent read on the development of America's voice and the mindset of the nation that he lived in.

 

[JSD]

My boss lent me his copy of "It's Not About the Bike, My Journey Back to LIfe by Lance Armstrong & Sally Jenkins. Have not finished it yet, but very interesting reading about his battle with cancer.

 

[gooseaholic]

Oh, and as non-fiction, "the song of the dodo" by David Quammen. Very interesting look into modern extinctions and ecological interrelationships. Fascinating stuff.[/QUOTE]
Right up my alley! Thanks Tim. And I just happen to be reading the rum diary.

 

[jasonmason]

If you're interested in Dodo, you might also find the Eternal Frontier by Tim Flannery to be engaging. Read that one right after dodo - it's an ecological history of just North America, from 65 million years ago to the present. Covers a lot of ground, from the impact at KT boundary up to nearly the present. Not perfect, but an interesting read.