What are you reading now?

I don't understand why many people do what they do. This book has helped. Even if it's 50% crap, I still think everyone should read it.

Still reading the destroyermen series.

Finder's Keepers, Stephen King's sequel to Mr. Mercedes. Both are pretty decent page-turners.

In reply to Dusterbd13:

I went through all of those like popcorn. Cheesy, cheesy popcorn.

Another novel coming out next summer, available for pre-order on Amazon now.

Just finished the Black Fleet Trilogy by Joshua Dalzelle and Book 3 of the War Eternal Series by M.R. Forbes. Not exactly high class preach to me scifi but entertaining reads.

Reading the Black Ships series by A.G. Claymore now.

The Secret Garden. Never read it as a kid. I'm liking the unlikable Mary... would've lurved her if I'd met her as a child.

Margie

Dusterbd13 wrote: In reply to NOHOME: I like you. But I will mentally and emotionally prepare myself to be hated by you.The sseries is that good.

Finished the series a couple of weeks ago. Good read.

Just started the Wheel of Time series

In reply to Hungary Bill:

My wife's uncle wrote those. Needless to say, he was an interesting fellow. It made for some interesting conversations when the wine started flowing.

Good luck with the read. I think I made it to book 4 before giving up.

Just recently finished Marijuana Smuggling for Fun and Profit, by Robert Bach. Its a very entertaining and pretty easy read of the author's experiences flying drugs into the country. A very good tale of how ridiculous the smuggling world was in the late 70s-early 80s. I'd highly recommend it, and it was fairly cheap on Kindle.

I'm a few chapters into Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking. It's pretty good so far, but it's hitting home hard enough that it may take me a while to get through.

Some crappy paperback series I got into, Wings of Gold.

Toyman01 wrote: In reply to Hungary Bill: My wife's uncle wrote those. Needless to say, he was an interesting fellow. It made for some interesting conversations when the wine started flowing. Good luck with the read. I think I made it to book 4 before giving up.

Woah! that's stinking cool.

This was actually recommended to me by a friend and I was warned I may begin to hate him towards the middle I'll let you know how far I make it

In reply to Hungary Bill:

The plot is good, but he never uses 3 words when he can use 12.

Just finished stone cold by C.J. Fox. going book shopping for the kids christmas sometime next week and will likely grab a few new paperbacks.

not up to much project wise, so lots of reading ... I've started back on my Louis L'Amour collection ... can't read more than 2 or 3 in a row, because they are all pretty much the same ... but then I have lots of other authors I can use for relaxing from the cowboy stuff

Hungary Bill wrote: Just started the Wheel of Time series

Hey me too. I tore through the first two books during thanksgiving break.

I liked it but I wasn't terribly impressed. That might be because I've also been re-reading the Lord of the Rings a little bit at a time over the past few months and, imo, anything in that genre pales in direct comparison to Tolkien.

The Race Underground:

It's the story of the rivalry between the two brothers that started building the NYC and Boston subway systems. It's been a good read so far and explained some things I didn't know but like everything I've read recently it seems to be aimed at a very small niche.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Race-Underground-Incredible-Americas/dp/0312591322

Before this I read Idea Factory about the founding of Bell Labs and how many innovations came from their scientists and engineers.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Idea-Factory-American-Innovation/dp/0143122797

NOS4A2 by Joe Hill. The funny thing is I love a good horror story, and I've been reading a lot of Stephen King lately so I wanted a non-King story. I brought this home and read the reviews, turns or Joe Hill is Stephen Kings son. Good read so far.

ncjay wrote: I don't understand why many people do what they do. This book has helped. Even if it's 50% crap, I still think everyone should read it.

I will add this to my reading list, thank you!

I just re-read this, it was quite good if you are into abnormal psychology (call it a hobby):

just finished lee child-make me. stephen hunter- snipers honor is next up.

Best part of the christmas season is all the discount books!

In reply to paranoid_android74:

I think I read that book. If it's the one I'm thinking of, it was way too much about how cool the author was and way too little about the actual science.

Still not "reading" but listening to audiobooks downloaded from the public library. Just started "The Bourne Ultimatum". The first 3 Bourne novels are significantly different from the movies, but they aren't particularly relevant in today's global scenario. The movies were updated to be more relevant and thus the story lines are vastly different.

Just started "Nixon's Gamble" which looks interesting but eye-glazing. Continuing my re-read of the "Merrimack" series by RM Meluch. Trying to finish "Six Frigates" about the first ships of the US Navy by Ian Toll, which is excellent. Once I finish that then I can get back to the first two books of his WWII trilogy. Just got "Black Tuesday over Namsi : B-29s vs MiGs ; the forgotten air battle of the Korean War, 23 October 1951" via inter-library loan. Looks incredibly detailed but pretty dry.

I did the Wheel of Time series last spring, and it's worth finishing. If you like that and Tolkien then you should pick up the Thomas Covenant series by Donaldson; I think I have recommended it before.

I have been going through some of the SciFi stuff I enjoyed as a teen. Last night was Alan Dean Foster's Sentenced to Prism and a Heinlein double header of Have Spacesuit, Will Travel and Rocket Ship Galileo. Tonight I'm starting in on the Hyperion series for the first time.

Read Neil Gaiman's “The Graveyard Book” this weekend. This is the second book of his I've read recently (thanks to all who have recommended him here), and he is becoming a new favorite. And Bod Owens is one of my all-time favorite protagonists.

Margie