What're yer reading proclivities?

[anthony7777]

doc, "chomsky" through the years ive listened to him on w.b.a.i. radio, if hed only speak with just a bit more testosterone in his voice we might have somthin there, ill make it a point now to read some more of his stuff, squze da spellin but dr. mitsu cockoo? (ya doesnt look right to me either) got some neat science stuff out there as well. theoretical physics ya know the "string thing" -- update,o.k its dr. michio kaku,- yaw i wasnt even close! - godda read more.

 

[William]

Jeez, where to start?

I mostly read mysteries, some "serious" fiction, occasional sci-fi (I don't really like dragons and wizards and whatnot, or aliens either....), some history.

Recently finished Deep Storm by Lincoln Child. Good sort of techno thriller. I really enjoy the books Child and Douglas Preston have done together ( Relic, Reliquary, The Cabinet of Curiosities, and so on) .I just started The Foreign Correspondent, by Alan Furst. Furst is a great writer, he does spy fiction usually set in prewar Europe. Brilliant stuff. I've also got Douglas Preston's Tyrannosaur Canyon and Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke on deck.

I've also recently read I'm A Stranger Here Myself by Bill Bryson. I love Bryson, I think he's a brilliant humorist and well worth checking out.

I usually have at least one magazine on the go (I've got four or five car mags sitting around that need to be read right now) and a big picture type book about cars or airplanes or something as well as a fiction/history type of book. Currently I'm working on Classic American Railroads Vol. III by Mike Schafer, which I got in a box set with volumes one and two for thirty bucks at Borders. Next on that list is either Burlington's Zephyrs by Karl Zimmermann, or I'll get around to buying GM's Motorama by David Temple.

Whew!

-William

 

[DrEntropy]

Bret, I know you were a Marine, BUT(!) you may get a kick outta "Maverick" by Denny (Dennis J.) Marvicsin... Cobra pilot. Viet Nam. Came to Tampa and flew the NBC affiliate bird for years.

 

[bugimike]

When is the last time any of you guys read "1984"? Might pay everyone to sit down and re read Orwell's little classic.

Watch it!! Lets not get political here now, we could get in trouble... /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/banana.gif

"Animal Farm" might be a good re-read in the same vein!! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif

 

[terriphill]

I've also recently read I'm A Stranger Here Myself by Bill Bryson. I love Bryson, I think he's a brilliant humorist and well worth checking out.

Juast read A short history of almost everything again. I agree he's great

Right now, The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman

But I really love Stephen King, Isaac Asminov and any thing Sceince Fiction. (More futuristic unkown dimensions...less aliens)

 

[DrEntropy]

...I've also recently read I'm A Stranger Here Myself by Bill Bryson. I love Bryson, I think he's a brilliant humorist and well worth checking out. -William

Agreed! His: "A Short History of Nearly Everything" was great!

 

[terriphill]

All-time favorite read: A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole.

OOOHHH haven't thought of that book in years! What a hoot! Thanks for the memory jog...my 18 year old son would love that one!

 

[anthony7777]

william, if you enjoy "serious fiction" check out "proteus operation" by james p. hogan, also his "code of a lifemaker". /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/savewave.gif

 

[coldplugs]

One of my favorite topics...

I agree re Bill Bryson & read one of his late last year. I read fiction & non-fiction, heavy on history and biography. Very little science fiction.

Last five books read:

The Big Bam by Leigh Montville (Bio of Babe Ruth)
A House for Mr. Biswas by V.S.Naipaul (My monthly "lit-ra-ture")
A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor (Autobio - brilliant author)
2182 Kilohertz by David Masiel (Novel)
The Correspondence of William I and Bismarck (History)

Last car book read was Jenks: A Passion for Motorsport (Essential reading)

Now reading Arundel by Kenneth Roberts (Fiction)

 

[DrEntropy]

<span style="color: #CC0000">PLEASE NO POLITICAL COMMENTARY OR SNIDE REMARKS IN THIS THREAD, THANKS</span>

So far, I think we're "bein' have" kinda well, Boss! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif

Oddly, my bookshelf reads highly parallel to that list you posted. I thought of posting a photo or two of mine. Easier'n listing 'em, y'see. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/laugh.gif

 

[Basil]

<span style="color: #CC0000">PLEASE NO POLITICAL COMMENTARY OR SNIDE REMARKS IN THIS THREAD, THANKS</span>

So far, I think we're "bein' have" kinda well, Boss! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif

Indeed you are. Mother would be proud /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/thankyousign.gif

 

[DrEntropy]

...had she survived the dreaded infamous "Chicken Incident" we just DON'T mention anymore! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/blush.gif

 

[tony barnhill]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:]the dreaded infamous "Chicken Incident"[/QUOTE]

That would be John Cale in 1977 in Croydon, England? Joe Stefko, his drummer, walked off stage after Cale decapitated the chicken on stage.....Cale, the 'king of punk'.

 

[drooartz]

I tend towards science fiction of the "dragons and wizards" type when it comes to fiction reading. Over the last year, I've been devouring all sorts of LBC related books (I'm a bit of a researcher by nature, so I like to get both broad and deep on a subject). Just finished In Praise of Slowness by Carl Honore, a good read.

I find good histories and autobiographies fascinating. Pretty much any well told story is my sort of thing.

 

[Camshaft]

That looks to be a book I want to own, Cam!!!

Thanks! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif

I "might could" score ya a copy, Doc...Jearl Walker's a physics prof. at CSU, where I'm going to college. I picked my copy up at the campus bookstore when I was there last.

Now that I've gained your respect, I might as well be forthright...my current guilty pleasure is the shōjo manga series Mahō Sensei Negima! by Ken Akamatsu. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/devilgrin.gif

 

[tiga2]

..."Letters from Earth" by Mark Twain.

Not the Mark Twain you will read in H.S.!!!!! I belive his family tried to stop it being published.

 

[jaybird]

I'm quite impressed. You motorheads impress me.
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I have 4 6 foot bookshelves crammed full of all types of books, countless boxes and Rubbermaid totes stored in the basement, books in the bathroom, books in the bedrooms, books in the living room, a couple in the car and my beloved collection of 19th (and some early 20th) century poetry that sits on my hutch.

It's good, no, great, to see you guys reading stuff beyond the captions under cartoons and sports bylines. It restores my faith in men. Of course, my 2 men, dahubby and dason are NON-READERS. I believe, in 35 years of being together, I've seen Chuck read 3 books. He DID start a Kurt Vonnegut book I suggested a couple months ago when he was 'momsitting' with his ill mother. "A Man Without a Country." Bookmarked at page 17...

 

[terriphill]

I too have books in every corner of the house, attic and even garage. I try to pretend like they are home decor.
What I find truly amazing is how many times I visit the homes of my students and look around to see NO BOOKS, no magazines, no newspapers...nothing. How does anyone survive without reading? I truly feel sorry for people who have never gotten so lost in a story that they cease to see or be a part of the world around them. T.V. can't do that for me.

 

[Bugeye58]

My place is <u>full</u> of books! And none of them unread, either. During our last cold spell, I was curled up with a collection of Robert W. Service, as it seemed appropriate to both my mood and the weather conditions.
Currently re-reading some classic Science Fiction, alternating with Ernie Pyles' "Here is Your War", and "Home Country".
Jeff

 

[DrEntropy]

Geez!!! you'd think because "us guys" fuss about with LBC's we're ~unread~... couldn't be further from the truth! Evidence this thread so-far.

..I'm gonna "take inventory" of *just* the bookshelves inna livingroom and post the list as Basil has.... It's easily a small fraction of the books we posess (and yes: I have actually read).


...books stashed all thru th' hovel...

The LBC maintenance/rebuild/reconstruction is so comparatively simple "a Neanderthal can do it!" /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/devilgrin.gif