Whats everyone reading right now?

Just finished The Rise Of Theodore Roosevelt. The most captivating biography I have read yet!

Now reading
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
The Devil's Teeth by susan casey

 

Reading The White Man's Burden now. Pretty good start. It's about the failure of foreign aid in developing countries because we don't evaluate and use economic incentives (ie sales, entrepreneurship) but try and force decisions on the citizens and get them lazy on subsidies.

 

If you love that movie, this is the book you MUST read:

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Jeff Beck was the man who inspired the Gekko character. He was also in the movie as the banker who ran the infamous Bluestar board meeting.

 

"Flat Out, Flat Broke" by Perry McCarthy.

 

Comic magazines from the sixties: Rex Danny

All about US aviators of the fifties/sixties, looks very American, but was made in Belgium.

 

Thanks!

 

+2 I really enjoyed it as well! Art of Racing in the Rain is my favorite book I have read in a long time.

I also just finished Gomorrah by Roberto Saviano, good book on the Camorra rule of the Campania region of Italy, but certainly not a "feel good" read, pretty much a murder per page!

 

This thread

 

The Shack

 

Pretty mean guitarist too. Reading "A collossal failure of common sense" at the moment, about the fall of Lehman Brothers. Pretty interesting stuff, if a bit self-aggrandising (the author worked at Lehman and claims to be part of the team that tried to hedge against the bad plans of his colleagues).


Onno

 

Inside Steve's Brain

 

Onno,
...''Colossal Failure...'' is my current read<good so far>...and you might like ''House of Cards''[Cohan] about BStearns,however ''A Failure of Capitalism"[Posner] is unreadable.
I think I'll read "The Ox-Bow Incident' next...
cheers,
RE

 

reading charles r cross's new book on led zeppelin love the interactivity all the cool little touches it has. Not just another biography. Listening to the albums as i read

 

Finished Into Thin Air (recommend it). Now reading I am Third by Gale Sayers, which per the cover "inspired the TV drama Brian's Song".

 

The Inner Game of Tennis

(it's not really about tennis)

 

Logic of Life : The Rational Economics of an Irrational World

My friend bought me this for my birthday. It'll be a while before I get to though as I have two other books to read.

Anyone read this before?

 

Atlas Shrugged. About 30 pages into it; given that its 1000+ pages it'll probably take me a month+.

 

I also started it the other day. The print is tiny in my book.

 

lately i've been reading a TON of books, in the last 4-5 weeks i've ready all
-7 harry potter books(3x each).

-The Strain

-The Lost Symbol(Da vinci code "sequel) and absolute crap

-All 4 "twilight/newmoon,elclipse,breaking dawn" vampire chick books

-The Magicians(kind of harry potter who does drugs and bangs chick*GREAT*!!!! Definately NOT a childrens book!!!

-Revolting Youth sequel to C.D Paynes classic "youth in revolt" the latter mentioned was better then the sequel but still a great book about a teenage boy who ends up causing a $5million dollar fire in California, mother shoots her cop husband in the nuts, invents a product that makes him a millionaire, gets kicked out of school to go back dressed as a women to eventually getting drastic plastic surgery to elude the F.B.I etc etc etc.,

The Zombie Survival guide

Some other book by Dan Brown but can't remember it's name, but better then his newest.

The Book with No Name by Anonymous

I think i'm going to start reading "hitchhikers guide to the galaxy" i've seen the movie a couple of times but have NEVER seen the last 30 minutes, I always fall asleep.

Lot's of these books for example the harry potter books are obviously intended for children but are easy to read and are very entertaining same goes for the Stephanie Meyer vampire chick books, my girlfriend bought one and I picked it up and finished it in a day so once I've read the first in a series I have to read them all.
Luckily theres a Indigo Books RIGHT across the street from my place, need to go book shopping.


I read very very fast, freakishly fast my girlfriend say's and yes I understand it's one thing to read fast and another to abosorb what one's reading but yes I absorb it all. Useless talent #143....

Cheers!

 

American on Purpose. Craig Ferguson - late late night CBS TV talk host, autobiography

The Middle Ages. Morris Bishop, history.

The First Crusade. Thomas Asbridge, history.

 

Geez, that is impressive. I wouldn't call it "useless"; must have been a huge help in school at least. I probably do 25-30 pages an hour and find myself sometimes having to re-read a paragraph or two because I didn't "absorb" it. Even though I might be enjoying a book I find myself focused more on finishing it than on truly reading it...probably stems from too many nights of cramming in school.

 

I bought the 50th anniversary paperback and I do find the tiny print difficult...and that's with 4 eyes.

 

haha no it wasn't. school and I didn't get along so well....I'm not sure how fast I read but usually a 4-5-600 page book in about 6-8 hours of course totally depends on how good the book is, for example although the book is great it's written in a way that the average scmuck(me) has a harder time understanding things so like yourself I found myself re-reading the same paragraph a couple of times over just to make sure I totally understoof what the hell was going on!

 

Same here on fast reading. In 8th grade, I tested at 560-odd words/minute with good comprehension/assimilation.

In my case, definitely not a useless talent. I credit this with getting my lazy teenage butt through highschool, then through college with easy B's, A's if I worked hard.

My wife had...and still has...the same reaction as your gf. I do have to slow down on "fact" books like the two medieval history ones I'm working on now.

 

The Witches Trinity - will be done tonight. Great book.