What are you reading today DU? I'm reading Andre Agassi's autobiography. It is really, really good.

[applegrove]

Reads like a novel. I highly reccommend it and have only just begun.

[mix]

1. out of curiosity

what were his politics, if any?

[applegrove]

2. I have no idea. He is only a 14 year old kid so far. Oh please tell me he isn't a repuke!!!

[mix]

3. I think he is or was, I associate him with Reagan for some reason! nt

[applegrove]

12. I hope you are wrong because I was really looking forward to the rest of this book.

[mix]

14. I probably am.

But think of that added layer of complexity to his personality.

Jimmy Connors never liked him. But I never liked Jimmy Connors.

Lendl and McEnroe I always loved to watch.

[madinmaryland]

4. uhh. DU, of course!!

:P

[foxfeet]

5. "The Girl Who Played With Fire" - Stieg Larsson

I'm lovin'it. Lisbeth Salander is a great character.

[jonnyblitz]

6. I saw all of the swedish movies based on the trilogy which i have

for my sony e-reader but haven't read yet. the gal who played Lisbeth in the Swedish version of the movies was outstanding.

[foxfeet]

19. I'm guessing the movies are in Swedish, with English subtitles.

Or have they been dubbed? I studied Swedish briefly many years ago, but I'll never be mistaken for a Swede.

Edit: spelling

[VenusRising]

7. I'm reading that, too.

Love it so far.

:hi:

[applegrove]

13. Yes it is a great series. very original as thrillers go. I can't think of another

thriller series where the main character is a journalist with a sidekick who has aspergers'.

[velvet]

18. She is.

I enjoyed "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo", looking forward to reading the rest of the trilogy, and one day getting around to watching the movie versions.

[ismnotwasm]

8. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

(by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith) It's given me some of the most sublime moments of cognitive dissonance I've ever experienced.

Since I'm always reading more than one book at a time, a Biography of Viginia Woolf by Quentin Bell and a reread of CJ Cherryh's "Heavytime" (Sci-fi)

[Ikonoklast]

9. "The Fatal Shore", by Robert Hughes.

The story of the colonization of Australia by the 'Transported'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fatal_Shore

[Phentex]

10. I'm reading that also!

I'm still in the early years as well. I've never been much of a tennis person but it's fun to hear the names of players I had forgotten all about and to see what Agassi saw as a child.

[applegrove]

16. Me too I'm not much for watching tennis on the Tv though I worked at a tennis club for a summer as a

groundskeeper. I'm horrible at tennis. I completely lack the killer instinct Agassi has.

[nolabear]

11. Empire of the Moon: The Story of Quanah Parker.

Tragic and amazing.

[femmocrat]

15. Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather.

[velvet]

17. Just finished "The Ghost" by Robert Harris

Political thriller, the narrator is ghost-writing a British ex-PM's memoirs. Moves at a cracking pace, good fast read.

Now starting "The Pillow Fight" by Matthew Condon, a novel about an abusive relationship. Very bleak. It opens thus:

"He sat on the couch in the dark, felt the swelling above his right eye with his fingertips, and wondered if he had ruined his life. It was getting cold in the hotel suite and he pulled a thin blanket up over his legs, although he could still feel heat around the eye. The couch faced the harbour, and through wide window panes he saw a small, yellow-lit ferry pull out from Circular Quay, winking navigation beacons and the dim shells of the Opera House. Luke looked out over all this from his perch in the blackened suite, and the welt over his eye throbbed and the throbbing became the hinge of everything, the pulsating centre of the world, around which his fractured thoughts lumbered like large and burdened animals. He still had five flakes of confetti in his hair."