What are you reading tonight DU? I'm reading "the reluctant fundamentalist" by

[applegrove]

Mohsin Hamid about a Pakistani kid who goes to America to study and work. So far so good. The writing is excellent. It was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.

[JitterbugPerfume]

1. The Moral Landscape, How Science Can DetermineHuman Values

by Sam Harris

[pscot]

6. I read his first one

a couple years ago. What's this one like?

[JitterbugPerfume]

15. I just started it but

so far it is a page turner.he wears down the wall between scientific fact and human values,arguing that people are mistaken about the relationship between morality and the rest of human knowledge

[Taverner]

2. White Like Me by Tim Wise

Really good - Tim Wise is brilliant

[applegrove]

9. Noted.

[Kaleva]

3. I'm reading this and other threads here at DU.

[pscot]

7. Take a look at The War Lovers

My library had it. I had it on hold for a while.

[Callalily]

4. About to begin reading this evening . . .

"Even Silence Has An End" (my six years of captivity in the Columbian jungle)

by: Ingrid Betancourt

[pscot]

5. The War Lovers

By Evan Thomas. T.R. and Hearst and the lust for Empire in 1895. It's well written, Thomas has a nice touch, and it's a great story: historic and folkloric. It's a good summer read.

[Forkboy]

8. Aldous Huxley - The Perennial Philosophy.

[femmocrat]

10. "A World Lit Only by Fire" by William Manchester.

It's about the middle ages. I'm on a medieval kick this summer. :)

[pscot]

16. I read a review of this once

That claimed that, for an elderly historian, Manchester took an unseemly interest in sex lit only by fire. The fellow claimed it spoiled the book for him.

[femmocrat]

17. LOL

He does dwell quite a bit on the sex lives of the clergy.

[Richardo]

28. Wrong place

:blush:

[u4ic]

11. Reading 1984

and living it, too. :scared:

[Tuesday Afternoon]

12. Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter. by: Tom Franklin.

[LaraMN]

13. The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible

It's... meh so far. kind of funny, but not overwhelmingly hilarious or enlightening.

[Zephie]

14. Das Kapital by Marx

[mucifer]

18. "The Poisoner's Handbook" about the history of

forensic medicine in the 1920s. Really interesting.

[Xipe Totec]

19. Why Men Marry Bitches

It peeked my curiosity. :evilgrin:

[dawg]

20. I read a few pages of that.

Sounded like a gender-reversed version of the classic "Nice Guy/Bad Boy" concept. Probably even less valid than the male version.

[Xipe Totec]

21. I'm a few chapters in

It isn't a gender-reversed version of the classic "Nice Guy/Bad Boy" concept; it is a deconstruction of it.

I don't know if it's good advice or no, but at least it will help me be more aware of when games are being played on either side.

[hifiguy]

22. Just began James Galbraith's "The Predator State"

which is fascinating. Galbraith destroys the purported foundations of and explains the intellectual bankruptcy of right wing economics in a way understandable by the intelligent layperson.

Just finished Richard Dawkins' "The God Delusion" which is now one of my two or three favorite non-fiction books of all time. Witty, relentlessly logical, with just the right dose of moral outrage, it is nothing less than a masterpiece.

[applegrove]

23. I'll put that on my list of books to buy. You should write reviews!!

[hifiguy]

25. I do. But I write about fancy/expensive home stereo equipment.

:hi:

[BlueIris]

24. Bizarre combination of Carl Hiaasen's "Lucky You" and Defoe's "Journal of the Plague Year."

I wrote bizarre.

[Richardo]

27. "Lucky You" is one of my favorites.

The white supremacists are SO stupid. :rofl:

[bif]

26. "At Home" by Bill Bryson

[applegrove]

30. That is on my nightstand. I stopped halfway through. I should pick it up again.

[bif]

31. I'm enjoying the heck out of it.

I like the way Bryson frequently gets sidetracked. Very interesting read.

[applegrove]

34. Yup. He is an amazing writer. He makes anything sound interesting.

[Richardo]

29. Michael J. Nelson's "Mind Over Matters"

A collection of short, hilarious essays.

[Ahpook]

32. Going back to Carlos....

Castaneda. Another DU'er mentioned the series recently which ran me over. My brother made an effort to get all the old copies for both of us. The pocket sized... it had to be the pocket sized :)


I was reading a Robert Wilson book, but that will have to hold the bookmark for a few :)

[grasswire]

33. here's a list of best summer reading from doubleday

http://vintage-anchor.knopfdoubleday.com/2011/05/24/best-of-summer-reading/?ref=banner_250lemon_ehs

[nuxvomica]

35. Clay: The History and Evolution of Humankind's Relationship...

with Earth's Most Primal Element, by Suzanne Staubich.

[ashling]

36. The Art of Racing in the Rain

and Our Patchwork Nation: The surprising Truth about the "Real" America"

[GreenPartyVoter]

37. I am reading

"The Heart of Christianity: Rediscovering a Life of Faith" by Marcus Borg.

http://www.amazon.com/Heart-Christianity-Rediscovering-Life-Faith/dp/0060730684/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1311381879&sr=8-1