All right folks...

[Broken_Hero]

What was the last book you read? For me, it was the Half Blood Prince by JK Rowling...how about you? And yes, I'm still stuck in Tommyknockers, so sue me...:)

[The Straight Story]

1. Does reading Du count :) It is like a book!

But, Hmmmm. I don't have much time to read. Current book I am in (which I read years ago) is Metamagical Themas. Interesting read.

As far as fiction, used to read it a lot but cannot remember how long ago it has been. Probably close to 12 years for fiction I suppose, though I might have snuck one in I forgot about.

[Broken_Hero]

2. DU is like a book, thats for sure.

But I usually consider DU as a bunch of Short Stories...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. My dear petersond!

What is this read you speak of?

I am just not doing it, and I regret it........

But I'd rather be here!

:woohoo: :woohoo:

[Broken_Hero]

5. Read, as in what book did you read last...:)

the last book I read was the HPB by JK Rowling...actually, the last books I read was the Harry Potter books...My wife Tammy pushed them on me, and it took me about a week to read them all...the next one in the series comes out next June/July I believe...:)

I still have a few Stephen King on my plate, but I've been ignoring those books for months...literally.

[MoseyWalker]

4. any of these

for the time being:

http://www.namsebangdzo.com/Books_on_Death_and_Dying_s/2307.htm

[Broken_Hero]

7. Damn.

Looks like very...Deep books to me, I hope they were enlightening for you...:)

[Lex]

6. "Imperium" by Robert Harris

about Cicero's rise to power and his remarkable career in Ancient Rome, circa 80 - 60 BC.

The parallels to today's politics are pretty uncanny.

[Broken_Hero]

8. was it similiar to

The Prince by M?....

[Lex]

14. Hmmm . . .

haven't read that one yet.

:hi:

[Broken_Hero]

16. what, no way!

You haven't read The Prince by Machiveilli? My word...you need to go down to you local bookstore and pick that one up...:) Out of all my college reading The Price was one of the most...profound reads I had...

[Lex]

20. Well, I've moved it to the top of my list now!

I will definitely read it.

[Broken_Hero]

21. Its very interesting...

to be honest with you...and with Rumsfield being fired the other day, you will see correlations with that firing, within The Prince...

[reyd reid reed]

9. Heh...

Tommyknockers is a pain in the ass. Took me a while to get through it, too.

I'm still reading The Memory Keeper's Daughter...or would be if I'd bring it in from the car.

:banghead::banghead:

So...since by the time I settle in at night there's no WAY I'm dragging myself back down to the garage (memories of cat *ahem* gifts kinda discourage the barefoot trips to the garage at night), I'm re-reading "Auntie Mame"

I've been 'off' lately. Not reading nearly as much as I usually do. Not writing as much, either. I've got a short story due on Monday and I'm no where Near ready.

[Broken_Hero]

12. I've been putting of reading since

June to be honest....but TommyKnockers hasn't been...well, grabbing for me yet...I just have to bite the bullet and just effing read the damn thing, which means, I will have to be off Du for a day or two, and I can't have that!...:P I have roughly...hmmm

The Dark Half

Rose Madder

Hearts In Atlantis

Geralds Game

The Dead Zone

From a Buick 8

To read after Tommy...

plus, the Similarrion by JRR Tolkien, and some fluff comic novels...I should just up and read them all, but I don' know if DU can survive without my graces!...:rofl: :hi:

[reyd reid reed]

22. Well, I've read all of the King

And unless you're determined to get through everything he's ever written....

The Dark Half -- definitely read it.
Hearts in Atlantis -- some serious tie-ins with Insomnia and The Dark Tower series
Rose Madder -- I don't remember too well, but I THINK I liked it okay
Geralds Game -- disturbing. I didn't care for it at all.
The Dead Zone -- probably the best one on this list. Save it for last as a reward.
From a Buick 8 -- ick.

I've got his new one -- kids got it for me for my birthday. Haven't started it, though.

And how could we Possibly survive without you?

:hug:

[Broken_Hero]

23. The new one? Cell, or ?

I know that Hearts in Atlantis ties in with the DT Series, with T. Brautigan and the Low men...:P My wife tells me, that From a Buck 8 blows, but I'm determined to read everything that King has put out...I will read them all eventually...:)

Whats nuts is...I got The Dark Half, Tommyknockers, and The Dead Zone on dvd, but I haven't watched them yet...I'm weird..I just need to read them first before watching the flicks...

[reyd reid reed]

27. I'm the same way.

In fact, most of the time I won't watch the movie at all. I haven't seen any of those three.

I read Cell a while ago...not too bad; better than some of his more recent stuff. No...this is the new, new one. I can't remember the title. Single word. A woman's name. Red dust jacket with a shovel-shaped cut out on it. Something like that.

I hate when I blank out like this. I s'pose I could google it...but that'd be cheating.

And to say that From a Buick 8 blows...well...your wife is being generous.

[Broken_Hero]

30. I was the same way with Dream Catcher...

DC was the second King novel I read...and I watched DC in the theather and I was...well, confused! The novel was soooooooooooooooo much better...the movie was a freakin travesty of epic proportions....damn, King has a new novel out and I don't know about it...F that crap! I need to go to Hastings(book store0 tomorrow and get the damn thing...

BTW, I thin DU would shrivel up and die without me...:P :rofl: damn, it would probably be better off!...:hi:

[reyd reid reed]

33. First one I ever read...damn...

It might've been Graveyard Shift? It was short stories. First novel of his that I ever read was the Dead Zone.

We're talking nearly 30 years ago, though. GAH! No. 25. That's better. 30 years ago I was just an itty bitty baby....

:eyes:


(edited to ask: You read the Bachman books yet?)

[Broken_Hero]

34. The only bachman book I've read

so far is Thinner....my first read was Insomina...and I didn't understand that novel at all, but with my completion of the DT series, it made totally freakin sense...dislclaimer here! Don't read Insomina without reading the first 6 books of the DT first!....:)

Speaking of the short story books he put out...I need to get Nightmares and Dreamscapes on dvd...I saw it last pay day, but was to broke to get it...damn thing was 33 bucks, bleh...

The book that has me anticipating the most is Geralds Game because Tammy tells me it ties in with Dolories Clairborne big time...

[reyd reid reed]

41. It does?

Gerald's Game came out years and years before Delores Claiborn...which doesn't mean anything...but I didn't pick up any of it really...I guess it's possible, though.

Huh.

Honestly, I didn't like Geralds Game much at all.

There's a book out there...trade paperback...called "The Bachman Books"

Look for it. Look in a used book store, though. "Rage" isn't in print any more, not since Columbine.

[deadparrot]

10. "North and South," by Elizabeth Gaskell.

:hi:

[unsavedtrash]

11. I am so bogged down with textbooks right now.

The last book I read was Dismantling the Big Lie: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion co-authored by my mentor.

[Broken_Hero]

13. explain your last read to me...

it sounds interesting, does it deal with religion, or something else?

[unsavedtrash]

28. I am in Library School but my main life's work is studying genocide, Holocaust in particular.

Actually, my B.A. is in Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
The Protocols of the (learned) Elders of Zion which can be described more fully here --> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Protocols_of_the_Elders_of_Zion has been/is used by various anti-semitic and extremist groups to attempt to show Jews taking over the world. So as the title suggests, his work is an attempt to refute the protocols by sharing truthful Jewish traditions and history. It is an excellent read if you are interested in the topic.

[Bullwinkle925]

15. Hey Petersond....

I was thinking the same thing - it's interesting to see where we all are at this point in time.

For me - I've generally got a few books going at the same time.

Right now:

"State of Denial"
"Our Lady of the Forest"
"Middlesex"

I just finished "Vanishing Acts".

[Broken_Hero]

18. What sort of novels are those?

fiction, or ? Just give me a brief of them, if you can...)

[Bullwinkle925]

24. Okay ...

All are fiction, with the exception of "State of Denial" by Bob Woodward.

"Our Lady of the Forest" by David Guterson is about a teenage girl who claims to see the Virgin Mary.

"Middlesex" by Jeffrey Eugenides is a saga covering 3 generations of a Greek-American family - with a bit of a secret to it. The first line of the novel: "I was born twice: first as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974." - Is that enough to intrigue you?

"Vanishing Acts" by Jodi Picoult. An easy beach-read, if you will. A father is arrested for kidnapping his daughter some 20+ years later, forcing them to return to the desert from the East Coast to go through the trial. The daughter is re-united with her Mother, whom she thought was deceased.

My reading can be all over the board.

[Broken_Hero]

26. Sounds very interesting to me, :)

especially "Our Lady of the Forest" by David Guterson is about a teenage girl who claims to see the Virgin Mary."

I do enjoy the religous novels quite a bit...I still need to read Dan Browns novels, but have been broke of late to buy Angels/Demons, or Davinci Code...of the religous novels(fiction) that I have read, Memnoch The Devil is still topps for me...but thanks for the book rec's, I got them on my list...:hi:

[Bullwinkle925]

29. You know -

I actually went to the LIBRARY today (in Berkeley, CA) and checked out "Our Lady of the Forest".
I left my copy of the book in a restaurant and absolutely refuse to purchase another one. I had so much fun in the library that I wonder what's been keeping me away all these years.
I need to print out all these recommendations and take it with me next time.

Cheers!!

Now - I really should get off this damned computer and pick up one of my books.


:evilgrin:

[lildreamer316]

17. I tend to read several at a time sometimes-

when not captured by a Harry Potter one, of course. Then all others fall to the wayside.

Right Now:
The End Of Faith - Sam Harris
Holy Blood, Holy Grail
Curious Lives: Adventures from the Ferret Chronicles - Richard Bach
Ask And It Is Given - Esther & Jerry Hicks

and I'm messing around with Soduku for Dummies.

[Broken_Hero]

19. hmm, those sound very interesting...

can you give me a brief of those books, if you can spare the time?

[lildreamer316]

25. Well, I'll try..

The End Of Faith is that book that everyone has been talking about here,because the man is arguing that most religion is dangerous- basically the fundamentalist kind; but he is worried about the prominent place religion has in the western world to shape policy, period. His BIG argument is that the tolerance that almost every religion preaches is the MOST dangerous part of the problem,because we should not be tolerating the fundamentalism and the invasiveness of religious "magical" thought into reasoned public policy. I pretty much agree with him, but it is a controversial subject. Is now all the more interesting since the election.

Holy Blood Holy Grail is one of the non-fiction studies that Dan Brown pirated (according to the authors of said book) for "The DaVinci Code". It is sorta dry, but since I am so intrigued about what the Catholic Church may have covered up, I find it fun to read sections of at a time. Lots of info about the bloodline of Christ and the Templars,etc.

Curious Lives-well, I read everything Richard Bach puts out,because one of his books was mostly responsible for my "awakening" to the spirituality that I have been working with since about age 13. These stories are fiction of course, but very loving and funny and kinda Tom Robbins-like. Little nuggets of wisdom are all over them. Several books were combined into one to make this edition, so it is a bunch of short stories. I read one sporadically.

Ask And It Is Given-part of the journey I have been on since I stumbled and was lead to the Astrology forum here,and discovered the movie "The Secret". It's all about Manifesting in your life, and doing it consciously. In other words, another self-help book. It has just continued me on the path I started with the author above, really. Not even halfway through this one.

I love fantasy novels, but haven't really been on a kick for them lately.

[bridgit]

31. The Reach of a Chef: Beyond the Kitchen - Michael Ruhlman...

[Broken_Hero]

32. this one sounds interesting...

http://www.amazon.com/Reach-Chef-Beyond-Kitchen/dp/067003763X

hmm, not one I would've picked, or went after, but the reviews seem good...

[bridgit]

35. hubby got it for his daughter as she is the chef, but i speed read it...

and thought it was an interesting take on the subject matter, plus i like his writing style :hi:

[SmileyBoy]

36. "The alphabet of Manliness" by Maddox

BUY THIS BOOK.

[blonndee]

37. The Incorporation of America by Alan Trachtenberg.

And yes, it's as boring as it sounds. Good, but boring. It's for my g-damned MA exam.

[some guy]

38. I'm not sure what I read last

it's been a few months. Kind of busy with other things.

Mostly I posted to say I quit reading S King about the time of Rose Madder. That book irritated me; there were a few in a row, including Dolores Claiborne, that didn't have otherworldly monster/menaces in them, and were okay. Rose Madder was like that for the first half, then it was sort of, "Oh, wait - I'm Stephen King! I'm supposed to have otherworldly monster/menaces in my books. Let me stick one in here."

[Broken_Hero]

40. I haven't hit that point with King yet...

I've read at leat 25 of his books so far...and the weakest to me was The Gunslinger...but I'm sure he has some stinkers...Tommyknockers is fixing to be a big stinker for me...

[GirlinContempt]

39. The last book I finished was...

Shadow of the Giant by Orson Scott Card

[ghostsofgiants]

42. Some random-ass textbook. (Political science or sociology or some shit.)

But for non-school books, I believe it would be "Feature Filmmaking at Used Car Prices."

[NuttyFluffers]

43. finished recently, Blowback, by Chalmers Johnson

currently working on, The Decline of American Power, by Emmanuel Wallerstein.

y'know, casual light reading.

gotta go through Mishima's Hanazakari no Mori currently for school.

[datasuspect]

44. a rimbaud compilation