What are you reading right NOW?!?!

[Guest Impulse2]

I'll always reccomend reading the books over watching the movies. But that's because i'm a little obsessive over them. There are always a lot of fun details that are missing, but increasingly in movies three and four, they pass over a couple of relatively major plot points. Not things that have direct bearing on the particular movie, but things that become very important later on.

[Guest cooby]

I don't like it

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

I just ordered this -



Dave Barry is always good for a laugh.

This may be the last book I read for recreation for a while - school begins again next week.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

I'm enjoying an old baseball classic.



The book offers a much more detailed recounting of the motives and actions of the 8 White Sox players than does the movie of the same name. A very detailed retelling of the actions that led to the throwing of the 1919 World Series.

[metirish]

Just started skimming through this....it's quite a read with contributions form Rob Neyer, Bill James,Matt Welch and THT's Staff writers...

[Guest Impulse2]

I started re-reading The Scarlet Pimpernel (after getting rather obsessed with the broadway adaption). I read it over the summer, didn't like it, and now I can't remember why I didn't. So i'm giving it a second shot.

[Guest OlerudOwned]

It's mind boggling how much he draws from seemingly stupid little things.

Also, I'm waiting for this to be shipped:


Just some reading about bands some bands I really love.

[Willets Point]

Our Band Could be your Life is on my reading list. I look forward to your review.

I'm currently reading:

I'm a fan of Toni Morrison, took a couple of classes that included her work in college. My big coup was when I had an interpretation of Jazz contrary to my professor's view, but then I found a direct quote from Morrison that backed-up my interpretation (the next best thing to having Marshall McLuhan help settle an argument for you while in line for a movie).

Anyhow, Love is Morrison's most recent novel (albeit, three years old) and is more accessible than some of her other works. Despite that, I felt like an idiot trying to figure out the relationship among the characters. All is revelaed on page 131 and it is jaw-dropping -- a total mindfuck.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

This is a murder mystery involving an Eastern Long Island high school basketball team. I enjoy Mike Lupica's fiction, so I'm working my way through the ones that I haven't read yet.

[Guest *62]

Re-reading for the umpteenth time .........

Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut



Probably my favorite work of fiction ever.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

I'm almost finished with Too Far. It was a fast and good read, although there is some disturbing graphic violence (but, since the topic of the book is hazing on a high school basketball team, the violence is intregal to the story). Lupica tells a good story. Most of his fiction is light reading, but this one is more haunting.

Because I'm on a Lupica kick, my next book is going to be -



I've actually read the sequel to this one already. It's fun reading these stories - Lupica tends to use and re-use his characters from one story in supporting roles in other stories, so it's like revisiting old friends when you read one of these books.

[Guest sharpie]

Reading EL Doctorow's THE MARCH, which came out last fall. Sherman's March told through various perspectives, lovin' it so far.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

After I'm done with the Lupica book, this is going to be my bible for the semster -



My Multimedia Production professor recommended it. By the end of this semester I'm actually going to know something about web design, amazingly enough.

[Willets Point]

Interesting book. I read it for my web course at grad school.

It's amusing that Krug sites Amazon.com as an example of a web site with great usability but by the time I read the book Amazon had redesigned their site obliterating what Krug liked about it.

[HahnSolo]

Last week I was able to check out CELL, by Stephen King, hot off the presses from my library. I've read some comparing it to The Stand, albeit much shorter. I understand the comparison, but it's definitely its own book. I've read a good chunk of it, and it's pretty good. A bit gorier than a lot of his recent stuff (at least since Desperation). If you're a King fan, you should give it a shot.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

My daughter gave me this paperback for Christmas.

Not much for reading material, but some interesting facts from the Mets history. Having some fun skimming through it real quick.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

I'm still skimmimg through the Mets trivia, but needed something to read. Saw this at a discount book warehouse this weekend and just had to pick it up.



It's pretty funny and makes some good points. There have already been a few tirades that remind me of Vic's "classic" rant against the Yankees from a few years back (2001 or 2002?).

[Guest Edgy DC]

The great thing is that The Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty, as gutty as it was to eulogize the Yankees while they were still breathing, looks more and more to have been a true enough title.

[Guest GYC]

="Rockin' Doc"]I'm still skimmimg through the Mets trivia, but needed something to read. Saw this at a discount book warehouse this weekend and just had to pick it up. It's pretty funny and makes some good points. There have already been a few tirades that remind me of Vic's "classic" rant against the Yankees from a few years back (2001 or 2002?).

Heh, I picked up at B&N sometime last year. Not bad, pretty funny, but pretty biased, too.

Tomorrow, I'm starting:

[Willets Point]

In More Book Lust, public librarian Nancy Pearl makes the following reccomendation that Scarlett at least will appreciate:

"Michael Lewis's Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game looks at the Oakland Athletics, on of the least wealthy teams in Major League Baseball, and analyzes why they win year after year. (This book turned me into a big fan of the Oakland A's, which is not a good thing to be when you live in Seattle)." p.74

[Willets Point]

Just finished:


Abraham Lincoln suffered two major depressive episodes as a young adult and chronic depression throughout his life. As opposed to the modern day belief that depression is an illness that must be cured to live a normal life, the author contends that Lincoln's depression actually helped mold him into the type of person who could handle the crises of secession and the Civil War as well as he did. This fascinating and illuminating book taught me a lot about Lincoln and his times as well as mental health in general.

Just started:

Mahler writes about New York CIty in 1977 focused around the battle for mayor between Ed Koch and Mario Cuomo and the battles at Yankee Stadium between Billy Martin and Reggie Jackson. So far the book is bringing back memories of the New York of my childhood and making me a bit nostalgic. Not that I particularly miss widespread crime and arson, I just think that some good parts of old school New York were lost in the yuppification of the 80's and 90's.

[willpie]

I got sucked into the Aubrey/Maturin series a couple months ago. I've completely lost track of voume numbers.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

I'm reading some recent urban history, too.



A Prayer for the City by Buzz Bissinger. It's about the first administration of Philadelphia mayor Ed Rendell. (Took office in 1992.)

I've read so many times that it's something that everyone in the Philadelphia region should read, that I decided to read it. It's pretty good so far, but it's not exactly a "must read."

The same author shadowed Tony LaRussa as he did Ed Rendell, and wrote "Three Nights in August." I'm sure I'll be reading that one too, eventually.

[Guest Scrapple8]

i read volume one of boston by upton sinclair, but they can't find volume 2 in the bpl. anyone seen it in queens or the bronx or manhattan?

[Willets Point]

Yet another novel with a librarian as a protagonist, and a pretty darn good one too. Lots of sex and mystery, just like my life.

[Guest sharpie]

Just finished TRANCE by Christopher Sorrentino (the other guy who, along with Jonathan Lethem, wrote BELIEVENIKS!)

A fictional account of the Patty Hearst affair. Dense, weird, fascinating book. I lived near the town she was kidnapped from and knew people who knew people who were affected so maybe it has extra resonance for me but I really dug it. Seeing him read tomorrow night.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0374278644/sr=8-6/qid=1141660107/ref=pd_bbs_6/002-4322401-9239225?%5Fencoding=UTF8

[Willets Point]

The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage by Paul Elie.

I've read the first chapter and I'm already impressed. This a quadruple biography of Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton, Flannery O'Connor, and Walker Percy. Their common thread is that they were all American Catholics of the mid-20th century who found their religious experience best through writing. I've read a little bit by each of these authors but never new they were friends who corresponded and read each others work and were nicknamed "The School of the Holy Ghost". Quite fascinating so far.

[Guest Edgy DC]

My friend Kimberly reviewed that book for Sojourners and got blurbed on the paperback cover.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

My daughter was on a field trip yesterday, and she brought this back for us. It's hysterical looking at Shakespeare's quotes within the context of baseball.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

Challenges the basic tenets of financial success and offers a different view of what is needed to become financially self reliant. Just getting started, but it's an interesting read thus far.