What Are You Reading?

[TylerDurden]

This past year I've finally gotten into a steady reading habit, I try to have one book going at any given time.

My list sofar this year (beginning in April or so)

Clear & Present Danger - Tom Clancy
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Restaurant at the End of the Universe - Douglas Adams
Day of the Jackal - Frederick Forsythe

And I'm currently on the last few chapters of Elmore Leonard's 'The Hot Kid.' Pretty easy to read during the 50 second intervals between pitches.

Of those I'd definitely recommend Adams and Leonard.

The next book I have lined up is George Orwell's 'Homage to Catalonia' which interested me after Hitchens referenced it in a recent column.

And (as some have probably been able to tell) I've also acquired a mild addiction to comic books, picked up largely through osmosis from my sister who now aspires to be a comic artist:

Alan Moore's 'Watchmen'
Frank Miller's 'The Dark Knight Returns'
And once my sister is done with it, the first eleven issues of Stan Lee and Steve Ditko's 'The Amazing Spiderman.'


What are you reading Fanhome?

[dlb]

Gary Kasparov's My Great Predecessors, volume 1

[SugarBaby]

James Lee Burke, "Last Car to Elysian Fields" then "Pegasus Descending", also by Burke.

If you've never read James Lee you should give him a try. He's great and will make you want a Po'Boy sandwich from New Orleans.

[Zen653]

I'm reading, "Churchill: A biography," by Roy Jenkins, and "Palace Walk," by Naguib Mahfouz.

[Grandstander]

Right now....this thread.

[TheFlyingBomb]

Currently, "Freakonomics," by Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt. It's pretty interesting, but not the sort of thing I normally read.

Recently, "The Man in the Maze," by Robert Silverberg (great, insightful sci-fi which I've heard is going to be adapted for the screen by Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor), "Loser Goes First,'' by Dan Kennedy (hilarious autobiography of a career slacker), and a book that I can't remember the title of about mobsters in Philadelphia during the 1990s. Very interesting, but kind of lamely written — it had a lot of overly dramatic language that I don't really care for in my non-fiction.

And Ty, I agree with you on Watchmen. An absolute classic.

[TylerDurden]

And Ty, I agree with you on Watchmen. An absolute classic.

If Zack Snyder botches the movie (more likely than not, I'm afraid) I am going to burn my copy of '300.'

[jtur88]

Just finished "Plowing the Dark" by Richard Powers, and his "Echo Makers" before that. A very entertaining and cerebral writer---a rare combination that I have only found in Charles Frazier and Cormac McCarthy.

[TylerDurden]

Finished 'The Hot Kid.' Exceptional. Leonard has an uncanny knack for dialogue and characterization.

[Nat]

I've been into the hard-boiled detective novels...Hammett, Chandler, Mosley. Most recently finished up Chandler's early pulp stories.

[AlexdeLarge]

Blunders of the Civil War - can't recall who wrote it, but it's very amusing

[Simp]

A book about gunmen of the wild west: Billy The Kid, the James Gang, the Daltons, etc. I think it's called "The Shootists".

[DR3AMR]

[bigheadache]

I'm reading "The Drawing of the Three" which is the 2nd book in Stephen King's Dark Tower series.

[SugarBaby]

Originally Posted by bigheadache

I'm reading "The Drawing of the Three" which is the 2nd book in Stephen King's Dark Tower series.

Headache...you should read The Black House, also by King. It has some of the same characters as the Dark Tower series and he collaborated on it with Peter Straub.