Anyone else here like to read?

[tallydude]

I can't be the only one. What are you reading now, or what are you planning to read?

I just finished Judgment of Paris: California vs. France and the Historic 1976 Paris Tasting that Revolutionized Wine and I am working on The Swamp: Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise.

[burleytog]

Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Baseball Edition every single day...

[tallydude]

Horrible imagery you're giving me there Burley.

[Bassn Blvd]

I can't be the only one. What are you reading now, or what are you planning to read?

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Obviously we are reading your post if we are reading right now.  

[firefightn15]

Burley if you need some new reading, I have a few of them editions I'll swap you in April.

BTW, I like biography and history(war) books.

[bigfruits]

"It" Stephen King... read it back in middle school but don't remember much of it. great book

[mattm]

Anyone that like to read on here that hasn't read Lonesome Dove please go buy it tommorow.  You don't even have to like westerns I promise.  Best job of character development ever.

[Muddy]

Just Finished Brother Ray, Ray Charles autobiography

just about to start an old classic I should have read a long time ago

Charlie Lau; The Art of hitting .300

[fourbizz]

DISCLAIMER: Jay is a giant nerd.

"Wheel of Time" series by Robert Jordan. Best fantasy epic EVER.

Other books at some stage of reading/re-reading:

The Pillars of the Earth- Ken Follett

Byrne's Complete Book of Pool Shots- Robert Byrne

In Pursuit of Giant Bass- Bill Murphy

Moby Dick-Herman Melville

Gonna read A Farewell to Arms by Hemmingway again soon. Havent read it in about 5 years. Great book.

[mattm]

I demand you read Lonesome Dove.  Noway you won't like it.

[fourbizz]

But ive already seen the movie like 5 times. Kinda ruins the suprise :-*

[daviscw]

I demand you read Lonesome Dove. Noway you won't like it.

My dad's favorite movie. AKA the longest movie in the world.

I liked The DaVinci Code and Angels and Demons.

[mattm]

So lame.  I saw the mini series before ever reading the book and loved it.  My wife bought me the mini series b/c of how much I loved the book and I couldn't wait to watch it.  Once I started watching it I made it about 30 min.  Granted part of the reason I couldn't watch was b/c the mini series was "dated" at that point, but the bigger reason was the book is 400 times better.  McMurtry does the best job ever of character development in this book.  I don't care if you've seen the mini series and never been within 400 yards of a cow or horse you can't read this book and not be a fan.  You can't read it without wishing you were half as cool as Capt. Gus McCrae.

Read it, and if you can't appreciate it I will refund whatever you paid for it buy you the Lucky Craft of your choice and the next book you want to read under 45 bucks.  It was a freaking western that won the Pulitzer Prize.  I'm not saying  a Pulitzer is the holy grale, but those folks are pretty big elitists that just don't going handing them out to weterns.  Actually its a shame to call this book a western.  It is much more than that.

[mattm]

Posted by: daviscw Posted on: Today at 12:32am

mattm wrote on Yesterday at 11:50pm:

I demand you read Lonesome Dove.  Noway you won't like it.

My dad's favorite movie. AKA the longest movie in the world.

I liked The DaVinci Code and Angels and Demons.  

Buy your Dad the book.  It will be one of the best gifts he has ever recieved.

[_Coelacanth_]

Fourbizz...How far along in the "Wheel of Time" series are you?

I have to agree this series is the best fantasy epic ever. Shame about Robert Jordan...The final book is supposed to be published late this year.

[fourbizz]

Fourbizz...How far along in the "Wheel of Time" series are you?

I have to agree this series is the best fantasy epic ever. Shame about Robert Jordan...The final book is supposed to be published late this year.

I have read the entire series 3 times. Except the final, yet to be released book.

[SMSRTC]

I'd agree that the first 4 or 5 books of Wheel of Time were really good, but the next 4 or 5 were drawn out and, mostly, tedious.  It seemed like Jordan was drawing it out for no real reason.  I did like the last book, and I'm hoping the final book makes it worth the wait.  Perhaps he just couldn't decide how he wanted to end it.  I think that by the time it's all over, it will end up being an overall mediocre 12? book series that could have been an excellent 6 or 7 book series.

[fourbizz]

Agreed. A little tedious in the middle. I did enjoy the most recent book though. Really helped pick the series up.

[_Coelacanth_]

The only part of the series that seemed to drag it down for me at all was the whole process of Egwene and the tower rebels getting organized and traveling to Tar Valon.  I absolutely hated those chapters.

I'm looking forward to finally finding out who killed Asmodean.

[SMSRTC]

Yes, the parts dealing with the split tower were the absolute worst.  It seemed like there were 100s of pages of them trying to decide what to do.  I got to the point that I just started skimming through it.

I think the best thing about the last book was that he started concentrating on what I consider the main characters again.  Matt, Perrin and Rand seemed to get largely ignored after the first 4 or 5 books, when he was introducing so many other people.  Frankly, I'm not sure who half of them are anymore due to how long ago I read the books.  During the last book, I had to repeatedly check fan sites to find out who was who.

[tallydude]

Those things must be addictive because my old roommate would read and reread the series over and over again. I don't read much fiction any more, but when I did I read the Star Wars expanded universe stuff relentlessly.

[drmnbig]

I don't read much.  The last book I read which was about 3 months ago was Michael Chrigton's "Prey".  Pretty good book I must say.

I can't even tell you what my wife is reading right now.  I'm not kidding when I say she reads at least a book a week and usually more.  She spends all her breaks at work and pretty much any free time reading.  It's crazy how I can say something to her while she's reading and she'll not only remember what she's reading but listens to me as well.  

[Root beer]

I'm about to finished up "A demon of our own design: Markets, Hedge Funds, and the Perils of Financial Innovations."

I plan to buy the book "When Genius Failed: The rise and fall of Long Term Capital Management." This book is about Long Term Capital Management. It was said in 1994 this firm held 140 billion in asset and 2 years later it was suffered a HUGE loss and eventually collapsed.

I mostly read books about businesses and economic.

I've read a warren buffett book.

I highly recommend "Naked Economic" By Charles Wheelan. It a book that give the average people a basic insight on how our economic system works. It basically Economic 201. This book is really easy to understand and it quite funny.

[tallydude]

In regards to financial books, I've read "Rich Dad, Poor Dad", "Missed Fortune", and "The Next Great Bubble Boom".

I also read Donny Deutsch's "Often Wrong, Never in Doubt".

[Hookemdown.]

I'm an avid reader, but I've slacked off this year.

I'm thinking about reading some of Hemingway's work.  Does anybody like him?