What Are You READING?

by patio34 67 Replies latest social entertainment

  • MegaDude
    MegaDude

    Lewis,

    I really enjoyed The Spiral Staircase. You're right...it does read like a JW story. Her other book about exiting her life as a Catholic nun called Beginning the World is excellent too.

  • Gordy
    Gordy

    Made in America by Bill Bryson.

  • Princess
    Princess
    The ones I presently have are: "The Pop-Up Book" by Paul Jackson; "The Elements of Pop-Up" by David A. Cooper and James Diaz; and "Making Books That Fly, Fold, Wrap, Hide, Pop-Up, Twist, and Turn," by Gwen Diehn.

    Of course, going to the library and/or the children's section of larger book stores and checking out for yourself the mechanics of how things work is also good.

    If you love pop-ups, you have to check out Robert Sabuda. His stuff is absolutely amazing. My daughter brought home a Scholastic books catalog from school. Normally dirt cheap children's books. This one had a pop-up by Sabuda for $25. I just thought a pop up was for younger kids and $25 was ridiculous. She wanted it so bad but I put my foot down. She cried and cried then got over it. A few weeks later at Barnes & Noble she finds the same book. Alice in Wonderland pop-up. It was so incredible I bought it. The most elaborate scenes fold out and the entire story is still there in a mini book format at the bottom of the page. Next time you are in BN you have to check it out. He has done the Wizard of Oz and others as well.

    I'm currently reading Coma by Robin Cook. I have read all his books but never the first one, time to tackle it.

    I read all the Outlander series too Tal. I have them all and read the first four again after I read Fiery Cross. I plan to re-read Fiery Cross this summer. I was on Gabaldon's website Friday and saw she has two more in the works. She is trying to finish the sixth this year. It takes her 2.5 years to write a Jamie and Claire book. There are lengthy excerpts on the site you can read. www.dianagabaldon.com

    I am going to read Princess Sultana's Daughters next I think. I read the first book and am curious about the sequal. I had no idea she wrote two more after that.

    Last month I read Conquistador by Robert Stirling. Good parallel universe/alternate history book. Steve bought it at BN and I snagged it before he could. He was pretty nice about it but I could tell he was irritated. He's reading it now.

  • patio34
    patio34

    Hi Princess,

    I read the Outlander series too---loved them, really. I also enjoyed the cave-man books by Jean Auel but can't think of the names, you know, with Jondalar and Ayla--great books. Oh! Clan of the Cave Bear, etc.

    I read the Gunslinger series by Stephen King and am getting ready to read Song of Susannah this summer (waiting for a friend to get done with it--we're splitting it).

    I'm going to look for the pop-up book next B&N visit.

    Pat

  • DireStraitJacket
    DireStraitJacket

    I just finished catch-22 Joseph Heller, so funny yet sad, how men try use war and bad situations to their own advantage. seems its still happening
    hopefully the library will have some of the books mentioned here, there some pretty good suggestions, maybe I'll reread the dune series..

  • Princess
    Princess

    Yep, I read the whole "Clan of the Cave Bear" series too. I really enjoyed the first three, the last one was incredibly boring but I had to read it anyway!

  • lazyslob
    lazyslob

    I´m reading Linux Magnum. I just don´t get it. Guess I´m too stupid for that.

  • crownboy
    crownboy

    Just finished reading:

    Freethinkers : A History of American Secularism
    by Susan Jacoby

    What's the Matter with Kansas? : How Conservatives Won the Heart of America
    by Thomas Frank

    The Jungle
    by Upton Sinclair

    Now reading:

    My Life

    by Bill Clinton

    Perfectly Legal: The Secret Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super-Rich and Cheat Everybody Else

    by David Cay Johnston

  • patio34
    patio34

    I love these threads to get good ideas for reading! Thanks to all.

    Pat

  • Snowcrash
    Snowcrash

    I'm currently reading "Count Zero" by William Gibson (just two more books after this and I'll have read his complete works to date!), and Dante's Inferno. I'm reading some short stories by Bruce Sterling, H.P. Lovecraft, and Clive Barker as well.

    After this, I plan to read "Survivor" by Chuck Palahniuk again. It seems rather appropriate at this point in my life.

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