What's Everyone Reading?

[gopher]

Deep Shadow by Randy Wayne White ~ another in the Doc Ford series.

 

[JakeElwood]

The Stranger (Camus) + Three Crimes (Simenon)

The Stranger (1942) by ALBERT CAMUS & Three Crimes (1938) by GEORGES SIMENON

 

[Retired_Can_Soldier]

I'm in the middle of The Equinox by MJ Preston.

I have an advance copy and at the risk of sounding bias, the
guy is bloody brilliant.:lol:

Plug Plug Plug

 

[JakeElwood]

Blood Meridian, or The Evening Redness in the West (1985) by Cormac McCARTHY

Blood Meridian, or The Evening Redness in the West (1985) ~ Cormac McCARTHY

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[sedona]

Right now..

I am reading

Death of a Parent
having just lost my Mom
and also my Dad several yrs ago

I tell u it is most enlightening

also, I have a whole list of books

one actually is on the Brain
and Memory

and.. I read Dr. Bernie Siegels book each day
365 Rx

I love mysteries and thrillers

and wanted to get the lates Stephen King novel


Sedona

 

[Colpy]

Sworn off history for a bit.......

Reconnecting with the old boys.......Hemingway and Steinbeck.

Read The Green Hills of Africa, re read A Farewell to Arms. Remembered how much I admire Hemingway........how hard he is to put down.

Re read Travels with Charley, just started a re read of East of Eden. I remember the latter as the greatest book of my experience, but it has been 35 plus years.....

Travels with Charley reminded me that while I admire Hemingway, I love Steinbeck.

 

[WLDB]

I'm also reading "A Farewell to Arms" right now. Hemingway is one of my favorite writers.

Also on the go are "The Worldly Years: The Life of Lester Pearson 1947-72" by John English.

Last night I ordered Ted Sorensen's "Councillor" so I'll start that next week probably.

 

[YukonJack]

The last Dortmunder novel by the late and great Donald Westlake. Hilarious as ever!

 

[JakeElwood]

Death Row Breakout & Other Stories (Bunker) / Point Omega (DeLillo)

Just finished: Death Row Breakout & Other Stories (2010) ~ Edward BUNKER.
Next... Point Omega (2010) ~ Don DeLILLO.

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[Dexter Sinister]

Just started Daniel Dennett's Darwin's Dangerous Idea, finally found it after two years of looking for it, it was published in 1995 and I thought it was out of print. I didn't know it existed until just a few years ago, in fact I didn't know Daniel Dennett existed until just a few years ago. He's a philosopher at Tufts University in Massachusetts, and unlike most philosophers I've encountered, he manages to turn philosophy into something real, meaningful, and useful.

 

[Colpy]

I have rediscovered East of Eden by John Steinbeck.

It just may be the best book of the twentieth century....or ever.

If you haven't read it.....do so.

 

[JLM]

I have rediscovered East of Eden by John Steinbeck.

It just may be the best book of the twentieth century....or ever.

If you haven't read it.....do so.

I read it many years ago, it was good as I recall. I'm just going to start reading "The Women" by T.C. Boyle, I just finished "After the Killing" by the same author, also quite a good novel.

 

[Bar Sinister]

I'm going lowbrow here. I read online comics - up to twenty a day. I'll give you a list of my favourites if you ask.

 

[Johnnny]

Gone West - The History of British COlumbia by some random author

 

[Dexter Sinister]

I'm going lowbrow here. I read online comics - up to twenty a day. I'll give you a list of my favourites if you ask.

Lowbrow is good too, and frankly I think the distinction between high and low culture is a wholly artificial one invented by people who fancy themselves as highbrow and want a reason to look down on the rest of us. Effete snobs, in other words. I like a good play or a symphony, I also like a good tailgate party and a football game. And comic books. So I'm asking.

 

[coldstream]

I'm reading The Age of Reason (1945) by Jean-Paul Sartre in an excellent translation by Eric Sutton. This is the first novel of a trilogy, followed by The Reprieve (1947) and Troubled Sleep (1949).. dealing with human freedom and its dilemmas. Unlike Sartre's existential philosophical works, which are almost impenetrable.. this book is engaging, accessible and thought provoking. Good enough that i intend to complete the trilogy.

 

[Dexter Sinister]

Unlike Sartre's existential philosophical works, which are almost impenetrable..

Yeah, you sure got that right. I once saw Sartre described as "the wall-eyed little man who figured it all out," and I remember thinking at the time that it's useless to have everything figured out if you can't explain it to anyone else. From reading a few other French thinkers I'm led to suspect that the French don't respect philosophy if it's not almost impenetrable.

 

[Bar Sinister]

Lowbrow is good too, and frankly I think the distinction between high and low culture is a wholly artificial one invented by people who fancy themselves as highbrow and want a reason to look down on the rest of us. Effete snobs, in other words. I like a good play or a symphony, I also like a good tailgate party and a football game. And comic books. So I'm asking.

Just remember, you did ask. These are in no particular order except for the first eight which I regard as the best of the bunch. All of the comics vary quite a bit in artistic quality, but I enjoy all of them. Oh, and there is this one. The comic is complete with a beginning and and ending and is regarded as an online comic classic. "Little White Mouse: The Complete Series" By Paul Sizer

Girl Genius Online Comics! Finder's Keepers
[ The Challenges of Zona ] Just another WordPress weblog
Wayward Sons: Legends - Sci-Fi Full Page Webcomic - Updates Daily
Big Head Press - Thoughtful Stories, Graphic Novels Online And In Print - Roswell, Texas, by L. Neil Smith and Scott Bieser
Big Head Press - Thoughtful Stories, Graphic Novels Online And In Print - Escape From Terra - by Sandy Sandfort, Scott Bieser,
Leila Del Duca and Lee Oaks! Quantum Vibe by Scott Bieser, published by Big Head Press
EXPOSURE - Revealing What Lies Beyond the Truth!
Paradigm Shift - A Graphic Novel by Dirk I. Tiede

DELVE Into Fantasy

Shockwave Darkside Comic

Wayfarer's Moon - Updates Weekly

The Adventures of the 19XX

The Phoenix Requiem

Spying with Lana by Sean Harrington

Dreamland Chronicles

Crimson Dark

Dark Sisters

Exiern

The Guns of Shadow Valley Terra Zap! Online Comic

SHADOWGIRLS

Shadowbinders | a webcomic with airships, mecha and mystery! -

Riven Sol - Science fiction, romance, and Lovecraftian horror.

Pinky TA

LOVE is in the BLOOD - Dark Fantasy Action Romance Graphic Novel / webcomic. With Vampires!

Mystery Solved! - The webcomic of skepticism and adventure!

Merceneiress.com -

Nikki Sprite - The adventures of Nikki Sprite

Marooned - Twice Weekly Sci-Fi Space Opera Comic

No Need For Bushido Seven Keys

Hello My name is Fifine

B.I.T.C.H. SQUAD

Goblins - Life through Their Eyes - Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Girls in Space - Sci-fi Webcomics Twice a Week

Galaxion - Life. Love. Hyperspace.

Juathuur Gatecrash - 03-21 Lovecraft is Missing

Ellie Connelly

Cleopatra in Spaaace!

Bondage Fetish Webcomic » Collar 6

Becoming - A Gothic Steampunk Fantasy Graphic Novel

Bloomingfaeries

Astray3 - Gain the universe. Lose everything.

AskDrEldritch.com -- The Webcomic!

"The Continentals" By Darryl Hughes and Monique MacNaughton

 

[JLM]

I'm reading a novel by T.C. Boyle titled "The Women". It's an odd sort of a book, fiction based on the biography of Frank Lloyd Wright, probably one of the most prominent architects of all times. Some rather unsavoury characterists of Wright are brought out, such as parsimony, skipping out on debt and using unsuspect "students" to perform manual labour for little or no pay, beyond room board. At least that is what is depicted in the first half of the book. I'm just wondering if the author hasn't overstepped certain ethical limits in doing this. Or is it a perfectly legal way to bad mouth someone? I'm interested in other opinions.

 

[Colpy]

Still on Steinbeck........

The Winter of Our Discontent.