What Book Are You Currently Reading?

Poptart: "Chronicles" is a wonderful book!!! One of the best things I read last year. Did you know Dylan is doing a show in XM starting next month?

Stephanie: "Da Vinci Code" is FINALLY coming out in paperback (large size, I believe) soon. I work at Barnes & Noble, so I know these things. :D

I just started "1776" by David McCullough last night. Looks to be a good read. If it's half as good as his biography of Harry Truman, I'm sure I'll enjoy it.
 
I have "Da Vinic Code" for a couple of weeks now and it is in paperback.

Published by Doubleday ISBN 0-385-51322-4 US $7.99.
 
"In the Time of Madness" by Richard Lloyd Parry, it's about Indonesia during the turbulent years pre and post Suharto while I was based there. Having been busy taking pictures and covering the news I never wrote any of it down, and reading Richard's impressions (I worked with him some too) brings it all back vividly.
 
peter_n said:
"The Enigma of Arrival" by V.S. Naipaul, "Zen in the Art of Archery" by Eugen Herrigel, and "Rangefinder Perspectives" by the Fotogroep Park-Heverlea.

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Zen in the Art of Archery was a very good read, better than I expected when I picked it up.

Currently I am reading books by Zane Grey, The U.P. Trail is my current one. I have given Louis L"amore a break. Was starting to get predictable. His collections of short stories are nice though.

My next will be Marine Rifleman by Col (ret) Wesley L. Fox. My daughter purchased it for me and got him to sign it for me. He is a MOH winner working at VA Tech.
 
I'm about to start Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond. If you haven't read his other book Guns, Germs, and Steel you should. I also have a large pile of science-fiction and fantasy novels to catch up on around here.
 
wouldn't mind reading a book called something like "Large format photography for dummies and how to start in it"
 
FrankS said:
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle maintenance is a great title, but the book isn't.
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I'd have to disagree with you there. It's an intensely philosophical work and a neat piece of writing.

Gene
 
I just started Don Quixote by Cervantes...looking forward to it. I'm also reading a Gore Vidal book called Empire.
 
"Talk to the Hand" by Lynne Truss.

I'm beginning to consider it psychotherapy for those of us still experiencing cultureshockosis.
 
FrankS said:
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle maintenance is a great title, but the book isn't.
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Blasphemy!!! :) That's a wonderful book! Extremely deep, but a wonderful read. I've read it twice, one of the few books I can say that about.
 
cp_ste-croix said:
I just started Don Quixote by Cervantes...looking forward to it. I'm also reading a Gore Vidal book called Empire.
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Ahhh "...hubo un quijote de la Mancha, de cuyo nombre no quisiera acordarme..." It's been decades. Literally. I never finished it; you should not make a fifth-grader read the whole thing!!
 
I read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle about 20 years ago and greatly enjoyed it.

The Da Vinci Code is pure crap. Probably the worst book I've read in the last 5 years. Just finished 'Rubicon' a history of the end of the Roman republic.

Steve
 
Wartime Britain 1939 to 1945 by Juliet Gardiner - really brings the time alive and makes you a bit awstruck of your parents generation.
 
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