What Book Are You Currently Reading?

I'm well into Robert Fisk's new book: The Great War For Civilisation: The Conquest Of The Middle East

I suspect many Conservatives from the USA would refuse to read it but those who did would see 30+ years of hands on experience to balance what their often one eyed media offers.

(well, you asked)
 
Currently re-reading Shelby Foote's Civil War: A Narrative - I'm onthesecond volume right now, Fredericksburg to Meridian. I highlyrecommendit. One of those books/writers you feel the need to go back toevery sooften.
 
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the english edition of The Lord of the Rings is near the toilet seat, and The Cardinal of the Kremlin near my bed ... not like it's the 1st time i've been reading LOTR.. :)
 
I read Zen and the Art of motorcycle maintenance 3X, many years ago. I found it to be a great book. It was one of the books on my reading list for a university course. I liked to comparison of the BMW and its owner with the "other" bike---sort of like comparing a Leica with a Bessa. :cool:

One summer I read all of S.M.'s works twice. I especially liked "The Razer's Edge" and "The Moon and the Sixpence," along with his short stories.
 
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I'd keep my copy of Lord of the Rings near my toilet too - but for different reasons.

Sorry, it's a cheap shot but I couldn't resist :)

Steve
 
bcs89 said:
Currently re-reading Shelby Foote's Civil War: A Narrative - I'm onthesecond volume right now, Fredericksburg to Meridian. I highlyrecommendit. One of those books/writers you feel the need to go back toevery so often.
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Any of Shelby Foote's Civil War books are worth reading -- He's an elegant writer and a fine historian.

Gene
 
I read.. Holy Blood, Holy Grail, by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln.. a 1982 publication..Gee I wonder if Dan Brown ever read this book.
 
gabrielma said:
Nah. Ya think? ;) I read that book back in 1990. A whole book-reading cascade effect...
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some people are really born lucky, that Dan Brown is a good case in point. I was given a copy of that Da Vinci Code by an american cousin, I had read Holy Blood many many year ago so to me the DV Code seemed like a total rip off as a story, so I re-read Holy Blood, Holy Grail to be sure, yeah ,it sure is, its shameful really.
 
"Judgement Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., And The Laws That Changed America" and "Lee Miller's War"
 
I'm going between 3 books currently

"Witness in Our Time" by Ken Light ... a book chronicling anecdotes of some of the best documentry photographers in history

"On Love" - Alain de Botton ... philosophy of love from a male point of few... seriously its good

"The Book of Photography" - Text by Anne E. Hoy ... This is a national geographic book of the history of photography ... its organized by style and genre


All three I enjoy alot... I should be finishing them all very soon
 
... just started "mexican hat" by michael mc garrity...a who-dunnit set in the present day southwest

hasta la vista, adieu, dasvidanya,,fino al prossimo tempo, auf wiedersehen, and later y’all

"...patience and shuffle the cards" miguel cervantes
"nothing can be learned" herman hesse
"everybody knows everything" jack kerouac
"some memories are realities and better than anything" willa cather
" doo-wacka doo, wacka doo" roger miller
"we have met the enemy and they is us !" pogo
 
... just started "mexican hat" by michael mc garrity...a who-dunnit set in the present day southwest

hasta la vista, adieu, dasvidanya,,fino al prossimo tempo, auf wiedersehen, and later y’all

"...patience and shuffle the cards" miguel cervantes
"nothing can be learned" herman hesse
"everybody knows everything" jack kerouac
"some memories are realities and better than anything" willa cather
" doo-wacka doo, wacka doo" roger miller
"we have met the enemy and they is us !" pogo
 
The Landscape of Memory by Simon Schama (the history of landscapes in European and American thought) and Nature and Culture by Novak (history of 19th century painting as it reveals attitudes and values of nature in the American mind and culture) .
 
"Hell's Angels, A Strange and Terrible Saga" by Hunter S. Thompson. Collecting books is my wife's hobby, cameras are mine -- she found a first edition for me. Just finished "Bob Wills, Hubbin' It" by Ruth Sheldon. Same situation; another first edition except this time she also bought the reissued paperback -- that's the one I was allowed to read :D.
 
'darkroom Magic'

'darkroom Magic'

'darkroom Magic' by Otto Litzel (1967), I'm not reading this book right now but I wanted to recommend it especially for people like me who are still learning about printing their own. I see it in used bookstores allot more lately so it's not to hard to find. The book is full of tips and methods you never learned in your photography 101 class.
 
fishric said:
The best read I've had for a long time is Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon, thankfully a translation, my Spanish is very slow. It's about post civil war Barcelona and the Cemetary of forgotten books. If It hadn't been recommended I might have bought it for the cover, a nice grainy "street" photo. See below.
Read and enjoy,
Regards Richard F.
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Thanks for the tip on Shadow of the Wind. I agree, it was a really wonderful book.
 
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