Whatcha been reading? (summer edition)

Dunwoody Dude · **Joined:** Wed Nov 03, 2004 11:20 am **Posts:** 2869

Darkly Dreaming Dexter-Jeff Lindsay
Dexter Morgan is a blood spatter specialist for the police. He's handsome, intelligent, witty and a serial killer. He's also the hero of this original take on the whole serial killer genre.

Double Play-Robert B. Parker
Parker takes a break from his usual stuff with a fictional account of a bodyguard hired to protect Jackie Robinson during the year baseball was changed forever.

Sketch · **Posted:** Wed Jul 13, 2005 10:00 am

current:
Gnosticism: New Light on the Ancient Tradition of Inner Knowing - Stephan Hoeller
Read a bit from A Course in Miracles and related books earlier this year, which led me to have a look at this.

Public Enemy No. 2 - Aaron McGruder
The latest Boondocks compilation, starting right around the beginning of the Iraq war.

on deck:
Seventh Son - Orson Scott Card
Loved the first few Ender books, and I got this from a cousin's friend. Seems to be a cool take on the fantasy/folklore genre.

Podcasting - Todd Cochrane
It's an idea. Target date for show #1 is late September.

Nag Hammadi Library
All the gnostic texts (Gospel of Thomas, et al.) found in Egypt in 1945.

Dalen · **Posted:** Wed Jul 13, 2005 10:00 am

I just purchased Killing Yourself to Live : 85% of a True Story by Chuck Klosterman, but i've yet to open it. Waitin' for the weekend sun.

scottycash99 · **Joined:** Fri Dec 10, 2004 1:46 am **Posts:** 1149

Nag Hammadi Library
All the gnostic texts (Gospel of Thomas, et al.) found in Egypt in 1945

awesome....i love the gospel of thomas, if for no other reason it dispells alot of the "church's" teaching as it pertains to christ/god/self.....

interesting stuff to be sure

jsh · **Posted:** Wed Jul 13, 2005 10:53 am

"Post Office" by Charles Bukowski
"Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
"Middlesex" by Jeffrey Eugenides (currently)
"In the Name of the Rose" by Umberto Eco (next)

Suggestions beyond these knowing that "Middlesex" is what I am enjoying most out of the three that I've read so far?

Elvis Fu · **Posted:** Wed Jul 13, 2005 10:58 am

The Memoirs of U.S. Grant / Edited by Mark Twain

Nixon: Education of a Polictician, 1913-1962 / Stephen Ambrose

Cotton · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 6:12 pm **Posts:** 17155

Killing Yourself To Live - Chuck Klosterman
Powers, Vol 8 - Brian Michael Bendis
Cry, the Beloved Country - Alan Paton
also running through all the Raymond Chandler books again to try to streamline my own dialogue.

DumpJack · **Posted:** Wed Jul 13, 2005 11:07 am

Have Read:

Hunter S. Thompson
Generation of Swine
Songs of the Doomed
Better than Sex

Chuck Klosterman
Fargo Rock City

JK Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Charles Fort
LO! (early 20th century writer on unexplained phenomena)

Dick Russell
The Man Who Knew Too Much (JFK assasination invesigation)

On deck:

JK Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

Chuck Klosterman
Killing Yourself to Live

Hunter S Thompson
Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness--Modern History from the Sports Desk

Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail

Kingfish · **Posted:** Wed Jul 13, 2005 11:12 am

I've been reading history books.

Story of Britain
Winston Churchill Biography
History of Japan
Presidential Difference
Ghengis Khan Biography

tentoze · **Posted:** Wed Jul 13, 2005 11:14 am

The Birds of Heaven- Travels With Cranes- Peter Matthiessen. An excellent treatise on the world's 15 surviving species of crane by one of the finest American writers of the last 50 years.

Cotton · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 6:12 pm **Posts:** 17155

tentoze Wrote:

The Birds of Heaven- Travels With Cranes- Peter Matthiessen. An excellent treatise on the world's 15 surviving species of crane by one of the finest American writers of the last 50 years.

didn't he write The Snow Leopard?

nobody · **Posted:** Wed Jul 13, 2005 11:26 am

Just read Joyce Carol Oats: Zombie yesterday. Great book if you lik 'em a little twisted...first person sereal killer story.

Got a Hubert Selby book on deck...called Waiting Period.

Along with George Saunders, who takes way too long in between books, but finally has something coming out in a couple months, these are likely my favorite current writers. Well, Selby kicked it a couple years ago, but Oates is still going, although Zombie is a few years old now.

PopTodd · **Posted:** Wed Jul 13, 2005 11:27 am

Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy by Jane Leavy
Explores not only his legacy as a player and pitcher, but also as an American Jew. I started it a while ago, but just haven't found time to read. It is interesting as hell, though.

Twilightkid · **Posted:** Wed Jul 13, 2005 11:28 am

just finished 'Confess, Fletch' and now onto the next Fletch book.

Cap'n Squirrgle · **Posted:** Wed Jul 13, 2005 11:37 am

Re-reading the Chronicles of Narnia, for fun. Haven't read them since I was 8 or so. Been just great so far, but the housework cuts into my reading time something fierce.

Sketch - I ran across one of the Ender books while honeymooning in Fiji last year, and liked it a lot. Are they all good?

Cotton · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 6:12 pm **Posts:** 17155

TheTwilightKid Wrote:

just finished 'Confess, Fletch' and now onto the next Fletch book.

yeah those books will fly past. when i was driving up to philly from Savannah every couple weeks i'd get three of them on tape and just go straight through, chain-smoking and trying to solve them ahead of time. That was followed by the Walter Mosley and Dashiell Hammett stuff.

DumpJack · **Posted:** Wed Jul 13, 2005 11:47 am

Cap'n Squirrgle Wrote:

Re-reading the Chronicles of Narnia, for fun.

Was thinking about doing this as well; Haven't read the Lion, the Witch and Wardrobe since I was a kid.

Sketch · **Posted:** Wed Jul 13, 2005 11:54 am

Cap'n Squirrgle Wrote:

Sketch - I ran across one of the Ender books while honeymooning in Fiji last year, and liked it a lot. Are they all good?

Only read the first three. Liked them all, but Ender's Game was the fave.

Those Fletch books are a fun read.

Cotton · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 6:12 pm **Posts:** 17155

fun enough to justify Zach Braff as Fletch in the new movie?

huskerpunk · **Posted:** Wed Jul 13, 2005 11:57 am

Rock Snob's Dictionary
Freakonomics
God's Politics, by Jim Willis
Diary, by Chuck Palahniuk

Sketch · **Posted:** Wed Jul 13, 2005 11:58 am

After reading the books, I can't justify Chevy Chase in the old Fletch movies.

Cap'n Squirrgle · **Posted:** Wed Jul 13, 2005 11:59 am

DumpJack Wrote:

Cap'n Squirrgle Wrote:

Re-reading the Chronicles of Narnia, for fun.

Was thinking about doing this as well; Haven't read the Lion, the Witch and Wardrobe since I was a kid.

Was at Busty's place a week or two ago, and saw them sitting on a shelf (his lady has a downright impressive book collection), and it dawned on me that I'd love to read the series again. It's very enjoyable still. I could do with less Christ figuring... "Oh Aslan, will I never see you again?" "You will, but I go by another name in your world." etc. But still, damn fine.

Cotton · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 6:12 pm **Posts:** 17155

Sketch Wrote:

After reading the books, I can't justify Chevy Chase in the old Fletch movies.

this is totally true.

tentoze · **Posted:** Wed Jul 13, 2005 12:41 pm

Cotton Wrote:

tentoze Wrote:

The Birds of Heaven- Travels With Cranes- Peter Matthiessen. An excellent treatise on the world's 15 surviving species of crane by one of the finest American writers of the last 50 years.

didn't he write The Snow Leopard?

Indeed he did, amomg numerous other non-fiction and fiction books. Mebbe my all-time favorite author these days.

Twilightkid · **Posted:** Wed Jul 13, 2005 12:42 pm

Funny.... I saw both movies 15 years before i started reading the books, and I totally hear Chevy Chase's voice and face while reading em......

First Fletch is in my top 5 fave movies ever.

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