The BOOK Thread

[grandmastershake]

Neal Stephenson, Neal Asher, William h. Gibson (nueromancer is not his best work), douglass adams, richard k. morgan (altered carbon series), a brave new world is an awesome read after 1984 for a interesting compare and contrast. frank herbert's dune.

Cyberpunk!!!!!!!

 

[Beauregard]

Whole additional respect for the BARF.

Carl Hiassan - Striptease the book is 38 times better than the movie, which was pretty darn good with whatshernames :boobies, Lucky You will have you soiling yourself.

Hiassan's section of my fiction shelf (Kinky Freedman shares that general area).

 

[gambit45]

If you're into sci-fi this is one of the best evar:thumbup

 

[Zerox]

If you're into sci-fi this is one of the best evar:thumbup

HAY! :thumbup

http://www.bayarearidersforum.com/forums/showpost.php?p=3155843&postcount=35

 

[Cheyenne]

I like autobiographies a lot.

Where the money was by William Sutton, the bank robber, was really good.

The Shoemaker, by Joseph Kallinger, a schizophrenic serial killer.

 

[Hoe Dogg]

see jack run. see jane run. see jack catch jane. i wont spoil the ending tho

 

[n10sive]

I think beau's book reading tastes are soon to change :teeth

 

[MtnRacer]

Picked up a Richard Dawkins book on a whim while in the airport at Hawaii. I've never read him, but he's actually pretty funny. Good book with the occasional dry spell when he gets to topics that aren't as interesting.

Steve

 

[m_asim]

I wish I could read science fiction...just can't stick with it

currently checking out "On War" by Carl von Clausewitz ....

wow......makes one think

Yo planegray. How did you like On War? It is lying on my bookshelf mocking me for the past one year.

 

[yella600rr]

I just finished "Shogun", all six books. I liked it.

Reading "The Mouse and the Motorcycle" to my 4 year old.

 

[Beauregard]

Bringing it back from the dead.

Read Jeanette Winterson's "The Passion.

That is all.

 

[zimi...]

just finished this:

good read.

 

[Ogier le Danois]

I just read "Signal Zero" a book written by a criminology professor who became a street cop for a few months.

Great, quick read, I was bothered by the 20 page Vice Squad part involving the gay bathroom arrests, but the rest is good.

 

[Xenophonii]

I wish I could read science fiction...just can't stick with it

currently checking out "On War" by Carl von Clausewitz ....

wow......makes one think

Try David Drake's Hammer's Slammers series. Good sci-fi war stories relatively near future, gritty.

 

[Cycle61]

Read through about half of this at my aunt's house a few weekends ago. Fascinating stuff, the interaction of mob mentality, self-evolving system optimization algorithms, and shit with motors and wheels. :teeth

http://www.amazon.com/Traffic-Drive-What-Says-About/dp/0307264785

 

[Owensdad]

Reyner Banham: Theory and Design in the First Machine Age...

It will blow your mind.:wow

 

[MysterYvil]

I'm a total bibliophile- I'll read pretty much anything, but I only collect the most noteworthy (to me) books. There's three living authors who could sell me their grocery lists:

Stephenson; the only thing of is I didn't really care for was The Big U. Everything else is beautiful, especially his Baroque Cycle.

Tim Powers, particularly the Last Call/Expiration Date/Earthquake Weather semi-series. He also has a knack for taking little factoids out of history and weaving a perfectly entertaining and almost plausible explanation for them...

James Ellroy of LA Confidential fame. All his "LA Quartet" and later books are totally bent and totally compelling.

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If you like swords-and-sorcery, see if you can chase down any of Karl Edward Wagner's Kane books. The protagonist is anything but a hero, but the stories are great.

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On a completely different note, The Story of O and Carrie's Story/Safe Word are the most-often borrowed of our books.

 

[cencalballer]

I can't believe no one mentioned it. Vonnegut, one of the best writers of the 20th century imo. Christopher Moore. Earlier books are better and hey are all great for a laugh. I highly recommend Lamb.
Hunter obviously.
Lately I've been reading a lot of autobiographies and biogrpahie's. Jackie Stewart didn't have a great one but a lot of other racers do.
For all the people mentioning 1984 have any of you read Animal Farm by Orwell. It's an interesting read and essentially describes the russian revolution and imo a bit of what is happening in this country now.

 

[greggargubby]

went to school for reading. read too much and got burned out on it. no, burnt out on it. didn't read anything but periodicals for nearly 10 years. couldn't bear the thought of picking up a book.

then, somehow or another, picked up and actually read a sedaris book. it was like the fruit in paradise lost. have read, i don't know, 7 or 8 books in the last two months, one of which was mentioned here (the road).

not sure why i'm telling everybody this. i suppose because i hope to become a reader again.

**subscribed**

 

[MysterYvil]

went to school for reading. read too much and got burned out on it. no, burnt out on it. didn't read anything but periodicals for nearly 10 years. couldn't bear the thought of picking up a book.

then, somehow or another, picked up and actually read a sedaris book. it was like the fruit in paradise lost. have read, i don't know, 7 or 8 books in the last two months, one of which was mentioned here (the road).

not sure why i'm telling everybody this. i suppose because i hope to become a reader again.

**subscribed**

Sedaris? Fruit in paradise lost? :rofl