What are you reading?

[mbw]

Kurt Vonnegut

Slapstick

Great stuff.  Love Vonnegut!

thats my fav vonnegut.

[gah]

impacting me in a big way......

Just read a little bit about this. I am going to have to give it a read, especially after seeing Food Inc. I have really started thinking about what I eat and where it comes from, and the impact of processed foods and our way of farming, and the importance of eating locally grown, organic foods instead.

[alcoholandcoffeebeans]

impacting me in a big way......

Just read a little bit about this. I am going to have to give it a read, especially after seeing Food Inc. I have really started thinking about what I eat and where it comes from, and the impact of processed foods and our way of farming, and the importance of eating locally grown, organic foods instead.

srsly.

one of my favorite books i own.

[sprobeck]

Stephen E. Ambrose--Undaunted Courage. Fascinating!

[gainesvillegreen]

Stephen E. Ambrose--Undaunted Courage. Fascinating!

Read that many moons ago, Ambrose really does a good job in his books of writing more like a "fiction" writer than a historian.

[MiamiPhish]

1984 - first time, believe it or not.

[Mr Minor]

1984 - first time, believe it or not.

Enjoy. 












I'll be watching you.

[sprobeck]

Stephen E. Ambrose--Undaunted Courage. Fascinating!

Read that many moons ago, Ambrose really does a good job in his books of writing more like a "fiction" writer than a historian.

Absolutely! I love his comments about the events!!

[cactusfan]

Under The Volcano - Malcolm Lowry

an intense read, a bit hard to get through. beautiful writing. all takes place over one day, focusing on an alcoholic and his often meandering and drunk thoughts. the first chapter was particularly tough to follow, as it turns out it takes place one year after the events in the rest of the book. i had to re-read that chapter once i was done with the book, so i could actually understand what it meant--and it means a lot. kind of hard not to consider this a brilliant book overall, but it's a challenge to see through. great ending, too.

[sophist]

Kurt Vonnegut

Slapstick

Great stuff.  Love Vonnegut!

I'm reading Slaughterhouse Five right now. 

[cactusfan]

Kurt Vonnegut

Slapstick

Great stuff.  Love Vonnegut!

I'm reading Slaughterhouse Five right now.

So it goes.

[Mr Minor]

Kurt Vonnegut

Slapstick

Great stuff.  Love Vonnegut!

I'm reading Slaughterhouse Five right now.

So it goes.

Love that one.  I have his memoir up next, Armageddon in Retrospect.

[twatts]

Hilarious stuff...  http://orbooks.com/

[postjack]

impacting me in a big way......

Just read a little bit about this. I am going to have to give it a read, especially after seeing Food Inc. I have really started thinking about what I eat and where it comes from, and the impact of processed foods and our way of farming, and the importance of eating locally grown, organic foods instead.

here is the book that changed the way I eat forever:



http://www.amazon.com/Defense-Food-Eaters-Manifesto/dp/0143114964/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1263658586&sr=1-1

I saw Food Inc. afterwards, which just solidified the deal.  Pollan is not a scientist, he is a journalist, so some of his claims are just that, claims, but most of it just makes good sense, and works.  His is the movement away from "nutrionism" and back towards eating whole foods. IIRC he was featured in Food Inc. several times.

current read:

http://img1.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n4/n24697.jpg

Tim Powers - Declare

as with most good Tim Powers books, I'm a quarter of the way through and have no idea what the hell is going on.  A WWII spy novel with an as yet unknown supernatural element.  entertaining stuff.

[VDB]

Food Inc. is buried somewhere in the Netflix queue so those books might make for good companions.

Right now, two chapters into: