What are you reading?

[phil]

"The Best of the Kudzu Telegraph"  by John Lane.

An english and environmental science professor I took in college. It's a collection of some of the best editions of his syndicated news paper column. If you like the south and you're environmentally conscious, you'd like this guy.

[Buffalo Budd]

I got 'Life' by Keith Richards for Christmas and am about 100 pages in.
Love it.

[birdman]

Fun read.




Ive been getting interested in reading about the years my father spent in Vietnam. Both of these books blew me away.
The guy that wrote Dispatches helped work on both Apocalypse Now and Full Metal Jacket. Many of his anecdotes and some characters make it into both movies.
Phiip Caputo won the Pulitzer for his book and, oddly enough, is the father of a friend of mine from boarding school.

[mbw]

Finished 'child of god' by cormac maccarthy.
fun little read, if you like stories about necrophiliac southern hill jacks... and who doesn't?

[birdman]

Finished 'child of god' by cormac maccarthy.
fun little read, if you like stories about necrophiliac southern hill jacks... and who doesn't?

You had me sold at necrophiliac.

[sls.stormyrider]

Keef's book is a blast
Omnivore's Dilemma is a good book, but got me angry.

Speaking of getting angry, I have a hard time with reading about Nam. just gets me upset and pissed off.

Right now I'm reading Steve Jobs biography. enjoying it so far - he's been joining communes, going to India, meditating, etc.
One of my best friend's brother is the exact same age and did a lot of the same stuff around then. except he didn't go on to form one of the most successful companies in history.

[shoreline99]

Ive been getting interested in reading about the years my father spent in Vietnam. Both of these books blew me away.
The guy that wrote Dispatches helped work on both Apocalypse Now and Full Metal Jacket. Many of his anecdotes and some characters make it into both movies.
Phiip Caputo won the Pulitzer for his book and, oddly enough, is the father of a friend of mine from boarding school.

Read this one. Friend gave it to me. It's about one guy's [armored cav] experiences leading up to and during the Tet.

[mehead]

Fun read.

Cool.  Might be the only book of his I haven't read.  I'll have to get my hands on this one.

Right now, I'm reading the following...



My wife bought the series and said it was awesome so I gave it a shot.  This is the third of the 3 book series.  It's very good.  The first book is being released as a movie, in March I think.

[mbw]

My wife bought the series and said it was awesome so I gave it a shot.  This is the third of the 3 book series.  It's very good.  The first book is being released as a movie, in March I think.

my special lady friend just finished this series and was trying to get me into it.
it sounded a little too 'young adult-y' for me.

if it gets the mehead seal of approval i might just give it a go.

[mbw]

oh, and btw, infinite jest was the most tedious thing i have ever read.
i only got through about 300 pages, and by the skin of my teeth.

the thought of having to read another 400 was torturous, so i happily set it down.

[shoreline99]

oh, and btw, infinite jest was the most tedious thing i have ever read.
i only got through about 300 pages, and by the skin of my teeth.

the thought of having to read another 400 was torturous, so i happily set it down.

Glad I'm not the only one. I was happy to return it to the library unfinished.

[mehead]

My wife bought the series and said it was awesome so I gave it a shot.  This is the third of the 3 book series.  It's very good.  The first book is being released as a movie, in March I think.

my special lady friend just finished this series and was trying to get me into it.
it sounded a little too 'young adult-y' for me.

if it gets the mehead seal of approval i might just give it a go.

Iwas thinking the same way and it did take some convincing to get me to read them.

[runawayjimbo]

My wife bought the series and said it was awesome so I gave it a shot.  This is the third of the 3 book series.  It's very good.  The first book is being released as a movie, in March I think.

my special lady friend just finished this series and was trying to get me into it.
it sounded a little too 'young adult-y' for me.

if it gets the mehead seal of approval i might just give it a go.

Iwas thinking the same way and it did take some convincing to get me to read them.

Ha, my wife just tore through the first book and told me I had to read them too. I responded in similar "young adult-y" fashion, but maybe I'll give it a shot.

[birdman]

I really enjoyed the whole hunger games trilogy. The first book was the best in the series. Def worth the 2 or 3 nights it takes to read.

[shoreline99]

Ha, my wife just tore through the first book and told me I had to read them too. I responded in similar "young adult-y" fashion, but maybe I'll give it a shot.

My wife read them last summer. I just went and watched the running man instead.