What do you people read?

[snusfather]

Here is a sort of sample cloud of what I enjoy reading (including Books, Authors and magazines).

Noam Chomsky, The Hichhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Durruti in the Spanish Civil War, Ernest Hemingway, J.R.R. Tolkien, Medicine in the Civil War: Triumphs and tragities, Howard Zinn, Mushashi, Robert frost, Dharma Punx, Gangs of New York, NA Basic Text, The Shobogenzo, National Geographic magazine, The Industrial Worker (I.W.W. news paper), Smithsonian magazine, Buddhadharma Magazine, Percy Shelly, Khalil Gibran, Frank McCourt, The IRA (Tim Pat Coogan's history), and anything else I read for Nursing school.

[Gideondark]

I like murder mystery/detective novels. Love Henning Mankell(another awesome Sweedish export), Iam Rankin, Colin Dexter, and the like. In Sci Fi I enjoy Stephen R. Donaldson. Tom Clancy is always a good read, as well as W.E.B Griffin.

[Umran]

Almost always Pratchett, own almost all of them. Generally find them quite witty and funny, but also decent storylines as well. If not then often random serial killer biography style books or anything to do with survivalism and bushcraft.

[Starcadia]

I'm not much of a reader, but now I've really gotten into Andrei Tarkovsky's Martyrologia (his diary). An extremely intrestinging book, since I consider Tarkovsky as the greatest director ever lived.

Me too! Doesn't it seem criminal to attempt to recreate Solaris? What were they thinking???

[Steel Blue 91]

"Duma Key" by Stephen King

[The Wolf]

I'm not much of a reader, but now I've really gotten into Andrei Tarkovsky's Martyrologia (his diary). An extremely intrestinging book, since I consider Tarkovsky as the greatest director ever lived.

[Xobeloot]

I am about half-way through "The redemption of Althalus" by David & Leigh Eddings. Pretty good so far. Not the most engulfing fantasy novel I have read, but by far not the worst. I expect things to pick up now that most of the char development is done.

[jamesstew]

I'm a big fan of the works of Patric O'Brian, Tolkien, Stephen King, and am partial to biography and chronicles of history.

[victoryredchevy]

Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger. I'm a huge high school football fan and I absolutely love this movie, but the movie is only based on this book. It's not the true story of the 1988 Odessa-Permian Panthers football team. The book is the real thing. Basically a documentary. The author actually lived in Odessa, Texas for a year and spent everyday with the football team. If you love high school football and loved this movie, don't stop there. Read the book.

[Starcadia]

CHALLANGING HERMAN HESSE!!!!????!!!!!


boy he must be good......

He is good. For me, at least. I guess one has to enjoy serious sci-fi. If you're curious, check out the novel, Fiasco. I challenge anyone who has read it to offer up a more thoroughly awesome novel in the sci-fi genre.

That said, I still love Hesse's work a great deal.

[koops]

I go through phases. Sometimes it's classics, sometimes it's sci-fi, sometimes science or art, etc. I've recently come out of a hard sci-fi phase, during which I read a lot of Stanislaw Lem - who has been challenging Hermann Hesse as my favorite all-time author - and similar stuff.

Currently reading First Man, the authorized biography of Neil Armstrong.

CHALLANGING HERMAN HESSE!!!!????!!!!!


boy he must be good......

[Multinic]

I'm new to this forum, but since reading is my other addiction (both fiction and non-fiction), I feel compelled to contribute.

This week:

Carlos Ruiz Zafon: "The Shadow of the Wind"
Richard North Patterson: "The Race"

Non-fiction (last week):

Richard Florida: "Who's Your City?"
Nassim Taleb: "Fooled by Randomness"

Enjoyed them all!

Multinic

[Starcadia]

I go through phases. Sometimes it's classics, sometimes it's sci-fi, sometimes science or art, etc. I've recently come out of a hard sci-fi phase, during which I read a lot of Stanislaw Lem - who has been challenging Hermann Hesse as my favorite all-time author - and similar stuff.

Currently reading First Man, the authorized biography of Neil Armstrong.

[gentlemanly]

I have very eclectic book tastes. I am a HUGE fan on Stephen King, the Dark Tower series is amazing, I also enjoy Clive Barker, Stephen R. Lawhead, Terry Brooks, Stephen Donaldson...but I also treasure my poetry by Robert Service, Poe, Dante, Tennyson, Frost, and Milton.

[Soft Morning, City!]

I love Pynchon. Rainbow and Lot 49 are two of my absolute favorite books.

Have you read the new one, Against The Day? I haven't had the chance to yet. Maybe come summer when assigned reading is no longer an issue.