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I know we are all busy and into fitness...but it is also good to nourish and "exercise" the mind too.
So..what book are you currently reading?

For me, I'm currently reading Marcus Aurelius' MEDITATIONS

"How To Simplify Your Life"
Seven Practical Steps To Letting Go of Your Burdens and Living a Happier Life
by Tiki Kustenmacher

...yeah, like I would take someone named "Tiki" seriously. LOLLLLLLL!!!!
To paraphrase Caslon5000's line, "Oh I crack me up... me too!"

"Free Lunch" by David Cay Johnston.. And becoming more amazed (and pissed off) every other page. I really am getting over my naivete about government, corporations and how it affects us all.

LOL. Thought about not answering this one even though I love books and love the topic. Kind of embarrassed, I'm reading a guilty pleasure of mine. Fantasy (total geek I know) Storm Waring by Mercedes Lackey if its any consolation there are some gay characters in it.

YAY for gay characters!

... aight i'm currently re-reading the marcos dynasty by sterling seagrave only cuz i got lost in some of its historical references and wanted to get it straight and while there are no gay characters in the book it does exploit imelda marcos sooo nicely

Usually into nonfiction (just ordered Halberstam's book of sports writing), but this summer has been all fiction: 'The Shadow Year' by Jeffrey Ford, 'Water for Elephants' (awesome), crime fiction by Carl Hiassen, David Baldacci, James Lee Burke.

The last few books I've read were: The Art of Happiness by the Dalai Lama, Castration and Male Rage: The Phallic Wound (not about literal castration so much as primal masculine psychology, it's very Jungian) by Eugene Monick, Fear of Life by Alexander Lowen, Navigating Differences - Friendships Between Gay and Straight Men by Jammie Price, The Velvet Rage by Alan Downs, and How do You Know it's True? Discovering the Difference Between Science and Superstition by Hy Ruchlis; and I'm currently reading Not Always So - Practicing the True Spirit of Zen by Shunryu Suzuki, On Combat by Dave Grossman w/ Loren Christensen, The Stoic Life by Tad Brennan. And sorta sitting by the wayside after I started reading them and lost interest partway through are Cruise Control by Robert Weiss and Masculinities by R. W. Connell.

I've been on kind of a spree lately, mostly working on figuring out my anger and my male issues, and learning to calm me inner raging bull. I find reading a couple different things at the same time a lot more interesting because if you're paying attention you can start finding connections between all kinds of different academic disciplines and one thing that was written with kind of a narrow focus can become informed by a new source totally out of left field. So the next books on the docket are The Analects translated by D. C. Lau, Plato's The Republic and Breaking the Spell - Religion as a Natural Phenomenon by Daniel Dennett.

"CHARGE !, Great Cavalry Engagements of the Napoleonic Wars," by Dudley Smith. Well, you asked !!

harry potter, yeah im a dork

Just finished reading 'Death at Intervals' by Jose Saramago...it was really s***

But now finishing a book by urban theorist Elizabeth Farelly, it's called 'Blubberland' - awesome!

BusinessInsurance Journal's Guide to the 100 Largest Bank-Owned Insurance Brokerages.

Well, you asked.

zzzzzzz

I tend to read several books at the same time...

currently:

Bones to Ashes - Kathy Reichs (series bones is based off her books)
Harry Potter (Goblet of Fire)
The Partner (John Grisham)

yomamali saidYAY for gay characters!

... aight i'm currently re-reading the marcos dynasty by sterling seagrave only cuz i got lost in some of its historical references and wanted to get it straight and while there are no gay characters in the book it does exploit imelda marcos sooo nicely

LOL I read that book back in high school. It was interesting, because my parents are staunch Marcos supporters (while I wasn't).

I thought it was a bunch of conspiracy theory hogwash though.

Three at the same time:

STARFLEET ACADEMY: COLLISION COURSE by William Shatner

THE COMPLETE MAKING OF INDIANA JONES

A FEW MINUTES PAST MIDNIGHT - A Toby Peters Mystery by Stuart M. Kaminsky

I am currently reading "The Hours" by Michael Cunningham.
Seen the movie, and loved it beyond words. The book seems to be different, but great in its own way. Highly recommend it.

crinjax said"Free Lunch" by David Cay Johnston.. And becoming more amazed (and pissed off) every other page. I really am getting over my naivete about government, corporations and how it affects us all.

That's a very interesting book Crinjax. Yes it is an eye opener for sure....or maybe more accurately..and eyebrow raiser !

Calculus of a Single Varable, 8th Ed. - Larson
Thomas' Calculus, Part 1 - Thomas
Economics, 7th Ed. - Boyes

.... oh wait - you wanted leasure literature... not academic textbooks

clive cussler
any of them i can get my hands on

robaroma saidJust finished Middlesex—really fine book.

Wow, yeah, Middlesex was great, what a pleasurable read.

Presently I am reading at home, Isabella and the Strange Death of Edward II by Paul Doherty. I like history and Edward was a Bi guy plus he had a lot of mystery surrounding his death.

For the beach, I always read something very light because there are so many great looking passers-by. So Pyramid by Tom Martin is nearly captivating me.

Just finished reading through Robert Jordan's "Wheel of Time" series for the... I don't even know how many times I've read them. I've already done my annual "Lord of the Rings" read, so I may have to go grab some new books.

I might look into that "Storm Waring" arielanatole was talking about.

I just finished Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen, and now I'm reading some architectural books...

Great Avenues is an excellent book about the planning of Washington DC.

Prince Of Frogtown by Rick Bragg. Excellent!

I just finished For Whom the Bell Tolls, it rocked my world.

"The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari" - It's inspired me.

Yesterday, I purchased Unspeakable by Michael Christopher. I'm more of a non-fiction/technical reader, but the plot parallels one of my life experiences. As youngsters, two boys were molested on separate occasions by the same man. As adults, they impose a sense of justice on the man and things go afoul. I look forward to discovering if their justice is one that I would have liked to have issued had the opportunity come my way.

"Boyfriend 101" by Sullivan. Yup. No joke.

And I barely read books anymore (which is a sad shame, I know).

Though, next up is "Guns, Germs, and Steel" by Diamond. Picked it up when I went home for a weekend. Reading this was my homework assignment before entering high school, so no surprise, I'm doing my homework 8 years late.. haha.

Re-reading The Hobbitt, or there and back again by Tolkien

Being entertained by Zecharia Sitchin's The Stairway to Heaven: Book Two of the Earth Chronicles

Just finished Fables: The Good Prince (issues 60-69 by Bill Willingham) and loved it. Prince Ambrose / The Frog Prince / Flycatcher finally fulfills his destiny after recalling the execution of his family. Willingham beautifully establishes him as a third party to the Fabletown - Adversary conflict. My waterworks activated after I had finished it (no crying, just the prelude to it).

If you enjoy fairy or folk tales, you would do well to give Fables a try.

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Also finished the first volume of Angel: After the Fall and enjoyed it (yay Lorne!). I would have liked more rendering of Los Angeles in its drawn-down-into-Hell state though.

I should be reading a book since I'm home alone, Saturday night and trying to find a way to amuse myself.

lol mileman....

Reading David Sedaris' new book....very funny.

Vincent Bugliosi's book The Prosecution of George W.Bush for Murder. He's the guy that put Manson away and also wrote 'Helter Skelter.'

Ya know: light summer reading!!

Reading three books at the same time. One in my bag for when I am walking around, one at home and one in my kitchen at work.(I'm a chef.)Also paging through recipe books everyday...Nigella lawson, Jamie Oliver,Ainsley Hariott,Gordon Ramsay,Garth stroebel...some of my favourites

Books I'm reading:
Ellen degeneres- The funny thing is.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez-Love in the time of cholera
Don Miguil Ruiz -The four agreements

The Life of Eleanor Rooselvelt
and
The Complete Works of Grimm's fairy tails....facinating because all that fantasy and imigery is based on real life stuff.

I am currently reading 'My Sister's Keeper' by Jodi Picoult.

"god is not Great"
How Religion Poisons Everything
by Christopher Hitchens

Currently reading the stuff I write...revision. Has to pretty perfect to make publication.

Bill's reading 'Russia' by Edward Rutherford

Totally multi-tasking ... or is it multi-reading? lol

re-reading:
Othello by Shakespeare
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind
Civilization One by Christopher Knight and Alan Butler

first time read:
Mao's Last Dance by Li Cunxin

VineyardHmo said"god is not Great"
How Religion Poisons Everything
by Christopher Hitchens

that sounds like an interesting book. I saw him on a "talking heads" show discussing that book and he made some very interesting, provocative points.
Let me know how it goes.

Liber Aleph by Alister Crowley- i highly recommend it

Miracle In The Andes by Nando Parrado

"Duel" a collection of short stories by Richard Matheson. He was so deliciously creepy.

flux33312 said

VineyardHmo said"god is not Great"
How Religion Poisons Everything
by Christopher Hitchens

that sounds like an interesting book. I saw him on a "talking heads" show discussing that book and he made some very interesting, provocative points.
Let me know how it goes.

Great book - read it earlier this year - recommend it.

It's the summer and I'm usually busy with ball, so I tend to go for the light stuff. I'm currently reading two books:


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flux wrote:
I know we are all busy and into fitness...but it is also good to nourish and "exercise" the mind too"

Mens sano in corpore sano, as the romans would say.

I just recently finished John Weir's long-awaited second book and Steve Neal's book about the 1932 Democratic convention -- the latter was fascinating. I'm now finishing Robert Reich's Reason and am about to start Candy Everyone Wants. (I always have two or three books that i'm reading, which one i read depends on my mood.)

NOW i'm reading "Life With Me Sister, Madonna" by Christopher Ciccone...

RunintheCity said

StripperRocco saidNOW i'm reading "Life With Me Sister, Madonna" by Christopher Ciccone...

You are NOT!

I sure am!!!!!! But i didnt pay full price for it.

Honestly, thus far, it's not nearly as scathing as it's being made out to be, and it's actually an entertaining read... much like Pamela Anderson's "Star". YES i read that! and LOVED IT!!!!

The Druidry Handbook by John michael Greer
On the History of Plants by Theophrastus (translated from ancient greek to latin to English)
Small Gods by Terry Pratchett.

I'm bad about reading more than one book at a time.

"I Love You Ronnie" Love letters by Ronald Reagan.

WOW! WOW! WOW! He was a great and profound letter writer.

The letters he wrote were amazing....not only to Nancy Reagan, but everyone he came in contact with, no matter how busy he was, he always took the time to sit down and pound out these incredible letters to friends and family!

This book is a great great READ!

Interesting about Ronald Reagan. Now I know what he was doing when he was President!

About to start "The Tin Star" by J.L. Langley, as I continue my exploration of gay literature.

I finished "Thinking Straight" by Robert Reardon. Actually quite good, one of the better books about gay teens I have read.

Will finish "Sottopassaggio" by Nick Alexander this week. His trilogy about the trials and tribulations of a gay man looking for love are quite funny, bittersweet and at times sad. I could relate to some of the main character's experiences from my single days.

A History of Russia by John Lawrence, and Maxim Gorky's Untimely Thoughts.

I am reading the timeless To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee. This ought to be required reading for everyone at least every couple of years.
Tom

life with my sister madonna. it is quite an interesting read.

The Art of Power by Robert Greene

Nova by Samuel R. Delaney

Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin, and it is totally breaking my heart.

'Cuz it's fun: Dark Inheritance by Michael Gear and Kathleen Gear O'Neil.

'Cuz it has a pretty cover: Joseph Campbell's The Inner Reaches of Outer Space: Metaphor as Myth and as Religion. Okay, so far I haven't made it past the pretty cover...my brain's in lazy summer mode.

I just got back from Barnes & Noble where I bought Nixonland.

I'm gonna read it if I have to squint my way through all kazillion pages. It's gotten great reviews.

Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman


The world of superheros will never be the same!

YOU ROCK DR IMPOSSIBLE!!!

Kushiel's Justice by Jacqueline Carey

Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson

yeah i read two books at once, Wanna fight about it?

I read two books at once too !!! not at this time though. Right now I'm reading an older historical novel about Pierre G T Beauregard, the Rebel General from Louisiana. Its titled Madame Castels Lodger, by Frances Parkinson Keyes

Del amor y otros demonios (Of Love and Other Demons?) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

The Fundamentals of the Physical Environment and hoping to re-read Catcher in the Rye (one of my high school book favorites).

Half-way done with it...already laughed out loud more than a few times.

Well, I'm on vacation, so that means I'm reading a lot. In the past week I finished One Hundred Years of Solitude and read The Cherry Orchard. Feeling sufficiently cultured for a while, I'm currently on the 7th book in Robert Asprin's MYTH series (having read the previous 6 in the past few days), which is basically light-hearted fantasy chock full of bad puns.

Two books right now..

1. the new Einstein biography by Walter Isaacson (i think that was the author's name) and..

2. The Portable Atheist by Christopher Hitchens

This week it's Rebecca Stott's "Ghostwalk" and
ISO 9001:2000 Explained <<---- shoot me now

But mostly this week I'm writing a bunch of crap that's ludicrously past deadline, pounding away at it until the error rate gets out of hand and I need a break.

Now would be a good time for that comet strike.

"Pillars of the Earth"

"1984"

I just finished 'The Hours" ( and now I need to see the movie!)


and if there is a book that i could recommend for the younger guys here-
'someday this pain will be useful to you'
that was an awesome fast read.

Re-reading parts of "Aviation Disasters" a book that describes the causes of all commercial airplane crashes of significance between 1950-99. It is amazing how many times in the past bombs have been used to blow planes out of the sky. As early as 1959 for US airliners. Makes me appreciate how much safer flying is today compared to the 1950's, 60's or 70's.

Trying to get through "Reservation Blues" by Sherman Alexie, but being a student and having a full time job means I have zilch time to read for pleasure...So for class, I'm making my way through

"City of Women" by Christine Stansell
"Soul by Soul: Life inside the Antebellum Slave Market" by Walter Johnson
"Death at the Haymarket" by James Green
and "The Lost Promise of Patriotism" by John Hansen

Harold Bloom's The Western Canon but it's sorta off and on.

Dorian Gray now...

I am deep into my annual reading of "Tales of the City" by Armistead Maupin... actually, am on book 4 at the moment, "Babycakes", and this year started with book 7...

If you want a good snapshot of my life as it was in the 70's and 80's these books are a must read. Even if you didn't grow up in San Francisco - you'll find them fun and nostalgic...

Rereading "How to Stop Worrying and Start Living" by Dale Carnegie.

hmm, right now I've got my nose buried in several different books...

"The Far Pavilions" by M.M. Kaye, a novel of the Indian Raj.

"King Leopold's Ghost", a book about the Congo Free State and the work of such people as E.D. Morel and Sir Roger Casement to uncover the genocide and slave/violence based economy that Leopold had established there

"Three Cups of Tea"-a books about a man who hiked into Pakistan in the Karakoram mountains in 1993...after promising to build a school there, he came back and established a whole series of schools.

"The Bookseller of Kabul"-a book about a bookseller who has operated a successful bookshop for 30 years in Kabul, despite the Taliban and other censorship campaigns.

I just finished the "His Dark Materials" trilogy, that was a good series. Kinda suprised people didn't boycott THAT series instead of Harry Potter.

The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder

meninlove said

Currently reading the stuff I write...revision. Has to pretty perfect to make publication.

Bill's reading 'Russia' by Edward Rutherford

Has he read London? I loved that book. Unforunaately that seems to be the only work of his that is in circulation in Mumbai.

This book was referred to me by a friend. It is AWESOME!

Anatomy of Human Destruction by Erich Fromm
Currents of Space by Isaac Asimov
Technopoly by Neil Postman

"Confessions of a Male Nurse" by Richard Ferri

and if you count trade paperbacks, then "The Injustice League"

Almost done with The Knight by Gene Wolfe. I have that masters'-degree-in-lit shame about reading fantasy and always feel the need to justify any mass-market paperbacks I'm making my way through...but fuck it, it's an awesome book. The writing is wonderful--Wolfe does a lot of really cool things with his narrators, they're either lying through their teeth or extremely naive or unreliable in some way.

My geeky friends and I are planning on doing an online group read of some Ponderous Doorstopper and are voting...The Brothers Karamazov and Don Quixote are neck-and-neck at the moment, and I'm really hoping Karamazov wins.

The Gum Thief by Douglas Coupland. And like 50 others in various states of completion.

Coping With Difficult People by Robert M. Bramson, Ph.D

I just read Sedaris' When You're Engulfed in Flames and Augusten Burroughs' A Wolf at the Table. Both good. The Burroughs was a lot darker than his others. Now I'm reading/rereading A Catcher in the Rye. I never finished it in school and feel like I should.

Also, because it's referenced in my show, I'm reading Peyton Place. Has anyone read that book? If so did you like it?

~Alex

The War of Art: Break through the blocks and win your inner creative battles by Steven Pressfield

I've been a little creatively blocked lately, I'm hoping this will light a fire.

Currently I am reading David McCulloughs book John Adams...GOOOD Stuff! I also suggest his book 1776! It is so a miracle that we are a country.

"When you are Engulfed in Flames".
My mom wanted the book for her birthday, which is August 18, so I'm reading it first before I send it to her.
SHHH....don't tell her.

I am on vacation (well working vacation anyway) so:

WHAT HAPPENED, by Scott McClellan
I AM AMERICA (AND SO CAN YOU!), by Stephen Colbert

on deck...

THE POST-AMERICAN WORLD, by Fareed Zakaria

Les Filles de Caleb

I read it in grade 10 french and loved it. So i decided to pick it up again this summer....still real good...its kinda like anne of green gables with sex...and its in french...but such a great story!

i'm reread "tales of the city" by armstead Maupin.

I love it, it's like a love letter to san francisco.

atlas shrugged by ayn rand, it's been good. lots of imagery and depth

"Breakfast With Scot" by Michael Downing, a great light summer read.

i'm reading Data, Models and Decisions by Bertsimas and Fruend... It's a fascinating read- real spellbinder- especially when you get to this one part about binomial distribution! Wow.. i'm breathing hard thinking about it.

cityguy39 said"Breakfast With Scot" by Michael Downing, a great light summer read.

I saw the movie and fell in love with the kid. how is the book?

I'm currently reading the analyst by john katzenbach but I'm stuck on page 384 because after that the next page is 417 and the following is just a mess. I'm going to return the book and hopefully get one with the ending.

After John Edwards' shocking revelation yesterday of his extramarital affair, I will be setting aside To Kill a Mockingbird in order to devote my full attention to Dan Ariely's book Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions. Maybe I'll be able to make some sense out of what's happening in the world- I certainly hope so anyway!
Tom

"Family Dancing" by David Leavitt

At the moment?

"Administering Windows Vista Security: The Big Surprises" by Mark Minasi

It's a small book, but really interesting! (It's also completely for my thesis)

"Twilight" by Stephanie Meyer

I know, it's sad that I'm reading a teen book but sometimes they seem to motivate me at times. Although the last book before that was "Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister" by Gregory Maguire.

Off the Deep End by W. Hodding Carter

The tale of a 45-year old guy trying to qualify for the Olympics Trails in swimming.

This book is a funny read -- in the vein of David Sedaris -- for non-swimmers and swimmers alike. The last two chapters get a bit technical for the non-swimmers but still readable.

The Other Side of Midnight by Sidney Sheldon

(P.S. I've always wondered... was Sidney Sheldon gay?)

i am reading great baseball book, "ball four" by jim bouton. it is a hilarious day by day account of happenings and annecdotes of a major leaguer on his way out of the game.

I just finished reading "The Catcher in the Rye" I've been meaning to for ages and spotted it in a friend's book case - really liked it... thought it funny that it's a frequently challenged book..

Just finished Seth Godin's The Dip.

Just started Robert Kiyosaki's Rich Dad's Guide to Investing

Starting and stopping Neil Gaiman's Coraline, the graphic novel adaptation by P. Craig Russell.

Then, occasionally, Blind Willow Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami.

arielanatole said

This book was referred to me by a friend. It is AWESOME!

Gawsh...is that a Bryan Hitch cover? Yum.

I'm reading two books right now, actually... I'm never totally satisfied with just one. The first is "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" and the second is "The Witch of Portobello".. Both are good- but in seemingly different ways.

I'm now reading Gray's anatomy and Quiroz's anatomy as well.

Reaper's Gate, Book Seven of the Malazan Book of the Fallen.

This dude knows how to write!

When Satan wore a cross, by Fred Rosen.

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Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand; hmmm

Uprising: crips and bloods tell the story of america's youth in the crossfire (yusuf jah & sister shay'keyah)

The family: the bush dynasty (kitty kelley)

The Host by Stephenie Meyer

The Master Key System by Charles Haanel.

Metaphysics always a great interest to me.

I'm reading too many books at the moment.

Mary Mary by James Patterson
New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
Marley and Me by John Grogan
Step on a Crack by James Patterson

I'm a dork.

advanced micro-biology

Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters
by Donald R. Prothero

It's fantastic and blows creationism out of the water even better than the God Delusion!

I would Definitely recommend it

Does being propped up in bed, reading flyers count?

I need to know what's on sale at Wal mart, Canadian tire and Home Depot.

'Magical Thinking' true stories by Augusten Burroughs...fucking hilarious! Wanting to read 'Running With Scissors' next...saw the movie and loved it!

Muscle Boys; Gay Gym Culture, Erick Alvarez
Peek; Inside the Private world of Public Sex, Joseph Couture
Making Money, Terry Pratchett
Hells Gate, David Webber
The Rogue Angel series
The Alchemist
Collected Poems of Rumi
Girl Genius V7: Agatha Heterodyne and the Voice of the Castle

For those of you that liked "Soon I will be Invincible" track down "From the Notebooks of Dr Brain" by Minister Faust, and "Hero" by Perry Moore (that ones in the young adult section). But especially the Notebooks.
And I love the Mercedes Lackey novels. The Last Herald Mage is still one of my favourite series.

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

B71115 saidThe Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

I have a friend who is reading that; she says it's really compelling.

I'm reading Kindred by Octavia Butler.

I finished two books yesterday..

One was House Thinking: a Room-by-room look at how we live by Winnifred Gallagher

And the other was The Dragon Healer of Tone by A.D. Adams

Angels and Demons by Dan Brown and I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell by TUCKER MAX

I'm actually looking for a good one to read, I might check out some of the ones that have been listed. Last book I read was, The Secret. It was pretty good, you should all read it.

Cien anos de soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Finished Reaper's Gate by Stephen Erickson a few days ago. It was goood.

The Chosen by Ricardo Pinto. Good fantasy novel.

Swan Song by Robert McCammon

World War Z by Max Brooks

and,

Fitness For Dummies 3rd edition

Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wieson Cook

and

Chinese Astology by Bettina Luxon