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critical_phil
5/8/2006, 02:14 PM
What Are You Reading Right Now?

just finished brokaw's the greatest generation and have a few pages left of crichton's prey.

any suggestions?


help me out or i will read another robert ludlum book. i'm not kidding.....
Jimminy Crimson
5/8/2006, 02:22 PM
Just finished Chew On This, the follow up to Fast Food Nation, and Team of Rivals : The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln.

I highly suggest the latter. Also the former, if you're into the Super-Size Me type stuff.

Need to get some new reading materials.
GDC
5/8/2006, 02:42 PM
The Brotherhoods : Inside the Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs

Out in Bad Standings: Inside the Bandidos Motorcycle Club--The Making of a Worldwide Dynasty

Angels of Death : Inside the Biker Gangs' Crime Empire
TopDaugIn2000
5/8/2006, 02:43 PM
just started the "shopaholic" series.
Osce0la
5/8/2006, 02:44 PM
The South Oval :O
Scott D
5/8/2006, 02:47 PM
Storm of Swords by George RR Martin...almost done with it however, so next on the list is 'The Rise of The Celts'.
crawfish
5/8/2006, 02:53 PM
"A Scanner Darkly" by Philip K. Dick.

Weird, disturbing book.
Osce0la
5/8/2006, 02:55 PM
"A Scanner Darkly" by Philip K. Dick.

Weird, disturbing book.
It was written by a guy named Phil Dick...What did you expect? ;)
crawfish
5/8/2006, 02:58 PM
It was written by a guy named Phil Dick...What did you expect? ;)

I've read enough of his stuff to know he's really whacked. :)

But scary at how much his vision from back in the 60's and 70's seems to accurately depict current reality.
hurricane'bone
5/8/2006, 02:59 PM
Now I Can Die In Peace

Baseball Between The Numbers: Why Everything You Know About The Game Is Wrong

American Gospel
toast
5/8/2006, 03:01 PM
Leadership by Rudy Giuliani

7 Habits of Highly Effective Families by Covey
Petro-Sooner
5/8/2006, 03:01 PM
Just finished Friday Night Lights. Looking to start T. Boone Pickens book. Only cause hes into oil. :cool:
Beef
5/8/2006, 03:12 PM
Bobby Fischer Goes to War - David Edmonds, John Eidenow

The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia - Richard Overy
TUSooner
5/8/2006, 03:13 PM
Peter the Great by Robert K. Massie. It's one of his oldies (1980). Ol Pete was pretty interesting. but the older he gets, the less I like him, or Russia.
BoomerJack
5/8/2006, 04:17 PM
Just read, "Kill the Indian, Save the Man: The Genocidal Impact of American Indian Residential Schools" by Ward Churchill.

Re-reading, "The Body" by Richard Ben Sapir. An Israeli archeologist discovers a tomb outside the old city of Jerusalem. In the tomb, hidden by a false wall, is a skeleton with a clay disk on its rib cage on which is inscribed, "King of the Jews." It was published in 1983 and has a cold-war espionage flavor to it.

Next up, "On the Justice of Roosting Chickens: Reflections on the Consequences of U.S. Imperial Arrogance and Criminality" also by Ward Churchill.
Howzit
5/8/2006, 04:20 PM
Evolution - Stephen Baxter
royalfan5
5/8/2006, 04:24 PM
Volume 1 of Shelby Foote's Civil War trilogy
A Corporate History of Boeing
The United States Grains Council Value Enhanced Grains Export Manual
toast
5/8/2006, 04:33 PM
The United States Grains Council Value Enhanced Grains Export Manual


Does that come in paperback? ;)
Beano's Fourth Chin
5/8/2006, 04:38 PM
Evolution - Stephen Baxter

I never got around to reading that one, but I read a handful of his other stuff about a year ago. The sequel to the time machine was fun.

I always have about a dozen books going at the same time:

Institutes - John Calvin (part of a class)
Future Men - Douglas Wilson
Purple Cow - Seth Godin
The Art of Project Management - Scott Berkun
Maltese Falcon -Dashiell Hammett
Voyage of the Dawn Treader - CS Lewis
Matilda - Roald Dahl
From Modernism to Postmodernism - Cahoone (I will probably never finish this one)
Bad Habits - Dave Barry

There's a couple on the nightstand too, that I can't remember at this moment.

Of these, some are re-reads. I won't finish some of them too because I'll lose interest because I have too many going at once.
royalfan5
5/8/2006, 04:42 PM
Does that come in paperback? ;)
Yes.
sanantoniosooner
5/8/2006, 04:46 PM
Just read, "Kill the Indian, Save the Man: The Genocidal Impact of American Indian Residential Schools" by Ward Churchill.
Pratt was some fella wasn't he.
StoopTroup
5/8/2006, 04:50 PM
The hOUse of Seven (Gables) Championships - Nathanial Hawthorne
picasso
5/8/2006, 04:51 PM
I'm reading the Devito Code.
StoopTroup
5/8/2006, 04:52 PM
http://buffalobeast.com/65/ggdveito.gif
picasso
5/8/2006, 04:56 PM
http://buffalobeast.com/65/ggdveito.gif
hehe and I thought I was being original.

the story has to do something about how a midget ran around with Jimmy Hoffa. right?
StoopTroup
5/8/2006, 04:58 PM
hehe and I thought I was being original.

the story has to do something about how a midget ran around with Jimmy Hoffa. right?
Heh.


A new and baffling sequel to the much-lauded Da Vinci Code, involving a murder mystery in Hollywood which leads to the pointlessly protracted revelation of a secret code interspersed throughout the body of work of actor/director Danny Devito. Action picks up when Rhea Perlman is found to be in cahoots with Joe Pesci, another short Italian actor, and culminates when the protagonist finds the elusive key in the dress-up montage scene in Twins.
TMcGee86
5/8/2006, 05:08 PM
Sea of Bones - Ron Faust

just finished his first book, "Dead Men Rise Up Never"

for anyone that is a fan of South Florida murder/suspense novels, this appears to be a good series to add to the collection.
Tailwind
5/8/2006, 05:15 PM
Wolf in the Shadows - Marcia Muller
Ghost King - David Gemmell
Ten Big Ones - Janet Evanovitch
TUSooner
5/8/2006, 07:25 PM
Maltese Falcon -Dashiell Hammett

I really liked The Tequila Mockingbird.
Oh wait, that was a Get Smart episode. :O
slickdawg
5/8/2006, 07:58 PM
The South Oval :O

Hey, me too!!
GottaHavePride
5/8/2006, 08:02 PM
Storm of Swords by George RR Martin...almost done with it however, so next on the list is 'The Rise of The Celts'.

Storm of S-words?

http://x4.putfile.com/5/13400253246.jpg

I'll take "The Penis Mightier".
Beano's Fourth Chin
5/9/2006, 12:05 PM
Add that other DaVinci Code thread to the list of stuff I'll probably never finish reading.

I am not kidding when I say that I'm impressed with their endurance.
usmc-sooner
5/9/2006, 12:23 PM
State of Fear-Micheal Crichton
Ike
5/9/2006, 12:39 PM
For Xmas, one of my relatives gave me "The Universal History of Numbers." I started in on that last week. I don't think I'm going to ever finish it.
Mjcpr
5/9/2006, 12:40 PM
For Xmas, one of my relatives gave me "The Universal History of Numbers." I started in on that last week. I don't think I'm going to ever finish it.

Lord, you must be the boringest person on earth to shop for.

:D
Ike
5/9/2006, 12:57 PM
Lord, you must be the boringest person on earth to shop for.

:D


heh. I'm really not. The problem is that all my relatives think I am...
critical_phil
5/9/2006, 02:50 PM
State of Fear-Micheal Crichton

you shoulda pm'd me.........

http://www.soonerfans.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1193575&postcount=35
usmc-sooner
5/9/2006, 02:55 PM
you shoulda pm'd me.........

http://www.soonerfans.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1193575&postcount=35


I didn't see that or I probably would've. I'm a little over half way through it and I think it's pretty good. Now I don't know all the facts on global warming but I've heard a lot of scientist say the same thing that there really isn't any proof that it is happening. I don't believe in global warming anyways.