Official Book Thread - What You're Reading & Everything Book Related (merged)

[YankeeVol]

I've read most of his books. I like them

 

[VOLatile]

Inferno

It's so good, especially if you've read Dante's Divine Comedy, or even just Inferno.

 

[YankeeVol]

It's so good, especially if you've read Dante's Divine Comedy, or even just Inferno.

I want to read the Divine Comedy after reading Inferno

 

[VOLatile]

I'm currently reading Good Omens by Neil Gaiman. I finished Inferno a couple of months ago, before that was The Hunger Games series that I just breezed through. I started the Prose Edda, but found it entirely too difficult for me to read. Something about Norse poetry written in 1200AD Iceland doesn't make for a great modern day read.

 

[n_huffhines]

Currently Reading:
Xenocide - Orson Scott Card (Book 3 in Ender's Game)
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

The Books I read in 2013:
Declaration of Independents - Gillespie & Welch
Speaker for the Dead - Orson Scott Card
Economic Science and the Austrian Method - Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Dream Team - Jack Mackullum
America Again: Becoming the Greatness We Never Were - Stephen Colbert
Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger (I think I'm the only person who didn't read in HS)
Watership Down - Richard Adams
The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Presidents - Steven F. Hayward
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns - Frank Miller
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
V for Vendetta - Alan Moore
Leopold & Loeb: The Crime of the Century - Hal Higdon
In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks - Adam Carrola
Bossy Pants - Tina Fey
A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking
Not Taco Bell Material - Adam Carrola
One Nation Under Arrest - Rosenzweig & Walsh
Politically Incorrect Guide to English Literature - Elizabeth Kantor
Start Something that Matters - Blake Mycoskie
Welcome to Free America - David Barker

I would recommend most any of them to wide audiences.

 

[VOLatile]

I want to read the Divine Comedy after reading Inferno

It's a good, challenging read. It's one of my favorite stories of all time.

 

[n_huffhines]

We were discussing Freakonomics in a random thread... Really wanting to read it. It was a summer reading assignment for an incoming freshman class the year before mine after i graduated high school.

Just started The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver a couple nights ago. Haven't been able to fully dive in yet.

Freakonomics is great. So is Super Freakonomics.

 

[005]

One Nation Under Arrest. That's now on the list.

 

[005]

Freakonomics is great. So is Super Freakonomics.

I may have to do those when I finish Silver's. I've listened to their archived podcasts a lot recently.

 

[YankeeVol]

I'm currently reading The Liberator(Military History WWII)

Another good military history read is Foot Soldier

 

[005]

I have never been big into history or military history so I dunno if this book is gimmicky but it seemed interesting when i was roaming around the bookstore the other day looking for a christmas gift

George Washington's Secret Six: The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution: Brian Kilmeade, Don Yaeger: 9781595231031: Amazon.com: Books

 

[YankeeVol]

I would major in history. But I want a job

 

[005]

hey ya could teach history

 

[Burger]

Freakonomics is great. So is Super Freakonomics.

Yes they are. I would recommend to anyone to get their interests in economics.

 

[Burger]

Currently Reading:
Xenocide - Orson Scott Card (Book 3 in Ender's Game)
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

The Books I read in 2013:
Declaration of Independents - Gillespie & Welch
Speaker for the Dead - Orson Scott Card
Economic Science and the Austrian Method - Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Dream Team - Jack Mackullum
America Again: Becoming the Greatness We Never Were - Stephen Colbert
Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger (I think I'm the only person who didn't read in HS)
Watership Down - Richard Adams
The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Presidents - Steven F. Hayward
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns - Frank Miller
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
V for Vendetta - Alan Moore
Leopold & Loeb: The Crime of the Century - Hal Higdon
In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks - Adam Carrola
Bossy Pants - Tina Fey
A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking
Not Taco Bell Material - Adam Carrola
One Nation Under Arrest - Rosenzweig & Walsh
Politically Incorrect Guide to English Literature - Elizabeth Kantor
Start Something that Matters - Blake Mycoskie
Welcome to Free America - David Barker

I would recommend most any of them to wide audiences.

Catcher in the rye was a great book to read. I'll read some of those on your list.

 

[YankeeVol]

hey ya could teach history

I'm not looking for one low paying job to another

 

[Burger]

I'm not looking for one low paying job to another

Teach economics. It's the history of money.

 

[YankeeVol]

Maybe you're not understanding. I DONT WANT TO TEACH

 

[005]

so you're sayin there's a chance you want to teach?

 

[Chris4Vols22]

Genesis of a Music by Harry Partch.

Ridiculously boring first half...

 

[005]

I finished Deer Hunting with Jesus a few weeks ago and enjoyed. Interesting approach/perspective. Had the finals grind, and now get to read for more leisure purposes over break.

 

[YankeeVol]

so you're sayin there's a chance you want to teach?

Lulz. I want to be a Game Warden or Park Ranger

 

[005]

re: Noch mentioning flaws in freakonomics...

i think that is part of the reason i haven't read it. not that i know the flaws, but there was a ton of buzz and then a little bit of backlash so i never picked it up.

 

[PKT_VOL]

Last Book:The Open Society and Its Enemies (Vol. I and II) By Karl Popper

Currently Reading: Common Sense, Rights of Man, and Other Essential Writings of Thomas Paine By Thomas Paine

 

[Burger]

Last Book: One Up on Wall Street by Peter Lynch

Now reading : An Inquiry into the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith