What are you reading?

Right now? This post.

Wine Snobbery, picked up a new copy on Amazon Marketplace for like 4 bucks. Amazing book, it should be re-released now that wine has taken off in the US.

Just finished To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee. Thanks to GA for the recommendation.

"Did you in anyway harm Miss Maella Ewell?"...."I did not Sir"

One of the greatest.

SIP SIP HOOREY

I am re-reading Lone Wolf and Cub, an epic manga series by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima. It is unbelievably good.

As for novels, I just finished "Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures" by Vincent Lam. He recently won the Giller Prize and I wanted to see what the hoopla was about. I must say, I enjoyed it.

Currently reading Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson. How this book ever got by me before is beyond me. Guterson is a great writer.

Of course, I'll have to check out the movie now when I'm done with the book and see how bad it sucks in comparison.

I'm being a bit of a book slut and dividing my time between "Suite Francaise" by Irene Nemirovsky and "College Girls: Bluestockings, Sex Kittens, and Coeds, Then and Now" by Lynn Peril.

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Originally posted by Board-O:
Just finished To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee. Thanks to GA for the recommendation.

You actually made it through school without reading this? I'm surprised.

Just finished Brothers, by Da Chen. Moving on to The Tender Bar, by J.R. Moehringer.

PH

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I'm reading John Adams by David McCullough

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Originally posted by Board-O:
Just finished To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee. Thanks to GA for the recommendation.

What a GREAT book.

Like a wonderful work of art, I pick up something different everytime I read.

w+a

Sorry, Board-O! I just checked. The book was published in 1957. You were probably drilling teeth already!

PH

Did you know what a "shiffaroe" was until you read the book? Tom Robinson did.

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Wine Enthusiast

The Conservative Mind by Russell Kirk. A very challenging, scholarly work. I think I need to read and reread some prerequisite books before really delving into it.

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Originally posted by RobM:
Currently reading Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson. How this book ever got by me before is beyond me. Guterson is a great writer.

Of course, I'll have to check out the movie now when I'm done with the book and see how bad it sucks in comparison.

The book and the movie are naturally a lot different. Both are good, and is worth picking up if you see it in the $5 bin at Wal-Mart. Seeing as I am married to a Korean woman, there were some themes in the novel that hit close to home. Then again, being married to a Korean woman, there was a lot of character development that I felt apathetic towards.

No less, it is a great narrative of a very dark portion of our history.

I'm hooked on "Guns, Germs, and Steel" by Jared Diamond. I'll give him credit at least for being as ambitious to explain human development in its completeness. Great perspective on how we came to be who we are as a [global] society. A welcoming change from all the PC-Ivory Tower theories that abound.

The Common Law O W Holmes

Just read Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer for the first time. Not PC by today's standards, but man, I laughed out loud at least a dozen times.

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Originally posted by nopat:

I'm hooked on "Guns, Germs, and Steel" by Jared Diamond. I'll give him credit at least for being as ambitious to explain human development in its completeness. Great perspective on how we came to be who we are as a [global] society. A welcoming change from all the PC-Ivory Tower theories that abound.

Really enjoyed that a couple of years ago. Thought-provoking. Gave me a lot of insight as to how Europe achieved its dominance.

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Originally posted by cdr11:
The Conservative Mind by Russell Kirk. A very challenging, scholarly work. I think I need to read and reread some prerequisite books before really delving into it.

Highly recommended.

PH

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Originally posted by PurpleHaze:

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Originally posted by cdr11:
The Conservative Mind by Russell Kirk. A very challenging, scholarly work. I think I need to read and reread some prerequisite books before really delving into it.

Highly recommended.

PH

Frighteningly, it actually brings back a clear memory to me from my very-distant past.

I'm just finishing "The Hedonist in the Cellar".

A whole bunch of books lately.....

Hannibal Rising - Thomas Harris
Roadshow - Neil Peart (drummer of Rush)
An Illustrated History of Guitars - Nick Freeth
Ultramarathon Man - Dean Karnazes
An Inconvenient Truth - Al Gore

The Wine Bible by Karen MacNeil

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Originally posted by Hunter:

I'm reading John Adams by David McCullough

Excellent Book!!! Should be a must read for all people, especially those living in my neck of the woods)

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Originally posted by Baird:

Hannibal Rising - Thomas Harris

Baird - how was this? I saw it the other day and was thinking about buying it.

I am currently reading Peter the Great by Massie. Anyone interested in Russian history should check out his books. They are great

zblang,

I'm tempted to read John Adams. For a historian, McCullough's books are very readable, and although his subject matter has already obviously occured, his books actually build a type of suspense. I loved 1776.

I'm going to take your recommendation.

The Good German

Just finished - The Three Arched Bridge - Ismail Kadare

Just starting - Against the Day - Thomas Pynchon

"Secret Germany" - Baigent/Leigh. Stauffenberg's (failed) assassination attempt on Hitler's life and much more.

Will read "Conservative Mind" soon, it's on my list.

Just finished Straight Man by Richard Russo and started The Sea by John Banville.

just finished a life uncorked by hugh johnson and started reading fast food nation. i am using it as motivation to stay away from fast food joints.

The Kite Runner

Read Consent to Kill by Vince Flynn this week on the plane to and from Chile.

The Kite Runner was a great book.

Much better than the one I've got my nose in: Constitutional Law Of Canada, 8th Edition. I mean, talk about dry! The plot's going nowhere, this "jurisdiction" character is all over the map, and frankly, the whole "based on a true story" hook is not nearly enough to keep one interested.

winespectator

and anything by Robert K.G. Temple

The Sword of Lincoln (Jeffry D. Wert)

I am about a half through it. It is kinda slow moving but not bad.

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Originally posted by zblang:

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Originally posted by Baird:

Hannibal Rising - Thomas Harris

Baird - how was this? I saw it the other day and was thinking about buying it.

I am currently reading Peter the Great by Massie. Anyone interested in Russian history should check out his books. They are great

"The Accidental Connoisseur: An Irreverant Journey Through the Wine World" by Lawrence Osborne

and just got done reading

"Lunar Park" by Brett Easton Ellis

Spy: The Funny Years