Read Harry Potter in two days, and then finished up Talent is Overrated by Geoff Colvin
Mastering Your Hidden Self - Serg King
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The Rogue Warrior’s Strategy for Success: A Commando’s Principles of Winning - Richard Marcinko
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Seeing as I am a librarian, this is not a fair question, at all…since I am a voracious reader, I tend to stick to the books I order for my particular area of the library. That way, if I am reading and slacking off on say, the housework, I am “working,” right? Since I also do workshops on book selection for other librarians, I put together an annotated bibliography of a hundred titles or so twice a year. I generally organize the lists by using the theory of radical change–changing forms and formats, changing perspective, and changing boundaries. I also review books for a couple publications in my field so I often get ARCs or galleys. To add to the fun, I commute about two and a half hours a day, so I listen to books on CD.
So far this week I have read Stolen Car by Patrick Jones, Handcuffs by Bethany Griffin, The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness, Weedflower by Kadohata, Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen, THe Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, and something else I can’t remember. Oh yes, The Secret Speech by Tom Robb Smith. Sequel to Child 44. Which I thought was a lot better. Oh yes, and Impossible by Nancy Werlin.
I’ve been (re)-reading the Bigger Faster Stronger program book…always has good stuff in it that I missed before.
LeMay: The Life and Wars of General Curtis LeMay by Warren Kozak
Havana Nocturne to follow…
Chuck Palahniuk’s Rant.
I lost my second copy of a Clockwork Orange. I need to finish it.
Endocrine Physiology 3rd Ed.
Summer Class ftw.
[quote]polo77j wrote:
Notes from Underground and The Dumbest Generation[/quote]
Notes from Underground is awesome, and was actually a pretty funny book. I read it in school, but actually reread it on my own a month later because it was so good.
Right now I’m reading Fear and Trembling. Taking me a while to get through, but liking it alot.
I just got Blink (and the other two Malcolm Gladwell books) from the library. Going to hit it up later this week.
Right now:
The Long Tail- by Chris Anderson
About how the internet is changing the culture from one of massive hits to a culture and economy of niches. But really it’s just a giant book about how awesome Amazon.com and Google are. He’s a good writer, but the concepts could have fit into a 20 page pamphlet and it would be less tedious to read.
The Rest is Noise- by Alex Ross
A history of 20th century music. Not dry like normal music history texts, and overall pretty good in its coverage. Very fair. Ross He uses the work “bourgeois” too much.
And reading some random star wars novel.
Just came of a massive non-fiction binge where i read:
Guns, Germs and Steel - Jared Diamond
Six Easy Pieces - Richard Feynman
The Richest Man in Babylon - George Clayson
The last one is a great little book on personal finance that i think everyone of my generation (gen y) should read. Now i’m trying to tackle some “classic” fiction. I just started The Outsider by Albert Camus. Only about 20 pages in so its a bit early to give an assessment yet 
Kudos for starting this thread. I’ve been meaning to start up a books thread in complement to the movies thread lately.
I’m reading the Two Towers. I was a voracious reader especially of fantasy as a kid but somehow missed all the Tolkien books until the movies came out. I so far prefer the Hobbit to the Lord of the Ring books and feel it should have been made as a movie first, but maybe it will market better as a later-made prequel.
I’m also reading a book called “The Excellent Wife” and going through the study guide with my husband who is reading its counterpart “The Exemplary Husband.”
I was also in the middle of a Dick Francis mystery but I lost it in the move.
I am reading 48 days to the work you love by Dan Miller.
I hate my job and am looking for a big time change. So I thought I would seek out anything that could give me a little guidance.
I just started Godel, Escher, Bach. I have no comments/opinions yet since I’m just 25 pages in.
I need some fiction to balance this and am thinking of either starting the Hitchhiker series or the Ender series. Not sure which to choose.
I’m still grinding though Atlas Shrugged. I love it, but holy hell it’s a long book.
Oh yeah, and I’m also reading Essentials of Strength Training and Conditioning and Essentials of Personal Training. Hopefully I can net my NSCA-CPT soon and have myself set up to get my CSCS right when I graduate college.
damn, chrysalis, props on reading a ton.
underworld by don delillo
tao of jeet kune do by bruce lee
just finished Harlot’s Ghost by norman mailer and The Quiet American by graham greene. I highly recommend both.
Tom Clancy’s, Rainbow Six. It’s going pretty good so far.
Angels and Demons (again).
The Art of War (again).
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (again).
Not a lot of new books I find good. Maybe I’ll pick up The Selfish Gene again one of these days, then follow it up with The God Delusion (would recommend to anyone with a triple digit IQ).