The Book Thread

[Toe Jam]

I turned off the TV recently and have found myself reading a lot of books. Fiction, nonfiction, you name it. I thought this would be a good thread for people to find new things to read.

Post books you've read recently that you would recommend to others and books you're currently reading that you think are worth a look as well.

In the category of nonfiction, I'm currently reading "Obama's Wars" by Bob Woodward. Pretty good so far. I finished "Tears of a Clown: Glenn Beck and the Tea Bagging of America" last week and I definitely recommend that one. George Bush's "Decision Points" is the next nonfiction book I'll be devouring.

As for Fiction, Lee Child's "61 Hours" and "Worth Dying For" were awesome and "The Burning Wire" by Jeffery Deaver is now one of my favorite books.

[generaltso]

http://www.amazon.com/Power-One-Nove.../dp/034541005X

"The Power of One"

amazing book.

[FanboyOf91]

the Pendergast books by Preston and Child. The protagonist becomes a Mary-Sue as it progresses, but they're still fun to read.

[Tulane Skins Fan]

I'm in the middle of the Millenium Trilogy (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, etc.), and the first book was really good. The second one is getting really good about a quarter of the way into it. I'd recommend the first at this point, at least.

[Duckus]

I'm in the middle of the Millenium Trilogy (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, etc.), and the first book was really good. The second one is getting really good about a quarter of the way into it. I'd recommend the first at this point, at least.

Best books I have read in 4-5 years. I got so into them I ordered the 2nd and 3rd from Europe, 1+ year before they came out here. Could not wait. I see people reading the 1st one all the time now and I usually tell them "once you finish that, you will read the next two in a week."

The 3 book is my favorite. 3rd, then 2nd, then the 1st.

Also, I have seen the first 2 Swedish movies, not bad, but not great.

Excited to see what Hollywood does with it. They are going to bring in huge box office numbers. The casting for the movie was crazy - every big name director and action was fighting to get involved with it.

[DRSmith]

I'm in the middle of the Millenium Trilogy (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, etc.), and the first book was really good. The second one is getting really good about a quarter of the way into it. I'd recommend the first at this point, at least.

REad all three thought they were good and am hoping someone will pick up the series after the fighting over the money gets done

[ixcuincle]

Reading The Man Who Ate Everything

[WesB]

"The Lords of Discipline" - Pat Conroy (Maybe my #1 book of all time)
"The Gates of Fire" - Steven Pressfield (best book about the Spartans at Thermypolea (sp?) )

Anything by Ken Follett esp. "The Eye of the Needle" and "The Pillars of the Earth".

Military History-

"Flags of Our Fathers" - James Bradley
"Lone Survivor" - Marcus Latrell
Any 101st Airborne in WWII books by Mark Bando
"With the Old Breed at Peliliu and Okinawa" by Eugene Sledge (my favorite Soldier/Marine/etc. Memoir ever)

[terrifNick21]

http://tinyurl.com/27uuogx

[Kilmer17]

Manhunt- Story of the chase for John Wilkes Booth. Awesome.

Im also reading "Little Girls can be mean". And unfrtnately, the more books I read about raising daughters, the more scared I get

[Toe Jam]

Manhunt- Story of the chase for John Wilkes Booth. Awesome.

That sounds like something I'd be interested in.

Who's the author?

[Duckus]

Right now I am just reading a couple of David Sedaris books I have never gotten around to reading. They are the perfect commuter books. Hilarious little 10 page stories.

[CoolUsernameHere]

Right now I am just reading a couple of David Sedaris books I have never gotten around to reading. They are the perfect commuter books. Hilarious little 10 page stories.

My Intro to Creative Writing professor loves Sedaris. She had us read one of his stories for class. It was pretty good. Does he have a collection of his short fiction available?

[Duckus]

My Intro to Creative Writing professor loves Sedaris. She had us read one of his stories for class. It was pretty good. Does he have a collection of his short fiction available?

He has 8 books - all I think were best sellers at some point. Right now I am reading Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim.

Holidays on Ice is probably my favorite.

Barrel Fever (1994)
Naked (1997)
Holidays on Ice (1997)
Me Talk Pretty One Day (2000)
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (2004)
Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules (editor, 2005)
When You Are Engulfed in Flames (2008)
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary (2010)

[Kilmer17]

That sounds like something I'd be interested in.

Who's the author?

James Swanson. all sorts of things I didnt know occurred. The plot was to kill Lincoln AND his Sec State AND the VP.