What are you currently reading?

[ikidrevenge]

I'm currently reading World War Z

[faulttt]

Well, im not currently reading a book, but i have a good reccomendation

Richard Zacks Pirate Hunter: The True Story Of Captain Kidd
The hardest book ive ever read (around 600 pages, very little spaces between lines, and EXTREMELY DIFFICULT WORDS- and my real life grammar & reading is better than most), and the best book ive ever read, i reccomend it ;D

The Full Book On Google
books.google.com/books?id=f_cfLLRUXzUC&dq=Richard+Zacks+pirate+hunter:+the+true+story+of+captain+kidd&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=F_Sfm5Bych&sig=fw_pgMAGA4Vxb8HAzAPvE4kgF9o&hl=en&ei=KF3xSZSpBIbIyQWm-8m2DA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2#PPP1,M1
Info About The Book
www.echonyc.com/~rzacks/kidd/kidd.htm

[Oreo]

Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber. It's about a lady who has 16 multiple personalities. I'm about halfway through it and it's very very interesting. My Psychology teacher told us about it and gave it a nice little review in class. Definitely worth reading.

[mypallyowndu]

Derek Parfit - Reasons and Persons: This is a pretty important work on contemporary moral theory so I decided to pick it up. It's been fascinating so far but the progress is slow given the demanding nature of the work.

Michael Sandel - Democracy's Discontent: I think I might have mentioned this one in another thread. In any case, Sandel is a political philosopher at Harvard (or maybe it's Princeton --- whatever it's some institution I'll never set foot in) who provides a very convincing critique of liberalism from the left. Instead, he advocates a return to "localism" --- local institutions of power, e.g. churches, schools, governments, community boards, etc. This was actually part of Bobby Kennedy's agenda, which represented a real break with liberalism to that point. I mean, it's really a very conservative impulse but one that was co-opted by Kennedy (and now Sandel) to push through traditional liberal goals. Interesting stuff.

Rick Perlstein - Nixonland: I've just started this so I don't have a ton to say. Basically, Perlstein's thesis is that the contemporary political alignment of Democrats and Republicans began with Nixon's victorious presidential campaign. He intentionally race-baited and appealed to white Southerners' sympathies for the eroding apartheid that had been in place for so long. Good stuff.

Since this is a thread about books and because I still have plenty of characters left in this post, here's a link to Norman Mailer's 10 favorite American novels.

papercuts.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/22/mailers-list/

[Wednesday_R]

I finished up Anne Rice's Merrick and Blackwood Farm not too long ago...
I picked up my own copy of Memoirs of a Geisha after reading a few pages into a friend's, I'll be starting that soon.

[leedaklutz]

sookie stackhouse series and wicked

[Xalgar]

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

Really depressing book and intelligently written, this book is about meat packing industries in the 1910's. A teacher of mine recommended it to me since I like messed up/sad stories, definitely fills my cup of tea with all the gang green, people dying in the snow, people loosing fingers, people slipping into boiling oil and surviving.

[digitalis]

North&South by Elizabeth Gaskell
This story is seen through the "eyes" of Margaret Hale.
Margaret Hale is brought up in a middle class background, her father a vicar and her mother a high society London belle. They
were living in the beautiful setting of Helstone in the South of
England and after Mr.Hale has a religious crises they move to the dirty, smelly town of Milton in the North ( actually based upon the City of Manchester). Margaret learns to live a different life in having to do housework and cope with the fact that the whole town was talking about her fathers lack of faith. Mr. Thornton a mill owner becomes one of her father's pupils, a man who was once knee deep in poverty to a man of substance. At first Margaret has no feelings for John Thornton, who in turn falls
deeply in love with her. He asks her to marry him and she rejects
out of indifference. The subtle undertones of passion between them and Margaret's willfulness in wanting to help the poor workers of the mills make the two clash in opposite directions.

Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
Another Victorian based novel and her very last one wrote in 1866
This story explores the human nature between father, daughter, step- mother and step- daughter.
Her father a widower for a very long time sends his daughter Molly away, while he sets out to find a new wife. After her father re-marrys to a vain and spiteful woman, she has to share her home with a new sister Cynthia a sophisticated and beautiful girl who attracts men like honey to bees. Molly finds herself having to suppress her love for Roger Hamley, who proposes to Cynthia before he goes away on his Darwinist expedition to Africa and being the go-between for Cynthia and her real lover.

Kushiel's Chosen by Jacqueline Carey

This is the second book in the trilogy
A historical fantasy novel set in a land of unsurpassed beauty and grace. The heroine of the story Phedre no Delaunay is a lady specially trained in the "courtly arts" and is also a spy for the royal house of Terre D'Ange. Phedre an anguissette, Kushiel's Chosen, one who is destined to find pleasure in pain sets out to save her homeland again from those who wish to inflict their
schemes of power and revenge.
(I would love to have the tattoo on the front cover of the book)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kushiel's_Chosen - you may have to copy and paste this link
;D XoXoXoX

[Raccoonboi]

Montana 1948

Fences

The Catcher and the Rye

[slytman]

Right now i'm reading Different Seasons by Stephen King.

[geminidragon]

Currently, I am re-reading Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemmingway.

[sanguinemybrother]

Twilight.

I wanted to see what the fuss was about.

its surprisingly not as shit as I thought it'd be.

[pspawn]

I'm multitasking a few:

Dexter In The Dark (skyliner, Michael C. Hall was the sole reason I picked up the first book. No regrets.) by Jeff Lindsay

Zombie World War Z by Max Brooks

Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

Vellum: The Book of All Hours by Hal Duncan (isn't very good)

and hoping to start on

Clapton
Mister B. Gone by Clive Barker
Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis
and A Prison Diary by FF 8282.

Now that I step back and look at it, my head hurts.

[beersofwar]

just started on the mass effect books, which are surprisingly decent so far

also just ordered ender's game off amazon. figured i would pick it up since darknezz has been gushing over it lately. looking forward to it

[WeWantFun]

The Bro Code

shit is deep