Recreational reading or TËKKŸ's book club.

[Tekky]

"The Last Godfather: The Rise and Fall of Joey Massino" by Simon Crittle

[Tashtego]

King of the Khyber Rifles - Mundy
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim - Sedaris

[VitaminG]

I'm continuing my non-fiction kick

just read Marching Powder. The story of an Englishmen jailed in a Bolivian prison for drug trafficking.

[Tekky]

Just finished Star Wars: Inferno. I'm a little burned out on non-fiction, so I decided to re-read some of the current series of Star Wars books.

So, currently Star Wars: Betrayal by Aaron Allston

[TexasRocks]

I started reading Stephen King when I was 10 and have almost his entire library.....Lovecraft and Poe are excellent as well...but I'm a diehard fan of Robert Jordan's "Wheel of Time" series, SUPREME epic fantasy.....

Robert Jordan passed away on September 16, 2007. His "Wheel of Time" series unfinished.

Apparently, though, he has been dictacting notes and outlines for a while now, so someone could finish the last volume.



As for my reading tastes, I spend a lot of time and money on fantasy, scifi, history (fiction and non-fiction), and general science (emphasis on physics). Will also throw in a thriller every now and then.

[AfterForever]

I've been reading:
Hemmingway - Fiesta
Congreve - Love for Love
Shakespeare - Merchant of Venice, Romeo and Juliette, Hamlet
Swift - Gulliver's travels

[dg]

I recently ran across Arthur C. Clarke's 2061 and 3001 at the library. Didn't even know he had written them, so it was pretty cool to see where he took the story. Not great literature, but I think he has some pretty cool ideas.

[Cygnus X1]

Didn't know this thread existed....
"Union 1812. The Americans who fought the second revolution".
Starts off with a good overveiw of early politics in the US.

George Washington was truly prophetic about the dangers
of partisan politics.

[Tashtego]

Hey Cygnus. It doesn't take a prophet, those guys just had a good education in the classics. "There is nothing new under sun but there are lots of old things we don't know." -A. Bierce. I read Patriots, I should check this out too. Have you read Battle Cry of Freedom?

[atilla]

I read everything I can get my hands on, whether I really want to or not. I review books for a local magazine in Phoenix, so that feeds my reading monkey. Some of what I review are total crap, but that often makes a review even more fun!

[Cygnus X1]

Hey Cygnus. It doesn't take a prophet, those guys just had a good education in the classics. "There is nothing new under sun but there are lots of old things we don't know." -A. Bierce. I read Patriots, I should check this out too. Have you read Battle Cry of Freedom?

I've been more focused lately on the biographies, this is the first political/tactical book I've read in a while. I have read biographies lately on Washington, Hamilton, John Adams, and Benjamin Franklin. The current round of biographers have been more thorough than in the past, making a point to try not to prejiduce their own feelings about the subjects in the books. I think Ambrose had quite an effect on the modern set of biographical authors. So I am reading them again, in a new light. I've yet to get to Jefferson. I like his libertarian foundation, but in practice he did not fit my federalist POV. I need to be a bit more open minded, and just learn.

I have read Newt's Civil War series, just for fun. It is entertaining only if one is very well versed in the actual history of the battles. But it is so easy to imagine the scenarios as were depicted.

[Cygnus X1]

Bumping this great thread.
Picked up an old paperback.
Third Wave, by Alvin Toffler, sociologist and secular futurist.
Although the book was written around 1980, it has stunning accuracy
in predicting the way society has become with the age of technology.
Anyone who is of college age should read this book, to affirm the
difference between the way the world is set up by the Industrial Age, and
the way that things actually occur in our modern world. It is actually my second read
of this book, and had great impact on my career decisions, brought up as an old age
machinist, to becoming a much more diversified manipulator of information, to service the industry.
Alvin Toffler also wrote the sixties classic, Future Shock, which seems now just a setup to this book.
Also recommended for those lost in a midlife career, who seem to be losing grasp of how things are actually working.

[shreder13]

I read alot of text for school Thats about it exept for nonfiction ie history. Being an inthusiast from time to time I do read stuff like Guderiann, the desert fox ect. I leave fiction to the TV

[Endrik]

I've read a lot of works about history/culture/religion etc.
And also a lot of biographies.

But my favs. are very "life oriented" works like Hemingway "The Sun Also Rises" Salinger "Catcher In The Rye" etc.

lately I've been reading Peter Mayle's books about Provence (County in South France)

and I'm trying to go thru more works by Nietzsche

[Tashtego]

Reading "The Prize" by Yergin. Narrative history of the development of the Oil economy across the globe. Good stuff. I'm still in the beginning, exploiting the PA deposits, Titusville, Cleveland, Rockefeller, Standard Oil. Good stuff.