I just started a biography on Nathan Hale The life and Death of America's first Spy

Is pretty straightforward but reading Hale's early days are quite the read.

So, what are you folks reading?

Mary

The GStwins message board topic of "What are you reading today"

LOL! Very funnY!

Mary

I read rarely nowadays. I used to read quite a lot but time is so hard to find these days as are decent books. I enjoy classics, books like To Kill a Mockingbird that we were forced to read at school and discovered how great they were. My favourite book would have to be Catcher in the Rye By J.D Salinger. Don't worry I won't be assassinating any rock stars  .

Quote from: Toogoofy317 on January 03, 2011, 03:07:31 PM
I just started a biography on Nathan Hale The life and Death of America's first Spy

Is pretty straightforward but reading Hale's early days are quite the read.

So, what are you folks reading?

Mary

ive read that,  well besides my bible , im reading ( err read a book called a*s*segai, ww1 era book taking place in africa/african safari

I dunno Catcher in the Rye didn't do much for me. I did like All Quite on the Western Front and 1984.

I read quite a bit not as much as I'd like do to time constraints.

Mary

also have in my posession, every book ever written by winston churchill

I've been "reading" Hustler, Penthouse, and Playboy pretty religiously.  Sometimes up to five times a day.  However, when I'm not "reading" those, I have spent the past couple days reading Dean Koontz's "Breathless".  It's pretty suspenseful.

I've read alot of Koontz the last was Frequency it reminded me of a movie with I think it was Dennis Quaid in it though.

I enjoy reading biographies the most though. I bought my friend up in Boston the Mark Twain autobiography that he requested to be released 100 years after his death. Now, I wanna read it LOL. I also wanna read Dan Brown's Lost Symbol just haven't found it anywhere for cheap.

Mary

Quote from: adidasguy on January 03, 2011, 03:17:23 PM
The GStwins message board topic of "What are you reading today"

Man, you're too quick for me...that would have been my answer...

Quote from: ver4 on January 03, 2011, 07:30:36 PM
I've been "reading" Hustler, Penthouse, and Playboy pretty religiously.  Sometimes up to five times a day.  However, when I'm not "reading" those, I have spent the past couple days reading Dean Koontz's "Breathless".  It's pretty suspenseful.

Sounds like my type of "reading"...other than the usual motorcycle magazines and internet blogs...Koontz "Breathless" is on the night stand right now "waiting" to be read...read Koontz "Frequency" as well...I think I may have read all of his books.  Last week I started the Chronicles of Narnia with my 8yo...we read "the Magician's Nephew" by C.S. Lewis...fun for her...and me, but I read the whole series back when I was 12...

Take time to read...it makes your mind grow...

Later.

I was going to pick up Dan Brown's new book, but figured it would be made into a move eventually. 

A few books that I have thoroughly enjoyed:
Arthur Miller - Death of a Salesman
Arthur Miller - The Crucible
Raymond Khoury - The Last Templar
Dan Brown - Angels and Demons

There's a really good zombie book that I read, but I cannot think of the name.

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Quote from: adidasguy on January 03, 2011, 03:17:23 PM
The GStwins message board topic of "What are you reading today"

Man, you're too quick for me...that would have been my answer...

Quote from: ver4 on January 03, 2011, 07:30:36 PM
I've been "reading" Hustler, Penthouse, and Playboy pretty religiously.  Sometimes up to five times a day.  However, when I'm not "reading" those, I have spent the past couple days reading Dean Koontz's "Breathless".  It's pretty suspenseful.

Sounds like my type of "reading"...other than the usual motorcycle magazines and internet blogs...Koontz "Breathless" is on the night stand right now "waiting" to be read...read Koontz "Frequency" as well...I think I may have read all of his books.  Last week I started the Chronicles of Narnia with my 8yo...we read "the Magician's Nephew" by C.S. Lewis...fun for her...and me, but I read the whole series back when I was 12...

Take time to read...it makes your mind grow...

Later.

I wonder, was it hustler, and playboy that left him breathless? LMFAO

These days.... hmmm... have some book by Jack Higgins in my work bag that a guy from work gave me to read. I'm so enthralled with it I cannot even tell you what it's called.

Haven't read a Koontz book in ages. I remember, some time in the 90s I was reading Watchers. At the time I happened to work at a factory that had many buildings and silos and the like, and which was next to bushland. Working the nightshift and having to go into the area near the bush, it creeped me out. All steel walkways and stairways and the like and I'm thinking of the Creature in Watchers coming out the bush and... yeah, silly I know, but man it creeped me out.

Generally, though, I don't have time to read books.

Michael

Try reading Stephen King's Tommyknockers on your first flight ever to Boston. Not the best choice in the world!

Mary

I've read Tommyknockers. Don't recall what it has to do with Boston, though. But I would be freaked out if you then tried to buy batteries and everywhere you went they'd been Sold Out, the air smelt funny and people were losing their teeth.

I did read the Twilight Saga series including the follow on Short Second Life of Bree Tanner (all for free as PDF files). It was done in the same 1st person style as Dolores Claiborne was, and VC Andrews books.

haven't read a King book in yonks either. Though at the time I did think Needful Things was his best work to date - probably cause it was leff waffle like a Koontz book. None of that useless fluff filler like in Salem's Lot about how the town got its name or the end of Gerald's Game with the longass letter.

I didn't mind Richard Layman's work. And particular "In The Dark" was quite clever.

Michael

Just finished two books:

"Into the Wild" by John Krakauer (second book of his I've read - really sad story, but very good. I really liked his "Into Thin Air")
"The Lost Symbol" by Dan Brown - I didn't want to wait for it to be made into a movie. I really liked it... I haven't become tired of Langston yet!

Next up: a re-read (third time...) of one of my favorites: "Stranger in a Strange Land" by Robert Heinlein

Any Cormac McCarthy readers out there?  That's some pretty serious and dark story telling...

Quote from: Toogoofy317 on January 03, 2011, 03:07:31 PM
I just started a biography on Nathan Hale The life and Death of America's first Spy

Is pretty straightforward but reading Hale's early days are quite the read.

So, what are you folks reading?

Mary

Oh no, someone needs to send you a TV, yours is broken.

Cool.
Buddha.

Actually, Buddha my lamr for my big screen in my room did go out. Know of a good place where one can replace it? It is a RCA 53" DLP hi def. It is about $130 I see I'm soo broke!

I think it was tommyknockers where they were flying to Boston and people started disappearing. Hmmm, now was tommyknockers composed of short stories. or was it another of his books? I've read so many books I've forgotten some.

Yes, Arthur Miller is a good writter. I actually went to Salem to the museum was interesting. I have some pictures from March I'll post 'em up.

Mary

Quote from: Toogoofy317 on January 04, 2011, 03:43:59 PM


I think it was tommyknockers where they were flying to Boston and people started disappearing. Hmmm, now was tommyknockers composed of short stories. or was it another of his books? I've read so many books I've forgotten some.

Mary

Tommyknockers: Hero visits a friend who had inadvertently found something in the ground - which turns out to be an alien spacecraft. She get tremendous technology ideas that use batteries as power sources. As she digs it up and more of the ship is revealed, its influence spreads throughout the town. The townsfolk start to change, physically, becoming more like the original aliens. They lose their teeth, build an atmosphere thing to create special air for themselves from all the great ideas they are having. And evetually try to kill the hero. He escapes into the ship, hooks up to the Mental control system and flies it away - I think he flies it away, cannot remember the end bit. Hero is unaffected by the energy from the ship due to the metal plate in his head. Prevents the ship effecting him and them from reading his mind. This was a book on its own. Had a reference to IT in is as two of the townsfolk went to Derry to buy batteries and one thought he saw a Clown standing in the middle of the street which was put down to delusions cause by being away from the special air.

Langoliers: On a flight, some passengers wake up to find most of the cabin empty bar those who had been asleep. Where passengers Had been sitting now just their inorganic bit remain - fillings, pacemakers, etc. They land in an airfield that is like where they should be going but everything is Dead. tasteless food, matches won't light. They use the Life in their plane to refuel and bring the dead fuel to life. All the while the Langoliers, like large pacmen, are munching up the joint. It's determined time is like a railway carriage and we move from carriage to carriage. As we move into the new carriage the old carriage needs to be dissolved - the pacmen Langoliers. Eventually, they get off the ground, fly back through the odd electrical storm after lowering the oxygen content so they all fall asleep to travel through it, lest they disappear like the others, then land at another airport - a future one - and await for time to catch up with them (they stand near walls cause they figure if they are in the open they might be seen to magically appear plus could end up being walked into, but standing on the side, near a wall, should cause no such notice by anyone and is a safer position. This was in the compilation Four Past Midnight.

Four Past Midnight had the short story The Sun Dog which was set in Castle Rock and was one of the three stories he created to End his writing in Castle Rock - Needful Things being the end of Castle Rock as a town in his stories as the town was destroyed by the events in the book.

Michael

Yup, the Langoliers! They were flying to Boston and so was I the first time I had ever flown and I was going to get a pacemaker LOL! Was half expecting Boston to be  dead or something.

Mary