What is the last book you read? What book are you reading right now? and How often?

[MOHSHSIHd]

Devotional Cinema - Nathaniel Dorsky



that was the last one, not really reading anything now

[PassTheDutchie]

Just finished "The Places in Between" by Rory Stewart. A memoir/diary of Stewart's solo walk across Afghanistan (basically the entire country) shortly after the fall of the Taliban. Really interesting...

Now reading "Storm of Steal" by Ernst Junger (a WWI memoir).

[half-fast]

True North-Jim Harrison

[Obstruction]

Just Enough Liebling by A. J. Liebling

Richard II

The 6th Lamentation by William Brodrick

[char]

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is the current reading at work.

I think the last one I read was Collapse by Jared Diamond, but I got bogged down and never finished it.

[adam]

Off the Map is good
Fight Club is great
Animal Farm is good to

[adam]

quite possibly the lamest thought that's ever run through my head is now getting spilled onto der internet but b/c it's down here where only the lamest of the lame go anyway.

I don't think it would be very difficult to have a book-club here.

i thought books clubs were just for getting drunk on wine.

[Viva]

i thought books clubs were just for getting drunk on wine.

And knitting clubs are a great way to meet babes.

[SnowToad]

Currently reading:

The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Terror, Dan Simmons

[biggins]

Just finishing 'The Chosen' by Chaim Potek. I walk to work two days a week through a Hasidic neighborhood and I remembered reading this in hebrew school in 7th grade. Good stuff, very educational.

About to begin 'Special Topics in Calamity Physics.' At my current reading pace that ought to take me about ten years to get through.

[Chiz]

just finished 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas' Thompson is THE MAN.
Currently reading 'The Children of Men' by P.D. James. Highly recommended

[pedalbiker]

I just finished reading both Jurassic park and The Lost World by Michael Crichton, next up I'm not sure. Getting an urge to read The Stand by Stephen King again.

Living alone I am always reading, whether its a book or a magazine. Sometimes when I get on a roll I can do a fiction novel in a couple of days.

Yes, if its a good book I can read it multiple times, same with movies if they are good ones.

[adam]

Dracula by Bram Stoker.
I really enjoyed it and read it pretty fast, I give it a 9/10.

Currently Grapes of Wrath and Things Fall Apart

[nick > jesus]

i recently read "One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest" and that was very good

Also read "In Cold Blood" recently. Capote's writting is incredible, dense at times, but amazingly eloquent, and smooth. Perhaps the best modern prose i have read.

Currently i am reading "the world according to garp" as well as assorted essays by assorted people

[dookeyXXX]

I usually read hard backs, but i've been traveling a lot lately so have been going through the stacks of paperbacks laying around the house and cabin more recently.

Last few books I've finished (i was reading multiple ones at the same time as I had a book at my pad, one at my parents house, and one at our cabin):

Get Shorty - Elmore Leonard (been laying around in a pile for years)
Booneville - Robert Mailer Anderson
Mr. Paradise - Elmore Leonard

I am currently wading through:

Everybody Into The Pool - Beth Lisick
Wormwood - Poppy Z. Brite
The Value of X - Poppy Z. Brite
Pop Gun - various (it's a graphic novel compendium i was given for free at a SXSW event)

On a good year I average 2-3 books a month. On a "bad" year I average 1 book a month.

[pechelman]

Just about to finish up The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies.
Fifth Business, The Manticore, and World of Wonders.

really enjoying them. great writing.
nice change of pace for me

in the past few years, havent read much at all.
i dont feel like i have a lot of free time, unless im traveling to be able to really read a lot, but right now it seems about 1-2 a month.

[The AD]

Currently reading volume three of Shelby Foote's The Civil War: A Narrative. Really, really good stuff and I recommend it for any Civil War buff. The entire trilogy is around 3,000 pages, though, so not exactly a quick read.

[dookeyXXX]

i dont feel like i have a lot of free time, unless im traveling to be able to really read a lot...

I'm a HUGE fan of short story collections. They are great to travel with and are great for knocking out something in a week or two. You just read a story a night, when possible. Makes for a good break, too. Read a story, put the book aside and do something else (watch a movie, go skiing, cook, etc). Pick it up whenever and start a new story. I find it's the best and easiest way to get back into reading after a dry spell.

[Mach Looney]

I last read LA Rex by Will Beall, an LA detective turned novelist. He was at the West Hollywood book fair last year and gave a shout out to Warren Zevon, so I had to give his book a try. It's a gritty noir about late 90s Los Angeles -- rookie cop learning the streets, drug deals gone bad, race riots. A fun, quick read.

Right now I'm reading Bend Sinister by Nabokov and Audacity of Hope.

[RTR]

Catcher in the Rye, by JD Salinger. Now I'm reading The Painted Bird, by Jerzy Kosinski. I read about three novels a month, thanks to having really boring classes in which I rarely listen to the professors...

I'd recommend Salinger.

[advres]

Just finished "The Four Agreements".
Now I'm reading "Way of the Peaceful Warrior" (again).
Next up is "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" (for the umpteenth time).

need more books here.

[Joey Joe Joe Junior Shabadoo]

My last two were Snow Falling on Cedars and The Mosquito Coast. I'm now reading Posession by A.S. Byatt

[Sparky]

I have recently finished the following and I can highly recommend them:

The Journeyman Taylor, Gerald Seymour
A very gripping fast paced thriller, this moving tale is staged in the mountains of County Tyrone, heartland of the Provisional IRA's most active Brigade and in England. Twists and turns with the IRA and British agents going hammer and tongs.

Mont Blanc & the Aiguilles Rouges, a guide for skiers, Anselme Baud
A figurehead of extreme skiing brings a fantastic comprehensive guide to descents of the area. Some of the lines described and illustrated are fucking mental, I shat myself just reading about them. Anselme includes a moving tribute to his son Edouard who died skiing the Gervasutti couloir.

Blood of the Isles, Bryan Sykes
Ireland, England, Wales or Scotland, this scholarly work explores our modern genetic make-up and tells us about our tribal past. We nearly all descended from Celts and we kick ass.

A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
From the author that brought us Kite Runner, this is better. A haunting tale of love, loss and betrayal. Stunning and heartbreaking. Set in Taliban Afghanistan. Highly recommend it.

I have currently got on the go:

Victoria's Wars, the rise of empire, Saul David
Both the brutalities and the thrills of the age of empire, with the ringing clash of steel Britain secured its empire. Accounts of heroic actions, military blunders and victories snatched from the jaws of defeat. A powerful story.

Sea Kayak Navigation, Franco Ferrero
A short, simple and very practical guide to finding your way at sea. Demystifies a black art.

[adam]

The Gay Science
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest

[RedWolf]

Just finished Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond. Very good, very interesting.

Just started the Dharma Bums (again) by Kerouac.