Thread: What are you reading?

Assuming you read I guess

Me:

Postwar by Tony Judt.

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon

One fiction, one non, usually what I do unless I'm bogged down with school shit. BTW the answer "this thread" isn't very original.

Im about to start reading Hamlet by The one and only Shakespeare
But the best books I ever read where The Cirque Du Freak books by Darren Shan, its a series of about 11-12 books its about vampires and stuff they are really good I think they came from the UK.
Should check em out some time.

I'm rereading the Peter Cook collection "Tragically I was an only twin". It's really good. Afunny, funny man was Mr Cook. I'm usually having to do a lot of reading for my study, but I'm doing my essay now, so it's more a case of flicking through the books for appropriate quotes and ideas. No proper reading there though.

never heard of those books, OumaFan

Myself, I tend not to pick up on new literature unless I get a hot tip from a friend.

I like to prowl the dollar bins at used bookstores for good novels.

Nothing at the moment, but I read Redemption by Leon Uris a while back. Call it historical fiction, primarily it's about the Irish "troubles" , and sympathetic to the Catholic perspective. A sequel to the book "Trinity".

One's just a history of Europe since 1945. The other's well kind of hard to explain I guess especially cause I'm not that far into it.

I'm reading the 5th book of the Artemis Fowl series "The Lost Colony"

Don't judge me.

I looked it up on Amazon

"A juvenile James Bond in fairy land"

Any spare time at all I'm on here, don't really have time for books at the moment.

I have read Going After Cacootto and A Fighter's Heart in the past month.

Caciotto was a good book I didn't like it as much as The Things They Carried which is the best soldier book I've ever read and among my favorite books of all time.

A Fighter's Heart I've read in pieces before I had read the chapter of when he was in Oakland training with Andre Ward and Virgil Hunter. But it was a good book, wasn't expecting it to be especially deep but what the guy did was pretty amazing. Went from Thailand with the greatest mhuy thai fighter of all time to Pat Militech in Iowa, boxing out here and then going to Brazil, Mexico for a movie shoot and then deep meditation with Monks in Thailand. I probably didn't have to type out like the whole damn book but it's written from half fighter's perspectives half writer so a little of the stuff is hit or miss. I don't really relate to training months on end for a fight just fighting so I can't relate to a lot of the stuff he says but he describes it great and definitely gives you a better understanding. The most interesting parts are when he isn't in training but he has a dogfighting chapter that imo was the most fascinating in the book. I liked it.

I am reading Matt Maiocca's book right now, he's a beat writer for the Press Democrat down here who is among if not the best beat writer out there. Great writer and he has a 100 49ers to Miss book about the classic 49ers. It's a late Christmas (lol) present but I am trying to read it first.

After that it's Beyond Glory the book about Joe Louis - Max Schmelling which I bought just a few hours ago. It is very well reviewed the Washington Post compared it to Seabiscuit which was a great book because it recreated the era so well which obviously a book about that fight would have to do in great detail so I'm excited to read that one.

I've heard about that fighter's heart book, thought about giving it a look, sounds good.

Strangely I haven't read much about boxing. There's an old but great fiction book by a pretty famous sports writer called W.C. Heinz called The Professional. Recommend it definitely. Told from the view of a sportswriter who follows a middleweight contender through training camp to his title fight, good stuff. Old but good.

Im just re-reading stuff,Im busy most of the day,so really I only have about 10 minutes of me time a day(if you get my drift here) so Im just re-reading stuff from my library.Just because I can pick it up anywhere
Probably go with some Hunter S Thompson next

Aside from those assigned at school, I'm currently reading Eugene Debs: Citizen and Socialist by Nick Salvatore. Good book so far, Debs is the shit and, as outdated as they may seem, many of his ideals and notions are as relevant today as they were almost 100 years ago. It's a shame he's not as remembered as I think he should be.

I'm not reading anything at the moment.. However my mom got me The Fountainhead book that I was talking about before Christmas, but she had to order it and it only just arrived last Friday and I have been home to get it yet.. So that'll be where my nose is buried for a few months..

Originally Posted by CFH

Aside from those assigned at school, I'm currently reading Eugene Debs: Citizen and Socialist by Nick Salvatore. Good book so far, Debs is the shit and, as outdated as they may seem, many of his ideals and notions are as relevant today as they were almost 100 years ago. It's a shame he's not as remembered as I think he should be.

CFH,youd probably enjoy "Mother Jones The Most Dangerous Woman In America"by Gorn

I'm currently reading Glen Becks "The Christmas Sweater". I'm only 75 pages into it but so far its a pretty touching story.