What are you currently reading?

[CaughtintheGaze]

Fantastic book:

[Lake Swan]

The Best Buddhist Writing 2012

[CaughtintheGaze]

Starting next week:
History of Epic Poetry by Clark
Uncertain Shield by Posner
2666 by Bolano
Privileged and Confidential by Abner et. al.
Content Analysis by Krippendorff

[SonicMan46]

Well, I've not posted recently here but continue to read -   

Now working on 3 books the last few weeks:

Darwin's Ghosts - The Secret History of Evolution (2012) by Rebecca Stott - liking the latter chapters the best (Lamarck, Cuvier, Chambers, Wallace and others); 4+ stars on Amazon (HERE) - I'd probably do 4* there.

Inventing Wine - A New History of One of the World's Most Ancient Pleasures (2012) by Paul Lukacs - a just released Wine Spectator recommendation - only through the first two chapters (beginnings into the medieval era) but enjoying the read; well researched and written in a conversational style.

Printmaking - A Complete Guide to Materials & Processes (2009) by Beth Grabowski & Bill Fick - we've been collecting 'fine art' prints since the early 1970s (our walls are virtually filled w/ these & other media objects), and although I have a lot of books on art & printmaking, the latter are rather dated; much has changed in the materials used, the methods, and the introduction of computers and newer printing methods - SO, a refresher course for me -

   

[kaergaard]

This year's winner of the Nobelprice in Literature: Mo Yan WOW!. I have read his The Garlic Ballads and was captivated by his talent of taking me to places I have never been physically, but after reading him, feel as if I had spend my entire life in China. Mo Yan vaguely reminds me of Günter Grass, both great story tellers without tiresome 'Messages'. Mo entertains me, that's why I read books!

[CaughtintheGaze]

Finished my first semi-fun read. It wasn't all that fantastic. It didn't offer up anything all that new, and the author makes some rather wild claims. I do appreciate that the author was up front with his lack of expertise and that he was agenda-setting. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who doesn't have at least a fair amount of knowledge about the Intelligence industry, as this book will likely lead you to make believe foolhardy things.

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[Lake Swan]

At the Earth's Core by ERB.

[Fëanor]

Boning up for the movie which I'm going to see tonight with my family. We'll see the 3D, 48 fps version.

J.R.R. Tolkien: The Hobbit

[Gold Knight]

Justus D. Doenecke--Nothing Less Than War: A New History Of America's Entry Into World War One

[Bogey]

Oy, Karl!  Just finished A Christmas Carol....many interpretations out there, but it doesn't get better than the source. 0:)

[Opus106]

Oy, Karl!  Just finished A Christmas Carol....many interpretations out there, but it doesn't get better than the source. 0:)

Many interpretations, Bill?

[Lake Swan]

Pellucidar by ERB.

[Karl Henning]

Oy, Karl!  Just finished A Christmas Carol....many interpretations out there, but it doesn't get better than the source. 0:)

Many interpretations, Bill?

I expect, Nav, that what Bill has in mind is the wide variety of cinematic (and divers other dramatick) realiizations of the tale.  Some of which, I do shuddetr to contemplate ; )

[Florestan]

I expect, Nav, that what Bill has in mind is [...]

Or maybe this.

http://mises.org/daily/573

http://thetyee.ca/Views/2003/12/22/In_Defense_of_Scrooge/

http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer93.html

[Karl Henning]

Or maybe this.

http://mises.org/daily/573

Saints preserve us from the Greed is actually good, you know revisionists! : )

[Brian]

Oooh now that's a very interesting read, Soapy!

I wonder if anyone else has recommendations for cookbooks that are fairly "accessible" in terms of ingredients, preparations, and instructions, but with particularly tasty/exotic results? I'm currently making my way through Ruhlman's Twenty and Classic Turkish Cooking, but there's a heavy stress on recipes which take an afternoon or even an entire week to fully create...

[Geo Dude]

I may have mentioned this already but I'm working my way through the Transmetropolitan series.  It's a cyberpunk political comic series centered around a journalist based on Hunter S. Thompson, only living in the future and interacting with the politicians and people in that time period.  Definitely not the kind of comic you'd let your kids get their hands on, but the whole series thus far has made for a great read and some of the observations made have been quite prescient, though some scenarios hit close enough to home to be pretty scare.  The little touches are brilliant, too.  I love the idea of people freely smoking cigarettes because they can take an anti-cancer pill to prevent any problems associated with usage, for example.

[bhodges]

Christopher Hitchens: God is Not Great

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--Bruce

[Karl Henning]

"An all-out attack on all aspects of religion." Sober and fair, then. Should sell well in the sizeable I already scorn anyone who ascribes to a religion market.

[bhodges]

"An all-out attack on all aspects of religion." Sober and fair, then. Should sell well in the sizeable I already scorn anyone who ascribes to a religion market.

Well, that market is certainly out there, but the book is interesting, in any case. I'm about 100 pages in.

--Bruce