What'cha Reading?

[booyalab]

I'm currently reading The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
True accounts of the lives of two men who both lived around the late 19th century. One was the driving force behind the architecture and engineering of the 1983 Chicago World's Fair, the other took the fair as an opportunity to open a hotel just west of it to lure young women in to murder them. The juxtaposition of great human achievement with unbridled evil makes for a really compelling read and it's the first book in the longest time that I actually look forward to reading again when I have to take a break.

I'm posting the cover design too because I think it's so good. It really evokes the atmosphere within.

 

[MacGuffin]

I'm currently reading The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
True accounts of the lives of two men who both lived around the late 19th century. One was the driving force behind the architecture and engineering of the 1983 Chicago World's Fair, the other took the fair as an opportunity to open a hotel just west of it to lure young women in to murder them. The juxtaposition of great human achievement with unbridled evil makes for a really compelling read and it's the first book in the longest time that I actually look forward to reading again when I have to take a break.

I'm posting the cover design too because I think it's so good. It really evokes the atmosphere within.

I just finished that one in April. Better than expected.

 

[Mole]

Czeslaw Milosz

The life of the Polish poet, Czeslaw Milosz, has come to an end.

Here is his poem, "On the Day the World Ends".

YouTube - ADBusters - on the Day the World Ends

 

[Cerpin_Taxt]

At the moment I’m progressing through a selection of Beckett novels, re-reading Nietzsche's oeuvre, and studying for Exams.

 

[Sarcasticus]

The Crossing -- Cormac McCarthy
Chronicles Vol. 1 -- Bob Dylan
Down the River -- Edward Abbey

 

[helen]

Daniel Deronda by George Eliot. It's awesome so far.

 

[disregard]

Intimacy: Trusting Oneself and the Other by Osho

 

[cascadeco]

King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa -- Adam Hochschild

Very good book. Obviously grim subject matter, but well written.

 

[ByMySword]

The Shooters by Leon Metz

 

[swordpath]

I like a good read. Unfortunately, I don't find them that often. I don't like fiction much, so that eliminates half the book store.

 

[sam988]

"Principles of Microeconomics" by Joseph E. Stiglitz.


And no i'm not reading it because i have to for college.

 

[Climber07]

The Viking Portable Library: Karl Marx edited by Eugene Kamenka.
The Golden Door: Artists-Immigrants of America, 1876-1976.
The Will to Power by Friedrich Nietzsche translated by Walter Kaufmann and R.J. Hollingdale.

 

[Thursday]

" Aesop's Fables "

" Good Omens....." by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

" American Gods " by Neil Gaiman

 

[rhinosaur]

MBTIcentral, duh.

 

[Thursday]

MBTIcentral, duh.

Like there's anything of interest there

 

[disregard]

Danielle Steel -- Bittersweet

I eat her books up. I love her.

 

[Carebear]

" Good Omens....." by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

" American Gods " by Neil Gaiman

Great books! Great authors!

Aesop isn't bad either, but a different category.

 

[millerm277]

Tom Clancy-The Bear and The Dragon. Anyone got any other good war/political books to recommend? (Preferably somone who's read a few of Clancy's books to know what I'm looking for).

 

[cafe]

" Good Omens....." by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

Hey! I'm reading that right now, too.

I now have both of my daughters and my husband hooked on Terry Pratchett.

 

[Thursday]

Hey! I'm reading that right now, too.

I now have both of my daughters and my husband hooked on Terry Pratchett.

First the family
then the world
or maybe just that solitary but comfortable bean-bag chair in the corner