What are you currently reading?

I'll wait for the movie

 

Right now, I'm reading Extreme Measures from the Mitch Rapp series.

I started reading the series a while ago but then didn't have the next books in the series. So now that I do, I've gone back and re-read them all.

Great series.

 

Secret Teachings of All Ages by Manly P. Hall
and the emerald tablets and the kybalion by Hermes Thrice Great

 

The Music Instinct: How music works and why we can't do without it

Phillip Ball

 

Don't know why I haven't read this guy before, but I just bought 2 of his books at the used book store. Triggerfish Twist is the one I started and I'm 3/4 of the way through. Yesterday I was LAUGHING so hard, my neighbor came over to find out what I was laughing at. I recommend this guy if you want some crazy-ass Florida tales!!!! 10 on a scale of 1 to 10!!! Anyone else read him????


Well, I finished it. The last 1/4 was somewhat over the top, but the first 3/4 were funny.

 

I have that book.Interesting stuff,although I didn't read it from start to finish just kind of dipped in and out.

 

Yah seems like it may be interesting, I just read the first chapter so far... I can tell I like the approach to how information and some 'theories' of music are presented but I got a slight sense of bias towards some types of music, which I hope doesn't really bog the book down.

 

Currently reading Seven Ancient Wonders by Matthew Reilly for the umpteenth time.
Hoping the latest installment comes out - Four Something Whatever's (of course, it's not called that, I just don't know the name), so I can get that and read it, too.

 

Now I'm on another funny guy--Carl Hiaasen. Got away from the murder mysteries for awhile.

 

"Chagall - Love and Exile",by Jackie Wullschlager,a biography of the Russian born artist Marc Chagall,a contemporary of Picasso and a pioneer of the modern style in art.

 

The Odyssey.

 

The Fellowship of the Ring, and goddamn am I confused as to why anyone likes it.

The Hobbit was great; but taking an escapist children's fantasy and turning it into an over-detailed, super serious ...fictional travel guide, is a good idea, why?

 

^Yeah my uncle Simon used to call it "Bored of The Rings"...

 

LOL ^ I thought I was the only one not in awe of the "Boreship of The Rings"...glad to see I've got some good company.

 

Just started with In Watermelon sugar from Richard Brautigan. So excited...

 

The Tao te ching

 

"The Yoga Tradition" by Georg Feuerstein
"Sons and Lovers" by D.H. Lawrence

I usually try to always be reading one fiction and one non-.

 

One of my favourite writers by the way,and that's a good one.I've read everything I can find by Brautigan.

 

Hahaa, I can imagine but me myself, I was very pleased with it. It seemed kind of a non conformist way of writing. Not for the great public but just for the ones who feel like digging into it (perhaps at first mainly for his own satisfaction, as I understood was how he began shaping that fictional world, languages and stuff). If you have a hard time getting through Lord of the rings I'd skip the Silmarillion if I were you. I had a great time with all his books though.

I am reading The name of the rose by Umberto Eco, which is definately also over-detailed and has too long sentences. I like the details, setting and story a lot so it only bothers me slightly :2thumbsup: