Thread: What are You Reading?

Originally Posted by kratos86

I have started "The silence of lambs " I saw the film but only now I read the book of "hannibal" but in this days I don't read because I must read a manual for use the program matlab

Matlab? Ma perche'?
That's terrible. Is it for work or school?

The local Public Radio " A Chapter a Day" program is reading the "Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin to its listeners.
Thanks to a great local book store I now have, inexpensively, a small bound book of that title, printed in a very small type face and published probably in the early 20th Century.
The book, so far seems to not be Bowdlerized, Fortunately!
A wry self examination with a great bit of humor and pride seem to be his style. Would that i had studied it a half century ago!
~Richard

The Ben Franklin autobiography is a classic.

Bowdlerized. My new word for the day!

The Death of Money by James Rickards, a very good read if you want to know more about the currency wars being waged at the moment.

I just reread "The Price Of Honor" which I do believe was the only novel by Col. David Hackworth. It's really pretty good. Next, I plan to read the Lisbeth Salander/Millenium books . The Swedish movies were pretty entertaining. Yeah, I know the author was a card carrying commie bastard, but he seemed to have a knack for spinning a good story and since his will was declared invalid, the people who he wanted his money to go to when he died didn't get it, so I'm not supporting the Communist/Socilaist Party of Sweden by reading them. The money went to his greedy, money grubbing family instead.

Any word on the next one? They kind of changed their plans a couple of years ago and switched over to the post Butlerian Jihad stuff instead of filling in the gaps in the original story line. My understanding is that the "ancient prequels" actually performed better in the market the the "modern" ones that covered the period tight before Dune and particularly the books that filled in the gaps like Paul of Dune and Winds of Dune. I would like to see what the guys could come up with for the time period between Children and God Emperor.

Originally Posted by Phrank

The Dune series is spectacular as far as I'm concerned, and his son did some interesting books furthering the story...Frank Herbert was a brilliant novelist IMO.

Originally Posted by nun2sharp

The Death of Money by James Rickards, a very good read if you want to know more about the currency wars being waged at the moment.

That sounds like an interesting read. I've placed a hold for an e-copy of the book at the local library.
Thank you for the suggestion.

I'm reading Bunker Hill by Nathaniel Philbrick. It's not for everyone but for history buffs, it's a great read. It also dispels a lot of popular myths about the battle itself and the background of the revolution.

Now reading, "Command and Control" by Eric Schlosser, stunning read about how many various near accidents that caused basically worldwide nuclear holocaust...reading about the accident in middle America during the 80's was truly frightening, how close it came to an end....