Thread: What are You Reading?

Originally Posted by ColonelG

Phrank, Good call, Sir.
I'm ashamed to say I haven't read it yet...but I did purchase it recently in eBook format.
I'm on it Sir!

Haha...good call Sir, reading it on my Kobo e-reader now...superb book, regardless of the controversy surrounding it and it's author.

Just finished re-reading "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" which, having recently visited Savannah, seemed like the appropriate thing to do.

Next up: the new Ian Rankin, "Saints of the Shadow Bible"

The monument men,a great read.

Still reading Ulysses.

Just out of curiousity, anyone here belong to Goodreads.com? It's a pretty good site. You select books you've read and rate them and after 20 ratings it starts
suggesting books they think you might be interested in, based on your ratings. You can also select books you'd like to read which also contributes to their
suggestions for you. I've read some books based on their suggestions that I probably would've never thought of.

John

'The English Gypsies and Their Language' by Charles Godfrey Leland. I got this one from the Gutenburg Project as a free ebook. Plenty of stuff there to keep me reading for the rest of my days I think, but I might have to change the pace a bit and go on to a bit of fiction for my next read. Maybe something a little more modern as well. I've been reading books written a century or more in the past of late.

I'm also going to have to check out Goodreads.com now that John has mentioned it...


Mick

Mick,

I read mostly older books myself. I go to another site, abebooks.com to buy them. I try to get the book as close to its original publication date as possible,
within reason. Some of the books sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars. I try to keep it under $20. I have several that are 100 years old or older.

I tell people that the books I like to read are the ones kids cringed about when they told us we had to read them in school!

John

I love my Nook, but only because I'm a pilot and it can be difficult to carry around two or three books at a time on the road without them getting destroyed. I decided well over a year ago that I'm going to start reading through the Bible and have tried to do at least one chapter a day since. I started with the New Testament and finished that and moved to the Old Testament. I just finished Acts yesterday and started Romans. I also just finished cool blue tomb by Paul kemprecos. He helps write some of Clive Cussler's books. It was a good beach style read. I'm about to read Kill Devil Hill by Harry Combs with Martin Caidin. It's about the early history of the Wright Brothers.

Originally Posted by kerryman71

Mick,

I read mostly older books myself. I go to another site, abebooks.com to buy them. I try to get the book as close to its original publication date as possible,
within reason. Some of the books sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars. I try to keep it under $20. I have several that are 100 years old or older.
I tell people that the books I like to read are the ones kids cringed about when they told us we had to read them in school!
John

Yup, I was one of those kids! Still enjoy the Science fiction genre and WWII and some philosophy.
I go to Alibris.com
They have bookstores, including the famous ones, entries and a lot of entries from garage sellers and small dealers. I've found fiction, collecting, hobby, and general knowledge books there at very reasonable prices for reading quality books. They can list your request by price from lowest for a disposable reading copy, or a bookshelf copy after reading, to highest for a collectors special.
~Richard