von Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 Kitchen Confidential - Anthony Bourdain Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtz Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 I picked up Chomsky "Hegemony Or Survival" this afternoon and then it dawned on me why It takes me four months to finish a Chomsky book after reading the first three pages. Its worth it though. haha, It took me forever to get through that book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andywax Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 Currently reading Oil! by Upton Sinclair Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xfedaykinx Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 im still in the middle of The Dark Tower VII im being really lazy about finishing it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brettall Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 I highly recommend that everyone read the book "Bad Monkeys" by Matt Ruff. Especially since I noticed that a lot of you guys read Chuck Palahniuk...sounds like we have similar taste in books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest baseball Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 Weird, I was just thinking about making a thread like this the other day. Recently Finished: Gang Leader For A Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets by Sudhir Venkatesh -Really good, about a sociologist who befriends the leader of a crack gang in Chicago for research The Great Drug War by Arnold Trebach -drug policy expert from American University talks about everything related to the War On Drugs, a multitude of facts as well as interviews and anecdotes...Trebach was also a federal civil rights official in the 60's who wrote the most critical report on the FBI for which he received visits from the Bureau about God's Middle Finger: Into The Lawless Heart of the Sierra Madre by Richard Grant -entertaining book about travels through the Sierra Madre region of Mexico, one of the most notorious places in the world, and home to many of the most powerful drug cartels in existence Working Sex: Sex Workers Write About A Changing Industry edited by Annie Oakley -essays and memoirs of various sex workers from strippers, prostitutes, porn actors/actresses, as well as sexual rights activists Burned Alive by Souad -story of an Arab women who survived an honor killing...she was set on fire by her brother in law in for becoming pregnant before she was married Currently Reading: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury -never read this in school or anything...good content but why does every sentence feel like it has 2-3 more adjectives than necessary?! Shroom: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom by Andy Letcher -pretty fascinating account of the history of one of the most therapeutic and harmless drugs in existence Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirbypuckett Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 "How to be Good" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slymer Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 The Evolution of a Cro-Magnon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xjustinxschwierx Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadmonkey Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 I'm finishing up World War Z It's freaking amazing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sherlock Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 The Shock Doctrine : The Rise of Disaster Capitalism this one is incredible. i'm reading it for a second time. Naomi Klein takes the globalization and the quest for free markets thats happened over the last 30 years and says all of its major advances happened because of "shocks" just like electroshock therapy. wars, economic collapses etc. it was really eye-opening for me. i can't recommend it enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cosmonaut Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 At present: Fluke by Christopher Moore Next up: Evolution of a Cro-Mag by John Joseph The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins Environmental essays by Lester Brown Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riddle350 Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 At present:Fluke by Christopher Moore Next up: Evolution of a Cro-Mag by John Joseph The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins Environmental essays by Lester Brown The God Delusion is a pretty good book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cosmonaut Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 The God Delusion is a pretty good book. I've heard that. I've read 'The End of Faith' by Sam Harris, so the God Delusion and God Is Not Great are up next. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aarondanger Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 Just finished OIL! now about to start ham on rye Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dynamitekid Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 currently: Bangkok Haunts-John Burdett Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devilstrombone Posted June 13, 2008 Share Posted June 13, 2008 IV-Chuck Klosterman And several Batman Graphic Novels. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgoodcore Posted June 13, 2008 Share Posted June 13, 2008 I've been trying to get through Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. I'm just lazy so its taken way too long. I just haven't the attention span to read for hours right now. I need a vacation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monk0nuggets Posted June 13, 2008 Author Share Posted June 13, 2008 I've been trying to get through Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. I'm just lazy so its taken way too long. I just haven't the attention span to read for hours right now. I need a vacation. My friend is also reading that. He said its great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgoodcore Posted June 13, 2008 Share Posted June 13, 2008 I've been trying to get through Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. I'm just lazy so its taken way too long. I just haven't the attention span to read for hours right now. I need a vacation. My friend is also reading that. He said its great. I'm about 170 pages or so in and I'd agree. Highly rec'd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattramone Posted June 13, 2008 Share Posted June 13, 2008 I'm finishing up World War ZIt's freaking amazing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rivalcycle Posted June 13, 2008 Share Posted June 13, 2008 just finished Truman by David McCullough. currently reading: Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen. it's a "myth-busting" type of book that examines many inaccuracies of american history textbooks. did you know helen keller believed in soviet socialism? how about how the pilgrims went grave digging and slaughtered natives instead of sitting down to a peaceful turkey dinner? definitely interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jinxremoving Posted June 13, 2008 Share Posted June 13, 2008 just finished reading "last time i wore a dress" extremely good but depressing. now im reading "a handmaid's tale" very 1984 which is good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murakami Posted June 13, 2008 Share Posted June 13, 2008 i just finished A Game of Thrones by George RR Martin and started the next book in the series, A Clash of Kings. Also on the night stand is Kevin Smiths My Boring Ass Life - for when i want something i dont have to follow for plot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devilstrombone Posted June 18, 2008 Share Posted June 18, 2008 I just got "Earth Abides" from the library. Im excited to start it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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