Official Book Thread - What You're Reading & Everything Book Related (merged)

[pantone151]

Just started World War Z.

I received this book as a gift, from what started as a joke. I read the first two chapters and thought it was a great read to that point... Little free time drove me to shelf it, I'll have to pick it back up.
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[cotton]

Just started The Salmon of Doubt by Douglas Adams. It holds the world record for the number of introductions...still trying to get through the introductions

Not nearly as good as the Hitchhiker "Trilogy," but it is still Douglas Adams--almost.

 

[emainvol]

Actually reading The True Believer by Eric Hoffer for part of the research for my rhetoric final too.

 

[DC Vol]

Just finished rereading Game of Thrones by GRR Martin. Fantastic book and series so far.

Also just finished rereading the Lord of the Rings.

 

[utvolpj]

picked up American Lion by Jon Meacham. It's a bio of Andrew Jackson and so far is pretty interesting.

I've actually decided I'm going to try and read at least 1 about all the Presidents. Should keep me busy for a while

 

[duckman398686]

I just read a great book by a Vol fan called "Dixeland Delight".Clay Travis goes to every SEC stadium to see a game in '06. A very very good read.

And also just read "The Hobbit", it is very good too. It is more like a children's book than The Rings but still very good. It ties up alot of things from the other books. I am gonna reread The Rings now.

I'd have to say The Hobbit is the most well-written and entertaining book of the four. The others that I read were slow and a task to get through.

Right now, I am reading As I Lay Dying.

I read the Hobbit after reading LOTR. It felt like Dr. Seuss trying to write fantasy.

Fell asleep reading Tolkien's the Silmarillion.

i actually tried to read the hobbit this summer......got about 20 or so pages into and just hated it so much i couldn't continue. i usually try to at least let a story build up before i abandon a book or movie, but the whole thing was just hokey. it definitely wasn't what i was expecting.

 

[kev20]

Required reading for my CRJ course:

 

[KCVolLaw]

Just finished "How to Sell: A Novel" by Clancy Martin. Heard Scorcese might make a movie about it and Martin is a former prof. of mine. Not a bad book.

Started "A bold fresh piece of humanity" by Bill O'Reilly and bought "culture warrior" also today.

 

[volinbham]

Just finished Bangkok Haunts by John Burdett. Seedy detective type story set in Thailand with some supernatural flair. It's the 3rd in a series from him following a particular half-american/half-thai policeman in Bangkok.

 

[MontereyVol]

Finished up the Genghis series by Conn Iggulden.

 

[Jaytrain5]

Just wrapped up "The Senior." Story of Mike Flynt's return to college football a few years ago at 58 or 59 years old. It wasn't awful.

Juggling "Good to Great" and "Hard Call" right now.

 

[BigPapaVol]

Just started Blink. Interesting thus far.
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[LadyinOrange]

Today I read Sundays at Tiffany's by James Patterson. Made me cry, but I loved it.

 

[MontereyVol]

Today I read Sundays at Tiffany's by James Patterson. Made me cry, but I loved it.

If you like that kind of book check out Molokai by Alan Brennert

 

[LadyinOrange]

Will do.

 

[tnvolsfan85]

Today I read Sundays at Tiffany's by James Patterson. Made me cry, but I loved it.

I have read that book as well. It was good

 

[allvol123]

The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey.

An enjoyable read.

 

[VolFirebirds]

shows how long I've been away....I'd have been all over this thread.

I just read "beat the reaper", by Josh Bazell. entertaining and fun. perfect road trip or airplane book.

currently reading "the year Babe Ruth hit 104 home runs", by Bill Jenkinson. definitely an old-school baseball nerd's thing, which works for me.

 

[kev20]

Anyone ever read The Devil In The White City? Just starting it now.

 

[GASOUTHERNVOL]

Passing the GHSGT-Implementing the Standards

 

[lawgator1]

I am reading "A Brief History of Time" by Stephen Hawking. Pretty tough to keep up, to be honest. Then again I was never very good with physics, be it measuring friction coefficients or figuring out how antiparticles thrown off from a black hole would appear to be emitted from it.

 

[orangeblooded2]

I am reading "A Brief History of Time" by Stephen Hawking. Pretty tough to keep up, to be honest. Then again I was never very good with physics, be it measuring friction coefficients or figuring out how antiparticles thrown off from a black hole would appear to be emitted from it.

Skip to the last couple of paragraphs. He took a lot of heat in the scientific community for these words. Prophetic none the less.

 

[allvol123]

Anyone ever read The Devil In The White City? Just starting it now.

I read it. Thought it was really good. Also read Thunderstruck by Larson, I think The Devil in the White City is the more enjoyable read.

 

[vol_in_ar]

just finished The Apostle, by Brad Thor

another winner in his series

 

[kiddiedoc]

I'm reading "Better Dads, Stronger Sons"...very challenging and hopefully rewarding book...so far, I'd recommend it to any father or grandfather.