What are you reading?

[Wheel Gun]

Graham Greene's "The Third Man". Then, I'm going back to reread the entire Bernard Samson series from Len Deighton. I've got an upcoming trip to Berlin and Vienna and I'm reading up on these places. Nothing describes these cities like good Cold War fiction does.

 

[mightymouse]

I really like the Jack Reacher series by Lee Child.

 

[druryj]

"Killing Lincoln" by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard. An absolutely fascinating look at the times, events, people and circumstances which led to this most heinous act. I've read everyrhing I could get my hands on about the Civil War in general and Lincoln in particular; this one rates right at the top.

 

[IreneKennedy]

Being a huge Mystery/Thriller fan, I read certain authors as soon as they publish something new. Just finished 'The Affair' by Lee Child, 'Shock Wave' by John Sanford, 'The Drop' by Michael Connelly, 'Feast Day' of Fools by James Lee Burke, 'Moonlight Mile' by Dennis Lehane.

Awaiting 'Kill Shot' by Vince Flynn and 'Taken' by Robert Crais.

 

[been]

im reading "Liberty Defined" by Ron Paul.
i plan on reading "Killing Lincoln" by Bill O'Reilly next.

 

[dutchwrangler]

Two books at the moment...

Reason, The Only Oracle of Man: Or, a Compenduous System of Natural Religion by Ethan Allen. The second book is the Collected Writings of Thomas Paine, which includes Common Sense (I have this as a seperate book already),The Age of Reason and Rights of Man.

 

[Pstmstr]

Just finished One Second After. Makes you think about the possibility of an Electro Magnetic Pulse and how most of us would be SOL in that situation.

 

[rhodesbe]

My wife just wrapped up 'The Hunger Games'.

I admit, for a chick-centric book trilogy, it sounds like dudes could read it with no foul. Does anyone have experience?

 

[Cohiba]

Archimedes to Hawking
This book takes the reader on a journey across the centuries as it explores the eponymous physical laws--from Archimedes' Law of Buoyancy and Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle and Hubble's Law of Cosmic Expansion--whose ramifications have profoundly altered our everyday lives and our understanding of the universe.
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Che Guevara....A Revolutionary Life

This is an excellent book on Che Guevara, the rebel whose epic dream was to end poverty and injustice in Latin America and the developing world through armed revolution. Jon Lee Anderson’s biography traces Che’s extraordinary life, from his comfortable(wealthy) Argentine upbringing(he went to medical school and became a doctor) to the battlefields of the Cuban revolution, From the halls of power in Castro’s government to his failed campaign in the Congo and execution in the Bolivian jungle.

Age of the Gunfighter.....Men and weapons on the frontier 1840-1900

Based upon contemporary and informed opinion, Age of the Gunfighter tells of a tempestuous time and many a notorious gunfighter. Few of those who achieved fame and a reputation lived into old age. Ed Masterson, Tom Smith, and Bill Tilghman, for example, died in the line of duty. Others, like Wild Bill Hickok, Jesse James, and Billy the Kid, were murdered because of their reputations, at the hands of the law or for personal or financial gain. And the few who survived into old age in the twentieth century, such as Wyatt Earp, were men out of place and time, steeped in nostalgia for an era gone but immortalized as the age of the gunfighter.
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Cohiba

 

[dolang1]

AWOL on the Appalachian Trail by David Miller is an enjoyable read. I'll never walk the AT but I enjoy thinking about it. Later Don