What book are you reading?

stargirl69

I have just got Neil Peart's new book Far and Away at the Rush concert tonight and began reading that on the journey home.

MayDay10

Night Shift - Stephen King.

smarchee

Shadowrise - Book 3 of an epic story called Shadowmarch by Tad Williams

who is a great fantasy writer

iamica

I'm reading Wuthering Heights right now...I gotta hand it to those 19th century writers, I may not like all of their books, but they sure are page turners.

brianlux

Adrian C. Lewis, THE VORTEX OF INDIAN FEVERS. Intense, thought provoking, masterful poetry.

Newch91

iamica wrote:

I'm reading Wuthering Heights right now...I gotta hand it to those 19th century writers, I may not like all of their books, but they sure are page turners.

The worst 19th century book I read was Jane Eyre for high school. That wasn't my strongest second marking period my sophomore year.

Cradles Broken Glass

I just finished Bloodroot, which I loved. I'm currently reading "You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train" by the great Howard Zinn. I'm also probably going to start Jane Eyre, it's a classic that I never got around to.

Cradles Broken Glass

iamica wrote:

I'm reading Wuthering Heights right now...I gotta hand it to those 19th century writers, I may not like all of their books, but they sure are page turners.

Wuthering Heights is my #1 favorite book. Heathcliff is that ultimate "bad boy" with a sensitive side. I turned the pages as fast as I could and when I was finished I started it over.

aNiMaL

BamaPJFan wrote:

I just finished Sammy Hagar's autobiography where he exposes the foolish antics that took place while he was in Van Halen, as well as his life before and after Van Halen. I actually went to one of Sammy's book signings and he was the nicest, coolest dude. It's a shame that Ed and Al are lunatics and wasted many years of making great rock music. I'm a huge Sammy fan, by the way.

Sammy wrote about the tour that he and Roth did back in 2002 and how Roth was a complete wreck during the tour and only played his old Van Halen covers, while Sammy played a few VH songs, but also did his solo work and Montrose tunes. Sammy mentioned how his merchandise outsold Roth's merch on that tour by 4 to 1. Sammy also found it amusing how Roth would never come on stage with Sammy to do any collaborations after Sammy had asked Roth over and over to do this.

* Sammy gives Eddie Vedder some quick props in the book. He also mentions Scott Weiland and how Weiland refused to let David Lee Roth come on stage to jam with Velvet Revolver at the Rock Hall of Fame ceremonies a few years ago when VH was inducted. (Only Sammy and Mike showed up to speak on behalf of VH that night because of how dysfunctional the brothers and Roth were behaving.)

I have to read this book!! I love a good rock and roll book, am a huge VH fan, and a big Sammy Hagar fan, and i was at The Gorge in 2002 for the Sammy/Dave concert and walked away from it with WAAAY more respect for Sammy than when I went in. Going to the show i was more excited about Dave being there, but he made such an ass of himself, and gave no props to VH at all, just played all VH music. Sammy on the other hand, played music from his entire career, and told a cool story about writing music with Eddie. Very classy guy that Sammy Hagar is.

Thanks for sharing.

aNiMaL

EmBleve wrote:

Scar Tissue Anthony Kiedis

Excellent read, I thought. I felt like i was high when he was high in the book, and low when he was low.

electronblue

just finished reading patti smith's "just kids"

Jeanwah

electron blue wrote:

just finished reading patti smith's "just kids"

What'd ya think? I loved that book.

EmBleve

aNiMaL wrote:

EmBleve wrote:

Scar Tissue Anthony Kiedis

Excellent read, I thought. I felt like i was high when he was high in the book, and low when he was low.

I agree, it was excellent. It was much better than I thought it would be. Quite entertaining.

brianlux

Marc Spitz Nobody Likes You, Inside the turbulent Life and Times of Green Day. An interesting, mostly well read story about the band from my first home town... I spent the first year of my life on Gilman street- of course I like these guys!

dcfaithful

just picked up The Road by Cormack McCarthy from my local library... we'll see how it goes.

rrivers

PJ212 wrote:

Bossypants - Tina Fey... pretty funny

I read that. Laugh out loud funny!

rrivers

guitar59 wrote:

cbrunelle783 wrote:

number1PJfan wrote:

Water for Elephants

That's the only one of hers that's really good. Her latest, Ape House, is dreadful which is too bad b/c bonobo's are cool but the book is awful. I can't wait to see the movie of Water for Elephants.

This is good to know. I enjoyed Water for Elephants and since Ape House is now an affordable paperback I thought I would read it...maybe not...

I just finished The Hunger Games Trilogy and just started To Kill a Mockingbird. I decided that I would read some classics this year, interspersed with the trade fiction.

I finished "Mockingbird" a few months ago. Really enjoyed it. Didn't remember much of it from high school.

Currently halfway through "A Clash of Kings". Second book in the "Game of Thrones" series.

PilateOfTheStorm

eddie vedder & pearl jam : none too fragile by martin clarke

and also unless by carol shields (because i'm lazy & easily distracted)

BLACK35

Brotherhood of Warriors by Aaron Cohen

Good read, about some kid of Israel heritage (US citizen) who went to Israel to join the special forces. He makes it to the most prestigious parts of their counter terrorism units. Crazy stuff

Nastasja

The Glass Castle - Jeanette Walls

Digital Twilight

dcfaithful wrote:

just picked up The Road by Cormack McCarthy from my local library... we'll see how it goes.

I love that book.

I'm currently reading:

Capitalism as if the world matters - Jonathon Porritt

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Capitalism-as-I ... =8-1-fkmr1

Great book so far. Worth reading if anyone is interested in the environment and the world's future sustainability.

xavier mcdaniel

Uppity - the new biography of Bill White, former Cardinal, former NL president and ex-broadcast partner of Phil Rizzuto.

Nastasja

Traversuras de la nina mala - Mario Vargas Llosa

smarchee

Where Men Win Glory - Jon Krakauer

uninnocent-

various authors - darwin's bastards

it's a collection of canadian post-apocalyptic short stories by many canadian fiction writers. sadly a few of the stories i've read so far are shite, though there have been a couple shining moments. i'm hoping it'll get better as i progress through it.

cbrunelle783

The Reading Promise- Alice Ozma About this girl who's father read to her every night from the time she was 9 until she left for college. Sounds a little overbearing?? it's not it's really great.

Newch91

"56: Joe DiMaggio and the Last Magic Number in Sports" - Kostya Kennedy

xavier mcdaniel

I'm 150 pages into the Stan Musial book by George Vescey.

jervin007

A Feast For Crows by George R.R. Martin. Book four of the Game of Thrones series.

Once I finish it I am finally going to tackle The Dark Tower series. I have read the first three books, but never can find time to finish it due to school.

Who Princess

Kristin Lavransdattar by Sigrid Unset
Rereading it for the umpteenth time (if you're counting the previous version), 2nd time for the Tiina Nunnely translation. Incredibly rich story.