What books are you reading?

[Rylant]

I just read Lamb, The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal. It was one of the funniest books I have ever read. It's the story of Jesus through his childhood friend, Biff's eyes. Some may consider it blasphemous, but I thought it was very tongue in cheek. In the inside cover this is written by the author, Christopher Moore.

“If you have come to these pages for laughter, may you find it.
If you are here to be offended, may your ire rise and your blood boil.
If you seek an adventure, may this song sing you away to blissful escape.
If you need to test or confirm your beliefs, may you reach comfortable conclusions.
All books reveal perfection, by what they are or what they are not.
May you find that which you seek, in these pages or outside them.
May you find perfection, and know it by name.”

Some of my favorite quotes from it

Nobody's perfect. Well, there was this one guy, but we killed him....

“Josh: "What is this thing?"
Gasper: "It's a Yeti. An abominable snowman."
Biff: "This is what happens when you f**k a sheep?"
Josh: "Not an abomination, abominable.”

Brilliant stuff.

Rylant

[horrorfan]

Stephen King's 11/22/63 Very Good. A man goes back in time to try and prevent the assassination of JFK.

Just finished 11/22/63 - agreed it was very good.

Next - Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons

[fungchen3]

"Seducing The Subconscious" by Robert Heath. So far it's one of the best books on advertising I've ever read.

[Call of Doughty]

Started King's The Gunslinger the other night, but stopped after ~50 pages. Just couldn't get into it.

So I picked up "The Stand" from my bookshelf and started that last night. This sucker is going to take me 80+ hours to get through.

My sis has a massive King collection that I currently "own" on my bookshelf. Can't believe she read them all in her mid-teens.

[DerekReese]

When do you guys get the time to read books? Between work, kids, wife and fantasy hockey and football, where is there time left to read??

[Instant Karma]

When do you guys get the time to read books? Between work, kids, wife and fantasy hockey and football, where is there time left to read??

No kids.

[ridinryan44]

I just finished two books, by Lars Kepler (a couple who work under this pseudonym), called The Hypnotist and The Nightmare. Both fantastic, edge of your seat murder mysteries that I finished within six days. It's been a while since I've had such a great "can't put down" novel and these were exactly that. If you enjoyed Steig Larsen's trilogy (girl with dragon tattoo) you would definitely like these and even if you didn't (maybe found them slow) these two move at a much quicker pace.

HIGHLY recommend!

[ridinryan44]

Started King's The Gunslinger the other night, but stopped after ~50 pages. Just couldn't get into it.

So I picked up "The Stand" from my bookshelf and started that last night. This sucker is going to take me 80+ hours to get through.

My sis has a massive King collection that I currently "own" on my bookshelf. Can't believe she read them all in her mid-teens.

Started reading The Stand myself and couldn't get through. Enjoyed it for the most part (love post-apocalyptic theme) but found it very repetitive.

[ridinryan44]

It's certainly up there. Phenomenal story.

What is this one?

[fungchen3]

Today I ordered a couple of new hockey books:

1.) Breakaway: From Behind the Iron Curtain to the NHL - The Untold Story of Hockey's Great Escapes by Tal Pinchevsky

2.) A Wild Stab for It: This Is Game Eight from Russia by Dave Bidini and Brian Pickell

In the event there is a lockout I will keep myself occupied with hockey. I love reading material on the Summit Series and old Soviet hockey system.

[Fast Tony DeNiro]

I've been re-reading James Clavell's "Asia" series, anyone else read them?

[tgraveline]

I've been re-reading James Clavell's "Asia" series, anyone else read them?

I haven't, though I do own his Whirlwind 1st edition. Just found it and got it for free so holding onto it in case it ends up being worth something.

[One87]

Today I'll be starting Arthur Koestler's book: The Thirteenth Tribe.

[NoWayOut]

I'm running out of reading material and came back to this thread looking for some more ideas. I noticed there hasn't been anything posted for awhile so I figured I'd bump this and see if anybody had any new books, or series, to add.

I'm currently looking at picking up Bernard Cornwell's Saxon Chronicles and Tim Severin's Viking Trilogy.

[Bomm Bastic]

I'm reading How to ruin a professional hockey league by Bary Gettman. But I'm thinking that's a pseudonym.