What books are you guys currently reading?
 

I've been going a little crazy in the Ibook's store, downloading a ton of samples to fill up my Summer reading list. I tend to read for about 20-30 minutes each night before bed :sleep

So far the only real purchase I made was The 4-Hour Body (top left) and I'm about 30 pages deep so far; I've heard mixed reviews about it so we'll see...

I prefer non-fiction, world history (hence the Egypt stuff) and of course business-related books (as you can see with the Inbound Marketing sample in the bottom right-hand corner). Going to be taking a look at some Wordpress and Google related stuff next...

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So, GFY, what are you currently reading?
Any recommendations?
Favorite book(s) of all time?

Harry Potter

The War of Art by Steven Pressfield

Just finished, ONE SECOND AFTER, by william R. Forstchen. Excellent read.

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Read books? You have time to do that?

Holy shit!

I'm down to about one a week.

I just read the whole Avery Cates series from Jeff Sommers. 5th and last book in the series comes out on the 28th.

I liked Keith Richards' auto-biography, even though I don't really like the Stones all that much (way more after reading his book).

Girlvert by Oriana Small / Ashley Blue

A book on Richard Prince's art.

A James Joyce bio.

Exactly. I do most of my reading on the can. I can usually get through a chapter or two until the wife starts bitching, "Is that what you're going to do all day?"


Just finished reading "Direct Your Own Damn Movie" by Lloyd Kaufman.

I'm reading Paulo Coelho.

Iain M Banks - The Algebraist. pretty good. I've been on a Banks kick lately, reading thru all his stuff.

I can't stop reading (audio books) James Ellroy. My Dark Places is my fav.

snuff by chuck palahniuk

Most people here cant read.

listening to this book right now (it's a mother fucker)
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I listen to all my books right now... is that considered cheating?

Recommended reading:

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Aren't audio books kind of expensive? Where are you guys getting them?

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Funny :)

the show had some funny stuff

Waiting for Godot is one of my favorite books but I read it a while back. The only books I seem to read anymore are technical books (CSS, Web, Programming, etc).

Libraries have ton of them :thumbsup

I'm currently reading "The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism" by Paul Kengor. It talks about how Regan's primary goal was to take out mother Russia.

The book before that was about US Special Forces.

have about 100 seo books and audios to go over for the summer...

I am always reading up on history and always reading up on cooking... lately its' been bread making and going to try to make my own mozzarella this weekend.

"How To Kill Someone And Get Away With It" - Walter Frost

"The Pocket Guide To Mass Murder" - Leona Shore







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I'm making my way through the following, by Lloyd Kaufman, from Troma creator of The Toxic Avenger.

Direct Your Own Damn Movie
Produce Your Own Damn Movie
Make Your Own Damn Movie

The graphic novel Joker by Brian Azzarello

And a bunch of Cinematography text books.

let's see, currently reading:
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before that:
'The Lincoln Lawyer' and 'The Reversal' by Michael Connelly

before that:
'The Pillars of the Earth' and 'World Without End' by Ken Follett

and before that:
every book by Dan Brown

i'd have to go look at what i read before that. yes i have time to read. it keeps the brain active. plus i have to shit at least once a day....
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I finally read The Girl with the dragon tattoo which was good but a bit slow to get going so took me a while. I need fast reads, the ones where you can't put the book down. Before that was The Sign and that one was done in less than a week

Psychology by David Myers

Reagan's daily goal was not to soil his diaper.

that said, re-reading
The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinzki...

like cockpit myself...

I'm more into SF myself;
I'm currently reading Herman Hesse (wait let me google the title, translation might not be ad literam) The Glass Bead Game - also published as Magister Ludi wikipedia tells me

Recently finished "Johnny Got His Gun" by Dalton Trumbo.

Now reading Thomas Paine's "Common Sense".

Next on my list is Dietrich Bonhoeffer's "Letters & Papers from Prison".

The New Rules of Marketing and PR: How to Use Social Media, Blogs, News Releases, Online Video, and Viral Marketing to Reach Buyers Directly, 2nd Edition


http://www.amazon.com/New-Rules-Mark...8064543&sr=8-1

gutenberg.org has loads of old classic books on it for free. Pretty much everything before the 30s i think. 36,000 books anyway.

This one is a beast. It's from by Jack London from 1910 and about a guy in a straitjacket in solitary confinement for murder. He has these journeys back in time to a variety of times and places. Really recommend this one.

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1162

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Creating Android and iPhone Applications.

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I've read "Make" about 10 times. Just finished "Direct," nothing new in terms of actual filmmaking details (other than blurbs from Eli Roth, Ron Jeremy, etc.), but lots of new stories, and of course Lloyd's wit. Moving on to "Produce" next....plus I need to pick up the Toxic Avenger Novel that came out a few years ago.

Did you read "Everything I Know About Filmmaking I Learned From The Toxic Avenger?"

There's also a DVD series of "Make Your Own..."

looks like you like reading a lot of samples :winkwink:

the Keith Richards autobio

some shitty book on anger managment

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When I go underground free from the Truman Mind Torture Probe

I'll get started on Understanding Natural Language and work on my smart search engine. 10 years behind because of your govt.

I read and liked the Hunger Games trilogy. They're making movies out of the books, so I encourage anyone who might read them to read them before that. The three novels are Hunger Games, Catching Fire, and Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins.

I'd also recommend Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates by Tom Robbins or Practical Demonkeeping by Christopher Moore

I tend to read a few books simultaneously, some in the bathroom, some during lunch, some in the evenings:


The Gaea Trilogy (Titan, Wizard & Daemon) by John Varley (Sci Fi... really good)

Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang , and Jon Halliday (non-fiction, Pretty intense, banned in China)

The Voyager's Handbook: The Essential Guide to Blue Water Cruising by Beth Leonard (non-fiction, have some long trips planned in the boat, and I like learn all the time)

The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction by Gardner Dozois and Robert Silverberg (some great stuff in there)

Waterloo (Sharpe's Adventures, No. 11) by Bernard Cornwell (kind of silly, but ok)



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Jay did i see a Danielle Steel book in there?

trying to finish the malazan series right now

The GF has control over it too ya know lol. :winkwink: :1orglaugh

I don't believe you lol :1orglaugh