What books have you been reading?

[chickenhead]

I need some new reading materials....what have you been reading?

My last few:

Hostage (http://www.amazon.com/Hostage-Novel-Robert-Crais/dp/0345434498/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1220586836&sr=8-1) , by Crais. I like a nice fast mindless page turner mixed in regularly, and I've enjoyed most of this authors, this one included. Apparently they made a movie out of this with Bruce Willis? Must have been pretty bad, as I don't think I recall ever hearing about it.

Omnivore's Dillema (http://www.amazon.com/Omnivores-Dilemma-Natural-History-Meals/dp/0143038583/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1220587123&sr=1-2) If you care about food. A pretty honest look at modern food, how it came to be, and how it differs from the olde timey ways, and why that might matter. I thought it was oddly organized in a few places, but thoughtful and interesting. I would recommend.

Zeroville (http://www.amazon.com/Zeroville-Steve-Erickson/dp/1933372397/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1220587320&sr=1-1) If Forest Gump and Travis Bickle had a love child, they would beget someone very close to the main character, Vikar. Wonderfully odd. If you like old movies, in particular.

The Road (http://www.amazon.com/Road-Oprahs-Book-Club/dp/0307387895/ref=pd_cp_b_0?pf_rd_p=413864201&pf_rd_s=center-41&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=0307455297&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=1MNMKNKP74NGQS13668K) Draining, dark, sparse, tender and honest and human. Father and Son, life, death, guilt, responsibility, love.

[46zilzal]

Suskind's new book and a marvelous study of the life and times of Ruffian (Ruffian Burning from the Start). In the latter I discovered that she fractured a rear leg at the end of her two year old season, set or tied track/and stakes records in ALL BUT ONE of her victories and, based upon the description of her pathology when she broke down, she should have been put down immediately.

[chickenhead]

read Burning from the Start (http://www.amazon.com/Ruffian-Burning-Start-Jane-Schwartz/dp/0345450000/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1220591395&sr=8-1) recently as well, great book.

[Dave Schwartz]

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[chickenhead]

Thanks for those Dave. :ThmbUp: Would you recommend all of them?

I've read How to Measure Anything, so we've got that in common, I imagine a lot of others as well. I start to feel a bit like a robot if I read only non fiction, I think it's good to keep mixing things up, just like anything else.

I tend to go on binges one way or the other tho, I don't usually intersperse them.

[DJofSD]

Physics of the Impossible, Michio Kaku. The Man Who Loved China, Simon Winchester. I Am A Strange Loop, Douglas Hofstadter. Understanding .NET, David Chappell.