What Are You Reading?

[MartyNeilan]

Just about the only thing I read most days, and the only thing worth reading

[timdicarlo]

Just finished the Ender's Game series (which was fantastic), and now I'm rereading the Hitchhiker's Guide series. I recommend both.

[TMurphy]

Sadly, I don't have any books I'm actively reading. I'm a big fan of the Dexter TV series on Showtime, and I recently finished all three of the Jeff Lindsay novels the show is based on. entertaining books, but, for once, the TV show is actually more interesting!!

I typically prefer to read non-fiction, mostly history. David McCullough is great, I need to read more of his books. I loved "The Great Bridge," which is about the building of the Brooklyn Bridge. Wade, as a former Brooklynite, you should check it out.

I also enjoyed Doris Kearns Goodwin's "Team of Rivals." An interesting look at Lincoln and his cabinet.

Hmm...I should go back to that biography of Washington I never finished...

[LoyalTubist]

I'm trying to learn Tagalog. So I'm memorizing a Tagalog dictionary I bought at the National Book Store. Some words are fairly easy. There isn't so much grunting as there was in Vietnamese. And the Filipinos are much nicer if you mess up something.

[SplatterTone]

I'm not reading it, but this book just got a rave review from Telegraph.co.uk
http://tinyurl.com/5vp4ga

I read a lot of Internet stuff, not much of the hold it in your hands and read it stuff. But the last thing I read, I thought it was pretty good. "The Perfect Machine". It's about the 200-inch (5-meter) Hale telescope at the Palomar Observatory. Not so much about the scope itself, but the people who got it built: George Ellery Hale whose patience and perserverance in getting the funding, managing conflicts between people, and keeping the project moving made it happen; Marcus Brown who oversaw the grinding of the mirror, and whose entire working life was essentially the training leading up to and then figuring this one mirror; the guy at Pyrex (forgot his name) who figured out how to cast the mirror. And there is the stuff that was tried that didn't work. After reading it, you can understand why nobody tried to do it again for about 50 years until advances in technology created a whole new ballgame.

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[tubatom91]

I also read alot of my Arnold Jacobs: Song and Wind book. I forgot to mention that earlier.