What are you reading right now?

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Enhance89 said:
knapplc said:
I'm currently reading the William Gibson works. Started with Burning Chrome, went through the Sprawl series and the Bridge series and now I'm reading The Difference Engine. Good stuff, and he's a visionary writer, but it's funny sometimes to see how far off some of his predictions were. Faxes still being used 100 years from now? I'm guessing not. :D
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What are these like/about, and what genre?
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My bad. I spaced off this thread/comment.

Gibson's work is largely considered seminal in the cyberpunk genre. He coined such terms as "cyberspace" and generally came up with the concept of the internet 10-15 years before it became reality. They're dystopian sci/fi and I'd recommend them, even if some of his future predictions do seem out of date today.
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I love sci-fi. Dune was one of my favorite books of all time.

 
Men's Health has a list of 11 Summer Reads for Men

http://www.menshealth.com/best-life/best-beach-books?fullpage=true

I picked 1 from each category that I thought sounded interesting.

Novels

The Son by Phillip Meyer (Ecco)

A multigenerational Western spanning the 1800s Comanche raids in Texas to the 20th century oil boom, The Son is due out on May 28 and has already earned praise as possibly one of the great American novels. “When you’ve finished the last page, you’ll take a breath and wonder how the hell Meyer could possibly surpass this monument of a book,” says Chris Schluep, senior editor of books at Amazon.com.

Short Story Collections

The Fun Parts: Stories by Sam Lipsyte (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Lipsyte's 2010 novel The Ask was a darkly funny examination of millennial white collar self-loathing. In this collection of a dozen short stories, the author covers everything from a monster preying on a boy's fantasy realm to a male childbirthing coach.“Lipsyte specializes in people in over their heads, trying to talk their way out of absurd situations of their own design,” says Ellen Wernecke, a book reviewer for The Onion's A.V. Club.

Non-Fiction

Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Scott Anderson (Doubleday)

Anderson's carefully researched account of British Army officer T.E. Lawrence during the Arab Revolt in World War I overturns everything you think you knew about the Middle East. Anderson makes the case that the groundwork for many of our modern problems was laid by not just the famed Lawrence, but also the men working for him—who were maybe not so different from yourself. “These relatively low level officers had their own adventurous hand in the affairs of the region,” says Schluep.

 
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Just finished Who's on First by William F. Buckley Jr.

It is a thriller about an American CIA agent during the start of the Cold War. Pretty entertaining

I just started The Simeon Chamber by Steve Martini. Not bad so far.

 
Stumpy1 said:
Just finished Who's on First by William F. Buckley Jr.

It is a thriller about an American CIA agent during the start of the Cold War. Pretty entertaining

I just started The Simeon Chamber by Steve Martini. Not bad so far.
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The Simeon Chamber is very interesting. Most of Steve Martini's books follow a central character named Paul Madriani but this one is a stand alone.

 
I am not sure if any of you read his books, but author Vince Flynn died today at age 47 from cancer. He has written several fictional novels about counter-terrorism and the CIA. All but one of novels (the first one-Term Limits, a must read) centered around a central character named Mitch Rapp. His books are very exciting and I recommend that you read them.

 
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I always read a couple of books per year that are outside my wheelhouse. Last year I read the Hunger Games trilogy. The year before that was Girl With the Dragon Tattoo series. This year, I have a few oddballs like this in the queue.

 
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"Moneyball." Michael Lewis. (He's one of my favorite authors.) He wrote "Blind Side" about Michael Oher, now offensive tackle for the Ravens. His best book though, IMHO, is "Liars Poker." About bond traders in the 70s and 80s.

/Edit: I liked the book "Moneyball" so much that I stopped by the video store and bought the movie. Prolly watch it tonight.

 
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