What are you reading right now?

Husker_x said:
Speaking of Mark Twain, a friend of mine showed me this...uh...odd clip from a children's show.

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WTF. That was seriously demented. Which is probably why I enjoyed it.

Revisiting the old Beat kick. Just wrapped up Junky by Burroughs, now rereading The Dharma Bums by Kerouac, which was always one of my favorite Kerouac books.

 
I'm about 2/3 of the way through this:

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It's a pretty good read, but Scott's prose is overly verbose. He could pare things down and make a far better read. But it's entertaining, nonetheless.

 
Dirty white boys is his dad I do believe the next book in the bob lee swagger series is the 47th samurai I just finished that about a month ago. I am gonna start reading night of thunder next but stopped to read the hunger games trilogy and finished those in a week! Reallyrecommend those. If you haven't read point of impact the first in the bob lee series I would it ties alot of things together

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RednScarlet said:
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Always up for more on this story.

This is a good book dealing with some info not covered by other books on the subject.

Will it change your mind? Probably not.

I'm reading this when the History channel is not showing one of those 'Alien' shows...
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Funny, I check this thread and you're reading that. I finished Stephen King's 11/22/63 yesterday. It's about a guy who finds a way to go back in time to stop the Kennedy assassination, among other things. At 700 pages (or whatever--I read it on Kindle), there's quite a bit more to it than the central plot thread. I haven't quite made up my mind how I feel about it yet. It got a little syrupy in the middle, but it was definitely a page turner.

Next up: Finish Hyperion by Dan Simmons, or as I like to think of it, the Canterbury Tales IN SPACE.

 
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Just started reading Tucker Maxs' second book a$$hole$ Finish First, the first chapter about the Duke nerds was probably one of the funniest chapters in a book I have ever read.

 
I'm reading the Swiss Family Robinson. I didn't realize just how much of a children's book this is before I started it. It's basically Robinson Crusoe without any danger to the family whatsoever. Everywhere they look on their island they fall bass-ackwards into a treasure trove of useful, wonderful things. I'm about 2/3 of the way through the book and I find myself hoping Fritz turns against the family and goes native, sniping at them from the bushes. Or maybe an Orwellian twist a la Animal Farm where the domesticated animals (and they have a veritable zoo of them) seals the family in their cave and takes over the island.

It's not a terrible book. It would just probably be much more palatable if I were 12.

 
I'm currently reading "The other side of the mountain: Mujahideen tactics in the Soviet-Afghan War"

It's primarily made up of vignettes based on accounts of insurgent leaders given in the 1990s and very interesting. The whole thing seems oddly ironic.

 
Just started this. About fifty pages in. Been awhile since I picked up any historical fiction. Lot of good reads in the genre, though.

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