Book Thread
 

What have you read recently and what do you recommend?



I've just finished Donald Trump's "The art of the Deal". It's pretty good. I think I'm going to read his "The way to the top" next. I think I'm also going to read the Da Vinci code.

For buisness minded people, I'd recommend Trump's "The Art of the Deal."

Definitly read "The Da Vinci Code" It's an excellent book.
I also recommend reading Dan Brown's other works (I have read them all) "Angels and Demons", "Deception Point" and "Digital Fortress".

I am currently re-reading the Harry Potter Books (which I also recommend...it's my one obsession and I don't care :D ).

Another book I recommend is called "e". It's hysterical. The book is entirely comprised of fictious emails from an advertising agency in London.

totally agree about the Da Vinci Code, about to start on Angels and Demons

For leisure reading I suggest anything by Nicholas Sparks (as usual the books are much better than the movies)

I'm reading "A Pirate Looks at 50" by Jimmy Buffett. Good so far, pretty interesting.

I just finished a history on the Republican Party, called "The Grand Old Party." Can't remember who wrote it, but it was really interesting, a solid summary of the history of the party and its transformations over the years.

For you feminists: The Awakening by Kate Chopin. We read this book in my Women, Gender, and Society class. It made me think and I enjoyed it.

I just read Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie, and I liked it. As always, I have to recommend A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers.

My next plan is to tackle Kierkegaard's Either/Or, Part I.

That's one of my favorite books :D He just sold Hemisphere Dancer, though. It's very sad.

I'm a huge fan of Sophie Kinsella and her Shopaholic books. I just finished her new book, "Can You Keep a Secret?" It was decent. Not as good as Shopaholic, but still good.

I'm working on Marian Keyes and Angels & Demons next

This last year I realized I hadn't read a book for pleasure in almost 10 years!!! Egads. So I have made it a point to read at least 2 books a month. I am a read it all at once, can't put it down easily, devour it kind of reader.

Latest book I read was "The Rule of Four" by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason. EXCELLENT mystery :) based at Princeton.

I just finished reading Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood. It is pretty similar in plot line to Stephen King's The Stand, so if you like that, you will probably like this one, although it's not a horror novel.

I also read Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri a few weeks ago, which I highly recommend. She won the Pulitzer for it in 2000, and it is a beautiful book. (It's a book of short stories, by the way.)

I am going to start The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold next week. If I get a chance to get to the bookstore, I'm going to try to pick up On the Road for the next GC Book Club chat, too.

One of my New Year's resolutions was to read one book a month. My June book was Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. It takes awhile to get into it. And alot of stuff could have been taken out (my version was 816 pages), but I enjoyed the main story of Anna's drama.

I just finished Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination by Helen Fielding. It was enjoyable; a little over-the-top yet enjoyable. One of the better classics I've read recently is Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather. Very interesting read about the Catholic church and the settling of the southwest.

I read the Notebook years ago. But, it is one of my faves... I will not see the movie; it could never do it justice...

Recent reads have been:

Super Teaching: Brain-based learning by Eric Jensen

Short Cuts by Raymond Carver

Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown

All highly recommended;)

Wow.. I could post a million books... I love to read...

My Sister's Keeper is a MUST READ! I don't know off hand the author. It's a fairly long book, 4 or 5 hundred pages.. I finished it in 2 days. I was reading it in class, and started bawling. It's awesome...

Summer Sisters by Judy Blume is really good too. It's easy to relate to both lead characters, which I really like.

The Lovely Bones was really good too! I want to read that one again.

I personally love A Time to Kill and The Pelican Brief, both by John Grisham.

Patricia Cornwell writes awesome books, if anyone is a fan of Quincy (Old show) or CSI, they are good.

Speaking of CSI, Max Allan Collins (The same dude who wrote Road to Perdition) writes CSI novels. They're awesome! I can read them in 3 or 4 hours... Great books. And pretty in-character with the show too!

Okay.. Shutting up now!

Hey guys - for laughs, for women, I recommend The Between Boyfriends Book by Cindy Chupack. A funny little book of essay about relationships and life.

Anything by Agatha Christie! Since she's dead, I save her mysteries to only a few a year.

And A Room with a View.

I didn't really like Deception Point by Dan Brown. I liked Angel and Demons more than The Da Vinci Code.