Books

[Ubu]

I just finished one called The Book Thief and am debating on what to start next? Any suggestions?

What are some of your favorite books? What are you reading now?

[Ubu]

I did find the O'Brian books. Some of them are in the library system. I found out one of them was Master and Commander which was also the movie. My list keeps getting longer.

[robbo]

Your right Chez. All these years I've thought of how surreal computer life really is but they are still actually more into reality than a book aren't they , I feel better now !

[larry kremis]

What battle ended WW1? It wasn't a battle that ended the war, it was the Spanish Flu. It killed so many soldiers on all sides that it forced an armistice. A doctor friend of mine told me to read "FLU", a true and very scary non-fiction. He said that the Spanish flu was so bad that a soldier would feel fine one day and be dead the next. I asked him how it didn't wipe out the whole world's population if it was so bad. He said that after a few years it just disappeared. The name of the book is simply "Flu".

[Ubu]

This one goes on the list, too. Interesting.

[Ubu]

I found two books called Flu. This one? Oops. I found another cover for this same book. I'm pretty sure this is it.

[larry kremis]

That's probably it Ubu. I haven't looked for it yet. I just found out about it last weekend.

[funesthememorious]

Steal This Book by Abbie Hoffman. i stole it.

[Mother Sanity (JackieRodzinski)]

I still have my copy, too. But, sigh, I bought it.

[Callipyge]

I'm in the middle of A Legal Primer on Managing Museum Collections.

It's good if you have insomnia!

[Ubu]

I've got a lot of books like that one that have the same effect.

[Mother Sanity (JackieRodzinski)]

A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry, Cities of Salt by Abdelrahman Munif, Perfume by Patrick Suskind, For Whom the Bell Tolls by Hemingway, The Sea Wolf by Jack London, The Plague by Camus are some of my favorites, off the top.

Right now I'm between things and am reading Beginning SQL.
Thanks for asking.

[Chez moi]

I forgot to mention Mark Haddon's 'The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-time' and 'A Spot of Bother'. If you like things straightforward, they are not. I loved them. I also remember liking Carrie Fisher (Postcards From The Edge) and Nora Ephron (Heartburn). Jasper Fforde, father of SpecOps, has some amusingly wacky ideas, but I keep wanting to rewrite in places.

Less odd? 'The Girl in Hyacinth Blue' by Susan Vreeland.

Less recent? Big fan of John Updike. And the other John, Cheever.