Currently on my night stand. I'm about 60 pages in, and I'm about to abandon it. It's just not..... my cup of tea.



Heh, seriously, I don't know why it's not capturing my attention, but it's not. Great story, but there's something about the writing that I dislike.

I'm reading "The Negro President: Thomas Jefferson and the Slave Power"
It kind of gives you a view of some of our founding fathers that you didn't learn about in high school.

LMAO

I hear you. I was expecting a Jon Krakauer meets Buddha or something. But it just seems like it's nothing more than a lot of useless babbling. He takes 100 pages just to tell the reader he's crossing a river or something. Unless your story is very captivating, I've got better things to do.

Recent books that I've read:

23 Minutes In Hell - Bill Weisse
Bias - Bernard Goldberg
Arrogance - Bernard Goldberg
A Slobbering Affair - Bernard Goldberg
Fleeced - Dick Morris

A big fiction fan eh :D

I'm reading Brave Companians by David McCullough. It's a series of essays about lesser know historical events or people, or maybe just a story about a famous person you may not know. For instance, one is about the building of a railroad across Panama before the Panama Canal was built. Another deals with Teddy Roosevelt's three years as a North Dakota rancher. It's good stuff.

I hear it was pretty cold.

I'm sure your mainstream media tells you to say things like that. ;)

The only thing I hear coming from your mouth is "baaa aaa".

:)

Yes, that proved to be the problem.

Reading a trilogy about Troy by David Gemmell. "Lord of the Silver Bow", "Thunder Shield" and "Death of Kings". Well done.

Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

P. J. O'Rourke

Dead Until Dark series.

The Brewmaster's Table by Garrett Oliver (Brewmaster of Brooklyn Brewery). Its a deep look at how to effectively pair beer with food & why beer is a better pair with food than wine is for nearly every conceivable dish. It also goes deeply into the history of the various beer styles.

Its a great book for learning about beer and it will improve your culinary life dramatically.

I'm about to start the 7th novel, Fall With Honor. I've really enjoyed the series. There's one more after this one.

I just finished reading The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss.

There were some very minor problems with it, like some lighthanded editing and a main character with few flaws, but I really enjoyed it. I will say it is only the start of a trilogy, so the ending isn't really an ending.

I pictured Oblivion as I was reading it.