What is everybody reading? (Both GCA and non-golf)

[Dan Kelly]

Gillette Silver recently sent me a diary created in a form that I did not know existed.  Each night his mother would request that he write down his thoughts of the day and then without reading what he wrote she would put her thoughts on the opposite back page.

Fantastic idea!

[Gene Greco]

       "To The Nines" by Anthony Pioppi

       "Race Around Musselburgh Links" by Patrick Mucci  

[Tom Naccarato]

Sam, I've heard the same.

Myself, well I'm currently reading three books.

--Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul by Tony Hendra
--Speaking Out For America's Poor: The Life & Work of Robert Hunter by Edward Allen Brawley
--The World Atlas of Golf by various

Of course, I'm always finding myself going back to Golf Architecture in America a lot!

[Paul Stephenson]

Golf: "Driven."  I just finished it.  I liked it, but not as compelling as "Tommy's Honour."

Non-Golf:  "Shock Troops:  Canadians Fighting the Great War.  1917-18."  This is the last of a 2 volume history of the Canadian Corps in The First World War.  The author, Tim Cook, is the First World War Historian at the Canadian War Museum.

"The Secret Life of Words", by Henry Hitchings is on the bedside table, but it gets little attention.  I'll eventually plow through the book, which is a history of the development of the English language.

If you liked that book John try Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson if you already haven't.

[Bradley Anderson]

Reading "Rascal" aloud before bed time to my 13 and 9 year old boys.

Reading "Heresies" a very detailed history of orthodoxy.

[Mike Hendren]

Freedom of Simplicity by Richard Foster, one of my favorite authors.

[Charlie Goerges]

Reading "Rascal" aloud before bed time to my 13 and 9 year old boys.

Reading "Heresies" a very detailed history of orthodoxy.

I'll see your "Rascal" and raise you "A Mud Pie for Mother" and "Fox in Socks"

[Phil Benedict]

Non-fiction: "Trial by War" by James MacPherson.  Examines Lincoln in the role of Commander-in-Chief, a role largely defined by Lincoln, who was the first and only tall, skinny guy from Illinois to become President until now.

Fiction:  Kate Atkinson's Jackson Brodie crime mysteries.  The Brits do mysteries with so much panache.

[Jay Flemma]

Pete Dye Golf Courses by Joel Zuckerman

The Fourth Bear by Jasper Fforde (the latest in a long line of great British satirists.)

[Brad Tufts]

Sort of on this topic....

Michael Crichton, one of my favorite novelists, passed away yesterday at age 66, of cancer.  A big loss for the world of fiction.

[Dan Kelly]

My wife informs me that the new World Atlas arrived on our doorstep today.

I won't say how little I was charged for it!

[Tony Petersen]

"Infinite Jest" by David Foster Wallace; also "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy...

As far as golf related, I'm picking up a couple that have been noted on here, though I never tire of "golf porn."

 

[rboyce]

Non-Golf: The Snowball by Alice Schroeder.

But, since there's a little golf in everything, here's a snip,

"The boys [Warren Buffett and his friend] had started to golf. John McRae's father worked as a greenskeeper at Tregaron, a famous estate close to downtown Washington that belonged to heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post and her husband, Joseph E. Davies, who was ambassador to Russia. The family had dozens of servants and was almost never home, so the boys went over and played on the nine-hole golf course."

[Deucie Bies]

Golf: Swinley Special

Non-Golf: None (I read enough at work)!

[Sean_A]

I don't seem able to read one book at a time and at the moment I am not reading any golf related material.  I have five other books on the go:

In Search Of Shakespeare by M Wood (seems superb thus far)
Leonoardo DaVinci by C Nicholl (its a bit hard going at the moment)
Travel and Discovery in the Renaissance by B Penrose (excellent)
One Hundred Years of Solitude By GG Marquez (a re-read)
Best of Wodehouse Everyman's Library (not decided yet)

Ciao

[Jay Flemma]

"Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA" by Tim Weiner and "The Best There Ever Was" by John Ed Bradley.  Just finished "Dead Solid Perfect" by Jenkins for the 3rd time.

Bruce I like Dead solid perfect, but Slim and None is three times as good.  Its much funnier and has a lot more golf.  Franchise babe is funny too.

However I will also say that the scene in DSP where waylon and his bro take over the high school and make those spirited announcements over the loudspeaker is just uproariously funny...

[Craig Disher]

Non-golf:

Currently, The Great Game - Peter Hopkirk. I recall someone saying that those who don't read history are doomed to repeat it. If true, no one has read history recently.

I just finished Robert Graves' Goodbye to All That. A beautifully written memoir about a period that had some real horror.

Golf:

Currently, USGA's The Rules of Golf - about 15 minutes a day with frequent re-reads. I love how it's organized.

[Marty Bonnar]

'Dream Golf - The Making of Bandon Dunes'. Bit of a yawn so far. (Not NEARLY enough pics!)
and
'Good To Great' by Jim Collins. Airport business psychobabble mostly, but interesting case studies, nonetheless.

FBD.

[Gary Daughters]

"The Gate House" by Nelson Demille.

[J_ Crisham]

Just finished the Franchise Babe-great read. Started The Shoes Of The Fisherman-a fictional novel about the election of a new pope.
                            Jack

[PThomas]

very good:  "Nixonland- The Rise of a President and Fracturing of America"
by Rick Perlstein

[Rich Brittingham]

Just returned from the Carribean and thus I've started in on "Treasure Island" - Robert Louis Steveson

[Peter Pallotta]

I just read Cormac McCarthy's "The Road".  Years ago, I'd gone through a period of reading almost no new fiction, and then I read McCarthy's "Blood Meridian" -- and couldn't believe a writer could flat-out write so well.

Peter

[Ted Kramer]

I highly recomend the book I just finished . . .

Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World (Paperback)
by Mark Kurlansky

A very interesting, eye opening, quick read.

-Ted

[JSPayne]

Sort of on this topic....

Michael Crichton, one of my favorite novelists, passed away yesterday at age 66, of cancer.  A big loss for the world of fiction.

Brad....

I hadn't heard this......and I can't believe how much reading it just affected me. He may not be the one of the greatest writers ever, but I absolutely love everything he's written.

I could go on and on about it, but for now I can only mourn that I, and we, won't be privilege to any more of his writings. Now I need to go find a comprehensive list and see if there's anything from years past that I have missed reading.

I pass on "State of Fear" to everyone I know for it's pertinent and well-balanced thoughts on a very important topic to the world today. And "Travels" is an abosultely eye-opening, mind-boggling enjoyable read. What an amazing man and life.

RIP