[Dan Kelly]

I read Goodnight Moon, and about 15 Dr. Suess books every night.
The Fiffer Feffer Feff and the Zizzer Zazzer Zuz get a lot of press, but I tend to favor aunt Annie's Alligator, and the quacking quackeroo. Ten tired turtles in the tutle tutle tree always make my son smile . . .

My daughters' favorite was

by Rod Trinca, with illustrations by Kerry Argent

A boy who likes 10 tired turtles would love it!

[Craig Van Egmond]

Just finished "Botnets - The Killer Web App"  by numerous authors.. currently reading "The Pursuit of God" by AW Tozer with "Cross" by James Patterson on deck.

Also reading lots of Dr. Seuss books for the grandkids.

[George Pazin]

Has anyone on here read The Plot Against America by Philip Roth?

I've been trying to get through it for 3 years now, but I just can't get past first 20 pages or so, which is all long winded narrative. The fact that I glance at the rest of the book and see more of the same does not encourage me.

Anyone read it and recommend it? Does it ever pick up?

[Dale_McCallon]

Ted,

Great picks.  When I started reading this thread, I thought to myself "I haven't really been reading much lately."  Now I realize why.  Most of time is spent reading to my 2 1/2 year old.

Right now we spend a lot of time with Walter the Farting Dog and the all time classic in our world "Going on a Bear Hunt."

[John Keenan]

If you enjoy unusual non-fiction try a book of stories(unable to really call them short) by David Foster Wallace called Consider the Lobster.  

Good reading

[Jim Franklin]

A Course of Their Own by John H Kennedy.

[Mark Bourgeois]

Has anyone on here read The Plot Against America by Philip Roth?

I've been trying to get through it for 3 years now, but I just can't get past first 20 pages or so, which is all long winded narrative. The fact that I glance at the rest of the book and see more of the same does not encourage me.

Anyone read it and recommend it? Does it ever pick up?

George, I thought it was fantastic, and I certainly didn't struggle for three years to get past page 20.  It sounds like a "life is too short" problem and you should dump it.  Are you a particular fan of his?

I'm about halfway through "American Pastoral." I put it down right before the Va Tech massacre and maybe that's why I haven't picked it up yet -- prescient.

Mark

[Peter Pallotta]

Ted - thanks, I don't know how I forgot. Yes, I've just finished reading (and reading, and reading) "Goodnight Moon". I now have an aching and deep-seated longing to live in a great green room with a telephone and a toy balloon, and a picture of a cow jumping over the moon. One day, perhaps. I'm also very familiar with what the Brown Bear sees, including a yellow duck and a purple horse.

I read about old, drunken jazz musicians just to stay sane

Peter

[Kalen Braley]

Been reading:

"Grounds for Golf" by Geoff S
"How to Break Software"  by James Whitaker

Been thinking about starting back in on:

"The Bell Curve"  by Richard J. Herrnstein.  Started it a couple of years ago, but put it down for awhile.

[George Pazin]

George, I thought it was fantastic, and I certainly didn't struggle for three years to get past page 20.  It sounds like a "life is too short" problem and you should dump it.  Are you a particular fan of his?

Thanks for the input, Mark, one of these days I guess I'll try again. I want to get through it for some maybe kind of odd personal reasons, and no, I'm not necessarily a fan, in fact I haven't read any other Philip Roth - though I did once triumph in a game of Trivial Pursuit by coming up with Portnoy's Complaint. Maybe I feel I owe him one.

[PThomas]

one I finished about a month ago, which i highly recommend:  A Great Deluge, Douglas Brinkley...a powerful, appalling tale of Katrina and the (lack of ) quick response to it

[TEPaul]

I'm about to launch into Einstein by Isaacson and Greenspan's book about his life and times.

And I've decided to complement that by getting in touch with the kid in me again by regularly watching cartoons early Saturday mornings---but only early cartoons, that is, like Bugs and Dumbo, Popeye and Olive Oirrl and Daffy Duck and such. I might throw in some Road Runner too for a little era-balance.

[Sean_A]

Uh, it's in one of those books you're supposed to be reading. And 10,000? Where did you sleep? Do you still keep poor Pepys locked in your boot?

Let me take a crack at this:
I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell, by Tucker Max
Porn for Women, by Susan Anderson and the Cambridge Women's Pornography Cooperative*
       *For balance.

Mark

Sleeping was part of the problem!  I live in a considerably smaller house in the UK - meaning no library.  Books were in storage until I finally got up the nerve to sell them off in one go.  I had always thought I might open a book come wine shop, but I was sure that my profits would end up in glasses - so it was a no go.  Hence, the wine was sold off as well.    

To be honest, the thing I regret selling the most to make the move was my Chevy S-10.  I loved that truck.

Ciao  

[George Pazin]

...but only early cartoons, that is, like Bugs and Dumbo, Popeye and Olive Oirrl and Daffy Duck and such. I might throw in some Road Runner too for a little era-balance.

You're missing out - there's a new cartoon on The Learning Channel called Peep and the Big Wide World that is not only very clever, it shares its title with your own theory of golf.

 

I have a couple Einstein books that I'm working my way through - My Einstein (highly recommended, just loaned it to my dad the other day or I'd send it your way) and Annus Mirablis (too soon to tell).

[Tom Dunne]

"Travels With Herodotus" by the late, great Ryszard Kapuscinski. Doesn't measure up to the work from the prime of his career, but as it proved to be his last book, it's a beautiful coda to it.

[Mark Bourgeois]

Tom D

What do you think of his description of the business traveler's life:

"Pack the suitcase. Unpack it, pack it, unpack it, pack it: typewriter (Hermes Baby), passport (SA 323273), ticket, airport, stairs, airplane, fasten seat-belt, take off, unfasten seat-belt, flight, rocking, sun, stars, space, hips of strolling stewardesses, sleep, clouds, falling engine speed, fasten seat-belt, descent, circling, landing, earth, unfasten seat-belts, stairs, airport, immunization book, visa, customs, taxi, streets, houses, people, hotel, key, room, stuffiness, thirst, otherness, foreignness, loneliness, waiting, fatigue, life."

Mark

[Ted Kramer]

I'm about to launch into Einstein by Isaacson and Greenspan's book about his life and times.

And I've decided to complement that by getting in touch with the kid in me again by regularly watching cartoons early Saturday mornings---but only early cartoons, that is, like Bugs and Dumbo, Popeye and Olive Oirrl and Daffy Duck and such. I might throw in some Road Runner too for a little era-balance.

Great book.
I'd be shocked if you didn't love it.

-Ted

[Jonathan Cummings]

A biography of Chester Arthur.  Top that!!

[Mark Bourgeois]

A biography of Chester Arthur.  Top that!!

Sure.  I've started a biography of James K. Polk, by the legendary John Siegenthaler!

[Brian_Sleeman]

And I've decided to complement that by getting in touch with the kid in me again by regularly watching cartoons early Saturday mornings---but only early cartoons, that is, like Bugs and Dumbo, Popeye and Olive Oirrl and Daffy Duck and such. I might throw in some Road Runner too for a little era-balance.

Yosemite Sam has got to be one of the greatest television characters of all-time.  My wife and I have built up the Looney Tunes DVD collection for a day somewhere off in the future when we have kids - they'll have classics to grow up on...

I haven't been reading a whole lot lately, but I'm about halfway through Eric Clapton's autobiography, and have got two books lined up next: Scott MacPherson's "Evolution of the Old Course" and Alan Greenspan's "Age of Turbulence."

[Tom Dunne]

Mark, as a fairly frequent flier: perfect.

Anyone who has never read Kapuscinski should pick up either "The Emperor" or "Shah of Shahs"--he was there for both Selassie's fall and the Iranian Revolution. Both are incredible studies of power and its many abuses.

[Michael Moore]

Eduard Imhof - Cartographic Relief Presentation

Flannery O'Connor - The Complete Stories

[Mike_Cirba]

The Assault On Reason - Al Gore

A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini

Boy Meets Grill - Bobby Flay

[Dan King]

Right now being in school, most of my reading is for class. I'm in a class on Fin-de-Siècle Europe, which requires a ton of reading.  This week it is:
Émile Zola's Nana
Ann-Louise Shapiro's Breaking the Codes: Female Criminality in Fin-de-Siècle Paris
and for another class:
Alma Guillermopreito's Looking for History: Dispatches from Latin America
and just for fun:
Jay Winik's The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World 1788-1800

I enjoyed Seigenthaler's James K. Polk.

Mr. Huntley, I never finished Hitchins God in not Great, and I'm a big fan of Hitchens. Did you ever read his Why Orwell Matters.

Cheers,
Dan King

Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.
 --George Orwell

[John Mayhugh]

I just finished Crazy 08, a book about the 1908 season in major league baseball.

Trying to read "Why Smart People Can Be So Stupid."  It's slow going since it references a lot of psychology research, but the topic is something I would really like to understand better.

I spend quite a bit of time in the car, so I usually have some sort of audiobook going too.  These always come from the library and some of the choices have turned out to be pretty bad.  

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