What are You Reading?

[Fiatdude]

If you like to read -- I have found the most wonderful web site -- -- www.bookbub.com -- it is for ebooks, I've installed kindle for droid on my phone and pad -- you register on the site and select what type of books you're interested in and EVERYDAY you get a email with 3-5 books on it that are offered to you from anywhere from FREE to $3 -- since I'm a book whore anything that is free I grab and occasionally if something for 1 or 2 bucks interests me I'll buy that -- Usually these books are part of series of  books and they are trying to get you hooked so that you'll buy the whole series,,, that has a happened a couple of times to me -- I have one problem is that I'm a speed reader and even when I lower my speed down to really enjoy a book I'm still in the 3-5 pages a minute rate, which means a normal good sized book is finished easily in a day -- -- But with this site I can get all kind of free trash to occupy my mind with LOL -- Yeah I know should be spending more time in the garage, but that usually cost to much money LOL

Latest book that I've read that was really good was INCA by Geoff Micks --

Here is a cool link that shows how many hours are spent reading around the world by country

http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Hours-Spent-Reading-Around-the-World.jpg

[RobtheManx]

I am a big war book reader , mainly WW2 .

Favourite reads are , First Light by Goeff Wellum , Nine Lives by Al Deere , Fighter Boys and Bomber Boys by Patrick Bishop . The Mighty Eighth , can't remember the author .

One of the most amazing and brutal books I've read is The Man who Broke into Auschwitz by Denis Avey , an incredibly brave man .

A few years back I read Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand , about Louie Zamperini which has just been made into a film by Angelina Jolie , I strongly recommend anyone to read the book before seeing the film .

Cheers , Rob

[dragvw2180]

   Lately I realised  how well my turbo system worked that Dave Kawell built and wanted to figure out WHY . I talked to Dave and he suggested I read Corky Bells " Maximum Boost "  so I have been reading it.  If and when I read for pure pleasure I read SCI fiction , really enjoyed everything by Robert Heinlein.

[Neil Davies]

I am a big war book reader , mainly WW2 .

Favourite reads are , First Light by Goeff Wellum , Nine Lives by Al Deere , Fighter Boys and Bomber Boys by Patrick Bishop . The Mighty Eighth , can't remember the author .

One of the most amazing and brutal books I've read is The Man who Broke into Auschwitz by Denis Avey , an incredibly brave man .

A few years back I read Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand , about Louie Zamperini which has just been made into a film by Angelina Jolie , I strongly recommend anyone to read the book before seeing the film .

Cheers , Rob

I read First Light a few years ago, amazing book and even more because its true.

[RobtheManx]

I am a big war book reader , mainly WW2 .

Favourite reads are , First Light by Goeff Wellum , Nine Lives by Al Deere , Fighter Boys and Bomber Boys by Patrick Bishop . The Mighty Eighth , can't remember the author .

One of the most amazing and brutal books I've read is The Man who Broke into Auschwitz by Denis Avey , an incredibly brave man .

A few years back I read Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand , about Louie Zamperini which has just been made into a film by Angelina Jolie , I strongly recommend anyone to read the book before seeing the film .

Cheers , Rob

I read First Light a few years ago, amazing book and even more because its true.

Wellum is an excellent writer . We think of those pilots as being grown men , but they were barely out of school . At the beginning of the book you can tell he's just a boy , but he ages and matures by ten years in one year .

You should read Nine Lives , the amount of scrapes Al Deere got into and survived is crazy .

Rob

[kb]

The "A song of Fire and Ice", (Game of Thrones)

[Fiatdude]

Edge of Eternity by Ken Follett

Book three of the Century Trilogy -- All three books and the series have been very good

[mg]

Dan Binks book "Making it Faster" , covers decades of race car development and improvements.

"In motorsports there have been an endless series of performance advances where one wonders, how did they ever figure this out?
Other times one asks, how did they not see this when the answer was there for all to see?
These are the stories of discovery by 3 generations of racers and designers, who changed the state of the art forever".

http://www.amazon.com/Making-FASTER-Tales-Endless-Search/dp/0991175506

[Lids]

Godwin, S & Beswetherick, R. (2003), An investigation into the balance of prescription, experiment and play when learning about the properties of quadratic functions with ICT, Research in Mathematics Education, vol. 5 (1), pp. 79-95.

 

[Catbox]

I have recently picked reading up again.
These are the books that I have started with.
I am currently almost finished with The Silence of the Lambs.

They are fun to read in order of Lecters age...
Hannibal Rising, Red Dragon, The Silence of the Lambs, and then Hannibal.

[andrewlandon67]

David Sedaris' Me Talk Pretty One Day.  A series of short stories that will leave you rolling on the floor laughing your guts out. 

Quoting an ancient post on an ancient thread about an ancient memory... I should be an historian some day... My parents used to borrow this on tape from the library for our trips to Michigan from Colorado. Nothing, to this day, gets me as nostalgic as David Sedaris' books on tape or anything pre-'04 from the Barenaked Ladies.