What's the next book you plan on reading

[YankeyMCC]

For me:

Fiction: "The Subtle Knife" the next book of "His Dark Materials" series by Pullman
Non-Fiction: # "The Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in the Wild" Craig Childs

[bif]

1. Probably "Cold Mountain"

Or one of the Garrison Kiellor books. I've got about 6 of his and I've liked both of the ones I've read--"WLT" and "Lake Wobegon 1956".

[Left Is Write]

2. My next two on tap -

Ann Rule's Every Breath You Take and Dean Koontz's The Bad Place.

[AlCzervik]

6. My friend Donna loves her books, she especially enjoyed that one.

[Left Is Write]

8. I can't believe I haven't read it yet. I have a big stack of Ann Rule's books -

and I could have sworn that one was included. It wasn't. I had to go out and get it! I've read every other one except Small Sacrifices, and I'm working on her current one right now (Smoke, Mirrors and Murder).

[redqueen]

3. I liked the whole Pullman series.

For me, it'll be Chuck Palahniuk's Haunted.

[1gobluedem]

4. Blue Latitudes by Tony Horwitz

I'm reading his Confederates in the Attic right now. I've read it before but it's a great book.

[YankeyMCC]

9. I liked Blue Latitudes

[SeattleGirl]

5. The Shock Doctrine. n/t

[femmocrat]

24. Me too. Got it for Christmas.

It looks rather serious, though!

[hoozyorsugadaddy]

30. That's one I plan on reading.

[azmouse]

7. The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam

[SecularMotion]

10. Brotherhood Of The Bomb

The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence and Edward Teller by Gregg Herken

[Shine]

11. Hey, I just finished that very book two days ago! It was the best of the series, I thought.

I saw the Golden Compass movie before I read the book. The movie wasn't impressive, the book was good, but I kept seeing the movie in my brain as I was reading the story. Don't know if that was a good thing or not. It's a very creative series, though, and a bit deeper than the Harry Potter stuff.

I'm not sure yet what my next book will be. I'm currently reading a murder-mystery novel called "Pegasus Rising", so once I'm done with that I'll see what shows up. I'm not normally into that particular genre, but my hubby said it was pretty decent. It's well-written, so far.

I'll have to peruse the rest of your thread to get some other ideas! :D

:hi:

[YankeyMCC]

13. I saw the movie first too

and I liked it. But the book really impressed me, Mr Pullman is an excellent writer.

[Bake]

12. Al Gore's Assault on Reason

Finally getting around to it.

Bake

[SeattleGirl]

36. Finished that one not long ago. Great read!

Hope you like it.

[Deja Q]

14. ITIL v3: Measuring, Reporting, and Modeling.

[YankeyMCC]

18. No kidding

I guess I should put the ITIL v3 books on my list too since I will be reading them soon.

[BarenakedLady]

15. I just started

The Golden Compass series.

[Debi]

16. The Golden Compass

http://www.amazon.com/Golden-Compass-Dark-Materials-Book/dp/0345413350

I got the trilogy for Christmas.

[BarenakedLady]

20. me too

[Debi]

29. Let's compare notes! I'm reading all three w/out stopping

Just like I read the 7 books about Narnia.

[otherlander]

17. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintainance

[ooga booga]

19. Read a long, long time ago...perhaps I oughta pick it up again

Fascinating read that defies classification. Not REALLY about Zen OR Motorcycle Maintenance.

However, THAT book led me to read many other books about Zen which was a wonderful journey that I'm very glad I made.

I hope that you enjoy "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" as much as I did.

[otherlander]

26. :D

A couple of people have told me I should read it. I don't really have any interest in Zen... the whole thing seems kind of abstract for my brain. But from what I've heard it sounds like an interesting story.

Welcome to DU, by the way! :bounce:

[ooga booga]

35. The closest thing to ZMM is "Travels with Charley" by Steinbeck

ZMM is the musings of a very bright guy travelling by motorcycle across country with his son. The thing about zen in the book was the Zen concept of "Mu" which I will not try to explain here. That got me started.

Imagine some crazy religious people coming along and telling everyone that the real message of Christianity cannot be found in the Bible or in the familiar rituals or in the hymns it can only be found in "direct experience" that is beyond the realm of discourse and description. That's what Zen and Zen masters are like. The famous Zen masters seem like harmless madmen, but they are really trying to plod others into arriving at their own realization. It's crazy, because thinking and talking will not get you all the way there. As one zen master says, "Talking about Zen all the time is like looking for fish tracks in a dry riverbed."

In ZMM, Persig dips your toe into the zen waters with his discourse on "Mu." If you don't wish to go further than that, it's no big deal.

[BarenakedLady]

21. Bought it

Haven't read it yet, but it is in the queue.

[KG]

22. a great book, one that bears reading more than once.

[hoozyorsugadaddy]

31. a classic

[applegrove]

23. The Sisters - The saga of the Mitford family

[TheCentepedeShoes]

25. Don't know

I have a "shopping list" made out for the library tomorrow morning.

[IndianaJones]

27. A Dance with Dragons. nt.

[Adsos Letter]

28. "The Branch Davidians of Waco," (2007) by Newport.

[hoozyorsugadaddy]

32. I need a good time travel book.

[YankeyMCC]

33. I like " The End Of Eternity" by Asimov

but of course there's also the classic Time Machine by Wells

on edit: whoops, wrong Asimov title

[hippywife]

34. Putting Food By

Janet Greene, Ruth Hertzburg, and Beatrice Vaughn. Learning how to can more stuff in anticipation of this year's garden. I'm excited! :bounce:

[av8rdave]

37. Just finished "Alamo Gold" (McMillin). Next is the Clapton autibiography

[lizziegrace]

38. "Love in the Time of Cholera"

I put it aside to read "A Prayer for Owen Meany".

I also have "The Tao of Pooh" to read.