What's Everyone Reading

[GaryProtein]

This one came out yesterday and it's highly recommended:

It's a compendium of his writings as he succumbs to esophageal cancer. Witty and acerbic to the end...he was my one favorite writers; even when I found him infuriating. Hitchens was an avowed Atheist and a couple of the funniest quotes from the book concern his lack of faith and those who prayed for him: . . . .

I read this thread for the first time today, otherwise I would have mentioned this earlier. Hitchens was an avowed atheist, with a lower case "a". It ISN'T a religion and the term is not capitalized unless it begins a sentence.


Anyway, I am reading The 4% Universe, by Richard Panek.

 

[Bill Hart]

I read this thread for the first time today, otherwise I would have mentioned this earlier. Hitchens was an avowed atheist, with a lower case "a". It ISN'T a religion and the term is not capitalized unless it begins a sentence.

What if he was a devout atheist?

 

[GaryProtein]

The "a" would be in an even smaller point size.

 

[jazdoc]

Just finished "The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine and the Birth of Right and Left" by Yuval Levin.

Only 230 pages. A rewarding, albeit challenging read.

 

[Ronm1]

I'm starting two this week that I got over the holidays

The Bully Pulpit - Doris Kearns Goodwin
I like her writing style
Verve: The Sound of America

 

[edorr]

Reading Donna Tartt, "the Goldfinch". 700 pages and racing through it. Great stuff.

 

[edorr]

What if he was a devout atheist?

I am a non-practicing atheist myself.

 

[jazdoc]

"Why Does The World Exist? An Existential Detective Story" by Jim Holt

 

[MylesBAstor]

http://www.amazon.com/The-Brain-Tha...sr=8-1&keywords=the+brain+that+changes+itself

 

[es347]

Charles Krauthammer "Things that Matter"

 

[MylesBAstor]

Anybody reading this book:

http://judymorrisreport.blogspot.com/2014/01/phillip-nelsons-book-on-lbj-and-lbjs.html?m=1

 

[MylesBAstor]

Or here's another one for a cold winter night:

 

[jazdoc]

Or here's another one for a cold winter night:

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That's volume I...

 

[drunkenrabbit]

Lost in George RR Martin land atm....gosh he writes well.

 

[jazdoc]

I've become obsessed with this Rolling Stones' thread at SHTV site:
http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threa...m-by-album-thread-its-about-damn-time.340741/

http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threa...bum-thread-its-about-damn-time-part-2.341527/

http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threa...by-album-thread-its-about-time-part-3.341938/

I used to think I knew a lot about the band, but I'm a piker compared to these folks. Lots of interesting info, video, analysis and commentaries...

 

[Ronm1]

Just got
September Hope: American Side of a Bridge too Far - John C McManus

 

[Sunnyboy1956]

The Luminaries - Eleanor Catton. 818 pages

 

[jazdoc]

Winner of this year's Lincoln prize:

Edit: Found this website helpful to understanding the battle: http://www.civilwaranimated.com/GettysburgAnimation.html

 

[Steve Williams]

I'm a John Grisham fan and have read all of his books with Sycamore Row being the latest. A good read

 

[still-one]

When I was recently on a cruise I read five books and four of them were pretty good.

Martin Cruz Smith - Tatiana

Dennis Lehane - Live By Night

Christopher Reich - The Prince of Risk

Michael Connelly - The Gods of Guilt