What book are you currently reading, or recommend?

[PlanetFrnd]

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Also, just got this:

...it seems to be out of print, so it was a little pricier than a typical hard cover, but O'Neill is the same guy that wrote Netherland which I thought was good, and was widely acclaimed last year. I'm pretty excited to get to it. [/quote]

Finally read this on the way back to Ohio for the holiday... good book. Like Netherland, it's more of a snapshot in middle of someone's life - it doesn't start at the beginning nor finish at the end of the main character's life... had to get reading material for the trip home, so read this:

and am in the middle of this:

 

[jwinslow]

Started this audio book on the way home for Christmas. Loved the writing style and humor of the author, but eventually switched off the gruesome retelling (which was superb) of every aspect of being burned alive inside a car (which was disgusting).

Couldn't really skip that section either, as there was a lengthy struggle through rehab, so I just chose to turn it off.

Entertaining read for long holiday/football drives the past few weeks...

This became painfully repetitive at the end, rehashing his plight, the impending doom & other phrases word for word without ceasing.

 

[OSUsushichic]

 

[computerji]

Searching for Whitopia by Rich Benjamin

 

[HINYG8]

Got this from my mom for Christmas...(not the Kindle edition)...looks interesting.

Written like a novel....Woody fresh off a NC, Bo taking over at UM ....and both of them in the midst of universities dealing with Vietnam fall out and the evolution of human rights in the United States....looks to be a good 'un.

 

[Muck]

 

[jlb1705]

I'm reviewing this book for a professional organization. It attempts to shed light on why educational attainment has plateaued in recent decades and looks at it from every angle imaginable from admission practices to financial aid to family background and student preparation. Pretty interesting so far.

The most interesting thing for me is, it uses data from the 1999 entering cohort at Ohio State (which I was a part of) and 20 other flagship institutions scattered across the country - as well as all the four-year publics in four state systems (Ohio being one of them). Kinda weird to be reading research where I was part of the sample.

 

[stxbuck]

I,Sniper by Stephen Hunter New Bob Lee Swagger book, not bad, not as outlandish as Hunter's last two Swagger books.

 

[Wingate1217]

I,Sniper by Stephen Hunter New Bob Lee Swagger book, not bad, not as outlandish as Hunter's last two Swagger books.

I just downloaded that on my new Sony Reader along with Steve Berry's latest (The Paris Vendetta), Altar of Eden by James Rollins, and Pirate Latitudes by the late Michael Crichton.....

 

[stxbuck]

The Onion's Our Dumb World-read this at at school today-most likely the funniest, and definitely the most wrong book I have ever read.
Do not read if you cannot handle humor about-AIDS,genocide,Nazis,3rd World poverty and depravity,the sex/pornography industry,Islam,Buddhism,Puerto Rican grandmas,soccer,George W. Bush, and views of women that "Women's Studies" types wouldn't approve of, among other things.......

 

[Muck]

I,Sniper by Stephen Hunter New Bob Lee Swagger book, not bad, not as outlandish as Hunter's last two Swagger books.

I read the first one when it originally came out but had no idea he'd continued it as a series until the movie was being made.

 

[stxbuck]

I read the first one when it originally came out but had no idea he'd continued it as a series until the movie was being made.

Hunter has 4 more books(not counting I,Sniper) that are strictly/mostly about Bob Lee Swagger, and another 3 about Bob Lee's daddy Earl. All of them are highly entertaining and well written, with many interesting historical allusions and tie ins.

 

[matz2]

 

[Bucklion]

Art Schlichter's new book that's out called "Busted". It's quite fascinating, actually.

I also read Bob Hunter's book about Chic Harley...some good info and great pictures in it, but I didn't care for the writing style very much. Many of the descriptions of Columbus at the time I'm sure were accurate, but were written in such a way that if you didn't live there your whole life, it was really hard to follow or envision.

 

[buckeyebri]

Why We Suck by Denis Leary.....Funny as hell....