What are you currently reading??

**Laurent** · January 8th, 2009, 02:07 PM

Still reading Pillars of the Earth . . .

Good gravy, this is a long book.

**buttmunch** · January 9th, 2009, 05:30 AM

Just started rereading a Richard Starkey book on the English Monarchy. Very good the second time around. But have been given a book to read by a woman I met awhile back who just dropped it off, along with her number and an invite to get together. Hurrah!! Books can bring people together!

**MarieAntoinette** · January 9th, 2009, 09:17 AM

Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel. I don't want to be disrespectful to people suffering from severe depression, but she does sound very whiny and overdramatic.

**witchcurlgirl** · January 9th, 2009, 10:29 AM

Dear American Airlines- Jonathan Miles

**celeb_2006** · January 10th, 2009, 02:35 AM

Just finished 'Lone Survivor'

Amazon.com: Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10: Marcus Luttrell, Patrick Robinson: Books

It was recommended to me by the owner of a car wash center, so I bought it. It's the true story of the sole survivor of a 4 man Navy SEAL team in Afghanistan, 2005, as told by the survivor himself. You may have heard about it, and how he survived.

Aside from the annoying political jibes, it's a pretty intense story of survival. In fact I'd rank it as one of the greatest tales of human survival against tremendous odds ever, I think an ordinary person would have given up in such hellish circumstances, and by that I mean the will to live.

I guess it took some measure of courage to admit how his team ended up in the predicament in the first place. He was the sole deciding factor in what to do with some shepherds that happened to come across their hide site. Should they kill them and save their hiding spot? Or would they release them despite the overwhelming chance that they would be compromised?

Their situation was not unlike what happened to an Army Green Beret team during desert storm, 1991, where their recon position in Iraq was accidentally discovered by some kids.

Highly recommended, some painful moments as he describes his own brothers in arms gunned down, and of his ultimate will to live, and those unlikely heroes who helped him survive.

**TonjaLasagna** · January 10th, 2009, 09:49 AM

my girlfriend sent me the entire Charlaine Harris series

**LaFolie** · January 10th, 2009, 09:57 AM

I'm gonna start Indigo : Mapping the Waters by Marina Warner, a rewriting of The Tempest.

**Laurent** · January 11th, 2009, 11:17 AM

Finally finished Pillars of the Earth. Recommended, even if it is on The Oprah's book club list.

Moving on to The Lady Elizabeth by Alison Weir.

**Penny Lane** · January 11th, 2009, 11:53 AM

"A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole.

**Belinda** · January 12th, 2009, 10:25 AM

Arthur the King by Allan Massie

**calcifer** · January 13th, 2009, 12:34 PM

i finished 'tender is the night' last night. from the opening chapter till the very end, i had a hard time trying to put down this book. the plot is ingenious and the writing is excellent.

now reading 'rice' by su tong.

**buttmunch** · January 16th, 2009, 05:51 AM

Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel. I don't want to be disrespectful to people suffering from severe depression, but she does sound very whiny and overdramatic.

She is whiny and overdramatic. She also has milked this shit for forever.

**LaFolie** · January 16th, 2009, 07:43 AM

Just finished "The Three Sisters" by Chekhov. Meh. Starting "Six Characters in Search of an Author" by Pirandello.

**LynnieD** · January 16th, 2009, 07:56 AM

Too Fat to Fish by Artie Lange. Hilarious!! If you are a Stern fan and want to laugh, I highly recommend it.

**cmmdee** · January 16th, 2009, 01:52 PM

I read:

A Wallflower Christmas by Lisa Klepas (romance novels aren't usually my thing but this was cute) and Undead and Unreturnable. I am going through that series book by book. And really really dig it.