So, watcha' reading?

[Flower]

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ... an interesting read.

[Marsha]

Just finished Girl with Dragon Tattoo. Agreed it is very interesting. But I really enjoyed it. I kept screaming "where's Harriet???!!"..lol

[bigbud]

I'm pulling out my John Carter of Mars paperbacks. I know the movie won't mirror the books, but the movie has given me the push to read those great books again.....Buddy

[zombiehorror]

Sixties Shockers: A Critical Filmography of Horror Cinema, 1960-1969

[Flower]

Just finished Girl with Dragon Tattoo. Agreed it is very interesting. But I really enjoyed it. I kept screaming "where's Harriet???!!"..lol

I had a feeling that Harriet wasn't dead for a long time .. I just finished "The Girl Who Played with Fire" and I'm starting "The Girl Woh Kicked the Hornet's Nest" .. One thing that I learned reading these books is that the people of Sweden drinks lots of coffee and that you don't refuse a cup in someone's home ... 

[Marsha]

I had a feeling that Harriet wasn't dead for a long time .. I just finished "The Girl Who Played with Fire" and I'm starting "The Girl Woh Kicked the Hornet's Nest" .. One thing that I learned reading these books is that the people of Sweden drinks lots of coffee and that you don't refuse a cup in someone's home ... 

Hahahaha! I thought the same thing! And it made me want coffee constantly too. Can't wait to start the second book!

[Halloween Jeff]

Peter Straub's "Shadowland".

[Bogey]

A biography on Christopher Columbus.  Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus.  Though there are many bios out there I chose this one from the early 40's because of this:

Admiral of the Ocean Sea is Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison's classic biography of the greatest sailor of them all, Christopher Columbus. It is written with the insight, energy, and authority that only someone who had himself sailed in Columbus' path to the New World could muster. Morison undertook this expedition in a 147-foot schooner and a 47-foot ketch, the dimensions of these craft roughly matching those of Columbus' Santa Maria and Niña. The result is this vivid and definitive biography that accurately details the voyages that, for better or worse, changed the world.

and

This recreation lends credibility to his writing. But more than that, it makes much of the book, particularly those parts at sea, seem as if the reader is experiencing the voyages through the person of Columbus. Not only the particulars of what he saw, but the smells of land breezes, the feel of the trade winds, the motion of the boat.

Our 1942 copy belonged to my father-in-law, so there is also that neat feeling of reading the same exact book as he did.

[Halloween Jeff]

The Shadow - the History and Mystery of the Radio Program, 1930-1954.

[Bogey]

The Shadow - the History and Mystery of the Radio Program, 1930-1954.

How is it?

[Bonomo]

How is it?

Yeah how is it?

[Halloween Jeff]

I'm reading it in little bits...the book itself is over 800 pages...even for me, a long read.

Chapters include:

1 - It begins with a mystery...detailing the rise of the pulps and the precursor to The Shadow.

2.  The Boy Wonder....Orson Welles, nuff said.

3.  The Bill Johnstone Years.

4.  Juvenile Impact and WW2.

5.  The Three Shadows.

Very well written - very through. 

Evan some appendixes on such stuff I didn't know, such as the "South American Shadow" - which I haven't read yet..

Bizarro Jeff

[Illoman]

I finally started reading Dante's Divine Comedy. I found a translation that has a short synopsis of each canto before you read it, and notes at the end of each section that further explain it. So far it's excellent!!

[bigbud]

I'm trying to get through Asimov's The Gods Themselves. Over half through and finding it hard to enjoy.......it might still get better. I really liked the Foundation and Robot books.........Buddy

[ChrisW]

Area 51 Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base by Annie Jacobson
Interesting read about the history of Area 51, the politics betweeen Air Force and CIA concerning use of spy planes, and nuclear testing in the Nevada desert. She makes a few  claims as to the story behind aliens or flying saucers at the base, but that is not the primary focus of the book. There have been many criticisms about her science and questionable research, so I have to read it "with a grain of salt", but overall it is an entertaining book.