proudtobegay 0 Posted January 18, 2005 Share Posted January 18, 2005 I've just started the very same and finding it really interesting. Link to post Share on other sites
cheeseman 1 Posted January 18, 2005 Share Posted January 18, 2005 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0...5026979-0946311 French Cheeses: The Visual Guide to More Than 350 Cheeses from Every Region of France Link to post Share on other sites
cheeseman 1 Posted January 18, 2005 Share Posted January 18, 2005 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0...5026979-0946311 French Cheeses: The Visual Guide to More Than 350 Cheeses from Every Region of France Link to post Share on other sites
boardbaka 3 Posted January 18, 2005 Share Posted January 18, 2005 Ugly Amereicans (The true story of the Ivy league Cowboys who raided the Asian markets) Maybe you would be interested in that DB. Link to post Share on other sites
ug 0 Posted January 19, 2005 Share Posted January 19, 2005 DaVince Code. Not impressed. Whats all the fuss about. I heard Tom Hanks is gonna be the lead in the movie as well. Link to post Share on other sites
Yuki's Passion 1 Posted January 19, 2005 Share Posted January 19, 2005 Contest - really really fast read - sped through about a third of the book in one sitting. I like the fast action pace it has. Link to post Share on other sites
kintaro 0 Posted January 31, 2005 Author Share Posted January 31, 2005 I've just finished the Motley Fool's "Stocks 2005." Also just finished reading "Yakuza" by Kaplan and Dubro. Very interesting history of Japan and the Pacific rim. Link to post Share on other sites
mfurmane 0 Posted January 31, 2005 Share Posted January 31, 2005 Currently: Salman Rushdie "Satanic Verses" Intellectual, religious, controversial, can't put it down, etc. Most recent: Haruki Murukami "Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World." Funny, technical, sci-fi, mystery, sherlock holmes, crazy monsters, crazy people, all mixed into Tokyo! Link to post Share on other sites
Yuki's Passion 1 Posted March 23, 2005 Share Posted March 23, 2005 Finished up reading Ryoma(Sakamoto) by Whitning (spelling) on the plane. Fascinating read. rereading A Wild Sheep Chase by Murakami right now Seperated at Birth (about Korea) written by my Uncle...just got my copy from my pops taday. Pretty timely piece I think with N. Korea building nukes and the US looking at new policy measures. Link to post Share on other sites
LARD 0 Posted March 27, 2005 Share Posted March 27, 2005 I'm reading "Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith by Anne Lamott", sent to me by a family member who thought I should read it. It is making for an interesting read (when I'm in a serious mood). Here's what Amazon says: With the trademark wisdom, humor, and honesty that made Anne Lamott's book on faith, Traveling Mercies, a runaway bestseller, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith is a spiritual antidote to anxiety and despair in increasingly fraught times. The world is a more dangerous place than it was when Lamott's Traveling Mercies was published five years ago. Terrorism and war have become the new normal; environmental devastation looms even closer. And there are personal demands on Lamott's faith as well: turning fifty; her mother's Alzheimer's; her son's adolescence; and the passing of friends and time. Fortunately for those of us who are anxious and scared about the state of the world, whose parents are also aging and dying, whose children are growing harder to recognize as they become teenagers, Plan B offers hope in the midst of despair. It shares with us Lamott's ability to comfort, and to make us laugh despite the grim realities. Anne Lamott is one of our most beloved writers, and Plan B is a book more necessary now than ever. It will prove to be further evidence that, as The Christian Science Monitor has written, "Everybody loves Anne Lamott." Link to post Share on other sites
peter01.com 0 Posted April 3, 2005 Share Posted April 3, 2005 I'm looking forward to reading the book about the story of google, Search Me. I don't think it's out yet. Things like that really interest me. Link to post Share on other sites
kintaro 0 Posted April 4, 2005 Author Share Posted April 4, 2005 Buffett - The Making of an American Capitalist. Very interesting for anyone who invests their income in securities. Link to post Share on other sites
1 4 Posted April 9, 2005 Share Posted April 9, 2005 Seven basic plots - see the new thread I'm about to make! Link to post Share on other sites
wendy-cake 0 Posted April 11, 2005 Share Posted April 11, 2005 I really liked Satanic Verses, I read it early on when it was first available. I wouldn't mind giving that another read. I've just started "The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century" by Thomas L. Friedman Link to post Share on other sites
DumbStick 13 Posted April 19, 2005 Share Posted April 19, 2005 just started The Rule of Four, advertised as the "thinking man's DaVinci Code". Well that must be me then. Link to post Share on other sites
js 0 Posted April 19, 2005 Share Posted April 19, 2005 ... endless reams of crap to sort out a dicky graphics card. I hate those so-called 'Support' download sites!! Almost got it sorted, though. On a brighter note: I like biographies by famous historical figures - have read the life of Captain Cook, Ernest Shackleton (Polar explorer), and Sir Edmund Hilary. Fascinating people indeed. Link to post Share on other sites
MVP 0 Posted April 19, 2005 Share Posted April 19, 2005 Just finished The Partner, by John Grisham. Bloody good read. Link to post Share on other sites
JellyBelly 1 Posted April 20, 2005 Share Posted April 20, 2005 The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century. Apart from being very interesting, it has a brilliant drawing of 2 ships falling off the edge of the world on the cover. Can't beat that. Link to post Share on other sites
Yuki's Passion 1 Posted April 27, 2005 Share Posted April 27, 2005 Hegemony or Survival by Chomsky is in my bag now and I have Bush at War by Woodward at home (hardbacks arent very nice for carrying around). Link to post Share on other sites
SKI 15 Posted May 5, 2005 Share Posted May 5, 2005 "Brainwashing" by Kathleen Turner, fantastic book - if you're interested in psychology at all check it out. No academic pretension here, very accessible. Link to post Share on other sites
big-will 7 Posted May 7, 2005 Share Posted May 7, 2005 "British Isles: A Natural History" by Alan Titmarsh (BBC Books). Don't be put off with the name attached to the book. It's a really good insight into the geography of the BI. It may seem like a candidate for "coffee table design accessory", but it's more than that. Some great photography and info and new light on places that aren't normally covered in this kind of book. It was a nice present from a friend in the UK. Link to post Share on other sites
ShinyDiscoBall 2 Posted May 12, 2005 Share Posted May 12, 2005 The Rule of Four - I thought that was truly shite, for an airport novel DaVinci was better even though I wasn't particularly impressed with that either. Link to post Share on other sites
scouser 4 Posted May 19, 2005 Share Posted May 19, 2005 His Way: The Brian Clough Story. I like footie stories. Link to post Share on other sites
big-will 7 Posted May 30, 2005 Share Posted May 30, 2005 An odd little book called "I Hated Hated Hated This Movie". As a blurb on it says "ofteh the films you most want to read about are the ones you'd least like to watch". "Some of the worst films in this book are so jaw-droppingly bad they achieve a kind of grandeur" Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted May 30, 2005 Share Posted May 30, 2005 I just finished "Reagan & Gorbachev - How the Cold War Ended" by Jack Matlock who was intimately involved in the negotiations between the two presidents. Having grown up while all that was going on, it was very interesting to read a first-hand account of it. Some of the problems with Gorbachev that were hidden at the time by his lionisation in the media are revealed. Matlock condemns the post-Cold War triumphalism of some sectors in the US, and quietly portrays Reagan as a person of far greater stature than both Bushes. He also mourns the death of diplomacy. I was hesitant to read something so clearly likely to be biased, but was impressed at how light the bias actually was. Link to post Share on other sites
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