Just finished Conspiracy of Fools, by Kurt Eichenwald. Great book about the Enron scandal. It reads like a Grisham thriller, but it's all fact. 900 pages, but I knocked it out in about a month. Couldn't put it down. My favorite of the 4 Enron related books I've read. Now it's finally time to start on the books I got for Christmas. Just started One Train Later, an autobiography by Andy Summers (guitarist for The Police).
This forum? Bur for real, I bought I am America (and you can too) by Stephen Colbert. I haven't started it yet, but I plan to soon.
"Blessed Unrest" by Paul Hawken. A leading environmentalist and social activist's examination of the worldwide movement for social and environmental change Paul Hawken has spent over a decade researching organizations dedicated to restoring the environment and fostering social justice. From billion-dollar nonprofits to single-person dot.causes, these groups collectively comprise the largest movement on earth, a movement that has no name, leader, or location, and that has gone largely ignored by politicians and the media. Like nature itself, it is organizing from the bottom up, in every city, town, and culture. and is emerging to be an extraordinary and creative expression of people's needs worldwide. Blessed Unrest explores the diversity of the movement, its brilliant ideas, innovative strategies, and hidden history, which date back many centuries. A culmination of Hawken's many years of leadership in the environmental and social justice fields, it will inspire and delight any and all who despair of the world's fate, and its conclusions will surprise even those within the movement itself. Fundamentally, it is a description of humanity's collective genius, and the unstoppable movement to reimagine our relationship to the environment and one another.
You Can't Do That On Broadway! by Phillip Rose. I got called in to help direct a production of "A Raisin in the Sun" at the last minute, and this book contains many of the stories of the effort made to get this play to Broadway. From Library Journal Rose was the producer who brought Lorraine Hansberry's brilliant play, A Raisin in the Sun, to Broadway in 1959. Not only was this Hansberry's first (and regrettably only) play, it was also the first time that Rose had ever produced a play. New playwrights always face an uphill battle, and Hansberry had this and the obvious barrier of race between her and success. Rose believed in her work, however, and together they persevered. For him, working with such an extraordinary playwright and the equally talented actor Sidney Poitier was a life-changing event. Most of this memoir (200 pages in all) is consumed by the challenges and rewards of producing A Raisin in the Sun, an experience Rose allows the reader to recall with him.
Romance of Three Kingdoms in Chinese. it's gon take a while. been reading one chapter in bed every night .
Just finished the first Dark Tower by Stephen King. Just started Brasyl by Ian McDonald. Sci/fi cyberpunk except instead of taking place in some kind of Neo Tokyo, it's set in Brazil. I'm not crazy about the writing style and he uses a ton of Portugese words so it's not a smooth read. I'm still giving it a chance though.
Cyberpunk - Check out Neil Stephenson. Cryptonomicon was good. My wife is reading the "followup" - Quicksilver. (followup is in quotes, because it came after Cryptonomicon, but is kind of a prequel).
Good Book. If you like it, I recommend trying some Irvine Welsh Reading Cider House Rules by John Irving right now
lib-pig! (just kidding - i read it twice). currently reading welcome to the monkeyhouse by vonnegut and a book about pre-conquest mexico.
a friend recommended "The Kite Runner". It was interesting. don't remember how many pages but i finished it in 24hrs. i dont sleep much. ha
I tried reading that but quit halfway through. I don't like his characterizing, but I do like his use of technology. I read Diamond Age a couple of months ago and found it facinating, but the characters just seemed dull to me. I'll give it another shot if I can get it back from my father-in-law.
" Switching Time" A Doctor's Harrowing Story of Treating a Woman with 17 Personalities It is one of the most amazing "true" books i have ever read! I am a psych major so it intrigues me way more than it prolly should.. I suggest it to anyone interested in this type of stuff.. Its a must read
