I have two kids that are just about into everything. I just make time for reading. Especially when I take a ****.
Recently Read: A Game of Thrones - George R. R. Martin A Clash of Kings - George. R. R. Martin Cell - Stephen King The Ruins - Scott Smith The Spirit of St. Louis - Charles Lindbergh Fragile Things - Neil Gaiman Reading: Skinny Legs and All - Tom Robbins In my queue (i.e. sitting on my desk waiting): Understanding Exposure - Bryan Peterson The Digital Camera Book - Scott Kelby The Elegant Universe - Brian Greene The Fabric of the Cosmos - Brian Greene Storage Area Networks - NIIT (????) A Storm of Swords - George R. R. Martin A Feast for Crows - George R. R. Martin
For Neil Stephenson, I think Snow Crash is his most famous book. I've read it, it's not bad. My favorite is still Neuromancer by William Gibson. I'm still in the middle of another Gibson book, Pattern Recognition. It takes place in modern day, but certainly still a cyberpunk flavor.
3 kids and i coach two soccer teams reading is an escape from all the other crap on tv, and the rest of the world
Those Song and Fire and Ice books are FREAKING GREAT!!!! Read all four in 2007, cant wait for Dance With Dragons.
I wouldn't have time to read either because of family + work + everything else, but whenever I'm in the car, I don't listen to music, but audio books instead. It makes driving so much better. Also whenever I'm doing dishes or cleaning up at night, having a book on the ipod helps that out as well. Currently Streets of Laredo by Larry McMurtry Recently the His Dark Materials series by Phillip Pullman
When I'm not reading high school curriculum bull*****... I read "I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell" by Tucker Max. I recommend this to any fellow young male assholes out there. It's one guys party stories from his college days, and I'm not sure if they are all true or not (he says they are), but either way, they are freakin hilarious. He has a website set up too... tuckermax.com
I read The Fountainhead about a month ago. Never imagined a book about two architects and two newspapermen could be so interesting for 700 pages. Next up - Atlas Shrugged
Yeah, same here, but I have a couple friends that have talked highly about it...read the first 15 or so pages at Barnes and decided that it would be a good buy.
It's well written and offers a unique (though not one I agreed with) perspective on 9-11, but I found it hard to relate to the lead character. Also, it's one of the few books that could have benefited from being a bit longer - at 180 pages, there isn't quite the development that you'd expect from a character study.
Books are amazing. Just take 10-15 minutes to read a book while you are in bed, right before you go to sleep. You will be finished with a book sooner than you know it.
They are very good. If anyone is interested in reading something sort of (but not at all) like The Lord of the Rings check these books out. They are like LOTR in that they are set in an imaginary world with a medieval character (i.e. swords, horses, etc...), however, while magic and monsters are implied (and most likely exist) you really don't see much of it. As a matter of fact, most of the characters in the books don't believe in magic or monsters thinking them fairy tales from way back. The books are really great political intrigue. So if you like twisting plots with elements that hit you over the head (even though you should have seen them coming) these might be worth a look. Think of the all the events that led up to the battle with Sauron, the building of armies, trying to gather support in LOTR and you get the idea. My description does not even come close to making these books sound as interesting as they are. Google reviews of A Game of Thrones to see what I mean!
