BOOKS...

[JaiDee]

I'm a book- a -week man and also love periodicals.

Newsweek, Mens Journal, Discover, Vanity Fair {excellent}, New Yorker, Rolling Stone, ESPN, etc......

Matt Taibbi could be the best American magazine writer ..... ever.

[Jake_Sully]

I used to read a lot of books, but I don't have time anymore.

When I go on a plane ride, I take a book along to read.. so not sure where I fit into that scale.

If I were to retire tomorrow, I wouldn't collect books but I'd like to read a lot, I tend to favor either mysteries, or historical or scientific especially paleontology, anthropology and human migration.

[f0xxee]

[quote=Tomcat,Jun. 15 2010,19:57]How many books do you re visit



I have keepers, traders, then a third category, "Most borrowed and never returned" They are the best, but tend to be fleeting additions to the collection as the name suggests.

KEEPERS:

Anything by James Ellroy  (I have a signed mint first edition of LA Confidential)
Catch 22
Robert Winstons Books on us.

Most Stolen: PJ O'Rouke anthologies.

[kahuna]

For you guys who claim they don't like to read or don't have time or just don't, pick up any book by either of my two favorites...Tom Robbins or T.R. Pearson...
I can guarantee, love em or hate em, you won't be bored...

[Lefty]

I read a lot, every day I spend hours reading. BUT, I very seldom read novels, or books in general. When I do, I prefer books that are non-fiction, such as historical, instructional, etc. Most of what I read though is magazine articles.

[PigDogg]

Spend much less time reading books since the advent of the internet.

Tom Wolfe, Hunter Thompson, Michael Lewis, and John Grisham are some of my favorite authors. As u can see, nothing too heavy for me.

[gizmo]

Try Ulysses, by James Joyce
for some Light reading
I must have tried 100 times
to read that book!
Never got past the first 50
pages!

[f0xxee]

(gizmo @ Jun. 16 2010,04:36) Try Ulysses, by James Joyce
for some Light reading  
I must have tried 100 times
to read that book!
Never got past the first 50
pages!  

Hi Giz,

I tried and fried on that one too.
Don't know what he was smoking. Still unsure why its classed as great lliterature since it seems inpenetrable to us mere mortals.

PS: I admire your patriotism, but the green font is making my eyes bleed.

[JaiDee]

Forgot to mention one of my favorite periodicals, at least when I am in the states and can go to Barnes and Noble every few weeks; This may explain to Lefty why I am so unlikely to listen to conspiracy theories on just about ANY topic, I am a natural-born skeptic I guess!

Great monthly mag, pick it up if you see it around sometime.

[Road Runner]

I guess I fall into the category of compulsive reader.

I largely stopped reading fiction books some time ago as I was going through an average 300 page novel in a single 8 hour session.
Though for the flog from London to LOS and back I often pick up something like a Tom Clancey which usually serves for out and return.

My usual reading these days is lots and lots of history books and my specialisation is naval history - I could bore the pants of all of you on that!

The only magazines i get are the newsletter type from family history societies.

RR.

[Tomcat]

For fiction i seem to be going backwards in time...Done all the Anne Rice, Robert E Howard and H.P. Lovecraft in recent years

Edgar Allen Poe is next on the agenda.

[guydesavoy]

As I haven't had much time to relax with a book of an evening for the last few years, I have to rely on recollection.

I too gave up on fiction in my early teens. With the exception of the occasional Graham Greene..The last good books I was drawn to were biographies of Poe and Aldous Huxley. I read the book written by 2 journos that inspired the Da Vinci code (The Sword and the Cross or something like that...). Probably more interesting than the fictionalised account. I also like reading histories of the various Intelligence agencies. Done Mossad, The French, KGB, bits of MI5 and 6...CIA on the go..

Read the complete of Poe a while back, included some of his prose and writings on Poetry/Literary 'theory' which contained some quite forward thinking ideas. For instance he predicted that the future of Poetry would be linking the words to music...

Otherwise am downloading a lot of ebooks from avax...some business titles, travel, dictionaries/encyclopedia etc... eventually I'll get around to those..

Last year I took Nixon's memoirs to BKK with high hopes of devouring it beside the pool... Never quite got around to it

[gizmo]

(f0xxee @ Jun. 15 2010,23:39)

(gizmo @ Jun. 16 2010,04:36) Try Ulysses, by James Joyce
for some Light reading  
I must have tried 100 times
to read that book!
Never got past the first 50
pages!  

Hi Giz,

I tried and fried on that one too.
Don't know what he was smoking. Still unsure why its classed as great lliterature since it seems inpenetrable to us mere mortals.

PS: I admire your patriotism, but the green font is making my eyes bleed.

Oopps, sorry about that mate!

[farangbah]

The more you put into something, the more you get out of it -- there's nothing like the denouement of a good book . . .

[Snick]

(Tomcat @ Jun. 16 2010,17:10) For fiction i seem to be going backwards in time...Done all the Anne Rice, Robert E Howard and H.P. Lovecraft in recent years

Edgar Allen Poe is next on the agenda.

Funny !
I got my iPad and first thing I did was load up some Robert E Howard, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Lovecraft and other favorites.
I've re-read 3 of the John Carter of Mars, some Conan, and I'm now halfway thru Dune (again).

For magazines there is only one (The Highlander..just kidding), The Economist
I also buy the occasional Scuba magazine, but only if it covers a dive location I am interested in.


ps. You should get an iPad the way you travel, I'll copy you my 3000 EBooks