What are you currently reading?

[MyopicJoe]

Re: What are you currently reading?

I LOVE it so far! Should finish it by tomorrow morning. Review to follow...

Ahh. I was wondering which book you chose

"Rock throwing is the ultimate asymmetric warfare."

[anapuni808]

Re: What are you currently reading?

"The Content of Our Character" by Shelby Steele. Published around 1990, an extended essay on race relations. The title is part of a quote by Martin Luther King that says he hopes that someday "we will not be judged by the color of our skin but by the content of our character". I believe it was part of his "I have a Dream" speech but I could be wrong about that.

[Adri]

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The Last Chinese Chef by Nicole Mones. It's a great novel for foodies but also covers inter-cultural relations with a touch of romance

[sinjin]

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"Out" by Natsuo Kirino. So far, gritty. I love seeing the Japanese underbelly.

Recently finished "The Matarese Circle" by R. Ludlum. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Denzel.

[matapule]

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"The Russian Revolution" by Alan Moorehead. Tedious reading, but puts it all into perspective.

Ofa 'atu
Mui Houma

[Ron Whitfield]

Just finished the bio on Hilo Hattie

It's an older book, but Hilo Hattie is timeless. They don't make em' like her any more.

[Honoruru]

Re: What are you currently reading?

Just finished The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz, one of the best American novels I’ve read in a long time.

I like his mix of street-smart English heavily interspersed with Spanish/Spanglish, along with references everywhere to sci-fi and fantasy books and movies, comics, role-playing games, and anime. It’s the perfect narrative voice for the story of a “ghetto nerd” like Oscar and the other immigrants from the Dominican Republic.

[anapuni808]

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I got the sudden urge to read "The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring". It's even better the 2nd time.

[mel]

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Huh! I started for the first time ever reading "The Hobbit". Never read the trilogy yet, but I figured since I never saw any movie about "The Hobbit" it's best I start there and then go to the trilogy. Not to mention I bought all of the books at Friends of the Library for less than a dollar fifty each. Bilbo Baggins, dwarves, trolls and Gandalf so far...

Also reading John Stossel's "Give Me a Break!"

[Ron Whitfield]

Leo...

...lemmeno what you thought of 'The Producer'. I was considering that one myself.
You'd think the guy coulda done better...

[cyleet99]

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Phillippa Gregory historical novels. Am reading Virgin Earth--story line is jumping around a lot to the New World and England in the 1600's. I really liked the more modern novel she wrote titled The Little House--very unexpected ending.

I was reading her Wideacre series and had to stop and take them back. The stories were disturbing; it took me a book and a half to decide that the story was the problem.

Now the Boleyn series doesn't seem to bother me as much. That I find interesting and fun to read.

[jdub]

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Kurt Vonnegut's "Palm Sunday." Again.

[Leo Lakio]

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Finishing up "The Producer" (as noted in an earlier post) today; moving on to Stan Freberg's out-of-print biography from 1988, "It Only Hurts When I Laugh."

[leashlaws]

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"Time Bandit" by Andy & Johnathan Hillstrand of the "Deadliest Catch" and abandoning "Walking in Circles Before Lying Down" by Merrill Markoe, got about 2/3 the way through and I just can't seem to keep interest.
Also "Nobu - the Cookbook" really interesting background information on his life/career and the development of his cuisine through recipes.

[Kalalau]

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I have started vol. 3 of Na- Kai Ewalu. Book 1 was helpful review, book 2 cleared up a lot of questions about the Hawaiian language, and book 3 is...some of it is so easy its amazing, but some is virtually unintelligible. I must persevere, keep going over and over and over it til I get it. People continue to ask me why I am learning Hawaiian and I have no answer except that I like it. But I wish vol. 3 had been written a bit more user friendly-ly.

The story about Keoua v. Kamehameha is surprising, its not in any of the tourist books. Does oki mean to totally sever or just to injure?