What books are you reading now?

I'm a voracious reader and I was wondering what books you are reading now, it doesn't matter if it's fiction or a technical manual. Here's a list of the books that I have lying around and I'm reading now

1. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy(Just finished)
2. The Man with the Getaway Face by Richard Stark
3. The Outfit by Richard Stark(The author of the great Peckinpah movie with Steve McQueen--The Getaway also my fave Lee Marvin movie--Point Blank)
4. V by Thomas Pynchon
5. Porno by Irvine Welsh(Author of Trainspotting, this is the sequel)
6. Glue by Irvine Welsh(One of my favorite authors)
7. Stick by Elmore Leonard(rereading my favorite book of his)
8. The English Assasin by Michael Moorcock
and these are books I read and reread constantly

EClass owner's bible by Bentley Publishers and Stu Ritter
The Illustrated Buyer's Guide to Mercedes and also the ones to Porsche.
Porsche 911 Road Car
I have a lot of books on Porsches incidentally, will probably get one 20 years from now when kids are gone.

So tell me what you're reading now or just finished reading, even if it's a textbook

Right now I'm reading three, in no particular order:

1) Endurance, (about the Shackelton (sp?) expedition

2) The Life of Christ, by Fulton Sheen

3) The Lord of the Rings, (we all know the author!)

[el presidente]

My brother loaned me "The Ten Commandments of Dating" when I saw him over the Thanksgiving holidays.....

I guess he is worried about me

That's funny, I like your brother's sense of humor, it could be worse, at least he didn't give you Catcher in the Rye or Left Behind

[el presidente]

LOL! My sister's husband loaned me a couple books on the California Wine Country as I'll be there in January. I cracked that one open first

Just about to finish "Tuesday with Morrie". Great book to prod one to think on the more simple things of life that have real meaning instead of all our toys and greed.

I forgot to add these two books that I've been reading constantly over the last 2-3 years

1. What to expect when you are expecting
2. What to expect the first year

Both very detailed and knowledgable books, I wish there were books like these about the cars I've bought. For example

What to expect when you buy a corvette

1. Transmission failure at 30K
2. Steering lock at 50K
3. New tires every two months depending on how many times you drive the car, cost is $250 a piece if you know where to find them.
4. No access to change light bulbs for foglights so $50 or more for this simple service

I should start a thread about this for the 190E


Also reading a book by this eccentric Polish sculptor

Behold the Protong by Stanislav Szukalski

[G-Benz]

Originally posted by vanakin
1. What to expect when you are expecting

My wife cried when she read the last chapter a week before she was due...pretty sobering stuff, but I guess some people do have to deal with what to do if you should lose the child...

>>My wife cried when she read the last chapter a week before she was due...pretty sobering stuff, but I guess some people do have to deal with what to do if you should lose the child... <<

Unfortunately this is a worry most parents have for the rest of their lives, even when the baby gets here it doesn't stop.

Congrats on your safe delivery

[el presidente]

Originally posted by vanakin
[BUnfortunately this is a worry most parents have for the rest of their lives, even when the baby gets here it doesn't stop.

[/B]

I don't have any children, but I can relate.....

One of the hardest parts of my job is interviewing a parent who has lost a son or daughter in a fatal car accident.

[Kuan]

I'm reading "The Code Book." By Simon Singh. It chronicles the history of cryptography and ends with a challenge to decode a secret message at the end of the book. Hehe Interesting, especially when they get into quantum cryptography and stuff.

Kuan

[Gilly]

"Hunting Warbirds", subtitled "The obsessive quest for the lost aircraft of world war II" by Carl Hoffman,
and "Mercedes-Benz M-Class" by John Lamm.
I picked them both up quite cheap at a book store at one of these big outlet malls (Gurnee Mills in Gurnee, IL)

Gilly

[Robert Davis]

1. American Sphinx (about Jefferson)
2. The Gift of the Maji
3. History of MB
4. History of R. Royce
5. Think and Grow Rich

[frosty]

Nuremberg: Infamy on Trial

It's a very captivating book...been reading it. I'd like to start on Angela's Ashes next.

[blackmercedes]

Originally posted by 123c
The last books I read were Environment by Raven and Berg, and A Sand County Almanac.

A Sand County Almanac is one book I have always close at hand on the bookshelf. The passage on cutting the winter's supply of firewood is heaven to me. "Seasoned oak..."

I have on my bedside right now:

1984 by George Orwell. Always a good read.

East of Eden by John Steinbeck. Better than Grapes of Wrath, though not as acclaimed. The finest book put to print in my opinion.

The rest are "boring" non-fiction tomes including The Wealthy Banker's Wife by Linda McQuaig and Fences and Windows by Naomi Klein. She's also the author of the Nike slam-dunk book No Logo.