Recent Books

[lester1/2jr]

I'd highly recommend "the politically incorrect guide to capitalism" by Robert Murphy

it sounds like some cheesy dumbed down "dummy's guide" to whatever but that's actually not the case. 

it is a really over the top takedown of government programs, taxation and prominent cliches out there about the economy.  The author is an anracho-capitalist, which is kind of an extreme libertarian.  Even if you know about the market and stuff like that it is really interesting and definately challenging, leaving no sacred cow or liberalism untouched.

[Torgo]

I'm going back through "Stanley Kubrick-Director" at the moment since the box set came out.

[Killer Bees]

Brother Odd - Dean Koontz (just finished)
Disney War - James B. Stewart (currently reading)
In Your Face: How American Marketing Excess Fuels Anti Americanism - Johny K. Johansson (currently reading)
The Planets - Dava Sobel (kind of still reading)
Angels and Demons - Dan Brown (kind of still reading)

[frank]

non-fiction and interesting:
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution - Richard Dawkins

non-fiction and funny:
My family and other animals - Gerald Durrell

fiction:
Muminvaters wildbewegte Jugend - Tove Jansson (German obviously, although originally from Finland. It´s actually a child book, part of a series that put some magic into my childhood - about the life and times of a troll-like family and their relatives and friends in some fantasy realm. Very catchy.)

When I think of it, there are quite a few children´s books I still like to read from time to time, like the Jeremy James books (which the British around here might know).

Some all-time-favs:
non-fiction and interesting: Zen and the art of motorcycle maintainance by Pirsig
non-fiction and funny: about everything by Bill Bryson
fiction: the Preston/Child books, although the Pendergast thing tends to wear off a little bit by now

[CheezeFlixz]

non-fiction and funny: about everything by Bill Bryson

  funny funny guy.

[Scott]

Forgot one book that I read in parts. THE GOLDEN LEGEND written by Jacobus de Voragine in the 1200's.

[RapscallionJones]

non-fiction and funny: about everything by Bill Bryson

  funny funny guy.

A Short History of Nearly Everything blows my mind.

[Spiff]

Un Lun Dun by China Mieville (a superb author). Okay, it's a children's book but his next adult title isn't out till next June and I just couldn't wait. It was also highly enjoyable.

[RapscallionJones]

By the way, if you haven't already, pick up a copy of Stephen Colbert's book I Am America (And So Can You).  If you're like me and can't enough of his character from The Report, this will get the job done.

[CheezeFlixz]

non-fiction and funny: about everything by Bill Bryson

  funny funny guy.

A Short History of Nearly Everything blows my mind.

I think I have every one of his books. A Short History of Nearly Everything is a riot and "A Walk in the Woods" is really funny too.