[OT] What do hearthlings read?

[DatOneGuy]

I've been reading Bill Bryson's "A Short History of Nearly Everything" for about a week actively now. I started it almost a year ago but was between that and Iconoclast.

[saltmummy626]

Ive been reading Stephen King's Dark Tower series, and all the other books and stories he connected to it. The Stand, Eyes of the Dragon, The Mist(yeah the short story), Hearts in Atlantis, Salems Lot, It, Insomnia, Desperation, From a Buick 8, ect. ect. ect. almost all of his books share a close connection to that one series. they did even before he mentioned the connection in the last two books in the series. This one simple fact makes reading his books very interesting to me. Ive also been reading Lord of the Rings, but I cant find the last book so I haven't been able to finish it. Lastly in the time i dont spend playing this game, reading, or working, I read Uncle John's Bathroom Reader. a very good bunch of books filled with interesting facts about history, ebay, elvis, quotes, bumper stickers, and broken english.

[Gentley]

Wow, not much to add here, Hamilton, Pratchett, Asimov, King, Stephenson, they`re all here!

Just some additions:

If you like Pratchett, you should go for robert rankin and micheal moore, you`ll probably love their books.

Also:
Sci Fi:
Alan Dean Foster ( midworld for example )
Robert A. Heinlein ( Stranger in a strange world )
Philp Josè Farmer ( Maker of Universes - The World of Tiers )
Fantasy:
Clive Barker ( Arabat )

+ "My Name is red" was nice, but not thaaaat awesome Imho.

[JustasJ]

The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged, Anthem by Ayn Rand
Novels of Robert A.Heinlein

Can't remember much else at the moment...

[theTrav]

I've been reading Bill Bryson's "A Short History of Nearly Everything" for about a week actively now..

Excellent book. Bryson is a really engaging author.

If you enjoy that one I also recommend Guns, Germs, and Steel which has similar interesting development stuff, but is more focussed on the evolution of societies and technology and the reason some societies jumped way ahead of others.


EDIT:

Another thread also reminded me of the REQUIRED READING FOR RESPONSIBLE ADULTS!
Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
George Orwell - 1984 (animal farm as well, but that's more interesting than required)

[Gauteamus]

I often imagine Arthur Koestler being in the same club as George Orwell (Eric Blair) and Aldous Huxley.
I like Koestler for how he always seems to be the outsider, "Trotskian" doubter of any movement or creed he or his surroundings believed in.
Darkness at Noon - 1940(!) critic of the Moscow processes, Stalin and communism.
Arrival and Departure - questioning the omnipotency of psychoanalysis
The Case of the Midwife Toad - biography on one of the few (the only?) serious contemporary tragic champion of Lamarckism
The Roots of Coincidence - he even had to doubt statistical method, writing essays on paranormal phenomena

All those critic, probing, essaying works, written not as an attacker of the established coming from the outside wilderness, but probably "from within", as a wondering, openminded believer.

[Yolan]

Gotta go with Hannah Arendt as my favorite read at the moment. Cost me an arm and a leg, but managed to get her main works in Japanese.

'The Human Condition' is v. worth while.

[ewlol]

Hatchet, and the other "Brian" associated books by Gary Paulsen.
People of Darkness (my favorite book of all time) by Tony Hillerman
The Lord of The Flies, by William Golding
Harry Potter Series, by J.K. Rowling
Dogsong, by Gary Paulson

Magazines and huffingtonpost.com.
(Newsweek preferably)

[vikingdragons]

WTF, there is only one sci-fi reader who has read/liked Ender's Game other than me? what has the world come to

[burgingham]

You should maybe try other kinds of literature like what I mentioned. Yolan of course has the moral highground here (in multiple senses). Hannah Arendt is needed in so many ways these days, you could speak of a renaissance of her ideas. If only anybody listened.