What are you reading right now?

[O'Neille]

I just got a copy of: The Final Theory:Rethinking Our Scientific Legacy, By Mark McCutcheon. It's very informative with lots of history too. It's almost a theoretical page turner.

[mkmound]

I. . . It's almost a theoretical page turner.

Huh?? :confused:

[Rex_Tremende]

My work group at the office is studying "Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't " a dissertation by Jim Collins on what it takes for a company to stand out from the rest with sustained performance.

If that doesn't thrill you, I am starting "Creating the Project Office, A Manager's Guide to Leading Organizational Change," for personal reasons I hope to be able to discuss in the not too distant future.

Regards,
Rex, PMP, whose borrowed copy of "The Kite Runner" is languishing on the bedstand.

[GMan]

I am now reading Residence on Earth a series of poems by Pablo Neruda.

The book group I am a member of for next month will be reading the Kite Runner.

After I finish Neruda and before the Kite Runner who knows what I shall read.

[O'Neille]

Huh?? :confused:

If you are a reader of scientific theory, you know that few are engrossing enough to be considered a "page turner" This is captivating enough to keep you reading.

[Jerry]

EEEEeeeeeek! How does anybody find time to read books?! I buy them but never get around to reading them. I bought 'The DaVinci Code' and 'Angels and Demons' about a year ago and haven't touched either, then at Heathrow Airport, en route to California a few weeks ago, I picked up 'A Good Year' by Peter Mayle - still in its paper bag!

In my bedside cabinet I have 'The Road Less Travelled' by M. Scott-Peck ....it's been there for at least nine years and I haven't reached the end of Chapter One yet. Bedtime reading does not work for me (obviously!), as I frequently fall asleep before I get around to switching off the light!!!

I also buy a lot of reference books that get dipped into when required, but I seriously do not have time to sit down and read. Now, perhaps if I were to resign from X Marks.....................!

Resign? don't even hint at that, Ham. We yanks need our resident kilt fashion expert.

[Jerry]

JerMc, not sure if you are a long time Heinlein fan or not, but Time Enough for Love was written at a time when Heinlein was pretty sick and not expected to live. Critics usually pan it and say it is one of his worst works. I don't know, I am not a critic. It is a little different from his other stuff, but still definitely Heinlein, and if you understand that he was very ill during the writing, I think you will see that reflected. I still think it is a great book.

I've been a heinlein fan since I was in jr high school. I also was an avid reader of Isacc Asimov, Andre Norton, Poul Anderson and Ray Bradbury among others at different times in my life

[Kiltman]

Wow! What a wonderful lot of books. I've never been able to read just one, or two, or three, or . . . . books. Currently I'm reading Alexander McCall Smith's Espresso Tales and Adomnan's Life of St Columba.

[Ialtog]

This has been a very educational thread. Last year at Halloween some friends suggested I do something that I thought some of the avid readers here might enjoy. They thought I should track all of the books I completed from November 1 until the next Halloween. So, I set up a spreadsheet so I could track them, as well as notes on each book. I was sort of flabberggasted. I completed 110 books over the year. My partner says I can't whine any more about not having enough time to read.

Right now I am working my way through (for the fifth time I think) Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin series as well as reading George Boyce's "Nationalism in Ireland". As soon as I finish that one I am going to start "A History of the World in Six Glasses", which was recommended here.

[RoderickOfClanMadHaggis]

I'm reading 'Cromwell - Our Chief of Men' by Antonia Fraser.