What are you reading? What was the last book you enjoyed?

As a big TAR fan, I'm currently reading: "My Ox is Broken" - An Unauthorized Look at The Amazing Race by Adam Troy-Castro.
 
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Tom Robbins

skinny legs and all

I HIGHLY recommend this!!
 
I am currently reading Stephen King's The Dead Zone and Gabriel Garcia Marquez' One Hundred Years of Solitude.
 
"Anyone but You" -- Jennifer Cruisie

works to get rid of holiday blues.

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The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

Just finished the Romanov Prophecy by Steve Berry and I have his The Amber Room lined up for when I finish the Historian.
 
also reading "The Josephine Bonaparte Trilogy" by Sandra Gulland, which is a three book biography written from her viewpoint as a diary.
 
Just heard that Robert Anton Wilson died today after a prolonged illness. Like him or hate him, his stuff was pretty interesting and "out there".
It looks like this is his last blog entry from a few days ago (the modern version of "last words"?):

Various medical authorities swarm in and out of here predicting I have between two days and two months to live. I think they are guessing. I remain cheerful and unimpressed. I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread. I love you all and I deeply implore you to keep the lasagna flying.
Please pardon my levity, I don't see how to take death seriously. It seems absurd.

LINK

Interesting profile: LINK
 
i couldn't sleep last night so i FINALLY finished this:

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thought it was really good, i think that i might even like it more than v for vendetta [yes, even with the really lame-o female hero character whose "skill" is kneeing people in the nuts].
 
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FINALLY got started on this Sunday.

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I saw Chuck on his book tour for this book. He read the short story "Guts" to the crowd. That was... what, a year and a half ago? Reading it again even now, I still get a little queasy. Sick, disgusting, and ****ing hilarious.
 
im reading Black and Blue about the 1966 world series between the dodgers and orioles. it was koufax's last season, with the author doing a great job telling how much pain sandy was in and the incredible effort he had to put in to make his arm game ready. the book also give a great idea of what the country was like at the time and the circumstances surrounding the games.
 
reading two right now. Tony Hillerman's Hunting Badger and Clive Cussler's Black Wind, (A Dirk Pitt Novel).
 
Just finished 'Dogs of God' by James Reston Jr. (Spanish Inquisition et al) and 'A Perfect Hell' by John Nadler (Origin of the Special Forces). Both good reads.

Now I'm on to Jon Krakauer's 'Under the Banner of Heaven'...looking forward to it.
 
finished this:

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i thought it was pretty good, a little info heavy in places and i lost track of some of the facts (but it could be that was distracted at those times). i liked how the narrative was presented in letters, memoirs, and first person.

i am now reading this:


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