What Are You Reading ?

[Jax]

I'm reading "This is Where I Leave You" by Jonathan Tropper.
Pretty good book. It's dark, funny, and thoughtful.

[Music Head]

I am not a big Arnold fan. I am a fan of biographies. They are usually very interesting and this was no exception. There are those that are written as hit jobs which this is not. A very fair analysis of his life thus far I think. Arnold has had 3 careers, body builder, actor and currently politician. This book covers all three. Maybe too much on the body builder, which was rather boring. Not sure how he earned a living in that phase. A kept man I would say. He became a millionare as an actor and I was never a big fan, not even the Terminator stuff. My favorite Arnold flick was True Lies which was very late in his acting career. I just never could get past the accent. Of course now he is the governer of California, and a typical politician. Say whatever you need to get elected, then do the opposite. Just glad he can't run for president. This book did not change my opinion of Arnold but it was very well written.

Grade - A


Next up - The Ways Of The Hour by James Fenimore Cooper

[carbon_psycho]

Solomon Kane - Robert E. Howard

[asp3]

I just finished "Marsbound" by Joe Haldeman, "Chronic City" by Jonathan Lethem and "Fledgling" by Octavia Butler. Now I'm finishing "Genesis" by Bernard Beckett. Not sure what I'll read next, possibly "The House of Mondavi". I tend to read science fiction or wine related books.

[rfarrah]

Just finished Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. Remarkable.

[Music Head]

That isn't a pic of my edition but the only one I could find. Interesting story. I was in a used book store back years ago. Saw a set of Coopers works (32 volumes). Not sure how much I paid for them. Over the years I pick one out. Not even half way through them. This set was published in the 1930's and they have never been read. I know this because I have to cut the pages before I read. Hard to explain, but about every 5 pages are still bound to the next pages, so I have to seperate those in order to turn the pages. I'm no book publishing expert but I was told that is how books were printed in those days. Amazing to me these books are in this condition.

As far as the book, this is one of his lesser known works and I thought it was pretty good. A look into the judicial system in the mid 1800's via the trial of a young woman charged with arson, robbery and murder. A lot of the same questions come up about the process that we still struggle with today, jury selection, corruption via payoffs and lawyers deciding whether to really defend an obviously guilty client. In the end the defendant was acquited as one of the supposedly murdered victims appears in the court room as the guilty verdict is being read. All other charges were dismissed. Her lawyer develops a passion for his client and proposes but is rejected in the end. Poor guy! All that work for nothin'

Grade - B

Next up - Locked In The Cabinet by Robert Reich

[Iota]

[carbon_psycho]

Dalgoda (comic)

[kerry101]

The true Blood saga by Charlaine Harris

[JonG]

...I was never a big fan, not even the Terminator stuff. My favorite Arnold flick was True Lies which was very late in his acting career. I just never could get past the accent.

See, that's why I like the Terminator series. He doesn't have to talk much.