Read any good books lately?

**Doc Foster** · April 24th, 2005, 12:24 PM

I'm bored at work and have got to last until midnight - yes I've really got to work until midnight on a Sunday

I'm 5 minutes from the local book store. What would you recommend?

**houseisland** · April 24th, 2005, 01:06 PM

WILL IN THE WORLD
How Shakespeare
Became Shakespeare.
By Stephen Greenblatt.
430 pp. W. W. Norton & Company. $26.95.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpag...53C1A9629C8B63

COLLAPSE
How Societies Choose
to Fail or Succeed.
By Jared Diamond.
Illustrated. 575 pp. Viking. $29.95.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpag...52C0A9639C8B63

**Gabriel** · April 24th, 2005, 01:24 PM

For me mostly Scifi
Last book I read was Orson Scott Card - Xenocide
Now (from time to time - I got studies on my mind) - I read dune heretics by Frank Herbert.
IMHO the Dune Series is a must for every geek

Cheers,
Gabriel

**ross.v** · April 24th, 2005, 01:25 PM

Love is The Killer App by 'Tim Sanders'

Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco by Bryan Burrough

Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey

**kato2274** · April 24th, 2005, 01:33 PM

into the wild

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...books&n=507846

pretty good. interesting if nothing else. an easy read, and a good one.

just started

Lamb : The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...299066-7746419
so far it's very very funny. only a few chapters in though.

**Doc Foster** · April 24th, 2005, 01:45 PM

I've just purchased The Anubis gates by Tim Powers. I've read it before, but a great book is a great book, and this is a great book. If only people would stop disturbing me by asking me to troubleshoot their broadband connections. Docsis! Such is life.

**geeksRus** · April 24th, 2005, 02:01 PM

The Last Detective by Robert Crais...i love Elvis Cole novels.

**crazyman** · April 24th, 2005, 03:42 PM

Originally Posted by Doc Foster

I'm bored at work and have got to last until midnight - yes I've really got to work until midnight on a Sunday

I'm 5 minutes from the local book store. What would you recommend?

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**Mayet** · April 24th, 2005, 04:03 PM

The Da Vinci Code

I don't get time to read anymore....wish I did, maybe if I had read more books, I wouldn't have six kids.....hmmmm

**geeksRus** · April 24th, 2005, 09:14 PM

6 kids? is that a womb or a clown car?

**In The Wind** · April 24th, 2005, 09:34 PM

The entire "_______ Prey" series by John Sanford. I am waiting on the next one, each book is a complete story in itself, although they do connect somewhat. And, he is a geek at heart!!

**jaeger** · April 24th, 2005, 10:43 PM

Neuromancer by William Gibson.

Anything by Harry Turtledove.

Anything by Raymond E Fiest.

**PuterGeekGirl** · April 25th, 2005, 08:11 AM

Originally Posted by In The Wind

The entire "_______ Prey" series by John Sanford. I am waiting on the next one, each book is a complete story in itself, although they do connect somewhat. And, he is a geek at heart!!

VERY good series!

**amyb** · April 25th, 2005, 09:17 AM

I just read the bio of Meridith Viera's husband. He sure has been through a lot! An oldie but a goodie is Stephen King's "Stand by Me" and "Seabiskit"(my spelling--yikes) is also good (though this is not by S. King).

**hudsonsmith** · April 25th, 2005, 09:48 AM

Originally Posted by kato2274

into the wild

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...books&n=507846

pretty good. interesting if nothing else. an easy read, and a good one.

just started

Lamb : The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...299066-7746419
so far it's very very funny. only a few chapters in though.

Just finished Lamb and liked it, although I liked Fluke better.