What are you reading?

I'm not not much of a reader so me reading a book is something that doesn't happen often. It isn't that have trouble reading but reading a book is much like work for me. I know people who can just skim pages and understand what they are reading. I have to read every word so if it takes someone 5 minutes to read a chapter it will take me 10 minutes. I know some "readers" can't understand that statement, I've dealt with it my whole life but most of the time reading isn't enjoyable for me. I've gotta to really concentrate on what I'm doing.
now that being said I've gotten the book FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS from the library this past week. I'm not a big fan of the movie, I think it is a great football movie but I think Remember The Titans is a better movie, if that makes sense to you. I just thought that FNL just didn't do anything to make me care about the characters in the movie. it wasn't till I listened to the dvd commentary that I found a new respect for the movie. reading the book is really worlds apart from the movie. you really get a more in-depth feel for the players, family and town. it wasn't till I heard in the commentary that I knew they take chartered jets to some away games but it is right there in the book. a lot of history too is presented in the book. so far I must say it is a really good read.

When The Women Come Out To Dance, by Elmore Leonard. Not his best book ever but worth a read.

i love to read, i wish more young people were readers, it makes society less intelligent when people refuse to read.

im reading History's Greatest Conspiracies by H Paul Jeffers.

Lung, is that a good Leonard book? Ive never read it.

It's ok. It's a bunch of short stories. It's got the story "Fire In The Hole" that the FX show Justified is based on.

If you want something good from Leonard, get Pagan Babies, or Tishmingo Blues, or Mr. Paradise, or Road Dogs, or basically anything he's done. The book I'm reading now has a lot of characters from the afore mentioned books. So, it's good to get some prequel reading even though I'd already read their stories to the finish. The library in BSG has a pretty good E.L. selection. I usually go there every couple weeks and get another one.

Christopher Moore is really good too. I read Coyote Blue a couple months ago and laughed my ass off. Both the Bruce Campbell books are awesome too. The Richard Gere v.s. Bruce Campbell fight in the second book had me crying.

At the moment, I'm reading "Stuff White People Like", by Christian Lander. Love this book.

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Just finished "Under the Dome" by Stephen King. This is the book where a dome covers an entire town similiar to the thing in the Simpsons Movie. Liked it pretty good, but had the typical King deus ex machina ending which really sucks considering it is over a thousand pages. Definitely related to the small town part of it though....

Currently reading "The Sound and the Fury" by Faulkner.

A Lifetime of Observations by John Wooden.

Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. It's for one of my classes in college. I just finished the book. Great story.

Time is so tight for me I can only read snippets of the National Geographic or Readers Digest at a time. I have 3 months of those sitting waiting on me to finish them...

My reading genre preference is non-fiction, for when the opportunity arises.

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Walking up and down the world by Smoke Banchard

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At the moment, I'm reading "Stuff White People Like", by Christian Lander. Love this book.

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LOL when I frist read that post I saw it as "By Christian laettner"

Mr. Jefferson's Women by Jon Kukla....no wonder Bill Clinton's middle name is Jefferson....!!!!!!!

Roots by Alex Haley.

Glenn Beck: Arguing with idiots

You Suck! by Christopher Moore. So far, good stuff.

REMEMBER THIS TITAN: The Bill Yoast Story - so far so good. guy grew up dirt poor and was working in the cotten fields by the age of 12 I think it said, maybe by 10 because his dad was a hobo and never was around so he had to help provide.

I finished up Blood Sucking Fiends by Christopher Moore a couple weeks ago. It was the other part to the Moore book I mentioned above. Very funny.

I'm reading my second Thomas Ligotti book now, Teatro Grottesco. It's a book of short stories. A lot of the stories so far fall into that Twilight Zone kind of genre, but I think it's just the section of the book I'm in called Derangments that make it like that. The second section is called Deformations and the third is called The Damaged And The Diseased. I think those will turn into more of the bloodbath/gore type stories. I read another book of his called My Work Is Not Yet Done a few months ago. The main charactor works in an office and somehow becomes posessed by some sort of evil spirit and he cleverly kills off all of his co-workers who he loathes.

His books are very good but he uses a lot of very big words to explain and describe simple things. They can be kind of tricky to read but it's worth the challenge.

Dan Brown's "The Lost Symbol"
This is the third Robert Langdon-based book after Angels & Demons and The Da Vinci Code. I have read both of those, and Brown is an amazing writer, there is a lot of history, religion, mythology, architecture, and other very interesting information. There is just as much action as there is information, so it makes for an exciting read. I definitely recommend his books.