What do you all like to read? Whether it's while you smoke(since I now many people do that) or just in your free time. Anybody have any favorite authors or genres?
Currently I'm reading:
Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Art of War by Sun-tzu
The Art of War is for school, we are reading that along with Lao-tzu and Machiavelli. Asian writing isn't really my thing,but I'm enjoying it so far.
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Originally posted by Docbarry: I read a lot of medical journals.
For leisure I enjoy history.
Just curious and you can ignore this question if it seems stupid. Do doctors have to upgrade their training as medical practices evolve? I mean, if you have a crusty old sawbones that put up his shingle in 1960, does he have a mandatory requirement to keep abreast of current treatments and practices or can he keep doing incantations and applying leeches?
Thanks for indulging me.
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Posts: 432 | Location: Tennessee | Registered: March 31, 2006
Any of the Jack Ryan novels by Tom Clancy....also read a lot of business books. Jack Welch has a couple of good ones, Liar's Poker is a fantastic book by Michael Lewis, and I just finished reading Leadership by Rudi Giuliani, which in my opinion is a book we can all take a few things from in our daily lives.
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Posts: 13 | Location: Penn State University | Registered: January 05, 2006
Right now I'm reading LUCREZIA BORGIA by Maria Bellonci. I like to read anything by Michael Chrichton and Ken Follet. My newer discovery are books by James Rollins - very entertainig. Skotto, speaking of 20th Century, Eastern European, and Jewish history - I love to read and reread books by Erik Maria Remark.
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Posts: 315 | Location: Brighton Beach/New York | Registered: November 01, 2006
While I'm sitting on my back porch smoking a cigar, I like to read books on baseball history, with a pair of binoculars around my neck to spot interesting looking birds, and have the police scanner on nearby. During the spring and summer, I just like to sit on my back porch with a radio listening to the local baseball game with my scoresheet in hand all while enjoying cigars.
Baseball is like church. Many attend, but few understand.
Non-fiction in general, and historical stuff particularly. I consider autobiographies fiction. Recently finished Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant 1839-1865 from The Library of America.
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Posts: 666 | Location: St. Louis, Mo area | Registered: November 17, 2006
Another vote for Unintended Consequences by John Ross and nearly as good Enemies Foreign & Domestic as well as Domestic Enemies both by Matthew Bracken.
I highly recommend Domestic Enemies as it is very current in its plot given the criminal alien situation here. UC gives you a great history of how we got in this godawful situation.
Posts: 613 | Location: Alabama | Registered: November 09, 2006
Lately, all I have been reading are government reports and bid proposals. When I read for enjoyment I enjoy reading biographies and Steven King mostly. I also enjoy reading books on business, law, and government. Unfortunately, life has not allowed me to read for pleasure lately and everything I seem to read besides the newspaper is business related.
Just finished "You Suck" by Christopher Moore, America's weirdest humorist. Now reading "Next" by Michael Crichton. Also like novels by Phillip Caputo and Nelson DeMille. Finally, non-fiction humor by P.J. O'Rourke.
Originally posted by YaZ: I love to read and reread books by Erik Maria Remark.
Remark is the real (German) last name of Remarque, right? I had to look that up. I read _Western_Front_ years ago.
Absolutely correct, the correct name is Erich Maria REMARQUE - what was I thinking? My favorite of his novels is "Night in Lisbon". I can also highly recomend on the subject of the early 20th Century Eastern European Jewish history - "The Testament" by Elie Wiesel.
Posts: 315 | Location: Brighton Beach/New York | Registered: November 01, 2006
Since I am an English professor, I spend a lot of time reading (as in all the time).
Currently, Bill Bryson's The Mother Tongue for my class in the English language. Bill Bryson is one of the funniest writers we have today. Anyone between the ages of 50 and 60 will enjoy his memoir about growing up: The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid.
I just finished Pauline Chen's Final Exam. Chen is a surgeon (and a fine writer) and this is her book about learning how to deal with death of her patients--an art/skill not taught in medical school.
Also reading at present Bob Woodward's State of Denial, which makes you wonder how Rummy hung on for so long.
For relaxation--Newsweek, The New Yorker, and our old friend, CA (just finished reading more about David Caruso than I ever wanted to know).
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