What Are You Reading?

The Warpath, it's a collection of opinions contributed by redskins fans from around the world. Some of the authors are a bit rough around the edges, but its a good read for the most part.


Took my idea

But I am reading Where the Red Fern Grows by: Wilson Rawls read it like 5 or 6 times never gets old.

I read The Road by Cormac McCarthy not too long ago and loved it. It took some effort for me to get into but by the end I thought it was one of the most moving books I've read in a long time.

It's about a father and son travelling south in a post-apocalyptic US where the majority of the other survivors have resorted to cannibalism. It's not the most original story and there isn't a whole lot of action but it didn't need to be.

One interesting thing: I always try to picture different actors as the characters in books so that I can visualize them better. For The Road I kept picturing Viggo Mortensen as the father for whatever reason, and then I just recently read that this book is going to be turned into a movie and, sure enough, Viggo is playing the lead. I should be a casting director.

A decently light, nerdy book that I read recently was A Brief History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson. He covers the history and important events of just about every range of science category: physics, astronomy, chemistry, biology, geology, etc.

The Warpath, it's a collection of opinions contributed by redskins fans from around the world. Some of the authors are a bit rough around the edges, but its a good read for the most part.

lol good one

As of this minute I am reading A Republic in Time: Temporality and Social Imagination in Nineteenth-Century America by Thomas M. Allen. I wouldn't recommend it for light reading, I'm struggling with it personally ... but since you asked ....

I also just finished Thomas Frank's What's the Matter with Kansas?, which is directed at a more popular audience. More descriptive than analytical and I found it particularly lacking in its historical analysis of the 'Backlash' ideology that he describes, but as a description of the de-coupling of economic class from politics and his characterization of contemporary Kansas as a case of 1890's Populism turned on it's head I found it compelling (though he perhaps takes an overly romantic view of Populism by avoiding - as he does throughout the book - any discussion of race).

If you are interested in making a foray into academic history and also wanted to read about football there is a professor at Oregon State, Michael Oriard, who has written a number of books on the subject. His latest is recently out from UNC Press entitled Brand NFL: Making and Selling America's Favorite Sport, which I gather is a cultural history of consumerism and the evolution of the NFL image. He has some other work on early popular presentations of the sport in newspapers and newsreels. I think I have most of his books checked out from the library, but have not actually read any of them so I can't give a personal opinion but would be interested what others thought if they got a chance to read any of them ... would even be up for discussing any of them as it would give me an excuse to pick one up and read it.

I'll recommend a good book that I read some time ago. I have 2 small kids so i don't get much ME time anymore. Freakonomics. Very good book that makes you think about the real reason for certain social issues and opinions. Good book.

I might have mentioned this book on here a while back. I whole heartedly agree. it is a fascinating book and one that can really change your veiw of the world.

Who has a good historical non-fiction they would recommend? I have a Stephen King in the wings, but not quite ready for that yet.

I definitely recommend this one

Amazon.com: Carlisle vs. Army: Jim Thorpe, Dwight Eisenhower, Pop Warner, and the Forgotten Story of Football's Greatest Battle: Lars Anderson: Books (http://www.amazon.com/Carlisle-vs-Army-Eisenhower-Forgotten/dp/140006600X/ref=pd_bbs_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1199559399&sr=8-2)

Right now I'm reading Bob Woodward's State of Denial

I've been toying with the idea of getting one of these. But I don't travel as much as I used to so it may not be as practical

The Gadgeteer - Amazon Kindle (http://www.the-gadgeteer.com/review/amazon_kindle)

Wow this is an old thread...