SmootSmack
01-24-2005, 01:02 PM
So right now I'm reading this book, recommended to me by our very own NY_Skinsfan, called Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terryfing Circumnavigation of the Globe (http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=Wl5QPeWA6A&isbn=0066211735&itm=1)
I'm about 200 pages in and it's great so far. Real-life adventure with a lot of first-person accounts. If you read one book this year about Ferdinand Magellan, make it this one.
So anyway, I thought I'd start this thread to see what other people are reading and maybe get an idea of what I should read next
TheMalcolmConnection
01-24-2005, 01:17 PM
Another good adventure book is They Shall Know Our Velocity. It's about these two friends who spontaneously decide to travel around the world when one of them is left a thousands of dollars and hand the money out randomly.
Daseal
01-24-2005, 03:41 PM
Right now I'm about 2/3rds through America: The Book by Jon Stewart and company. If all text books were written so well (and falsely!)
BDBohnzie
01-24-2005, 03:49 PM
getting ready to start The Teammates: A Portrait of Friendship by David Halberstam. also got a copy of Friday Night Lights when i bought the DVD at Best Buy last week...plus I have to get Jimmy Buffett's new book A Salty Piece of Land, and i do want to read Jon Stewart's book...i best get crackin'
TheMalcolmConnection
01-24-2005, 04:11 PM
Also a surprisingly good read is Jenna Jameson's book "How to Make Love like a Porn Star"
SmootSmack
01-24-2005, 04:22 PM
Also a surprisingly good read is Jenna Jameson's book "How to Make Love like a Porn Star"
I'll bet the movie is better :thumb:
TheMalcolmConnection
01-24-2005, 04:26 PM
Hahahahaha... I want to see her on "Inside the Actor's Studio" THAT would be classic.
Right now I'm about 2/3rds through America: The Book by Jon Stewart and company. If all text books were written so well (and falsely!)
I've got that book, haven't read it yet but I've skimmed through some parts, it looks great
Daseal
01-24-2005, 08:11 PM
James Lipton is the devil. I hate him.
NY_Skinsfan
01-25-2005, 12:56 AM
I am currently reading a series of books called The Earth Chronicles (http://galactic2.net/kjole/NCCA/earthchronicles.html). I am not a big believer in God so this topic is very interesting to me, although I do view these books as fiction (for the skeptics out there). Anyway, if you ever thought of how we all got here, i would suggest reading the first book at least, The Twelfth Planet...I found it very interesting.