What are you reading?

[MendoDave]

Just finished John Grisham " The Litigators"

The beginning is very funny.

[The Architect]

I'm reading The Good German.

Feed is on deck.  This sounds like a good one. 

[zarn02]

Murray Rothbard's 'The Mystery of Banking.'

[kopfjäger]

The Night Eagles Soared

[Langanobob]

"Lost in Shangri-La" by Mitchell Zuckoff

True story and one of the best books I've read in a long time.

Also, for the untreatable gearhead, recently finished a Lindsay Publications reprint from 1908 "Engineering Reminiscenses" by Charles T. Porter, about the development and commercialization of the steam engine.  Surprisingly well written by a guy who was right there in the middle of it.

[Speedbag]

Ray Bradbury's "Something Wicked This Way Comes"

[Mhanis]

Atlas Shrugged

[LMT]

Pride & Prejudice, Jane Austen

[Randy@StradaFab]

Atlas Shrugged

[JEFF_H]

The Ducati Monster Bible by Ian Falloon

also 007 Carte Blanche by Jeffrey Deaver

(just finished the Troy trilogy by David Gemmell.....that was excellent)

[Speedbag]

"Area 51" by Annie Jacobsen was a good read.....

[Drunken Monkey]

The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution by Francis Fukuyama

Manhood for Amateurs by Michael Chabon.

As for Atlas Shugged - “Two novels can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other involves orcs.”

[zarn02]

I enjoyed 'The Fountainhead,' and it was influential in my late-teens thinking. Probably partly responsible for how I think about things today, though I never considered myself an "objectivist" and have moved further on down the road from that since.

I had to put down 'Atlast Shrugged' shortly after starting part three, as I got too frustrated with Rand's steadfast refusal to just make a point and move on with the story. Too much repetitive hammering-home of her politics to be a enjoyable as a novel, and far too long to be enjoyable as a political tract.

[yamifixer]

As for Atlas Shugged - “Two novels can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other involves orcs.”

I LOVE THAT!!!!!!!!!!!! May I "borrow" it?

[Mhanis]

I had to put down 'Atlast Shrugged' shortly after starting part three, as I got too frustrated with Rand's steadfast refusal to just make a point and move on with the story. Too much repetitive hammering-home of her politics to be a enjoyable as a novel, and far too long to be enjoyable as a political tract.

I'd be lying if I didn't admit to skipping PAGES of the same thing being said over and over different ways in both The Fountainhead and Atlas.

Secondly the hero's in both novels are too "perfect" for my tastes but I'll definitely take them over the villians (looters/takers). It is interesting to see how the hero's overcome the obstacles placed before them.

Mark