What's everyone reading?

Didn't see a sticky for this or a currently active thread, but if it turns out I'm wrong, go ahead and lock, mods.

Right now I'm reading Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. This is my second foray into his work, first being No Country for Old Men, which, I won't lie to you, I kind of despised despite it being well written and having some great scenes. Hopefully this one fares better, eh? I'm only like 30 pages in, but I like the style well enough at least.

Also recently read a duology by Don Dinslow about the War on Drugs. First book is Power of the Dog and the second is The Cartel. Both are huge, sprawling, epic crime sagas and are must reads for anyone interested in learning what the War on Drugs is really like (both books are well known for being very well researched and it shows).

What about you OT? What are you reading and is it good?

The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte by Sir Walter Scott, I love history so I spend a fair amount of time in non-fiction. Great book, I've always been fascinated by Napoleon, I'd recommend it to anyone who loves history

I've just gotten into Stephen King this Summer so I've got the Gunslinger lined up, I've only heard good things.

I also just bought The War that Ended Peace by Margaret MacMillion, which looks at Europe during the 19th Century and how it led to WWI.

Robert The Bruce King Of Scots

At the bit where Henry II (supposed) lover Piers Gaveston gets beheaded for pissing off magnates.

Hardly had the truce expired when the Scots attacked the castle of Norham just inside the English border and near to Berwick, burning the town and carrying away many prisoners and cattle. This feat so close to the headquarters of the English command in Scotland was a clear warning to the men of Northumberland and Dunbar that they could look for no defence from England and both areas renewed their tribute.

Meanwhile civil war had broken out in England. Edward II, whose affection for Piers Gaveston, however misplaced, had a depth and sincerity which must elicit respect, had twisted and turned like a fox before the hounding barons in an attempt to protect his friend. At the parliament in August 1311 he had offered to accept all the forty-one articles of the ordinance placed before him by the Lords Ordainers if they would delete that which demanded the banishment of Piers Gaveston. But they were resolute in their refusal. In mid-October 1311 Piers sailed for Flanders, but early in January 1312 he returned secretly to England and was received by the King and taken by him to York for fear of the barons ‘and because there was no safety for Piers in England, Ireland, Wales, Gascony or France he tried to arrange for Piers residence in Scotland until the baronial attack should cease.

The commissioners he chose to treat with Bruce were all Scotsmen, the Bishop of St Andrews, the Earls of Atholl and March, Sir Alexander Abernethy and Sir Adam Gordon, and through them, so anxious was he for his charge, he continually upgraded his offers from truce to lasting truce and ‘at length that the kingdom of Scotland itself should be allowed to Sir Robert freely and forever’. To which in chilling terms the Scottish King replied, ‘How shall the King of England keep faith with me since he does not observe the sworn promises made to his liege men, whose homage and fealty he has received and with whom he is bound to keep mutual faith? No trust can be put in such a fickle man, his promises will not deceive me.

Deprived of this last vain hope and denied funds from the exchequer even ‘so much as a halfpenny or a farthing, Edward II made his headquarters now in York, now in Newcastle, plundering the country around to pay for his expenses while the Lords Ordainers slowly gathered their private armies together and then marched north. Piers took refuge in Scarborough Castle while his King sought to raise more troops elsewhere, and there, after a siege by the Earl of Pembroke, surrendered on 31 May 1312 in return for the earl’s word of honour that his life would be spared.

But as he was being conducted to Pembroke’s castle at Wallingford in Oxfordshire, he was seized by the Earl of Warwick and on the order of the Earl of Lancaster beheaded on 19 June. Furious at the execution of his favourite, Edward II joined forces with the Earl of Pembroke, whose honour had been impugned, and marched against Lancaster and his fellow earls.

Dark Matter by Blake Crouch. I don't usually read sci-fi but this is really good.

The Bible.

@ArmoredCore55:

Don't they read it to you in church?

Common Sense by Thomas Paine and The Secret Architecture of our Nation's Capital By David Ovason.

I just finished the second half of The Divine Comedy, and am now reading The Black Prism by Brent Weeks. Managed to get through around 90 pages just during breaks at work, so its pretty good.

They teach some of it at church. I read a little bit of it at home each day, too. It helps us to get to know God more.

That's a good concept to have and it really shows that you are serious about your spiritualty.

@ArmoredCore55: @MarcRecon: Tried to read it through as a child and the Old Testement defeated me.

Aliens: Genocide

AND

Complete world of Greek Mythology.

VERY LAZILY.

I just finished "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson just last night. I'm not sure what I'll start next, but currently I'm getting through a backlog of podcasts.

May do a dance with dragons next, or perhaps sherlock holmes.

Rework by Jason Fried

Ephesians by Apostle Paul

Good to Great by Jim Collins

Age of Ultron: multiple authors

Heroes of the Frontier by Dave Eggers

Before the Fall by Noah Hawley

@turtlethetaffer: mostly reading psychology textbooks.

@samanthak: I tried reading her recently and couldn't get through more than a few pages.

@Allicrombie: Nice, school start up for you? Or do you teach?

@dave123321: The name Dave Eggers sounds really familiar to me. Is he good?

@Aljosa23: You know I saw that book in the store and saw simply glowing reviews. Is it really that compelling and interesting? The plot summary seemed a bit vague, so it seems like one of THOSE stories, if you catch my meaning.

@uninspiredcup: I really need to read more Scottish books considering my heritage.

@themanofpears:The Dark Tower series is great for the first four books, then gets a little bit too whacky and weird (not to mention slow in book 5) for my personal tastes. But hey, maybe you'll like the latter part of the series more than I did! If you like him and are looking for more, some of my favorites by him are The Shining, Pet Semetary, IT, Christine (believe it or not a novel about a haunted car is actually great), Gerald's Game, The Regulators (a lot of people don't like this one but I personally enjoyed it a lot for how bizarre and out there it is right from the get go, unlike Dark Tower which arguably jumps the shark), Cujo, Blaze, and most of his short story collections: Night Shift, Skeleton Crew, Just After Sunset, Full Dark No Stars, Everything's Eventual, Nightmares and Dreamscapes, and Hearts in Atlantis.

@turtlethetaffer: I wish I taught! The instructor of our Human Sexuality class gets to read like 30 sexually charged papers every quarter! (I like to think that he reads them in bed, for added effect.) It started and we're on week 9 of 10, so it's almost over. I have 4 papers due next week but I'm waiting until the last possible moment. (I can't wait to read them, the suspense is killing me!)

@turtlethetaffer: Thanks for the recommendations! I loved The Shining and I've read some of his more recent stuff. The local library doesn't have much of him though so it's hard to get access.

I agree. It's a very important book to read.