Today I read: The book thread

[North Country Dad]

Originally Posted by Mark B.

Sounds interesting. Going to have to check it out.

+1... I've liked some of her other books.

[cjbart]

Re-reading Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale".
Atwood at her most visionary. I haven't read this since before I had kids, from this perspective I see even more depth in it than before.

[ScottyG]

Originally Posted by North Country Dad

+1... I've liked some of her other books.

I'll let you gents know how it is. I'm just a few pages in so far, mostly just interested in the premise. Hopefully the book lives up to the strength of the premise.

[57plymouth]

Just finished "The Strenuous Life: Theodore Roosevelt."

Started a copy of what was supposed to be "The Divine Comedy" by Dante, and it was a textbook and not the original, so it goes back to the library.

Instead, "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley.

[sao95]

Brave New World is a great read, just while your reading substitute "soma" for "prozac".

[Electriclime]

Originally Posted by sao95

Brave New World is a great read, just while your reading substitute "soma" for "prozac".

I'll have to pick up a copy. Would be a good follow up to Fordlandia, which dealt a lot with the effects of Ford's industrial world opposed to his prairie farm ideals.

[57plymouth]

I finished "Brave New World" and a horrible book called "Classic Reading" while I was at Edisto Beach. The "Classic Reading" was a compilation of reviews of classic books published in some newspaper. It was not very good. Better than a typical middle school book report, but not much.

Now I'm reading Alvin Townley's second book "Spirit of Adventure" which is about what the current generation of Eagle Scouts is doing to live up to their rank after Scouting. It's pretty good content if not the best wordcraft I've read. As an Eagle Scout, I'm interested in the subject matter.

[troy00690]

Not much a reader here. I have become a fan of Autobiographies. Got done reading I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell and I am working on rereading the Shooter by Jack Coughlin.