If you liked that one, I think you would really like “Patriots” by James Rawles. It’s pretty much a doomsday book, about the economy crash. There’s been a group of survivalist in northern Idaho, preparingfor it for years, and when crap hits the fan, the guys are ready. It’s a VERY good read. What I really like about it, you can easily see it happening tomorrow.
Also, Critical Mass was very good, if you like end of the world type stuff.
Thanks! The local library doesn’t have Patriots so I put it on my future reading list, but they have Critical Mass. I’ll pick it up when I pickup a couple of books for my trip to MI next week
Pete Brown - Hops and Glory.
Great fun and quite educational too. Only problem is I get an urge for drinking lots of IPA.
Omar Khayyam - Rubaijaat.
One thousand years old persian poetry about being merry and getting drunk on wine (or IPA…).
Drew, Thanks for posting that!
I read a review on that book a few years ago and then forgot to write it down and promptly forgot the name and author.
Now it is ordered and on the way!
I would also recommend What Every BODY is Saying
I finished this while in several airports Sunday and Monday. It’s a great historical novel. Really interesting all the way to the end. There are two, maybe three stories going on through the book, each one a good read by itself, but together even better.
I’m reading “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” to my kids. Again. 
Other than that, I don’t recommend anything on my reading list. For example, “Folding catalysis by transient coordination of Zn2+ to the Cu ligands of the ALS-associated enzyme Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase 1”
Wow. A real page turner. :
I just finished Dean Koontz Frankenstein The Dead Town. If you’ve read the other four in the series it’s a decent finish, if you’ve not, probably not the place to start, start with book 1.
So #5 is the last, eh? I’ve done the first four and it’s nice to know there is actually a conclusion (unlike the Chris Snow series, unfortunately).
go the f**k to sleep
laugh out loud funny if you have/had children.
That’s funny! ;D
There ought to have one for restaurants or grocery check-outs.
Especially if you have it read by Samuel L. Jackson: http://www.audible.com/pd/?asin=B00551W570
winner winner! thanks for posting. i’ll be listening to that at home!
I just finished The Third Policeman this morning. That was interesting. Currently, I’m reading In the Rooms by Tom Shone and God is not Great by Christopher Hitchens. I’m not far enough to recommend the former yet but I definitely recommend the latter.
Thanks for the Hiaasen recommendation. I’m a fan but haven’t read anything of his in quite a while.
I really enjoyed Joseph Boyden’s “Three Day Road”, Amazon.ca. It was a really WW1 novel about an aboriginal soldier returning from the war with an addiction and a whole bunch of demons to deal with. Very good book. Also really liked the “The Curious Incident of the dog in the night time” by Mark Haddon Amazon.ca.
Problem is, I don’t have much time to read but I listen to a lot of audiobooks when I’m driving or flying. Mostly classics though. On my iPod right now are:
Moby Dick
Siddhartha
Heart of Darkness
Green Hills of Africa
Several Bill Bryson books (great travel writer - very funny) including “A short history of nearly everything” that I can probably recite from memory.
and Adam Carolla’s “In 50 years, we’ll all be chicks” which isn’t teaching me anything but I agree with most of what he has to say.
That ranks right up there with the Code of Federal Regulations, Hawaii Administative Rules, and ASTM Standards I have to plow through on a regular basis… (highly sleep inducing).
Good on you for reading Harry Potter to your young-uns Tom. My son turned me on to HP nine years ago when he was two.
The adventure is coming to an end on July 15 with the release of Deathly Hallows Part II 
I thought HP was supposed to come to an end a couple of years ago. I think the true end will come when JK doesn’t need anymore money, although I can’t imagine why that hasn’t already happened.
She’s going to publish and release the ebooks herself. That’s gonna be worth a fortune in itself.
Actually I saw where he had another one coming out for Odd and I think for Chris Snow. An Odd movie is coming out in 2012.
I found the page I was thinking of again, appears the Snow book is still in limbo, but a new Odd is looking like 2012
http://www.xmission.com/~emailbox/koontz/timeline.htm
I love Shaara’a books! Can’t miss reading for the history buff. I’m about to finish No Less Than Victory.