DFW Rabid Readers: reading and discussion group

Firewalker

Good day, Readers. There have not been any updates for six days now and I am assuming people have been busy celebrating. Hope you all had really good Christmas break and wish you happy, meery, healthy and abundant New Year. And loads of reading...

I just finished 'Worth Dying For' by Lee Child - very dark but Reached was on top form. Now, I am thinkiong of finishing a book that really started changing the way I see the world last year. It is called 'Predictably Irrational' and there is little bit to finish (it is environmental economics).

And here is a question for all: which book you read in 2011 has affected you most? Three choices allowed (which of course makes it easier). For me:

1) Hector and his search for happiness
2) The richest man in Babylon
3) Predictably irrational

Firewalker

Aesop

ooh Firewalker, I have just finished reading 61 hours.... can't wait to read Worth Dying for... I love the way the end of the book said to be continued. I found that very good, and surprisingly knew who the bad guy was before Reacher!

se999

I quite like Lee Child's Reacher books too, I discovered them in the assortment of books you find in holiday cottages. It's amazing what you end up reading when the weather turns and you can't get out. Occasionally you find a goodie, that normally you wouldn't have picked up in the library or a bookshop.

Firewalker

aureol212 wrote: »

ooh Firewalker, I have just finished reading 61 hours.... can't wait to read Worth Dying for... I love the way the end of the book said to be continued. I found that very good, and surprisingly knew who the bad guy was before Reacher!

The thing with Reacher is that you never know when he knew;).

FW

williamD1964

Am trying to get to grips with the The Secret. Hard work.

Firewalker

Hi William,

which part do you find hard? I suppose the first couple of chapters are the ones that can be read and the rest is fairly repetitive, trying to convince by example. The Law of Attraction is very interesting as well as the visualisation techniques.

Firewalker

Marru

Has everyone who was going to read To kill a mockingbird read it?

I liked it and had difficulties putting it down but I wasn't that keen on the ending.

After mocking bird I read Hitchhickers guide to the galaxy (all five books). I found the third one a bit slow going (perhaps because I was distracted a lot so wasn't able to really concentrate). Liked perhaps the fourth one the best but then found the fifth one quite unnecessary. I think the ending in the 4th would have done me nicely instead of how it went in the end.

Don' know really what to read next (apart from some non fiction I have on the go at the moment).

savingwannabe

Marru i read it. Loved it. Atticus shielded the kids from the real world. V sad.

What would you like to read?

Aesop

I ended up buying the book, not got around to reading it yet.

Hector's Search for Happiness?

I asked at my local library, not in stock, is out on loan at another library.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon?

savingwannabe

I am still only half way through hector. I do read it at train stations and laugh and people laugh with me.