30 Days to a Better Man Day 27: Start a Book

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Permalink Reply by Corey on June 26, 2009 at 11:50pm

Gifted Hands by Dr. Ben Carson

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Permalink Reply by Ddelaney1984 on June 27, 2009 at 12:13am

A Bad Man by Stanley Elkin, it is probably my favorite book.

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Permalink Reply by Øystein on June 27, 2009 at 3:54am

Currently reading "The Prince" by Machiavelli, "Toll the Hounds" by Steven Erikson and SAS Survival Guide.

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Permalink Reply by Josh Gamboa on June 27, 2009 at 4:35am

Liberty And Tyranny by Mark R. Levin and En Route to Global Occupation by Gary H. Kah

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Permalink Reply by Andrew Barbour on June 27, 2009 at 4:53am

Somewhere in the middle of Chapter 14 of "The Black Swan" by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Next is "Guns, Germs and Steel" by Jared Diamond.

Caveat: These are audiobooks. My line of work is mostly reading and writing, and at day's end, I don't feel like sitting down to read even more. I listen to audiobooks during my walk home from work, and when I'm outside exercising.

That said, when vacation time rolls around, a physcial book in a quiet spot is a fantastic thing.

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Permalink Reply by Craig Lloyd on June 27, 2009 at 8:01am

Self-reliance and other essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson. It's a tiny book but is taking ages to read. I'm trying to read a book per month this year.

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Permalink Reply by Ross Moore on June 27, 2009 at 8:22am

I'm reading two books: one, historical fiction - A Knight of the White Cross, by G.A. Henty; the other, a Bible commentary - Jesus and the Gospels, by Craig L. Blomberg . I usually have two books going because I will get tired of reading a particular topic and want to read a story. Then I'll need to get back to something intellectual.

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Permalink Reply by Huntersville Heel on June 27, 2009 at 10:23am

I'm just finishing up Running to Win by George Sheehan. I really like it. Some of it is a bit techinical and running specific, but it is a good book about exercise with a dash of philosophy.

I'm actually headed to the library in a few minutes to pick up a couple other books that just came in for me.
Born to Run by Christopher McDougall (Running, Adventures in Latin America)
The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs (Heard it was funny)

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Permalink Reply by Douglas Breault on June 27, 2009 at 10:30am

I just finished reading Ray Bradbury's Dandelion Wine. Next up will be Eureka by Edgar Allan Poe, which admittedly is not a book despite being Poe's longest work - it's still short. I'll probably read Dharma Bums by Kerouac after. I'm a New Englander at heart so a lot of what I read stems from authors with local ties at some point in history.

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Permalink Reply by Paul on June 27, 2009 at 11:10am

I dig Ray Bradbury (never read Dandelion Wine). When I was younger I liked to just go downstairs and pick Bradbury and Asimov short story volumes off my dad's bookshelf and read them. Sadly, it has been a while since I had time to do that (and I don't live at home anymore).

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Permalink Reply by Paul on June 27, 2009 at 11:20am

I have been reading Jules Verne's The Mysterious Island for a very long time. It is a 750 page classic so it is definitely taking me some time. It is a paragon of manliness though- the five characters in the novel are all perfect gentlemen. Few book characters are more noble and worthy of emulation- I am inspired to be a better man just by reading it (makes me wish I lived back in the 1860s).

My other project is Man on the Moon by Andrew Chaikin. It is a very personalized account of each of the manned Apollo missions. Chaikin interviewed hundreds of people involved with the program, so its full of narratives and stories that make it feel as if you know the astronauts. Each mission is portrayed as special and unique in its own light, which is awesome, because I think a lot of the moon landings were overshadowed (then and now) by Apollo 11 and 13.

Anyway, thats what I am doing today, and I would highly recommend either book to anyone interested. So far, both have been very good!

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Permalink Reply by oracle989 on June 27, 2009 at 12:36pm

I've got a stack of 'em on the desk here to read. Currently finishing up The Soloist, then on to How to Read Literature Like a Professor. That'll get me 2/3 of my summer reading for school knocked out so I can get back to the pile of books that I WANT to read.

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