What are you currently reading?

To Kill a Mockingbird. I’ve never read it and it’s a classic so I figured I should probably read it. Thoroughly enjoying it thus far.

Splitfoot- Samantha Hunt (the Dark dark was a great collection, just starting her novel)

Collapse of Horses - Brian Evenson First Evenson, can never find used, like the writing style so far, promising start

House of Leaves- ?spelling? - Giving it a shot not sure if going to finish,

Denis Johnson's latest collection, releases tonight going to start ASAP- Jesus's Son in my top 5

We have always lived in the Castle- Shirley Jackson -Finally digging into SJ

Hard Rain Falling-Don Carpentar gritty, road/crime story set in the NW, solid

Shipbreaker-Classified as YA but giving it chance, shipbreaking yards one of my favorite settings

Outer Dark- cormac Mcarthy

The Scar- China Mieville-

These books contain no runners.

Americanah by Chimamandah Adichie is awesome!

Right now I am reading, "What are you currently reading" by Karl Hungus. Deep stuff.

Quite new to the running and have read a bit recently.

Advanced Marathoning - Peter Pfitzinger and Scott Douglas - good

Chi Running A Revolutionary Approach to Effortless, Injury-Free Running - crap, tossed away few chapters in

Conditioning for Distance Running - Jack Daniels - really good

Daniels' Running Formula (read both 2nd and 3rd editions) - You can like Daniels' approach or not but this is excellent read and great entry point when starting to form your own training approach

Marathon The Ultimate Training Guide - Hal Higdon - so so

Road Racing for Serious Runners Multispeed Training- 5K to Marathon - Peter Pfitzinger and Scott Douglas - good

Running with the Buffaloes - Chris Lear - really interesting

I will add this as a sort of short book - 2 kinds of runners. Which are you? -

http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=2375989

- really really recommended as well

Currently reading - Lore of Running by Timothy Noakes

Overall, I would say reading both Daniels' books are highly recommended, one of Pfitzingers books will be good as well, the 2 kind of runners thread is gold as well. Lore of running is obviously very good, it just takes a lot of time with sheer size of information it contains.

"The Last Englishman"

Guy from England walking the PCT.

"What If?"

Answers to absurd hypothetical questions. Example: What would happen if everyone on Earth got together and jumped at the same time?

I'm about to start "12 Strong," which is about the ODA that was a part of the initial push into Afghanistan following 9/11.

Ranger Games

The question was "what are you currently reading," and I knew before I opened the thread that a significant percentage of responses would be from people who read the question as:

"Instead of describing one, maybe two books you have on the go right now, please give me a substantial list of books, and not ones you have recently read, but moreso a list of the 8-10 ones you feel were the best you have read over your entire lifetime, or in fact, wish you had read. Or even wish others believed you had read."

The thread is young, but trust me, you'll get a number of these.

....see below post for an example. These are not "what you are currently reading" and in fact, describe what I said in my post perfectly.

of course wrote:

The question was "what are you currently reading," and I knew before I opened the thread that a significant percentage of responses would be from people who read the question as:

"Instead of describing one, maybe two books you have on the go right now, please give me a substantial list of books, and not ones you have recently read, but moreso a list of the 8-10 ones you feel were the best you have read over your entire lifetime, or in fact, wish you had read. Or even wish others believed you had read."

The thread is young, but trust me, you'll get a number of these.

sorry, I quoted myself accidentally. Obviously I mean lklklklk's post.

Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself

by David Lipsky

Currently reading about the Wright Brothers

10 Great Acting Lessons by Senator Cory Booker

Okay then...... I have two books on the go that fit the OP's question, as I am currently reading both. First one is taking a while, as I am going through it slowly to fully digest it. It's called Endless Universe, and the authors basically “contend that what we think of as the moment of creation was simply part of an infinite cycle of titanic collisions between our universe and a parallel world." They recount the remarkable developments in astronomy, particle physics, and superstring theory that form the basis for their groundbreaking “Cyclic Universe” theory. According to this theory, the Big Bang was not the beginning of time but the bridge to a past filled with endlessly repeating cycles of evolution, each accompanied by the creation of new matter and the formation of new galaxies, stars, and planets.

https://www.amazon.com/Endless-Universe-Beyond-Big-Bang/dp/0385509642

Second book is The Billionaire's Vinegar, which I highly recommend. It's an amusing and interesting story that tells the true story of a 1787 Château Lafite Bordeaux—supposedly owned by Thomas Jefferson—that sold for $156,000 at auction and of the eccentrics whose lives intersected with it. "Was it truly entombed in a Paris cellar for two hundred years? Or did it come from a secret Nazi bunker? Or from the moldy basement of a devilishly brilliant con artist?" The story described is really only a vehicle to write a book about astronomically expensive, extremely old wines and how they are sold, and how the buyers (who obviously almost never open them) will never know if it's spoiled and has essentially become a bottle of vinegar, hence the name of the book. A good read.

https://www.amazon.com/Billionaires-Vinegar-Mystery-Worlds-Expensive/dp/0307338789

of course wrote:

sorry, I quoted myself accidentally. Obviously I mean lklklklk's post.

honestly that's probably barely half of what i'm currently reading (~last 2-3 weeks)

I also knew before i posted my list that someone would take it upon themselves to find a way to be bothered by it, so I made a point to mention that I was only just starting a few of them, but it looks like someone's feelings were hurt anyway.

It's kinda sad that someone could list 10 tv shows that they watched recently and no one would bat an eye.

dead duck wrote:

10 Great Acting Lessons by Senator Cory Booker

Why does every fucking thread here have to has some idiot that finds a way to post some political garbage? Yeah, we get it. You didn't like his questioning of the DHS secretary today. Christ, give it a break! Take it to the Trump inauguration thread, please.

I've been running for 40 years and haven't read any of those books. Maybe I shouldn't have been giving advice on here the last 14 years!!

Right now I am working my way through The Idiot by Dostoevsky. I read Tolstoy's War and Peace 3-4 years ago and got hooked on Russian classics.

A Year in Provence (I've seen the movie)