O.T. What's your currently most read book?

[Theo Verelst]

Inspired by reading another thread's title wrong initially, it's a reasonable question.

 

Mine "Quantum Many Particle Systems" Negele & Orland.

 

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[kpl1228]

When Pride Still Mattered (Vince Lombardi bio) by David Maraniss.

[David Emm]

The Physicians' Desk Reference (PDR), now Prescriber's Digital Reference. 😬

 

"Death With Interruptions" by Jose Saramago.

 

Interesting pair. 🤨

[Docbop]

Actually just ordered so will be reading in a day or two....     Hip Hop is History by Questlove.   

[surfergirl]

[marino]

My most re-read book is probably "Centuria" by Giorgio Manganelli. I strongly recommend it; there is a (good) English version.

 

Books I've read recently:

- "Games People Play" by Eric Berne

- "Harold" by Steven Wright

- "Astrofisica per Curiosi" (Astrophysics for the Curious) by Gabriele Ghisellini

 

Currently, I'm reading "Platone per Sognatori" (Plato for Dreamers) by Allan Percy.

[Stokely]

I pretty much only read sci-fi and fantasy, and my favorites rotate around every few years.   Dune, Lord of the Rings, Neuromancer etc.

I also am all audiobook these days.  I do a lot of "reading" on walks or at the gym.  My eyes are not great and I find the voice actors can add quite a bit to my enjoyment.6   Special award for pretty much the only mystery stories I listen to, the original Sherlock Holmes stories.  I put those on every year or two   

[TommyBoy]

Fountainhead.  Over 20 times through the years.

[BluMunk]

I used to be a huge reader... these days I'm much more of a book collector. But, I definitely have a set of books I've returned to multiple times:
 

• Lord of the Rings (Tolkien)
• Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series (Adams)
• Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency/Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul (Adams)
• Hyperion (Simmons)
• Something Wicked This Way Comes (Bradbury)
• Dune (Herbert)
• Wizard of Earthsea series (LeGuin)
• A Canticle for Leibowitz (Miller)
• Stranger in a Strange Land (Heinlein)
• The Sandman comic/graphic novel collection (Gaiman)

I have a few non-sci-fi/fantasy novels that I've also read repeatedly (this list may give itself away as all being books I read first in an English class):

• Wuthering Heights (Bronte)
• The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
• A Yellow Raft in Blue Water (Dorris)
• Reservation Blues (Alexie)
• To Kill a Mockingbird (Lee)

 

... there are probably a few I've left off that list as tastes change and memory fades, but everything here I've read at least three times, and some (Tolkien, Adams, LeGuin) 10+.

[DJkeys]

Hit Men by Frederick Dannen-

 

-dj

[Sharkman]

Life, by Keith Richards.  I have read Keith's autobiography about six times now, and it fascinates me every time.

[RABid]

Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein - Even as a pre-teen I was fascinated by the psychology of scientists. The attitude of always being right. The belief that all that can exist is what can be currently proven. Refusal by many scientists to consider that the history of scientific advancements and blunders could mean that what we think we know now may be disproven in the future. The book focuses on famous scientists and glosses over many things the science community once believed. The world is flat. The Milky Way is all there is in the universe. AIDS can only be transmitted by sexual intercourse. Surgeons don't need to wash their hands between patient surgeries. The scientists who pioneered breakthroughs like genetic inheritance, the structure of atoms, the existence of germs and much, much more were harassed mercilessly by colleagues who were sure that these theories could never be reality. 

[Michael W]

 

'Dandelion Wine' by Ray Bradbury.

 

[SteveNathan]

Since I mostly read political & policy books, I can’t say here 😉

[Tom Williams]

Since you ask, most-read is the Bible, 1980s NIV translation, probably 4 or 5 times through. 

Second place goes to Darrell Huff's short 1950s masterpiece, "How to Lie with Statistics."

Honorable mention: Edward Tufte's "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information."

[NewImprov]

Probably Allen Strange’s Electronic Music: Systems, Technics, Controls. I had a copy of it on permanently overdue status from the music library when I was in college, bought the terrible photocopied reprint from the publisher in the ‘90’s, and got the fabulous new reprint recently.

 

You can get the reprint here, I can’t recommend it highly enough if you are interested in analog modular synthesis: https://www.perfectcircuit.com/allen-strange-electronic-music-soft-cover.html?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&adpos=&scid=scplpN13-08282&sc_intid=N13-08282&gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAAC5pbEn5bWcO_Vx4LIn-Jo_G3e9VI&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIua79koWOiAMVjzqtBh3q5SEdEAQYASABEgLpkvD_BwE

 

 

[The Real MC]

My brother and I share Dad's interest in trains and he had a big library of train history books.  After both parents had to be placed in long term care, their fully furnished house had to be emptied to put it on the market to sell.  My brother got Dad's model trains, and I got Dad's train book library.  There are many books that I had not yet read but I'm always pulling a book out of that library to read.  I love reading about railroad history.
 

When I relocated south to the new job, the movers packed the books with my belongings.  Here's the library in my current home:

 

[marino]

On 8/24/2024 at 6:31 PM, NewImprov said:

Probably Allen Strange’s Electronic Music: Systems, Technics, Controls.

 

A fantastic book. Despite being old, it approaches synthesis from a practical, yet deep point of view.

[Cliffk]

Of recent books, I’ve read Jon Rauch’s The Constitution of Knowledge several times.

[Bobshaw78]

 

Seem to come back to these regularly:

Maus - Art Spiegelman
Catcher In The Rye - J D Salinger
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
1984 - George Orwell
The Wimbledon Poisoner - Nigel Williams

The Stranger - Albert Camus

Watchmen - Alan Moore
 

[NKB4691]

Going back a looong way...

Tom Sawyer followed closely by Huck Finn.

 

Since then I've always preferred to read something I've never read before. Only so much time on this Earth.

[wineandkeyz]

As a father and grandfather I'd have to say the one I've read the most is "Goodbye Moon" by Margaret Wise Brown.

[wineandkeyz]

16 hours ago, wineandkeyz said:

As a father and grandfather I'd have to say the one I've read the most is "Goodbye Moon" by Margaret Wise Brown.

 

Ugh... And of course I meant "Goodnight Moon."

[Raymb1]

3 Shades of Blue, by James Kaplan. About Miles, Bill and 'Trane.

[Polychrest]

My current almost-read book:  “The Only Girl – My Life and Times on the Masthead of Rolling Stone” by Robin Green.  Green skewers the cruel old stereotype that rock journalists are “people who can’t write, interviewing people who can’t talk, for people who can’t read”.  Hers is a unique perspective for the times.  She knew everyone during rock’s golden age and holds nothing back in her impressively well-crafted reminiscences about them.  She also wrote scripts for The Sopranos.  Joan Didion was a big fan.
 

Here’s the pitch that turned me on to this book:  https://lefsetz.com/wordpress/2023/10/18/the-only-girl/ 

[johnchop]

8 hours ago, wineandkeyz said:

 

Ugh... And of course I meant "Goodnight Moon."

Goodbye Moon sounds like a Liu Cixin novel. 

 

“Everything was fine until the moon disappeared…”

[kpl1228]

On 8/22/2024 at 8:38 AM, Sharkman said:

Life, by Keith Richards.  I have read Keith's autobiography about six times now, and it fascinates me every time.

I'm all about the autobiographies: I'll have to check this out. Just did Chrissie Hynde's: very good.

[wjwilcox]

Vengeance 10 by Joe Poyer, The Foundation Trilogy by Issac Asimov and Century Rain by Alastair Reynolds.

[kpl1228]

Did the audiobook of this, still finishing it. It's absolutely terrific. And he mentions Oberheims and PPG Waves.