The "What Are You Reading" Thread

[Afrrikan Rennaisance]

rightnow i'm busy with:

Toni Morrison - "The Bluest Eye"
Suzie Osmond - "9 steps to financial freedom"

[Priest B. Pimpish]

^^^ you must be one broke azz n!gga to be readin "9 steps to financial freedom" LOL!

[Positively Negative]

Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist (a dOpe read)

[Nzinga]

Claude Brown - Manchild In The Promised Land
Richard Wright - The Outsider
Howard Zinn - A People's History Of The United States 1492-Present

[Everglaze]

Hmm, I finished a book called "Eleven Days" a year ago...the plot was just GREAT. :) excellent for those who like mystery suspense novels.

Right now, I'm trying to read "Dreamcatcher" by Stephen King but I haven't had the time to.

I'm tryna look for some books where I can learn **** though..

[Ceez]

The Guide to Getting it On right now.


I'm also looking for some good financial investing books.

[nathdogg]

Originally posted by Positively Negative
Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist (a dOpe read)

no doubt.

The Mortdecai Trilogy by Kyril Bonfiglioli - hilarious

[topazjewels]

Brothers & sisters by Bebe Campbell

[Y2Killa]

1984-George Orwell
Yardie-(Cant remember the author off head)

[AnotherGirl]

Memnoch the Devil - Anne Rice

[loc'd sistah]

n*gger- randall kennedy
no disrespect- sister souljah

[dj1w]

Fight The Power "Rap,Race,Reality" -Chuck D

[Afrrikan Rennaisance]

still reading that "9 steps to Financial Freedom" and also W.E Du Bois's "The Soul of Black Folks".

[AmmunitionVX]

Steven King - IT.

[Delch]

Henry Kissinger- Diplomacy. I HAVE to read this for school, but for some strange reason---- its engrossing

[*ARMANI*]

I'm reading the Aaliyah book right now...just finished reading a book called A Chocolate Affair...i forgot who it was by, but its a pretty good book.

[Scottie C]

A Darkness At Sethanon - Raymond E. Feist.

3rd book in The Riftwar Saga, it's good and bad.

Not many peeps in here read fantasy......strange.

[LoveThat]

I just finished the latest book by bell hooks entitled Communion: The Female Search for Love. It was excellent!! She has written two other books about love called All About Love and Salvation: Black People and Love. I'm reading those now.

[Suidolem]

I am so into: Situations By Queen Pen.
I didn't want to put it down since I started reading it on Saturday.

[AVC]

uh, right now I'm reading this thread

[elle simple]

lol@AVC...

Trying to finish this book someone lent me called "Ravelstein" by Saul Bellows (its okay, kinda dry) and just finished "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" :p

[Afrrikan Rennaisance]

Arthur Maimane - "Hate No More"

great South African book, was originally burned in 1970 by the then Apartheid regime.

[Owl]

Baby of the Family by TIna McElroy Ansa (for the 6th time)
Uncle's Dream and Other Short Stories (Dostoyevsky)
And I just finished the fifth book in Anne RIce's Vampire Chronicles: Memnoch the Devil

:eek:wl

[Is...]

The Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero - Robert Kaplan
Language Truth & Logic - Alfred Jules Ayer
Paradoxes - R.M. Sainsbury

[Sexonthebeach]

Right now I'm reading Someone To Catch My Drift by Jacqueline Powell.

[likewise]

'three screenplays' by richard price. just some movie scripts he wrote. same guy who wrote 'clockers'....so far i've read "the color of money" and "night and the city"...

and a novel by price called "bloodbrothers"..


just got done reading a good one over the weekend, called "the killing zone, my life in the vietnam war" by Frederick Downs. scary stuff... but a good read.....

[barakah]

shyt im to lazy nowadays..i bought like 7 books last month..aint read nuthinyet...somebody help me...

[shalom]

Beloved

[MARSEH]

"the teachings of don juan" carlos castaneda
yall should read this and other books of his like "a separate reality"or "voyage to IXTLAN"
Im also reading albert camus "la peste" ,I ll prolly read Nietszche afterwards (although looks like a tough read...)

[Ceez]

Eldridge Cleaver - Soul on Ice

[odu]

Likewise--You ever copped the Clockers book? It's pretty good too.

I'm reading Mario Vargas Llosa's "Feast Of The Goat".

[Noodles]

Pinktoes by Chester B. Himes

[ChoklutFyre]

Right now i'm reading "What You Owe Me" by Bebe More Campbell. it's kinda thick, but it's a page-turner.

[jahworks]

player piano-kurt vonnegut.....try and finish that tonight before I go to bed but I'm still a little high so it's not likely......then I'mma read CHE.....actually that ****'s too long...I'll prolly start filth by Irvine Welsh....

[madtheory]

Race Matters - Cornel West... very insightful so far

[sanchez]

Dopefiend by Donald Goines

[Afrrikan Rennaisance]

Paulo Coelho - "The Alchemist"

[LadyTee]

Got to be real, by Jerome Dickey, E. lynn Harris, Marcus Major

[loc'd sistah]

the tao of pooh- benjamin hoff
their eyes were watching god- zora neale hurston

[Jilla82]

Originally posted by Afrrikan Rennaisance
rightnow i'm busy with:


Suzie Osmond - "9 steps to financial freedom" how was that book?

[Sexonthebeach]

Originally posted by LadyTee
Got to be real, by Jerome Dickey, E. lynn Harris, Marcus Major

I've been trying to pick up this book for the longest. Everytime I go to Barnes and Noble they don't have it. Right now I am reading "M" is for Malice by Sue Grafton.

[RivieraIII]

* "Race Matters" by Dr. Cornel West
Black, Whites, EVERYONE should read this. VERY INTELLIGENT debate on race issues, WITHOUT prejudice and fear of laying down the TRUTH.
5 mics.

* "The Color Of Water" - James McBride
A Black Man's Tribute to His White/Jewish mother. Maaaad DEEP but good fun nonetheless.
5 mics

* "Q, The Autobiography Of Quincy Jones" - Quincy Jones
If you really wanna know MUSIC and PRODUCTION, check this one out...
4.5 mics.

* "Kaffir Boy" - Mark Mathanabe
Real, serious depiction of the Apartheid madness.
4.5 mics

* "I May Not Get There With You, The True Martin Luther King, Jr." - Michael Eric Dyson
REALISTIC biography of Martin Luther King, Jr (none of that "he was perfect" sh1t). Powerful and intelligent.
4.5 mics

* "The Measure Of A Man, A Spiritual Autobiography" - Sydney Poitiers
Priceless, very profound autobiography
5 mics

* "Black Color, White Wealth: The Search For Power" - Claud Anderson
Lots of financial infos for minorities...
4 mics

* "The Home That Race Built" - Cornel West
Reading it now. GREAT so far...

[Jilla82]

Originally posted by RivieraIII
* * "The Color Of Water" - James McBride
A Black Man's Tribute to His White/Jewish mother. Maaaad DEEP but good fun nonetheless.
5 mics

* I know this dude. He lives down the street from me.

[RivieraIII]

Originally posted by Jilla82
I know this dude. He lives down the street from me.

u serious? u should check his book if u haven't done so yet...

[nathdogg]

"Fast Food Nation" by Eric Schlosser.

"On any given day, one out of four Americans opts for a quick and cheap meal at a fast-food restaurant, without giving either its speed or its thriftiness a second thought. Fast food is so ubiquitous that it now seems as American, and harmless, as apple pie. But the industry's drive for consolidation, homogenization, and speed has radically transformed America's diet, landscape, economy, and workforce, often in insidiously destructive ways. Eric Schlosser, an award-winning journalist, opens his ambitious and ultimately devastating exposé with an introduction to the iconoclasts and high school dropouts, such as Harlan Sanders and the McDonald brothers, who first applied the principles of a factory assembly line to a commercial kitchen. Quickly, however, he moves behind the counter with the overworked and underpaid teenage workers, onto the factory farms where the potatoes and beef are grown, and into the slaughterhouses run by giant meatpacking corporations. Schlosser wants you to know why those French fries taste so good (with a visit to the world's largest flavor company) and "what really lurks between those sesame-seed buns." Eater beware: forget your concerns about cholesterol, there is--literally--**** in your meat. "

[chino444]

i am about to finish this book. Its about an uprising by jews in the ghettos during WWII. I just can't put it down. I've been trying to find the alchemist to read it next but i can only find it in spanish.

[Afrrikan Rennaisance]

Originally posted by Jilla82
how was that book?

Very insightful, but most things you probably know but don't practice.Give it try though.

[Afrrikan Rennaisance]

just finished "Vittorio, the Vampire" by Anne Rice.

Good read.

[LaLaLyric69]

Just read "Sittin In The From Pew" last night it was very ehh.

[odu]

Originally posted by nathdogg
"Fast Food Nation" by Eric Schlosser.

"Schlosser wants you to know why those French fries taste so good (with a visit to the world's largest flavor company) and "what really lurks between those sesame-seed buns." Eater beware: forget your concerns about cholesterol, there is--literally--**** in your meat. "

:D I'm definitely checking this one out.