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Having just finished Hush by Eishes Chayil, I'm fascinated by books about groups. What are some good ones? Particular interested in that fraternity at either Harvard or Yale or one of those that is secret and you get invited into it by pedigree with secret meetings and most presidents have been...

Mainly looking for swim/bike/run biographies (guess what I do ha), but any sport will do to at least check out the description. I've read quite a bit of SRB and triathlon bios and loved them all, and I also read and loved Lance's and Agassi's. My next read is David Millar's Racing in the dark...

The Kindle accepts Mobipocket books (.prc) that are DRM-free. Feedbooks, Manybooks, Mobileread, carry public domain free Mobipocket books.

Well the two are not directly related. Kindle accepts Mobipocket books so I get a bunch of Mobipocket books (free domain) that the Kindle reads (.prc file extension) and I read them on the PC software (mobipocket.com). I also use Mobipocket Reader to create free newspapers for the Kindle. I...

I start 7-8 books for every one I finish. The last book I remember finishing was Harry Potter 7 when it came out (I read all previous 6 also). I'm more than halfway through Arnold Schwarzenegger's "The Education of a Bodybuilder" and it still has my attention, so that might be the first I...

I looooove my Kindle. I got it on December 2007. I take it everywhere and have hundreds of books on it already. I also enjoying reading "real" books whenever I cannot get them on the Kindle, however, but I don't buy them, I get them at the library (Night/Dawn/Accident may be an exception...

"They called him Moche the Beadle, as though he had never had a surname in his life." Brownie points if you guess the title :D

1. Is she trying to recruit people to be spies in the CIA or 2. Is she trying to recruit informants (people from other countries that provide info to the CIA?) 1. Is she a spy or 2. Is she a spy handler? (I.e. is she Sydney or Vaughn?) 1. Are her "agents" U.S. CIA agents under her wing...

I have the new God one also on tap :)

I'm 29 and I'm turning 30 on May 26th (I expect presents ;) :D). I've always liked to read but it takes a lot for me to finish a book - it has to be good. I've finished a lot more than I've started. I keep wanting to accuse myself of not liking to read (because I leave so much unfinished)...

I'm looking for 2 lists. One is the essential books every writer SHOULD own... i.e. Elements of Style. The other one is a list of what most people would agree is REQUIRED reading... something like War and Peace. Thoughts? :)

The main character is a preteen or teenage boy, and he lives in an island with an evil man who makes all the boys that live on the island fight with each other for his amusement. For some reason I remember salt. He has one best friend on that island and one main enemy. He's always referring...

I'm looking for a book that has ALL works (or as close to all) with annotations. Also, I heard there are books that have the original on one side and a "modern English" translation on the other... anyone know of something like this? Thanks! :)

I'm on the third book of the original trilogy. He filled in the missing chapters with a fourth book, "The Privilege of Youth," which is him as a teenager. His brother "Russell" (Richard Pelzer in real life), wrote a book from his perspective. It's titled "A Brother's Journey," and you see...

I read 2-4 books a week, so I take from the library. There are two reasons - 1. I don't have an unlimited budget, and 2. I don't have room to store the books. Most books are in good condition. My library also has a request system up to 15 items, so I check out books, dvds (TV series and...

Wow that site is great, thanks! :)

In one book, there's this island of children with this mean man who keeps them hostage. The story is told by one of the children who always describes himself as being made of stone. He gets into a fight with one of the other boys and their master plays off of it. The main character has a...

A book written by Tabitha King (Stephen King's wife). I wanted to read her for the novelty factor of who she was married to, but I never got past the second page - the sentences didn't make sense. HORRIBLE writer. It's a good thing HE can write to pay the bills.

I don't agree with the notion that the books one reads are a measure of that person's intelligence. My reading is all over the place - Peanuts, The Blank Slate, A Man Named Dave, The Giver, all Harry Potter books written so far, The Bell Curve, etc. Sometimes I read for fun (Robin Cook -...

I used to think there was something wrong in grabbing a book and not finishing it... but if the book is interesting enough, I finish it without problem... so it's just a matter of finding interesting books for me :D