BOOKS: What are you reading?

[crimsonpaine]

Treasure by Clive Cussler

 

[sammyyummy]

the goldfinch by donna tartt
good scent from a strange mountain by robert olen butler

 

[aaggii]

I´m just starting You Are The Placebo by Dr. Joe Dispenza, only because I saw it in a picture of a naked guy on Tumblr I wrote a description and it sounds interesting, I´ll let you know how it was.

 

[Thad1527]

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I just finished Rebel Souls, by Justin Martin. It's the story of the Bohemians who met at Pfaff's cafe in New York in the 1850s and 1860s...a long forgotten group that included Walt Whitman in his younger days. They were fascinating and well worth remembering. Martin also follows Whitman afterward, to Washington DC where he met the love of his life. And he tells of the tragedies that befell other members of the circle. It's an easy and enjoyable read that rediscovers a lot of forgotten history,

 

[zoltanspawn]

The Count of Monte Cristo has plenty of juvenile thrills, but wastes its capital as it meanders about.

 

[Limenade]

The Painted Veil by Somerset Maugham

 

[miaedu]

Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe: A Biography

"Biography on a grand cultural level, here is the long-awaited story of Sam Wagstaff and his indelible influence on the world of late-twentieth-century art.

Sam Wagstaff, the legendary curator, collector, and patron of the arts, emerges as a cultural visionary in this groundbreaking biography. Even today remembered primarily as the mentor and lover of Robert Mapplethorpe, the once infamous photographer, Wagstaff, in fact, had an incalculable—and largely overlooked—influence on the world of contemporary art and photography, and on the evolution of gay identity in the latter part of the twentieth century."

http://www.amazon.com/Wagstaff-Before-After-Mapplethorpe-Biography/dp/0871404370

 

[purina]

"The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray" from Wilde's original manuscript before magazine editors toned down the homoromanticism and Wilde's further de-emphasis for book publication in reaction to the negative criticism it received.

 

[Irish Queer]

Finally finished A Dance with Deagons. As I wait on the newest Song of Ice and Fire I'm reading John Connolly's The Whisperers. I love the Charlie Parker series fallen behind a bit though.

 

[Kulindahr]

Just finished Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent by Harvey Silverglate. It's a must-read for anyone who wants to understand where our liberties are actually going.

Launching into Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces, by Radley Balko. FOr those who already despise Ronald Reagan, it's so far a delight; for those who idolize him, it's a wake-up notice on how he worked to gut our civil liberties, attacking the first, but especially the fourth and fifth Amendments to the Constitution, along with trampling states' rights.

 

[goldenmoth]

I'm reading the family law be benjamin law which is about an asian australian and his family and what it was like for him to be gay in a family like that. It's fantastic actually. So funny.

I was a bit worried because lately I've been really enjoying books and then suddenly putting them down and not being able to pick them up again but benjamin law always keeps me reading

 

[Thad1527]

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Away by Amy Bloom is a historical novel about Lillian, a victim of a Russian pogrom, and her escape to the United States, A book jacket blurb compared it to Ragtime, but I liked this book so much more; it didn't play fast and loose with history as I felt Ragtime did.

 

[purina]

I've been on an old novel reading binge during this season's deep freeze: "Lolita", "House of Mirth", "Cakes and Ale". Now I'm at chapter 118 of W. Somerset Maugham's autobiographical novel "Of Human Bondage". The clubfoot definitely equals gay.

 

[TickTockMan]

The Maze Runner books.

 

[hornyalltime]

I'm still on A Dance With Dragons. Almost on page 900

 

[miaedu]

not really reading, more like looking…

Beefcake 100% Rare, All Natural by Petra Mason with a foreword by Lady Bunny.

 

[Kulindahr]

I finished Rise of the Warrior Cop, and started High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery, by Carl Hart.

 

[Irish Queer]

John Connolly The Burning Soul.

 

[EJMichaels]

Discovered this fun book in my thread in the porn part of the forum (cropped pic here).

Gulliver Takes Manhattan by Justin Luke Zirilli

 

[Cormac135]

Just starting The Fifth Gospel by Ian Caldwell, Vatican intrigue and a secret that'll bring the church down nonsense, very good.