What's on your nightstand?

[J-Go]

Looking through profiles I have noticed that most list reading as a hobby.
I would love to hear what you all are reading now...What book is on your nightstand?

Please rate the book 1 - 10

1 - Not sure why I keep reading
10 - Wow life changing!

Right now I'm reading "The Power of Intension" By. Wayne Dyre
I give it a strong 9

[Dragon's muse]

No lifestyle books on my nightstand.

But, right now, in no particular order

Peter the Great, R. Massie -- 5
The Guns of August, B. Tucman --9
The Mists of Avalon, M. Z. Bradley --8
Eyewitness to History --9
It, S. King --9
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, D. Adams --8
We the Living, A. Rand ---9

i really like to read.

[wingsofanangel]

All of the wheel of time books...

But I'm on book 1... again.

I give them all 10

[Echoes]

"Inca Gold" by Clive Cussler...I give this a 7

and almost done "A Touch of Frost" by Laurell K Hamilton..give that an 8

[gloombunny]

I don't have a nightstand...

Currently reading The Lies of Locke Lamora. It's pretty good... maybe an 8?

[thrall]

Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
The Portrate of a Lady by Henry James
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Persuasion by Jane Austen
The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
Pirate Soul: A Swashbuckling Journey Through the Golden Age of Pirates by Pat Croce
Iliad and Odyssey by Homer,


all books get a 10!!!!

LMAO..........and that doesn't include the stacks on the dresser.......

[Guest 91108]

God Without Religion by Sankara Saranam - I rate it 10 so far.

[gloombunny]

Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
The Portrate of a Lady by Henry James
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Persuasion by Jane Austen
The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
Pirate Soul: A Swashbuckling Journey Through the Golden Age of Pirates by Pat Croce
Iliad and Odyssey by Homer,


all books get a 10!!!!

I think perhaps we have different standards of how good a "10" is.

(That's not a dig on your taste in books... just that you're giving an awful lot of books the highest superlative rating...)

[crazy_grrluk]

just finished "Stolen" by Tess Gerritsen. She just gets better with every book she releases and is one of my fav authors. always gets a 10 plus

next book on my list is "Day Of Judgement" by Jack Higgins and will be starting that tonight.

cg

[angelic.zest]

Atm I'm reading Harry Potter and the deadly hallow, also in between..The Marketplace...later once I'm finished with both books or ill just read the Marketplace later and let my best friend burrow it, ill start with this book called Crank by Ellen or Erin Hopkins...

Ill give H.P. An 8 so far and Martketplace a 9 until I finish reading!

[angelic.zest]

Atm I'm reading Harry Potter and the deadly hallow, also in between..The Marketplace...later ionce I'm with with both books or ill just read the Marketplace later and let my best friend read it, ill start with this book called Crank by Ellen or Erin Hopkins...

Ill give H.P. An 8 so far and Martketplace a 9 until I finish reading!

[angelic.zest]

Atm I'm reading Harry Potter and the deadly hallow, also in between..The Marketplace...later ionce I'm with with both books or ill just read the Marketplace later and let my best friend read it, ill start with this book called Crank by Ellen or Erin Hopkins...

Ill give H.P. An 8 so far and Martketplace a 9 until I finish reading!

[SandmanII]

At the moment I'm reading Raymond E. Feist's Magician again. I dust them off (Riftwar books) and read them every couple of years. They're like old friends.

[Polaris]

I have to read so much for uni, so my own choice of literature tends to fall short. Right now I'm reading Restless by William Boyd, which is well written but kinda boring...I'd give it a 5 maybe, but I have to add that I don't like crime fiction.

And I love the Marketplace series too We're reading it together, though, which means that I'm reading until he either falls asleep or starts making these cracking sounds with the cane...nope, he doesn't have the longest attention span, so it takes a while to finish a book together with him -- but it's fun

[Arnold]

I am reading Time Enough For Love by R. A. Heinlein. I love all the Heinlein books.

[Clove Hitch]

No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy, finished it yesterday. Ended up as an 8, but early pages were 9s and 10s.

Also, Amazon just delivered a copy of The Loving Dominant by John Warren. Just cracked it open so no rating yet.

And then there's that beach read I started a couple months ago and still haven't finished: A Salty Piece of Land by Jimmy Buffet, pretty darn good for a mindless beach read, a 6 so far.

[Playfulsub]

The River Why - David James Duncan

Definitely a 10!!

[Ozme52]

I'm curious, based on 10 being 'life changing' per the original question... how some of these tens changed your lives?

Not quibbling... just wondering how much some of your lives were changed by what you read.

[submissivemark]

J. D. Rhodes 1st novel "The Devil's Right Hand". Got to rate it a solid 8 so far. His 2nd novel "Good Day In Hell" is waiting in the wings. The reprint of Richard Matheson's "I Am Legend", (having just saw the movie, I thought it was a good time to reread the book, as I last read it over 20 years ago), is also there.

Lifestyle books? The only one on the nightstand right now is Dr. Gloria Brame's "Come Hither", which is a solid 10 by itself, but I'm using it right now as part of a greater personal research project.

[J-Go]

I'm curious, based on 10 being 'life changing' per the original question... how some of these tens changed your lives?

Not quibbling... just wondering how much some of your lives were changed by what you read.

Kinda have to agree with you Oz, I should have stated the rating a bit different with 1) “why am I reading this” and 10) “great can’t put it down”.
I will say I’m a big believer in picking books off the shelf that “call you”. It may sound odd but it's been one of those years for me, every book I have picked up hit the mark say a 6 to 10 rating. For the most part these have been spiritual books. I don't know if any of them changed my life by themselves but on a whole I'm looking at the world differently!

[Ozme52]

Whereas I read almost nothing but science fiction and alternate histories of late. I go on jags.

But I've never gotten into self help or introspectively philosophical books.

I think that type was spoiled for me long ago by Carlos Castaneda.

[Polaris]

Carlos Castaneda is awesome.

Currently on my nightstand is "Lichtzwang", a poetry collection by Paul Celan. It's definitely a 10, but I'm biased as he is my favourite poet

[J-Go]

Interesting how different experiences affect different people. I read A Yaki Way of Knowledge by Carlos Castaneda quite some time ago in my early twenties, really liked it, to this day I often think of the lessons. At the same time I tried to read the Dune series, just couldn't get through it. Never have been much of a Sci-Fi buff - you all will just have to stick with Oz for those recommends! Eh so it goes

Anyway latest book update from the Metaphysical shelf - The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. Good read, page turner I give it an 8

And from the Psychology shelf an oldie but goodie - Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning Learn something new every time I read this little book – again solid 8

[thrall]

I think perhaps we have different standards of how good a "10" is.

(That's not a dig on your taste in books... just that you're giving an awful lot of books the highest superlative rating...)

LOL........i give ALL books a 10........not just the ones i'm currently working on... books for me don't have to be "life changing".....i just love books..........

[blythe spirit]

LOL........i give ALL books a 10........not just the ones i'm currently working on... books for me don't have to be "life changing".....i just love books..........

And I'm sure authors appreciate the fact that you rate their writing so high and that you love the words they painstakingly put together for your reading enjoyment.

There's currently nothing on my nightstand but chapstick, a candle, a remote and some framed photos, cuz I don't read in bed. I save the bed for other hobbies *giggles.

Haven't had time to read of late so, I'm still working on 40 Days and 40 Nights, by Mathew Chapman, great-great-grandson of Charles Darwin. It's akin to the Scopes Trials and pits the teaching of intelligent design (creationism) against the teaching of evolution.

It's interesting, but I will only give it a 6 rating.

[Playfulsub]

I'm curious, based on 10 being 'life changing' per the original question... how some of these tens changed your lives?

Not quibbling... just wondering how much some of your lives were changed by what you read.

I only have a handful of books I rate a 10. These are the only books I would ever read a second time. For me, a book rated 10 will have a language all its own. It will make me think. It will make me read passages three and four times just because it's a pleasure to read aloud. It will give me an "A HA" moment in the middle or the end. It will leave me breathless and unwilling to to pick up start another book until I've fully savored it.

[Ozme52]

I only have a handful of books I rate a 10. These are the only books I would ever read a second time. For me, a book rated 10 will have a language all its own. It will make me think. It will make me read passages three and four times just because it's a pleasure to read aloud. It will give me an "A HA" moment in the middle or the end. It will leave me breathless and unwilling to to pick up start another book until I've fully savored it.

I envy that. I read voraciously and absorb the thoughts in huge hunks. It's very rare that I take the time to savor the individual words... but then there are very few 'aha' moments in what I choose to read as entertainment.

Then again, I think I take all the ideas and reformulate them to my own needs. They all sit there as background to my ponderings.

But I do have an affinity for irony... and that rare bit of laugh-out-loud humor you occassionally find within.

[Playfulsub]

I envy that. I read voraciously and absorb the thoughts in huge hunks. It's very rare that I take the time to savor the individual words... but then there are very few 'aha' moments in what I choose to read as entertainment.

Then again, I think I take all the ideas and reformulate them to my own needs. They all sit there as background to my ponderings.

But I do have an affinity for irony... and that rare bit of laugh-out-loud humor you occassionally find within.

I was an English lit major, I had to learn to savor words. Also, I write as voraciously as I read. Reading well written literature as a writer gives one a new perspective, as well as something to strive for.

I've laughed out loud at things you've said more than once.

[Ozme52]

[Logic1]

Ordered "the Marketplace" series last thursday night from Amazon in the UK and on Monday I could come and pick it up here in Sweden. Pretty darn impressive if you ask me.
Now I just want some time to read the darn books.

Finished the "Charles de Gaulle" biography last weekend. Very interesting book but it didnt get more than a 7 by me.