The book club thing kinda fizzled. Though I love reading books at the same times as folks and commenting on them. I read tons of different stuff but focus most on history, horror, classics... like King, Vonnegut, Ambrose, George Martin, etc.
One of these days i will post up the last, oh 50 or books I have read since starting the forum, lol.
Right now I am reading a book called "Guns, Germs, and Steel" by Jared Diamond. It is about how plant, animal, and environment shaped civilization progress from about 13000 BC to current, essentially why certain civilizations ended up on top and how some ended up on bottom. It is interesting, but pretty academic if that doesn't float any boats
Next up I think I am going to re read the first 4 books in the 'Song of Ice and Fire' series by George RR Martin in anticipation of the fifth book being released (hopefully) this fall. Insanely good fantasy/midevil style series from one of the best in the genre.
Before I read 'Deliverence' and 'The Exorcist' as books that I wanted to see how the books were compared to the movies. Both were disappointing (as I think most books are after you see the movie).
Before that I read 'Surely you're Joking, Mr Feynman' a loose autobiography written by Richard Feynman. Feynman was nobel winning theoretical physicist that (among many other things) worked in the Manhattan project during WWII. The dude is really really funny and has led a crazy interesting life... it is really neat to read the stories about one of the smartest guys on the planet that sound like any other goofy dude. If you like physics at all you MUST read this book, and even if you don't it is a very very good read.
Before that I read 'Blink' by Malcom Gladwell (he wrote 'tipping point' if you have heard of that). It is a non-fiction about how people use their instinctual or short processes of thinking reasoning. Hard to explain but very well written and hugely interesting.
Before that I read the new King set of short stories 'Just after Sunset'. Not his best collection but if you like short stories, King (with hemmingway a near second) is the best at it.
Thats about all I have right now, (that covers about the last 3 months) but all good reads. I think from now on I am going to post all the books I read
All that said, even if only a few folks were interested in picking a common book and reading/posting on it, I would be down.