Hey everybody, I know reading is a popular while-smoking activity. I was just wondering what everybody is reading at the moment. If not reading, what are you watching/listening to while enjoying your tobacco?
Printable View
Hey everybody, I know reading is a popular while-smoking activity. I was just wondering what everybody is reading at the moment. If not reading, what are you watching/listening to while enjoying your tobacco?
i've read fear and loathing in las vegas the past few days while smoking. sometimes, i read this place, or cigar magazine or cigar afficionado
My favorite activity while enjoying a cigar is reading a good book. I enjoy thrillers/adventures. I am currently reading Michaelangelo's Notebook that was just released in paperback. About 1/3 through and fairly exciting so far. For Christmas my wife bought me the illustrated version of the DaVinci Code. I thought it was excellent. I thought it was so good that I have since read Dan Browns 3 other books that I also highly recommend. Angels and Demons is probably even better than the DaVinci Code, especially if you like thrillers with the whole religious espionage background. I also couldn’t put down Deception point. Excellent thriller about NASA, a huge discovery, and a possible hoax. Great Great Great!!!! :smiley20: :smiley20: :smiley20:
I'm currently reading Gunter Grass' The Tin Drum. Summer is my time to catch up on fiction for me. When I am not listening to the Dead of course :smiley2:
Usually though I'm flipping through a music or golf mag or just meditating on the waves hitting the beach.
Since my collection of unread books increased somewhat while I was in law school I am currently making my way through my stack of John Grisham books. I have already read The Partner, The Testament, and The Rainmaker (all since January).
Currently I am in the middle of The Chamber.
All have been very good.
Couple weeks ago i tried to read Moby Dick, but can't get myself to read that often, good book so far.
What's that?
:smiley2:
To date I don't think I've read anything outside of a magazine of newspaper while smoking. I generally smoke with a friend or if I'm alone I am usually working around the yard or just vegetating on the front porch.
I've never been a BIG reader, but I am well read with Douglas Adams, Clive Barker, Dean Koontz and a bit of Ursula K. LeGuin.
I highly reccomend "The Da Vinci Hoax" as a supplement read to "The Da Vinci Code" or on its own. That is what I'm reading now.
Awesome thread!, a definite winner. :smiley4: :smiley37: I like a wide range of stuff. If I want to read something "out there" I'll try something like Galactic Alignment: The transformation of Consciousness. If I want something more down to earth, I take Coventrycat's recommendation of Michael Moore's "Dude, Where's my Country?" :smiley2:
I usually just veg out and watch the cars go by from my balcony but lately I've been listening to music with my Bose noise cancelling headphones. They block out almost all outside noise and I feel as though I'm in my own concert hall. I listen to all sorts of music from rock and pop to classical and jazz. It just depends on my mood. Last night I enjoyed a new CD I just got with the Smithereens greatest hits. Awesome stuff. :smiley20:
I have not yet read while smoking but I may have to give it a try after reading the posts of others. Great thread! :smiley37:
Michael
I read all kinds of stuff... havnt been smoking too much cuz i'm at home... but last time i read and smoked i was reading one of the "his dark materials" trilogy by Phillip Pullman
their primarily intended for early teen readers... but I think an adult would like it more... their really excellent books...
right now i'm reading Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand its really good and well written, but it reads a bit slow so its taking me a while...
well, I have my house wired for satellite and my bedroom is wired to my garage. My bedroom has a Tivo type recorder in it and with a remote that goes through the walls I can watch and control the bedroom from the garage. I am currently in the garage smoking a cigar while my son is in my bedroom watching that tv. This way I can monitor his viewing.
Oh, We are watching Spy Kids 3 :smiley19:
Lately I read cigar related material while smoking. Like the latest Cigar Aficionado. Or I will usually come online here and read while I smoke. I love to read something while I smoke though, that's for sure :smiley20:
I actually read both books and thought Angel & Demons was better than DaVinci. I just ordered 3 more books from Half.com, 2 by Dan Brown and one other.Quote:
Originally Posted by guenzak
I recently read Dead in the Water by Stuart Woods. Very good read I thought. Currently reading the latest issue of Cigar Magazine. :smiley37:
Currently a Che Guevara biography! What else!!!! :smiley2:
I can also definitley recommend the Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Very very VERY funny!
The Stand by Stephen Kind is also immensly entertaining (and if you can't be bothered to tackle its 800 or so pages you can always use it as a door stop to maintain your privacy as you enjoy your smoke!)
As a Lawyer in Training, I usually research my cases while smoking. This might sound funny, but I enjoy an interesting Supreme Court decision when smoking a stogey. :smiley37:
Is that the Jon Lee Anderson book? If you like Che stuff, be sure and check out the new DVD The Motorcycle Diaries. The film is in spanish and has english subtitles, but it's really good. He and a friend of his traveled all over South America, really gives you a good view as to how he came to view the world(however one sided) Definitely a keeper of a movie if there ever was one. Most of the foreign stuff is better these days IMHO.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cohibanut
I'm a big Dan Brown fan. I'm about to start the Da Vinci Code. I wanted to read his other books to see if I really liked how he wrote before jumping in and reading his hyped up novel. I really enjoyed Angels and Demons.
Anne Rice, Hemingway, Coontz, Koontz.. some of my other favorites
Oh man, where to begin? I haven't read the Da Vinci Code, but I really want to just because it's so controversial. I haven't read a page and I already know the premise for the most part. Dean Koontz is awesome, Dark Rivers of the Heart is probably the best one IMHO. Intensity was also a book that I just couldn't put down. :smiley20: Stephen Coontz's Flight of the Intruder was just outstanding, I think they made it into a film a few years back if I remember correctly. I'm not a big Anne Rice fan at all, though I have a few of her books.Quote:
Originally Posted by hex1848
The Robert Jordan Wheel of Time Novels, Smoke Magazine, or a catalog.
I highly recommend the Robert Jordan novels for quality fantasy fiction buffs. An epic tale still in work spreading almost a dozen books, and characters with such vivid personalities, you feel as if you've met them.
I read the first 3 or so of those. Not a bad series. It's hard to be original in such a media swamped world. He does a good job of bringing some new ideas to the table as far as fantasy realms go.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kenyth
There are two series of books that deal with King Arthur and Excalibur that I really enjoyed. A Dream of Eagles written by Jack Whyte(he's a Canadian Author) is a 6 book series that is a work of fiction but it uses a historicle background. Basicly it takes the Excalibur story and puts it in the Roman Empire time, right after it falls.
The other series is Bernard Cornwell's the Warlord Chronicles. It is a 3 book read but it is awsome. It puts a different twist into the Arthur series because in it Arthur never becomes a king, and Lancelot is the bad guy :smiley36: Awsome books :smiley20:
Ohh yeah.. dont forget tolkien:smiley37:
No one has said Playboy, Penthouse, Hustler... :smiley2:
Quote:
Originally Posted by hex1848
That goes without saying. He set the standard that everyone else gauges themselves on :smiley36:
Hey, a new guy here. Not to cigars (6 months) but more so to this board.
I've been reading a lot of history books while smoking. Reading a great book on Colonial US history (1565-1775) about the early colonists. Next book up is a history of the Republican party. Then on to a book about the history of the US expansion into the West, 1820-1890.
I've been reading Divine Invasions: a life of Philip K. Dick by Lawrence Sutin.
It's inspiring me to reread some of my favorite Philip K. Dick books Ubik, A Scanner Darkly, etc after I'm done with it.
Before that was The Tower Of Babel: The Evidence Against The New Creationism by Robert Pennock. Pennock is an assistant professor of philosophy at UT Austin and he tackles the issues from a philosopher's perspective rather than a biologist's.
I'll have to see if my library has that book. I am about to read The Collected Stories of Philip K Dick, so I'll see if they have that one too.