What Are You Reading?
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EdwardTking
Deity
Just Finished 'Stone' by Adam Roberts
cgannon64
BOB DYLAN'S ROCKIN OUT!
Sounds like a real page-turner.
bobgote
Trousers
The Idiot was great. Crime and Punishment is in my room, but i'm not reading it atm.Originally posted by mayakovsky
"Crime and Punishment". This will round out my Dostoevsky phase I've been in recently. BTW, I highly recommend 'The Idiot' by Dostoevsky. My favorite!
It's called Harlequin, and yes, it was a very good one, as are most of Bernard Cornwell's books. I love the Sharpe series.
I just finished reading "Assassin's Apprentice" by Robin Hobb. I enjoyed it very much, and now i have to go buy the next in the series. The rest of my bookshelf will have to wait.
Reading Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire. I was kinda out on HP, but my kid is really into it. Plus I wanna know who dies in book five. (Sadly, I've already found out. . . was quite pissed about it, I wanted it to be a surprise.) The books turned out to be pretty interesting, and while the first two books were a chore (since i already knew the story) the third and fourth books have been enjoyable.
Also laying my hands on Kurt Vonnegut. I've read Slaughterhouse Five, and Cat's Craddle. Loved both books. Love his style of writing.
I also see on my to-read list, The Golden Globe, by John Varley, and I've got several Robert Ludlum books to read. The Matarese books, the Gemini Condtenders, The Apolcolyse(sp?) Watch. Older books, but I"ve found that I still enjoy reading his stuff, even if it is a bit older.
And as I was going out to lunch Wednesday, I found a Sci-Fi only book store. Can't wait to go back and check it out.
Also laying my hands on Kurt Vonnegut. I've read Slaughterhouse Five, and Cat's Craddle. Loved both books. Love his style of writing.
I also see on my to-read list, The Golden Globe, by John Varley, and I've got several Robert Ludlum books to read. The Matarese books, the Gemini Condtenders, The Apolcolyse(sp?) Watch. Older books, but I"ve found that I still enjoy reading his stuff, even if it is a bit older.
And as I was going out to lunch Wednesday, I found a Sci-Fi only book store. Can't wait to go back and check it out.
Greadius
:yeah:
Bernard Lewis, What Went Wrong?
I swear I'll never read another book again
I swear I'll never read another book again
The Collected Civ3 Limericks of Sultan Bhargash (regarded as the second best work of the genre)
The Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 (A sequel to the 2001 work by the same author. The title is a little misleading, but the plot centers around the timeless themes of class warfare and a return to basic medieval values.)
1984 (of course, if you had access to the file Ashcroft keeps on me, you would already know this)
The Bible (should be banned and burned for its obsessions with incest, violence, and its glorified vision of deity-on-virgin conceptual acts)
Being read to me: My Miranda rights (or maybe not if Bush gets to pack the Supreme Court)
The Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 (A sequel to the 2001 work by the same author. The title is a little misleading, but the plot centers around the timeless themes of class warfare and a return to basic medieval values.)
1984 (of course, if you had access to the file Ashcroft keeps on me, you would already know this)
The Bible (should be banned and burned for its obsessions with incest, violence, and its glorified vision of deity-on-virgin conceptual acts)
Being read to me: My Miranda rights (or maybe not if Bush gets to pack the Supreme Court)
newfangle
hates you.
A New Kind of Science- Stephen Wolfram
The Foutainhead- Ayn Rand
The Foutainhead- Ayn Rand
MadScot
Brandy's back!
Last 'new read' was "Salt: A World History" by Mark Kurlansky. Which was less interesting than I had hoped (airport purchase in a very poorly stocked bookstall - best of a very bad bunch). Apparently the author thinks the Confederates should have devoted 50,000 troops to protecting some salt mine somewhere. OK, the guy likes salt, but I don't recall the confederates having that number of troops just lying around looking for something to do.
Now I'm in 'dip into stuff I've read before' mode until something else interesting comes along.
Now I'm in 'dip into stuff I've read before' mode until something else interesting comes along.
hbdragon88
haunted by blackness
"The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros. Summer reading 
Mrogreturns
The Ghost Who Posts
Principles of Frontal Lobe Function, Stuss, D.T & Knight, R.T and various journals on related themes of neuropsychiatry, neurology and cognition.
Knowze Gungk
NOT a mushroom
I'm near the end of "The Wee Free Men" by Terry Pratchett.
It's not a very long book, but I like to streatch my reading out by reading about Ten pages a week. Good things should last for ages.
It's not a very long book, but I like to streatch my reading out by reading about Ten pages a week. Good things should last for ages.
I'm currently reading "Mostly Harmless" by Douglas Adams
cgannon64
BOB DYLAN'S ROCKIN OUT!
That's a pretty good book.
@ Turner: I also loved Slaughterhouse Five, what are some other good books by him?
china444
Ain't no thang
Archie Double Digest
No. 255
I love Archie Comics!
No. 255
I love Archie Comics!
I finished Harry Potter V last week. I started reading the series to my daughter last year, but by the time I'd got towards the end of the second I was getting impatient reading out-loud so I finished reading them by myself! (She was only 4 months old, she won't mind!)
I've just started 'Tommy's Tale' by Alan Cumming - you know, the actor who played Nightcrawler in X-Men 2. It's very good - but not suitable for any of you kiddies out there!
I've just started 'Tommy's Tale' by Alan Cumming - you know, the actor who played Nightcrawler in X-Men 2. It's very good - but not suitable for any of you kiddies out there!
Last three weeks reading:
The Diamond Age (3rd time) - Neal Stephenson - superb
The Dagon Omnibus (2nd time) - H.P.Lovecraft - superb if you like horror.
House of Leaves - Danielewski - an astonishing use of the written form, very original, very thought provoking and pretty scary.
Bonfire of the Vanities (2nd time) - Tom Wolfe - Superb, hilarious
Legend - David Gemmell - the first of his books, first of his I've read too, I will certainly read more of his stuff.
Stupid White Men - Michael Moore - Very good, very interesting and funny, but questionable IMO.
Out of all of them, Bonfire of the Vanities is just a bravura novel, love it.
And if you want a genuinely new reading experience, House of Leaves is for you. I was shaking my head at the invention of it.
The Diamond Age (3rd time) - Neal Stephenson - superb
The Dagon Omnibus (2nd time) - H.P.Lovecraft - superb if you like horror.
House of Leaves - Danielewski - an astonishing use of the written form, very original, very thought provoking and pretty scary.
Bonfire of the Vanities (2nd time) - Tom Wolfe - Superb, hilarious
Legend - David Gemmell - the first of his books, first of his I've read too, I will certainly read more of his stuff.
Stupid White Men - Michael Moore - Very good, very interesting and funny, but questionable IMO.
Out of all of them, Bonfire of the Vanities is just a bravura novel, love it.
And if you want a genuinely new reading experience, House of Leaves is for you. I was shaking my head at the invention of it.
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