What are you reading?...Part 2

[Thebazile78]

on my 6th reading of 1984 by george orwell. now im waiting for someone to burn the dvd for me...:wink:

I read 1984 in one of my college courses - The Modern and Contemporary British Novel. It was contrasted in that particular segment with The Handmaid's Tale, which I need a new copy of ... Doogie, you can keep mine! I don't think the stars will ever align in such a way that it'll ever get returned. (I don't mind re-buying it. Margaret Atwood is one of my favorite writers anyway.)

I think elements of both of these novels ring particularly true today ... it's kind of creepy.

[nate1000]

Been strugglin to get through "100 Years of Solitude"...well written, but hard to follow as all the names share the same 2 last names, spread over like 30 characters......



At the point of reading just to finish. Sad, as i was really captivated in the first few chapters.

Well worth the struggle, though. Ursula is one of the great characters of modern literature.

[nate1000]

Cool! I find it helps to read them outloud. It makes the people around you very nervous and helps me understand what they're saying. Did you see the movie? I didn't, but I thought I might if it was worth a watch.

Definitely check out the movie- well worth the time. Keep an eye out for a 19 year old Journeyman.

[JustJon]

I wanted something easy to read for my commute and read The Golden Compass. It was a decent little novel, and I'll probably pick up the sequels. Reading a self-published novel by a friend right now, should be done with it tonight.

[Thebazile78]

I wanted something easy to read for my commute and read The Golden Compass. It was a decent little novel, and I'll probably pick up the sequels. Reading a self-published novel by a friend right now, should be done with it tonight.

The sequels are good, too, Jon.

If there's a Target near you, they're usually available for around $5 or $6 each. (I bought Golden Compass and waited to read it before I bought the other 2 in case I didn't like them.)

[Knowledged_one]

Reading a book called

The Walking Dead - its a collection of short stories about zombies pretty good and im only two stories in

also the 2nd collection of Dark Tower Marvel Comics

[Dougie Brootal]

i just picked up a little book called I HATE YOUR GUTS by a fella named jim norton, its a good chuckle.

[JustJon]

The sequels are good, too, Jon.

If there's a Target near you, they're usually available for around $5 or $6 each. (I bought Golden Compass and waited to read it before I bought the other 2 in case I didn't like them.)

I picked up the first one so far. I'll get to the other 2 in the near future.

Also watched the movie a few days later. What a way to fuck with that book.

[booster11373]

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http://www.estherkaplan.com/work1.htm

Really frames the damage done to our country by this man and his ilk

[DonInNC]

Hero of the Underground
Jason Peter / Tony O'Neill

Poorly written, but I can't put it down. It's a literary trainwreck.

[WampusCrandle]

http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gawker/2008/07/stuff-white-ppl-like.jpg

its ok. kinda douchey

[Thebazile78]

I picked up the first one so far. I'll get to the other 2 in the near future.

Also watched the movie a few days later. What a way to fuck with that book.

I refused to see the movie ... even though Nicole Kidman gives me the heebie-jeebies and her character is perfectly suited to that icky-creepy feeling I get from her.

However, I did like the Narnia films in spite of the minimal changes Walden/Disney made to the stories...they made more sense, in my opinion.

[commish13]

I'm all over the place right now. Reading Watchmen, It and Hitman, which is Bret Hart's autobiography that finally came out in the states.

[Thebazile78]

We just unpacked our books and DVD's last night.

I really missed my books.

[ahhdurr]

On Killing

It's a biosocial examination of the kill instinct (which he argues does not exist) in humans. It's written by a military science professor.

I'm only a little ways in but he's arguing on the side of curbing entertainment violence in that it sets up the same Pavlovian stimulus/response dynamic that gives less choice (in terms of killing or not) given the right set of circumstances.

Creepy walking up to the counter with that one.

This is the interweb and it's 2008 so here's a link (http://www.amazon.com/Killing-Psychological-Cost-Learning-Society/dp/0316330116/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1225204120&sr=8-1)

[FunkyDrummer]

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Half way through and it's great.

[DonInNC]

Hero of the Underground ended up being a decent read. Not great literature, but pretty interesting once he got around to getting addicted.

Now I'm reading The Second World - Parag Khanna. Interesting look at the political relationships between second world countries and the three economic super powers (US, EU, and China).

[WampusCrandle]

just finished this great book of strength, power, espionage, love, and much much more:

http://www.bittenandbound.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/i-hate-your-guts-jim-norton.jpg

[jauble]

just finished this great book of strength, power, espionage, love, and much much more:

http://www.bittenandbound.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/i-hate-your-guts-jim-norton.jpg

I just finished that also assuming that my next book Nixonland would arrive today. It didn't so instead of reading and expanding my mind Im going to drink instead. Cheers.

[FunkyDrummer]

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[JustJon]

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[Gvac]

on my 6th reading of 1984 by george orwell. now im waiting for someone to burn the dvd for me...:wink:

I'm currently rereading '1984' as well. There was a movie? I can't imagine it was any good, but I'll look for it.

Some of my favorite quotes from the book -

"The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power..... We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power."



"The ideal set up by the Party was something huge, terrible, and glittering—a world of steel and concrete, of monstrous machines and terrifying weapons—a nation of warriors and fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the same thoughts and shouting the same slogans, perpetually working, fighting, triumphing, persecuting—three hundred million people all with the same face."

[eeroomnhoj]

Just finished reading Diary of Wimpy Kid with my daughters. Can't wait to start the sequel.

[Thebazile78]

http://www.textbooksrus.com/book_pics_large/0061132179.jpg

Oooh! I want to read that!

My mother thought that I would like it (because she forwarded me the book review) but hasn't given it to me yet. Maybe I'll get a library card or something because book purchases are starting to become luxuries around here. (*sigh*)

[Chuck Norris]

Just started reading Against All Odds my story, again. It is the greatest piece of literature known to man.

[Slumbag]

I'm FINALLY reading Siddhartha by Herman Hesse.
I read Steppenwolf about a year ago, and really have wanted to start it. I got sidetracked with Palahniuk shit for like, the last year.
It's pretty good so far. Like Hesse's other stuff, it's somewhat hard to follow (I think mainly because it's dated).

[RoseBlood]

The Red Tent
The Alchemist

[Kublakhan61]

The Interaction of Color - Josef Albers

I just wish it had more color plates!

[Misteriosa]

Hero of a 1000 faces

-Joseph Campbell

[ToiletCrusher]

Academic articles - research on childhood mathematics and curriculum development - for my dissertation.

[RoseBlood]

Academic articles - research on childhood mathematics and curriculum development - for my dissertation.

Awesome! Good luck with that. :smile:

[Freakshow]

I picked this up randomly in Barnes and Noble.

http://www.afractionofthewhole.com/images/AFOTW_3D.gif

about 2/3rds of the way through. I'm liking it a lot. He's Australian and this is his first book.

[ToiletCrusher]

Awesome! Good luck with that. :smile:

Thank you! It has become the bane of my existence.

[Thebazile78]

I'm re-reading Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire because I (1) needed a book for the train and (2) was thinking about it recently after having had the Spanish translation of Son of a Witch pop up on my Amazon.com recommendations list.

Hopefully, my dad will get me the Carrie Fisher memoir, Wishful Drinking for Christmas. I bought it for my friend Sara for Christmas because it sounded interesting. And she's a Star Wars fan.

[Thebazile78]

The Red Tent
The Alchemist

I haven't read the second one, but I really did enjoy The Red Tent ... even going so far as to purchase it for every one of my friends as a birthday or Christmas present the same year I read it.

Everyone recommends The Alchemist, so maybe I will get around to it.

Hero of a 1000 faces

-Joseph Campbell

Taking a mythology class? Or is this for fun? (Only reason I'm asking is because it was on the required reading list for the "World Mythology" class I took in college. Hated the class, but remember the books vividly.)

[nate1000]

http://www.iowa-city.k12.ia.us/schools/west/library/WestReads/BookGroup/Images/BALANCE.JPG

[Rob roccoli]

A Wrinkle in Time
I'm also slogging through "Porno" by Irvin Welsh - Begbie and Spud chapters are a challenge to get through at times. It's good if you want to catch up with the characters from "Trainspotting."
I'm also finally reading "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas." It's like reading the screenplay. Excellent.
Anyone who's a Dark Tower / Stephen King fan should check out the comics. They have done two 6 issue series so far that are based around "The Wizard and the Glass" from when Roland was younger. The art is really pretty good.

[johnniewalker]

2666 - Bolano, I had to see what all the noise was about. I finished Indignation by Roth too which was short and definitely worth it.

[jennysmurf]

I'm finishing the "Ink" series by Cornelia Funke. It's actually for kids or teens, but it's been a terrific series. First, Inkheart, then Inkspell, and now Inkdeath. They're making a movie of the first one, but I refuse to see it. That's for another thread though.:happy:

[Slumbag]

I'm finishing the "Ink" series by Cornelia Funke.

Cornelia Funke. Hmmmmm, I wonder if she's any relation to Tobias Funke, the author of "The Man Inside Me"?
http://the-op.com/images/122-amazon-man.jpg

[jennysmurf]

Oh, and I also got this for my birthday....

http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:-JPkHMUXliZOvM:http://www.celeblite.com/_ups/2B167_chuck-norris-book.jpg

Quite enjoyable.:thumbup:

[jennysmurf]

Cornelia Funke. Hmmmmm, I wonder if she's any relation to Tobias Funke, the author of "The Man Inside Me"?
http://the-op.com/images/122-amazon-man.jpg

I don't know. She lives in Germany. Now I have to go look it up...dang it!

Edit: She moved to California in 2005. Still don't know about Tobias though....

[jennysmurf]

Cornelia Funke. Hmmmmm, I wonder if she's any relation to Tobias Funke, the author of "The Man Inside Me"?
http://the-op.com/images/122-amazon-man.jpg

You totally got me to do worthless internet research! Curse you and your knowledge of T.V. shows I haven't watched!! I'm watching you!:furious:

[Slumbag]

You totally got me to do worthless internet research! Curse you and your knowledge of T.V. shows I haven't watched!! I'm watching you!:furious:

Sorry. I would have told you, but I was away for awhile.

My fault.:laugh:

[Reephdweller]

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[Rob roccoli]

Cornelia Funke. Hmmmmm, I wonder if she's any relation to Tobias Funke, the author of "The Man Inside Me"?
http://the-op.com/images/122-amazon-man.jpg

Wow. How do you not know the famous Analrapist? Go Teamocil!

[yojimbo7248]

George Saunder's collection of short stories, Pastoralia, is one of funniest things I have read in a long time.

[Morningkill]

I'm reading the Temeraire series by Naomi Novik. It's set during the Napoleonic Wars in an alternate world where mankind developed alongside the presence of dragons. The first one is called "His Majesty's Dragon", and Peter Jackson will be making a movie of it in the next couple of years.

[drusilla]

luckily someone was nice enough to surprise me with this book, cause i'm about to go to work for the next 5 hours & have absolutely nothing to do & no one to see. this should help make the time go by:


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[JAH1013]

Innocent Man - Dude got screwed out of 14 years of his life for a murder he didn't commit.

[Coach]

Terry Pratchit's Discworld series

[KatPw]

Terry Pratchit's Discworld series

I love the Discworld books. I got Hogfather a few years ago and was hooked instantly. I love the Watch books the best, Wizards a close second.

[Lady Resin]

My sister's co-worker shot her husband, then sliced him up. She put his body parts in suitcases. They washed up shore.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51PRdWoTf%2BL._SS500_.jpg

[Thebazile78]

A Wrinkle in Time ....

That's one of my all-time favorite novels.

I read it when I was 12 and have been making a point to re-read it every few years or so. I love Madeline L'Engle and was very sad when I read that she died recently. It made me reminisce a bit about her writing with some of my grammar school friends, as we'd all read the Time books within a few weeks of each other back in the 6th or 7th grade.

She and Anne Rice made quite the impression on me at that time. (So THAT'S why I insist that I can't write!)

[Slumbag]

The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks.
I don't know that I'm reading it, rather looking through it. Very entertaining.

[eeroomnhoj]

I am currently reading a book by Jimmy Carter titled [U]Faith[U]. I don't think many people on this message board have done so, or will do so. He writes well is more intelligent than most people give him credit for.

[LordJezo]

I am half way through Naked Lunch.

It's a rollercoaster of insanity. No real plot, no coherent anything, just 200 pages of an addicts ramblings and visions during whatever trip he was on.. and then that scrambled up into a random order binded together to make a book.

[WampusCrandle]

im reading the entire "Sookie Stackhouse" series (inspired the True Blood tv show).

i am finding it to be not bad at all

[eeroomnhoj]

I am half way through Naked Lunch.

It's a rollercoaster of insanity. No real plot, no coherent anything, just 200 pages of an addicts ramblings and visions during whatever trip he was on.. and then that scrambled up into a random order binded together to make a book.


Yes but it's an interesting rollercoaster of insanity. The movie is interesting as well.

[DonInNC]

The Post-American World / Fareed Zakaria

[keithy_19]

I desperately need something new to read.

My favorite book is High Fidelity by Nick Hornby. I love the style. Something kind of similar would be great. But I just need something to escape into.

[keithy_19]

I'm also slogging through "Porno" by Irvin Welsh - Begbie and Spud chapters are a challenge to get through at times. It's good if you want to catch up with the characters from "Trainspotting."


Was interested in reading his stuff. Couldn't get into it though. It seemed like more of a chore than anything else.

[hedges]

I desperately need something new to read.

My favorite book is High Fidelity by Nick Hornby. I love the style. Something kind of similar would be great. But I just need something to escape into.

Have you ever read any Charles Bukowski? He wrote mostly poetry but he also wrote novels
like Women, Post Office, and Ham On Rye. It is light reading and hilarious at times, but also deep. If you like his novels you are probably gonna like his poetry.

[keithy_19]

Have you ever read any Charles Bukowski? He wrote mostly poetry but he also wrote novels
like Women, Post Office, and Ham On Rye. It is light reading and hilarious at times, but also deep. If you like his novels you are probably gonna like his poetry.

I've read Hot Water Muisc about three times. I wrote a bunch of short stories that were definately Bukowski inspired.

I don't mind reading something heavy if it flows. I think a lot of authors sometimes need to pour it on and forget that they are moving a story along.

[hedges]

I've got a lot of books on my shelves that I haven't read yet. Authors like Jim Thompson, Harry Crews, Chuck Palahniuk, Cormac McCarthy, and Nick Tosches. I don't have to go to the bookstore anytime soon. I've been wanting to read High Fidelity as well.

[hammersavage]

reading To Kill a Mockingbird cuz I always felt like a dumbass for never reading it.

and The Best Team Money Could Buy for my self loathing of the mets.

[RoseBlood]

reading To Kill a Mockingbird cuz I always felt like a dumbass for never reading it.

Be sure to watch the movie too :wink:

[GvacMobile]

The Dead Sea Scrolls.

[EliSnow]

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51D25Q003KL.jpg

[skyscraper]

I got a few books for Christmas, including Michael Palin's journal that he kept from 1969-79 (the Python years) and a monograph of the architect Adrian Smith. I've been reading the Smith monograph, and have some issues with some of his theories on contextualism, but overall I love most of his buildings, including what is now the world's tallest building, the Burj Dubai.

[keithy_19]

I've got a lot of books on my shelves that I haven't read yet. Authors like Jim Thompson, Harry Crews, Chuck Palahniuk, Cormac McCarthy, and Nick Tosches. I don't have to go to the bookstore anytime soon. I've been wanting to read High Fidelity as well.

High Fidelity is fantastic. It's a fast read as well. Least it was for me.

[hedges]

Did the movie match up at all?

[Kevin]

Jim Butcher- The Dresden Files.

[Aqualad]

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[keithy_19]

Did the movie match up at all?

It matched up on context. It's a good movie, but I think the book is better. I did read the book first, so that may go into why I feel that way.

I think the movie, though, does stay true to the book.

[keithy_19]

FIRMIN by Sam Savage.

The main character is a rat who lives in the basement of a book store. While his fellow rats eat the pages of books, he absorbs them and aspires to be a writer. His love for literature is fantastic.

If I were a rodent, I'd be this one.

[Slumbag]

I'm now reading American Psycho at work.
I've always wanted to read it, because I love the movie. The book so far is much better than the movie. All of Patricks co-workers and him are closer than in the movie. Same with him and Evelyn. It really makes it more intriguing.

[Coach]

I love the Discworld books. I got Hogfather a few years ago and was hooked instantly. I love the Watch books the best, Wizards a close second.Picked up Wee Free Men a few weeks ago, after reading Good Omens(With Neil Gaimen). Then went to Hat Full of Sky, Then back to Night Watch and the one after it, Then Small Gods. I saw the Hogfather Movie on TV as a Christmas Special. (I think they play it every year on ION)

[keithy_19]

I'm now reading American Psycho at work.
I've always wanted to read it, because I love the movie. The book so far is much better than the movie. All of Patricks co-workers and him are closer than in the movie. Same with him and Evelyn. It really makes it more intriguing.

The only book that ever bothered me while reading was American Psycho. It is incredibly graphic and a few of the scenes depicted in the book really grossed me out.

I loved it though. Elis's style is sometimes hard to get into because he focuses on the superficial, but once you do it's a great read.

[Slumbag]

The only book that ever bothered me while reading was American Psycho. It is incredibly graphic and a few of the scenes depicted in the book really grossed me out.

I loved it though. Elis's style is sometimes hard to get into because he focuses on the superficial, but once you do it's a great read.

I loved it. SO much better than the movie.
If you think that's bad, read Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk. It's the only book I ever had to stop reading because I felt ill.

[keithy_19]

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It's a quick read. Pretty good, too.

[keithy_19]

I loved it. SO much better than the movie.
If you think that's bad, read Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk. It's the only book I ever had to stop reading because I felt ill.

I started reading Haunted and proceeded to put it down for no apparent reason. I've heard amazing things about it, but I guess I got occupied in something else. I have a copy of it around the house somewhere. I need to dig for it.

And yes, American Psycho the book is much better than the movie.

[Coach]

Read Lullaby..predictable but ok.

[barjockey]

just finished Blood Meridian by Cormac Mccarthey. Brilliantly violent:thumbup:

[Mullenax]

League of Extraordinary Gentlement Vol. 2... comics count right?

[FunkyDrummer]

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[Thebazile78]

The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks.
I don't know that I'm reading it, rather looking through it. Very entertaining.

It's worth reading.

Once you're finished, pick up the companion volume ('cause it's not really a "sequel" exactly, nor is it exactly a true "companion" volume) World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War ... I haven't had a chance to, but have read a few excerpts.

I am currently reading a book by Jimmy Carter titled Faith. I don't think many people on this message board have done so, or will do so. He writes well is more intelligent than most people give him credit for.

It's difficult to pick up things that are outside our comfort zone.

I happen to like Jimmy Carter; he's one of the few public figures who comes across very well in interviews, and I've also read one or two of his (republished) essays online.

reading To Kill a Mockingbird cuz I always felt like a dumbass for never reading it....

Considering the fact that Harper Lee is now dead, and she only wrote the one novel, it's about freaking time.

It'd be about freaking time for me, too. Haven't read it yet, mostly because I still smell chalk dust whenever I think about it. It may have been on one of my "suggested" summer reading lists in either grammar school or high school and I usually picked something offbeat ... or read a bunch of books that were equivalent to the books on the list instead because there were never tests on the book, just an expectation of a book report turned in on the first day of school. Until the 6th or 7th grade, that is. Then we had "forced" summer reading; the novels they chose were fewer than 200 pages, so that meant I'd read both of them twice before most of my classmates had bothered to crack the spine. (I think, in one instance, I may have finished the book before school let out the day we were issued the paperback.)

[grlNIN]

Picked up a book with a selection of unabridged Hemingway works because i wanted to read The Sun Also Rises, not only was it less expensive but it includes A Farewell to Arms, TOM&TS and For Whom the Bel Tolls.

I also picked out a Flannery O'Connor book but put it back because i didn't want to wrestle between the two things, i'll end up going back for it though.

[Jujubees2]

http://www.ottawaxpress.ca/_images/ottawa/1449/texte/arts_books1_bidini_1449.jpg

Got it for Christmas and started reading it on my last road trip.

[KatPw]

Picked up Wee Free Men a few weeks ago, after reading Good Omens(With Neil Gaimen). Then went to Hat Full of Sky, Then back to Night Watch and the one after it, Then Small Gods. I saw the Hogfather Movie on TV as a Christmas Special. (I think they play it every year on ION)

I love Good Omens, I need to re-read that soon. I saw the Hogfather movie on a streaming site, I loved it. I would love to see a reappearance of the Oh God Of Hangovers in a future book. Have you seen the Color Of Magic movie yet? Sean Astin from the LOTR movies is in it. I watched half of it and still have to watch the rest. I have Thud! on my nightstand right now, I just have to find time to read it.

[Thebazile78]

I've just finished Wishful Drinking - the Carrie Fisher memoir (which my dad gave me for Christmas) and then I read through Odd Thomas and Brother Odd ... which was apparently the third of the existing novels, rather than the second, but that's OK. I can find the second one and figure out what I missed. Quick reads; weird characters; lots of fun. (I'd never picked up any Dean Koontz before this.)

On the nightstand is my copy of Mirror Mirror by Gregory Maguire, which is a really bizarre retelling of Snow White. I may have to re-start it so I can focus on it entirely.

Other than that, the next book on my list isn't anything exciting. It's a project for work.

[hammersavage]

The Worst Team Money Could Buy: The Collapse of the New York Mets just to get in a little more self hate and loathing before spring training starts. Hello optimism!

I'll share my favorite quote on sex in baseball: "As Dave Cone once put it, referring to baseball players in general, 'If you're talking about the number of guys who get a little head in the back of the bullpen during the course of the season, you're talking about a pretty large number.'"

Miss those scumbags!

[keithy_19]

So I'm still reading the Heroin Diaries, and let me just say, it's an exhausting read. It's not difficult in the least. But, it's just very repetitive. But hey, that's what drug addiction is.

[Coach]

I love Good Omens, I need to re-read that soon. I saw the Hogfather movie on a streaming site, I loved it. I would love to see a reappearance of the Oh God Of Hangovers in a future book. Have you seen the Color Of Magic movie yet? Sean Astin from the LOTR movies is in it. I watched half of it and still have to watch the rest. I have Thud! on my nightstand right now, I just have to find time to read it.
Could you give me a first book to read? I got into it in the middle...I like having a starting point.

[jetdog]

Could you give me a first book to read? I got into it in the middle...I like having a starting point.

for the guards storyline, I think it starts with Guards! Guards!
For the wizards it is obviously the color of magic,
for death it is Mort...
for the withches it is Equal rights...
are their others?

[barjockey]

The Suttree by Cormac Mcarthey

[KatPw]

Could you give me a first book to read? I got into it in the middle...I like having a starting point.
There isn't technically an order. I read Hogfather first, then I pretty much tried to read them in the order they were published (Color of Magic, Light Fantastic, etc.). The L-space (the lexicon of all things Pratchett) has a suggested order flow chart:

http://www.lspace.org/books/reading-order-guides/the-discworld-reading-order-guide-1-5.jpg

http://www.lspace.org/

Pratchett will usually footnote any pertinent information from previous novels, that way you don't have to worry too much about order. Just jump in and enjoy!

ETA: I think you can find the short stories on the L-space website.

[Captain Rooster]

Just finished "The Forever War" by Dexter Filkins. Incredible ... non-fiction compilation from a reporter who has covered the Middle East since 1994!

Not your typical non-fiction piece.

[Thebazile78]

OK, so I'm finally caught up on the Odd Thomas books, having read Forever Odd after finishing the first chunk of the "Southern Vampire"/Sookie Stackhouse novels (the ones where the paperbacks were 25% off at Target .... and the next one doesn't come out in paperback until the end of March ... and the one after that doesn't come out until May...) and now I'm reading Storm Front by Jim Butcher, which is billed as the first Dresden Files novel.

I'm almost finished with it.

This is what a holiday weekend's worth of frigid weather did to me. Forced me to stay inside and read.

[Yerdaddy]

Harrington on Holdem, Vol 3, and Chandler's The Simple Art of Murder again.

[Slumbag]

I loved Jackie Brown so much, that I started reading Rum Punch by Elmore Leonard.

It's a little difficult, cause I keep picturing Ordell being black, and the book starts with them at a Nazi Rally.
It's gonna be really tough to picture Jackie as anyone but Pam Grier, also.

[Slumbag]

I loved Jackie Brown so much, that I started reading Rum Punch by Elmore Leonard.

It's a little difficult, cause I keep picturing Ordell being black, and the book starts with them at a Nazi Rally.
It's gonna be really tough to picture Jackie as anyone but Pam Grier, also.

So........Ordell is black in the book too.
Please, disregard previous post, but only the first half.

[Thebazile78]

I am currently between books ... which is really frustrating.

The next Sookis Stackhouse book I want to read doesn't come out in paperback for another week and a half and the actual next one doesn't come out until May.

I just finished the first Lily Bard mystery and actually enjoyed it. Fortunately, the author has said she's not going to write any more Lily Bard novels and there are only 4 or 5, so I can get copies of those without worrying that I'd miss anything.

I finished the first 4 Dresden Files novels ... and have to demonstrate some restraint every time I go near a bookstore so I don't buy all of them AND the companion novels.

On the plus side, I just realized that there's a used bookstore within "walking distance" of the house, so I may be able to track down a couple of the short story collections I've been passing up in the bookstore for fear of disliking more than the story I'm buying them for...and a shot at acquiring any OOP collections (!) so I can get the chronology set in my head for the Sookie books.

And I have yet to locate the closest branch of the library.

[TjM]

The Torre book, Kitchen Confidential, and I plan on picking up "My Booky Wook"

[CofyCrakCocaine]

I'm currently making up for all the books I didn't read in English AP...
Hero of Our Time by M.Lermontov

soon to be followed by:

Something like an Autobiography by A.Kurosawa (I'm on a AK kick this month)

People should also check out Key Grip: Memoir of Endless Consequences if they haven't already.

[llc]

I'm reading like the 5th book on Buster Keaton (for school)
Greed by Upton Sinclair (Haven't seen There will be blood yet)
and Commies by Ronald Raddish

I just finished Fatty (a novel about Fatty Arbuckle-Quick but Terrible)
Evil Cradling by Brian Keenan, and The Best of Everything.

[Suspect Chin]

The Light in August by William Faulkner.

Not as good as As I Lay Dying, but at least readable unlike The Sound and the Fury.

[Suspect Chin]

I'm reading like the 5th book on Buster Keaton (for school)
Greed by Upton Sinclair (Haven't seen There will be blood yet)
and Commies by Ronald Raddish

I just finished Fatty (a novel about Fatty Arbuckle-Quick but Terrible)
Evil Cradling by Brian Keenan, and The Best of Everything.

Do you mean Oil! by Upton Sinclair?

[Suspect Chin]

The Suttree by Cormac Mcarthey

What did you think of The Road? I personally did not like it but I thought No Country was great. 1 for 2 isn't bad. I'm just about to start All the Pretty Horses.

[keithy_19]

"The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson. About the 1893 world fair in Chicago. It focuses on the building of the fair which surprised me with how interesting it was. It also talks about a serial killer who used the world fair as grounds for his killing. It's completely true as well. Every single piece of dialogue in the book is taken from documents. Really good.

[realmenhatelife]

The Light in August by William Faulkner.

Not as good as As I Lay Dying, but at least readable unlike The Sound and the Fury.


Did you read more than part 1 of The Sound and the Fury?

[Suspect Chin]

Did you read more than part 1 of The Sound and the Fury?

Yeah I read the whole thing but basically gave up after part 1. That was several years ago, so I might give it another try since I have been enjoying a lot of Faulkner lately.

[realmenhatelife]

Yeah I read the whole thing but basically gave up after part 1. That was several years ago, so I might give it another try since I have been enjoying a lot of Faulkner lately.

To call it unreadable just seems strong from someone who enjoyed As I lay Dying, and I can only imagine what someone would think if they thought the entire book was from the perspective of part 1. I liked it, and I like the continuity Faulkner wrote with.

[Kublakhan61]

The Plot Against America - Phillip Roth
A book about a Jewish family who lives in terror. It's a Phillip Roth novel!

It's really an alternate history novel where Lindbergh beats Roosevelt in the 1940 presidential race. Trouble is Lindbergh is a bit of a Nazi sympathizer and ushers in an age of heavy antisemitism in america.

I always enjoy Roth.

[MC Pee Pants]

One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest

[Suspect Chin]

The Plot Against America - Phillip Roth
A book about a Jewish family who lives in terror. It's a Phillip Roth novel!

It's really an alternate history novel where Lindbergh beats Roosevelt in the 1940 presidential race. Trouble is Lindbergh is a bit of a Nazi sympathizer and ushers in an age of heavy antisemitism in america.

I always enjoy Roth.

What did you think of American Pastoral? I really enjoyed it for the most part, but wished he would have ended it by flashing back to current times to remind the reader of Swede's new life and family. I totally forgot that he remarries after his life melts down and has 3 sons until several days later when I was sitting around reflecting on the book.

[Suspect Chin]

To call it unreadable just seems strong from someone who enjoyed As I lay Dying, and I can only imagine what someone would think if they thought the entire book was from the perspective of part 1. I liked it, and I like the continuity Faulkner wrote with.

Like I said it was several years ago and I will probably revisit it soon.

[Suspect Chin]

I'm still waiting for someone who has read the Rabbit books by John Updike to comment on if they agree that Rabbit Angstrom is exactly like East Side Dave.

He now lives a life of drinking and jealousy just like Rabbit...middle aged and still worried about high school rival...shiftless but great fortune somehow falls into his lap...married into wealth...a daughter and a son...

Anyone?

[Thebazile78]

The Plot Against America - Phillip Roth
A book about a Jewish family who lives in terror. It's a Phillip Roth novel!

It's really an alternate history novel where Lindbergh beats Roosevelt in the 1940 presidential race. Trouble is Lindbergh is a bit of a Nazi sympathizer and ushers in an age of heavy antisemitism in america.

I always enjoy Roth.

I've been recommending Plot Against America for years ... I actually work in the building in Newark (NJ) where one of the characters goes to the barber and a few of the landmarks mentioned are actually still standing. It's kind of neat.

I like "alternative history" novels like this ... my other "recommend to everyone" that's along these lines is The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick, who I've been enjoying since I read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? a few years ago, probably in response to the hype around some sort of anniversary release of Blade Runner.

Today, I finished the Lily Bard books by Charlaine Harris. Short, enjoyable and probably a little formulaic, but a good distraction.

[NITRON]

the war on the middle class by lou dobbs.
the great betrayal by patrick j. buchanan

[keithy_19]

One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest

My gf was in that play. It was an all female cast. I wanted to read the book but never got around to it. Is it worth picking up?

[cougarjake13]

been a while since ive read anything other the newspaper or innerwebs


just havent found anything book wise interesting enough

[Kublakhan61]

I've been recommending Plot Against America for years ... I actually work in the building in Newark (NJ) where one of the characters goes to the barber and a few of the landmarks mentioned are actually still standing. It's kind of neat.

I like "alternative history" novels like this ... my other "recommend to everyone" that's along these lines is The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick, who I've been enjoying since I read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? a few years ago, probably in response to the hype around some sort of anniversary release of Blade Runner.



I'm often not into alternate history books but strangely enough the book i finished just before reading this Roth book, was Man in the High Castle :). It's the first PKD book I've enjoyed. I didn't care for Do Androids Dream, and I completely dislike Blade Runner.

[Captain Rooster]

Currently reading and loving "The Unforgiving Minute" by Craig M. Mullaney.

Craig is a West Point grad, Oxford Grad, Ranger School (Army) grad, Afghanistan Vet, and Chief of Staff for the Obama-Biden military transition group. The book is an awesome boy-to-man journey written by an honest and reflective man who has been there and done that.

I highly rec this book.

Currently #10 on the NYT's best sellers for non-fiction.

[Thebazile78]

I'm often not into alternate history books but strangely enough the book i finished just before reading this Roth book, was Man in the High Castle :). It's the first PKD book I've enjoyed. I didn't care for Do Androids Dream, and I completely dislike Blade Runner.

I actually saw Blade Runner when I was 5 or 6 and it was on TV, probably WPIX.

Totally couldn't tell you what I thought about it other than the fact that it was a big treat for me to stay up late and I probably didn't understand everything that was happening ... and I haven't seen it since, mostly because it's never on the uncut movie channels I get and I don't have my own video store membership or Netflix, so I haven't rented it. I think it'd be interesting to see it as an adult, conscious of the plot and the characterizations.

My other "favorite" PKD is A Scanner Darkly. I went through a phase about 7 years ago where I absolutely HAD TO read everything PKD that I could lay my hands on ... so I have a small collection of PKD novels. I think I loaned High Castle to my dad about 4 years ago, but he didn't take the time to read it.

I think with PKD, you have to go into it expecting to find themes but not necessarily plots. Scanner sometimes reads like a drug addict, as does Ubik ... but when you take into account PKD's own drug addiction and other psychological problems, it makes sense. It's not necessarily genius, but it's damn interesting.

[STC-Dub]

Just started the 2009 Baseball America Prospect Handbook; need to get ready for baseball season.

[WampusCrandle]

currently reading:
http://cdn.overstock.com/images/products/L11132548.jpg

[beachbum]

I just finished "The Rum Diaries" by Hunter S. Thompson and am starting "Dead Silence' by Randy Wayne White.

[EliSnow]

I am re-reading the Wheel of Time series again for the 3rd or 4th time. The last "book" is going to be split in three volumes, the first of which will be released this November.

[KatPw]

I am re-reading the Wheel of Time series again for the 3rd or 4th time. The last "book" is going to be split in three volumes, the first of which will be released this November.

Wow, Jordan is finally ending the series? My husband punched out because he thought that the series would never end and he couldn't deal anymore.

[EliSnow]

Wow, Jordan is finally ending the series? My husband punched out because he thought that the series would never end and he couldn't deal anymore.

Jordan died leaving the last book unfinished. Another writer is finishing it, but realized he couldn't finish the story in one book. Hence, three volumes.

[drjoek]

The Yankee Years Joe Torre

[KatPw]

Jordan died leaving the last book unfinished. Another writer is finishing it, but realized he couldn't finish the story in one book. Hence, three volumes.

Holy carp, I didn't even know he passed.

[EliSnow]

Holy carp, I didn't even know he passed.

He died a year or two ago. He had been sick for awhile. From Wikipedia:

With Jordan's death on 16 September 2007, the conclusion of the series was in question. On 7 December of that year, the publisher, Tor Books, announced that fantasy author Brandon Sanderson would finish A Memory of Light,[11] using notes, written chapters, and audio recordings of the story provided by Robert Jordan before his passing.[12]

Sanderson has said on his website he has begun writing the final book in the series.[13] He also stated that he wants to finish the series in the final book as planned, but later acknowledged that the book may be up to half again his originally-planned length, and publishing in one volume may not be practical.[13] On 30 March 2009 it was revealed that the A Memory of Light would be split into three volumes due to the size of the overall work.[1]

[EddieMoscone]

Just ran through TOTAL MMA, which is on the entire history of Mixed Martial Arts. Not bad.

[Thebazile78]

I read the latest Sookie Stackhouse book twice in 24 hours last weekend.

There will be a new one out in hardcover in May.

Judging by the spines on the ones I've had since January, I may have to replace them in hardcover. They're slowly being destroyed as I re-read them. (This may sound weird, but the original releases were paperback only and are now being re-released in hardcover.)

In the meantime, I still need to get a library card, seeing as how I've located the nearest branch of my county library system.

[yojimbo7248]

just finished Mikal Gilmore's "Shot in the Heart". His brother, Gary, was executed by firing squad in Utah back in the 1970's.

[Thebazile78]

just finished Mikal Gilmore's "Shot in the Heart". His brother, Gary, was executed by firing squad in Utah back in the 1970's.

Wasn't that the last firing squad execution in the US?

[yojimbo7248]

Wasn't that the last firing squad execution in the US?

I think so.

[yojimbo7248]

Wasn't that the last firing squad execution in the US?

the book is interesting and moving on a lot of levels. not surprisingly, there is was an abusive father, parents fought, and it was just an overall shitty, unstable upbringing. there was also a dark, mysterious force attached to the family. definitely worth reading.

[grlNIN]

Over the past couple of days i read Girl, Interrupted, Lisa Bright and Dark(terrible), Unlocking the Clubhouse:Women in Computing and now im in the middle of Crank.

Swell.

[TooLowBrow]

i just reread irvine welsh's ecstasy. now im onto marabou stork nightmare.

i cant wait for skagboys, the trainspotting prequel

[DonInNC]

I'm going between The Best Short Stories of 2008 and Main Street by Sinclair Lewis.

[keithy_19]

For my birthday my brother bought me Pygmy by Chuck Palahniuk. I read the first chapter and it seems iteresting enough. I usually hate books that read awkwardly because of an accent or because of the narrators use of broken english. It's why I could never enjoy Transporting or hell, A Clockwork Orange.

[Dirtbag]

For my birthday my brother bought me Pygmy by Chuck Palahniuk. I read the first chapter and it seems iteresting enough. I usually hate books that read awkwardly because of an accent or because of the narrators use of broken english. It's why I could never enjoy Transporting or hell, A Clockwork Orange.
I couldn't even get through the first chapter. It may as well have been written in Chinese.

[Mullenax]

<img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5133OTN9Z3L._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA240_SH20_OU01_.jpg">

[Kublakhan61]

I couldn't even get through the first chapter. It may as well have been written in Chinese.

Or by Palahniuk.

[grlNIN]

Today i am starting Austen Burroughs' "Magical Thinking", a coworker gave me "Armageddon in Retrospect" but i'll read that after.

[Thebazile78]

I'm currently re-reading the Twilight books ... because my friend Sara brought me the last one when she was here last week.

I've also got to on the "to be read" pile which we retrieved from the "bargain books" section at B&N ... I forget the title of the one Sara recommended, but the other one is Crooked Little Vein by Warren Ellis.

[KatPw]

I'm about a quarter of the way through Fool On the Hill by Matt Ruff ( http://home.att.net/~storytellers/foolhill.html ). It's quite enjoyable and the story moves along nicely.

[Foster]

just started Cemetery Dance by Prestn and Child,
so far so good

[KatPw]

just started Cemetery Dance by Prestn and Child,
so far so good

I have to look through my Preston and Child books and see which book I am up to in the series. Maybe I'll just go back and re-read all of mine first to refresh myself on all that has occurred.

[Foster]

I have to look through my Preston and Child books and see which book I am up to in the series. Maybe I'll just go back and re-read all of mine first to refresh myself on all that has occurred.

let me know which ones your missing, I have them all and I believe misti is just about done with them

[KatPw]

let me know which ones your missing, I have them all and I believe misti is just about done with them

Awesome.

[ChrisBrown]

I just read an excellent Swedish vampire story, Let The Right One In. It's also a great movie.

[7Rorschach7]

Im re reading The Hobbit

[DonInNC]

I'm 100 pages into Filth by Irvine Welsh. Very funny.

[biggirl]

I am reading America's Cheapest Family. We are in a bind for money so I thought I would give this book a try. Every money saving idea from the book I bring up to Rhino, he vetoes. Now what? Bankruptcy?

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51hOrrNF%2BdL._SL500_AA240_.jpg

[nate1000]

http://weblogs.newsday.com/sports/football/bob_blog/threecupsoftea.jpg

[tileslinger]

Leviathan-Paul Auster.
Just awesome. The man is almost as smart as Ronny B.

[Jujubees2]

http://slapshotoriginal.com/images/main_left_pic.jpg

[Suspect Chin]

The Crossing By Cormac McCarthy

Loved All the Pretty Horses so I thought I would finish the Border Trilogy.

[JPMNICK]

In the Woods by some chick author

[KatPw]

I finally finished Fool On the Hill by Matt Ruff. I enjoyed it. Very different, and if anyone went to Cornell U. they will really get a kick out of it.
I'm now reading Welcome to the Monkey House by Vonnegut.

[RhinoinMN]

The Ice Man by Philip Carlo.

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/x2/x11724.jpg

[Marc with a c]

howard zinn's a people's history for the eight time. i've had to many bad novels recently to take my chance on another shitty ny times best seller.

[NateCantDance]

looks like rhino has different ideas on how to solve your money problems biggirl

[Kublakhan61]

Robinson Crusoe - because I read Shackelton's Journal on vacation and thought something fictional might be more fun.

Shackelton's story should be required reading for travelers.

[drjoek]

Moira is starting BC in the fall and they have a thing where the whole incoming class is to read a book and the author comes in and meets with the first year class.
They are reading Run by Anne Patchett. So I am reading the book too. Its an nice book about life and race set in Boston. A real easy read.

[Thomas Merton]

Just finished "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris. Hilarious

[Aggie]

http://midori237.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/dead-until-dark.jpg

My sister in NH wants us to read books and discuss them. This series was her first pick.

[Dougie Brootal]

"stiff" by mary roach
still reading "love, janis" by laura joplin
"the drunkard's walk" by leonard mlodinow

[WampusCrandle]

http://midori237.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/dead-until-dark.jpg

My sister in NH wants us to read books and discuss them. This series was her first pick.

i hope she likes it.

I'm about to finish "I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell" by Tucker Max

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/411K1X7ZD5L._SL500_.jpg

[Section 8]

I just got finished reading "Fool" by Christopher Moore.

Effin' hilarious book!

[Dougie Brootal]

i hope she likes it.

I'm about to finish "I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell" by Tucker Max

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/411K1X7ZD5L._SL500_.jpg

fuckin hysterical.

[Moe Lester]

just finished reading "irish thunder: the hard life and times of micky ward"
fantastic book, especially if you're a boxing fan.

[Heather 8]

Doing a two-fer. Reading The Sicilian by Mario Puzo at home, and Storm Front by Jim Butcher at work.

[HBox]

I'm in the middle of "The Raw Shark Texts." It has an interesting premise, and the turns incredibly weird very fast and suddenly, and it is at times crazy over-written. But the story is keeping me interested even if the author wants to go off on a two paragraph tangent describing how water is running down the window way too often.

[mendyweiss]

"The Art Of War" by Sun Tzu
2500 years old- Amazing how strategies still apply today in war and business !!

Love the chapter "Tactical Dispositions "

[JustJon]

Just finished The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch. Very enlightening book.

[AnneFranksBlog]

I am currently reading Rabbit is Rich by John Updike. The whole series has been good so far. It's interesting having a character that you can follow from his young twenties to his elder years. I should be getting Rabbit at rest in the mail in the next few days from Amazon. I will probably need to take a break and reading something else in between as those books can be pretty dense.

[razorboy]

The nutritional information label on a bottle of hot sauce.

[TjM]

this thread

[tileslinger]

Heard Ron mention it once so now I'm reading Confederacy of Dunces.

[lleeder]

i like when people said hbgay cause it made him sound like he sucked cock

[disneyspy]

that triple skeet is a pretty helpful feller

[nate1000]

http://dicampbell.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/alchemistbook2.jpg

[MC Pee Pants]

Don Quixote.

[Kublakhan61]

Don Quixote.

YES! Man's greatest achievement. Enjoy it, friend. I wrote 100's of pages on The Quixote in undergrad. I can't wait to have a kid and read it to them.

[WampusCrandle]

I'm now reading one in a series of philosophy and pop culture books.

http://www.mobipocket.com/eBooks/cover_remote/ID3298/9780470730355_9780470730355.jpg

[drjoek]

Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
Great read.

[MC Pee Pants]

YES! Man's greatest achievement. Enjoy it, friend. I wrote 100's of pages on The Quixote in undergrad. I can't wait to have a kid and read it to them.

I am so far, it's ridiculous. Unfortunately I read before I go to sleep so I only get about 5 pages done then I pass out. It may take months to finish at this rate.

[IamFogHat]

I'm reading the book Public Enemies that this summer's Johnny Depp movie was based on. I haven't seen the film, but so far it seems to be a more expansive account of the multiple high profile criminals and the birth of the FBI as opposed to a more John Dillinger story that the movie seems to be. It's really good so far, I'll report back when I'm done and I think after I also see the flick for a comparison.

[JustJon]

After a run of deeper books, finally came back to finish the His Dark Materials trilogy.

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Finished the Subtle Knife a couple nights ago, about to start the Amber Spyglass.

[El Mudo]

http://i7.ebayimg.com/03/i/001/1c/c9/9b1d_35.JPG


Also enjoying this book

http://images.barnesandnoble.com/images/15210000/15216768.JPG

[boosterp]

Guns & Ammo magazine. Also, my monthly VFW magazine.

[beachbum]

"The Art Of War" by Sun Tzu
2500 years old- Amazing how strategies still apply today in war and business !!

Love the chapter "Tactical Dispositions "

I just started this last night.My last two books were "The Devil's Punchbowl" by Greg Iles and "Pygmy" by Chuck P.

[Kublakhan61]

Started "End of the Road" last night. John Barth.

[aceofspades7]

http://blog.mpl.org/mke_reads/havana.jpg

it's good not great

[Ritalin]

Run Rabbit Run.

Updike.

[strawberrypop]

http://www.intelligentdesign.com.au/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/the-road-cormac-mccarthy1.jpg

[MetalAcorna]

After a run of deeper books, finally came back to finish the His Dark Materials trilogy.

Finished the Subtle Knife a couple nights ago, about to start the Amber Spyglass.

I'm actually in the middle of the Amber Spyglass right now and I have to say as a lover of fiction/fantasy books, the His Dark Materials books so far are really interesting. I've read some reviews of this last book and people who have loved the first two are disappointed in how he strays from the storyline way too much to delve into his anti-God obsession. ::shrugs:: I still have high hopes this book will turn out well.

I'm also waiting on the new isssue of Game Informer magazine to be delivered... =)

[keithy_19]

http://bittergrace.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/atlasshrugged.jpg

[razorboy]

A hot sauce label.

[hammersavage]

razorboys post about reading a hot sauce label.

[Kublakhan61]

http://bittergrace.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/atlasshrugged.jpg

It's incredible the amount of contempt I was taught to have for Ayn Rand by the university system.

Double major, Lit and philosophy, didn't hear one good word from any professor on the subject.

[FunkyDrummer]

Just finished...
http://gothamist.com/attachments/nyc_arts_john/030408lushlife.jpg

Currently reading...
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n15/n76996.jpg

[tileslinger]

Just finished A Confederacy of Dunces and starting Burr by Gore Vidal

[LordJezo]

Just finished..

http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/8858/blindness.jpg

Great book that was one of the most terrible things I have ever read. It peaked with flaccid cock mouth rape. I could hardly handle it. I could only read it is small parts due to how depressed and bad the whole thing made me feel.

Now reading..

http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/7430/agameofthrones.jpg

To get ready for the upcoming HBO series and to give myself a little bit of an easier time after suffering through Blindness.

[Thebazile78]

Doing a two-fer. Reading The Sicilian by Mario Puzo at home, and Storm Front by Jim Butcher at work.

I <3 Harry Dresden ... need to figure out how many books I'm behind (I think 2 or 3) to bring myself current. Found fellow Dresden files/Jim Butcher fans online at the Charlaine Harris fansite who've been lovely to chat with ... and let me know what I need to catch up on!

[Thebazile78]

http://midori237.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/dead-until-dark.jpg

My sister in NH wants us to read books and discuss them. This series was her first pick.

Definitely join the Charlaine Harris fan community if you enjoy them! (Her website is charlaineharris.com ... the women, and it's mostly women, are so sweet there!)

I've also branched out to try her Lily Bard books (enjoy v. much, but she's done writing Lily books) and Aurora Teagarden books (enjoy a lot, but not as much as the Sookie books) ... also, keep your eyes peeled for an anthology of Sookieverse short stories to be released in October. You'll need to read at least one of the short stories so one of the later books makes more sense (she alludes to the short story's events so you think you missed something, which you did if you didn't read the short story) ... OK, that rambled.

Please PM me if you want details. I am a super-flake right now, so I'm being vague.

[Section 8]

I just finished 'Brody - The Triumph and Tragedy of Wrestling's Rebel'.

It's a biography of Frank 'Bruiser Brody' Goodish, one of the greatest professional wrestlers of the 80's.

[Gvac]

http://bittergrace.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/atlasshrugged.jpg

Good luck with that.

I attempted to read it 3 or 4 times and just couldn't get through it.

The latest book I've read was "Meditations On Violence" by Sgt. Rory Miller.

[RoseBlood]

Gonna start this soon!

INSPIRATION (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/511JR63ymqL._SS500_.jpg)

[EliSnow]

He died a year or two ago. He had been sick for awhile. From Wikipedia:



For any Wheel of Time fans still left, the antepenultimate book, The Gathering Storm, came out today. The end is in sight.

[tileslinger]

Just finished Siddhartha

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52036.Siddhartha

Reading The_Red_Pony

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8732.The_Red_Pony

[WampusCrandle]

The Merchant of Venice

last 2 acts - "it's the bitches that'll get cha's.

[TheGameHHH]

I'm about halfway done with To Kill A Mockingbird........this things a classic?

I've entered this life phase where im now going back and reading all the books i was supposed to read in high school but instead i was getting laid, drinking and smoking pot. next on the list is Gatsby

[DonInNC]

I just finished "Trainspotting" by Irvine Welsh. I highly recommend. A few pages into "The Moviegoer" by Walker Percy. No opinion yet.

[TooLowBrow]

I just finished "Trainspotting" by Irvine Welsh. I highly recommend.

You should check out the sequel 'Porno'

and the book that comes between the two, 'Glue'

[keithy_19]

I'm currently reading 'Confession' by Leo Tolstoy. I have a thing for philosophy and religion so this is right up my alley.

[weekapaugjz]

started reading this the other day. i'm enjoying it for the most part because i haven't read much about this topic in the past. but i am not liking a lot of the historical connections the author has been making thus far. i'm only two chapters in.

http://www.diesel-ebooks.com/mas_assets/full/parent-9780060816995.jpg

[razorboy]

Credit card bills.

[midwestjeff]

I just finished "Trainspotting" by Irvine Welsh. I highly recommend.

Seriously? Congratulations.
I have started and stopped that thing 20 times.
I love the film but the fucking writing is impossible to read. I need an English translation.

I have a thing for philosophy and religion so this is right up my alley.

Philosophy was my major and religion my minor.
We should fuck.
Nah, nevermind. I don't want to be the focus of a "Keithy" thread.

[KatPw]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d5/Snowcrash.jpg
Finally getting around to reading this. So far, so good.

[keithy_19]

Philosophy was my major and religion my minor.
We should fuck.
Nah, nevermind. I don't want to be the focus of a "Keithy" thread.

That's awesome. I enjoy religion more, but they go hand in hand.

And balderdash. It's an honor to be in a thread started by me. Especially a thread in the 'That's Life...' forum.

[Misteriosa]

Percy Jackson and the Olympians

Books 1 - 5

i started last week and am halfway thru book 4. i saw the trailers to the movie coming out in Jan. i started yelling at my tv because of all the things they got wrong. they changed so many things, that its gonna be a bowl of suck.

[MC Pee Pants]

Still reading Don Quixote....its been almost 5 months. I get 5 pages in then I fall asleep. I love it,but it cant help but fall asleep because its written like a fairytale.

[PapaBear]

The Bourne Sanction. I'm not bothered that it's not written by Ludlam. I've never read Ludlam, and I have read (and enjoyed) several Eric Van Lustbader novels. I wonder if they will ever make any Bourne movies from the Lustbader editions.

[Kublakhan61]

Still reading Don Quixote....its been almost 5 months. I get 5 pages in then I fall asleep. I love it,but it cant help but fall asleep because its written like a fairytale.

This is the best post in here.

I'm reading Despair by Nabokov.

[DonInNC]

You should check out the sequel 'Porno'

and the book that comes between the two, 'Glue'

I have them, waiting to be read. Now it's Marabou Stork Nightmare

Seriously? Congratulations.
I have started and stopped that thing 20 times.
I love the film but the fucking writing is impossible to read. I need an English translation.


You have to work your way up to it. I started with "Filth", which was tough but didn't need a glossary.

Also, just finished 100 years of Solitude. It was one of those books that I've been meaning to read for years, but never got around to it. Incredible novel.

[Meataball23]

Currently im trying to finish Steve Berry's new one The Paris Vendetta

In my opinion its his worst...and Ive liked and read everything hes written so far.

Next im gonna start Y: the last man. I was officially talked into it last week and Im excited to get it started.

The only other graphic novel ive ever read is watchmen, which I liked.

[Furtherman]

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/514n0U%2B55sL._SX500_.jpg

A fun page-turner involving a global chase and archeology. It exists only because of The DaVinci Code (which I never read), but it's good nonetheless.

[realmenhatelife]

I just read The Hustler and just started The Color of Money. Decent and very quick reads, although maybe a little superficial.

[tileslinger]

The Sicilian Mario Puzo 2nd time through...great book!

[weekapaugjz]

Next im gonna start Y: the last man. I was officially talked into it last week and Im excited to get it started.

The only other graphic novel ive ever read is watchmen, which I liked.

Y: The Last Man is fantastic. one of my all time favorites. it's really what drew me into to graphic novels. if you get the urge to check out more titles, start with The Walking Dead.

[Suspect Chin]

The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene. Absolutely phenomenal so far. The Whisky Priest could be one of the greatest characters in all of literature.

[Suspect Chin]

I also made a deal with my chick that I would read the first book of Twilight if she would read at least the first book of the Rabbit series by Updike. It is utter garbage so far, but a deal is a deal.

[tileslinger]

I also made a deal with my chick that I would read the first book of Twilight if she would read at least the first book of the Rabbit series by Updike. It is utter garbage so far, but a deal is a deal.

I like to keep up with pop culture is there any reason to read Twilight or should I just watch the movie?

I love the Pastors wife in that Rabbit book!

[Suspect Chin]

I like to keep up with pop culture is there any reason to read Twilight or should I just watch the movie?

Unless you are a 12 year old girl, avoid it altogether.

I love the Pastors wife in that Rabbit book!

Finally, someone who appreciates Updike!

[tileslinger]

Unless you are a 12 year old girl, avoid it altogether.



Finally, someone who appreciates Updike!

I like Updike but after awhile it's like yeah everyone is selfish and bad...I get it.

[DonInNC]

Anna Karina- This one is going to take awhile

Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan- I've stayed away from this book up to this point because I thought it would be "preachy", which I generally stay away from. So far, though, it has been a decent read.

[TeeBone]

http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:WeUrcU3P46fd_M:http://serendipiter.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/murder-of-king-tut.jpg

Not that bad.

[hammersavage]

I just finished Catcher in the Rye for the 3rd time in my life. Started 'Check Raising the Devil' by Mike Matusow.

And also reading The Picture of Dorian Gray for the first time. So far, so damn good.

[IamFogHat]

Anna Karina- This one is going to take awhile


Anna Karenina is so good. It is a behemoth but it's worth every reading session. Stick with it.

[Meataball23]

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/514n0U%2B55sL._SX500_.jpg

A fun page-turner involving a global chase and archeology. It exists only because of The DaVinci Code (which I never read), but it's good nonetheless.

Y: The Last Man is fantastic. one of my all time favorites. it's really what drew me into to graphic novels. if you get the urge to check out more titles, start with The Walking Dead.

Done and done!

Thanks gents

[tileslinger]

Mythology Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythology_%28book%29

Interesting subject matter I hope it's not too much like a text book I bought it about 20 years ago and I am just getting to it. We'll see haven't thrown in the fireplace yet.

[yojimbo7248]

The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene. Absolutely phenomenal so far. The Whisky Priest could be one of the greatest characters in all of literature.

I love that book. haven't read it in years. you made me want to re-read it.

[yojimbo7248]

Mythology Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythology_%28book%29

Interesting subject matter I hope it's not too much like a text book I bought it about 20 years ago and I am just getting to it. We'll see haven't thrown in the fireplace yet.

speaking of mythology, I am reading Roberto Calasso's "the Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony". just excellent. I love how he writes about Greek myths. not in least dry or boring. fun, interesting read

[Kublakhan61]

I'm reading Despair by Nabokov.

Nabokov is sincerely the post-modern master. Moving on to either Weber's Protestant Ethic or Defoe's Robinson Crusoe.

Anyone here read either?