WHAT are you reading right now?

[FS]

In following of the "What are you listening to right now" topic in the Music forum, I present to you the question... What are you reading right now?

Me, Moby Dick. I felt it was time to check out some classics.

[Ninjavenom]

Secrets of the Samurai, by Oscar Ratti and Adele Westbrook.

This is a pretty big book, and it's full of nifty little illustrations and shit. Samurai kick ass. :)

[sspadowsky]

Stephen King- The Stand (again)

The SARS outbreak prompted me. I can dream, can't I?
________
Wendie 99 (http://www.lovelywendie99.com/)

[Cap'n Crunch]

I am reading people's post on the I-Mockery boards.

[twiztid~juggalo]

i am reading.. online comic on www.geeksalad.net

[glowbelly]

angry candy by harlan ellison

[kellychaos]

I am reading Keys To Inifinity (http://www.rbookshop.com/mathematics/i/Infinity/Keys_to_Infinity_0471193348.htm) by Clifford A. Pickover ... again. :)

[Esuohlim]

Lord of the Flies.

It's incredibly boring so far. :(

[Protoclown]

I liked "Lord of the Flies".

Right now I'm reading Frank Miller's "Daredevil Visionaries: Volume 2".

Next up as far as novels go I have "God Emperor of Dune" lined up in the queue.

[FS]

Ah, Lord of the Flies. An untimely classic.

Three flies for the shady guys in bowties.
Seven for the midgets, all each other's clone.
Nine for clowns over whom the baby cries.
One for the fat guy who came in alone.

...well, something like that anyway.

Incidentally, I started in Moby Dick and drifted over to Stephen King's The Waste Lands. I've been re-reading the Dark Tower series after I found out the next volume's set for June :rock

[ShanghaiOrange]

Catch 22 :(

[glowbelly]

OH MY GOD YOU ARE CURRENTLY READING THE BEST BOOK EVER!!

[sadie]

i'm currently reading anna karenina, palahnuik's survivor, the third force: the psychology of abraham maslow, and the sequel to bridget jones' diary. :hyper

[Zbu Manowar]

I've been picking at Thompson's Great Shark Hunt because I've been too lazy to go and pick up something else at the moment.

[Protoclown]

I like the funny books

THEY HAVE PICTURES :(

[kellychaos]

The Far Side books are STILL funny to me ... yup ... I'm an idiot. :/

[The_Rorschach]

I've decided to go with a thesis rather than internment period, so most of what I'm reading is pretty dry. Current two on my desk are:

Nuclear Weapons and International Law in the Post Cold
by Charles J. Moxley

The Unbroken Record: Soviet Treaty Compliance
by Daniel Rosenberg

[Chris P. Bacon]

Regulators by Stephen King (Richard Bachman).

[kellychaos]

Regulators by Stephen King (Richard Bachman).

On a side note: The Stephen King reference brought something to mind. Has anyone notice a comeback of the short story format lately? I've noticed that many established writers including Peter Straub and Elmore Leonard have went back to the format. Does anyone think that King had an impact in making this genre open up again? Personally, I like short stories.

[FS]

Could be. In the introductions to his short story compilations he tends to complain that the art of writing short stories is dying out.

And yeah, I love short stories - they help me sleep. When I'm reading a good book in bed, I have a hard time putting it down without the closure of the end of a chapter, and sometimes not even that. When I can finish a story in one evening, I have no trouble putting the book away before, ya know, sunrise.

[Generator86]

Kelly, as much as I love King's regular sized novels, I think his short stories are a fuck of a lot better. I'm far more apt to read something out of Night Shift or Nightmares and Dreamscapes on the can than I am to read a chapter of something out of a novel that I'm currently reading.

By the way, right now I'm pretty addicted to the Hap and Leonard series by Joe R. Lansdale. Man, that fucker is funny.

[Atma]

Count Zero by william gibson

[waterwitch]

"Myst - The Book of Atrus" by Rand and Robyn Miller
"The Dolphins of Pern" by Anne McCaffery
"Murder in Lamut - Legneds of the Raftwar Saga" by Raymond E. Feist
"The Shinning Ones" by David Eddings

...multiple books makes it more fun...

[glowbelly]

makes what more fun, princess?

[waterwitch]

please PLEASE don't call me princess....thats just plain insulting...

...and why would you care about my reading habits? if i think reading more books at once makes the general experience fun, isn't that enough explanation in itself?

[glowbelly]

you didn't say the "general experience." you said "it." i asked what.

get it, PRINCESS?

[waterwitch]

hmm...i'm a princess...how nice...i've given up trying to get you to stop it..it's a complement so why bother?

[Protoclown]

NOT WHEN YOU'RE THE PRINCESS OF FECES :lol

[Immortal Goat]

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; anything by Tolkien, and Dreamcatcher.[/u]

[Protoclown]

You're reading "anything by Tolkien" right now? Did you perhaps glance at the cover to see WHAT you're reading?

[Grazzt]

I'm rereading Watchmen.

[Immortal Goat]

Yes, i DID look at the cover of what it is, its just that i am INTO anything by Tolkien. I read the series at least once every 2 years. The Hobbit, then on to LOTR, and i have yet to finish the Silmarillion. Thats a hard book to read because it is written in almost a biblical form. And also, it's not completely J.R.R.'s Work, some of it is his son.

[theapportioner]

"Freedom Evolves" by Daniel Dennett. On hiatus, Wittgenstein's "Philosophical Investigations".

[Cap'n Crunch]

The Pickleman Online Comic Book!

[ziggytrix]

This thread is dangerous to the very existence of threads like this one (http://www.i-mockery.net/viewtopic.php?t=3495). >:

[Jixby Phillips]

I AM READING "LIVE FROM NEW YORK" I ONLY READ ABOUT TV

[Grazzt]

Macbeth.

[Generator86]

I keep jumping between Tom Robbins' Even Cowgirls Get The Blues, King's The Eyes Of The Dragon, Crichton's Terminal Man, and, uh, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Fuck you, it's the best book in the series.

[CastroMotorOil]

Im rereading Star Wars, Heir to the Empire, great triology.
Waterwitch, is thsi your first itme reading the ddings books? I am a fuckig naddict to those, have rad them all way to many times.

[Yep.]

I'm reading a math history book cause i'm a nerd. Howard Zinn's "declarations of independence" is pretty swell too.

[theapportioner]

The Illusion of Conscious Will - Daniel Wegner
Orientalism - Edward Said
Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
a molecular biology protocols book

[The_voice_of_reason]

I just finished "The Great Gatsby" it is good but not super i read all the Ender novels by Orson Scott Card inside of a month i could not put them down. "Xenocide" is my favorite.

[ItalianStereotype]

Russia: A History
Illusions of Liberalism
Eastern Kings: The History of the Ottoman Turks
Crossroads of Twilight

[JaKe]

Mine's a cycle of the following recently:

Respect for Acting -- Uta Hagen
Beowulf
Mind over Matters -- Mike Nelson

[mburbank]

"Werewolves in their Youth", Michael Chabon

[Grazzt]

Starman

[FS]

I've just received American Gods and the Divine Comedy translated into English, but I'm a little worried in that the translator (like many others) manipulated the text to achieve a certain degree of rhyme :( I would've preferred a raw, as literal as possible translation, I think.

[Drew Katsikas]

I am obligated to read Frankenstein by Shelly, summer reading for Brit Lit next year. Ugh. Oh well, it's not too bad, but a little too romantic for my tastes.

For myself I am reading The Sun Also Rises. I'm going to start Winner Take Nothing, and I am also in the middle of As I Lay Dying by the Faulk-man.

[JaKe]

Yeah, as i lay dying is pretty hardcore. Crazy Darl.

[Jixby Phillips]

I'M READING SCTV BEHIND THE SCENES AT SCTV BY DAVE THOMAS I ONLY READ ABOUT TV

[O71394658]

The Art of War by Sun-Tzu.

[Mockery]

http://lookinside-images.amazon.com/Qffs+v35leqNLLt90bgAm5hiwJwyFSEdNxl5j1L5Sek8obt1Ix QGYOb7lJKtuagTIqh0CwUZs1k=

[Gummy Bear]

I'm reading Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. It's incredibly boring so far, and I'm only reading it for school. Yes, they gave me homework over the summer. >:

[Daphne]

The Red Tent by Anita Diamant (thanks Glowy!)

[Rongi]

Fight Club :(

[Cap'n Crunch]

A pamphlet I took at the doctor's office about SARS.

[kahljorn]

Hegel's Phenomenology.

[Protoclown]

The "what are you reading now" thread. DUH! :rolleyes

[AChimp]

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0671743244.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

When I finally do it, I want to be prepared. :(

[sloth]

Gulliver's Travels. Then Huxley - Brave New World.

[Zhukov]

The Iron Heel By Jack London[/url]

[kellychaos]

The Iron Heel By Jack London[/url]

Try "Sea Wolf" next. :love

[Elecman.exe]

Reading "Johnathan Livingston Seagull" by Richard Bach

[WorthlessLiar]

Shogun James Clavell

[The_voice_of_reason]

Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin. Also Zig Zag Zen: Buddism and Psychadelics.

[sadie]

hermann hesse. i read this series of short stories about knulp, this wanderer whom everyone across the country knows, and i just finished gertrude, an awesome novel about a composer and his relationship with music.

[Zhukov]

I'll try "Sea Wolf" if you read or have read "The Iron Heel" :love

[Sethomas]

Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut, my second time.
The Crusades by Hans something, a translation
Next...
The River Between by Ngugi
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

[KILLADEUCE]

Casca: The Eternal Mercanery by Barry Sadler

Almost done with

Karl Von Clausewitz: War, Politics, and Power

[mburbank]

"Dreamland" by Kevin Baker

[Perndog]

Anthony Burgiss - A Clockwork Orange

[kellychaos]

I'm reading The Road Less Travelled by M. Scott Peck. This is a book that I had to read parts of for a college sociology class and now I'm reading it for myself.

[Ooner]

I had never read Catcher in the Rye before so I bought it a couple days ago.

Next is 1984. I'd like to read all those books that people are supposed to read but I never did.

[Perndog]

Reading a really, dry, boring music history textbook now - right now, as far as recreational reading goes, I'm in the middle of Dune: Messiah.

[AChimp]

Conan - Volume 2 by Robert E. Howard.

I get a boner from it.

[Sethomas]

I'm currently writing up a thesis of my theory, so most of my reading is reference.

Catechism of the Catholic Church
The Elegant Universe- Brian Greene, pouring through it a second time.
The Confessions of St. Augustine
The City of God Against the Pagans - St. Augustine
Selected Philosophical Writings - St. Thomas Aquinas

I ordered off of Amazon a while ago:
The Illusion of Conscious Will
The Problem of the Soul
The Complete Works of Shakespeare... Gotta get some leisure in there somewhere.

[kellychaos]

Conan - Volume 2 by Robert E. Howard.

I get a boner from it.

I get a boner from some of the dust jackets.

[Sergeant_Tibbs]

"Shogun" by James Clavell (someone else said this)
and "Flatland" by Edwin A. Abbott. I recommend this if you’re into nerdy dimensional stuff.

[Rongi]

Preacher Vol5 Dixie Fried

this is the worst one so far :(

[Ooner]

Naked by David Sedaris

[irapas1]

Piddler on the Hoof by SI Fishgal - history through the potent fiction, entertaining, capturing, inspiring.
The derisive living truth and death emotionally awake a Jewish preschooler in the Red Army's Rearguard during the WW2.
"Damn good soul teaser," wrote Barnes & Noble's reviewer. "No fruitless illusions, impractical fantasies and daydreamers. It's life, death, humor and true emotions. Coolest book on hottest topics, rich, vivid, fascinating, stimulating and gripping novel."
http://piddler-on-the-hoof.8m.com/

[kellychaos]

Would you,
Could You,
Spam I am?

[PonchtheJedi]

Well, you guys read alot deeper material than I do.

I'm reading The Dark Tower V : Wolves of the Calla by Stephen King.

[LacrimansTaurne]

Mary Roach's Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

It's a non-fiction work about all the stuff that can happen to a cadaver. It manages to be respectful and humorous, which is surprising considering the subject matter. One of the best things I've read in a while.

[kellychaos]

I saw a discovery channel documentary about the history of using cadavers for medical study. In England, it seems there was a shortage of cadavers and two gentlemen (I don't recall their names) actually went out and "made" cadavers for a local medical professor. First, they started out with local homeless guys and then progresses to whomever was available and eventually got caught.

[Dole]

They were called Burke & Hare. British entrepreneurial spirit at its best.

[Freaky Sheek]

I finished Battle Royale a while back

I am currently reading Catch -22 (someone else said this)

[Perndog]

Now I'm in the middle of both Satan Speaks and the Devil's Notebook by Anton LaVey. They're both pretty short, but I don't have time to sit down and read these days. :(

[kellychaos]

Ahh, nothing like a warm fire with a nice hot, herbal tea whilst curling up with Lucifer. :love

[Rongi]

I just read War In The Sun, which can wipes it's ass with Dixie Fried ten times over.

[Blue]

All the drenai novels by david gemmel. Im through a fair few of them. The waylander series is the best i think.

[ItalianStereotype]

I read those a while back. Besides Druss, there isn't enough keeping those books alive.

[kellychaos]

The reconciliation between science and religion, especially during the Rennaisance Period, has always intrigued me. This is a pretty fast-paced, in-depth and compelling read for those that are interested in the chronology of the earth and how it was arrived at from both the scientific and theological perspectives (see review below):

Measuring Eternity: The Search for the Beginning of Time

by Martin Gorst (Broadway Books, 2001) 338 pages


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Reviewed by Paul Halpern


In 1675, London bookseller Thomas Guy sought a way to market Bibles to the largest possible audience. Under contract from the University of Oxford, he designed a new edition that—in addition to eye-catching illustrations—included a timeline of biblical events developed decades earlier by Irish archbishop James Ussher. Through meticulous research of the nuances of who begat whom and when, Ussher had determined that the world began at six o’clock in the evening on Saturday, October 22, 4004 B.C.E. Guy’s Bibles flew off the stands, and Ussher’s chronology, including his date for Creation, became so widely accepted that authorized Church of England publications reported it for centuries.

The tale of Ussher sets the scene for British science writer Martin Gorst’s fast-paced and witty account of the pursuit of the age of the world. Gorst, who has a knack for capturing the strengths and stumbling blocks of the key players of every era, chronicles centuries of debates among geologists, biologists, astronomers, and theologians concerning the way the Earth has developed. He shows respect for each competing theory, ultimately showing how science has progressed through clashes of once seemingly reasonable approaches.

The last part of Measuring Eternity concerns the search for the age of the universe, far too important a topic to describe in just a few chapters. Pity that Gorst didn’t develop it as a volume in its own right. As it stands, the book provides a far-too-brief history of modern cosmology appended to a marvelous account of how we learned about the venerable age of our planetary home.

[bigtimecow]

God Bles You, Mr Rosewater (or pearls before swine) by Kurt Vonnegut

[liquidstatik]

The Xenocide Mission

- My parents got it. It's pretty good so far.

[theapportioner]

Pattern Recognition, William Gibson

[Ooner]

Just finished: Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris

and Dream Boy - Jim Grimsley

Now reading: Going Down - Jennifer Belle

Next on the list: The Fuck Up - Arthur Nersesian

[Big McLargehuge]

Dandelion Wine- Ray Bradbury :love

[Mr. Vagiclean]

Catch-22, reminds me of Mr. Burbank's humor style :)

[Drew Katsikas]

Waiting for Godot

As I lay Dying

[teh_mastar!]

WC Fields by James Curtis

Another Roadside Attraction by Tom Robbins

[kellychaos]

On Fire by Larry Brown

[PILLOWFIGHT]

PRIDE AND PREJUSDICE BY JANE AUSTIN I HAVE TO READ IT FOR SCHOOL BUT IM NOT ACTUALLY READING IT IM JUST WATCHING THE MOVIE!!! :(

[Sethomas]

I was reading Jurassic Park in Spanish, but I left it on a train in Vienna. Sometime I think I'll start on a French copy of Faust I bought.

[kellychaos]

Jazz by Toni Morrison

Jazz is the story of a triangle of passion, jealousy, murder and redemption, of sex and spirituality, of slavery and liberation, of country and city, of being male and female, African American, and above all of being human. Like the music of its title, it is a dazzlingly lyric play on elemental themes, as soaring and daring as a Charlie Parker solo, as heartbreakingly powerful as the blues." (Back Cover)

[sadie]

bad pillowfight! reading is fun!

i'm reading jack kerouac's dharma bums again. yum.

[Perndog]

Machiavelli's The Prince and The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce.

[Big McLargehuge]

I read The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka last night

[Emu]

Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Idiot

[ArrowX]

finishing my collection of Resident Evil books for abot the millionth time

[Zhukov]

Why don't you read 'The Revolution Betrayed', Arrow X?

[ArrowX]

HURHAUR?

Whats that?

[Zhukov]

Oh, sure. Change your Trotsky avatar so that I make no sense why don't you?

I'm reading Histories by Herodotus. Again. For school.

[ArrowX]

lol sorry

[kellychaos]

Walkin' the Dog by Walter Mosley.

Link to a pretty lucid and concise review of the book:

LINKY (http://www.bostonreview.net/BR24.6/mccarthy.html)

[Ooner]

Just finished:

Stiff - Mary Roach

Boy Meets Boy - David Levithan

The Fuck-up - Arthur Nersesian

And just starting:

1984 - George Orwell

Geography Club - Brett Hartinger

(yes I read young adult gay coming of age books >:)

[Dork]

I read The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis a few days ago. Weird book, to say the least.
I also read Ishmael and Story of B by Daniel Quinn. Good philisophy books, though most won't agree with the radical ideas covered in them. If you're looking for something different, pick them up.
I'm also waiting for Feast for Crows, by George R.R. Martin. I've been waiting since January (when I finished Storm of Swords) for it. And I have to wait till August!! >: Well, patience is a virtue.
Whoever said that can sit on it and spin.

[Big McLargehuge]

I am re-reading The Martian Chronicles and i am kinda reading Dharma Bums by Kerouac.

[kahljorn]

Just finished Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson, currently working on Dion Fortune's Psychic Self-Defense and Drunvalo Melchizedek's The Ancient secret of the flower of life...

Not sure what i'm going to read next, I kind of have it tied up into finishing off the rest of my tim leary stuff, or doing my John Lilly Book... there's also the Calos Cantenda I wanted to work on and I also have some shit on freemasonry as well... I'll do Israel Regardie and Max Heindel next, though, because I've been wanting to read their books for a while.

[Beef]

The Hitchhiker Guide to the Galaxy and rereading Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

[Spasmolytic]

2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke

It's fantastic, it's just as goood (if not better) than the movie, and I'm going to read 2010 when I finish =)

[Brandon]

Plan of Attack by Bob Woodward

[huond]

Live From New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live, as Told By Its Stars, Writers and Guests by James A. Miller (Author), Tom Shales :(

[Gurlugon]

"Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck.

[Virne]

Been reading for a while Terry Pratchett's books. Last week it was "Guards! Guards!", this week it is "Light Fantastic."

He sure has a sharp touch to humour. :D

[Brandon]

Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis

[huond]

Mike Nelson's Mind Over Matters

this book is making me lol a lot :(

[ProfessorCool]

That's a fucking great book :)

[Big McLargehuge]

"From the Dust Returned" by Ray Bradbury and "Radio Free Albumuth" by Philip k. Dick, andi am trying to get a copy of "Breakfast of Champions" but my local library doesn't have it :(

[kellychaos]

Have you tried asking the librarian if he/she can get the book from one of the other libraries in the county? From what I understand, most library systems are equipped to do that these days. In my county, it usually only takes a couple of days to get whateve book I request if they have it.

[huond]

I am about to finish A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy O'Toole. Its too bad he only wrote 2 books, this was really good and I heard his other isn't that great :(

[LacrimansTaurne]

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris.

[huond]

i went to a david sedaris reading a couple days ago :( i didn't buy his book though

[glowbelly]

you should have. it's damn funny.

i'm STILL reading mason and dixon by pynchon. i doubt i'll ever finish that one.

[huond]

i will wait till i can get it cheap, i still need to read a bunch of his other books. I would have been waiting for like 3 hours to get it signed. :/

[kellychaos]

JARHEAD: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War
and Other Battles by Anthony Swofford

The following review is fairly accurate and pasted here mostly because I'm too lazy to write one myself:

"In Jarhead, Anthony Swofford has written a powerful and riveting memoir of his life, particularly his involvement as a Marine during the first Persian Gulf war. He recounts his experiences in the Marine culture, the blood lust, the alternating boredom and terror, and the absurd moments including wearing camouflage uniforms because their desert ones hadn't arrived yet. He watched the burning wells rain oil on the desert and the desecration of Iraqi corpses. At the same time he became aware that becoming a man involved more than becoming a soldier. The New York Times says, "By turns profane and lyrical, swaggering and ruminative, Jarhead -- referring to the marines' 'high-and-tight' haircuts, which make their heads look like jars -- is not only the most powerful memoir to emerge thus far from the last gulf war, but also a searing contribution to the literature of combat."

[the[Hitman]]

i will wait till i can get it cheap, i still need to read a bunch of his other books. I would have been waiting for like 3 hours to get it signed. :/

people actually go and get books signed still....

no new writers are worth the effort in my opinion but im an oldschool sci-fi/post apoc person.

im reading Sixth Column by Robert A. Heinlein, The Long Tomorrow by Leigh Brackett and Catch 22 by Joseph Heller.

[GADZOOKS]

You should read more fiction, like for you, Planned Pregnancy.

[the[Hitman]]

You should read more fiction, like for you, Planned Pregnancy.

i haven't decided if i want to sink to your level yet cutie.

[GADZOOKS]

Are you talking to me???

[kellychaos]

RESPECT! >:

[Big McLargehuge]

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas it makes me wanna do drugs :(

[Emu]

I'M READING THIS THREAD :lol :lol

[the[Hitman]]

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas it makes me wanna do drugs :(

that book was absolutely terrible.

summed up "look at me, im a book about drug use who is over sensationalized by media and retarded teenages alike".

[Big McLargehuge]

I like it, sensationalism aside.

and it is not my usual cup of tea, i tend to lean towards good science fiction (ie Bradbury, Sturgeon, Dick) and "literature".

[Big McLargehuge]

look at that fag ^ :lol

[stong bah]

Right now I'm reading Around the World in 80 Days (yeah shut up).

[Anonymous]

Incest Weekly

[kellychaos]

You on the cover?

[the[Hitman]]

he's under the cover silly.

[Anonymous]

Unfortunately no. They felt the lesbian mother/daughter picture would make a better cover. My sister and I are on the 2nd page though. :)

[Esuohlim]

"Kick Me" by Paul Feig

It rules. I recommend it. >:

[Sethomas]

The Fabric of the Cosmos by Greene (Like Spinster), and Elementary Biblical Hebrew. Whichever suits my mood.

[Anonymous]

Chick Tracts by Jack Chick :lol

[Sethomas]

Did you decide to start reading those tracts because your IQ of 70 was just too high for you to live with and you sought means of lowering it further?

[Anonymous]

Did you decide to respond to my posts because you can't stand the fact that I hurt your feelings earlier? :)

You're going to hell anyway, Catholic boy! :lol

[Esuohlim]

Your new phase of putting the :) emoticon in each of your posts reminds me of Kellychaos. Do you really want to remind people of Kellychaos, Mad Max?

[Anonymous]

Yikes! :lol

[Esuohlim]

Actually, if your goal is to piss people off, acting like Kellychaos is the way to go.

[Sethomas]

How exactly did Mad Max hurt my feelings? Did he stand me up on our date to the middle school dance, or what?

[Anonymous]

Actually it was the prom, and I regret nothing! :lol

[Spectre X]

Actually it was the prom, and I regret nothing! :lol

The prom and school dance are exactly the same thing.

You fucking cunt.

[Anonymous]

He said Middle school dance fidget shit. The Prom is high school fucktard. What difference does it make to you anyway, you'll never attend either one. :lol

[Matt Harty]

From The Corner Of His Eye
by Dean Koontz

[Spectre X]

He said Middle school dance fidget shit. The Prom is high school fucktard. What difference does it make to you anyway, you'll never attend either one. :lol

True. We don't have that striving-for-popularity shit here in the Netherlands.

[da blob]

Terry Pratchett's Discworld series. Second book almost finished. I can't believe I didn't read it earlier.

[Pub Lover]

I just started reading that too. :eek

I've read a few of the books before, but not the first few. It really sorts some of the problems I had out. :x

[Big McLargehuge]

I just finished Solaris by Stanislaw Lem, i am now on Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl.

[Esuohlim]

I just bought the Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide. The nice looking one with the golden-edged pages and it's own fabric bookmark. It was 14 bucks and I've never read any of the books before, so even if I don't like it was barely any money, and if I do like it then I've already got the whole series. :eek

[Captain Goodtimes]

Gasping for Airtime : Two Years in the Trenches of Saturday Night Live
by Jay Mohr

Not as good as live from new york.

[Sethomas]

Sextus Empiricus: Outlines of Pyrrhonism.

OMG OMG OMG I SAID SEX.

[Mr. Oysterhead]

The Dark Tower VI - Stephen King

[kellychaos]

The Reluctant Metrosexual: Dispatches from an Almost Hip Life
By Peter Hyman

LINK (http://www.pdhyman.com/book.html)

[Dole]

I just finished Solaris by Stanislaw Lem

read 'the investigation' by him, completely bizarre, and fantastic. Its a whodunnit , but not like any other...

[Big McLargehuge]

i have a hard time finding his stuff wear i live right now, and i don't wanna order anything off amazon. But in a few days i will have the University of Arizona library at my disposal.

[Todeswalzer]

Domes of Fire by David Eddings

[kahljorn]

Almost finished with psychonaut, then I'm doooing... The secret doctrine of the Kabbalah, the key to hebraic sacred science by leonora leets. IT LOOKS TASTEFUL.

[Hobo Renee]

How to be good- Nick Hornby. I'm only a chapter or so into it though, but I loved high fidelity.

I'm also reading Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko, almost done and didn't really like her writing style.

[mubert]

Okay, I might as well reply to it now, even though that was a nice little bump there. I started and finished this fucked up book called "stuck in neutral" by some guy, and its about a kid who has cerebral palsy, and he thinks his dad is gonna kill him, cause he always has seizures. Its ok, but if it was long, I would have hated it, since the story drags on like my dogs ass on my floor.

[the[Hitman]]

Books like that are terrible.
They make enough shitty tv shows/movies to cover for the "crippled kid abuse" stories.

[mubert]

Man, I wonder why God hasn't smote you...Almost every comment that comes out of Hitman's mouth wouldn't pass a fucking Comedy Central Sensitivity test.

[Idiotless]

Just read LA Confidential, now reading Monty Python- All of the Words. :)

[EisigerBiskuit]

I'm (sort of) reading Pope John Paul VI Biography. I just realized today this was back in 1800's :X

[the[Hitman]]

Man, I wonder why God hasn't smote you...Almost every comment that comes out of Hitman's mouth wouldn't pass a fucking Comedy Central Sensitivity test.

Quiet fatty, go eat some more pie.

[MetalMilitia]

This thread :lol (wow that was the worst joke ever)

Im reading a book called 'Digital Fortress' by Dan Brown. Its about an uncrackable encryption code thingy and computers and stuff.
I was gonna read 'operation takedown' but apparently it sucks a bit and has more about kevin mitnicks relationship with his girlfriend than the actual hacking he did.

[Big McLargehuge]

Kingdom of Fear by Hunter S Thompson. I fucking love him :0

[Dole]

The Kid Stays In The Picture - Robert Evans. Amazing.

[kellychaos]

Digital Fortress was unrealistic, predictable, and boring ... especially in comparison to The DaVinci Code. I couldn't believe that the same person wrote it.

[MetalMilitia]

Digital Fortress was unrealistic, predictable, and boring ... especially in comparison to The DaVinci Code. I couldn't believe that the same person wrote it.

I wouldnt know, im only on about chapter 6. It seems ok thus far but nothing to keep me reading for hours at a time.

[MetalMilitia]

Just finished digital fortress and i though it was brilliant. Not boring at all and mabey slightly unrealistic but nothing too stupid. I'l have to find a copy of the DaVinci code if its really alot better than Digital fortress.

Now im reading 'Hammer of the gods' a led zeppilin biography and i started 'Takedown' but the first 20ish pages have been pretty boring so i dont know if i will bother reading the rest.

[Father §p@z]

Nemesis by Agatha Christie. Boring as hell, I'm going right back to Poirot's mysteries when I'm finished. >:

[DamnthatDavid]

The Boat - Lothar-Gunther Buchheim.

It's ok. very vulgur.

[Command Prompt]

Kingdom of Fear by Hunter S Thompson. I fucking love him :0

Your an asshole because thats what I'm reading now and I wanted to post it.

The funniest part so far is when he has an arguement with the monk over the answer to question "what is the sound of one hand clapping" and proves his point by slapping the monk in the head.

Now THAT'S enlightenment.

[Big McLargehuge]

i finished it already jerk

[ItalianStereotype]

I'm rereading The Confessions of Saint Augustine. :o

after that, I'm going to reread my entire collection of Gambit. :o

god damn sexy Cajun

[jimmy_tango]

neil gaimans American Gods....after that I'm reading the dreaming comic series(just finished the sandman series so I'm excited!!)

[DamnthatDavid]

I just finished Reaperman again. Going to go obtain my copy of Good Omens from the friend I loaned it to, read that again.

[nothing4buddha]

Red Dragon by Thomas Harris :O

[LacrimansTaurne]

Just finished:
- America (The Book) - Very well done. Funny as hell and the text-book format is pretty cool.
- When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? - Some funny sections, but overall disappointing. Some recycled material too: I know I've heard the "A Douche Bag for Clara" skit before.

I'm now re-reading the entire Elric saga by Michael Moorcock. And whenever I'm done with that, I'll be reading the Corum saga.

[Emu]

just finished "How Children Fail," which is a book written back in the 60's about how the flawed learning processes of schools ruin children. It's old, but a lot of it still applies today, and I liked it. :x

[kellychaos]

I've been reading a lot of fiction ... mostly light stuff. I'm getting sick of murder mystery novels. I've exhausted myself on them recently. Here's what I found in the new release section of the library that wasn't one of them. So far, so good. Again, too lazy to post my own review but here's a link to one:

LINKAGE (http://www.bookloons.com/cgi-bin/Review.ASP?bookid=3356)

[tonto]

I just finished Fight Club and am moving on to some Edgar Allen Poe, after I read poe I am going to pick up a little more by Chuck Palahinuk(spelling?)

[Shyandquietguy]

To Build a Fire by Jack London.

[Big McLargehuge]

Quitting the Nairobi Trio by Jim Knipfel

it's rather decent thus far

[Sicktodeathmx]

John Norman: Captive of Gor

[kellychaos]

HOW I PAID FOR COLLEGE:
A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship and Musical Theater

Funny, funny, FUNNY! Here's a review:


LINKAGE (http://www.popmatters.com/books/reviews/h/how-i-paid-for-college.shtml)

[kellychaos]

HOW I PAID FOR COLLEGE:
A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship and Musical Theater

Funny, funny, FUNNY! Here's a review:


LINKAGE (http://www.popmatters.com/books/reviews/h/how-i-paid-for-college.shtml)

[Sethomas]

I just finished Miracles and the Medieval Mind for a class. Enjoyed it, though it's not without its faults.

[FS]

After downloading it ages ago, I finally opened up Stephen King's e-book "The Plant." Reading off a screen sucks bad, and it's way too many pages to print, but I'm still already 100 pages into it.

[Emu]

Right now I'm reading "Evolution: The Remakable History of a Scientific Theory." It's neat. :(

[Shyandquietguy]

"Patriotism" by Yukio Mishima.

[FS]

Yay. I finally found Wolves of the Calla in paperback. Now I'll see if Sspadowsky was right and I was being too hard on the Dark Tower series.

[Bulletproof_Kennedy]

"Steal This Computer Book 3" by Wallace Wang.

[Pub Lover]

Terry Pratchett's Discworld series. Second book almost finished. I can't believe I didn't read it earlier
I just started reading that too. :eek

I've read a few of the books before, but not the first few. It really sorts some of the problems I had out. :x
I'm still reading this series. I'm on 23, 'Carpe Jugulum'. This is where I have been for the last half year... & I suspect it might be where Blob has been too... :eek

[calavera]

hell's angels by hunter s. thompson

[kellychaos]

Although I'm not big on war novels, every once in a while there is someone who has the experience of war along with the actual ability to write such as:

Slaughterhouse Five
Catch-22
All Quiet On The Western Front
Platoon Leader

This novel by Donald Pfarrer is of that kind. A great novel in it's own right, even if one doesn't appreciate the subject matter. Here's a link to a review:

LINK (http://www.ereader.com/product/detail/16638)

[Marine]

ALL YOUR CRIMINAL ACTS!!!

[Rongi]

some Jim Morrison biography. he was a j*rk

[Shyandquietguy]

The Crucible by Arthur Miller.

[Big McLargehuge]

The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut

[Johnyy Darko]

I'm reading a few books:
The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy books again
Fight club
Brain droppings

[Esuohlim]

I might read "Kick Me" by Paul Feig again because I ran out of books to read. :(

[Big McLargehuge]

Why don't you read The SIrens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut, it's real good.

[fungusamongus]

Talk Show by Jukka Lehtosaari

[Johnyy Darko]

Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk

[Marine]

Game boolets

[ScruU2wice]

Introduction to Linear Algebra and Differential Equations.

[ScruU2wice]

not even joking :(

[kellychaos]

I hear that it's very derivative.

[executioneer]

but the twist ending is rad :(

[Guitar Woman]

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Quite possibly the best book ever.

[Johnyy Darko]

Survivor By Chuck Palahniuk

[executioneer]

dude you don't have to keep posting that you're reading the same book, why don't you wait until you've finished chuck pancake's book before posting what you're reading

[beoulve913]

To kill a mocking bird, Quite interesting actually

[nothing4buddha]

Dune by Frank Herbert and Twelfth Night or, What You Will by Shakespeare

[Sergeant_Tibbs]

1984 by George Orwell

[Shyandquietguy]

Ravenloft book: Vampire of the Mists by Christie Golden.

It was good at the first two chapters, then it turned really fucking lame. Hopefully it'll turn out alright, but the plot description on the back will most likely lead to a "no".

[Emu]

"The Blind Watchmaker" by Richard Dawkins. It's not as good as "The Selfish Gene," but I always enjoy Mr. Dawkins' writing style. :x

[fungusamongus]

I just finished ''Lord of the Flies'' by William Golding and now I'm reading ''Ham on Rye'' by Charles Bukowski

[Shyandquietguy]

I just started reading a Redwall book. The Outcast of Redwall. I really like it.

I haven't finished that Ravenloft book yet, I got so bored that I forgot about it.

[Emu]

Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan. I bought a first edition for 2 dollars. :posh

[glowbelly]

GOODNIGHT MOON :D

[SUFFER]

im reading all these posts and whatever is at the bottom of my 40

[King Hadas]

I just finished American Gods by Neil Gaiman and am now reading Stardust by Neil Gaiman.

[glowbelly]

i like that american gods book

[Emu]

Just finished Coming of Age in the Milky Way by Timothy Ferris and The Red Queen by Matt Ridley. Now I'm reading *A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson.

[Guitar Woman]

I started and finished "Go Ask Alice" today. Fucking creepy. :chatter

[Emu]

That book is a pile of horseshit. It was written by some 50 year old bitch pretending to be a 15 year old. She's written a bunch of other "anonymous" books too.

[Guitar Woman]

Yeah, it was pretty obvious when I looked in the front cover after reading it.
Go Ask Alice
[1.Drug Use, Fiction]
That pissed me off big time. >:

[King Hadas]

I just read "The Painted Bird" by Jerzy Kosinski, two hundred pages of an old jewish guy trying to shock me is not my idea of a good book.

I also just finished off "Red Dragon" by Thomas Harris, good stuff.