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:

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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?)

To Build a Fire by Jack London.

Quitting the Nairobi Trio by Jim Knipfel

it's rather decent thus far

John Norman: Captive of Gor

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

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


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

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


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

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.

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

"Patriotism" by Yukio Mishima.

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.

"Steal This Computer Book 3" by Wallace Wang.

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

hell's angels by hunter s. thompson

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:

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ALL YOUR CRIMINAL ACTS!!!

some Jim Morrison biography. he was a j*rk

The Crucible by Arthur Miller.

The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut

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

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

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

Talk Show by Jukka Lehtosaari

Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk

Game boolets

Introduction to Linear Algebra and Differential Equations.

not even joking :(

I hear that it's very derivative.

but the twist ending is rad :(

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

Survivor By Chuck Palahniuk

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

To kill a mocking bird, Quite interesting actually

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

1984 by George Orwell

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".

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

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

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.

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

GOODNIGHT MOON :D

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

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

i like that american gods book

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.

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

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.

Yeah, it was pretty obvious when I looked in the front cover after reading it.
That pissed me off big time. >:

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.

I bought and just started on the first book in the Redwall novels.

I'm to stupid to read.

The last book I had read to me was "To kill a mocking bird"

It was good, I liked it.

I started reading Atlas Shrugged. This is going to be a long book. :(

The Sunborn by Gregory Benford. A continuation of his martian exploration series and not his best work but already a third into it. It's plot is excrutiatingly slow. He does have several earlier novels that I've like, though.

I started to read 'Nine Stories' by Salinger...but it pretty much just makes me angry as they all seem to follow the same format and end without any resolution. If anyone can explain anything about it to me...please do.

The Art of War by Sun-Tzu.

This thread.

"This thread" joke ++

i bet alot of people posted the name of a book they thought was impressive to try and look smart.

Some more than once. :/

So what have you read lately, smartypanties?!

P.S. You better impress me! >:

I got some money for my birthday so I picked up like 20 books. Right now I'm trying to focus on Steven Pinker's How the Mind Works, but I'ma lso distracted by a bunch of other books I need to read. GERK

hold on i have to look up an impressive book title

Be honest. We're all friends, here.

im reading about quilt making
>:
its called the book on quilt making

Interesting reading? Good in patches? Bad in patches?

no

'The ****** of the Narcissus' by Joseph Conrad.

The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy.

I'm reading Night Shift by Stephen King.

The Steam-Punk Edition of Heavy Metal.

the moon is a harsh mistress by bob heinlein :eek

Siddhartha by Herman Hesse

Neil Gaiman - 'Sandman'

Maybe I'll finish it this time.

I just finished Mary Gaitskill's new one, Veronica. I got Mary McCarthy's The Company She Keeps today from Amazon, and I'd like to start it tomorrow.

book 4 by Aleister Crowley

Neil Gaiman - 'Sandman: A Dream Of A Thousand Cats'

"book 4 by Aleister Crowley"
You shouldn't read Liber ABA until you have read Liber vel Jugorum. As far as crowlian yoga goes, Liber vel Jugorum is the first two steps. You don't want to start doing yoga(liber aba is based on yoga) until you've mastered those two or you could potentially go insane like Krishna.
http://www.hermetic.com/crowley/libers/lib3.html
Doing pranayama and the asanas(energy working) come well after you've learned to control your mind, because you don't want energy in places in your mind that could 'activate your mind' when you can't control it properly. It can actually make you quite sick, especially if you are considering the asanas as a means to moving/freeing blood throughout the body.

I'm reading Cosmic Trigger by robert anton wilson. Good book.

Are the new Dark Tower series worth reading?

The Stand - Stephen King

Its funny you should mention that because I just finished reading the first two books in the series and am starting up on the third one. I've really liked what I've read so far but I've heard some pretty steep criticisms about the later books.

Battle Royale: Volume 1 - Koushun Takami

Dean Koontz "Forever Odd." I read the first one "Odd Thomas" and that was great. This one hasn't grabbed me yet.

I just finished reading the third Dark Tower story, Charlie the Choo-Choo train has got to be the best example of foreshadowing I've ever seen in a book.

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes can't understand what happens unless you understand how it all began.

I'm kind of reading three books:

"Lucy's Child" by Donald Johanson and James Shreeve - It'st he sequel to Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind. It's about paleoanthropology. :eek

"The Blank Slate" by Steven Pinker - I just finished "How the Mind Works" and was enamored so I picked this up :eek

"Under the Banner of Heaven: A History of Violent Faith" by Jon Krakauer - It's about freaky polygamist Mormons. :eek

Just finished: Darren Shan - Trials of Death
Now reading: Darren Shan - The Vampire Prince

The Stand - Stephen King

Cell-Stephen King

The Dark Tower VII by Stephen King
(We sure do like his novels, no?)

i don't

I bought that "Fastfood nation" book and will be reading it on the plane tomorrow

I read that back in '02 for a Social Science class. The professor thought that we needed to be rounded out by something contemporary. I loved it, but the writing is banal and predictable. All journalistic articles of the past decade have the exact same structure to them (NOT the inverted pyramid), and Schlosser begins each and every chapter like he's doing a human interests piece in US Weekly. I guess it's because modern Americans don't like reading about facts and figures unless they're written as being one investigator's quest for the truth, which incidentally happens to be a bunch of facts and figures.

I read Catch 22 by Joseph Heller when I'm not reading literature for my thesis.
I just finished Foucault's Pendulum which was one of my favourite books so far.

Jonny Couth:
I've been meaning to pick up Hesse again when I get the time, I really enjoyed Goldmund and Narcissus. Tell me what you thought of Siddharta when you're done with it

Koroshiya 1, book 10, page where Kakihara's penis gets chopped in half.

Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein

The movie just took out all of the good parts and replaced them with action scenes.
It made interesting points about Value, Morals, and Character.
Very, Very Good.
Has my personal recommendation.

Heavy Metal: May 2oo6

I'm getting ready to read "the curious incident of the dog in the night-time" by Mark Haddon.

After that I'll be reading "Cell" by Stephen King. I hope that is a good one.

finished "Cyberia" by Douglass Rushkoff last night. I chose Communication Studies as my major because I had just read a couple books by him and he's supposed to be a "media theorist", but then I found out it wasn't a real major.

Fistful of Blood by Kevin Eastman and Simon Bisley.

I love rooting around old secondhand bookshops, and the other day I came across this old Kipling book of poems for £2.50, Songs From Books. It intrigued me because of the swastika on the cover, and also because the quality of paper and printing was so much better than today's issues. Of course Kipling used the swastika because it was an ancient Indian sign of good luck and peace and when the Nazis started to use the symbol he stopped using it. But I still felt a bit self-consciousÂ*when I bought it, and it reminded me of Winston Smith furtively buying an old diary in '1984'. Anyway although I don't usually like poetry much, I enjoyed reading it and I recommend it.

Also I'm enjoying reading Jarhead by Anthony Swofford.