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[Mau ®]

Currently: Crime & Punishment

I will resume reading "The Dagger" (from His Dark Materials trilogy) and will start reading the Zohar soon.

 

[Guybrush Threepwood]

I just finished Into The Wild a couple minutes ago. I really enjoyed it.

I'm also finishing up this:

Very interesting.

 

[Guybrush Threepwood]

I just finished 1421 a couple days ago.

Now I'm reading this:

 

[Guybrush Threepwood]

Finished that earlier today. Now I'm reading this:

I got it a couple years ago but I let it sit in my backlog for a long time.

 

[UltimaPooh]

Barely put a dent in it so far, about 200 pages in.

 

[demon]

I just finished a book and am in the mood to read another Hunter S Thompson book. I've read Fear and Loathing in LV and The Rum Diary. What are his best books besides those?

 

[Oreoleo]

Ender's Game. Really awesome.

edit: I love how every month there's someone new reading Arthur C Clarke for the first time

 

[Matt_09]

about 20 pages left... fucked up. But very good.

 

[Mifune]

Motherfuckin' Anathem by Neal Stephenson.

So far it's like learning a new language.

 

[Skittleguy]

about 20 pages left... fucked up. But very good.

Agreed.
Currently this:

Then this if I can find the time:

Threads like this make me realize how much Gaf can be like Twitter sometimes. Mind you, this is where I find interesting books.

 

[BruceLeeRoy]

Got the book 7 hours ago and I am about 200 pages in, absolutely gripping stuff.
Aside from the fact that I am looking up a new word in my dictionary every 30 seconds
its one of the most atmospheric books I have read in a while.

Just finished last night:

Ahh man I love that damn dog. One of the few Koontz books that delivers from beginning to
end.

 

[Bliany]

Just started on my next Vonnegut book.

 

[NickP786]

 

[Flynn]

Motherfuckin' Anathem by Neal Stephenson.

So far it's like learning a new language.

Need to grab this, the new Cul De Sac collection and that new book The Terror, by Dan Simmons.

 

[mr stroke]

.
Aside from the fact that I am looking up a new word in my dictionary every 30 seconds
.

:lol
I thought I was the only one doing that.

 

[Danielsan]

I finished Kafka on the Shore last week.
The whole thing was a crazy experience. I loved the Nakata storyline, Hoshino and Nakata are such appealing characters. The Kafka storyline was a bit fucked up with all the implied incest, still a great read though.

Next up:

Aside from the fact that I am looking up a new word in my dictionary every 30 seconds
its one of the most atmospheric books I have read in a while.

Man I always felt ashamed for doing that despite being pretty good at English (not my native language). Some writers really love to flaunt their insane vocabulary. :lol

 

[Ovid]

I'm currently reading both of these books.

 

[BattleSwan]

I just finished a book and am in the mood to read another Hunter S Thompson book. I've read Fear and Loathing in LV and The Rum Diary. What are his best books besides those?

Hell's Angels, or Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail (if you want to brush up on american political studies haha, it's a hard read, with plenty to research, but the amount of knowledge I gained afterward was priceless). I find his writing style almost hypnotic in those.

 

[FnordChan]

I just finished a book and am in the mood to read another Hunter S Thompson book. I've read Fear and Loathing in LV and The Rum Diary. What are his best books besides those?

Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 is the best thing the man ever wrote and there's no better time to read it than in the midst of the current campaign. For more choice early Thompson, The Great Shark Hunt collects a lot of his early writings. While the pre-gonzo material is mostly of academic interest, once Thompson really gets rolling (particularly with "Fear and Loathing at the Kentucky Derby") it's all ass kicking from then on. I also second Hell's Angels.

FnordChan

 

[Benjamin_MFF]

Just picked up

Thomas L. Friedman - Hot, Flat, and Crowded

I plan to start digging into it later this week.

 

[Night_Trekker]

Got the book 7 hours ago and I am about 200 pages in, absolutely gripping stuff.
Aside from the fact that I am looking up a new word in my dictionary every 30 seconds
its one of the most atmospheric books I have read in a while.

:lol

I try to read his books next to a computer. It's much easier to look up words that way.

The Road is probably the most accessible of his books, too.

 

[Macam]

Courtesy of lawblob's recommendation. Excellent stuff. If anyone else has any similar political recommendations, I'm all ears.

 

[Blackhead]

Blazed through both on Saturday because I might watch the Towelhead movie adaptation...

 

[Fjolle]

School started, so a couple of technical books:

And one i should read if get some time...

 

[PuppetSlave]

Well now that I read through this thread obviously I am going to hunt down Pratchets new book and read it asap.

Otherwise I am reading through the Dexter books. Disappointed though, I liked the tv series. I ordered all three at once online but the books are not as good or even that similar as the tv series. They are not terrible but not that good or that long for that matter so I am glad I got a good price for them.

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

Ender's Game. Really awesome.

edit: I love how every month there's someone new reading Arthur C Clarke for the first time

Be sure to get Ender's Shadow and the rest of the Shadow books straight after you finish it.

 

[Sol..]

it's supposed to be horrifying, but being the guy that expects one to go off in my lifetime. Some absolute information about it and the market is calming.

 

[echoshifting]

So I just finished the Lovely Bones. Fantastic read up to about the last 20 pages. I hate when that happens, nothing worse than getting really wrapped up in a book and let down by a shitty ending. Ah well.

Next up: going to try to finish American Gods, stopped right as the climax was heating up, not sure why. After that it's The Time Traveler's Wife, Middlesex or possibly The Once and Future King for the second time.

I'd really like to read Veronika Decides to Die or An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England, but I can't justify buying more books until I clear my shelf queue out a bit.

Oh, and Jennifer Government! Shit, I need to read that, too...I've obsessed about it ever since the hardback came out and now that it's on my shelf I never seem to get around to reading it. Too much to read right now!

 

[Night_Trekker]

I finished Outer Dark yesterday. Now I'm starting on

And one i should read if get some time...

Hell yes you should read that.

 

[Deku]

I'm reading Collapse. You don't have to be an environmentalist to appreciate his case studies or the broad arguments Professor Diamond makes. And I don't believe his arguments are about saving trees or the environment for the sake of saving them, which is a position many environmentalist take. It's a more pragmatic argument of survability of our own civilizatiom. One of his strongest points was that our modern affluent societies fit well within the zenith of many past societies which did collapse and the collapse of our own societies, if we don't learn from history is not impossible, but rather quite probable. Certainly the point about fossil fuels is relevant. Oil is to to us like the trees and fertile top soil past societies cut down/destroyed in their push for growth and development, never to be replaced.

 

[vumpler]

Reading this as I play the game. Only read up to how far I've played in the game. Pretty cool actually.

 

[echoshifting]

Need to throw out a recommendation for this book:

You will find it among the science fiction books, but there are no traditional sci-fi elements to speak of. This is a satire of a completely deregulated market, consumer addiction, and a powerless government. It is a bit predictable and even silly at times but a fun, fun read. I don't want to give anything away; if you've enjoyed the traditional dystopias - 1984, Brave New World, etc. - this is a fresh spin in that field.

Or, also, if you hate libertarians, you'll probably like this.

 

[Futureman]

 

[yacobod]

started Blood Meridian last night

 

[Sax Russel]

Picked those two up last night. *checks another epic fantasy series off list of ones to get to reading* -_-

 

[Rexaur]

Finished reading this series

and

Both were awesome stuff, especially The Dark Knight Returns. Kind of makes me wish they'd do a full out animated version of it.

 

[Flynn]

Awesome, awesome collection. Banana Fish may be my favorite.

Just cracked Anathem and this:

It's a non-fiction account of Aleister Crowley's involvement with British intelligence -- apparently he was involved with cloak and dagger stuff during WWII. Sounds like the kind of thing Alan Moore would make up.

 

[zackattack]

I'm only about 2 chapters in, but liking it so far.

 

[Cosmic Bus]

Amy Hempel's Reasons To Live and Ross Macdonald's Zebra-Striped Hearse. The Hempel stories aren't really doing anything for me so far, but Macdonald's novel is very enjoyable. I love the Archer character, although I keep picturing him as Paul Newman's Harper.

 

[ten5ive9ine]

I just started reading it the other day. I'll finish it tonight or tomorrow. It's an interesting piece of work, I was glad to find out it existed and that it finally got an English translation.

 

[Bowflex]

 

[Keen]

 

[Blackace]

was thinking about getting this. How is it?

As for me

reading the 3rd book. Black Powder War

Fun reads. Light and interesting.

 

[Keen]

was thinking about getting this. How is it?

As for me

reading the 3rd book. Black Powder War

Fun reads. Light and interesting.

I really like it, so pick it =)

 

[pjberri]

And a few books on On Kawara, Lawrence Weiner and Christopher Wool.

 

[Gozan]

was thinking about getting this. How is it?

You haven't read The Black Company? Well, it's like the Malazan series. Only good. Cook uses a paragraph where Erikson wastes a chapter.

 

[NotWii]

Art of War

Kama Sutra

 

[gofreak]

Glad to see a recommendation for The Happiness Hypothesis. Tis very good.

Lately I've been juggling these:

A bit Oprah-esque, but I found it very good. If you could actually concieve of the world as it suggests, it would be very powerful. I'm still trying

Listening to this mostly when working out. It's a hodge-podge of essays, some good.

Just started this one..convincing opening, at least.

Read it before, but dipping back into it again. Pretty motivational.

 

[wi@tt]

Finished:

Got Midway into:

stopped to reread:

along with

 

[Bowflex]

And a few books on On Kawara, Lawrence Weiner and Christopher Wool.

Good choices. I had to read the cheese monkeys for an intro class back in school, I should reread it sometime.