Now Reading... (or Recently Finished)

[saechalyn]

Rereading the Old Man and the Sea. Good stuff.

[phee]

Theory of Evolution: A history of contraversy

[livininxtcgoth]

You could read Naked Lunch, Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas, Or the Book that Requiem for a Dream was based on...

I would also recommend "The Alienest" by Caleb Carr if you wish to be thoughrouly disturbed

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thanx. they were sold out of the first three at barnes and nobles but i did get the alienist. not as disturbing as i think u may have thot i would find it, but then i'm not easily disturbed by text on a page. i'm enjoying it tho.

i also borrowed "smack" from a friend and got a compilation of books by francesca lia block (good writer in my opinion, she does a pretty graphic description of teens lives who grow up in and around hollywood... very party monster)

[phee]

The Truth (With Jokes) - Al Franken.... I may comment on this later, but OMG, there is a lot of evil in the government

[Guest Megalicious]

at the moment Im reading "Memoirs of an anti-semite" by Gregor Von Rezzori. Im not to sure I like it yet Ive only read the first 10 pages or so.

I just finished with slaughter house five by Kurt Vonnegut which I highly recomend to anyone. Before Slaughter house I had read Breakfast of champions by him, so I was expecting slaugther house to be a bit more humorus. Which is was dont get me wrong but it was just as sad and moral. They are both great for differnt reasons and Vonnegut is one of the funniest writers Ive come across in the last year =)

[cthulhu63]

Listening to the Evelyn Wood Speed Reading Course on book-on-tape.

Just finished Christine by Stephen King, Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway, and The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. Just picked up Wolf by Jim Harrison.

[Reaper]

I m now reading this thread. Ok so I didnt read it all. I just wanted to post a smartass remark. There, done.

[DarkRacer]

To Hell With Tanks by Ken Tout.

A documentary of a British tank battalion (1st. Northants Yeomanry) during WWII.

[Nevaeh]

The Blood Countess by Andrei Codrescu

[The Rod]

sadly nothing right now, for school is slowly devouring my soul. I dream of warm summer days, with a good book in hand...

The last book I read? Reefer Madness by Eric Schlosser, the same guy that wrote Fast Food Nation. It's a social sciences book on the significance of drugs, pornography, and violence on today's society, and how feeble and negatively influential the government's reaction to these substances really is. Fast Food Nation was the movie that inspired that whole '30 days of only McDonald's food' movie (can't recall the name). Trust me, the book is waaaay better than the movie, even more-so than normal circumstances.

[DarkVampire]

The Blood Countess by Andrei Codrescu

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Is that a biography on Bathory?

[Nevaeh]

Is that a biography on Bathory?

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yes, but its very fictionalized

[Shade Everdark]

Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil.

He's a sour, cranky man, he is.

[The Rod]

Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil.

He's a sour, cranky man, he is.

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Is that his book that includes The Birth of Tragedy? I believe it is...

If so, then good choice my man.

[livininxtcgoth]

"Hey Nostradamus!" by Douglas Coupland

i picked this up cuz it was 5$ at barnes and noble (gotta love the monstrous bargain section at a college campus store) and i'm totally absorbed in it. its about a high school shooting and the aftermath of it. there are 4 parts, (1) cheryl anway, pregnant secretly married teen who gets shot and tells of the day of her death (2) her husband jason ten years later who still hasnt gotten over it (3) another five years later speaks the woman now trying to love jason and (4) jason's father gives an account of how he now realizes his over-religiousness caused his son's downfall

its really good, lots of flash backs to fill in the detail, and i keep finding myself reading 10 pages or so past where i said i'd stop so i could do silly things like homework or sleep

highly reccomended

[odims_sphere]

XHTML, Premium Edition.

So boring, but interesting at the same time.

[CandyQuackenbush]

I have a book about Cult killers, Cannabals, and other things like that.

[The Rod]

information on Linux, because I want to try setting up a dual-boot Linux/Windows system on my comp.

[Hellheart]

I've got a few I need to finish. I started one, lost it almost immediately, started another, lost it halfway through, found the ones I lost.

I'm working through Mission Earth, by L. Ron Hubbard. I hate the cult of Scientology, but the stuff he writes before it colors everything is quite good.

I found the Terry Pratchett book I had lost right after I started, so I'll be working on that again.

I found and finished Treasure Box by Orson Scott Card.

If you could count them as "books," I managed to grab a few of Abner Dean's comics (insight comics, often bitter, used by psychologists sometimes, really awesome stuff) through alibris. Trying to get my hands on Sandman now...

I need to expand from Science Fiction, simply because I can. I've got a number of recommendations from general fiction; I might simply sit at the bookstore and read them

I like stuff that makes me think. I don't like reading just to get lost in a world; I like reading to get lost in situations that leave me lost as to what I'd do, or to get lost in politics and intrigue far greater than I can comprehend (*cough*Dune*cough*). I want my books to make me *think*.

Edited April 20, 2006 by Hellheart

[Miranda]

As Timeless As Infinity... The Complete Twilight Zone Scripts by Rod Serling.

Edited April 20, 2006 by Miranda

[Shade Everdark]

Catch-22, by Joseph Heller

His brand of black humor is right up my alley.

[LuluVox]

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. It took me about 250 pages to get really interested, but now at 300ish, I'm pretty wrapped up in it. I've had bad dreams the last two nights because of it, though. It's just such a mind-fuck knowing that the murders actually happened and aren't just a total work of fiction. Edited April 20, 2006 by LuluVox

[Guest Megalicious]

at the moment ... a random assortment of Jarod's architecture and art books from college. (wright is so overrated ..eww)

Also The Devil in the shape of a woman .. by Carol F. Karlsen, a professor of history at UofM. It's a bit dull at the moment. Perhaps its just my mood.

[Nevaeh]

A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore

[TheAbsynthFairy]

"The Unbearable Lightness of Being" by: Milan Kundera

& "Freedom & Destiny" by: Rollo May