Now Reading... (or Recently Finished)

[creatureofthenyte]

I'm reading Blackbeard, by Angus Konstam

a biography about Edward Teach aka Blackbeard the Pirate

[pomba gira]

Everything Bad is Good For You, by Steven Johnson. It's about how pop culture is becoming more complex all the time, and how the cognitive skills demanded by video games and modern TV dramas are actually making people smarter.

OK, I'm only pretending to read it. I got stuck about 50 pages in, over a month ago, since I'm still mired in this can't-read-"real"-books thing. I'm actually reading Jing, King of Bandits vol. 6, Saiyuki Reload vol. 3, this month's Wired, & last month's Animerica.

[DarkVampire]

Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem collection.

Edited October 25, 2006 by DarkVampire

[kellygrrrrrl]

This weeks edition of the Smut...er, I mean Star Magazine....

ooooo ahhhh tomcat has a wedding date, Omarosa had a boob job, and hmmm....lets see....Paris and Nicole are friends again? All the great things I didn't care to know about....when all I really wanted was the crossword puzzle.....

[Shade Everdark]

I just finished reading Flaubert's Madame Bovary. I was surprised at how involved in the story I became. Flaubert has a fantastic, almost under-the-radar style, a literary ninja, if you will.

I just started Peter Beagle's A Fine & Private Place.

[odims_sphere]

Homer's The Iliad

[Homicidalheathen]

Off and on, not something you read from cover to cover, just interesting....The Encyclopedia of Magick Witchcraft. Susan Greenwood.

[Shade Everdark]

The Last Unicorn. Another of Peter S. Beagle's works.

[phee]

A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines by Junna Levin

[Homicidalheathen]

Cosmo sex tips....again. Heehee!

[Homicidalheathen]

The Last Unicorn. Another of Peter S. Beagle's works.

I loved that book!

[Guest Megalicious]

From Atoms to quarks: An introduciton to the strange world of Particle Physics by Mr. James Trefil

[bav]

A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines by Junna Levin

Ooooh, this is a title I'm interested in. How was it?

[phee]

Ooooh, this is a title I'm interested in. How was it?

Still reading it mate...

[LuluVox]

I'm reading Dearly Devoted Dexter by Jeff Lindsay. Before that I read its predecessor, Darkly Dreaming Dexter. Both are pretty good, but I already knew they would be.

I'm almost done, and then I'm either going to read Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor or Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer. I'm read-y.

Edited January 31, 2007 by LuluVox

[Velvet Tears]

A court petition that my attorney drew up to petition my ex and take him to court on custody issues.

Edited January 31, 2007 by Velvet Tears

[Raven]

Industrial Magic - Kelley Armstrong.

[ZhukovCodeslinger]

I have been reading books on the war in chechnya (just finished my 5th one since late january) and trading off with books on or relating to the work of Maj Becker (21st Pzdiv). I am looking forward to starting Gerald Howson's book "Arms for Spain" in the next week or so.

Zhuk

[Fierce Critter]

Nothing worthwhile.

I haven't been able to relax with a good (or even not-so-good) book in a few years now.

heh. And my way of starting a new book was always to pour a hot, sudsy bath, soak away with a comfy bath pillow, and make that first spine crease on a new paperback.

There is no insulation around the walls of the bathroom in our rental, however. So the hot bathwater basically just warms up the icy porcelain of the tub & tiles, allowing for, maybe, a 10-15 minute quick dip before the water turns completely cold.

Sigh.

[phee]

Re-reading Dune

[Homicidalheathen]

I have all these good books I am suppose to be reading but I am reading star and cosmo. God I suck.

[Fierce Critter]

Re-reading Dune

Man, those were great books.

I lost interest after the first 3 or so though.

Funny story ( or not, meh). I saw a guy pull up into an apartment complex one day with a license plate that read "Maud Dib". I asked him, "you know it's Muad Dib, right?" and he hung his head and said, "Yeah. I mispelled it on the application form."

[phee]

Poor guy

[LuluVox]

Wise Blood. Just started but I think I'm really going to like it.

[NickolausPacione]

PASSPORT TO HELL by Terry Vinson. The one I have is signed and personalized by Vinson himself. I appeared with him on Reality Check: An Anthology Of Horror. check out DAMNED ON THE FARM by him too. He's got a superhero novel out called Desperation Island, and I should be getting a copy of this one too.

Also check out the horror collection, Collection II by Barbara Marjanovic and I will be reading her novel PAWN.