well...what are you reading now?

[Raghnall]

i bought a book from barnes and noble yesterday called "confessions of a yakuza." i originally went to b&n to find a japanese history book, but this caught my eye, and was like half the price of the history books. i've read through 50 pages so far and it was been pretty good. it's written by japanese country doctor, who one day treated a retired yakuza. he sort of buddied up to the guy, and the yakuza gave him his life story.

no violence yet, like i hoped, but where i'm at he's still only 17 and working in a coal factory. it'll be interesting to see how he becomes yakuza from there.

[MalcolmBrass]

Man, I've had King's Dark Tower books since Christmas and still haven't been able to get into the first one! Told myself I won't buy a new book until I at least get through the first Dark Tower.

[Tedakin]

Star Wars: Shatterpoint.

[Auf_Der_Maur6]

I just finished 1634: The Galileo Affair by Eric Flint and Andrew Dennis.

I'll probably start reading Kate Elliot's Jaran next.

[Raghnall]

Man, I've had King's Dark Tower books since Christmas and still haven't been able to get into the first one! Told myself I won't buy a new book until I at least get through the first Dark Tower.

i got up to wizard and glass before i quit, and that was back when i was a junior in high school (5 years ago.) i liked the drawing of the three the best, the whole dimensional warping was very interesting.[/i]

[Kahmelion]

Right now I'm reading "Parallel Journeys"

~Kahmelion

[KingKongSushi]

Uncle John's Unstoppable Bathroom Reader

[Kahmelion]

Uncle John's Unstoppable Bathroom Reader

You brought your laptop into the bathroom AGAIN?!?!

j/k

~Kahmelion

[KingKongSushi]

Uncle John's Unstoppable Bathroom Reader

You brought your laptop into the bathroom AGAIN?!?!

j/k

~Kahmelion

:oops:



It's a great book of stuff to read while on the can. Facts and good stories. There is another one I really love called Book of the Dumb (300 pages of stupid shit people have actually done).

[Kahmelion]

Oh yeah Uncle Johns is great...good times...when it's all about the

:x

~Kahmelion

[KingKongSushi]

Oh yeah Uncle Johns is great...good times...when it's all about the

:x

~Kahmelion

Yes. All about the :x :-x followed by :shock: and then a :o

[laurafanboy]

.hack manga

[MusicFan]

well...what are you reading now?This thread.

[arefx]

my summer reading list consists of The Fires of Jubille: nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion
and two other books I dont care about.

Im not going to read any of them as usual.

[Maximus Paynicus]

The Klingon Bible.

No shit.

[inertname]

Of Mice and Men.

[arefx]

moby dick

[Jessiegirl]

I'm SO glad this forum was made! ^_^


At the moment, i'm reading Anne Rice's "Tale of the Body Theif"

When i'm done with it I've got her books, "The Witching Hour" and "Lasher" awaiting my read...

I want to pick up Elenore Druse's book that goes along with Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital miniseries before I get into the witch series though. ^_^

[BennyHill]

I'm on an H.G. Wells kick. Right now, I am reading "The Time Machine."

[AcquiredTarget]

Excluding my textbook for school, I'm reading/will be reading:
Antonia Fraser's Faith & Treason
Bill Bryson's In a Sunburned Country
Barbara Tuchman's:
The Zimmerman Telegram (great read about the U.S. entering WW1)
The First Salute (the American Revolution)

-AT

[Zepoliney]

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. Awesome read about the introduction of Acid into counter-culture. Recommended.

[MusicFan]

Amoeba Music's Guide To The Best Of 2004(So Far)

[AcquiredTarget]

The Egyptians by Cyril Aldred (and yes, there'll be a review unless popular demand is to have me stop, lol)

[Ender]

Moby Dick
Or, I should be. Had it for summer reading, 4 months ago, have yet to get past the first page (fucking boring book)

[Tom the First]

I'm going to start reading 1984 soon, and I need to finish Return of the King.

[All-Night John]

I'm reading Black Hawk Down. It's really depressing.

[Tom the First]

1984 is terrifyingly awesome. I suggest everyone, who hasn't, to read it.

[AcquiredTarget]

1984 is terrifyingly awesome. I suggest everyone, who hasn't, to read it.Yeah I've read it several times. The book that really got to me was Brave New World by Aludous Huxley. With its predictions of genetics, whole populations doped up......hang on a sec.

[All-Night John]

I'm reading a book called "A Murder in Wartime." It's about how the Green Berets executed a suspected VC agent, but were then charged for murder.

[AcquiredTarget]

In A Sunburned country by Bill Bryson

All-Night,
I like the Dylan Thomas qoute in your sig

[DarkKnightCecil]

Right now I am reading an excellent book called "Xombies" by Walter Greatshell. A very original take on Zombie horror fiction.

[Style]

Kevin Mitnick's - The art of deception

[Blue Falcon]

"When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops?" - George Carlin.

Great book. You all must buy. Period.

[Arandar]

I'm reading New Spring the novel version by Robert Jordan. Its a prequal of sorts having to do with some of the main characters about 20 years before and leading up to the main story in The Wheel of Time. For anyone who is a fain of that series I suggest you check it out since this is the full version, expanded from the shortened version that was in the Legends book along with those other stories.

I also have to finish up The Han Solo Adeventures when I am done with this book. For some reason this one is just taking me so much longer to read. The pring is a little bit smaller, but still its just harder for some reason. Heh it shouldn't be considering the smallest Wheel of Time books like nearly 700 pages and the HS Adeventures is like 500 something.

[Auf_Der_Maur6]

I'm reading Terry Brooks's "The Voyage of teh Jerle Shannara" trilogy at the moment.
Finished Isle Witch yesterday and started Antrax this afternoon.

[MageMasher]

Blankets

[nekobun]

Whenever I get a chance (aka, mostly bathroom reading), I've been paging through the rulebook for Paranoia XP.

[Blackwolf]

I just recently finished up River of the Dancing Gods by Jack Chalker. It was sent to me by Mark Wolfe, one of the former mods at G4TTV (and the guy who organizes the Philly Classic.) He sent it to me to answer the question of why he was named "Ruddygore" on the forums, as the sorcerer in the book is Throckmorton P. Ruddygore (which was his full handle.)

It was a fun, light parody of the fantasy genre, pulling two normal Earth people into a fantasy world and throwing every single fantasy cliche in the world at them. It even ends with "All epics are trilogies" as a Law of the land in the last paragraph, and yep, it is a trilogy.

I've gone back and I'm now reading Prophet Without Honour: Anarchy Online Book One which I never finished the first time I picked it up due to time constraints. It's actually got a lot of the backstory of the AO game world written by Ragnar Tornquist (who also wrote The Longest Journey, one of the last great PC adventure games.)

I really want to get The DaVinci Code. I'll probably get into that one next.

[DarthEvilDude]

crap. my school's forcing me to read Romeo and Juliet.

besides that, i recently finished up Fahrenheit 451. pretty kickass book.

[Arandar]

crap. my school's forcing me to read Romeo and Juliet.

besides that, i recently finished up Fahrenheit 451. pretty kickass book.
Whats wrong with Shaekspeare? Romeo and Juliet is probably my favorite of his plays. Either that or Macbeth. before I started reading a bunch of Star Wars books I was in the process of reading his complete works. And I mean ALL of them since there is a huge book out with all his plays, sonnets, and everything else. I mean the guy did invent like half the English language you know.

[DarthEvilDude]

Whats wrong with Shaekspeare? Romeo and Juliet is probably my favorite of his plays. Either that or Macbeth. before I started reading a bunch of Star Wars books I was in the process of reading his complete works. And I mean ALL of them since there is a huge book out with all his plays, sonnets, and everything else. I mean the guy did invent like half the English language you know.

well, i dont know, i've heard this is basically the first chick flick.

whatever, i still have to read it.

[Auf_Der_Maur6]

Right now I'm reading Greenville Gazette, a book of short stories based in the world of Eric Flint's 1632 series.

[All-Night John]

Lord of the Rings. Again.

[Metroid Hybrid]

THE ULTIMATE HITCHIKER'S GUIDE: The first six books cramed into one ! Damn that stuff is funny.... How do people come up with this stuff, much less put it into writing!?

[All-Night John]

THE ULTIMATE HITCHIKER'S GUIDE: The first six books cramed into one ! Damn that stuff is funny.... How do people come up with this stuff, much less put it into writing!?
I've got that. The first few books are great. The last two are "meh".

[AcquiredTarget]

Mythology for Dummies :grin:

I've got that. The first few books are great. The last two are "meh".Yeah, that's because the first three were based/taken from his scripts for BBC radio and fleshed out. The last ones were written on purpose. And in SUmmer '05, they'll release the movie version. Lookin' forward to it.

[MageMasher]

blankets..its about a a boy who contends high school ailenation lost love and winter chrsitain camps undr the thumb of fundamentals parnets....

O_O

[SageClaw]

Currently reading John Sandford's Winter Prey.

Kinda flipping through The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks. It's an interesting read..... as long as you don't take it seriously. : )

[Arandar]

I'm nearly finished with the first Ender's Game novel.
Thats a really good one. Unfortuantly I personally think its the best one in the series. So basically they don't get much better then that one. Still the series is worth a read. Heh I actually need to finish reading it myself as well. I kind of just gave up at the begining of the 4th book nearly 6 years ago. Time for some rereading eventually.

[Tom the First]

Taming of the Shrew for Honors English

[Octocamo]

Taming of the Shrew for Honors English
The Crucible for Honors English. XD

[Carps]

"the five people you meet in heaven"

[AcquiredTarget]

Shadowmarch by Tad Williams

[DarthEvilDude]

Romeo and Juliet for English 1.

and we get the cliffnotes version. sweet.

[Zepoliney]

Dante "The Inferno" AP English. I'm enjoying it quite a bit.

[hellfirewyrm]

The Two Swords by RA Salvatore.

Drizzt is the freakin sweetest guy ever.

[Octocamo]

Nothing Lately...

Just the latest GamePro mag. :lol:

[MalcolmBrass]

Just got The Da Vinci Code, illustrated edition, from a Christmas party and am getting into it now. Nice glossy paper for every page and the numerous pictures are nice as well.

[Octocamo]

Reading Macbeth, just read House on Mango Street.

[DarthEvilDude]

Cliffnotes for Romeo and Juliet and Fahrenheit 451.

:smt023

[Arandar]

Cliffnotes for Romeo and Juliet and Fahrenheit 451.

:smt023
Cheater. :razz:

I'm still reading the same book as last time though. You know the one I bought 2 1/2 months ago and still haven't finished. Heh I bought way to many games and have been playing them alot recently while at home. So now I only read my book while I'm on break at work. I'll finish it eventually. I'm actually going to try and get it done by next weekend though since its really annoying me not having it done yet. And plus I bought another book which is near 600 pages almost a month ago and I also bought a ton on books during an Employee Appreciation Week and their all huge books, so I don't want to waste my money at all. Heh I'll know so much about history and animals after I finish those.

[Tom the First]

Using cliffnotes really cheats yourself out of the education. Give taxpayers a good reason to pay.
I'm started reading 1984 again. I'm half way thorugh. I think I might want to tackle I, Robot after that.

[DarthEvilDude]

the thing was that the copy of Romeo and Juliet that my school gave to everyone was the CliffsComplete version, since it had the full text (with some minor translations on the right) and all the stuff in the regular cliffnotes version. i'm reading all the scene summaries, so i get a better understanding of it.

and for my english final, which is tomorrow, i have to translate a passage from R&J, so i'm reading over vocabulary and what each scene means.

we also went over practically every scene in the book.

and Capt. Mad, i dont go to Public School. I go to an all-boys private high school.

and its not that bad, even though there's no girls. i like it because you can go there looking like shit and nobody gives a shit.

and i get to scream out loud 'DAMNIT!' in my science class whenever somebody's not paying attention. sweet.

[Captain N]

I'm reading two books currently, the Encylopedia of Superheros in the media, which basically goes over all the superhero movies and TV shows and is a very awsome read for any comic fan. Also the third to last book I have to read by my favorite author, Mario Puzo, before i've read them all: The Fourth K. It's pretty good so far as i've expected but I doubt it'll be as good as the Godfather, Omerta or the Last Don

[DarkKnightCecil]

I finally finished Xombies which was a fantastic read. I hope it gets a film adaptation...and another book. I don't want the story to end!

Now I'm reading Exquisite corpse, a book about a gay serial killer...its extremely messed up. The book is by Poppy Z Brite, an author who I enjoy. I've read her some of her other works (Lost souls, Wormwood, and her contributions to Love in Vein and Borderlands) but this is really evil stuff. She really knows how to paint a freakishly gory picture with words.

[DarthEvilDude]

sweet, no more R&J Ever!

i had my English final today. it went well.

[AcquiredTarget]

Neuromancer by William Gibson (for the umpteenth time)

sweet, no more R&J Ever!Just wait until college. I can't tell ya how many times I've had to read Death of a Salesman in Jr. High School, regular High School, and in English and Lit classes in college. I've always found that play to be over-hyped, basically I think its crap.

[alexsan]

in class: Roll of thunder, Hear my cry
in my free time: Triss

[MonkichiRmon]

Right now i'm reading 'the Door to December' by Dean Koontz and i recently finished 'Flowers for Algernon' by Daniel Keyes. On the cover it said it was one of the books schools required u to read, but i never heard of it before this. Umm, next i guess im gona head for the final of the Dark Tower series, or maybe something by Ann Rice.

[alexsan]

The Donnie Darko Book for the 5th time. I am thinking about getting The Catcher In THe Rye. My friend and I traded books and I enjoyed it.

[Tenchi]

The Donnie Darko Book for the 5th time. I am thinking about getting The Catcher In THe Rye. My friend and I traded books and I enjoyed it.

Theres a Donnie Darko book!? SWEET.

[Tom the First]

and Capt. Mad, i dont go to Public School. I go to an all-boys private high school.

Ok, sorry about that assumption, but that comment I made that made you reply in that way was besides the point. You are still cheating yourself out of a good education. English is not just about "Oh where art thou?" and "To be or not to be?" It is about us. Humans! If you don't really learn about the effective language used in the book, you may not understand life as much as you could have. This year in English, I've had a lot of revelations, man. I'm just trying to help you out.
Right now I am reading Into The Wild, and it is really changing my outlook on life.

[Arandar]

Well the only book I'm reading now, since I FINALLY finished that Sstar Wars book about 2 weeks ago, is Roma Eterna. Its basically a Sci-Fi type book with a "What if?" plot. The plot is basically what could have happened, or maybe jsut pretending, if the Roman Empire had never fallen. Starting from way back when up until now if the Roman Empire had still ruled, and I would imagine eventually ruled the entire world not just the "known" world. I'm about 20-25 pages in and so far its just meh. Its ok, I mean I'm going to finish it, but it doesn't seem to be as good as I thought it would be based off of the picture from the book and the little summary of it that I read.

[DarthEvilDude]

Ok, sorry about that assumption, but that comment I made that made you reply in that way was besides the point. You are still cheating yourself out of a good education. English is not just about "Oh where art thou?" and "To be or not to be?" It is about us. Humans! If you don't really learn about the effective language used in the book, you may not understand life as much as you could have. This year in English, I've had a lot of revelations, man. I'm just trying to help you out.
Right now I am reading Into The Wild, and it is really changing my outlook on life.

hey, they gave us the cliffnotes one with the complete text, only because Shakespeare is confusing as hell.

and we had to translate part of R&J on our final, and write a small paragraph about it.

i got a 97% on that.

Anyway, i just finished up reading The Elephant Man (only because of school, of course) and all i can say about it is meh.

[Loserly]

I'm rereading the Chronicles of Narnia, because I found gaping holes in it in my memory.

[AcquiredTarget]

The Complete Idiot's Guide to North Korea

[eswat]

A German English dictionary

[GBPackersfan]

The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide - Douglas Adams

Classic.

[Rayo]

Native Son


Nigga crazy!

[Auf_Der_Maur6]

I'm reading a Doctor Who novel, Heart of TARDIS, with the Second (Patrick Throughton) and Fourth (Tom Baker) Doctors.

[keith, evil dude]

Catch-22

[Tom the First]

I'm reading Into the Wild and 1984 right now. Almost done Into the Wild. I'm going to Border's tomorrow to buy Master's of Doom. I want to start that as soon as I am done Into the Wild, which could be really soon.

[All-Night John]

I just finished Crichton's newest book, State of Fear. It sucked. Definitely his worst effort.

[Arandar]

I'm reading Into the Wild and 1984 right now. Almost done Into the Wild. I'm going to Border's tomorrow to buy Master's of Doom. I want to start that as soon as I am done Into the Wild, which could be really soon.
No go to Barnes & Noble instead!

<--------Company Whore. :razz:

Anyway right now I'm reading Roma Eterna I think its called. I forget if thats exactly right and I'm to lazy to go check. Basically its a "what if" type of Sci-Fi book where the plot is what would happen if the Roman Empire had never collapsed. So it go from B.C. I believe to all around this time, although the date(year wise) is different since Christianity wouldn't have flourished and thus we wouldn't have that way of keeping track of the years.

[Tom the First]

In yo face! I bought it at Border's. I'm going to start reading Masters of Doom tonight.

[Tom the First]

Holy shit. Masters of Doom is fucking awesome. I just read through the first four chapters nonstop. I wanted to go on, but I have school tomorrow. I think I can finish it in a week.

[Snowmiser]

Labrynth of Evil.

[AcquiredTarget]

Timothy Ferris - Coming of Age in the Milky Way

[Tom the First]

I am truly amazed by the two Johns. Masters of Doom is a really inspiring book for an aspiring person like me. I am half way through the book now.

[inertname]

I'm currently reading Animal Farm and the Di Vinci Code for our week off. If I finish both I'll move on to the 1st Halo book.

[Tom the First]

I finished Masters of Doom. Good read.

[alexsan]

Catch-22. Good book

[Blackwolf]

The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide - Douglas Adams

Classic.

I'm reading this now. I've never read the books, and I figured with the movie coming up I should read it.

I've already finished the H2G2, now on Restauraunt...

[Rayo]

Woah I just picked up

The More Then Complete Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy today.

[AcquiredTarget]

Bruce Schneier - Secrets & Lies Digital Security

[Tom the First]

I'm picking up 1984 again after taking a break from it.

[All-Night John]

I finished Stephen King and Stewart O'Nan's book Faithful a couple of days ago, to gear me up for baseball. I've gone back to reading The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, which I put down months ago.

Edit: BTW, Faithful sucked. King's writing was good. He's an interesting guy, and had some good anecdotes. O'Nan, on the other hand, was just dreadful. Boring and lame, and rarely any funny.

[Shuin]

Reading Speak.

It's actually quite good.

[All-Night John]

The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide - Douglas Adams

Classic.
I've got that. I've read it twice. I absolutely love the first 3 books, but the last 2 sort of fell flat for me. They weren't bad, but they just didn't maintain the excellence of the previous books.

[alexsan]

for school I am reading Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire. I loved the musical wicked so I decided to read the book.

[Loserly]

Yesterday I picked up A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin.

I just started reading, but I'm pretty sure I'll love the series. It'll definitely help if I'm traveling back and forth from Texas so often as is predicted in my near future. :/

[AcquiredTarget]

Edward Gorey's The Gashlycrumb Tinies (Very quick read)
Yesterday I picked up A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin.Not a bad series

[Loserly]

I just read three-hundred pages today alone.

It's certainly engrossing enough to get my mind off stress.

But then again so is pretty much every decent video game...

[SaNkOn-TeSsOu]

XXL and The Source - April issue

[Krysis]

Frank Miller's Sin City graphic novels The Hard Goodbye, The Big Fat Kill and That Yellow Bastard. (getting ready for the movie next month).

[AcquiredTarget]

The Essential Rumi - I usually find poetry to be utter crap and without value, but this wasn't too bad.

[Blank]

Native Son (fuck school)

[inertname]

Well I finished Animal Farm and have moved onto Catch-22.

And for school I'm reading Night.

[Carps]

Pericles.

[AcquiredTarget]

Frotjof Capra's Tao of Physics

[Tom the First]

I finally finished 1984. George Orwell is brilliant. I love his way of thinking. Though it may be absolutely frightening, it is masterful.

[Digital*Firefly]

just finished Angels and Demons. Now I'm on the DaVinci Code.

[Shuin]

Volume 14 of GTO miyabi just dyed her hair blue you can't even notice though since the book's in black and white. :smt012

[Chim]

Right now i'm reading George Orwell's Animal Farm, just for something quick, but deep.

I'm also trying to juggle that with rereading the HHGTTG series, some Coulter, and a book about the Beatles.

[Tom the First]

I'm currently reading Dungeons and Dreamers, I-Robot, and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

[Digital*Firefly]

Just finished DaVinci Code, probably gonna pick up Digital Fortress

[Nivea]

Just finished "Relic" by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child.

Had to read it and compare it to the movie for school. Much better than the movie as are most books.

I plan to read the next one in the series of books they have written called "Mount Dragon" and then the third one which is the direct sequel to "Relic", called "Reliquary".

The little world they have built with all these books is quite interesting. Hopefully, I can read all the remaining 8 before their new one comes out.

[xB08Ox]

this japanese magazine with a hot chick in a swimsuit on the cover. well, i cant read the damn thing but the chicks and comics are cool. got it from the j-town a few weeks back.

[alexsan]

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.

[Arandar]

Well I started reading the Star Wars books again since I finished my books from months ago and got bored with something Nights by C.S. Friedman. Heh I'm like 5 or 6 pages in and the story is just kind of boring. I'll finish it though....eventually.

So the one I started reading now is the first book in The Bounty Hunter Wars The Mandalorian Armor. All about Boba Fett, so you can't go wrong there. Good times. I was going to read the books about Lando, but I couldn't find them at the time and didn't remember the titles. So I'll get those in a few weeks when I finish this series.

[alexsan]

finished Hitchhikers Guide, now reading Resturant at the end of the universe

[Digital*Firefly]

Deception Point by Dan Brown

[Tom the First]

Ishmael. Very though-provoking and a little depressing as well.

[gorilla]

I'm reading Battle Royale. I love the movie and so far the book is even better, as usual with book-to-film adaptations. The movie was pretty faithful though, thus far. Recommended to any fans of the film.

[keith, evil dude]

The Divine Comedy - Dante.

[Digital*Firefly]

Ender's Game

[Larry]

"Of Saints and Shadows" by Christopher Golden (about 60% through)

"Lost Souls" by Poppy Z. Brite (read the first page)

[Rayo]

Re reading Animal Farm.


lol Stalin.

[Style]

Final Destination-Dead Reckoning

[Snowmiser]

Star Wars: Expanded Universe-Fudgepacking Tales of Boba Fett and Chewbacca: The Anal Chronicles

[Ender]

I'm going to restart my Homecoming Series, by Orson Scott Card. Having to read moby dick for school fucked up my memory of that great storyline.

[Chris-Michael]

I'm starting Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson. I haven't read far enough to give impressions though.

[AcquiredTarget]

Evil Angels by John Bryson

[Blackwolf]

Not sure if I posted this in here, but I finished Masters of Doom a few weeks ago and thought it was a great read. For the one or two of you that don't know, it's about John Carmack and John Romero's rise to fame. It starts off with Romero getting the shit kicked out of him by his stepdad for going to an arcade and finishes off with Carmack and Romero having nothing more to say to each other.

I spoke with Romero for about an hour at E3 and he said the book was great. He said it was mostly accurate, except for some of the details of Ion Storm because he was not allowed to tell how bad everything was, and the book makes it sound pretty bad. There were mistakes made from both Romero's and Carmack's standpoint and it shows that they're both human beings that just want to make great games.

You should pick it up if you're at all interested in the game industry.

[dcNate]

I finished up Jennifer Government the other day, not bad, easy to read. Lots of different plots wound together. Would have been funnier if EA was in there with the corporations.

[Rayo]

Star Wars: Expanded Universe-Fudgepacking Tales of Boba Fett and Chewbacca: The Anal Chronicles


lol ur a furry

[inertname]

Reading One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, havent gotten far as I'm pretty busy with finals but once school's over I'll be able to get more into it.

[Snowmiser]

Reading One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, havent gotten far as I'm pretty busy with finals but once school's over I'll be able to get more into it.

BEST BOOK EVER WRITTEN!

[Krysis]

Haunted by Chuck Palahaniuk.

[Kirrikane]

Im reading Fight Club by Chuck Palahaniuk.

[Tom the First]

I finished Ishmael. I'm going to now continue reading I-Robot and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

[Rayo]

Im reading Fight Club by Chuck Palahaniuk.


dude I picked that book up Today. I'm gonna binge on it tonight

[Zidy]

Still haven't finished The Silmarillion yet.

[JTizzle]

Three at the moment.

Chuck Palahniuk "Haunted"
Tom Robbins "Still Life With Woodpecker"
Re-reading George Orwell "1984"

[DUmb n00b]

"restaurant at the end of the galaxy"

[Nitrousoxide]

Children of the Mind

[masman]

Time Machine By H.G. Wells then i am going to read War of the Worlds

[AcquiredTarget]

Unbound Japan by John Nathan

[Captain N]

Star Wars: Dark Tide I

[Krysis]

The Wu-Tang Manual by The RZA.:thup:

[Tom the First]

Created From Animals
Dungeons and Dreamers
I-Robot
Chobits Series
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

[Solidsnakessss]

The Zombie Survival Guide for the third time. :smt035

[AcquiredTarget]

The first Harry Potter

[Snowmiser]

Slaughter House 5. Very odd, but very good.

[alexsan]

for summer reading I am doing Feed by M.T. Anderson

[Arandar]

Black Sun Rising by C.S. Friedman I believe it is. Its a 586 or so page book and I'm on page 106 or something like that so I should be done by the end of the summer if I'm lucky considering how little I read now at home.

[Nivea]

Still reading Mount Dragon by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. I want to finish it someday so I can get to their newer books. I can't start a new book until I finish the one I am reading. I get confused too easily with multiple storylines. ;)

[AcquiredTarget]

'arry 'otter #2
Shadow March by Tad Williams

[Carps]

Nick Hornby (the guy who write High Fidelity, About a Boy, Fever Pitch, etc.), well I'm reading his latest novel entitled "A Long Way Down" about four people who meet on a roof all contemplating whether or not a jump.

[Kel]

Mine:

- The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien (re-read)
- The Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin (re-read)
- The Five Tibetan Rites by Christopher S. Kilham
- The Awakening of Intelligence by J. Krishnamurti
- Cryptonomicon by Neal Stepheson (re-read)

[nekobun]

I just got Finding Serenity, a compilation of essays about the short lived TV series Firefly, yesterday, and I'm already about halfway through it. They cover all sorts of things, like joking and actually analysing what killed the series, comparing Firefly to The Tick (rather absurdly, but it's an awesome read), and analysing all sorts of philosophical and gender role elements of various characters.

[The West Exit]

Cryptonomicon (5th time)

[Kel]

Cryptonomicon (5th time)

<3<3<3

Have you read Quicksliver yet?

[The West Exit]

<3<3<3

Have you read Quicksliver yet?

Entire Baroque Cycle twice over.

Confusion's the best.

[Kel]

Entire Baroque Cycle twice over.

Confusion's the best.
Sadly I haven't read past Quicksliver, but I REALLY want to. I LOVE the cover art for these books though. Neal Stepheson is one interesting fellow no doubt.

[The West Exit]

If you've read all his book (including the Stephen Bury ones) you realize that he takes little parts from other charecters and inserts them into new charecters.

Ex. In The Big U the main charecters are all high and one of them says something to the effect like "If you look at pipe organs, they have alot of math to them." This is the starting point for Waterhouse in Cryptonomicon. There's alot of little conection that you can make like that.

[Kel]

If you've read all his book (including the Stephen Bury ones) you realize that he takes little parts from other charecters and inserts them into new charecters.

Ex. In The Big U the main charecters are all high and one of them says something to the effect like "If you look at pipe organs, they have alot of math to them." This is the starting point for Waterhouse in Cryptonomicon. There's alot of little conection that you can make like that.
That is so awesome. I can't wait to get buried in his work. I've only read Crypto and Quicksilver, but when I get money I plan on starting a collection and reading all that I can. My local Books-A-Million has about 6 of his books, two of which are Crypto and Quicksilver. How many are there in his library?

[The West Exit]

That is so awesome. I can't wait to get buried in his work. I've only read Crypto and Quicksilver, but when I get money I plan on starting a collection and reading all that I can. My local Books-A-Million has about 6 of his books, two of which are Crypto and Quicksilver. How many are there in his library?

Neal Stephenson

The Big U
Zodiac
Snow Crash
The Diamond Age
Cryptonomicon
Quicksilver
The Confusion
System of the World


Steven Bury

Interface
Cobweb


They actually just reprinted his Steven Bury books as Neal Stephenson and J. Federick George. I have 1st editions of every one of his books and Big U, Zodiac, and Snow Crash were hard to find because he didn't hit off until Snow Crash.

[Kel]

Neal Stephenson

The Big U
Zodiac
Snow Crash
The Diamond Age
Cryptonomicon
Quicksilver
The Confusion
System of the World


Steven Bury

Interface
Cobweb


They actually just reprinted his Steven Bury books as Neal Stephenson and J. Federick George. I have 1st editions of every one of his books and Big U, Zodiac, and Snow Crash were hard to find because he didn't hit off until Snow Crash.


Thanks a lot. Writing them down now. Hopefully I will get all of them soon enough :).

[Quagmire_]

Harry Potter and the Order of The Pheonix

(I know I know. You're guessing it should be The Half-Blood Prince.)

[ThatGuyTony]

Just finished "The Etched City" by K.J.Bishop. Amazing book, fantasy that is beautiful, eloquent, and ambitious. Just starting "Tropic Of Night" by Micheal Gruber, so far, so good.

[AcquiredTarget]

Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke

[WAG]

I'm reading : Star Wars Dark Nest 1 : The Joiner King by Troy Denning and Rivers Edge by John D. Luerssen.

[Shuin]

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince needs more Luna she's awesome.

[Nitrousoxide]

The Worthing Saga by Orson Scott Card.

[Digital*Firefly]

just finished The Sorcerer's Stone and The Chamber of Secrets. 100 pages left in Prisoner of Azkaban. Next up, Goblet of Fire.

[Ender]

Ah, I really liked the 4/5th books. I hope you do as well.

Mine:
The Andromeda Strain-Micheal Crichton
I'm having a hard time getting into it, since Orson Scott Card didn't write it :D
Maps In the Mirror: Card's Collection of short stories

[AcquiredTarget]

Oracle 10g The Complete fucking Reference
and Shadowmarch by Tad Williams (for fun)

[alexsan]

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (about half way done. Nanostray has taken up alot of my pre-bed reading)
and Mistmantle Chronicles, The: Urchin of the Riding Stars - Book #1 by M. I. McAllister. (I loved the redwall books and this is a new series that is a ripoff of Redwall. I hope its good)

[Paz_Soldan]

Frank Herberts Children of Dune. Freakin' incredible.

[Zidy]

Star Wars Jedi Search

[AcquiredTarget]

Idoru by William Gibson

[-Beck-]

Re-reading Everything is Illuminated by Johnathan Safran Foer.

[AcquiredTarget]

Zimmermann Telegram by Barbara Tuchman
Applied Statistics and the SAS Programming Language (thankfully little in the way of statistics :) )

[Ender]

The Andromeda Strain-Michael Crichton
And then there where none-Agatha Christie
Beowulf-Uncredited
Frankenstien-Mary Shelley
Ender's Game-Orson Scott Card, sup?
Who Moved My Cheese?-Spencer Johnson

[alexsan]

Ultimate Spiderman Volume 4. awesome stuff

[Mushroomheadx15]

V for Vendetta.

[AcquiredTarget]

Evil Angels by John Bryson

[Kel]

Re-reading The Song of Ice and Fire trilogy before A Feast for Crows hits the stores in November!

I.
Can't.
Wait.

[Loserly]

Ugh, I hate hardcover books, but I can't wait any longer for A Feast of Crows.

I really hope he can keep the same quality, because ofttimes in series as such it's around this point it begins to taper off. I'm also kind of upset that I won't be able to read about Jon Snow and Dany for even longer. :/

[Krysis]

Choke by Chuck Palahniuk & Jarhead by Anthony Swofford.

[Nitrousoxide]

Envy me for I have an autographed Orson Scott Card book.

http://img160.imageshack.us/img160/3576/dsc000057gg.th.jpg (http://img160.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc000057gg.jpg)

[mecha_samurai14]

The Shining.

It's my parents old, 1971 copy. No swears removed.

[The West Exit]

Alexander Hamilton biography

[Kel]

Envy me for I have an autographed Orson Scott Card book.

http://img160.imageshack.us/img160/3576/dsc000057gg.th.jpg (http://img160.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc000057gg.jpg)
Nice!

Did you go to a book signing? Which one?

Lucky bastard.

[Kanye West]

"You're Missing A Great Game" by Whitey Herzog. Excellent baseball book. Basically a bunch of genius and practical ideas to breathe some new life into baseball and also touches on the little things that make a great player great.

[Nitrousoxide]

There was a book signing at my local Barnes and Nobels over the summer but I wasn't able to go.

Last week I was walking around that same bookstore and saw they had some signed ones for sale from when he was there (must have signed some extras to help them sell better). I just wish I could have gone to the actual signing.

[AcquiredTarget]

Path of Daggers by Robert JordanThere was a book signing at my local Barnes and Nobels over the summer but I wasn't able to go.

Last week I was walking around that same bookstore and saw they had some signed ones for sale from when he was there (must have signed some extras to help them sell better). I just wish I could have gone to the actual signing.Samething happened with me for Tad Williams latest book.

[Kel]

There was a book signing at my local Barnes and Nobels over the summer but I wasn't able to go.

Last week I was walking around that same bookstore and saw they had some signed ones for sale from when he was there (must have signed some extras to help them sell better). I just wish I could have gone to the actual signing.
Thats awesome. You are a lucky, lucky man... and I envy you. :smt022

I wish a big timer would come on over to Tallahassee once in awhile :(. In Tampa we had a lot of book signings damnit!

Woe is to Jeb's city

[AcquiredTarget]

William Gibson's Neuromancer
second greatest book evar

[Arandar]

There was a book signing at my local Barnes and Nobels over the summer but I wasn't able to go.

Last week I was walking around that same bookstore and saw they had some signed ones for sale from when he was there (must have signed some extras to help them sell better). I just wish I could have gone to the actual signing.

Nobel.

Well for me I was reading Knife of Dreams but since I finished that I tried doing some of that Sudukoo(sp?) stuff which is ok, but I got bored of that. So at work today I just bought Before the Storm which is a Star Wars book that I'll start reading in a day or two.

[inertname]

Just finished Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami which was a lot of fun but had a pretty bad ending.
started The Elephant Vanishes- Haruki Murakami and I'm reading 1453 by someone for school.

[AcquiredTarget]

Knife of Dreams (finally)Nobel.I though it was Noble

[Terminal]

I'm currently reading Anthony Swofford's Jarhead

Before that I was reading Harry Potter and the half blood prince and before that I was reading harry potter and the order of the phoenix and BEFORE that I was reading Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment.

[alexsan]

New Series of Unfortunate Events
Jarhead
and Half Blood Prince

[inertname]

Finished the Elephant Vanishes about a week ago and am now almost done with Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Murakami with about 30 pages to go.
After this I'm gonna start Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk while making progress in 1453 for school, which is probably a pretty good history book but I'm really not in the mood for it.

[AcquiredTarget]

The Art of the Long View by Peter Schwartz

[Rayo]

Re reading Fight Club


before that I read a shitload of Redwall Series books, Stephen King's Dreamcatcher, Insomnia, and The Running Man. I also read a series of James Thurbur stuff.

[Tom the First]

Order of the Phoenix and Created From Animals.

[Quagmire_]

Half Blood Prince.

[AcquiredTarget]

Flow my tears, the policeman said - Philip K Dick

[Jimador]

Aldous Huxley books in general are really good.

If you like Brave New World check out his other book "The Island"

It provides an opposite outlook to Brave New World.

[Captain N]

Star Wars: Thrawn Trilogy. Great stuff.

[C0lin]

The Davinci Code.

[Terminal]

In cold blood.

[H.A.W.G.]

Splinter Cell: Operation Barracuda

[Octocamo]

School stuff:

Ernie's Ark

heh....

[inertname]

Contortionist's Handbook by Craig Clevenger

[The West Exit]

Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said.

Philip K. Dick

[atlas727]

Patriot Games

by Tom Clancy.

After i finsh this i'm pretty sure the next book i the Jack Ryan saga is "Clear and Present Danger" right?

[Ender]

Pride and Prejudice-Jane Austen

Fucking School, this book is horrible :/

[Zidy]

Burnt Sienna by David Morrel

It's pretty sweet.

[effingsniper]

Just got done with..
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Angles & Demons
and now i'm on...
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Franny & Zooey
edit:
Finished F&Z, and now I'm on...
http://www.hamiltonspectator.com/images/hs/hs1337748_5.jpg
The Da Vinci Code
edit: done with that now im on...
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Lullaby

[AcquiredTarget]

The Mysterious Affair at Styles and Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie

[The West Exit]

I'm reading all of Philip K. Dick's short stories for a massive english project.

Beyond Lies the Wub
The Gun
The Little Movement
The Skull
The Variable Man
The Builder
Colony
The Commuter
The Cookie Lady
The Cosmic Poachers
The Defenders
Expendable
The Eyes Have It
The Great C
The Hanging Stranger
The Impossible Planet
Impostor
The Indefatigable Frog
The Infinities
The King of the Elves
Martians Come in Clouds
Mr. Spaceship
Out in the Garden
Paycheck
Piper in the Woods
Planet for Transients
The Preserving Machine
Project: Earth
Roog
Second Variety
Some Kinds of Life
The Trouble with Bubbles
The World She Wanted
A World of Talent
The Last of the Masters
Adjustment Team
Beyond the Door
Breakfast at Twilight
The Crawlers
The Crystal Crypt
Exhibit Piece
The Father-thing
The Golden Man
James P. Crow
Jon's World
The Little Black Box
Meddler
Of Withered Apples
A Present for Pat
Prize Ship
Progeny
Prominent Author
Sales Pitch
Shell Game
The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford
Small Town
Souvenir
Strange Eden
Survey Team
Time Pawn
Tony and the Beetles
The Turning Wheel
Upon the Dull Earth
Autofac
Captive Market
The Chromium Fence
Foster, You're Dead!
The Hood Maker
Human Is
The Mold of Yancy
Nanny
Psi-man Heal My Child!
Service Call
A Surface Raid
Vulcan's Hammer
War Veteran
A Glass of Darkness
Minority Report
Pay for the Printer
To Serve the Master
Misadjustment
The Unreconstructed M
Null-o
Explorers We
Fair Game
Recall Mechanism
War Game
All We Marsmen
The Days of Perky Pat
If There Were No Benny Cemoli
Stand-by
What'll We Do With Ragland Park?
Cantata 140
A Game of Unchance
Novelty Act
Oh, to be a Blobel!
Orpheus with Clay Feet
Precious Artifact
The Unteleported Man
The War with the Fnools
Waterspider
What the Dead Men Say
Project Plowshare
Retreat Syndrome
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
Holy Quarrel
We Can Remember It For You Wholesale
Your Appointment Will Be Yesterday
Faith of our Fathers
Return Match
Not By Its Cover
The Story To End All Stories
A. Lincoln, Simulacrum
The Electric Ant
Cadbury, the Beaver Who Lacked
The Different Stages of Love
The Pre-persons
A Little Something For Us Tempunauts
The Exit Door Leads In
I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon - originally titled Frozen Journey
Rautavaara's Case
Chains of Air, Web of Aether
The Alien Mind
Strange Memories Of Death
The Day Mr. Computer Fell Out of Its Tree
The Eye of The Sibyl
Fawn, Look Back
Stability
Goodbye, Vincent
11-17-80
The Name of the Game is Death

[Nitrousoxide]

"The Dark Design" by Philip Jose Farmer. 'tis book 3 in the excellent Riverworld saga.

[inertname]

Finished A Game of Thrones- George R. R. Martin and started up on the sequel, and I'm about half way through Kafka on the Shore- Haruki Murakami

But before I get through those I have to read Jacques the Fatalist and The Great Gatsby for school.

[AcquiredTarget]

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
(3rd book I've read from A.C. what the Hell?!)

[AcquiredTarget]

Shadowmarch by Tad Williams
again.

[Blank]

Foundations of Screenwriting and V for Vendetta

[The West Exit]

Thank You for Smoking - Christopher Buckley

[Ender]

Rebecca-Daphne De Mauier

Required school reading, but I gotta say, it's good. Nothing I can point out that I like about it, but I just find myself able to keep reading.

[AcquiredTarget]

Faith & Treason by Antonia Fraser
Programming Ruby by Dave Thomas

[Arandar]

HA, I like how no one read a book in two months.

Anyway I'm reading Angels & Demons right now after I had read The Da Vinci Code last week or two.

[Krysis]

Currently reading Monster: The Autobiography Of An L.A. Gang Member by Sanyika Shakur & Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk.

[Ender]

HA, I like how no one read a book in two months.

Anyway I'm reading Angels & Demons right now after I had read The Da Vinci Code last week or two.

That was my favorite book of Brown's.

Anyways, I'm reading Puzo's The Godfather.

[Tom the First]

The Real Frank Zappa Book by Frank Zappa

[MadnessHero]

Professional and Technical Writing Strategies: 6th Edition
It's for a summer online class

[effingsniper]

Fahrenheit 451
http://www.harperacademic.com/coverimages/large/0060855061.jpg

[Captain N]

The Sicilian - Mario Puzo

[inertname]

Finished up Hell's Angels- Hunter S. Thompson and now I've moved onto Fear and Loathing. Got about 30 pages left in that.
After that I'll continue A Clash of Kings.

[AcquiredTarget]

Sharpe's Rifles by Bernard Cornwell
The Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra

[alexsan]

Fahrenheit 451
http://www.harperacademic.com/coverimages/large/0060855061.jpg
same, have to read that and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time for summer reading

for fun I am reading the 12th series of unfortunate events book, because the next one coming out is the last so I may as well finish the series

[Ender]

http://i.biblio.com/m/01/0765308401.jpg


seriously, anyone who has never read any of his works, this is a must have.
Sci Fi, Fantasy, Mystery, all of his best short work in one accessible collection. :)

[effingsniper]

http://www.uwm.edu/Course/448-192-001/Road.gif
Started today.

[Tom the First]

I started The Human Zoo by Desmond Morris yesterday after reading an excerpt from "Sex and Super-sex" to my girlfriend.

I'm almost done The Real Frank Zappa Book.

[AcquiredTarget]

History of God by Karen Armstrong and Genghis Kahn by JAck Weatherford

Hmmm, a book about God and a book about the Scourge of God. I sense irony in the Force.

[Mr. Young]

I know I'm like 15 years behind but I'm just reading The Wheel of Time Series by Robert Jordon. If you are even remotely into fantasy novels you should give this joint a try. I'm trying to figure why I've never heard of it, they even made a PC game.

[Nivea]

Relic, one of my all time favorite books. Too bad the movie sucked horribly.

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Lincoln Child and Douglas Preston put the right amount of action, characterization (not to mention memorable as hell) and science into all of their books, similiar to Crichton, but far above him IMHO. Although I love Crichton's works, these guys are the true heros of writing technothrillers.

[InnerLogic]

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Just got it from Amazon (Which for whatever reason sent a bunch of ad's along with the book, what the hell... anyway).

If you like dry humor and wit as much as I do (AKA: You like Tom Goes To The Mayor), you will <3 this book too.