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What is /book/ reading right now?

Name: Anonymous 2007-08-01 22:58 ID:LqLn1zzL

I'm reading The Godfather for probably the 6th time now.

Name: Anonymous 2007-08-02 0:04 ID:FRNIOR6k

The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring

Name: Anonymous 2007-08-02 0:09 ID:+d/5MfnZ

Well, I read quite a few in any one day, so I've got bookmarks in these 3 currently:

"The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy" by Wm. Strauss and Neil Howe

"Designing and Building a Deck" by L. Donald Meyers

"Batman: The Dark Knight Returns" by Frank Miller

Name: Anonymous 2007-08-02 0:29 ID:kwQm+XpZ

A Game of Thrones By George R.R. Martin, The Conan graphic novels by Kurt Busiek and Cary Nord, then Tales of the White Wolf, and then The Golden Compass (since I've heard good things and the movie seems pretty swanky).

Name: Anonymous 2007-08-02 2:40 ID:n9/NcS2O

Winter's Heart.

It hurts

Name: Anonymous 2007-08-02 5:50 ID:9ldKOs4+

I'm reading so much it's hard to keep up.

Romance of the Three Kingdoms volume 2
I Ching
The Book of Changes
A People Numerous, and Armed
The Republic

Name: Anonymous 2007-08-02 9:14 ID:jtJr5ceS

The Long Walk

Stephen King.

Name: Anonymous 2007-08-02 12:54 ID:S4d3dLrO

I'm re-reading the nanowrymo I wrote last year. What the fuck, it's good.

Name: Anonymous 2007-08-02 18:13 ID:G/1bu6tJ

Thrawn Trilogy.

T. Zahn

Name: Anonymous 2007-08-02 18:17 ID:xcWE6ElO

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell- Susanna Clarke (almost done. FINALLY)
Requiem For A Dream - Hubert Selby Jr.
Satyricon- ...some old dead Roman homo whose name I forget

Name: Anonymous 2007-08-02 18:27 ID:/1+7NCQc

Douglas Adams' "The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul"

Name: Anonymous 2007-08-02 21:37 ID:HxJtHycF

Journey to the West

Name: Anonymous 2007-08-02 21:42 ID:x3wZe6JE

Freakonomics and Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (The Lost Memory). No, it's not a manga.

Name: Anonymous 2007-08-03 16:23 ID:nz2oxp0U

Soon I Will Be Invincible by Ausin Grossman

Name: Anonymous 2007-08-03 16:41 ID:+fBN0egt

Just finished Enders Game and starting to read The Dark Half by Stephen King, sorta sucks so far :(

Name: Anonymous 2007-08-03 18:42 ID:BaXRu1FF

American Gods by Niel Gaiman and Winter's Heart by Robert Jordan

Name: Anonymous 2007-08-03 19:01 ID:v322YK24

Crime and Punishment, truthfully i am in love with the prose, but the story is just way too bland for my liking.

Name: Anonymous 2007-08-03 21:41 ID:r6ZtdIjI

>>13
Freakanoics++

Name: Anonymous 2007-08-04 1:21 ID:Y2Z1PgK2

BUMP FOR GREAT JUSTICE!

Name: Anonymous 2007-08-04 2:17 ID:snB0QrLw

Palahniuk: RANT

Not great.

Name: Anonymous 2007-08-04 2:35 ID:D520MGNf

Stephen Baxter- Manifold:Space

Name: Anonymous 2007-08-07 23:41 ID:cdyRIwg0

>>13
I concur with >>18, Freakonomics is an outstanding book, a must read in my opinion!

I am currently reading the Malazan Book of the Fallen Series by Steven Erikson.  Only on the second book, but almost finished with it, and am really enjoying the first two so far, hopefully the trend continues, as I have come to realize most authors seem to fall off with their third or fourth book in long series such as this.

Name: Anonymous 2007-08-08 2:17 ID:2vtxDCk0

no

Name: Anonymous 2007-08-08 4:41 ID:Ph4w8NMU

yes

Name: Anonymous 2007-08-08 7:29 ID:bbHcudeF

>>22
doesn't happen with malazan

Name: Anonymous 2007-08-08 14:03 ID:u+MHLIeM

Robin Hobb, the second book of the Fool's trilogy. In Dutch, so I don't know the English titel.

Name: Anonymous 2007-08-08 14:04 ID:u+MHLIeM

>>26

Why the hell did I get a 'THAT WAS VIP QUALITY' message when I posted that?

Name: Anonymous 2007-08-08 14:04 ID:u+MHLIeM

>>27
And for that one, is it every time or what?

Name: Anonymous 2007-08-08 22:06 ID:pBcoQdHA

It's every single time.

And... Harry Potter. I read the first six. Might as well see it through.

Name: Anonymous 2007-08-09 0:44 ID:8jp+08sh

Quick 30, leave now while you can

Name: Anonymous 2007-08-09 5:08 ID:vTlFeN4c

"Die ersten 3 Minuten" - Steven Weinberg
(the first 3 minutes)

Name: Anonymous 2007-08-10 8:53 ID:fwDUZYob

Battle Royale by Koushun Takami. Yet another book that's better than the film...

Name: Anonymous 2007-08-10 11:50 ID:PuYyInaS

Just finished Infinite Jest, and now I'm looking for something else.

Name: Anonymous 2007-08-10 12:57 ID:0mGKbru0

Olympos by Dan Simmons, sequel to Ilium
really odd book, even for Simmons

Name: Anonymous 2007-08-14 8:06 ID:NWcGmG0r

House of Leaves, fast becoming my favourite book ever. I actually find it scary.

Name: Anonymous 2007-08-14 20:07 ID:izOAkzoY

The Bourne Supremacy - Robert Ludlum

Name: Anonymous 2007-08-14 23:26 ID:7FQbCmIg

The Basic Eight by Daniel Handler - the man's style is amazing.

Name: Anonymous 2007-08-15 1:32 ID:UinrosHe

>>35
I actually just finished that this morning. It was a very good book, to say the least.

I have now started on reading Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged for the first time. Hopefully it is as good as everybody says that it is.

Name: Anonymous 2007-08-15 2:45 ID:Ga91W+td

Hopefully it is as good as everybody says that it is.
wut?

Name: Anonymous 2007-08-15 3:25 ID:g3rxwluC

Death Masks, by Jim Butcher. I listened to the first four on audio, but since there isn't one for book 5, I've gone and bought myself a physical version.

Name: Anonymous 2007-08-15 6:02 ID:1s0fdJP8

fdg

Name: Anonymous 2007-08-15 9:36 ID:gRir0HjZ

'Dracula' by Bram Stoker

Name: Anonymous 2007-08-15 13:45 ID:RrcgNcbm

richard morgan - black man

Name: Anonymous 2007-08-15 15:31 ID:aRv0SkIX

First Among Sequels by Jasper Fforde

Name: Anonymous 2007-08-16 16:03 ID:8OTWyQDG

On The Shortness of Life - Seneca

Name: Anonymous 2007-08-17 4:54 ID:nb1t4w2J

God is Dead - Ron Currie Jr.

Name: Anonymous 2007-08-17 4:54 ID:nb1t4w2J

God is Dead - Ron Currie Jr.

Name: Anonymous 2007-08-19 4:13 ID:eCIyCDco

Finishing up "A March Into Darkness", then I have to wait until I'm done moving to break into my 10 or so boxes of unreads. Waiting on "Meeting At Corvallis", "Dark Knight Returns", and the collected works of Lord Byron

Name: Anonymous 2007-08-20 16:37 ID:56TtoMUZ

The Other Wind - Ursula LeGuin

Name: Anonymous 2007-08-24 1:19 ID:Y89TEklG

Journey To The Center of the Earth by Jules Verne

Name: Anonymous 2007-08-24 1:29 ID:Uaiuez9t

A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore

Name: Anonymous 2007-08-24 1:42 ID:g3pk+BLy

Different books... but near the middle of this one on Tensor Calculus.

Name: Anonymous 2007-08-24 2:33 ID:WVVQEKHK

Foundation-Isaac Asimov

Name: Anonymous 2007-08-24 3:39 ID:MHfvj0Vg

In Cold Blood- Truman Capote...it's terrible. Don't read it

Name: Anonymous 2007-08-24 4:29 ID:uLGtPEU9

The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King

Name: Anonymous 2007-08-24 10:25 ID:8vEsZGWS

Chronicles by Bob Dylan

Name: Anonymous 2007-08-24 11:33 ID:mRRzNq6y

A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin

Name: Anonymous 2007-08-24 17:49 ID:pTvPAdjO

Tender as Hellfire by Joe Meno

Name: Anonymous 2007-08-24 19:32 ID:RiH1Cfmh

Night by Elie Wiesel

Name: Anonymous 2007-08-24 20:27 ID:zrqFYIIm

Wigfield by Stephen Colbert

Dune messiah by Frank herbert

Hannibal Lecter by Thomas Harris

Name: Anonymous 2007-08-24 20:28 ID:zrqFYIIm

Wigfield by Stephen Colbert

Dune messiah by Frank herbert

Hannibal Lecter by Thomas Harris

Name: Anonymous 2007-08-25 2:07 ID:8t0+BStU

I just finished "The Pillow Friend" which was disappointing.

Name: Anonymous 2007-08-25 5:03 ID:B9JUT+HV

Now on Faust. By Goethe.

Name: Anonymous 2007-08-25 16:51 ID:UcS+wGMA

<V.> by Thomas Pynchon and <End Zone> by Don DeLillo

Name: Anonymous 2007-08-25 18:56 ID:YGs4OXga

Knife of Dreams

Name: Anonymous 2007-08-25 20:31 ID:KKsFV4h4

"Brasyl" Ian McDonald (SciFi)
"America Robbed Blind" Greg Farrell (nonFic)
"Doom Patrol: Musclebound" DC Comics (Comics)
"Techniques of Kiln-Formed Glass" Keith Cummings (nonFic)

Name: Anonymous 2007-08-27 19:08 ID:ASjX/vEH

Crisis by Robin Cook.

Name: Anonymous 2007-08-28 3:34 ID:qjhcjhRE

The Dark Tower 7 by Stephen King

Name: Anonymous 2007-08-28 4:07 ID:k8gOfsCo

The Star Wars Trilogy by George Lucas (and also Donald F Glut and James Kahn on the 2nd and 3rd books)

Name: Anonymous 2007-08-28 18:08 ID:lUifjs5M

Still Knife of Dreams.  I hate Robert Jordan so much.

Name: Anonymous 2007-08-28 18:25 ID:prPxmb5w

The man with the big penis.

Name: Anonymous 2007-08-28 19:55 ID:ZwqGCwLv

The Art of Deception by Kevin Mitnick

Name: Anonymous 2007-08-28 22:14 ID:v5nxYpiV

Not sure if it counts as a book, but:
Much Ado About Nothing, by Shakespeare

Name: Anonymous 2007-08-29 0:29 ID:9B96Mbgq

Reading the Chronicles of Narnia again. Gotta love the classics.

Name: Anonymous 2007-08-29 6:28 ID:cMLDsDWq

Moorcock on generic fantasy.

It's a hoot.

http://www.revolutionsf.com/article.html?id=953

Name: Anonymous 2007-08-29 7:31 ID:7+AVnLI1

I just discovered ancient (50+y/o)copies of Homer's Ilead and Odyssey. I don't know if I am man to try and read them however.

Name: Anonymous 2007-08-29 14:21 ID:2io9g8fa

My bad habit of reading too many books at the same time never fails:
"Lolita" - Vladimir Nabokov
"The Society of Others" - William Nicholson
"War" - Knut Nærum
"The Man Who Loved Yngve" - Tore Renberg (those two are norwegian..)
"Notes from a small island" - Bill Bryson

..and "The strange case of dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" - Robert Louis Stevenson

>>11
You go!

Name: Anonymous 2007-09-01 6:21 ID:d1iIwteo

Finished Knife of Dreams, now on to The Lies of Locke Lamora

Name: Anonymous 2007-09-01 15:55 ID:mkUPI+bq

Your Erroneous Zones, The Visitation, an Osho book, and Thus Spake Zarathustra

Name: Anonymous 2007-09-01 18:49 ID:s9LMhv9d

Perdido Street Station by China Mieville. New Weird is awesome.

Name: Anonymous 2007-09-01 18:57 ID:aRY+Xiu2

Dianetics.
I've hated Scientology for a while now, and now I have a reason.

What a painful book,
"Chapter 1, Something is wrong with you, and Dianetics can help."
"Chapter 2, Something is wrong with you, and Dianetics is the only thing that can help."
"Chapter 3, Dianetics will fix you."
"Chapter 4, L. Ron Hubbard Was Great!"

Etc. Etc.  I've never read a book that talks about itself in such a way in my life.  All this book says is how great it is, and how you should run out and get audited.

Name: Anonymous 2007-09-02 0:06 ID:piHfW+pG

paradise lost by the fucking man milton

Name: Anonymous 2007-09-02 8:19 ID:Alq5FDyo

Is Locke Lamora any good?

I'm finishing 2nd book of the blade itself/before they were hanged and its pretty awesome, dark and hilarious at the same time (reminded me of bugg/tehol parts of malazan books)

Before that Peter Hamilton the dreaming void, but you got to read the 1st 2 books in the series first.

Name: Anonymous 2007-09-02 19:11 ID:5xYuCJtD

Locke Lamora is a lot like Ice and Fire, but not quite as interesting. Its no where near as complex, but the writing is very good and very imaginitive, and theres a lot of original stuff.  The setting feels like the Imperial City of Cyrodill in Elder Scrolls IV to me.  Its like if GRRM had scripted Oblivion.  I dunno, I'm 250 pages in, and it's pretty good.  Not my favorite, but it's certainly a big change from the Wheel of Time. 

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