Also reading 1984 great book so far, read animal farm a while back, have a nice version with illustrations now that i treasure heh

Life of Pi - Yann Martel (Just finished)
Short History Of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson (Almost Done.)

I'm reading my old Terry Pratchett books again :D

I started Mort yesterday.

re-reading the great gatsby

Almost finished with Choke by Chuck Palahniuk

Choke was a cool book, I liked it. I just finished Lamb - it's a fictional account of Jesus (of course it's fictional) & his best friend Biff. It recounts all of their adventures.

By the way - how was Life of Pi smarm?

Just finished it today after my post. I am very confused about the ending (what exactly happened with the Rocks?). Shoot me a PM if you can explain it :(.

Just picked up "Stiff" today, its seems interesting and it's a true story about corpses :p

Finished The Beach, now moved onto All Families Are Psychotic by Douglas Coupland.

That is one of my all time favorites! I've re-read it several times.

I'm going through a classic children's lit/juvenile fiction stage. Just finished "Five Children and It," and I am reading "The Indian in the Cupboard." (Loved them both, great summer reading)

Just about have the fifth Harry Potter memorized. Papa was kind enough to send the youngest the Audio book for his birthday, we're on the 3rd repition now, and I read it all the way through once.

About to dig into Roadside Picnic by the Strugatsky brothers. They're supposed to be the pinnacle of Russian science fiction. If you Google, you can find a text file of this book, but I won't link to it, because I don't know if it's legit.

just finishing off The Rules Of Attraction (Easton Ellis)...

and about to start The Art Of Travel (Alain De Botton)

The Thousand Orcs-RA Salvatore.
Just finished Captain Blood-Raphael Sabatini
Before that it was Count of Monte Cristo- Alexander Dumas
I once read the Dragonlance Chronicles trilogy out loud and recored it on tape!

In the middle of Aesop's Fables and Herman Melville's Typee

I liked Life of Pi... I couldn't put it down after I had read about 1/4th of it. My wife really enjoyed it, as well.

Just finished My American Journey by Colin Powell. Pretty good book.

Started reading Art Of War by Sun Tzu.

John Grisham, The King of Torts. It was OK, but his books all seem too similar. Think I'll switch up to some horror next.

Sadly I must report ...

"The Complete Idiot's Guide to Networking"

I'd just plum forgotten so much from lack of use.

"True Names" by Vernor Vinge.

Great Sci Fi

"The Millionaire Mind"
By: Thomas J. Stanley, PH.D.

"The Thinker's Way"
By: John Chaffee

I just finished reading a collection of Agatha Christy mysteries. Now I'm starting to re-read To Kill A Mockingbird. This is such a well written book. :)

The DragonLance series.
Some avid fantasy readers complain about this series,but I enjoy it.

"Without Fail" by Lee Child.

"Everything You Know is Wrong" - a collection of essays. Sort of leftist stuff from the disinformation web site.

i just got done with frankenstien... i had never read it in high school, and someone told me it was kinda scary and a good horror book.

To my astonishment, it was the worst book ive ever read!

angels and demons - dan brown

Im reading harry potter :( Im on prisoner of azkaban......Its not my fault! I was reading it in the bathroom and it grew on me! Like mold on bread! I swear!

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli

Swear to Howdy by Wendelin van Draanen

Smoke and Mirrors, American Gods and Sandman: Fables and Reflections by Neil Gaiman.

*glances up* I have committment issues.

Black house, by stephen kind and Peter Strauss. I used to really enjoy Stephen King when I was a kid, and I'm always enjoy reading his work out of nostalgia for those days.

I've also got some Asimov lined up. I'm gonna try to finish one of his books this time.

Finished "The War of the Flowers" by Tad Williams last week - good fantasy book, short for Williams it is a complete story in one reasonably long book.

Now I am reading "Neuromancer" by William Gibson and "Guns, Germs & Steel, The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared Diamond. Both are fantastic.

Cheers to everyone reading Herman Hesse and if you have nevery read anything by Neil Gaiman, you should.

Oh yeah,


Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia A. McPhillip and it really is a good book.

Ive just finished 'The Hobbit', and I have started on 'The Lord of the Rings' :)

"Birds of Prey" by Wilbur SMith One of the greatest authors imo, If you have not read River God by the same author I HIGHLY suggest it!!

1984 followed by Animal farm again.

Working on my socialism. It was getting weak.

:)

I'm in the middle of "The Hotel New Hampshire" by John Irving. I love his novels :)

I've started reading "The Riders of the Purple Sage" by Zane Grey. It's pretty cool so far.

Trying to finish "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner.

"ball four" jim bouton

"the age of reason" jean-paul sartre

"the teammates" david halberstam

the toothpaste tube when in the bathroom w/o previously mentioned books (have read this many times)

Just finished Catch-22 (Joseph Heller), starting on Red Rabbit (Tom Clancy).

i'm currently reading the fountainhead by ayn rand.. i'll be reading it
for a while cause it is a long book.. but it is a great book so far!

I'm working on a few books right now...

Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Tales by HP Lovecraft
The Princess Bride by William Goldman (not S. Morgenstern... you don't want to know how long I spent trying to find the "unabridged Morgenstern" version before I discovered that there is no other version-Goldman made up the entire history of the book)

Just finished ................ Everythings Eventual ( a book of short stories) by Stephen King


getting ready to start ........... One Door Away From Heaven by Dean Koontz

Just picked up 'Naked Empire' by Terry Goodkind, latest in the Sword of Truth series. I normally stay away from fantasy, but this is a pretty good series.

Finishing Eye to Eye by Ken Wilber tonight, starting One Taste by Ken Wilber tommorow. Finishing up some other smaller readings too. Hopefully will be done with all the books I have started by the time I go back to school.

The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka

next:
probably a chemistry text book to help things move along for next semester.

How do you like it? I really liked the other books in the series, but I really thought he got waaay too preachy in this last one. I don't know, that might have just been me, though.

I've moved on to _The Naked Detective_ by Laurence Shames. It's seriously funny. It also has solid characterization and a native's feel for an "exotic" setting, Key West.
I've given up on _Bandits_ by Elmore Leonard. Has he written anything that made you laugh?

Indeed.. The dialogue is quite preachy and long winded, but it's still alot better than 'Pillars of Creation'. That one was too political.

The Life of Pi

Earth's children - the plains of pasage

im reading a book called to love a scottish lord by karen ranney, its just a trashy romance novel cuz im waiting for my other books i ordered from amazon by mercedes lackey.

I just ordered that new Dave Eggers book, under the pseudonym "Lucy Thomas" ... if anyone read those McSweeney's posts, they were great, and now complied into the book. Only $8....

me, im in the middle of a few... "the trojan women"- Euripides
"made in america, an informal history of the english language in the united states"-Bill Bryson "teach yourself linguistics"- Jean Aitchinson <--(the last two are not even required reading, i am such a geek)

Just finished 'Stiff'. now I am starting on 'The Client' by John Grisham.

Memnoch the Devil - Anne Rice
The Gospel of Matthew - The Bible
Elements of Qabalism - William Parfitt
The Knights Templar - Stephen Howarth
Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
Chaos and Order: Complex Dynamics in Literature and Science - Various Essayists
The Shroud of Turin - Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas
The Hiram Key - Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas
Mein Kampf - Adolf Hitler
Essays and Lectures on Dream Interpretation - Freud

Just Finishing Farenhiet 451.
--
"People in the computer industry use the term 'user',
which to them means 'idiot'." -- Dave Barry

Reading The Human Stain by Philip Roth for an English class, which has interrupted, for the time being, my completing One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The bible...heard it was good from a friend

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay --Michael Chabon

Halfway though "Who the hell is Hey Zeus" --Jesus Christ

Into the Wild,- John Krakauer , a re-read,

Just finished Seabiscuit, before that Timeline, By Crighton, not to shabby.

just finished " All Quiet on the Western Front" for the 3rd time

What am I reading right now? That last sentance I just typed. What did I just finish reading? kwill's post. :D

Over the weekend I read Tom Clancy's "Red Storm Rising" and "The Cardinal of the Kremlin". I really enjoy his books. Lots of good dialog, fun plot twists and exciting action. I'll have to hit a used book store or goodwill some time later this week to get the rest of his stuff. :)

A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge. Sprawling and incredibly imaginative sci-fi. A Deepness in the Sky, which came out recently, is a prequel and I plan to dig into that next.

I'm reading Farhenheit 451, and I'm amazed that 50 years ago he wrote about things that are happening today. Scary.

Now reading "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin.

My desire to finish this book has taken corporeal form and forces me to read daily. I am literally getting NOTHING else done.

Two books on Country Music by Ralph Emery:

"The View from Nashville" and "50 Years Down a Country Road."

Just finished 'The Client' by John Grisham and am now starting on 'Reign of the Dead' by Len Barnhart.

Last (non-academic) book I read was "Cryptonomicon" by Neal Stephenson. Excellent, excellent novel. I think I read it cover-to-cover several times before I managed to understand most of it.

I'm thinking about picking up a copy of "Snow Crash". Sci-fi rules!

"The Matrix and Philosophy" Edited by William Irwin

Just finished reading The Company by Richard Littell, it's a spy novel.

Reading Hawaii by James A. Michener now.

The Mole People by Jennifer Toth

An account of the people living in the tunnels beneath NYC

A very good book indeed.

The Modern Mind by Peter Watson
The Gangs of New York by Herbert Asbury
Sundog by Jim Harrison
Renaissance by Andrew Graham-Dixon
All of which are pretty captivating.

Just finished Uther by Jack Whyte

Starting A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking

I've also been trying to get my hand on: Red Mars, Blue Mars, Green Mars... has anybody read them?

Weird, I LOVED Pillars of Creation because it was political. :o

Just picked up "Small Gods" by Terry Pratchett; I'm a huge fan of the Vimes/Watch cast so I wanted to try out one of the side stories :D

The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker. Very long, but thought provoking non-fiction.

I saw some one was reading - To Green Angel Tower, Part 1" by Tad Williams - great book..

I'm currently rereading the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan.. excellent series.. on par with Tolkien... Currently on book 5 of 10.. about 7000ish pages in the series so far.

Just finished "The Facts of Life and Other Dirty Jokes," by Willie Nelson.

It's a day's read - a breeze through on the beach for me.

1984, first time too.

Tuxedo Park.......very good non-fiction about a group of scientists that helped with the development of RADAR in the early WWII days.

YOUR POST

Mwahahhaahah. :hmm:

Fast Food Nation

Once an Eagle, by Anton Myrer.

Just finished Worlds Enough & Time by Dan Simmons, starting A Winter Haunting, also by Dan Simmons.

Re-reading "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" by stoppard. I read it in highschool and I now find out I have it for my Humanities class my first year of college.. happy days! =P

Just started "Quicksilver" by Neal Stephenson

Just started "How to Lose Friends and Alienate People", by Toby Young.

slaughterhouse five
by kurt vonnegut

and ZONE by marcel dube

Paris 1919 by Margaret MacMillan
Utopia by Thomas Moore

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

One of the rare gems that I am able to laugh aloud while reading. It is a superbly well-written and witty book.

I highly recommend it to those looking for a good, enjoyable read.

russian
 

crime & punishment - fyodor dostoevsky
so choice....http://images.amazon.com/images/P/04...1.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

ok, so right now i´m reading a manuscript for some casual publishing job i´m doing.

its about a families extended holiday in Greece.

playfully written... but i´m not entirely enraptured.

"Stalin and the Shaping of the Soviet Union" by: Alex De Jonge

"The Elegant universe" by: Brian Greene

"Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid" by: Douglas R. Hofstadter

"Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence and Edward Teller" by: Gregg Herken

"Gulag: A History" by: Anne Applebaum

"The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene" by: Richard Dawkins

"The Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956" by: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

These are the last several books I have read and recommend all of them. The extended phenotype is a series of books that also include "The Selfish Gene" and another one that I cant remember at the moment. all are excellient.

It

Cisco CCNA Training manual.

Textbooks, textbooks and more textbooks. *blaaaaaaaaaah*

Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett.

I love the Discworld series :D

Same here. ugh.

"Die Broke" and believe me, I'm well on my way! :D

I'm reading
"The Great Dragon's Fleas"
by Tim Ward
It's a great travel book/search for spirituality (primarily Buddist leaning).
Also reading
"Water", forgot the author.
Book about the state of the world's water supply.

Now I am reading A Walk in the Woods, by Bill Bryson. I have read about half of it in the past two days, and it is one of the most hilarious books I have ever read.

just finished "survival in auschwitz" -- fantastic book about someone who lived through it. Now I'm reading Darwin's Dangerous Idea by Daniel Dennett, it's about the theory of evolution and tons of misconceptions that people have about it.