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dimbulb · 07-05-2003, 07:13 AM

Which book are you in the midst of reading now?

as for me...

Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck

Really good book, if you ask me, but then again, my last book was a piece of drivel by tom clancy. (which i wil NEVER read again, BTW)

miked10270 · 07-05-2003, 07:40 AM

George Orwell, 1984 & Animal Farm.

Really in love with both books and they go together. I feel like writing a review on them right now, but I'd be at the keyboard for a month and the bandwidth would probably wreck the server.

Mike.

lurkette · 07-05-2003, 08:16 AM

Douglas Adams' "So Long and Thanks for All the Fish"

bubbagump · 07-05-2003, 08:27 AM

The third policeman -flann obrien

uncle phil · 07-05-2003, 09:22 AM

isle of dogs - patricia cornwell...don't care for it as much as her earlier stuff...

scope · 07-05-2003, 09:49 AM

Jaws of Darkness - Harry Turtledove
Cosmos - Carl Sagan

BBtB · 07-05-2003, 10:10 AM

Just finished Stephen King's Carrie. About to start Hearts of Atlantis or The Green Mile.

*Nikki* · 07-05-2003, 11:24 AM

Stephen King-The Dark Tower IV Wizard and Glass

phredgreen · 07-05-2003, 12:18 PM

i just finished slaughterhouse five... very odd book.

i think i'll rip into the last few month's maxims that have sat unread since they arrived.

MacGnG · 07-05-2003, 12:34 PM

Introduction to Poetry by X.J. Kennedy

crow_daw · 07-05-2003, 01:15 PM

ummm........Harry Potter: Order of the Phoenix.

Gortexfogg · 07-05-2003, 01:34 PM

The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
Rise to Rebellion - Jeff Shaara

Both seem good so far...

oblar · 07-05-2003, 03:38 PM

Tommorrow through Today - Heinlen.

at least I think that is the title of it. Doesn't really make a difference, it is a collection of several of his stories.

zombieman · 07-05-2003, 06:25 PM

I have a seriously huge pile of books to plough through. I'm trying to read a new Dr Who every few days, and some other stuff in between. I think I'm going to read Stephen King- Dreamcatcher next.

WhoaitsZ · 07-05-2003, 06:29 PM

the tomb by f paul wilson (thanks to redravin), just finished Dead & Gone by andrew vachss and definatly suggest both; especially d&g. fucking awesome book

also reading 'the portable voltaire' off and on.
too much philosophy at once is not a good ideafor me anymore

Cumhachd · 07-05-2003, 06:52 PM

Too many to count...
The Search for Modern China by Spence, Idoru and Mona Lisa Overdrive by Gibson, Journey to the West, The Analects, and a couple of Dave Barry books. I just finished a book on the Boxer Rebellion, which was really interesting. I'm trying to finish up the books I'd never read while at school so I'll have the fun ones for when I need a break.
Oh yeah, I'm about to start the latest Terry Pratchett book. I've put that off for far too long.

tikki · 07-05-2003, 07:01 PM

Pride of October: What it Was to Be Young and a Yankee by Bill Madden.

Basically he profiles 18 NY Yankees from the past. He interviewed them and they have some interesting stories. I am still early in the book, but it shows promise.

Fred Gassit · 07-05-2003, 07:34 PM

Lila, by Robert Pursig. It's the sequel to Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, which is also an excellent book.

Also, Siddhartha, by Hermann Hesse

Blunt · 07-05-2003, 07:55 PM

Life Of Pie - ...
I'm too retarded right now to accually remember the name of the amazing author.

vermin · 07-05-2003, 08:08 PM

Under Fire by W.E.B. Griffin

THE MAC GOD · 07-05-2003, 08:22 PM

Rereading the MYST novels... on the book of Ti Ana now.

MSD · 07-05-2003, 09:26 PM

Stranger in a Strange Land

Meaty Urologist · 07-05-2003, 09:35 PM

Just finishing up The Dharma Bums by Kerouac and after that I plan on reading The Catcher In The Rye for the first time, 'cause I just watched The Good Girl and I figure if a frikkin' Jennifer Aniston movie is referencing something beyond my knowledge then something cannot be right.

Double D · 07-05-2003, 09:52 PM

Just finished Anthem by Ayn Rand.

Reading a *fluff* book, the Nannie Diaries,
Promiscuities (The Secret Struggle for Womanhood) Naomi Wolf, and I read little bits of Forty Studies That Changed Psychology (a textbook) when I have the urge.

WetSpot · 07-05-2003, 10:25 PM

The sunday comics count? Just finished A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Twain. Starting on DaVinci Code - Dan Brown. (Note - #1 best seller, but read Angels and Demons first!)

Giant Hamburger · 07-05-2003, 11:12 PM

I am rereading Jack Vance's THE EYES OF THE OVERWORLD

rat · 07-05-2003, 11:31 PM

Re-reading

Polgara the Sorceress by David Eddings

Crown of Swords by Robert Jordan

Just got done re-reading

Domes of Fire, The Shining Ones and The Hidden City by David Eddings.

Stiltzkin · 07-05-2003, 11:49 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by MrSelfDestruct
Stranger in a Strange Land

Hey, stop it! I'm reading "Stranger in A Strange Land"! I was reading through all the posts and all the while thinking to myself, "I'm gonna be the only one reading Heinlein..." then I see a post about someone reading some short-story collection by Heinlein, and I think to myself, "Ah, thats all right." But I run across your post and I say, "NoooooOOOoo!!! I thought I was original!" So how far are ya, huh? I only have about 40 pages left. Its supposedly completely different from all of his other works, and it is for most of the beginning, but towards the end it is very Heinlein-ish. Book I'm gonna read next: "The Moon is A Harsh Mistress" by none other than the great Robert Anson Heinlein himself

Order of Heinlen books I've read consecutively:

Starship Troopers - this one is the one that doesn't resemble any other
I Will Fear No Evil - bleh
The Cat That Walks Through Walls - It was all right
Time Enough For Love - Pretty good

I'm gonna buy another Heinlein book when I'm almost done with "The Moon is A Harsh Mistress"

boredjerk · 07-05-2003, 11:59 PM

After the Plague - T.C. Boyle

SecretMethod70 · 07-06-2003, 12:04 AM

<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0967563100/qid=1057478551/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/002-3920845-6452044?v=glance&s=books&n=507846">Perpetual Motivation - Dave Durand</a>

He's my region manager - great guy

Great book too

The Atomic Boy · 07-06-2003, 01:37 AM

I've been getting lazy, in between books right now.
I just reaed Carl Sagan's "The Demon-Haunted World" and I swear Im going to start ready The Light Fantastic by Terry Prattchet very very soon.

izzzzy · 07-06-2003, 05:40 AM

lost son by bernard kerik

rogue49 · 07-06-2003, 05:52 AM

Would you believe Oracle DBA 101

I don't how long I've been doing databases,
and I'm a Master level Oracle Designer
And even with all the fuckin' huge books that I have on it,
including on the new platform
I have to read this book because it has essential info in it not included in the bigger tech books.

Do you know what it's like to have to carry around a DBA 101 book
geez, managers won't cut you break.

Elmo123abc · 07-06-2003, 05:58 AM

people still read books?

slogger · 07-06-2003, 07:39 AM

Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates
by Tom Robbins

Stiltzkin · 07-06-2003, 07:59 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Elmo123abc
people still read books?

ROTFLMAO

dimbulb · 07-06-2003, 08:08 AM

How are the other books by Heinlen different from 'Starship Troopers'? That is one of my favorite books.

Demon Haunted World by Sagan is also an excellent non-fiction choice. I've given a few copies of that book away to my friends...

vermin · 07-06-2003, 08:16 AM

Quote:

Stiltzkin:
"The Moon is A Harsh Mistress"

Good choice. Great book. I've read everything the local library has by Heinlein (18 or so). I like his earlier stuff. Wish I could find more.

Ganguro · 07-06-2003, 08:50 AM

just finished up "Miss Wyoming" by Douglas Couplan
started "the Interpreter" by Suki Kim
also 1/2 way though "The age of Spiritual Machines" by Ray Kurrzweil

Going to pick up some William Gibson books today though, who needs T.V. anyway?

TwistedFate · 07-06-2003, 08:58 AM

"To Green Angel Tower, Part 1" by Tad Williams

07-05-2003, 07:13 AM	#1 (permalink)
dimbulb Riiiiight........	What are you reading now?? Which book are you in the midst of reading now? as for me... Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck Really good book, if you ask me, but then again, my last book was a piece of drivel by tom clancy. (which i wil NEVER read again, BTW)

07-05-2003, 08:16 AM	#3 (permalink)
lurkette My future is coming on Moderator Emeritus Location: east of the sun and west of the moon	Douglas Adams' "So Long and Thanks for All the Fish" __________________ "If ten million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." - Anatole France

07-05-2003, 08:27 AM	#4 (permalink)
bubbagump Tilted	The third policeman -flann obrien __________________ s3x p1z

07-05-2003, 09:22 AM	#5 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	isle of dogs - patricia cornwell...don't care for it as much as her earlier stuff... __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

07-05-2003, 10:10 AM	#7 (permalink)
BBtB ClerkMan! Location: Tulsa, Ok.	Just finished Stephen King's Carrie. About to start Hearts of Atlantis or The Green Mile. __________________ Meridae'n once played "death" at a game of chess that lasted for over two years. He finally beat death in a best 34 out of 67 match. At that time he could ask for any one thing and he could wish for the hope of all mankind... he looked death right in the eye and said ... "I would like about three fiddy"

07-05-2003, 07:40 AM	#2 (permalink)
miked10270 Banned Location: Scotland	George Orwell, 1984 & Animal Farm. Really in love with both books and they go together. I feel like writing a review on them right now, but I'd be at the keyboard for a month and the bandwidth would probably wreck the server. Mike.

07-05-2003, 09:49 AM	#6 (permalink)
scope Banned Location: Canada	Jaws of Darkness - Harry Turtledove Cosmos - Carl Sagan

07-05-2003, 11:24 AM	#8 (permalink)
Nikki ~~~~~~~ Location: Charleston, SC	Stephen King-The Dark Tower IV Wizard and Glass

07-05-2003, 12:18 PM	#9 (permalink)
phredgreen who? Location: the phoenix metro	i just finished slaughterhouse five... very odd book. i think i'll rip into the last few month's maxims that have sat unread since they arrived. __________________ My country is the world, and my religion is to do good. - Thomas Paine

07-05-2003, 12:34 PM	#10 (permalink)
MacGnG Know Where!	Introduction to Poetry by X.J. Kennedy

07-05-2003, 01:15 PM	#11 (permalink)
crow_daw Idolator Location: Vol Country	ummm........Harry Potter: Order of the Phoenix. __________________ "We each have a star, all we have to do is find it. Once you do, everyone who sees it will be blinded." - Earl Simmons

07-05-2003, 01:34 PM	#12 (permalink)
Gortexfogg I and I Location: Stillwater, OK	The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner Rise to Rebellion - Jeff Shaara Both seem good so far...

07-05-2003, 03:38 PM	#13 (permalink)
oblar Über-Rookie Location: No longer, D.C	Tommorrow through Today - Heinlen. at least I think that is the title of it. Doesn't really make a difference, it is a collection of several of his stories. __________________ "All that we can do is just survive. .All that we can do to help ourselves is stay alive." - Rush

07-05-2003, 06:25 PM	#14 (permalink)
zombieman Tilted Location: North Wales, UK	I have a seriously huge pile of books to plough through. I'm trying to read a new Dr Who every few days, and some other stuff in between. I think I'm going to read Stephen King- Dreamcatcher next.

07-05-2003, 06:29 PM	#15 (permalink)
WhoaitsZ Crazy Location: right behind you...	the tomb by f paul wilson (thanks to redravin), just finished Dead & Gone by andrew vachss and definatly suggest both; especially d&g. fucking awesome book also reading 'the portable voltaire' off and on. too much philosophy at once is not a good ideafor me anymore

07-05-2003, 08:22 PM	#21 (permalink)
THE MAC GOD Insane Location: In front of my keyboard.	Rereading the MYST novels... on the book of Ti Ana now. __________________ Why continue fighting? Is it for Love? Illusions. All as artificial as the Matrix itself, although only a human mind could invent something as insipid as Love.

07-05-2003, 06:52 PM	#16 (permalink)
Cumhachd Upright	Too many to count... The Search for Modern China by Spence, Idoru and Mona Lisa Overdrive by Gibson, Journey to the West, The Analects, and a couple of Dave Barry books. I just finished a book on the Boxer Rebellion, which was really interesting. I'm trying to finish up the books I'd never read while at school so I'll have the fun ones for when I need a break. Oh yeah, I'm about to start the latest Terry Pratchett book. I've put that off for far too long. __________________ Sorry, I can only exorcise clam spirits. EbichuMAAN! From the dark end of the dark has been chosen for disipline, from the moon to the stars, no one knows what a justice and earnest shopkeeper then today, the justice maker in tonight by the way, they call it: Ebichuman.

07-05-2003, 07:01 PM	#17 (permalink)
tikki Justified Location: West Lafayette, IN	Pride of October: What it Was to Be Young and a Yankee by Bill Madden. Basically he profiles 18 NY Yankees from the past. He interviewed them and they have some interesting stories. I am still early in the book, but it shows promise. __________________ Take notice. Take interest. Take me with you.

07-05-2003, 07:34 PM	#18 (permalink)
Fred Gassit Upright Location: Wisconsin	Lila, by Robert Pursig. It's the sequel to Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, which is also an excellent book. Also, Siddhartha, by Hermann Hesse __________________ The dogs philosophy of life: If you cant eat it, fuck it. If you cant fuck it, piss on it.

07-05-2003, 07:55 PM	#19 (permalink)
Blunt Upright	Life Of Pie - ... I'm too retarded right now to accually remember the name of the amazing author. __________________ Yeah.. I can't get a picture to work at my sig.. .. ahh, so you're stuck with this.

07-05-2003, 08:08 PM	#20 (permalink)
vermin Indifferent to anti-matter Location: Tucson, AZ	Under Fire by W.E.B. Griffin __________________ If puns were sausages, this would be the wurst.

07-05-2003, 09:26 PM	#22 (permalink)
MSD The sky calls to us ... Super Moderator Location: CT	Stranger in a Strange Land

07-05-2003, 09:35 PM	#23 (permalink)
Meaty Urologist Upright Location: Albuquerque, N.M.	Just finishing up The Dharma Bums by Kerouac and after that I plan on reading The Catcher In The Rye for the first time, 'cause I just watched The Good Girl and I figure if a frikkin' Jennifer Aniston movie is referencing something beyond my knowledge then something cannot be right.

07-05-2003, 09:52 PM	#24 (permalink)
Double D Junkie Location: Chicagoland	Just finished Anthem by Ayn Rand. Reading a fluff book, the Nannie Diaries, Promiscuities (The Secret Struggle for Womanhood) Naomi Wolf, and I read little bits of Forty Studies That Changed Psychology (a textbook) when I have the urge.

07-05-2003, 10:25 PM	#25 (permalink)
WetSpot Tilted Location: Louisville, KY	The sunday comics count? Just finished A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Twain. Starting on DaVinci Code - Dan Brown. (Note - #1 best seller, but read Angels and Demons first!)

07-05-2003, 11:12 PM	#26 (permalink)
Giant Hamburger Gastrolithuanian Location: low-velocity Earth orbit	I am rereading Jack Vance's THE EYES OF THE OVERWORLD

07-05-2003, 11:59 PM	#29 (permalink)
boredjerk Insane Location: Antarctica	After the Plague - T.C. Boyle __________________ Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke.

07-06-2003, 12:04 AM	#30 (permalink)
SecretMethod70 Human Administrator Location: Chicago	<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0967563100/qid=1057478551/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/002-3920845-6452044?v=glance&s=books&n=507846">Perpetual Motivation - Dave Durand</a> He's my region manager - great guy Great book too __________________ Le temps détruit tout "Musicians are the carriers and communicators of spirit in the most immediate sense." - Kurt Elling

07-06-2003, 01:37 AM	#31 (permalink)
The Atomic Boy Tilted Location: Indianapolis	I've been getting lazy, in between books right now. I just reaed Carl Sagan's "The Demon-Haunted World" and I swear Im going to start ready The Light Fantastic by Terry Prattchet very very soon. __________________ All problems no matter how complex can be solved with fire and/or duct tape.

07-06-2003, 05:40 AM	#32 (permalink)
izzzzy Crazy Location: SW NEW HAMPSHIRE	lost son by bernard kerik

07-06-2003, 05:52 AM	#33 (permalink)
rogue49 Loser	Would you believe Oracle DBA 101 I don't how long I've been doing databases, and I'm a Master level Oracle Designer And even with all the fuckin' huge books that I have on it, including on the new platform I have to read this book because it has essential info in it not included in the bigger tech books. Do you know what it's like to have to carry around a DBA 101 book geez, managers won't cut you break.

07-06-2003, 05:58 AM	#34 (permalink)
Elmo123abc Tilted	people still read books?

07-06-2003, 07:39 AM	#35 (permalink)
slogger Upright Location: Under a rock in your backyard	Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates by Tom Robbins

07-06-2003, 08:08 AM	#37 (permalink)
dimbulb Riiiiight........	How are the other books by Heinlen different from 'Starship Troopers'? That is one of my favorite books. Demon Haunted World by Sagan is also an excellent non-fiction choice. I've given a few copies of that book away to my friends...

07-06-2003, 08:50 AM	#39 (permalink)
Ganguro Army of Me	just finished up "Miss Wyoming" by Douglas Couplan started "the Interpreter" by Suki Kim also 1/2 way though "The age of Spiritual Machines" by Ray Kurrzweil Going to pick up some William Gibson books today though, who needs T.V. anyway?

07-06-2003, 08:58 AM	#40 (permalink)
TwistedFate Crazy	"To Green Angel Tower, Part 1" by Tad Williams __________________ If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.