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Strange Famous · 12-28-2007, 12:37 PM

Minimal comment, just a list.

I think there are threads a bit like this... but not one just like it - so everyone who reads can post here what they have just read, even if it isnt comment worthy!

Me:

The London Monster: Terror on the Streets in 1788 by Jan Bondeson

Willravel · 12-28-2007, 12:44 PM

I just finished (for maybe the 20th time) the Complete Works of Jules Verne.
I'll be rereading the Foundation Series by Asimov in the coming weeks. I've been in a scifi mood lately.

Eweser · 12-28-2007, 12:45 PM

Postcards from the Edge by Carrie Fisher

roachboy · 12-28-2007, 12:46 PM

god my reading list is tedious.

merleau-ponty: seminars on husserl's "origin of geometry" (1960)
paul klee: notebooks
marcel proust: cities on the plain.

Bill O'Rights · 12-28-2007, 01:48 PM

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Originally Posted by roachboy

merleau-ponty: seminars on husserl's "origin of geometry" (1960).

Tedius, you say? Why, who doesn't like to curl up on a Sunday morning with a cup of coffee and a good read by haughty French philosophers that are hung up on dead German mathemetician/philosophers? I mean, it's just not the weekend unless I get to snuggle up and read a few chapters of Philosophy of Arithmetic.

ShaniFaye · 12-28-2007, 01:56 PM

Rhett Butler's People.....hated it

Martian · 12-28-2007, 02:28 PM

I have two chapters left in The Amber Spyglass. Next up is Darkly Dreaming Dexter.

Redlemon · 12-28-2007, 05:44 PM

After I sign off, I'll finish up rereading "Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal" by Christopher Moore. It's absolutely hilarious, probably Moore's best work.

filtherton · 12-28-2007, 07:04 PM

When i'm not sidetracked by video games, i'm currently reading "The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe" By Roger Penrose

noodle · 12-28-2007, 07:23 PM

Currently immersed in Special Topics in Calamity Physics and How I Became Stupid.. Both are quite spectaular and I find myself reading them slower than usual to spread out the enjoyment.

Lucifer · 12-28-2007, 07:39 PM

Just Finished 'The Kite Runner' by Khaled Hosseini and skimmed through 'Pillars of the Earth' by Ken Follett (read it years ago and wanted a quick brushup before tackling the sequel when it hits paperback in a few months).

snowy · 12-28-2007, 09:04 PM

A Nancy Drew mystery called "The Sign of the Twisted Candles"--a reprint of the original edition from the 1930s. Very cool and a fun read.

Fotzlid · 12-28-2007, 11:11 PM

just finished Nelson DeMille's "Wild Fire" the other day.
currently reading Orson Scott Card's "Empire"

Shauk · 12-28-2007, 11:28 PM

Promise of the Witch-King, The Sellswords Book II, by R.A. Salvatore

Fantasy nerd alert

shoegirl · 12-29-2007, 07:12 AM

Just finished up "For One More Day" by Mitch Albom. Not sure what I'll pick up next.

Siege · 12-29-2007, 10:03 AM

Finished "Phantom" and "Debt of Bones" by Terry Goodkind recently. Currently reading "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy and "Neuromancer" by William Gibson

filtherton · 12-29-2007, 10:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Siege

Finished "Phantom" and "Debt of Bones" by Terry Goodkind recently. Currently reading "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy and "Neuromancer" by William Gibson

"The Road" is awesome.

something red · 12-29-2007, 05:31 PM

Just finishing up The Ceremonies by T.E.D. Klein. Next up: Cold Moon Over Babylon by Michael McDowell.

albania · 12-29-2007, 06:57 PM

Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky, not quite finished with it. I started reading it a while back, really enjoyed it but finals got in the way. Lately I've been craving to re-read Thirty Years That Shook Physics: The Story of Quantum Theory by Gamow. That was an awesome book, but I'm starting to think I've lost it and that would be a very big shame.

Martian · 12-29-2007, 07:19 PM

Just finished Darkly Dreaming Dexter. Next is Last of the Mohicans.

mystmarimatt · 12-29-2007, 11:14 PM

Just finished One Hundred Years of Solitude by Marquez which was beautiful and Microserfs by Douglas Coupland, which was highly entertaining, very quirky.

guthmund · 01-02-2008, 09:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Lucifer

Just Finished 'The Kite Runner' by Khaled Hosseini and skimmed through 'Pillars of the Earth' by Ken Follett (read it years ago and wanted a quick brushup before tackling the sequel when it hits paperback in a few months).

Picked Follett's book up before Christmas to read over the break. I cannot imagine why a sequel was green lit. I'm not much the discriminating reader, but I didn't enjoy it all.

Just finished two books by Steve Berry (The Amber Room and one about the Templars) and they were alright. Nothing to write home about, but if you're looking for a poor man's Dan Brown, then he's your guy.

sapiens · 01-02-2008, 11:00 AM

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Originally Posted by guthmund

Just finished two books by Steve Berry (The Amber Room and one about the Templars) and they were alright. Nothing to write home about, but if you're looking for a poor man's Dan Brown, then he's your guy.

Wow! A poor man's Dan Brown. That's saying something!

I read The Da Vinci Code. I didn't like it very much.

Last week I read Stardust and Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman. Neither was particularly heavy reading. I enjoyed Anansi Boys. I wasn't that fond of Stardust.

aKula · 01-02-2008, 07:06 PM

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Originally Posted by albania

Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky, not quite finished with it. I started reading it a while back, really enjoyed it but finals got in the way. Lately I've been craving to re-read Thirty Years That Shook Physics: The Story of Quantum Theory by Gamow. That was an awesome book, but I'm starting to think I've lost it and that would be a very big shame.

Crime and Punishment is a favourite of mine. If you want to read more Dostoyevsky I'd recommend The Brothers Karamazov. I've got The Idiot sitting on my bookshelf. I'm currently reading The Seven Pillars of Wisdom so it'll have to wait until I've finished that.

m0rpheus · 01-03-2008, 03:25 AM

Thanks to willravel mentioning them in the James Bond thread it I've been making my way through the classic Bonds again.

Currently reading: Thunderball by Ian Flemming.

ShaniFaye · 01-03-2008, 03:52 AM

Bridget Jones Diary...for the first time in my life I think I can say I enjoyed the movie more than the book

guthmund · 01-03-2008, 08:51 AM

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Originally Posted by sapiens

Wow! A poor man's Dan Brown. That's saying something!

I read The Da Vinci Code. I didn't like it very much.

I know. Avoid them at all costs.

Jackebear · 01-03-2008, 08:05 PM

The Prize - The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power

By Pulitzer Prize winner, Daniel Yergin

It's a long read, 884 pages but awesome. I learned so much.

Crack · 01-09-2008, 06:23 AM

Confessor by Terry Goodkind. Hate to see the series end.

mixedmedia · 01-09-2008, 06:33 AM

I read A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini and The Love of the Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald while I was on vacation.

I think I'm going to start reading Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer tonight. But I'm not sure. I might opt for something non-fiction. My sister gave me a copy of The Children by David Halberstam and I've been wanting to read that...

choices, choices

abaya · 01-09-2008, 06:54 AM

Just finished The Last Life by Claire Messud, story about an American expat woman and her children in France (I read it in Lebanon, which helped me cope), and am currently in the middle of the great memoir, An Invitation to Laughter: A Lebanese Anthropologist in the Arab World.

I am also plodding through a rather slow book, The Gospel of Judas by Simon Mawer. It's the first novel in a long time that I don't think I'll finish.

Ustwo · 01-09-2008, 12:57 PM

Last 4.

The Red Queen

The God Delusion

The Ancestors tale

Genome

and I'm working on The Selfish Gene right now more for historical perspective.

Willravel · 01-09-2008, 01:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Martian

Just finished Darkly Dreaming Dexter.

Isn't it absolutely wonderful?!

Edit: Please, please do not bother reading the third book in the series, Dexter in the Dark. It's absolutely horrible. Trust me, I'm saving you hours of your life. The second novel, Dearly Devoted Dexter, is good, though.

robot_parade · 01-09-2008, 01:27 PM

City by Clifford D. Simak - it's a series of short stories, presented as ancient legends told by the dog-descendants that eventually replace humankind.

blahblah454 · 01-09-2008, 04:42 PM

Just finished Chainfire by Terry Goodkind. now about 200 pages into Phantoms (same author)

I am getting really tired of this series, its like Goodkind invents these stupid problems that don't need to be there so that he can write more best sellers. I am glad the series is done, I am not happy in the direction he has taken it. For anyone reading these I highly recommend the first 2 books then just stopping there.

roachboy · 01-09-2008, 05:15 PM

jacques roubaud: the great fire of london

reading samuel beckett: watt

Zotz · 01-09-2008, 05:43 PM

Just finished Confessor by Terry Goodkind.....the last of the Sword of Truth series. WOW! I have to disagree with blahblah.....the whole series is good.

dlish · 01-09-2008, 09:25 PM

Call of the Wild - by Guy Grieve

my mrs thinks im going bush

Martian · 01-09-2008, 09:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by willravel

Isn't it absolutely wonderful?!

Edit: Please, please do not bother reading the third book in the series, Dexter in the Dark. It's absolutely horrible. Trust me, I'm saving you hours of your life. The second novel, Dearly Devoted Dexter, is good, though.

I thought Dexter in the Dark was interesting, at least. I'm not sure I like the direction Lindsay is taking with the dark passenger, but it's still better than that Showtime nonsense (since when did Dex actually care about Rita?)

Anyway, Dearly Devoted Dexter > Darkly Dreaming Dexter > Dexter in the Dark.

Am currently reading Different Seasons, by Stephen King. Crompsin's constant Rage references got me wanting to read it again, but I can't find my copy so I settled for this instead.

sapiens · 01-11-2008, 10:15 AM

Last night I finished Summerland by Michael Chabon. Meh.
Early this week I read Persepolis 1 & 2 by Marjane Satrapi. I enjoyed both.

12-28-2007, 12:37 PM	#1 (permalink)
Strange Famous follower of the child's crusade?	The "list the books you've read as you read them" thread Minimal comment, just a list. I think there are threads a bit like this... but not one just like it - so everyone who reads can post here what they have just read, even if it isnt comment worthy! Me: The London Monster: Terror on the Streets in 1788 by Jan Bondeson __________________ "Do not tell lies, and do not do what you hate, for all things are plain in the sight of Heaven. For nothing hidden will not become manifest, and nothing covered will remain without being uncovered." The Gospel of Thomas

12-28-2007, 12:45 PM	#3 (permalink)
Eweser Psycho Location: O-K-L-A-H-O-M-A	Postcards from the Edge by Carrie Fisher __________________ "Whoever wrote this episode should die!"

12-28-2007, 12:46 PM	#4 (permalink)
roachboy Super Moderator Location: essex ma	god my reading list is tedious. merleau-ponty: seminars on husserl's "origin of geometry" (1960) paul klee: notebooks marcel proust: cities on the plain. __________________ a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear it make you sick. -kamau brathwaite

12-28-2007, 01:56 PM	#6 (permalink)
ShaniFaye Submit to me, you know you want to Location: Lilburn, Ga	Rhett Butler's People.....hated it __________________ *I want the diabetic plan that comes with rollover carbs. I dont like the unused one expiring at midnite!!*

12-28-2007, 02:28 PM	#7 (permalink)
Martian Young Crumudgeon Location: Canada	I have two chapters left in The Amber Spyglass. Next up is Darkly Dreaming Dexter. __________________ I wake up in the morning more tired than before I slept I get through cryin' and I'm sadder than before I wept I get through thinkin' now, and the thoughts have left my head I get through speakin' and I can't remember, not a word that I said - Ben Harper, Show Me A Little Shame

12-28-2007, 12:44 PM	#2 (permalink)
Willravel ... a sort of licensed troubleshooter.	I just finished (for maybe the 20th time) the Complete Works of Jules Verne. I'll be rereading the Foundation Series by Asimov in the coming weeks. I've been in a scifi mood lately.

12-28-2007, 05:44 PM	#8 (permalink)
Redlemon Devoted Donor Location: New England	After I sign off, I'll finish up rereading "Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal" by Christopher Moore. It's absolutely hilarious, probably Moore's best work. __________________ I can't read your signature. Sorry.

12-28-2007, 07:04 PM	#9 (permalink)
filtherton Junkie Location: In the land of ice and snow.	When i'm not sidetracked by video games, i'm currently reading "The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe" By Roger Penrose

12-28-2007, 07:39 PM	#11 (permalink)
Lucifer Husband of Seamaiden Location: Nova Scotia	Just Finished 'The Kite Runner' by Khaled Hosseini and skimmed through 'Pillars of the Earth' by Ken Follett (read it years ago and wanted a quick brushup before tackling the sequel when it hits paperback in a few months). __________________ I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls. - Job 30:29 1123, 6536, 5321

12-28-2007, 09:04 PM	#12 (permalink)
snowy Kick Ass Kunoichi Location: Oregon	A Nancy Drew mystery called "The Sign of the Twisted Candles"--a reprint of the original edition from the 1930s. Very cool and a fun read. __________________ If I am not better, at least I am different. --Jean-Jacques Rousseau

12-28-2007, 11:11 PM	#13 (permalink)
Fotzlid Junkie Location: Greater Boston area	just finished Nelson DeMille's "Wild Fire" the other day. currently reading Orson Scott Card's "Empire"

12-28-2007, 11:28 PM	#14 (permalink)
Shauk Confused Adult Location: Spokane, WA	Promise of the Witch-King, The Sellswords Book II, by R.A. Salvatore Fantasy nerd alert

12-29-2007, 07:12 AM	#15 (permalink)
shoegirl Addict Location: Ohio	Just finished up "For One More Day" by Mitch Albom. Not sure what I'll pick up next.

12-29-2007, 10:03 AM	#16 (permalink)
Siege is a tiger Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada	Finished "Phantom" and "Debt of Bones" by Terry Goodkind recently. Currently reading "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy and "Neuromancer" by William Gibson __________________ "Your name's Geek? Do you know the origin of the term? A geek is someone who bites the heads off chickens at a circus. I would never let you suck my dick with a name like Geek" --Kevin Smith This part just makes my posts easier to find

12-29-2007, 05:31 PM	#18 (permalink)
something red Upright	Just finishing up The Ceremonies by T.E.D. Klein. Next up: Cold Moon Over Babylon by Michael McDowell.

12-29-2007, 06:57 PM	#19 (permalink)
albania Psycho	Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky, not quite finished with it. I started reading it a while back, really enjoyed it but finals got in the way. Lately I've been craving to re-read Thirty Years That Shook Physics: The Story of Quantum Theory by Gamow. That was an awesome book, but I'm starting to think I've lost it and that would be a very big shame.

12-29-2007, 07:19 PM	#20 (permalink)
Martian Young Crumudgeon Location: Canada	Just finished Darkly Dreaming Dexter. Next is Last of the Mohicans. __________________ I wake up in the morning more tired than before I slept I get through cryin' and I'm sadder than before I wept I get through thinkin' now, and the thoughts have left my head I get through speakin' and I can't remember, not a word that I said - Ben Harper, Show Me A Little Shame

12-29-2007, 11:14 PM	#21 (permalink)
mystmarimatt Omnipotent Ruler Of The Tiny Universe In My Mind Location: Oreegawn	Just finished One Hundred Years of Solitude by Marquez which was beautiful and Microserfs by Douglas Coupland, which was highly entertaining, very quirky. __________________ Words of Wisdom: If you could really get to know someone and know that they weren't lying to you, then you would know the world was real. Because you could agree on things, you could compare notes. That must be why people get married or make Art. So they'll be able to really know something and not go insane.

01-03-2008, 03:25 AM	#25 (permalink)
m0rpheus bad craziness Location: Guelph, Ontario	Thanks to willravel mentioning them in the James Bond thread it I've been making my way through the classic Bonds again. Currently reading: Thunderball by Ian Flemming. __________________ "it never got weird enough for me." - Hunter S. Thompson

01-03-2008, 03:52 AM	#26 (permalink)
ShaniFaye Submit to me, you know you want to Location: Lilburn, Ga	Bridget Jones Diary...for the first time in my life I think I can say I enjoyed the movie more than the book __________________ *I want the diabetic plan that comes with rollover carbs. I dont like the unused one expiring at midnite!!*

01-03-2008, 08:05 PM	#28 (permalink)
Jackebear Insane	The Prize - The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power By Pulitzer Prize winner, Daniel Yergin It's a long read, 884 pages but awesome. I learned so much. __________________ Life's jounney is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well-preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn-out shouting, "Holy sh*t! What a ride!" - unknown

01-09-2008, 06:23 AM	#29 (permalink)
Crack Misanthropic Location: Ohio! yay!	Confessor by Terry Goodkind. Hate to see the series end. __________________ Crack, you and I are long overdue for a vicious bout of mansex. ~Halx

01-09-2008, 06:33 AM	#30 (permalink)
mixedmedia has all her shots. Location: Florida	I read A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini and The Love of the Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald while I was on vacation. I think I'm going to start reading Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer tonight. But I'm not sure. I might opt for something non-fiction. My sister gave me a copy of The Children by David Halberstam and I've been wanting to read that... choices, choices __________________ Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce

01-09-2008, 06:54 AM	#31 (permalink)
abaya Location: Iceland	Just finished The Last Life by Claire Messud, story about an American expat woman and her children in France (I read it in Lebanon, which helped me cope), and am currently in the middle of the great memoir, An Invitation to Laughter: A Lebanese Anthropologist in the Arab World. I am also plodding through a rather slow book, The Gospel of Judas by Simon Mawer. It's the first novel in a long time that I don't think I'll finish. __________________ And think not you can direct the course of Love; for Love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course. --Khalil Gibran

01-09-2008, 12:57 PM	#32 (permalink)
Ustwo Pissing in the cornflakes	Last 4. The Red Queen The God Delusion The Ancestors tale Genome and I'm working on The Selfish Gene right now more for historical perspective. __________________ Agents of the enemies who hold office in our own government, who attempt to eliminate our "freedoms" and our "right to know" are posting among us, I fear.....on this very forum. - host Obama - Know a Man by the friends he keeps.

01-09-2008, 01:27 PM	#34 (permalink)
robot_parade Junkie Location: San Antonio, TX	City by Clifford D. Simak - it's a series of short stories, presented as ancient legends told by the dog-descendants that eventually replace humankind.

01-09-2008, 04:42 PM	#35 (permalink)
blahblah454 Let's put a smile on that face Location: On the road...	Just finished Chainfire by Terry Goodkind. now about 200 pages into Phantoms (same author) I am getting really tired of this series, its like Goodkind invents these stupid problems that don't need to be there so that he can write more best sellers. I am glad the series is done, I am not happy in the direction he has taken it. For anyone reading these I highly recommend the first 2 books then just stopping there.

01-09-2008, 05:15 PM	#36 (permalink)
roachboy Super Moderator Location: essex ma	jacques roubaud: the great fire of london reading samuel beckett: watt __________________ a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear it make you sick. -kamau brathwaite

01-09-2008, 05:43 PM	#37 (permalink)
Zotz There's someone in my head, but its not me	Just finished Confessor by Terry Goodkind.....the last of the Sword of Truth series. WOW! I have to disagree with blahblah.....the whole series is good.

01-09-2008, 09:25 PM	#38 (permalink)
dlish Currently sour but formerly Dlishs Super Moderator Location: Australia/UAE	Call of the Wild - by Guy Grieve my mrs thinks im going bush __________________ An injustice anywhere, is an injustice everywhere I always sign my facebook comments with ()()===========(}. Does that make me gay? - Filthy

01-11-2008, 10:15 AM	#40 (permalink)
sapiens Junkie Location: Some place windy	Last night I finished Summerland by Michael Chabon. Meh. Early this week I read Persepolis 1 & 2 by Marjane Satrapi. I enjoyed both.