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MageB420666 09-01-2004 02:45 PM

I tend to read more than one book at once so here goes:

Crossroads of Twilight, Robert Jordan
Douglas Adam's Starship Titanic, Terry Jones
Hitchiker's Trilogy(Compilation of all five books), Douglas Adams
Harry Potter 5th book, J.K. Rowling

crfpilot 09-01-2004 03:25 PM

I'm almost done with More Frugal Gambling by Jean Scott

Kostya 09-01-2004 04:42 PM

The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky...

Dwayne 09-02-2004 02:09 PM

The Hogfather by Terry Pratchett.

Tophat665 09-02-2004 03:23 PM

FDR: Rendezvous with Destiny. Finally got the rest of my granddad's library. Not a bad book. Scary how much his technique reminds me of Bush's (without the weapons of mass distraction.)

Mephisto2 09-02-2004 04:41 PM

Just finished Gulag, A History by Anne Applebaum. Quiet "heavy" but very revealing and rather depressing.


Mr Mephisto

Loup 09-08-2004 01:48 PM

I had just finished The Talisman by Stephen King ...
currently on Michael Crichton's Timeline (and I have not seen the movie yet).

Derwood 09-08-2004 07:46 PM

"From a Buick 8" by Stephen King. So far, it's clearly not his best work...

tropple 09-09-2004 03:29 AM

William Dietz: The Legion of the Damned (home)
Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorksoigan series: A Civil Campaign (bus)

Gortexfogg 09-09-2004 05:40 AM

Fairy Tales and Legens by Hans Christan Andersen. It's really, really good. Not just kid stuff either.

sailor 09-09-2004 07:11 AM

The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkin. Something to read for my Sociology class. Not the greatest thing Ive ever read (mostly because biology isnt the most interesting thing to me), but not the worst, either.

amonkie 09-09-2004 10:25 AM

I wish I was reading Frank Hebert's Heretics of Dune, but alas I'm supposed to be reading all my stuff for school. Billy Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville is my current novel for reading, after chapters and chapters of textbooks.

mb99usa 09-09-2004 10:32 AM

The Dark Tower:The Gunslinger - Stephen King.

Just finished reading IT a few days ago.

pedro padilla 09-09-2004 11:02 PM

finished A man in full by tom wolfe last night. excellent. next up is palestine by joe sacco. graphic novel.

Nancy 09-10-2004 02:58 AM

I've decided that this year I'm going to read as many classics/famous/cult books as I can. I've decided to start by reading everything by Jane Austen. I've already read Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice and are now reading Catherine. So far I like it :)

roachboy 09-10-2004 06:20 AM

john cage: silence

Fremen 09-10-2004 07:26 AM

Louis L'Amour - Down the Long Hills

It's about a 7 year old boy, a 3 year old girl, a red stallion, and their trek West after surviving an Indian attack to their wagon train.

John Sandford - Eyes of Prey

trickyy 09-10-2004 12:19 PM

911 report

and the bros. k

Horrendous 09-12-2004 12:48 PM

just finished Tanequil by Terry Brooks
about to start Amber and Ashes by margaret weis (dragonlance)

Obtuse 09-12-2004 05:02 PM

Trying to find time to finish the Black Company series by Glen Cook. Just finished Bleak Seasons and am trying to get started on She Is the Darkness.

amonkie 09-12-2004 08:20 PM

The Road to Serfdom, by F.A. Hayek

roachboy 09-14-2004 07:15 AM

haunted weather: david toop

interesting book so far...

tropple 09-14-2004 08:29 AM

Robert B. Asprey's War in the Shadows:The guerrilla in history

ShaniFaye 09-14-2004 08:51 AM

Diana Gabaldon Outlander

so far (Im only about 60 pages in) Im hooked...its nice to know I have more to read (I believe there are 5 books in the series so far with a 6th one in the works but I could be wrong

(this is a better description than I can do since Im not done with it..its from amazon)

Quote:

In Outlander, a 600-page time-travel romance, strong-willed and sensual Claire Randall leads a double life with a husband in one century, and a lover in another. Torn between fidelity and desire, she struggles to understand the pure intent of her heart. But don't let the number of pages and the Scottish dialect scare you. It's one of the fastest reads you'll have in your library.
While on her second honeymoon in the British Isles, Claire touches a boulder that hurls her back in time to the forbidden Castle Leoch with the MacKenzie clan. Not understanding the forces that brought her there, she becomes ensnared in life-threatening situations with a Scots warrior named James Fraser. But it isn't all spies and drudgery that she must endure. For amid her new surroundings and the terrors she faces, she is lured into love and passion like she's never known before.

Jonsgirl 09-14-2004 08:16 PM

Wastelands- Steven King

Dark Tower #3

Mephisto2 09-14-2004 10:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nancy
I've decided that this year I'm going to read as many classics/famous/cult books as I can. I've decided to start by reading everything by Jane Austen. I've already read Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice and are now reading Catherine. So far I like it :)

After that, read Madame Bovary (by Gustave Flaubert), Catch-22 (by Joseph Hellar), The World According to Garp (by John Irving), Captain Corelli's Mandolin (by Louis De Berniere), and Ulysses (by James Joyce).

The last one is pretty heavy going, but worth the effort. And it's meant to be the most important book of the 20th century.


Mr Mephisto

MrFlux 09-15-2004 01:48 AM

I'm reading The Drifters by James A. Michener

dannyboy21 09-15-2004 02:27 AM

The heart of a leader - Ken Blanchard
Corporate man to corporate skunk - stuart crainer
The ki process - Scott shaw (reading this one on and off)

Paradise Lost 09-15-2004 12:18 PM

The Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson. 400 pages into it so far, no plot, but who
cares, mighty interesting!

inharmony 09-15-2004 12:21 PM

On Writing by Stephen King, Progress Paradox by Gregg Easterbrook, and The Pleasure of My Company by Steve Martin...have a terrible time starting books and not finishing before starting another :(

Averett 09-15-2004 12:25 PM

Empire Falls - Richard Russo

I've hit a plot twist! Didn't see it coming.

d4in 09-15-2004 12:39 PM

Currently reading Robert Ludlum , The Bourne Ultimatum at home and Terry Goodkind - Naked Empire at work (we go on long distance service calls and my boss likes to drive).

Waiting on Stephen King - The Dark Tower (book 7).

Edit: I forgot... I've been reading Robert Shea's The Illuminatus Trilogy since around January, just haven't gotten through it yet (bathroom book, lol).

mrap1 09-17-2004 07:34 PM

Wired and Discover magazine

BuddyHawks 09-18-2004 12:39 AM

The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Da Munk 09-18-2004 03:28 AM

The Iliad - Homer
The Eye of the World - Robert Jordan

Derwood 09-18-2004 04:44 AM

Black House by Stephen King and Peter Straub

sailor 09-18-2004 05:39 AM

The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature, Matt Ridley.

Another book for my Sociology class. Not nearly as interesting as it sounds.

Nancy 09-18-2004 03:02 PM

I finished Catherine last weekend and are now reading Mansfield Park by Jane Austen. I like it very much so far :)

SiN 09-18-2004 04:48 PM

...I'm just a few days back from 12 days of 'vacation' incl. RT international flight...so I finally got to do some reading :)

Started out with Tolkien's LotR: FotR. Actually started it a few months ago, but just couldn't get into it. And, I've still not finished it, but I made it through to the last chapter ;)
The writing and story is excellent, but
1. I'm not really into that 'genre'.
2. Sometimes the elaborate descriptions of the scenery etc. just gets so tedious..just skimmed through most of that. I understand the point of it, but I just don't care that much for so much of it.

....then, went to a used bookshop in the US and picked up 2 paperbacks -

1. Stephenson's Cryptonomicon. Since his Snow Crash is one of my favorites...but, I've not started this one yet. /queued.

2. Eco's Foucault's Pendulum. Finally! Eco's been in my 'reading queue' for years...but I just never got around to it. Then earlier this year I read Brown's Angels & Demons (which I enjoyed..but not without criticism) and read somewhere that Pendulum is in a similar vein, but much better.
So - I devoured the first half-ish of it on a wknd on the boat...and I still have half to finish. But it's sort of like a yummy treat - once I finish it, it's gone.
Love it, and I recommend it. Brilliant.

Dungeon_Shade 09-18-2004 04:58 PM

I just finished reading Oedipus Rex. It is rather good, if you like plays.


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