Hocus Pocus -- Kurt Vonnegut

After finishing "The Sportswriter" - which I wasn't a big fan of - I finally got around to reading and thoroughly enjoying "Confederacy of Dunces" (yet another Pulitzer Prize winning novel in my quest to read them all). I should finish "Confederacy..." this evening and I then will begin reading "Saturday" by Iam McEwan.

After that...maybe Rabbit is Rich.

The Naked Ape - Desmond Morris

Really, really liking it too. 38 years old and still rings true, even if a few things've changed.

The Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac

Rama Revealed by Arthur C. Clarke.

took a break from reading my Jonathan Kellerman mysteries to try this. Not bad for pulp fiction.

I remember reading that series after playing the game... Liked most of it pretty well. :thumbsup:

Has anyone ever read A Game Of Thrones by George R.R Martin?

There are three so far in The Song of Fire and Ice series. Best books I have ever read! Amazing, please if no one here has ever read them, read them! You will not be disappointed.

Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life by Jon Lee Anderson

Eon by Greg Bear

Eon is a great book! Blood Music by the same author is also very good and a bit easier to get your head around. The ideas are slightly less huge.

Just finished "Cloud Atlas" by David Mitchell. Loved it.

Now I'm reading "Sirens of Titan" by Kurt Vonnegut and I can't help but chuckle to myself as I read it. Very funny, wonderful way of looking at things. Kurt certainly hits the spot other authors can't.

Started reading A Game of Thrones by George R.R Martin yesterday. I've been really looking forward to reading this.

Cool! Thanks for the recommendation. I've been looking for a new author, after having run Robert A Heinlein and Larry Niven out of books. I may start picking up other Bear books. :)

Thanks again!

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Spectacular book.

Just finished "A Man in Full" by Tom Wolfe

Spectacular book until the end, which just plain sucks.

If you like the Rama series, I suggest the Ringworld series by Niven.

It has that same "eh-ness" for character development and plot but the idea of a giant Ring around a star never leaves your mind--much like the giant black cylinder hurling somewhere out of the system at god knows how fast.

Also I finished, Grapes of Wrath and was that ever a bizarre novel. The ending wouldn't let me think clearly for a couple of days. I did though love the ideas of Jim Casy, they're alot like that of Thoreau's.

Very good book, just easy to loose track about whats going on.



Just started to read Black Hawk Down. Pretty graffic in places but a very good read.

Bleccch
 

GOD I hate that book. Thank goodness it was short.

The Time Machine

The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality - Brian Greene

I really liked his Elegant Universe book and the subsequent NOVA series on PBS, so, I thought I'd pick the new one up and give it a go. So far, so good. :)

breakfast of champtions by kurt vonnegut

Heh... just finished Shadow of the Giant, the latest in the Bean series. For those that don't know, the series is a shoot-off of the Ender's Game series that focuses on Bean. And don't worry, it's infinitely better than either Xenocide or Children of the Mind.

It was pretty good, even if I called some stuff from the very beginning. More than anything I'm interested in seeing how he brings about the last in the series using this as a base... I've an idea, but I don't want to go throwing it about in case I end up being wrong. (Though I don't know that I'd feel really good about it if I got it right...)

diary by chuck palanuik

Had to loan "Saturday" to my wife. So now I'm reading "Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Godel".

That's the next book in line. Hopefully by the summer i'll have time again, only just heard about it from a chance meeting with someone. At the moment apart from reading all my uni books i escape to the ends of the Universe with the Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy, have to get this one before the film comes out. Though not avoid information about the film but thus far have managed, 2 more weeks or so and should all be done.

John Keel - The Complete Guide to Mysterious Beings

God's Politics by Jim Wallace.

So far a very good book and the man takes a well thought out, rational approach to possibly the stickiest conversation piece of all: religion and politics. Im not religious, and I love his approach, so that says a lot.

ibrahim al-koni: the bleeding of the stone

excellent novel by a highly skilled writer.

I'm reading "The Killing Dance" by Laurell K Hamilton. She is such a good author, her character kicks so much ass. Definitly recommend the series.

Four Past Midnight by Stephen King has been sitting on my tower here for months.. Not that it's not good (Stephen is the King!) I just have too many things to do.

The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis.

right now i'm reading a book on Genesis that my ex-girlfriend suggested i read. i'm a philosophy geek, so i think it's pretty interesting. besides, Genesis is like my most favorite book of the Bible. after that i'm going to read a book called "The God Gene" which discusses the possibility of there being a gene that predetermines a persons faith.

London: Edward Rutherford - talk about an epic. Good book, but i liked Sarum better.

"I am Charlotte Simmons," by Tom Wolfe

Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray and next is
Tolstoy's War and Peace. ... yee... ha...

One wonders the existence of threads such as this, what function do they serve? Does anyone actually go through each post reading the arbitrary titles?
(we'll see if anyone responds to this, and that will answer part of the question)

I just finished James Dickey's "Deliverance"--yes, the book THAT movie was based off of. It was all right. I didn't really care for Dickey's poetic style.

Now I'm reading Goethe's "Faust." I love Mephistopheles...he's so funny.

Next is Flannery O'Connor's "The Violent Bear It Away."

I'm also reading a book on Hindu philosophy. I think Faust would have been better off if he were a Hindu...his search for knowledge would just be considered a form of yoga and perhaps he would have even been able to attain Brahman.

I love school.

I do, because I like to see what other people read and people also usually include their opinion of the book with it. It's like a mini-review.

Zeraph: it's tough to come into the thread when it's 17 pages, but if you've been with it the whole time you read as you go and see suggestions and so forth.

Myself, I'm finally reading The High Lord, the last in Trudi Canavan's Black Magician trilogy. It's been a little tough to start because I read the first two 4 months ago, but I'm back into it now. It's an enjoyable (if quick) read.