I've been finally reading the Harry Potter books :)

on the 3rd one now.

For some reason, they are good, and i'm enjoying it ..

I think the fact that they are childrens books is somehow affecting my appreciation ..

(yet there are a couple kids books in my fave books ever list) ...

dunno.

:shrug:

Sun Tzu The Art of War-
It looks to be a good read, but the first half of the book is rather boring. Its entirely about the history of the text, and trying to put it in context with the time it was written in. I can't wait until I get to the good stuff.

I've finished Heinlein's Have Spacesuit - Will Travel and I'm now reading Farmer In The Sky, also by Heinlein.

The Last Samurai. After that, I'll be flashing back to the past and re-reading the Pyrdain Chronicles by Lloyd Alexander. I read the latter when I was very young and loved it so much, it's stayed with me and I only recently rediscovered the chronicles.

Same, bought the entire set minus Half-Blood for 40$.
Just started book 3.

Reading GLUE by Irvine Welsh. Its pretty good, his best in years.

I've finished Farmer In The Sky and I'm now reading Heinlein's Rocket Ship Galileo.

"Make your own damn movie," By Lloyd Kaufman. Great book on everything you need to know about making your own movie. Very funny. Lioyd Kaufman is president of "Troma" studios. The same people who brought you "The Toxic Avenger." :D

Just finished up "One of a Kind": The Rise and Fall of Stuey "The Kid" Unger by Nolan Dalla. A great look into this poker legend's brilliant and self-destructive life.

Governance of the Consuming Passions by Alan Hunt. It's a history of sumptuary law through the ages. :)

Just finished "As I Lay Dying" by William Faulkner. Moved onto "The Sound and the Fury", which is a REALLY HARD READ!

well i'm not reading it RIGHT now...

but in half an hour i'm goin to be reading Harry Potter & the Half Blood Prince...

I don't get mine until 2 hours and 41 minutes from now. But in the meantime I have a Potter Party to attend that will keep me entertained!

I am working on two books right now

Jane Austin Sense and Sensibility (second try) I might trade out for House of Leaves by Danielwieski(I think) the musician Poe's brother it goes along with her CD Haunted

Agatha Christie Crooked House

I just finished a really cheesy mystery (not even worth mentioning) and Haunted by Chuck Palahnuik (disturbing but good)

I am on a Sherlock Holmes-inspired kick. All the books use the character as its basis. Presently, and will finish within the hour, "A Three-Pipe Problem" (modern setting), then "The Moor" (Sherlock), then "Against the Brotherhood" (Mycroft).

nature's numbers by ian stewart

it's a book about the mathematical occurances in nature, so far so interesting

Fight Club- Chuck Palaniuk

Speaker For The Dead - Orson Scott Card

Misery- Stephen King :D

just finshed "spanglish" by Ilan Stavans.
has nothing to do with the adam sandler movie
(which i like, incidentally)

this particular book is an analysis of the blending of the two language both north and south of the rio grande, with a peek into how spain feels about it all... as if we care. :p

interesting for those into the two languages, or any one into border cultures / assimiliation issues at all.

i second that emotion.

just got my copy back that i lent out over a year ago.
might just have to reread it.

Right in the middle of "Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince"

so far it's pretty good. even if Ron is being a prat. And I may be speaking to soon. But Harry must be completely dim if he hasn't figured out who the prince is yet.

I just finished the last Harry Potter. It was pretty good. My thoughts are in the Potter thread.

Now I'm reading Bruce Campbell's latest. Make Love the Bruce Campbell Way

Funny stuff, but I would expect no less.

Next is a book by Cornelia Funke (I hope I spelled that right :) ) I can't remember the title as I don't have it right in front of me, but she's supposed to be Germany's answer to J.K. Rowling, so I thought I'd give her book a go and see what's what.

read the first third of Freakonomics today

pretty interesting stuff...so far the author, an exceptionally creative individual with a background in economics, analyzes the validity of conventional wisdom WRT a variety of situations. he uses simple math to support unique correlations dealing with crime, cheating, morality, etc.

EDIT: here's a link to his papers if you're interested
http://pricetheory.uchicago.edu/levitt/LevittCV.html

I just finished "1776" - not too bad but it was a little hard to follow, if only because it picks up and ends with the year itself. I plan on now going out and finding a few more books about the war so help fill in the gaps.

I'm back to Robin Cook novels, kinda "Crighton" like.

Trace by Patricia Cornwell. I like all but the last Scarpetta novel, I'm really not liking the way the books are written in third person instead of first, but as a loyal fan, I have to find out what's going on.

Finished Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand like 5 days ago... man that book was a lot of work to read... had to stay focused on it or i wouldnt absorb it... but it was pretty good

and then earlier today finished the Harry potter and the half blood prince book... it was good...


tryin to figure out what to read next... maybe enders game or maybe into thin air by jon krakauer

Just finished The Taking by Dean Koontz..

Next I'm thinking Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison, it looks interesting...

After finishing Half-Blood Prince 6 hours after buying it, I've been in a rut. Can't focus on any book longer than 20 or 30 pages. Can't really find anything else I want to read without going to the store and buying a book. Which I might. Might get "Until I Find You," The new John Irving, although his last book wasn't that great and this one seems like a rehashing of all his old stuff, most notably "Garp."

I do want to check out "The Historian" though...

The Historian, by Elizabeth Kostova. Pretty good so far.

A Heartbreaking of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers (founder of McSweeneys)



Incredible book so far. Has to be one of my favorites of all-time, and I'm not even half way through yet.

I used to read a lot of Dean Koontz and recently Elmore Leonard. If you havent, i would reccommend trying them out. Just some FYI.

Anyway, right now im reading NAM by Mark Baker. It is very very good. Its about vietnam and it is just a bunch of stories told by the soldiers who were actually there. Some of the stuff you hear these guys say will blow your mind. I reccommend this to anyone interested in learning about what it was like over there.

Its interesting to see that a lot of what you see in the movies, is pretty accurate. But with the book you get all the behind the scenes stuff. They even get some nurses to tell their stories.

Let me see if i can find a short one and i'll give you a little taste:
Spoilers!!(I guess) better to be safe:
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"Chapter: Grunts"
I had jungle rot so bad on my hands that the only way I could carry my rifle
was to cradle it in the bend in my elbows with my hands up in front of my
face. I couldnt hold on to it my hands were so sore and burning. My feet
were like that too.

Same Chapter:
You know how you stop the shits? You eat the peanut butter in the C-rations. You wouldnt shit again until you drank the Grape Juice. Drink the grage juice you shit your brains out. Between the grape juice and the peanut butter you were regular.

Those are just some mid-level stories, they got some real good stuff in there.

"Nightmares & Dreamscapes" by Stephen King

"Myth-Ion Improbable" by Robert Asprin

I'm about to start "The Porno Girl and Other Stories" by Merin Wexler

I just started reading "Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life among the Pirates" by David Cordingly. The book is about the history of pirates. The book is fascinating to read because it distinguishes between the myths and truths about pirates.

Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, its really good, I like Vonnegut's stuff a lot

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six. Again.

To be honest, I think the games are better than the book, and I don't even like the games a huge amount. I just need something to read right now.

Re-reading Jack London's The Iron Heel. For the third time in a year.

I'm reading Nicholas Sparks' A Bend in the Road I love his books. They are for all you hopeless romantics out there