Just finished Brothers In Arms - Margaret Weis and Don Perrin. Really good book if you're a Dragonlance fan.

Even better is The Soulforge, the precursor to Brothers In Arms.

nice avatar dragon2fire. If I'm not mistaken, that's Spoiler: Raistlin Majere in his laboratory in at the Tower of Palanthas during The Legends series.

Whatever you do, do not, for your own sake, EVER read the 5th Age Books - The Dawning of a New Age
The Day of the Tempest
The Eve of the Maelstrom

These are, in my mind, the worst books ever written. EVER. Best for you to read the Chronicles, then Legends, then Second Generation, the War Of Souls. You can completely leave out the 5th Age Saga, and not miss anything in the main plot line. That's how bad those books are. 900 pages of reading, not one inch of actual plot/timeline movement.

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.

An American Son: The Story of George Aratani (The Founder of Mikasa and Kenwood U.S.A.)

I did the same thing with that book before putting it down for good.

Im reading Catch 22 now. I love the book but Ive read the first 50 pages 7 times in the past year and keep putting it down. Im determined to get through it this time.

recently finished up "Great Gatsby"
Now i'm working on "Cold Mountain",
"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"
and the original "Peter Pan" for like the 30th time :D

I just finished "Make Your Own Damn Movie" by Lloyd Kaufman (president of Troma Films, one of the oldest truly independent movie studios, and director of such "B" classics as Toxic Avenger...etc.) ... A must read for anyone remotely interested in making their own films...or are interested in film/the filmmaking process.....useful and hilarious.

2 books atm, Maze of Mormonism and FastFood Nation. It is too bad that I am fickle, as I am about halfway thru both and have no interest to continue. Very good reads, but I would rather do nothing.

This Thread !!!


sorry had to be said :)

Started rereading Stephen King's "Skeleton Crew" for the 5th time.

Still working on "Where are they buried, how did they die?" by Tod Benoit

and

"Fallen Angels" by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle and Michael Flynn

If you ever want to know the real story (when you're done reading it of course), let me know W P Inman was my great uncle....his brother was my 3rd great grandfather

I just finished Prey by Michael Chrichton. If my Forgotten Realms books don't get here tonight, I will start the Alexander trilogy by Valerio Massimo Manfredi.

well, having just finished a few books, and now find myself at a loose end... i think its high time that i got stuck into an old classic...

here we go...

David Copperfield - Charles Dickens.

really? did he actually meet a Veasey?

I'm a cousin to the Veasey/Veazey family, my grandparents always go the reunions, and they always laugh/wonder at the use of the name, especially for such a scoundrel of a character.

That's easily one of the best books I have ever read. The movie is quite good, but I read the book first, and to me, the book is a lot better. I loved every page of it, I damn-near cried at the end, it is way more emotional in the book than with the movie. McMurphy is more of a "caricature" in the book also. I love it.

Oh yeah, it's written so beautifully, i'm absolutely loving it

Moved on to Wolves of the Calla by Stephen King. After that is Voices in the Fire by Alan Moore.

Bones of the Moon By Jonathan Carroll. The reviews on the back are by Pat Conroy, Stanislaw Lem and Stephen King. Talk about an odd amalgamation...

I'm getting ready to start reading The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. From what I hear it's pretty graphic and interesting...

Hell To Pay, George Pelicanos.

So far, so good.

I put down both Dennis Lehane & Carl Hiassen midbook as unreadable. Life is too short for shitty books.

Just finished "Heretics of Dune." Starting on "Chapterhouse: Dune."

Blue Highways by William Least Heat Moon. A more realistic Kerouac type road trip made by a Native American.

There are quite a few books that I'm somwhere between the beginning and end of:

"Kavalier & Clay" by Michael Chabon
"Islam" by Karen Armstrong
"Art & Fear" by Bayles and Orlando
"The Future of Freedom" by Fareed Zakaria

Also got a Kafka collection from the library but haven't dug into that yet.

Frankenstein.... Before that, Seabiscuit. highly recommend it.

Didn't know that George Orwell wrote Animal Farm! :lol:

I've just finished his "1984" which I think is awesome! the rest of my "must read list" is:

Animal Farm (just had to add this to the list!)
Brave New World
Lord of the rings
Harry Potter

Moby Dick! Great Book! I recommend reading it with a group so that you can discuss the philosophy and everything in the book in book talks! Otherwise it might be dull.

I just finished Jennifer Government by Max Barry. It's really good--sort of a 1984 for corporate America.

Great book.

Switched over to

"Live Rich" by Stephen M. Pollen and Mark Levine

"Care of the Soul" by Thomas Moore

Still making my way through "Skeleton Crew" by Stephen King.

When I realized I was reading three books at once, I had to resurrect the thread.
The Simulacra by Philip K. Dick
America:What Went Wrong by Donald Bartlett and James Steele, a pair of Inquirer reporters
and The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks
I'm not deep enough into America to feel one way or the other. Simulacra is good but depressing, and Zombie(which is exactly what it's titled) is hilarious and useful.

My sister just got me Stephen King's Dark Tower Books I-V for my birthday, so I'm starting those.

Im reading Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi

American Gods by Neil Gaiman, good stuff.

The Last Juror - John Grisham

It's pretty good so far. I'm so glad he's back to his law-related books. I like them a lot more than the last two (A Painted House and Bleachers) he wrote.

Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice.

I've read Lestat 3 or 4 times now and obviously love it, but I've disliked everything else I've read by her.

So far Interview is pretty good though. I wonder what that means.

The Koran
We Were Soldiers Once..and Young-L.Gen(Ret)Hal Moore&Joe Gallowway

"Point Counter Point" by Aldous Huxley

The most recent Star Wars book, by Timothy Zahn and
"Refiners Fire" by Mark Helprin

Just curious, have you read the Mayfair Witches books?


Recently finished The Bitch in the House, a collection of essays edited by Cathi Hanauer. "26 women tell the truth about sex, solitude, work, motherhood, and marriage." Very interesting stuff--and I saw more of myself in some of the essays than I would've cared to admit.

Durant's History of Civilization, Volume II: The Life of Greece.