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

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

The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky...

The Hogfather by Terry Pratchett.

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.)

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


Mr Mephisto

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

The Dark Tower:The Gunslinger - Stephen King.

Just finished reading IT a few days ago.

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

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 :)

john cage: silence

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

911 report

and the bros. k

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

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.

The Road to Serfdom, by F.A. Hayek

haunted weather: david toop

interesting book so far...

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

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)

Wastelands- Steven King

Dark Tower #3

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.


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I'm reading The Drifters by James A. Michener

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)

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

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 :(

Empire Falls - Richard Russo

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

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).

Wired and Discover magazine

The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

Black House by Stephen King and Peter Straub

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.

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

...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.

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

I tried reading this about five years ago, and couldn't get past page 13 or so. Just too...Oh, I don't know. It's not like I'm especially thick, or anything. At least, I don't think so. I loved Name of the Rose, but F's P is another kettle of fish entirely.
I'll have to try again - your enthusiasm is compelling - once I get the highly enjoyable Resurrection by Tolstoy out of the way :thumbsup:

I'm reading on "Choke" by Chuck Palahniuk. I'm about to start on Richard Brautigan's "Trout Fishing in America".

Just about to start Mystic River by Dennis Lehane.
Another book I want to read before I see the movie.

I just knocked out Stardust by Gaiman. Awesome.

I have a lot of books on the pile, but one is A Canticle for Leibowitz, finally.

The SS: Alibi of a Nation, 1922-1945
by Gerald Reitlinger

Hah! I just bought a recent translation of that. I recently finished Anne Applebaum's Gulag - A History, and it prompted my interest in some of the original source material.


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Plugging through American Gods (read Neverwhere last week). I was pretty sure where he was going when he started, but now I have not a clue. Gaiman always makes me so sad, but it's a good sad.

i just finished reading the walking drum by Louis La'mour it was a good book and the main character was great, he meets like 7 beautiful women and they practically fall in love with him in just a few moments. you've gotta read it to know what im talking about. lots of history in it and lots of swordplay.

"for today he who rides before an army may tomorrow lie in it's dust. I have only a sword, but a strong man need wish for no more than this: a sword in the hand, a horse between his knees, and a woman he loves at the battle's end"

that's my favorite quote from the book

Finished Girlfriend in a Coma (Douglas Coupland) on the train this morning. Didn't care much for the ending, but a good ready anyway.

Reading The Garrett Files by Glen Cook, a compilation of the first three Garrett books. I am enjoying them, though they are occasionally somewhat opaque for a few chapters, where you're just carried along until things are explained.

The Da Vinci Code

Those Opus Dei are a one wacky bunch of catholics... but I hope they don't read this.

Just finished Dangerous Visions edited by Harlan Ellison. Been looking for it for awhile, it was just re-released recently. If you like sf or anthologies, I can't recommend it enough.

Epic of Gilgamesh...not much of a read though.

I started with this one, enjoyed it so now I am going back to Angels and Demons.

Reading Kate Chopin's The Awakening for a class, and Heretics of Dune by Frank Herbert for fun - 4 down, two to go!

Waiting for new harry potter

The Confusion, book two of Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle. So far it's better than the first (Quicksilver), but just as hard to keep all the characters and names straight.

If you like Stephenson you have to read his 1996 Wired article, Mother Earth Mother Board, on the laying undersea fiberoptic cable. It's obviously a little dated now, but probably the best thing ever in Wired. Of course, in the grand tradition of Neal Stephenson, it's long and verbose --I remember getting this issue in college and being overwhelmed at how thick the magazine was -- be sure to set aside a few nights to read it.

Sidenote: I liked Neal Stepenson's old site better, when it was just a bunch of explanations about why he doesn't answer e-mail. I guess times change.

Getting ready to start "The Way the Crow Flies" by Ann-Marie MacDonald. I loved her first novel and just happened to see this in the bookstore last weekend. Had to grab it :)

Just finished 1984, moving onto Animal Farm when I have the opportunity. Can't believe in my so-called "edmucation" we never read them.

Incubus Dreams by Laurell K Hamilton - An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel

I decided to check out the Harry potter books. See if they are as good as people have told me they are.

About halfway through the Mars trilogy by Robinson. I must say it is rather slow going for a Hugo award winner. Still it was interesting to see the space elevator idea now being evaluated by Lockheed Martin.

Reading Angels and Demons by Dan Brown, along the same line as Da Vinci Code. Real good plot as well but how much of what is written is truth. I do believe that religion is/has been used for control over the masses. Anyone have suggestions on where one can learn more on the subjects Dan brown covers?

i just finished "heavies than heaven" its a biography of Kurt Cobain and was a great book and very detailed, its by Charles R. Cross and its over 350 pages so it is very detailed

i'm reading the thurber carnival; it's a collection of james thurber's short stories, and it's pretty good so far.

Neal Stephenson's The System of the World, its the last of the Baraque Cycle. Great stuff.

I'm reading C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters, and just finished Steven Hawkings The Universe in a Nutshell.

C.S. Forrester: Midshipman Hornblower

Just starting 1984, I have a feeling I will really like it.

I should be reading Everyday Encounters: An Introduction to Interpersonal Communication for one of my Health Sci classes... Instead I'm reading Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon for the 9000000th time (its the 2nd one in the Outlander series).

Im reading the Dharma Bums. Great book about living life on the seat of your pants.

Right now I am reading "Sign of Chaos" By Roger Zelanzy, one of the amber novels... but.... I just got emailed from my library that I can come and pick up The last Dark Tower Novel By Stephen King so I am gonna read that before finishing the amber novels...

DB

I finally knocked out the third of the Garret books. Now I have The Magicians' Guild, book one of the Black Magician Trilogy.

I am reading "Rotten" -- a biography of Johnny Rotten ... although it's more a biography of the Sex Pistols.

I am currently reading Tragedy and Hope by Quigley.

If anyone out there can handle this size (hold your comments), it is the bible for those who wish to know how global power (money) is truly held and used.

If you have ever felt that it doesn't seem to matter who is in power because it seems like the ultra-wealthy win either way, you are on to something...

Sandy Koufax : A Lefty's Legacy by Jane Leavy.

In the seemingly-eternal waiting period for George R. R. Martin's next book in the wonderful A Song of Ice and Fire series, I'm currently reading Battlecry of Freedom by James McPherson, an excellent history of the Civil War.

Bill Bryson's "the lost continent".

Not his best but any book by him will bring a smile to my face.

Just finished Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond. Very cool book, if dense at times.

Now celebrating the end of my midterms by reading The Bourne Supremacy by Robert Ludlum.

"Deception Point" by Dan Brown.

Reading "Shogun" by James Clavell all over again.

i am reading:
Don Quixote
&
America: the book
Instuctions to a game i just bought :D

Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver. It's out in trade paperback now.

His book Snow Crash was awesome

The world According to Garp

John Irving

I am finishing up Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King. Overall it was decent but forgettable. I'm a dark tower junky, so the back-story was the main draw.

I'm also rereading the great Wind Up Bird Chronicles by Haruki Murakami. Very surreal and fast-paced.

Bowling Alone, by robert putnam

[about 30 pages into it, about the evolution of the american community - very good]
[recommend it if you're into the social sciences, or if you're wondering why your dad was in the elks lodge, and for some reason(s) you dont want to be...]

after that, I'll probably gander @ jon stewart's new book.

Bernard Cornwell - "Excalibur" the third on his trilogy of The Warlord Series.

Right now, im reading the Tragedy of Macbeth by of course, William Shakespeare.

Piers Anthony's Firefly. The erotisicm is a little tacky but it's like Kublai Khan or whatever that wacky poem was. Just a weird world because all the main characters are mentally dysfunctional, to say the least.

"Bag of Bones" - Stephen King

Now that I've finished the Dark Tower Series, I'm catching up on the few novels that tie into the DT that I managed to miss.

The Battle of Dien Bien Phu

Still!

I've been reading so slowly lately. Need to buckle down.

I'm re-reading that wonderful Aubrey/Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian, starting again with Master and Commander.

glamorama by bret easton ellis, for the 4th time. one of these times i swear i'm going to read it with a highlighter, picking up on all the little things you pass right over the first time, unaware to their relevance in the story. the little scenes that wind up having 2 or 3 meanings once you've seen the whole picture.

Lots and lots of Textbooks along with God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert for recreation when I have time.

ditto the textbooks, plus some Medical Journal articles for my Rural Health Care class, and Voyager, the 3rd in a historical Scottish series I've read a bazillion times, for when I'm waiting for the bus :D

MIRACLES by C.S Lewis. I've become a big fan in the past year, and have expressed my disgust with anyone that knew about him and didn't bother to tell me! LOL

I really enjoyed The Great Divorce. Excellent book by Lewis.