neonscreamer

Eye of the Dragon
by Stephen King

It's an old one, but it's still one of his best books.

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kulrblind

Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World
by Mark Kurlansky

I love it so far. Mind you, I'm living in Eastern Canada, so it kinda hits close to home.

ranger

Just finished the whole Dark Tower series by Stephen King. Took me three weeks, second time reading all but the first two (Read those several times) and still could not put them down. It all makes even more sense now.

Note: The LAST line is the FIRST line!!!! AAAHHH!!! GGRRRR!! (someone knows what i mean here)

Also reading From the Corner of His Eye by Dean Koontz. I LIKE it! I've read alot of Koontz and he just seemed like a cheap Stephen King, same storylines and plot twists in all his books ( the extra smart dog, the mossberg shotgun, someone with special forces training, aliens, etc., etc.) but this is really great.

metalgeek

Currenlty burning my way through all of Kurt Vonnegut's books, since they were all I had to read right now (got a lot more now) But I'm really enjoying his books, just absurd enough to be fantastic.
Also just recently finished Memoirs of a Geisha, pretty good book, hollywood will destroy it of course
Also now going through project gutenburg and going through all those old books.

Grasshopper Green

The Key To Rebecca by Ken Follett. Love his books. Can't wait for the sequel to The Pillars Of The Earth to come out; I think I have a several year wait

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wolf

Currently reading Incubus Dreams by Laurell K. Hamilton and Angels and Demons by Dan Brown.

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Camelbackcinema

I, Robot by Isaac Asimov

Great book.

keyshawn

just finished, last week, robert putnam's <i>bowling alone</i> If you're interested in the social sciences AT ALL, I recommend this read, although it's very dense and sometimes dry.
[How many of your neighbor's names do you actually know ?]

Now, I'm on metamorphsis by franz kafka.


For school [modern american lit. class] We finished hemingway's the sun also rises.

Now, still in the 1920's, fitzgerald's the great gatsby is upon us. [the second i'm reading it].

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Livia Regina

<i>Christianity and Paganism in the Fourth to Eighth Centuries</i> by Ramsey Macmullen
It's for a paper I have to write in my Ancient Christianity class.

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Just finished the first three of Larry Niven's Ringworld novels. Great books only because your mind never forgets the fact that you are reading about a giant ring around a star--something that you brain can not imagine all at once, only small parts of it.

I have to read Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck and I hope that will be good. It's cutting into my re-reading of Battlefield Earth by Hubbard (READ IT!!!! THE MOVIE BUTCHERED THE NOVEL AND FOREVER GAVE IT A BAD NAME!!) and Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and Much Ado About Nothing though.

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oktjabr

Just read The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon (part of my read something from all the classic writers-project). I might just be stupid but I found it a bit hard to follow occasionally (or maybe the translation was bad).

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joemc91

Just finished Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris and started on A Man In Full by Tom Wolfe. So far it's excellent and the book by David Sedaris was hilarious. After I finish that one it will be one to Collapse by Jared Diamond.

maleficent

One of the most fascinating things about that book was that it was written by a man. He really portrayed women accurately.

Currently reading Dean Koontz's Frankenstein, Book One: The Prodigal Son. Dean doesn't write literature, and some of his earlier books were quite formulatic, but I don't care... This is reading for entertainment, and so far this book is doing the job. It's a great fast moving story about a serial killer... (the name Frankenstein isn't by accident -- the tagline is you only kmow half the story.)

It was apparently going to be a miniseries on USA Network, and Koontz didn't like where USA was taking it, so he bailed on the project and wrote the books instead.

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maleficent

If you liked that, read the Santaland Diaries by him.. it's a riot...

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Philip K Dick - Our Friends from Frolix 8
Umberto Eco - The Name of the Rose
Gene Wolfe - The Knight

Yes, I read multiple books at one time, and it is mainly for the time of day and how I feel when I read.

Locke

Sick Puppy by Carl Hiaasen. Pretty good so far.

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Telluride

I'm currently re-reading Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand and Between Planets, by Robert Heinlein. I'm about five pages away from finishing Between Planets, and then I will start reading The Probability Broach, by L. Neil Smith.

Ace_O_Spades

I'm currently reading all my University texts

Haha, but leisure reading:

A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking

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sgn43

I should be reading my school material and books, but I'm hooked on Live From New York by Tom Shales & James Andrew Miller, and slowly reading The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World by A.J. Jacobs on the side. Both are fantastic, and I HIGHLY recommend both to anyone, especially those who love a good laugh and/or story.

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Booray

Double Image - David Morrell (the guy who wrote First Blood; he writes action/suspense novels that are really quick entertaining reads)

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Camelbackcinema

just finished Road to Mars by Eric Idle, good book for those who like humour.

Just started Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, prolly finish before the week is out. It's quite an entertaining book.

Val_1

Jesus on Mars by Phillip K Dick. Nice cheesy sci fi with a bit of theology. I've got Songs of Distant Earth by A C Clarke queued up next.

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-Frank Sinatra

Telluride

Okay...I lied. After finishing Between Planets I began reading Heinlein's Starman Jones.

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Stick

I've just opened up The Book of the Courtier by Baldesar Castiglione. The author was a diplomat and Papal Nuncio to Rome in the early 1500's (the book was written in 1528) and it defines the essential virtues for those at Court. Discussing noble behaviour, the duties of a good government and the true nature of love - according to the cover blurb. Hope I learn something.

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SiNai

Between reading all my required books for class, I have 3 books going at the same time- the classic TH White The Once and Future King, Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom, and Carl Sagan's The Dragons of Eden. I just don't have enough time to sit down and finish any of them, well perhaps Morrie, so I'm just reading a little at a time until spring break or summer when I can finish them all.

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Slavakion

Just finished Assemblers of Infinity by Kevin J. Anderson (and another writer, but his name slips my mind).

Good sci-fi story. Goes into the advantages/disadvantages of nanotechnology, but the ending was kind of lacking. I'd recommend it.

Bryndian_Dhai

I'm reading Kingdom of the Grail by Judith Tarr. She's absolutely amazing, an incredible writer whose ability to suck me into the world she's writing about and completely take me over is astounding.

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gnort

I'm currently reading The Horse and the Boy by C.S. Lewis as well as Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein.

Also reading From Socrates to Sartre: The Philosophic Quest by T.Z. Lavine for class.

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maleficent

102 Minutes : The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers
by Jim Dwyer, Kevin Flynn
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This book is a lot harder to read that I thought it would be -- it's well written, it's well researched, but there are parts that are so infuriating, you just want to scream... Why? It's also go moments of such compassion and poignancy. At no point do the authors make the claim that the FDNY and NYPD didn't do all they could, but the book introduces you to the ordinary people who worked together and who banded together to help where they could. I would like to believe we all have enough goodness and humanity to assist an injured person down 50+ flights of stairs or that we would "stay with a friend" who was wheelchair bound till help arrived as well as a few other moments scattered throughout the book...

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Kostya

Long Walk to Freedom - Nelon Mandela.

Sweet book, though Mandela doesn't waste much time explaining context at points, so it would be hard if you had no education on South African history to begin with. He is a competent, no nonsense writer, but the power comes from the events.

CandyLover

Choke by Chuck Palaniuk(the writer of fight club)

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Amnesia620

"The Manhattan Hunt Club" by John Saul; "Celeste" by V.C. Andrews; Tilted Forum Project threads (daily, for a few hours at least)

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Kadath

About to go on a business trip and am bringing Factotum by Charles Bukowski and Che's Motorcycle Diaries, along with some trash scifi.

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Bacchanal

At the recommendation of a friend, "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand and "Love is a Dog From Hell" by Bukowski.

So far both are great, I can honestly say that I've never read anything like either of those books.

Booray

Elmore Leonard's "Be Cool"

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nofnway

Churchill on leadership....Stephen F. Hayward

Confederacy of dunces...John Kennedy Toole

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"Iron rusts with disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold water freezes. Even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind"
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Telluride

I've finished Starman Jones and I'm now reading The Da Vinci Code.

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jhkayakr

The Abs Diet

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degrawj

i am currently reading Tuesday's with Morrie, on a suggestion from a friend. it's a pretty good book so far, but i can tell, it's going to be so freaking sad. :-(

snowy

I'm reading the Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant. I love historical novels.

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