ranger

just finished "The Partner" by John Grisham. the best "worst" ending ever. totally unexpected. highly recommended

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radioguy

cabal by clive barker

yournamehere

My tenth Wilbur Smith novel so far, The Burning Shore.

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"If your ridiculous pants are too loose, you're definitely going to lose them. Tell your two loser friends over there that they're going to lose theirs, too."
It won't hurt your fashion sense, either.

Bill O'Rights

Just finished Digital Fortess, by Dan Brown. Meh...it was...okaaaay. I found it very...predictable.

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"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires." - Susan B. Anthony

"Hedonism with rules isn't hedonism at all, it's the Republican party." - JumpinJesus

It is indisputable that true beauty lies within...but a nice rack sure doesn't hurt.

macmanmike6100

Confederacy of Dunces

guthmund

I just finished the latest Brian Greene book I mentioned earlier.

I must say it was oh, so hard to get through. I'm a pretty intelligent guy, but jeez-a-lou.

I've decided to go fluff next and am about halfway through Dune: The Battle of Corrin.

After that, it's a quick romp through the Hitchhiker's Guide before going to see the movie on the 29th.

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Derwood

Survivor by Chuck Pahluniahaiueukcuuekcueck

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hunnychile

I'm reading my 5th Wilbur Smith novel, "Monsoon," - just started it this week. A wonderful exciting read! He's so much more interesting than some writers of his caliber. As this is fiction...I am also reading another book based upon reality. That book is called "Black Elk Speaks" by John G. Neihardt. It is the life story of a Holy Man from the Oglala Sioux Indian Tribe and it's based upon 6 generations of tribal tales and teachings including information told to the author by Black Elk. It encompasses the various tribes reactions and spiritual significance after the tragedy at Wounded Knee.

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keyshawn

aha - TFP members reading the same book currently !

I've knocked out about 150 pgs or so thus far, don't want to say anything for spoilers, other than its getting better than anticipated and the reader's relationship with ignatius is such a love/hate one.

breakfast of champions - my last read - was very good, although IMO, I thought the ending was a swerve and a minor letdown...

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begforme2

Vernon God Little by D.B.C. Pierre. Those Chuck Palahniuk out there will really enjoy this one. It's about a kid whose best friend decidedes to shoot up the school at their small texas town and is accused of being an accomplice.

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abaya

Jared Diamond's latest grand-theory-of-humanity book, Collapse. It's okay for those who liked Guns, Germs, and Steel (I'm not such a big fan).

Also I must highly recommend The Time Traveller's Wife as the last best book I read.

Any David James Duncan fans out there, btw? (River Why, Brothers K)... he's my fave.

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for Love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
--Khalil Gibran

snowy

I started in on Flannery O'Connor's "And The Violent Bear It Away." I don't know how I feel about it yet.

I'm wrapping up Faust by Goethe...I'm going to use Faust to write a paper on Hindu philosophy. Yes, it will be a very interesting paper--my argument is that Faust would have been better off as a Hindu, and there are various reasons why this is true, which I won't get into here.

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killeena

Right now I am reading, "Buddhism for non-believers." I don't remember the author off-hand. But it is really good, it really changed my view on what Buddhism is all about, and about Buddha himself. Very interesting coming from an Agnostic point of view.

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MichaelFarker

I started pushing myself to try new authors semi-randomly.
Thus I am reading Casual Rex by Eric Garcia about dinosaur private detectives in a modern L.A. where humans and human-sized dinosaurs live side by side. The setting sounded silly at first but the writing is fantastic.

I came across some unread works by one of my favorite authors, Alan Dean Foster. I am currently on Lost and Found.

And over the next 3 weeks I am reading 395 pages of Fundamentals of Managerial Economics 7e by Mark Hirschey. It is hard to understand the meaning behind all the numbers and graphs he throws out. Macroeconomics 6e by Roger A. Arnold was far better. Why is it so rare to find a textbook that is easy to learn from?

sgn43

Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen and Blink by Malcolm Gladwell (the author of Tipping Point, which I plan on getting my hands on soon). Both really interesting reads so far.

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martinguerre

just finished "xenocide" by Orson Scott Card....also working on "Franny and Zooey" by JD Salinger.

i think i like F&Z a lot better....but there's always a time and place for mind candy reading.

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Strange Famous

I searched and couldnt find a thread like this... and thought there should be one...

Right now I am reading "The Conquest of Mexico" by Hugh Thomas. I'm only about 50/60 pages in, but so far its fascinating. I saw some documentaries about Cortes a few years ago, and always wanted to learn more about him and his conquest since then. Certainly in the documentary I saw "Conquistidors" - he was painted in a very ambivalent light... on the one hand, a conquerer, a butcher, a destroyer of nations... but on the other hand a visionary, a colosal gambler, driven by his God and his desire to deliver people to the Holy Roman church...

perhaps it just means that those who commit violence in what they believe are the interests of good are far more dangerous than those who act out of petty motivations such as greed or agression

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for all things are plain in the sight of Heaven. For nothing
hidden will not become manifest, and nothing covered will remain
without being uncovered."

The Gospel of Thomas

radioguy

the millenium problems: the seven greatest mathematical problems of our time

**i haven't figured out how to solve them yet

alpha

Couldn't find? This is always on the first page here..

What are you reading right now?

MovieNut

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I like these calm little moments before the storm. It reminds me of Beethoven. Can you hear it? It's like when you put your head to the grass and you can hear the growin' and you can hear the insects. Do you like Beethoven ?

MovieNut

...at the end of Clive Cussler's Deep Six . It's the first book of his I've read, and liked it much more than expected. Still say Dirk Pitt is a silly name for a lead character, but the book was almost as much fun to read as DaVinci Code or Airframe, which is one of my favorites.

Plus, now that Sahara has been made into a movie, will have to pick that book up at some point.

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I like these calm little moments before the storm. It reminds me of Beethoven. Can you hear it? It's like when you put your head to the grass and you can hear the growin' and you can hear the insects. Do you like Beethoven ?

Strange Famous

ah.. clearly Im a fool!

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"Do not tell lies, and do not do what you hate,
for all things are plain in the sight of Heaven. For nothing
hidden will not become manifest, and nothing covered will remain
without being uncovered."

The Gospel of Thomas

Strange Famous

The Conquest of Mexico - Hugh Thomas

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for all things are plain in the sight of Heaven. For nothing
hidden will not become manifest, and nothing covered will remain
without being uncovered."

The Gospel of Thomas

Fremen

Not a bit of it.

Just not so great with the keywords.

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cellophanedeity

I've been reading philosophy notes for days now...

The last book I've finished is Motion in Poetry, a collection of poems/lyrics by Toronto based feminist rap artist Motion. We studied the book in Lit, and she came in to speak to us. It was awesome. If you want to hear more about her, or download two of her tracks, here's a website.

http://www.cspi.org/womenspress/books/m/motion.htm

DownwardSpiral

American Psycho, by Bret Easton Ellis.

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Our Heavens Worth the Waiting.
Keep on Pretending.
It's Alright."

-- H.I.M., "Pretending"

Loup

Currently half-way through Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card.

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Derwood

The "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series. Almost done with "Life, The Universe and Everything."

On deck: "The Hobbit" and a collection of William Faulkner books.

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roachboy

jan potocki: a manuscript found in saragossa

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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear

it make you sick.

-kamau brathwaite

anti fishstick

V for Vendetta (Alan Moore) and The Demon Haunted World (Carl Sagan)

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Telluride

I'm still working on Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand. I'm not in any hurry, since I've read it before. Basically, I'm always reading this book. Once I finish it, I start reading it again.

The two other books I'm reading at the moment:

Have Spacesuit - Will Travel, by Robert Heinlein

Southern by the Grace of God, by Michael Andrew Grissom

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"I am certain that nothing has done so much to destroy the safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice." - Friedrich Hayek

Destrox

Reading:

"The Matarese Countdown" - Robert Ludlum

My favorite author ever, and this book is just awesome. It flows well with the previous one "The Matarese Circle"

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Dano069

I've picked up the last few M.Y.T.H. Inc. books by Robert Asprin. It's been fun to get back into the story of Aahz and Skeeve and the rest of the group. Right now, I'm reading Something M.Y.T.H. Inc.

I'm also reading "Why Buildings Stand Up" by Mario Salvadori.

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Derwood

The Hobbit. Somehow I never read this one as a kid.

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Cuatela

Just finished Engines of Destiny. Star Trek, Scotty goes back in time to save Kirk from the Nexus, and screws up the timeline...then puts him back and fixes it. 336 pages to tell me that...

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radioguy

silent bob speaks (the collected writings of kevin smith) -- very funny and very good. it gives you a good insight into his life as well as ben affleck's and a couple of other peoples. if you like the man or the movies, check it out.

TexanAvenger

Lolita, Vladmir Nabokov

A master of the English and, from what I hear, Russian language... I could read his opening to this book time and time again and never tire of it.

guthmund

I just finished the "His Dark Materials" series. It was recommended...by someone here...I think...

Anyway, I wasn't all that impressed with it, but maybe because I'm a bit older (it was in the young adult section of the local library ) and expect more from stories like this.

Currently reading two books.

Across the Nightingale Floor, which is interesting, but the writers style is throwing me off a bit.

Longitudes and Attitudes - Thomas Friedman. I thought this was an actual book. Turns out it's just a collection of his columns, which to me...isn't an actual book at all. It seems kind of a cheap way to author a book.

On deck are the Harry Potter books to get me ready for the next installment in July. Tee hee!

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chickentribs

"A love supreme" which is a lovely book about the music of John Coltrane. Not him, seriously the plot revolves around the genius of his music.

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nukeu666

wheel of time-book 3

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