what book are you reading

[MisterBishi]

Originally posted by MisterBishi
I finished this book yesterday and I recommend it wholeheartedly, especially to trained cynics like myself.

I can't review it properly because I lack the eloquence required to do it justice (I can review things that I hate easily), but it is a fantastic, frighteningly relevant and darkly hilarious read.

I don't know what to do next, I can't afford to spend £15 a week on books.

This book has won the Booker Prize (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/3191160.stm), if you still haven't taken my advice to read it, then do so. :cool:

[Hired Goon]

Bangkok 8 by John Burdett. Pretty good so far. Its about a Thai cop who is investigating the murder of his partner.

Its really descriptive and well written, and still manages to keep the plot flowing nicely.

[SOC]

Originally posted by MisterBishi
I've just ordered Vernon God Little (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0571215157/ref=sr_aps_books_1_1/202-8148357-1936639) by D.B.C Pierre, I hope it's as good as the reviews I've read suggest.

There is a reader review on the amazon.co.uk link above (not available on amazon.com yet :confused: ), but it seems the guy was looking for sitcom humour after reading comments such as that below, and was somewhat surprised.

'You know what this terrific book is like? It's like The Osbournes invited The Simpsons round for a root beer, and Don DeLillo dropped by to write a new song for Eminem.'

I'll let you know if it's any good, fans of satire be prepared.

I finished this book yesterday and I recommend it wholeheartedly, especially to trained cynics like myself.

I can't review it properly because I lack the eloquence required to do it justice (I can review things that I hate easily), but it is a fantastic, frighteningly relevant and darkly hilarious read.

I don't know what to do next, I can't afford to spend £15 a week on books.

This book has won the Booker Prize, if you still haven't taken my advice to read it, then do so.

Originally posted by Chrissy
Vernon God Little, kindly lent to me by MisterBishi.

OK Bishi, stop your nagging, I'll read it! I've actually read and heard a lot about this book, even before it won the Booker Prize. Can I please borrow your copy when Chrissy is finished with it?

I've just finished John Grisham's latest paperback, The King Of Torts. He's good for a light, quick read that doesn't tax the brain too much but still keeps you interested till the end.

Am about to start Sex and Drugs and Sausage Rolls, by Robert Rankin, an author that Pirate has raved to me about quite a few times. So I picked this up at a secondhand bookstore at Camden Markets last Saturday, and if I like it, will definitely read some more of his stuff.

[Diva]

Katherine Kerr's Deverry books are good. Hell, make that very very good. I highly recommend them to someone who wants to read a well detailed fantasy series that doesn't follow the usual 'hero's quest' narrative.

I've just reread the first 8 Stephanie Plum books by Janet Evanovich. They make me laugh out loud every time :cool:

[rosamund]

Riddle of the Sands - Erskine Childers

Originally posted by BlueBoy
'If Chins Could Kill - Bruce Campbell'

I was wondering if this was any good.

It's really good; funny, warm, well written and eminently re-readable...

[Spotgun]

Hunter S. Thompson - Generation Of Swine

[kyuss]

Originally posted by pleed
It explores how people commit Arson, Murder and Suicide becuase of influence of music.


What came first? Arson, Murder and Suicide or Pantera?



I'm reading George Orwell's Animal Farm in between work and study...

[lego72]

Got sick of Dragons of Autumn Twilight so started reading The Skrinking Man by Richard Matherson.

[BlueBoy]

Originally posted by rosamund
It's really good; funny, warm, well written and eminently re-readable...

Cool. I'll pick it up when I do a book run next. :)

[ersatz]

just finished Voyage by Stephen Baxter, nice bit of alternate history.

Starting to read "Contemporary Solitude", the author's name eludes me.

[druid]

At the moment I'm reading Ohjelmistoliiketoiminta by prof Eero Hyvönen. They must have used some weird chemical in the ink because each time I open it I start to feel very very sleepy.

When my order from Amazon arrives I'll be reading Snow Crash, then Angels and Demons.

[reaperman]

Finished Ice Station a whiles ago, just finished reading The Blue Edge of Midnight by Jonathon King, fairly good read, storyline is a bit slow at times though.

[Diva]

Night Watch by Pterry! :D

[Sambellina]

Originally posted by Chrissy
Vernon God Little, kindly lent to me by MisterBishi

I'm going to buy this book ASAP - just read the first chapter in the SMH today (http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/10/16/1065917541036.html) and it interests me already.

[Whiskers]

Originally posted by Drakin
haha, Feist has the wierdest way of writing... he just skips huge bits and then goes into stupid amount of details on a hardly relevant part..


Have you tried any katherine kerr? deverry series..




(Currently reading Tad Williams - Otherland (Book1))

Ah, Katherine Kerr...I loved that series. I've read the first 8, but my library refused to buy the new ones, and so I never got around to it.

[Conny!]

I picked up Scarecrow by Matt Reilly yesterday. Already 2/3 through it. I like his stuff, just non-thinking action. Can't wait to see some of his ideas put to film.

Also just finished reading Robert Ludlums The Paris Option. A bit weak on the actual facts, but thats not why i read these kinds of books.

[SOC]

Just finished Waiting For Godalming, by Robert Rankin (damn you, Pirate!) ... now reading Downsize this, by Michael Moore.

[sagit]

Nearing the end of "Homicide...". might start on the clive barker book i just got, next...

[Peach]

Just finished 'Slaugherhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut', half way through 'Dude, where's my country - Michael Moore'.

[SOC]

Originally posted by Peach
Just finished 'Slaugherhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut', half way through 'Dude, where's my country - Michael Moore'.

We should swop when you're done!

[sagit]

Originally posted by SOC
We should swop when you're done!

/slaps SOC

its "swap"! dont you know english?

:D

[LisaJ]

Currently reading "Blowfly" by Patricia Cornwell, its the latest in the Dr. Scarpetta series...

[SirTwist]

Re-reading Sophie's Choice by Jostein Gardner.

A good Philosophy 101, with great narrative and interesting twists.

[Tyfus]

Terry Pratchett - Soul Music

In English this time.

[SirTwist]

What's Pratchett like when he's translated?

[Diva]

Originally posted by LisaJ
Currently reading "Blowfly" by Patricia Cornwell, its the latest in the Dr. Scarpetta series...

how are you finding it? I haven't read the last one although I have had it for a while (Black Notice?), I just needed a break from the relentless grimness of it all. And I got sick of every single case being personal to her.

but it might be time to start reading them again. I just got a bit turned off after Point of Origin and the loup-garou one

[stumpy]

"the cat in the hat" by dr seuss

i am nearly finished after three years
i am so proud of myself cos it says "up to 6 years" on the back of the cover

[junglebunny]

Just finished "Straight life - the story of Art Pepper." Amazing stuff - when you think that it is true it blows your mind. Powerful.Weird.

[ersatz]

Stephen King - The Stand (full version). A lovely little rom in the hay if ever there was.

[oracle]

I'm currently reading The Hermetica: The Lost Wisdom of the Pharaohs... but I should finish that by this evening.

After that, I'm tossing up between one of the following three: Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language; Alpha Beta; or The Templar Revelation

[sagit]

Finished the first reading of my "Homicide" book at lunch today.

I guess I'll start on the Clive Barker book I have

[angel_b]

I'm currently reading "Last Drinks" by Andrew McGahan.

It's a murder mystery set against the backdrop of the Fitzgerald Inquiry.

And it's set in Brisbane, with lots of mention of surburbs and landmarks, which makes it uber :cool:

A ripper read!

[junglebunny]

Ah yes, the stand is good. actually I always enjoy King's books. Am now re-reading "how young they died" - topical time to do so.

[BlueBoy]

Matthew Reilly - Contest

[Princess]

I Capture The Castle by Dodie Smith

absolutely beautiful

[Colonel Kurtz]

Billy - Pamela Stephenson

[Bifrost]

Atatürk – Rebirth of a Nation, Patrick Kinross

[Skouboe]

"Return of The King" by Tolkien and "The great Shark Hunt" by Hunter S.Thompson!

[sagit]

Imajica - Clive Barker

[dogwomble]

Australian Personal Computer and NetGuide. Just looking out for what our own inhouse journos have written.

[gamooma]

Stephen King's "Needful Things"
Douglas Adams "Salmon of Doubt"
Whatever else I can lay my hands on. It's been far too long since I've read anything REALLY good.

[MoleTeaser]

I am also reading Return of the King. The books are a lot easier to read when you haven't seen the movie yet. Because although he is still a pretty boring writer, at least you don't know everything that's going to happen.

Also I found a funny quote on page 238 (of the latest film tie-in edition) when these two orcs are arguing with each other:

" 'Not much use are you, you little snufflers?' said the big orc. 'I reckon eyes are better than your snotty noses.'
'Then what have you seen with them?' snarled the other. 'Garn! You don't even know what you're looking for.' "

Cool. Next the orcs will be telling each other to git farked.

[lego72]

Dreamcatcher - Stephen King.

I probably should just watch the movie, its a shit book.

[Skouboe]

Originally posted by MoleTeaser
Because although he is still a pretty boring writer

:eek: :eek:

[gamooma]

Originally posted by lego72
Dreamcatcher - Stephen King.

I probably should just watch the movie, its a shit book.

The book is better than the movie, so I'd just give up if I were you.

[lego72]

Originally posted by gamooma
The book is better than the movie, so I'd just give up if I were you.

If the movie is like any other movie based on a Stephen King book I am expecting it to be shit. But want to know what happens in the end!! Does the movie follow the book's story (more or less)?

[GSC]

I must say that I'm very impressed!! So many avid readers. I do plan on reading some of your recomendations.

Atm I reading The Hours and I do plan on watching the movie when I'm done, can anyone tell me if it is worth my time??

Before this I read Mrs Dalloway by Viginna Wolf, I thought thhat it was very fitting.

[Lujan]

The Fools Run by John Sandford.

Sandford is better known for his gritty detective series based on Lucas Davenport, I just got a co[y of his first two Kidd books, of which Fools run is the first. Its quite good so far. All geeky in a early 90's kind of way..

[SOC]

Recently finished "Tricky Business", by Dave Barry.

Now reading "The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of The Apocolypse", by Robert Rankin.

Have started borrowing books (including these two) from our local library, seeing as we are so poor.

[LisaJ]

Last night in an attempt to sleep, I started to read Lord of the Rings, Two Towers, I started to read it like last year, but can only read it in small doses, but at least Im reading it...

[GSC]

I just finished The Hours and I have moved on to Nancy Wake, the biography.

[Glompbot]

Originally posted by GSC
I just finished The Hours and I have moved on to Nancy Wake, the biography.

You really should read her autobiography, its damned amusing.


I'm currently reading an omnibus called The End of the Game by Sheri S Tepper... It contains the books Jinian Footseer, Dervish Daughter and Jinian Star-Eye.

Sheri S Tepper is one of my favourite authors.

[Goat Boy]

I just finished re-reading The Dice Man (http://www.thegline.com/book-of-the-week/2000/12-07-2000.htm) by Luke Reinhart for the nth time. Sitting my desk, yet to be opened is Matthew Reilly's (http://www.matthewreilly.com/) latest Scarecrow.

[SOC]

Finished the Bunnies. Now reading Brief Encounters, by Neil Rose. The (London) Telegraph called it "wickedly funny".

[StygiaN]

"Quicksilver" by Neal Stephenson. Pretty good so far (even though it's a bit confusing).

Dave

[BlueBoy]

Interface - Neal Stephenson.

Looked for Cryptonomicon but couldn't find it.

[dozer]

wow i ve just started the dice man, hes just done his neighbours wife and discovering the librating feeling of die.

[MisterBishi]

I bought Catch 22 and Dude Where's My Country yesterday. Gonna read Michael Moore first, that crackpot makes me laugh.

[Diva]

I read Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey last week, was really good. It is an almost historical earth setting, just slightly different, so I guess it would fit into fantasy / historical genres.

I picked up the sequel, Kushiel's Chosen today, so I'll see if that lives up to the first one.

I also got the Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales, which two of my university lecturers contributed to. For those who are interested in the history of literature, take a look at this. It examines (in alphabetical order) european fairy tales, where their source material is drawn from, and who wrote them down. A lot of interesting stuff there.

[MisterBishi]

Sounds pretty grimm..

[Wolfette13]

Started reading the next book in the "Left Behind" series title:
Armageddon. I struggled through the first few chapters. If you know the history of the series it is based on "Revelation" in the Bible. The Authors have expanded what is written and turned it into a series of books for the different sections of Revelation.
Anyway, up to this point the books have been excellent however, this one I guess I've perhaps over analyzed too much. I'm not sure; anyway I put it on the book shelf with the others perhaps to not finish. I hate not finishing books though. Who knows, one of these days I may pick it up again. This reader gives the entire series to date 3.75 stars. Another book or two is due to be relased at a later date, I'm hoping they are much better than
Armageddon.

[JessicaDV8]

My mom gave me a collection of works by classic women authors for Christmas. I just finished Pride and Prejudice and I'm almost done with Jane Eyre.

P&P was annoying. It's just too dated. I can see that it is good writing, but all the deference to manners grated on me, as it would on anyone in this time. It made me appreciate how good we have it, that I don't have to put up with assholes for the sake of my family's fortune or my reputation or whatever. Good book, but still frustrating.

I liked Jane Eyre better. I liked the honesty of the characters.

I also recently read Timeline. It was an excellant book. I have not seen the movie.

[lego72]

Just finished Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less - Jeffery Archer and 'Salem's Lot - Stephen King (this is one of the scariest books I ever read as a kid and also got me hooked on SK).

Have a got a few on the go - the 2nd last Harry Potter (Gobet of Fire?), The Shrinking Man - Richard Matherson, and (still reading) Dreamcatcher - Stephen King.

[kyuss]

Les Norton in And De Fun Don't Done by Robert G. Barrett

[ersatz]

Night Shift by Stephen King. One of the few books of his I didn't buy during my highschool spree, finally rereading it after 10 years. Say, this beer smells funny. And my washing machine's making funny noises.

[astro]

Originally posted by kyuss
Les Norton in And De Fun Don't Done by Robert G. Barrett

Good old Les. Damn Legend :D

This week I'm on "A Bastard of a Place - The Australians in Papua" by Peter Brune.

Bloody Awesome.

[MoleTeaser]

Originally posted by astro
This week I'm on "A Bastard of a Place - The Australians in Papua" by Peter Brune.


I always thought a better title for that book would have been, "An Absolute Cunt of a Place"

I'm reading 1988, by Andrew McGahan. Pretty cool so far.

[badpauly]

Just finished John Birmingham's Tasmanian Babes Fiasco. Neal Sterphenson's Zodiac looks to be next. Unless I get more books tomorrow, or decide something from my liberary needs to be re-read.

[Grizzlee]

Currently reading Book 2 of Sword of Truth
Terry Goodkind - Stone of Tears.

My brother gave me Wizard's First Rule for a 2002 xmas present...it was damn addictive. So for my bday he gave me Sword of Truth...and xmas 2003 he gave me books 3 and 4...I think he has figured out my next xmas/ bday gifts for the next 2 years.

Also still reading The Naked Buddha - Adrienne Howley
And just finished Dark Cloud - David Gemmel which I enjoyed as usual.

[Kyle]

I'm reading the book "Digital Fortress" it's about a former NSA agent that created an encryption so strong, the NSA's largest and most powerful computer (A computer they use to instantly decrypt almost any code used in email) can not break it. I guess he made it with a shifting key or something, I'm not too far into the book, but it's very good so far. (And yeah it's fiction, but at the start of it he thanks NSA agents, so maybe this supercomputer might be real? I'm not sure at all...)

[KnK]

I'm reading "It" (Stephen King, obviously) again for the 10th time. Well 10th time I can remember. The first time I read it I was 9.

[viper_69r2002]

Originally posted by Kyle
I'm reading the book "Digital Fortress" it's about a former NSA agent that created an encryption so strong, the NSA's largest and most powerful computer (A computer they use to instantly decrypt almost any code used in email) can not break it. I guess he made it with a shifting key or something, I'm not too far into the book, but it's very good so far. (And yeah it's fiction, but at the start of it he thanks NSA agents, so maybe this supercomputer might be real? I'm not sure at all...)

If I correctly recall that is a book by Dan Brown. Haven't read it yet but would like to. I have another couple of books of his which I can STRONGLY recommend. They are "Angles and Demons" and "The Da Vinci Code". Very, very good reading... secret societies and ancient mysteries set in modern time. They also raise some very interesting things about religion - which when you start doing some research, raises some more interesting questions about religion. For anyone who hasn't read these, give them a go.

The Da Vinci code was at the top of the New York best seller list for something like 23 weeks. The movie rights have been sold and it looks like it is going to be directed by Ron Howard. It will be very interesting to see what impact the movie has on certain societies compared to the book.

[ersatz]

having finished Night Shift, I've moved on to 'Salem's Lot.

Funny, I never knew the town was named after a pig.

[Space Cowboy]

I'm reading The Cutting Edge, part 1 of A Handful Of Men. These 4 books follow on from the A Man Of His Word series.

Author: Dave Duncan

[RASPUTIN]

Originally posted by ersatz
having finished Night Shift, I've moved on to 'Salem's Lot.

Funny, I never knew the town was named after a pig.

Wow Salems lot is one of my all time favorite books. I have the original version before it was made a movie.

[MoleTeaser]

Just finished reading 1988 and have started Darkness, Be My Friend -the fourth book in John Marsden's Tomorrow Series.

[ersatz]

Wow Salems lot is one of my all time favorite books. I have the original version before it was made a movie.

it's one of the few Kings I haven't read yet (nor have I seen the movie). Went through a huge phase in highschool.
I find it odd how the better movie interpretations of his books all came out in the 70s/early 80s (Carrie, Firestarter, Cujo, Christine), but everything after that sucked anus (Lawnmower Man, Graveyard Shift, countless others perhaps with the exception of The Stand). $ < quality.

Haven't read much of his recent stuff like Dreamcatcher or Desperation, both of which are sitting on my shelf.

[RASPUTIN]

Yeah I agree with that. He seemed to loose it after a bit. I think it was about the time the gunslinger? books came out. The Stand I loved and have read it and Salems Lots at least 6 times, probably more.

[Kyle]

Originally posted by viper_69r2002
The Da Vinci code was at the top of the New York best seller list for something like 23 weeks. The movie rights have been sold and it looks like it is going to be directed by Ron Howard. It will be very interesting to see what impact the movie has on certain societies compared to the book.

Yeah I definitely want to check out his other books. I'm going to borrw the Da Vinci code from a friend when he's done with it....definitely looking forward to the read

[reaperman]

Originally posted by MoleTeaser
have started Darkness, Be My Friend -the fourth book in John Marsden's Tomorrow Series.

Have read this series a number of times, great writing, not to mention :cool: story.

Anyways still making my way through the Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice so I can read the last two in the series. Up to Memnoch the Devil, probably one of my favourites of the series.

[durus]

Just finished Engines of Light: book one. Cosmonaut Keep by Ken Macleod. Not a bad book. First in a trilogy. Only bad thing is it spent all it's time building momentum and was just getting good/interesting when the book ended. Have to find the second one now.

[bronno]

Just finished the Da Vinci Code - best read I've had for a long time.

Currently reading War and Peace...too much time on my hands.

[polite]

The Surgeon of Crowthorne
by Simon Winchester.

One of the major contributors to the first Oxford English Dictionary happened to be a Surgeon in the American Civil War who lost his marbles at the Battle of the Wilderness. He came to England, Insane....murdered someone and was locked up in Broadmoor.
The next 40 or so years he was responsible for many of the meanings and nuances of words some of us use today.
If you have an Oxford Dictionary see if there is any reference to W.C.Minor in it.
I loved it:) Great story.

[bronno]

Originally posted by polite
The Surgeon of Crowthorne
by Simon Winchester.

One of the major contributors to the first Oxford English Dictionary happened to be a Surgeon in the American Civil War who lost his marbles at the Battle of the Wilderness.

I agree - this is a really interesting book. It is also interesting that if he was around today he would have been medicated instead of institutionalised, and lived a very ordinary life in comparison.

[pliskin]

im about to start reading "diamond age" -Neil Stephenson
have juist finished his book interface

[badpauly]

Originally posted by pliskin
im about to start reading "diamond age" -Neil Stephenson

I just finished Zodiac by Neil Stephenson, great book.

About to start Charles Manson - Music, Mayhem, Murder by Tommy Udo.

[polite]

Originally posted by bronno
I agree - this is a really interesting book. It is also interesting that if he was around today he would have been medicated instead of institutionalised, and lived a very ordinary life in comparison.

Cheers!, it is good to know I am not the only book geek around.
You're right about the medication aspect.He was a candidate for Section 8 drugs early on but his sex drive was another issue.He eventually cut it off which I cannot even begin to comprehend.
Dear Oh dear.
*crosses legs*

[bronno]

Originally posted by polite
...it is good to know I am not the only book geek around.
...

book geeks are the best geeks...imho :)

[badpauly]

Originally posted by bronno
book geeks are the best geeks...imho :)

They also require a lot of help when moving.

Oh the pain. But it was worth it ;)

[ersatz]

about to finish 'salem's Lot in about 100 pages time

[/quote]Yeah I agree with that. He seemed to loose it after a bit. I think it was about the time the gunslinger? books came out. The Stand I loved and have read it and Salems Lots at least 6 times, probably more.[/quote]

I kind of like the Dark Tower series (have read up to part 4), and its distorted alternate reality/future. reminds me of Talisman. I still think it's about the Running Man was remade as a reality TV series.

[/quote]The Surgeon of Crowthorne
by Simon Winchester[/quote]

Heard of the guy, I'll have to read this, having an interest in emtymology.

[fartyface]

I'm reading a book called "China's Legalists: The Earliest Totalitarians and the Art of Ruling". If anything, the book has an awesome front cover.

Honestly, it really is quite a good book. I just got through reading the Xunzi and selected writings from the Hanzi, and this book is a really nice companion to those texts. Unfortunately it seems that all the legalists wind up getting killed by some gruesome means.

I'm about half-way through the aforementioned book, and next up is the "Book of Lord Shang".

[nosedog]

I just finished Singo, the biography of John Singleton. It wasn't terribly well written, but it included interesting details of Singo's life, like the party he had where not one but two cars ended up in his swimming pool, his 6 wives, the circus he once owned with John Laws, how he was once suspected of importing heroin into Australia, how he got a priest to flog refrigerators on a Harvey Norman ad, how he applied for a $1m loan, took the bankers out for dinner and dived on the table, how he shouted the public bar at Randwick racecourse, and all his drunken antics and assault convictions. Pretty funny shit.

[polite]

"The Savage crows" by Robert Drewe

Australia taken to task and finally understood.
Great story.:)

[badpauly]

Just finished Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator. Got Dante's Inferno on the go, and about to start Choke by Chuck Palahniuk. Should be a slight change of pace from Roald Dahl.

[polite]

Have you tried "Kiss, Kiss" and "Over to you"?
They have a dark quality about them.

[badpauly]

As soon as I have finished Choke, I have The Collected Short Stories of RD to jump into. Has Kiss Kiss, Over to You, Switch Bitch (could be about some of the people I play with) and Someone Like You... And 8 Further Tales to finish off.

Dark is good. ;)

[oracle]

"A Theory of Semiotics" - Umberto Eco

It's very technical... It took me about two hours just to get through the introduction.

[Maestro]

Originally posted by oracle
"A Theory of Semiotics" - Umberto Eco

It's very technical... It took me about two hours just to get through the introduction. Here's an executive summary:

<---- Signs are here


Signified is here ------->
Derrida is pulling cones somewhere laughing at these "theories" of his that everybody keeps talking about.

(P.S. I haven't actually read it, but I've done plenty of work on semiotic theory - let me know how you find the book, because I might get around to reading it some day)

[leprchaun]

I’m reading, Matthew Reilly – scarecrow.
It’s a pretty standard Matthew Reilly book, over the top action and conspiracies, people who defy the laws of physics…. Although it has good points I’m not that impressed

[Haalen]

Lost Christianities - Bart D. Ehrman
Its some crazy stuff

[utopian]

This morning, I started reading George Orwell's "Animal Farm". I'm most of the way through "Six Not So Easy Pieces" by Richard Feynman.

[badpauly]

Animal farm is a very impressive book. And free if you like reading it on-screen!

[oracle]

Originally posted by Maestro
... let me know how you find the book, because I might get around to reading it some dayWell, I'm enjoying it so far. Coming from someone who knew nothing of semiotics before I started, some parts were hard to understand at first... but I'd probably put that down Eco's eruditeness.

[locust]

Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Grey

Just purchased and awaiting reading:
The Best of The Onion
Kennedy/Veitch - Star Wars: Dark Empire

[sciwra]

Well thanks to the 'favourite scifi author' thread I'm now reading Polgara the Sorceress again by the Eddings boys.

Just finished Pawn of Prophecy and Born to Exile (Eissenstein), The Makers (Kelleher) and Playing Dead (McCormac).

Less time typing, more time reading :)

[Pirate]

Im reading Snowcrash right now after much pushing by Buffy and Satori... Im hooked and nearly finished.

I love The Edding's book too.. I own all of them.

[ersatz]

read Animal Farm and Death of a Salesman last week, now finishing Drowned World by Ballard.

[troubadour]

Originally posted by Pirate
Im reading Snowcrash right now

Hey, I read that just a couple of weeks ago. With Sumerian linguistics, virtual reality and fast motorbikes, what else could you ask for in a book? :D

I'm currently reading "The Book of Eels" by Tom Fort which is all about ... go on, guess ... no, it actually is about eels.

Apparently they taste quite nice.

[Benwah]

David Suzuki - Naked Ape to Superspecies..... scary stuff, right into the bit about Genetically Modified Foods...

[KoinBahd]

Willie's Bar & Grill by Rob Hirst

...no it is not a cook book.

[MoleTeaser]

I've just started reading Blackwood Farm by Anne Rice. It's the 9th book in the vampire chronicles and shit, is it a big motherfucker or what? 774 pages... I'll be lucky to finish it this year I reckon.

[Yuru]

"Among the Believers" by V.S. Naipaul.

Then will have a crack at "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (who just published the first half of his autobiography btw),

THen will probably go to "Firozsha Baag" by Rohinton Mistry. If anyone is interested in Indian literature (in English of course), let me encourage you to read anything by Naipaul, Mistry (esp. "A Fine Balance"), or Vikram Chandra (esp. "Red Earth and Pouring Rain"). I love that stuff.

[ersatz]

Ernest Hemingway - A Call To Arms

[Diva]

I have been reading a whole bunch of historical romances, as well as the Scarlet Pimpernel, which is the inspiration for the historical romance I am trying to write.

hell, I'll use a pseudonym if I get published, I just want the (very good) money if I am accepted! I'll concentrate on 'legit' literature once I have an independent income.

[ersatz]

Make that "A Farewell To Arms". Kind of changes the meaning a bit. Also the sight gag iin Evil Dead 2 wouldn't have made as much sense.

my bad, thanks for polite for the heads up.

Think I'll read Fiesta next (it's on my bookcase); have wanted to read Old Man & The Letter C for ages.

[BlueBoy]

About to start The Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson.

[KrisEz]

Pioneer DVR-A05 Operating Instructions

[rosamund]

Originally posted by KrisEz
Pioneer DVR-A05 Operating Instructions

Sounds like a real pot-boiler!!! :)

[BlueBoy]

Originally posted by rosamund
Sounds like a real pot-boiler!!! :)
SPOILER: The butler did it.

[polite]

You've read it too?. A bestseller!:)
Did you work out the plot though?.I thought when you turned the pages and all those different languages appeared that I would lose interest.;)

[KrisEz]

oh no i just read on by the way, emplee unos tornillos con una longitud de 5 mm is happening right now, the pivotal character seems to be a sen0r Consulte de manual.

i have a theory with instruction manuals, if its smaller than the product, or its a damagable product, read it. if the manual comes seperately or costs more, or the device cant be destroyed by I/O problems, trash the manual or sen0r el manual.

[BlueBoy]

Neal Stephenson - Cryptonomicon

[durus]

Just Read: The Minotaur Wars Volume 1, The Night of Blood
Can't remember the authors name. Not bad. First 5 or 6 chapters were a bit crap.

[Benwah]

Originally posted by BlueBoy
Neal Stephenson - Cryptonomicon

I just finished that, Excellent, now I'm on to Quicksilver - by Neal Stephenson.

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[midg3t]

I read that too, it's good. I especially like the way Pontifex is explained in the back of the book =)

[Benwah]

Originally posted by midg3t
I read that too, it's good. I especially like the way Pontifex is explained in the back of the book =)

Totally. lots of funky maths bizness and a whole heap of steaming history also, bit of a mission but worth the effort.

[VangaloRR]

Just Starting: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Stephen R. Covey.

Recently Finished: Magician - Raymond E. Feist (for the xyz time)

[MoleTeaser]

I just finished reading Blackwood Farm by Anne Rice. It was really kinky, there's ghost-fucking AND a hermaphrodite vampire. What more could you want? Here's a quote for y'all:

"I did the only thing I could do. I opened my mouth, and when she shoved her cock into it I bit down with all my might and main."

Now I'm onto Man and Wife, by Tony Parsons. Much lighter reading.

[polite]

Hook's Mountain by
James McQueen
Sturdy Australian novel that tackles all the questions that were never asked.
Some fine prose and would appeal to those who live and breathe the environment.*













(Yea, I know:cool: )*

[sciwra]

After seeing it in bookstores for ages I finally gave in when I saw Cecilia Dart-Thorton on sale with the first two of her books (Ill Made Mute and Lady of the Sorrows) packaged together for $25.

I'm curious as to what anyone else though cause it took me awhile to get interested. I finished each book in a day but found that I was skimming a lot. Not bad I guess, enough to make me want to get the third anyway. Might have to visit one of those free book places.

[Timformation]

I'm still slogging through The Wolves of Calla. Utter shite, but I have to see how the saga ends.

[ersatz]

Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray

[Buffalo]

I've just started "The Machine Crusade", the second book in the "Ledgends of Dune" series, written by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson.

The first in the series "The Butlerian Jihad" was tops. It's the story of the war against the Thinking Machines that gave birth to the spice-driven universe of Dune... Very cool...

[Moga2]

Im currently re-reading the Dark Elf Trilogy by R.A Salvatore, about half way threw Exile atm, started reading the first book yesterday. I just wish the books we're longer.

[Glompbot]

I'm reading The Gate to Womens Country by Sheri S Tepper

I'd read something else but I'm out of money and can't afford new books.

[Sutter]

I'm reading 'A Nomad of the Time Streams' by Michael Moorcock. Steampunk....British Empire...........'splosions............ahhhhh, much better.


Sapia: Crazy I know, but there's these things called "libraries" where......:p

[Glompbot]

Originally posted by Sutter
Sapia: Crazy I know, but there's these things called "libraries" where......:p

I know what libraries are, I used to work in one. Despite that fact I don't use them. I want to build my own book collection.

[Sutter]

Originally posted by Sapia
I know what libraries are, I used to work in one. Despite that fact I don't use them. I want to build my own book collection.

Libraries, op-shops and the like are great for building your collection, the sell stuff for cheap! My current book was $2.50 (paperback, 4 years old).

[Glompbot]

Originally posted by Sutter
Libraries, op-shops and the like are great for building your collection, the sell stuff for cheap! My current book was $2.50 (paperback, 4 years old).

I want to 'wear' my own books in thank you very much.
I won't buy 2nd hand unless 1. i can't find it anywhere else (ie, book is out of print/limited release). 2. its in mint condition, no marks, no stamps, no dog-ears.

[Sutter]

Originally posted by Sapia
I want to 'wear' my own books in thank you very much.
I won't buy 2nd hand unless 1. i can't find it anywhere else (ie, book is out of print/limited release). 2. its in mint condition, no marks, no stamps, no dog-ears.


I suppose we have different objectives here; I like to 'read' books, you like to put them on you shelf and look smug when your friends come over.:grr:



What does it matter? :rolleyes: Mint condition books are nice, but it's about the book itself, the contents. If you can still read the words, read it!

[Glompbot]

Originally posted by Sutter

I suppose we have different objectives here; I like to 'read' books, you like to put them on you shelf and look smug when your friends come over.:grr:


No, I read. I used to use libraries. I got sick of the books i wanted being 'missing' or late, etc.
So I buy my own books, which I don't lend out, so that I have them whenever I want them.

What does it matter? :rolleyes: Mint condition books are nice, but it's about the book itself, the contents. If you can still read the words, read it!

It matters to me, but thats just the way I am

[Megabyte]

Currently reading "The Eye of the World" - Book One of the Wheel of Time Chronicles by Robert Jordan.

Also reading Emma by Jane-fucking-Austen. Not out of choice though. Damn you HSC, Damn your oily hide to hades. :swear:

[Megabyte]

And speaking of "dog-ears", mint condition books and what not I can't remember for the life of me the author's name, but I do remember she/he once said that they really hated people handing preen and presteen books to them at a signing. They said that a roughed up book, scratched, worn in and with the pages dog-earred meant to them that the person had truly enjoyed the book and loved it as much as he/she did. Rather than just going out, buying a brand new copy of it for autograph value purposes, as it was obvious they hadn't read the book nor enjoyed it.

[sagit]

"Teach yourself German Grammar"

[Sutter]

Current reads: Dork Geek Jew by Danny Katz (a collection of his humour columns found in 'The Age' and other papers)
and
Brightness Reef by David Brin (an extention of his 'Uplift' series. Of which I've not read any, and it's made the book hard to follow at first.)

Both are borrowed :P

[and3w]

"Poppies in the grain: World War one poetry and it's creators."

Awesome, humbling, inspiring and GLOBAL (hooray), not just UK poets.

[quartz_donkey]

New Dawn By Robert Jordan
In his Wheel of Time universe of course.
I enjoyed it, got on Friday fin today. A prequal(sp?) to the series so largely illrevent to to on-going story line. The guy how sold it to me said that it was a exesended version of a mag short story Rob did. Beats me, but a nice read for the fans of the series won't turn anyone though.

[Moga2]

The Hidden City, David Eddings.
Its the last book in his Sparhawk series, its alright i guess, some good bits in it, but over all not that great.

[polite]

Dispatches-Michael Herr

"I knew one 4th division Lurp* who took his pills by the fistful, downs from the left pocket of his tiger suit and ups from the right, one to cut the trail for him and the other to send him down it.He told me they cooled things out just right for him, and that he could see that old jungle at night like he was looking at it through a starlight scope.'They sure give you the range', he said."



It's a bloody good book,scary but good.

*LRRP
long range recon patrol

[LisaJ]

I'm reading Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code

Very interesting book...

[Glompbot]

I'm just finishing "A Plague of Angels" by Sheri S Tepper

Next I'll be reading "Six Moon Dance" by the same author.

[Sutter]

The last book I tried -Brightness Reef- was annoying. I'm now reading Abarat by Clive Barker. Which is nice.

[and3w]

Originally posted by polite
Dispatches-Michael Herr



It's a bloody good book,scary but good.

*LRRP
long range recon patrol
LURP..:D

Great book, the first one to make me see vietnam as funny as it was...

Live well m8, ...A

:banana:

[SOC]

Finally got around to reading the Booker prize-winning Vernon God Little. It was ... interesting. I'm still trying to figure out if I liked it or not.

[WiTT]

Does the latest RALPH Mag count as a book :P

[angel_b]

Over the last couple of years, the photos of me when I was a kid, the ones that I never wanted old girlfriends to see ... well, they've started to give me a little pang of something - not unhappiness, exactly, but some kind of quiet, deep regret. There's one of me in a cowboy hat, pointing a gun at the camera, trying to look like a cowboy but failing, and I can hardly bring myself to look at it now. Laura thought it was sweet and pinned it up in the kitchen, but I've put it back in a drawer. I keep wanting to apologize to the little guy: "I'm sorry, I've let you down. I was the person who was supposed to look after you, but I blew it: I made wrong decisions at bad times, and I turned you into me."

Nick Hornsby - "High Fidelity"

I know I'm enjoying a book when I dog-ear all my favourite pages. :D

[ersatz]

just finished Starship Troopers, now on to Ender's Game

[Grizzlee]

Just finished Terry Goodkind - Blood of the Fold. Its book 3 of the Sword of Truth series. Enjoyed but not as good as the 1st 2.
Now onto book 4 - Temple of the Winds.

[Enares]

I'm reading Fallen Dragon by Peter F. Hamilton.

[Moga2]

Assasins Apprentice, Robin Hobb

[annie]

am currently reading 'the queen of the damned' by Anne Rice, for the 3rd time, as soon as i finish this im gonna start on 'the tale of a body thief' by yet again, Anne Rice (im obsessed)

[Sutter]

Originally posted by Enares
I'm reading Fallen Dragon by Peter F. Hamilton.
What's it like? Is it continued on from the Night's Dawn trilogy?

[Spotgun]

Just started on Hunter S. Thompsons "The Proud Highway"...

[badpauly]

120 Days of Sodom by the Marquis De Sade.

[badpauly]

Hmmm... My last post about "120 Days of Sodom by the Marquis De Sade" was also the 666th reply for the thread, and my 169th post overall. How apt. ;)

[Diva]

I'm just about finished the lastest book by Charles de Lint, Forests of the Heart

[polite]

Gould's book of Fish
by Richard Flanagan.



It got me in and you don't have to like fish:cool:

[Imprint]

war in the shadows
- Peter Metcalf

aussies in bouganville ww2.

[Al]

Myrren's Gift, Fiona McIntosh.

Haven't read anything for a while, but I love sci/fi and fantasy. This was a really good book, well written and entertaining.

[annie]

Memnoch the Devil, by the one and only, Anne Rice.

[Something Fast]

Thus spoke Zarathustra - Nietzsche
Diary - Chuck Palanhiuk (for the 2nd time in 2 weeks)
One Flew over the Cuckoo's nest - Ken Kesey
I'm also reading an HP Lovecraft anthology too.

[BlueBoy]

Just picked up Zodiac by Neal Stephenson.

[Benwah]

Planes, Coltraines and Automobiles the book from the channel 4 mini series.

excellent.

[MoleTeaser]

Lullaby, by Chuck Palahniuk. Very cute, in his way.

[Al]

Betrayal, also by Fiona McIntosh. So far so good, would seriously recommend this author for lovers of the fantasy genre.

[BlueBoy]

Temple by Matthew Reilly.
It's so over the top, yet still enjoyable.

[MoleTeaser]

Yeah so I finished Chuck Palahniuk's Lullaby. I have to say that I'm really over him as an author. I loved Fight Club and Survivor, but after that they all became a bit samey. I don't think I'm gonna bother with him anymore.

Yesterday I read the screenplay for Shallow Grave which I got given for my birthday. Kinda dark and predictable, but it was cool and I'd like to check out the film.

And now I'm finally gonna get around to reading Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas!

[lego72]

Re-reading Dune by Frank Herbert. The book I have has the 2 sequels in it. This time I'll read them too.

I can see this taking a while.................

[BlueBoy]

Originally posted by MoleTeaser
And now I'm finally gonna get around to reading Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas!
I recommend that book to everyone I talk to. Best read I've had this year. :)

[lego72]

Does anyone know when the next book in The Game of Thrones series by George RR Martin will be out?

[Elf_Girl]

Northern Lights by Philip Pullman. There are some books after it in a series such as The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass.. but knowing me i wont ever finish the first book :p

[starfuxor]

Wilbur Smith's "The Dark of the Sun"

My first experience with the author; liking it so far (even if it's pretty commercial)

[MoleTeaser]

Originally posted by Elf_Girl
Northern Lights by Philip Pullman. There are some books after it in a series such as The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass.. but knowing me i wont ever finish the first book :p

Yes that series (His Dark Materials) is absolutely awesome and almost as epic as LOTR. Northern Lights took me a while to get into but by the time I started The Subtle Knife I was hooked!

[Elf_Girl]

Originally posted by MoleTeaser
Yes that series (His Dark Materials) is absolutely awesome and almost as epic as LOTR. Northern Lights took me a while to get into but by the time I started The Subtle Knife I was hooked!

Yeah i started reading the second book first, then my bro said read the first book to understand it.. *shrug* ah well :)

[annie]

re-reading Otherland by Tad Williams
i had completly forgotton how good this series is... brilliant, bloody brilliant

[Moga2]

The second book in the Second Suns Trilogy by Jennifer Fallon called Eye of the Labyrinth.

Well worth the read.

[Moga2]

Now on to the 3rd book called Lord of Shadows

[reaperman]

Merrick by Anne Rice.

[gingermeatboy]

right now,

Artificial Intelligence
A Modern Approach

-Russell & Norvig

:p finals start in 3 weeks

but just finished
be my enemy
by christopher brookmyre

and

Timoleon Vieta Come home
by Dan Rhodes

[BlueBoy]

The Dice Man - Luke Rhinehart

[gingermeatboy]

Originally posted by BlueBoy
The Dice Man - Luke Rhinehart

read that at christmas, good book, he gets up to some crazy shit!

[Afta Image]

Invisible Monsters - Chuck Palahniuk.

[BlueBoy]

Originally posted by gingermeatboy
read that at christmas, good book, he gets up to some crazy shit!
I'm only 13 pages in and I'm already relating to the main character. This book will fuck me up, I can tell.

[Sutter]

I'm reading Darwin's Children by Greg Bear. It looks like he's found god, ugh.:grr:

[MoleTeaser]

I've noticed a couple of other people mentioning they've been reading Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles, so I thought I may as well put this up:

Who reckons I look like Quinn Blackwood?

[badpauly]

Different Loving - A book of interviews and studies on Dominance and Submission.

[sagit]

Originally posted by MoleTeaser
I've noticed a couple of other people mentioning they've been reading Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles, so I thought I may as well put this up:

Who reckons I look like Quinn Blackwood?



slightly different hair, but certainly similarities

[Glompbot]

The Family Tree by Sheri S Tepper

[Sashasword]

I have just read Terry Pratchett's most recent book - 'A Hat Full Of Sky'.

It's a continuation on 'The Wee Free Men', and it is truely wonderful.

You gotta read it!

When my partner finished it, I read it the next day. I woke up and started reading it at 9:30am, and read it without stopping until 3:00pm. I' didn't even stop to eat.

It was that good!

I sure was hungry after I stopped though.

[polite]

gould's book of fish
by
Richard Flanagan

If you are Australian you must read this book.The obvious riposte if you are not. Fuck it. Read it anyway!!!!

[Viddywell_78]

Joseph Conrads' "Hearts of Darkness"
At least insanity and depression is driven by a purpose.

[polite]

The only movie that started with the end

[Viddywell_78]

Funny how such a small book turned into a 209 minute epic

[polite]

How to win friends and influence people.
by Dale Carnegie.

[and3w]

Originally posted by polite
How to win friends and influence people.
by Dale Carnegie.

The Art of War by Sun Tsu

[reaperman]

Blackwood Farm by Anne Rice. Keep thinking its Lestat telling the story, kinda fucks with my head at times.

[BlueBoy]

Almost finished 12 Step Fandango by Chris Haslam.

[PhilDude]

Cujo - Stephen King

[badpauly]

Jennifer Government by Max Barry. Picked it up today, very bloody good.

[badpauly]

Originally posted by Sashasword
When my partner finished it, I read it the next day. I woke up and started reading it at 9:30am, and read it without stopping until 3:00pm. I' didn't even stop to eat.

I didn that many years ago wuth the novel of ET. Clocked it in 3 hours. Scared many people; 8 year-old shouldn't read books that fast ;)

[MoleTeaser]

Originally posted by badpauly
I didn that many years ago wuth the novel of ET. Clocked it in 3 hours. Scared many people; 8 year-old shouldn't read books that fast ;)

Yeah, I freaked everyone out last week when it took me just three hours to read Mr Tickle.

Btw, Reaperman: just wait till you see how Quinn becomes a vampire. It's priceless.

[ShadowNemesis]

BLESSED CHILD by Ted Dekker & Bill Bright

[Canalien]

Guns, Germs And Steel - A Short History of Everybody for the last 13,000 Years, by Jared Diamond.

It's not really an EXCITING book, but it's unbelievably interesting. Won the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Non Fiction and the 1998 Rhone-Poulenc Sciene Book Prize.

[BlueBoy]

Originally posted by badpauly
Jennifer Government by Max Barry. Picked it up today, very bloody good.
If you like Jennifer Government you should track down Syrup.
It's Maxx Barry's first book.

[badpauly]

Originally posted by BlueBoy
If you like Jennifer Government you should track down Syrup.
It's Maxx Barry's first book.

Cool. I'm finding JG a little light, but that makes it perfect for reading on the bus. And it also sits well with my political leanings ;)

[Thyrd]

Just finished the "science of discworld II" I really need to get a hold of some stuff by HP Lovecraft. I have a facination with his work and yet I have never read any of it.:D

[Glompbot]

I am reading yet another sheri s tepper book (the fresco)

I *really* need to go book shopping.

But hey, this one has aliens. Evil hunter aliens, good kind aliens, and a kind of police force alien....
The police force type alien gets to impregenate a lot of male senators in the US... especially those pro-life ones :D

[Colonel Kurtz]

The Essential Calvin & Hobbes.

&

Trackers (http://www.ruralbookshop.com.au/product_images.asp?product_id=1955&producttype_id=1)

[Truephoenix]

I am reading "The legend of sleepy hollow"

Quite old fashioned, don't you think?

[gingermeatboy]

Eats Shoots and Leaves, just starting, for the past 3 months I've been revising computing text books for my finals!

[BlueBoy]

Devoured Jennifer Government over about 3 days.

I picked by Maul by Tricia Sullivan today.

[Feryl]

"The Wrong Way Home" by Peter Moore, and Lonely Planet - Trekking the Nepal Himalaya.

[badpauly]

Reefer Madness - Eric Schlosser (guy who did Fast Food Nation)

[biomechanic]

"Masculinities" by Robert W Connell.

[BlueBoy]

Originally posted by badpauly
Reefer Madness - Eric Schlosser (guy who did Fast Food Nation)
I see you've finished JG as well.

[badpauly]

Originally posted by BlueBoy
I see you've finished JG as well.

Two days. I liked it. It will be read again.

Anti-corporatism, cyberpunk, light. All good.

[polite]

Charles Darwin's Letters
A Selection 1825-1859

Slow at first but it's gradually evolving!:)

[Foxfire]

Originally posted by polite
Charles Darwin's Letters

Slow at first but it's gradually evolving!:)

Lol, classic.

I'm currently reading Prey by Michael Crichton... to be followed by King of Foxes by Raymond E Feist or Well of Darkness by Margeret Weis and Tracy Hickman

[Glompbot]

I'm currently reading Mona Lisa Overdrive by william gibson...
Good old classic

[badpauly]

Originally posted by Sapia
I'm currently reading Mona Lisa Overdrive by william gibson...
Good old classic

Ah, a classic...

I should hit my Gibson collection again soon...

[damo]

Im reading Temple, by Matthew Reilly at the moment. His books would make great movies me thinks

[excalibur]

Anne Rice - Blood and Gold.

I love the Vampire Chronicles.

[and3w]

Re-reading "The Dice Man" by Luke Rheinhart...

lock up your kittens...:grr:

[badpauly]

Originally posted by excalibur
Anne Rice - Blood and Gold.

I love the Vampire Chronicles.

I was over them by book #3. They just got boring as hell.

[excalibur]

Originally posted by badpauly
I was over them by book #3. They just got boring as hell.

I have only read one other, and am part the way through this one. I know I'm out of order, but meh.

I've read "Blackwood farm", The second newest, and am thinking about getting the latest one, because I really liked blackwood farm, and it is the second part to that story,

[Glompbot]

Soul Music by Terry Pratchett

You know..... One day I might read these books in order... but reading them out of order is so much fun.

[polite]

"The Chance" by Peter Carey....One of a collection of short stories from"War Crimes" Fantastic prose, thought provoking:)

[badpauly]

Originally posted by Sapia
Soul Music by Terry Pratchett

You know..... One day I might read these books in order... but reading them out of order is so much fun.

Music with rocks in it!

Most of TP's books can be read alone, only a few need order to make sense.

[ezer]

i dont know if anyone else is reading it but a book entitled "Molvania. a place untouched by modern dentistry" and has a pic of some old guy smiling with like 3 teeth.

its damn funny, the who thing is a parody of them travel guides. its damn long but almost always funny

[Glompbot]

Originally posted by badpauly
Music with rocks in it!

Most of TP's books can be read alone, only a few need order to make sense.

even the ones like lords and ladies i read out of order :D

[MoleTeaser]

Originally posted by excalibur
I have only read one other, and am part the way through this one. I know I'm out of order, but meh.

I've read "Blackwood farm", The second newest, and am thinking about getting the latest one, because I really liked blackwood farm, and it is the second part to that story,

You're talking about Blood Canticle. It fucking sucked. The worst book in the whole series. Rumour has it that it wasn't actually written by Anne Rice, and it wouldn't surprise me. It was poorly written and more about the Mayfair witches than the Vampire Chronicles. Stupid cross-promoting.

On another note, I'm currently reading The Princess Bride. I'm sure you all love the movie, but the book is even better. It is so well-written and so witty and funny by today's standards, it's hard to believe how long ago it was written.

[badpauly]

Originally posted by Sapia
even the ones like lords and ladies i read out of order :D

Hehehe

I can't think of one off the top of my head that actually need pre-reading.

Good Omens is good too.

[polite]

I'm finding it hard to comes to terms with the fact that you haven't read Peter Carey until around 1982.The shit he won all the prizes for is just that.The stuff prior is Gold.Right to the point.Inclusive.Not full of shit.Suck it and see!.He was more of a prophet than this Jesus character.:)

[and3w]

'Love all the people: Letters, Lyrics Routines' by Bill Hicks

Oh Man (or woman) Go out and buy this book!

Funny, tragic, enlightening...just awesome!

For instance, on being heckled during a routine:

Heckler: Hey Buddy; America - Love it or Leave it!
Hicks: What, and be a victim of OUR forign policy!

Compulsory reading for Nodbugger :D

[jefah]

The Upright Man by Michael Marshall. aka Michael Marshall Smith.

[polite]

So you are not reading anything good then?:rolleyes:

[Glompbot]

The companions by Sheri S Tepper

Its her new book... I've been awaiting its release for a year now :(

[badpauly]

I'm STILL reading 120 Days Of Sodom, but on the home stretch. But after this long, it's all become a little blase.

I'm still waiting for someone to read over my shoulder on the bus ;)

[annie]

i just finished Flowers In The Attic (Virginia Andrews), which is a brilliant book, even with all the incest :D

just starting The Neverending Story (Michael Ende)... should be good

[Sutter]

Reading Spares by Michael Marshall Smith. 'tis good.