15!

Picked up a copy of The Tin Drum today.

5/25/2008 7:38:38 PM

I'm about to start A Feast for Crows, book 4 in the A Song of Ice and Fire series.



Just finished book 3, A Storm of Swords.

It's the best, yet probably most depressing, fantasy story I have yet read.

7/7/2008 11:00:33 AM

It's OK so far ... it feels like the author has real potential, but he just wasn't trying very hard with this one.

7/7/2008 11:09:20 AM

^^I'm a fan of that series and can't wait for the next book to come out

Skeletons at the Feast by Chris Bohjalian is my next up to read

7/7/2008 11:11:26 AM

chuck palehrowuhfoauhwfiwheirwafiuk - rant


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7/7/2008 11:20:43 AM

While on vacation I read

The Guards - Ken Bruen
and The Sirens of Titan by Vonnegut.

Yesterday in the airport I read

Killing of the Tinkers - Ken Bruen
Caught Stealing - Charlie Huston

all come highly recommended, and Sirens I think will have me revisiting the Vonnegut bibliography again soon because it was SO FUCKING GOOD and I really hadn't read a Vonnegut novel in some time. Haven't read Bluebeard, Slapstick, or Jailbird, I'll do one of those soon.

Caught Stealing is the prototypical wrong-guy-wrong-place gritty crime novel except for the fact that it was the best I've read and some of the violence really did kinda make me dizzy and breathless ... just that intense.

7/7/2008 12:46:04 PM

I missed this thread.

7/7/2008 3:37:18 PM

Quote :

"Haven't read Bluebeard, Slapstick, or Jailbird, I'll do one of those soon."

Bluebeard is by far my favorite Vonnegut novel.

I've also given copies of it to people as gifts and always had a good response.

7/7/2008 3:38:58 PM

for a laugh, i bought the stuff white people like book

it's funny, but the new material isn't really worth the cash

meh

7/7/2008 3:42:23 PM

still trying to finish Underworld by DeLillo

i really, really fucking love it. i just rarely have time to really take in my books these days. i'm about halfway through (about page 380).

7/8/2008 12:55:02 AM

Pretty lackuster so far. Definitely not enjoying it as much as some of his others.

7/19/2008 3:06:48 PM

I just got I'm a Lebowski, You're a Lebowski, which is fun, and the Stuff White People Like book, which is actually quite tedious.

7/19/2008 3:10:59 PM

Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Michael Chabon

7/19/2008 3:21:57 PM

I've been fucking lazy lately, reading rarely, and what I've been reading has been mostly garbage (i.e. Ursula K. LeGuin).

7/19/2008 3:26:19 PM

also i bought watchmen just now. i don't know if i'll get through it or not, it's my first try at a graphic novel.

7/19/2008 3:31:22 PM

Why would you not be able to get through a graphic novel?

7/19/2008 3:49:56 PM

i don't know if it'll hold my attention.

7/19/2008 3:53:17 PM

chuck phanalaladkfjk is such a pretentious poser bastard that i feel the need to state my opinion on the matter every time i read his name.

My gf's Dad left 'Glass Castle' at the house so i read it yesterday. A memoir of a girl growing up w/ homeless parents and their "adventures". interesting for a quick and entertaining read.

Still chugging through Atlas Shrugged.... some day..

I finished 'The Bonfire of Vanities' by Tom Wolfe a month or so ago and thought it was great. I'm reading 'The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby' (non fiction) and its ok, but not capturing my attention like Bonfire did.

7/19/2008 5:39:49 PM

I finished this yesterday When You are Engulfed in Flames yesterday, and I loved his last story about how he moved to Japan to quit smoking

and I am 20 pages into:

7/19/2008 5:47:07 PM

I went to the "science" section in B&N tonight and fell in love. i'm a huge science geek.

I picked up 2 richard preston books: Hot Zone and Panic in Level 4

Anyone like these and know of any similar "science" books...?

Panic is a collection of true short stories based on science breakthroughs and discoveries...

7/19/2008 7:23:51 PM

7/19/2008 8:13:10 PM

7/23/2008 4:49:45 PM

I've been on a DeLillo kick lately.

Quote :

"still trying to finish Underworld by DeLillo i really, really fucking love it. i just rarely have time to really take in my books these days. i'm about halfway through (about page 380)."

I <3 that one too.

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7/23/2008 5:20:29 PM

last gang in town by marcus gray

494 pages about the clash

7/23/2008 5:24:09 PM

working on the picture of dorian gray again.

7/23/2008 6:09:34 PM

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7/23/2008 6:41:58 PM

I'm having trouble getting into it, but I'll see how it goes.

7/23/2008 9:44:43 PM

I'd Tell You I Love You But I'd Have to Kill You

I love teen girl books. I totally just finished Breaking Dawn and Blue is for Nightmares.

8/12/2008 12:52:35 AM

Good Omens



Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

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8/12/2008 12:55:53 AM

^ One of my favorites.

8/12/2008 12:58:26 AM

Finished Watchmen like 2 weeks ago, loved it.

Started V for Vendetta today. It's already incredibly different from the movie and i'm like 30 pages in. IIRC what happens at the end of the movie happened on page 8 or so. but i could be mixing up the movie's chronology I guess.

8/12/2008 1:01:37 AM

8/12/2008 9:07:48 AM

8/12/2008 9:51:59 AM

assassination vacation by sarah vowell

i gave up on the clash book...the first 150 pages are all pre-clash and even pre-101ers, and they start with mick jones...it's kinda meh

8/12/2008 1:55:39 PM

^ I think Assassination Vacation is her best.



I am reading White Noise by Don DeLillo.

8/12/2008 2:05:25 PM

^^ i'm in the process of re-reading it, haha

assassination vacation that is

[Edited on August 12, 2008 at 3:02 PM. Reason : sarah vowell FTW]

8/12/2008 3:01:41 PM

i've read all the others

i dunno why i never got this one

but i saw it for $4 when i was getting the playboy with ashley harkleroad

'twas an interesting combination

8/12/2008 3:03:14 PM

yeah i have all her others as well

this one is her best IMO

some absolutely crazy connections in this one

8/12/2008 3:21:37 PM

Shadow Puppets Orson Scott Card

(I actually met OSC this summer and he signed my copy of Ender's Game)

A Scanner Darkly Philip K. Dick (Audiobook read by Paul Giamatti)

8/14/2008 3:08:01 PM

novel:
A Dangerous Man - Charlie Huston

comic book:
The Sandman, Book 9: The Kindly Ones - Neil Gaiman

8/14/2008 3:22:45 PM

Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy

8/16/2008 4:30:42 PM

8/16/2008 5:04:16 PM

I just finished The Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell on Sunday. It was amazing and I think I love her.

Next I think will be Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell.

8/26/2008 8:17:40 AM

Drovkin - The Princess Bride novel is absofuckinglutely incredible. I love that book. All the humor you love from the movie, but magnified ten-fold.

BDubLS1 - I read The Hot Zone not too long ago and came out pretty bored. I'm a pretty big science geek also, and this book had some fun information in it, but for the most part, it was pretty anti-climatic.


I am currently reading:


Already did the first three in this series as well as the four Ender's Shadow books.

8/26/2008 8:36:20 AM

Just finished The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud. First book of the trilogy. Had humor and was entertaining enough for me to go ahead and get the next book in the trilogy. Took a little getting use to with the footnotes but I liked the different point of views the book showed.

8/26/2008 9:01:24 AM

So I'm a little ADDesque and read a few books off and on at the same time - especially nonfiction ones. If I'm reading fiction usually I get into the story and just keep going right then. That said, right now I'm reading these three, and, so far, they're all good.

Behind the Lines: Powerful and Revealing American and Foreign War Letters -- and One Man's Search to Find Them

The Ragamuffin Gospel

The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image

I'm definitely checking out some of these those. Oh and btw, I love some paperbackswap.

8/27/2008 10:48:30 AM

Just watched all five seasons of the wire this past month so I just went out and bought Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets.

8/27/2008 1:54:30 PM

I'm in the market for a couple new books to check out from the library today, and I'm trying to skim the thread to see if anything peaks my interest.

Any suggestions from people reading this right now?

Guess I should also say what type of books I like

1) sci fi/fantasy
2) thriller/horror/suspense
3) military books
4) true story books with a great plot (cooked, million little pieces (well, you know what I mean with that one)
5) self improvement books in regards to finances/working (4 hour work week example)

that should be good enough for a few weeks i would think

[Edited on September 2, 2008 at 11:17 AM. Reason : .]

9/2/2008 11:03:07 AM

Life is Elsewhere by Milan Kundera

9/2/2008 1:16:54 PM

I'm glad someone else reads Kundera novels

seems like most everyone reads Unbearable Lightness then quits

9/2/2008 1:19:43 PM