What are you reading at the moment?

[1300 Class]

Currently read "Wanderlust" and "Status Anxiety".

[fatlane]

"Beloved and God" - A tale of the love between Hadrian and the boy Antinous and the religion it produced.

[BBW Betty]

I'm re-reading the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. Book number 11 came out, and I want to re-familiarize myself with the characters before I take on the new book. For some reason, it's taking me longer this time around (sigh!). At least that will give my hubby time to read the new one before I get to it.

Please don't laugh--I have to do this because there are at least 3 series that I am reading, and I really do need to get back into the correct mindset of each. One is Harry Potter--can't wait for book 7-- and the other series is by R.A. Salvatore--a D & D Forgotten Realms series featuring a drow elf named Drizzt Do-Urdan.

And then there is the monthly Reader's Digest, so I always have something to read. Keeps me out of trouble.

[Wayne_Zitkus]

This thread.

:)

[MissToodles]

Shame of the Nation by Jonathan Kozol. Despite the Brown V. Board of Education desicion in the 1950's segregation and subpar schools still exist in our modern era. It also delves into detail about the corporatization of the school system. Good read for anyone going into the U.S. public education system.

[Gordo Mejor]

Currently read "Wanderlust" and "Status Anxiety".

"After Effects 6, Hands on Training", and "The Official Blender 2.3 Guide."

[Haplo]

...and the other series is by R.A. Salvatore--a D & D Forgotten Realms series featuring a drow elf named Drizzt Do-Urdan.

Oh! You too! I just ordered the first six books from amazon and read them in a few days. I like the story about that drow (elf), born in a diabolic world with sensitive feelings...

But the dragonlance series is better written. Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickmann are more talented authors.

After all I will read the full Drizzt-Story...

[ataraxia]

Darwin's On the Origin of Species.

[nicolethefantastic]

I am almost finished reading "Shadow of the Wind" by Carlos Ruiz Zafon.

[adam]

Galilee
Without Remorse
I guess I'll check out The DaVincci Code.
I like most of the classics by Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Faulkner.

[Sasquatch!]

Oh! You too! I just ordered the first six books from amazon and read them in a few days. I like the story about that drow (elf), born in a diabolic world with sensitive feelings...

But the dragonlance series is better written. Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickmann are more talented authors.

After all I will read the full Drizzt-Story...

Weis and Hickman's Deathgate cycle is the best....
I'm reading "the Last Battle" by CS Lewis (I love Narnia!!)

[EvilPrincess]

Richard K. Morgan's Woken Furies

If you like the Kovacs series, Market Forces is an interesting read.

Have to love those Philip K. Dick award winners

[loves2laugh]

the rise corruption and coming fall of the house of saud by said aburish

[jamie]

In the Hand of Dante by Nick Tosches and soon, really-really soon, I am going to start Until I Find You, the new John Irving. My wonderful boyfriend got it for me for my birthday and I am waiting until I am done with my catch-up tasks from my absence from work so I can throw myself in to it.

[BBW Betty]

Oh! You too! I just ordered the first six books from amazon and read them in a few days. I like the story about that drow (elf), born in a diabolic world with sensitive feelings...

But the dragonlance series is better written. Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickmann are more talented authors.

After all I will read the full Drizzt-Story...

My husband has the Dragonlance books, too. I think I'd go crazy trying to catch up with all the books he had before we met. Now, if I could get him to give my Louis L'Amour westerns the same chance I gave his sci-fi and fantasy books....

Anyway, I'm going to have to settle for keeping a few stories at a time straight. But they are good, aren't they?

[Haplo]

Anyway, I'm going to have to settle for keeping a few stories at a time straight. But they are good, aren't they?

Yes, dragonlance is good. The characters are wonderful: Tolpan, Raistlin, Cameron and that mad wizard Zifnap. Or was his name Fizban ;) ?

And, like Sasquatch! said, the deathcycle series is best ever. It's not in the D&D-universe, its different. Story about that character Haplo (yes, I choose this name, feel it sounds good, dont know why...) is really nice. First he's a pure egoist, then he change his world view complete, act against his master, and rescues a little girl from the big devilish snakes... :)

[Ivybear]

Please don't laugh--I have to do this because there are at least 3 series that I am reading, and I really do need to get back into the correct mindset of each. One is Harry Potter--can't wait for book 7--

BBW Betty, I'm a huge Harry Potter fan too! I usually flip through the books when I'm looking for something to read.

I just finished Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad. Very short but extremely well-written. It's part of this huge re-imagining of mythology series where modern authors put their spin on classic myths. Atwood's book was about The Odessyfrom Penelope's point of view.

Now I need a new book to start on. I'm looking for a nice, long meaty book. Something along the lines of The Corrections.

[Jay West Coast]

Atwood's book was about The Odessyfrom Penelope's point of view.


I just put down Introducing Kierkegaard. It's like a summary of Søren Kierkegaard's life and philosophy without wading through a milliondy pages of text. I do have Kierkegaard’s Attack On Christendom, but I got only a hundred pages into it before it found it's way back onto the fat shelf of books-that-I-ought-to-finish-but-never-will. There's a long list of books out there that I'd like to read, but I don't get much time for pleasure reading.

But this little 175-page puppy on has got a much higher chance of making it through Scylla and Charybdis, if you catch my "drift." ;) Haha...damn, I crack me up!


Jay West Coast

[jamyjam224]

I am reading The Turn of the Screw-Henry James, I have to read it for class but it's very short and interesting...much better then Moby Dick, which I did not enjoy...no offense to any Melville lovers.

[Tragdor]

-The Nature of the Firm by Ronald Coase and various other peoples
-From Marx to Mises: Post-Capitalist Society and the Challenge of Economic Calculation by David Ramsay Steele
-Karl Marx's Theory of History by Gerald Allen Cohen
-The Ego and its Own by Max Stirner
-Natural Right and History by Leo Strauss
-Wittgenstien and Poltical Philsophy by John W. Danford
-For Marx by Louis Althusser
-The Poverty of Historicism by Karl Raimund Popper
-History As a System by Jose Ortega Y Gasset

wow I am a major nerd

[applemac]

Just read About a Boy and On the Road now I'm re-reading High Fidelity

[GregW]

A Practical Guide for Policy Analysis by Eugene Bardach and The ARRL Extra Class License Manual for Radio Amateurs

[MissToodles]

Does anyone remember fiction?


(A few do and at the moment, I'm reading non fiction)

[mejix]

"The Master and Margarita" by Bulgakov. I think Im missing half of the references.

[1300 Class]

Reading "Fatherland" by Robert Harris.

[fatlane]

"The Serial" - Cyra McFadden

[Mini]

Point of Impact by Stephen Hunter.

[Zoe]

Just read The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison and The Fourth Hand by John Irwing. Now I'm about to re-read Requiem pour l'Est by Andreï Makine. The long flights would be so boring without books. ;)

[big3b]

The Wounded Hawk by Sara Douglas and Soul Music by Terry Pratchett

[Fuzzy]

I'm a computer nerd, so I usually have some technical book I should be flipping thru. Java Servlets.. or something.

My nightstand book, the one that I read until the words get blurry is currently:
Fellowship of the Ring (which I'm re-reading for the nth time)

[MellieD]

Re-reading The Bachman Books for the bazillionth time. (Bazillionth? Is that even a word?) Stephen King is my hero.

[fatlane]

Finished the others. Now I'm finally getting around to "The War of the Fatties" by Novo.

[r-nadiv]

David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster

[CurvaceousBBWLover]

Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

[BigBawdyDame]

The biography on Buster Keaton appropriately called "Keaton".

[sweetnnekked]

Backstabber by Elaine Viets

[eightyseven]

A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

[herin]

Re-reading The Bachman Books for the bazillionth time. (Bazillionth? Is that even a word?) Stephen King is my hero.


I know it! I love the Regulators and Desperation. But, right now I'm reading Servant of the Bones by Anne Rice

[ripley]

I'm reading The Constant Princess by Phillippa Gregory. It is soooooooo good. She writes historical fiction, and this one is about Katherine of Aragon.

Oh, and a bazillion gardening catalogs. :)

[ataraxia]

Just finished The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers.

[Fuzzy]

Right Now? I'm reading Dreamweaver 8: The Missing Manual (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0596100566/sr=8-2/qid=1144538731/ref=pd_bbs_2/102-2295822-9587336?%5Fencoding=UTF8)

[BigCutieCindy]

Just finished Blow Fly by Patricia Cornwell and The Testament by John Grisham. Getting ready to resume reading The Life of Pi by Yarr Martel.

[rudeboy]

"How to Survive a Robot Uprising", just finished "Haunted" by Chuck Palahniuk (not his best work, but i'm a big fan of his), trying to finish "Hocus Pocus" by Kurt Vonnegut too

[Blackjack]

Currently reading Stephen King's Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla.

[Blackjack_Jeeves]

Three books in the reading process right now... I can't always read the same book every night...

For school: The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
For leisure: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard
Flag in Exile (Book 5 in the Honor Harrington Series) by David Weber

[nicolethefantastic]

The Idiot, Dostoevsky

[TheSadeianLinguist]

I LOVE Dostoevsky, even if I struggle to say his name. :p

[Timberwolf]

This thread.

:)Me too. Too confused to read any book or anything else printed on paper.:(

[Blackjack]

Currently working on Huxley's Brave New World. I'm gonna finish it this time, really!

[nicolethefantastic]

I LOVE Dostoevsky, even if I struggle to say his name. :p

Me too! (my favourite so far is notes from underground, mostly i think because i can relate to the confusion and contradiction of the main character) But i have to say on the names front, i have found that i tend to read the character names really quickly so that I don't pay much attention to the actual letters on the page and rather ... give them my own names based loosely on what was on the page and also my very own pronounciations. :doh:

[MissToodles]

"planet of the slums" and the power broker (again, I pick up this book on and off, it is 1200 pages!)

need to read more fiction, any suggestions? I really enjoy 19th century British novels and speculative fiction (octavia butler, ursula le guin)

[JoyJoy]

I found a copy of Anne Rice's Taltos on sale at Hastings for $2, so I got it...not taking the time to notice until I was well into it that it is the third in the series. :rolleyes: I'm enjoying it though, so I'll finish it and then go back to read the first two. This is my first time to read one of her books, and I'm loving it!

[nightowlbbw]

Reading The Da Vinci Code, just finished Three Weeks With My Brother.

[ataraxia]

Vernor Vinge, The Blabber
Bruce Schneier, Applied Cryptography

[love dubh]

No Logo, by Naomi Klein.
Hegemony or Survival by Noam Chomsky.

I wish I still had my busted, old copy of Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried." Phenomenal novel.

[Jack Skellington]

Dracula Asylum by Paul Witcover.

It's the first in a series of new Universal Monsters novels. It's supposed to be a direct sequel to the 1931 Dracula movie. It's actually starting out a little slow.

[ScreamingChicken]

The Firm by John Grisham

[Baby Robot]

No Logo, by Naomi Klein.
Hegemony or Survival by Noam Chomsky.

I wish I still had my busted, old copy of Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried." Phenomenal novel.

I'm re-reading Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections, which totally ruled. Also, as I'm taking a trip (a cruise, with my family, hello 24-hour pizza!) I picked up a copy of the Pastoralia short story collection by George Saunders. I read his "The 400 Pound CEO" in an old copy of Harper's and got hooked, stellar author.

Naomi Klein is pretty awesome, and did well in the documentary adaptation of No Logo as well, and O'Brien's latest, July July is damn good reading. (and a damn good Decemberists song)

[Miss Vickie]

I just finished The Constant Princess by Phillipa Gregory. It was... feh. Okay. Not her best stuff.

Other things I'm reading are:

How to be your Dog's Best Friend by the Monks of New Skete
Eleanor of Aquitaine a biography by DDR Owen
A Thrall's Tale by Judith Lindbergh.

[sunandshadow]

I'm reading Levi-Strauss's _The Raw and the Cooked_ (which is not about food, it is about doing structural analysis on south american myths.) I'm really enjoying reading the book because I'm learning how to do my own analysis of myths and folktales which are important to me, like _Beauty and the Beast_, which gives me insight into what kind of novel I want to write. :)

[comngetmeFA]

Photorealism Since 1980--not really reading, just looking at the BEYOND AWESOME:shocked: paintings by photorealists like Richard Estes and Don Eddy. Photorealism is exactly what it means--acrylic and oil paintings rendered from photographs that virtually leave no distinction between photograph and painting.

Ukiyo-E--250 Years of Japanese Art -- again not really reading, I should be, but looking at the pieces

Oh, I recommend anyone who is interested in Japanese woodblock prints look at the shunga type prints, which are erotic Ukiyo-E prints of the "floating world." amazing stuff.

And lastly Women in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

I just went to the library about a week ago--Libraries are fun!:D (Dork) joking

[sunandshadow]

need to read more fiction, any suggestions? I really enjoy 19th century British novels and speculative fiction (octavia butler, ursula le guin)

I like Ursula LeGuin and some of Octavia Butler (Love Xenogenesis aka Lillith's brood, not too keen on the ones like Wild Seed) so I'll try to recommend some similar stuff. :) Have you read Golden Witchbreed by Mary Gentle? In Conquest Born by C. S. Friedman? Cyteen by C. J. Cherryh? All good sociological science fiction with ethnic conflicts, like LeGuin and Butler write.

[sunandshadow]

Ukiyo-E--250 Years of Japanese Art -- again not really reading, I should be, but looking at the pieces

Oh, I recommend anyone who is interested in Japanese woodblock prints look at the shunga type prints, which are erotic Ukiyo-E prints of the "floating world." amazing stuff.

I like Ukiyo-E :) I think it's cool partly for its own merit, and partly because it's the historical root which modern anime style developed from. Do you like Art Nouveau? They flowing stylized linework is very similar, so people who like one usually also like the other. Art Nouveau is my favorite art style.:wubu:

[Friday]

All good sociological science fiction with ethnic conflicts...

I'm not sure I've every read anything from CJ Cherryh that couldn't be described this way. Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover books are another excellent example.

[comngetmeFA]

I like Ukiyo-E :) I think it's cool partly for its own merit, and partly because it's the historical root which modern anime style developed from. Do you like Art Nouveau? They flowing stylized linework is very similar, so people who like one usually also like the other. Art Nouveau is my favorite art style.:wubu:


Actually, I do like some art nouveau. I like the pieces by Alphonse Mucha, they do show the japanese woodblock print influence. and the serpentine, flowly lines are definitely beautiful of many art nouveau works.

[sunandshadow]

Actually, I do like some art nouveau. I like the pieces by Alphonse Mucha, they do show the japanese woodblock print influence. and the serpentine, flowly lines are definitely beautiful of many art nouveau works.
:) My favorite art nouveau works are Victor Horta's whiplash curve architecture, and Lalique and Tiffany's glasswork.

[comngetmeFA]

Lalique...;) Very nice stuff, I wish I owned one of his brooches.:D

[Friday]

I like the pieces by Alphonse Mucha

Am shopping for some art to hang in the house and found several pieces of his I love. The one I want the most (today anyway) is one called 'Winter'. Just gotta decide if I want/ought to spend that much.

[rainyday]

Mixed in my own weird random rotation:

Either/Or, Volume 1
When Your World Falls Apart: Life Lessons from a Ground Zero Chaplain
The Year of Magical Thinking
Life After Life
A Grief Observed
Jane Eyre

[MoonGoddess]

The Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Spirits, by Rosemary Ellen Guiley.

MoonGoddess

[AlbRanger]

Re-reading Avalon by my favourite author, Stephen Lawhead. Really can't put it down - except for when I'm on here :D .

[ataraxia]

M. P. Shiel, The Purple Cloud

(Have I managed to out-obscure Fatlane and Obesus at their own thing yet?)

[fatlane]

The Private Life of Chairman Mao by Li Zhusui

[Sweet Tooth]

Just finished reading Velvet Elvis by Rob Bell about an hour ago. [I recommend this to all the people involved in the various religion debates on the boards, regardless of your belief system.]

My brain candy picks are:
The Devil Wears Prada [gearing up for the movie]
Three for Cocktails
Once Upon Stilettos
[Do titles get underlined if they're in a list? It's been a long time since I took a course in grammar.]

In the process of reading through the Bible using a version called The Message.

About to start on The Renaissance Soul.

I love my local library. :D

[CurvaceousBBWLover]

I'm reading the Dimensions boards. LOL

[Fuzzy]

Sodoku for Dummies.. er.. Volume 1

[maxoutfa]

The Confusion by Neil Stephenson - book two of the Baroque Cycle - historical fiction.

[Zandoz]

This thread.

[Paul Fannin]

reading my daily Baseball notes and Oakland A's scorecard

[Mini]

Right now I've been reading a lot of information aboot evolutionary theory vs. creation theory.

Let's just say that the former is kinda kicking the fuck out of the latter.

[Kimberleigh]

Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson - Book One of The Baroque Cycle
and
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson - I want the Illustrated Edition!

[BLUEeyedBanshee]

House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski.

[ripley]

[Do titles get underlined if they're in a list? It's been a long time since I took a course in grammar.]


I love my local library. :D


I thought in this sort of venue they were italicized? Anyone out there know?

And ditto on the library love. I feel this sort of gloating glee when I come home with a two feet tall stack of hardcovers. :p


Oh, right now Iamb reading This Perfect Day, by Ira Levin. It was recommended on the Dystopian novels thread. :)

[Lear]

OK I'm seriously a geek, I went to the bookstore today and spent about $50 on 4 books.

>The Da Vinci Code
>Proven Guilty (hard back)
>Ruroni Kenshin #27
>xxxHolic #7 (it isn't perverted, just poorly translated)

[FitChick]

"Derech Hashem" by Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzatto (medieval Italian kabbalistic rabbi.) My reading of it is actually ongoing, since I also use it for reference.

Other than that, "Chicken Soup With Chopsticks".

[sweetnnekked]

Just finished "Running Blind" by Lee Childs

Until something else comes along, it's back to the extremely long "Biography of Benjamin Franklin"

[ripley]

Just finished "Running Blind" by Lee Childs

Until something else comes along, it's back to the extremely long "Biography of Benjamin Franklin"


I've read all the Reacher books. :)

[sweetnnekked]

I've read all the Reacher books. :)
They're hard to put down!

[ripley]

They're hard to put down!


I've got a crush on him. :smitten: :p

[CurvaceousBBWLover]

The Ambler Warning by Robert Ludlum

[gypsy]

Currently reading Stephen King's Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla.

That series rocked. I have to set aside some time to read the entire series back to back now that I finally have all the damn books.

[gypsy]

I have two on the go right now:

Burnt Bones - Michael Slade
The Alienist - Caleb Carr

Good gory stuff. LOL

[sweetnnekked]

Cats Eyewitness by Rita Mae & Sneaky Pie Brown :D

[Donna]

Kiss of the Night by Sherilyn Kenyon....it's pure brain candy

[Blackjack]

That series rocked. I have to set aside some time to read the entire series back to back now that I finally have all the damn books.

Yeah, I dig what you mean, although I don't know that I could do that. I mean, I suffered a good deal of King burnout after the 1140-page The Stand. I don't know that I could read over 3,000 pages of his stuff all in one go like that.

[Christina416]

I guess you can say I'm reading 2 books right now. My fiction is The Lifeguard from James Patterson, and the other is a Forensics case book. Im taking an online class with Barnes and Noble on forensics. They have alot of online classes and book clubs (no credits of course) and they are free, you would just have to buy the book. For those that are interested it is www.barnesandnoble.com , then go to B&N University, it is alot of fun :)

[gypsy]

Yeah, I dig what you mean, although I don't know that I could do that. I mean, I suffered a good deal of King burnout after the 1140-page The Stand. I don't know that I could read over 3,000 pages of his stuff all in one go like that.

You haven't read the whole series yet, have you?

As soon as I finished it, I started looking for crap copies of the novels at yard sales so I can reread them over and over.

It's positively spellbinding. And I thought the ending was brilliant.

[Blackjack]

You haven't read the whole series yet, have you?

As soon as I finished it, I started looking for crap copies of the novels at yard sales so I can reread them over and over.

It's positively spellbinding. And I thought the ending was brilliant.

I'm partway through VI now. And as much as I love King's style and the story, I still don't think that I'd be able to do it for that long. It'd be like watching all of the LotR movies in one go; I couldn't do it without breaks from it in between.

[ataraxia]

Just finished Arthur Machen's Ornaments in Jade, and a collection of Robert Howard's horror shorts. Currently reading Hawthorne's Fanshawe.

[ripley]

The Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman. It's pretty good...reads almost like a Greek tragedy.

[gypsy]

I'm partway through VI now. And as much as I love King's style and the story, I still don't think that I'd be able to do it for that long. It'd be like watching all of the LotR movies in one go; I couldn't do it without breaks from it in between.

Perhaps it's just the Masochist Inside speaking, then, when I say I'd reread it. :p

[Esme]

I'm resurrecting this thread because I love reading and love to see what others are reading and recommending.

The Sunflower- Simon Weisenthal
Cesar's Way- Cesar Milan
The Dance - Oriah Mountain Dreamer

Just finished:

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince- J.K. Rowling (again)
Old Man and the Sea- Ernest Hemingway (for the umpty-leventh time)

[Esme]

The Alienist - Caleb Carr

Good gory stuff. LOL


I loved that one when I read it Gypsy. :D

[Rainahblue]

I'm reading "The Fourth K" by Mario Puzo. An older one, but the only political stuff I can stomach is fictional.
:DHeehee...

[ataraxia]

The Transition of Titus Crow, by Brian Lumley

It's actually really bad, but it entertains me somehow anyway.

[Fuzzy]

Sudoku for Dummies (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0470026677/sr=8-2/qid=1150695187/ref=pd_bbs_2/103-8274260-0279866?%5Fencoding=UTF8)

[ripley]

The House of Mirth, by Edith Wharton (and I am loving it...loved the movie, too)...and
Goodnight Nobody by Jennifer Weiner

[UberAris]

Magic the Gathering: Guildpact (its ok, but I don't recomend it)

[Wilson Barbers]

Currently in the midst of Stephen King & Peter Straub's Black House, part of a too-large pile of books that I've had sitting on a shelf for ages, all waiting to be read . . .

Also: a batch of Little Lulu collections . . .

[TraciJo67]

Terrorist by John Updike

[Esme]

I'm re-reading the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. Book number 11 came out, and I want to re-familiarize myself with the characters before I take on the new book. For some reason, it's taking me longer this time around (sigh!). At least that will give my hubby time to read the new one before I get to it.


I had to give up on that series by about book 8.... Rand's mood swings and Nynaeve's hair pulling got on my LAST nerve. I did read a review that said book 11 really got back to the main thrust of the story, so I hope it works out. You'll have to let us know if it's any good!

[Tina]

The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison.

[mejix]

finished reading "portraits: talking with artists at the met, the modern, the louvre and elsewhere" by michael kimmelman, the chief art critic at the nytimes. apparently the book was based on a series that had appeared at the paper. some interviews are more interesting than others but overall a fun easy read if you are into the subject.

working on "the accidental masterpiece" also by michael kimmelman. yes, they were next to each other at the library. not quite sure what kimmelman wanted to do here. some sort of high brow self help book like the alain de botton. (or whatever his name is). these are musings about the creative impulse in and out of the art world. also uneven but full of great stuff.





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[Esme]

Add to my list:

The Evil Dead Companion- Bill Warren

What can I say? I like Bruce Campbell! :eat2:

[snuggletiger]

Just finished Dorothy Ours book on Man O War
and a history on Freemasonry.

[Esme]

The Dante Club- Matthew Pearl... not too sure about it yet, but it's warming up. Got good reviews too, so I'm hopeful!

[mottiemushroom]

Right this momment i am reading this thread :D But also reading Enigma & book hopping with Soul Prints.

[thedarkeststar]

just finished Danse Macabre by Laurell K Hamilton this morning, will move on to the latest Stephanie Plum novel by Janet Evanovich whenever I get my hands on it. Have dedicated the summer to fluff and girl driven series'.

[bbwsweetheart]

Started Caleb Carr's Killing Time. Am not into it, but am hoping the book draws me in soon. It's a futuristic mystery very unlike his previous novels, The Alienist and The Angel of Darkness.

[~angelpassion~]

Julia Quinn "On The Way To The Wedding" I read alot of romance set in the 1800's in England. All those Lords, Dukes, Ladies, ect.... I find it really romantic.

[Blackjack]

I just finished Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah, and I'm thinking that I might try and read something like The Art of War next. Something old and about military stuff.

[activistfatgirl]

Cat's Eye, Margaret Atwood
Shadow on a Tightrope: Writings on Fat Oppression (re-reading)
Rank and File Rebellion, Dan La Botz

[lmbchp]

Just finished reading "Sam's Letters to Jennifer" by James Patterson. It was a very good easy read. Read it in 24 hours.

Currently reading: "The Plan" by Linda Lyle (not sure I'm gonna like this one?)

[UberAris]

Dark tower V: wolves of the Calla (3rd time reading)

Iron Hands (second time)

Eye of Terror: Abbadons 13th Black Crusade (first time)

[maxoutfa]

Have you read Golden Witchbreed by Mary Gentle? In Conquest Born by C. S. Friedman? Cyteen by C. J. Cherryh? All good sociological science fiction with ethnic conflicts, like LeGuin and Butler write.

In Conquest Born and it's sequel The Wilding are IMO two of the best books out there in any genre. I've spoken to hundreds of sci-fi fans who sadly have no idea who C.S. is - amazing! The Coldfire Trilogy is another fantastic set of work by her.

[FaxMachine1234]

Just got through "Final Cut", Steven Bach's book on the movie Heaven's Gate and how it destroyed the studio that paid for it. A Hollywood book that's interesting!

[EvilPrincess]

just finished Danse Macabre by Laurell K Hamilton this morning, will move on to the latest Stephanie Plum novel by Janet Evanovich whenever I get my hands on it. Have dedicated the summer to fluff and girl driven series'.

Try Kim Harrison's three (witch series), the last one just came out, fun beach reads.

[EvilPrincess]

In Conquest Born and it's sequel The Wilding are IMO two of the best books out there in any genre. I've spoken to hundreds of sci-fi fans who sadly have no idea who C.S. is - amazing! The Coldfire Trilogy is another fantastic set of work by her.

If you want to take a step out of the ordinary you might want to try something by Nalo Hopkinson, start with Brown Girl in the Ring.

[Blackjack]

Well, after thinking about reading something really old, I decided that I'd go for something a little bit shorter. Simply 'cause I can fit it in my pocket easier. So I'm now reading Philip K. Dick's A Scanner Darkly.

[TraciJo67]

I just finished Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah, and I'm thinking that I might try and read something like The Art of War next. Something old and about military stuff.

Blackjack, what did you think of it? I've read all of the books in the series, and have to say, was disappointed by the last few. Especially by the absurdity of Stephen King writing Stephen King into the story ... :doh:

[Blackjack]

Blackjack, what did you think of it? I've read all of the books in the series, and have to say, was disappointed by the last few. Especially by the absurdity of Stephen King writing Stephen King into the story ... :doh:

I thought that it wasn't as good as the other books in the series, but it kinda had to be written. And the absurdity was quite well-done, better than in most stories I've read where the author manages to get in there.

[Esme]

I just finished The Dante Club... started very slowly, but ended up being really good. Maybe I'll try his next novel too.

Currently: Map of Bones- James Rollins

Another slow start I'm afraid.

[mossystate]

The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter..Carson McCullers....read it a long time ago..

also..Cursed......a history of menstruation..

[Rainahblue]

I'm back on the more serious stuff for a bit...

I started re-reading "Kafir Boy" yesterday and instantly remembered why it's one of my favorites.

[Esme]

I'm reading O Magazine... because there's a piece in there written by Harper Lee, who hasn't published anything since To Kill a Mockingbird. I confess I'm kind of swoony. :p

[Regular Bill]

I'm currently reading Paul Reikhff's book,"Chasing Ghosts". It's one of the best books I have read about the war in Iraq by someone who was actually their.

Bill

[ripley]

Broken For You, by Stephanie Kallos.

[JudgeDredd425]

I just started my copy of American Empire: The Victorious Opposition by Harry Turtledove. As someone with a great appreciation for history and the "what if this happened instead?" game, there is no finer writer.

[Sweet Tooth]

I just started my copy of American Empire: The Victorious Opposition by Harry Turtledove. As someone with a great appreciation for history and the "what if this happened instead?" game, there is no finer writer.

My hubby *adores* Turtledove. I bought the book he wrote with Richard Dreyfus years before meeting him, but I felt like I needed a chart to keep track of all the characters.

I went with the brain candy with my latest book, something quite sacrilegious to Jane Austen fans - Mr. Darcy Takes A Wife.

[ripley]

I went with the brain candy with my latest book, something quite sacrilegious to Jane Austen fans - Mr. Darcy Takes A Wife.


I'm a Jane-ite and kinda like the knockoffs. :) There was one called Persuaded (I think) that was set on Mackinac Island that wasn't half bad.

[Esme]

Chasing Rumi- Housden