What Are You Reading?

[Stryfe]

Just finished reading "Around the World in 80 Days"- Jules Verne.

 

 

I enjoyed it.

Edited March 18, 2007 by Stryfe

[sockcrotch]

Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje

 

 

It's interesting. And a bit depressing. But very good.

[shade]

Just finished rereading "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman.

I enjoyed well enough for having read it once already.

Gaiman is a pretty cool dude.

 

 

I'm reading Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman.

[shade]

A Tale of Two Cities.

[bishopx]

Profiles In Courage - John F. Kennedy

[Sparq]

Enter The Babylon System

Unpacking Gun Culture From Samuel Colt to 50 Cent

 

Rodrigo Bascunan & Christian Pearce

[bishopx]

James Patterson - Step On A Crack (AWESOME BOOK, just finished)

[The_Rat_Who_Would_be_King]

I picked up two books at a book sale today. I got 1984, which I've intentionally avoided since highschool, because, well, I get it already. But it was only $2 so now someday I'll actually read it. I also got Being There by Jerzy Kosinski. I watched the movie when I was a kid and it was the first time I remember being struck by the intelligence of a film, and I recognized the name Kosinksi, so I bought it, also for $2. I'm either going to read one of those today or a Phillip K Dick novel, I haven't decided yet.

[bishopx]

Beavis and Butthead: Chicken Soup For The Butt

 

and

 

Truman - David McCollough

[S.E. Hardy]

Sorrows of Empire - Chalmers Johnson

The New Buddhism - (can't remember his name)

Dreams of my Father - Barack Obama

 

I'm incapable of reading just one book at a time.

[bishopx]

I know the feeling, I usually have two I'm bouncing between, and a third, I'm just kind of starting.

 

I write that way as well, I'm working on two novels at the same time, with a third, I'm starting to outline.

[The_Rat_Who_Would_be_King]

Today I read The Collected Works of Billy the Kid by Micahel Ondaatje. I'd never read anything by him and never heard of this before. It was really good, a cool idea.

[Disestabulistic]

Just started Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card. Still not fully in to it yet.

[sodamntired]

The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks

[mrs jesus]

The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks

send that to me when you're done with it

[marx marvelous]

"the confidence man" by herman melville

 

the devil takes several disguises on a mississippi river steamboat. good 1800's spiritual/cultural allegory.

[bishopx]

Just read the Spiderman 3 novel...can't wait to see the movie now!!!

[The_Rat_Who_Would_be_King]

I'm going to read Equus today. I think Harry Potter is currently doing a production of it and he shows his willy. That kid's alright.

[MuttersomeTaxicab]

Today I read The Collected Works of Billy the Kid by Micahel Ondaatje.  I'd never read anything by him and never heard of this before.  It was really good, a cool idea.

Ondaatje = awesomesauce.

 

Lamentably, I'm stuck reading suffragette fiction for an essay. Blergh.

 

Edit: Equus is also fantastic.

Edited April 24, 2007 by MuttersomeTaxicab

[mrs jesus]

i'm reading an old anne rice book she wrote under the name anne rampling called belinda. it's romantic and totally perverted because it's about a dude in his 40s that falls in love with a 16 year old.

 

;)

[bishopx]

So it's basically a kind redux of Lolita? Anne Rice is great though, so I'll look for it.

 

No More Teams:Mastering The Dynamics of Creative Collaboration - Michael Schrage

[mrs jesus]

i've never read lolita, but i think so, yeah. it's one of my favourite books by her. i've read it 4 or 5 times, i don't even know.

[bishopx]

Definitely read Lolita, I had to read it in High School, and it really freaked me out. I read it again in college, and it was so sad and disturbing, Nabokov just really fucks with the reader all the way to the end.

[Dan #3]

High Fidelity - Nick Hornby

 

I'm about 4/5th done and it is by far already my favourite book ever, much like the film is my favourite film ever.

[Muran]

Has anyone here read "Alias Grace" by Margaret Atwood?