What are you reading right now?
What are you reading next?
I'm reading the second of the Dean Koontz Frankenstein books. Next up is something I can't remember - but it looked interesting at the library. My books are due Wednesday, though, so I probably won't get to it. I need to pick up some mindless trashy novels for my trip.
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Quote from: Jessie on January 01, 2006, 09:24:42 PM
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Okay, Missy. What BOOK are you reading?
Quote from: Infobahn on January 01, 2006, 09:26:25 PM
Quote from: Jessie on January 01, 2006, 09:24:42 PM
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Okay, Missy. What BOOK are you reading?
I was kinda reading Empire Falls, but Jason knocked it in the toilet. It was his book though, so I guess it's ok. I haven't been in a reading frame of mind lately.
Hope you don't have those blue toilet puck things.
I have decided that the next novel I shall tackle will be this (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060510862/qid=1136169057/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/103-2044670-6048624?s=books&v=glance&n=283155).
Quote from: Beefy on January 01, 2006, 09:31:54 PM
I have decided that the next novel I shall tackle will be this (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060510862/qid=1136169057/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/103-2044670-6048624?s=books&v=glance&n=283155).
SIPs: ... general freak ...
Hmm.
I'm in between books, but I've been casually reading my knitting book my (hopefully) soon to be sis in law sent, and I'm going to tackle "The Blind Assasin" next.
I got "Grant and Sherman: The friendship that won the Civil War" from DC, I'll read that too.
I'm reading teh inernets. I'm almost done!
Quote from: ReBurn on January 01, 2006, 10:26:30 PM
I'm reading teh inernets. I'm almost done!
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Just finishing Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman
Probably going to either pick up something by John Irving next or reread the Xanabasis.
I was thinking about getting into Eastern European mythology. Dunno, I'll have to see what they have at the bookstore.
I am reading Spin State by Chris Moriarty. I just finished listening to Stephen King's The Gunslinger (book 1 in the Dark Tower series) and am in the middle of listening to Charlaine Harris latest southern vampire series book.
I don't know what I am going to read/listen to next. Probably download book two of the Dark Tower series.
Book two is when it begins to be good.
Now, next and in no particular order: When Pride Still Mattered(Vince Lombardi Bio.), Friday Night Lights(the basis for the movie), Darkness by Asimov, and the Meaning of Relativity about Einstein and how his discoveries have shaped our world the last 60+ years. I'm quite ADHD and my interest comes and goes with different projects but I'll nurse them all along in various stages of completion and finish them all during or right before summer. Then I've got I Robot-Asimov, A Brief History of Time(for the second time) and The Cat Who Could Walk Through Walls-Heinlein waiting in the wings.
esquire magazine, the local newspaper( which is pitiful ) but i'm hardly ever here to know what is going on. and a cajun cookbook...
Currently: Boy's Life & 1984
Next: Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid. (my friend Colin said that if you can see past the thick and semi-masturbatory number theorem, it's a decent read)
Quote from: Alice on January 03, 2006, 10:28:12 AM
Currently: Boy's Life & 1984
Next: Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid. (my friend Colin said that if you can see past the thick and semi-masturbatory number theorem, it's a decent read)
Thats what they say about "The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty" by Ann Roqulaure.
Quote from: Mr. Ubiquity on January 03, 2006, 11:10:34 AM
Quote from: Alice on January 03, 2006, 10:28:12 AM
Currently: Boy's Life & 1984
Next: Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid. (my friend Colin said that if you can see past the thick and semi-masturbatory number theorem, it's a decent read)
Thats what they say about "The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty" by Ann Roqulaure.
I loved that series when it came out. Now they make me giggle.
Quote from: dazie on January 03, 2006, 12:14:52 PM
Quote from: Mr. Ubiquity on January 03, 2006, 11:10:34 AM
Quote from: Alice on January 03, 2006, 10:28:12 AM
Currently: Boy's Life & 1984
Next: Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid. (my friend Colin said that if you can see past the thick and semi-masturbatory number theorem, it's a decent read)
Thats what they say about "The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty" by Ann Roqulaure.
I loved that series when it came out. Now they make me giggle.
3 books of pokin and proddin and spankin.... every woman should read that book :angel:
I finally found time to sit down and read Kawabata Yasunari's Snow Country (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679761047/qid=1136309251/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-7617623-9072062?n=507846&s=books&v=glance) and I'm contemplating on starting either Kawabata Yasunari's Master of Go (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679761063/qid=1136309306/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/002-7617623-9072062?v=glance&s=books), Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0140437649/qid=1136309379/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/002-7617623-9072062?s=books&v=glance&n=283155), Herbert P Bix's Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060931302/qid=1136309566/sr=2-3/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_3/002-7617623-9072062?v=glance&s=books) or possibly find a book detailing the history of Edo era Japan.
Quote from: Beefy on January 01, 2006, 09:31:54 PM
I have decided that the next novel I shall tackle will be this (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060510862/qid=1136169057/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/103-2044670-6048624?s=books&v=glance&n=283155).
I read it. It's pretty good.
Currently: Iron Council, the third book in a series by China Mieville. The hardest of the three to read because even after 100 pages you're still not quite sure where he's going with this, and in this one you really do need to have read at least Perdido Street Station (the first one) to understand the politics of the city. Also has a lot of homosexual themes, which doesn't bother me but may bother others. These books have been called phantasmagoric, and I totally get that.
Next: Don't know. Probably going to reread something. My next "must have" book will be the third Moonworlds book by Sean McMullen.
Recently: "Superfolks", a superhero satire book from the 70s. "Finding Serenity", the essay collection about the TV show Firefly.
Quote from: Listener on January 03, 2006, 03:50:13 PM
Recently: "Superfolks", a superhero satire book from the 70s.
I have that. Classic stuff.
Quote from: Beefy on January 03, 2006, 03:52:15 PM
Quote from: Listener on January 03, 2006, 03:50:13 PM
Recently: "Superfolks", a superhero satire book from the 70s.
I have that. Classic stuff.
I love superhero fiction that doesn't take itself seriously.
There's a great short-story, I forget who wrote it, called Superman's Diary. It's an alternate history of what happened after Superman revealed himself to Lois in S2 and took her to the Fortress of Solitude. Superman decides to give up being Superman because he likes Clark Kent better.
Damn, this is deep stuff. I was going to read the new Al Franken book, but now I think I am not challenging myself.
Books on CD don't really count, but since I do a lot of driving, I've been listening to this:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0743260031/qid=1136353986/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-8724911-0415042?s=books&v=glance&n=283155
I want to read this:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0525949089/ref=wl_it_dp/103-8724911-0415042?%5Fencoding=UTF8&colid=1SQ32VX6HMRYG&coliid=I1EB16NUPSDH3G&v=glance&n=283155
http://www.randomhouse.com/features/billbryson/bb_title/display.pperl?isbn=9780767908184
Bill Bryson - *A Short History of Nearly Everything
He wrote A Walk in the Woods which is one of my favorites. This one is all about the progression of science. It's awesome.
I went to the library yesterday and checked out Connections by James Burke. Same kind of history of everything kind of book.
I lied earlier.
Last night I picked up a book I've been looking for lately called, A Language Older Than Words. For some reason, it's filed under "Gardening" and it's never there when I look for it. I look everytime I'm at the bookstore & finally, after about a year, it was actually there.
Yes, I know I could order it online - but I'm weird & have this thing with books that I'd explain but y'all would think I'm crazy. :)
I'm reading through all of my pages of unread topics. 52 to go!
Quote from: ReBurn on January 23, 2006, 11:38:20 PM
I'm reading through all of my pages of unread topics. 52 to go!
I kinda noticed that.
Quote from: Jessie on January 24, 2006, 07:00:38 AM
Quote from: ReBurn on January 23, 2006, 11:38:20 PM
I'm reading through all of my pages of unread topics. 52 to go!
I kinda noticed that.
Me, too.
I'm reading Cell by Stephen King. Know what I don't like? The library now has "7 day express rentals" on new books and you can't renew them, so if you don't finish the book in 7 days, you either have to return it and go to the very back of the line or pay the fine. I understand the theory, but it's getting to the point that I'm almost tempted to start buying books.