On the Beach by Nevil Shute
I recently finished Mount Misery, by Samuel Shem, M.D. An absolutely riveting sort of autobiographical novel about a doc’s internship in a mental hospital. Then, since I was on vacation, I read the stupidly mind-candy new Dean Koontz novel. Entertaining, but a bit sophomoric. Tonight I’m going to start “House of God”, also by Samuel Shem.
Shipping News was fabulous; reminded me of growing uyp on an island in the Inner Hebrides!
Winter’s Heart? Is it out in paperback yet? I can’t wait.
Biggirl, one of my favorites. Although, I have to admit, that short story at the end makes me feel stoopid, 'cause I just don’t get the point…
Well, I just finished reading Dr. Faustus by Marlowe. I heartily suggest it ( I almost wrote hardly oops!). It is a real quick read at 50 pages and gives good idea of Christian beliefs during the 1600’s.
Now I am reading Dubliners by James Joyce. Pretty interesting.
Waiting for my chance at a copy of Winter’s Heart by Robert Jordan, other then that, read the 4th Harry Potter, and just got the Darwin Awards book, that’s a lot of fun.
Ah i want Young Zaphod Plays It Safe. 
I know its part of that big collection.
Now I’m nearly done rereading The Shining, and I’ve just started Sybil and Rose Madder.
I recently read “The Hunt For Red October” for the first time. It was a terrific read, and got me started on Tom Clancy. I’m now reading “Patriot Games,” which is also very good.
Euty, because of the upcoming movie, I also recently re-read “The Lord of the Rings.” I had not read the book in years, and I appreciated all over again Tolkien’s ability to capture both an intimate moment between two people (Gandalf’s and Frodo’s discussion about the Ring at Bag End) and an enormous sweeping battle scene (the battle at Helm’s Deep). His imagery was startlingly vivid, too. Here’s hoping the movie is good!
magdalene you may be interested in this then The Black Dahlia Web Site
**Be warned that the pictures are quite shocking if you decide to look at them. There are no pictures on the page I have linked to. **
I’m reading:
The Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman
Conversations With God by Neale Donald Walsch
Grimtooth’s Book of Traps Fore by… ermmm… Grimtooth
**HTML 4.0 for Dummies ** by whoever the hell wrote it
I read that on my vacation to Pennslyvania in August. Impressive book–would make an interesting movie, don’t you think?
Read Red October last spring… better than the movie, but since I’ve seen all the movies, the ending was more predictable. That why I’ve been a little reluctant to start in on Patriot Games. If you haven’t done so, make sure you don’t miss Red Storm Rising. Very cool book. The only bad thing is that it was written in '86 when the F-117A was still under wraps, so the F-19 makes an appearance…
I’m currently reading The Hungry Ocean by Linda Greenlaw (the female swordboat captain from Junger’s The Perfect Storm). Not as interesting as the Essex story, but not bad…
On the short list to read next:
Moby Dick
Atlas Shrugged
Plato’s Republic
Crime and Punishment
(Gotta catch up on those classics…)
Um… make that “If you haven’t read it…”
Amazon sells it for $16.
The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and other stories by Franz Kafka
Push by Sapphire
Right now I’m not reading a novel of any kind. I’m between books on The Sword of Truth series and eagerly anticipating Shadow of the Hegemon coming out in just two weeks.
But I’m reading right now Characters and Viewpoints which is an instructional book on Character development in writing by Orson Scott Card.
Random tidbit that no one in this universe really cares about: since September, I’ve read between 5000 and 6000 pages in books. That doesn’t even include time spent on the boards reading and posting. [sub]well, to be fair, sometimes I save time by not bothering to read what I’m posting…I mean, what’s the point? ;)[/sub]
Mofo Rising - another Lansdale fan here. He hasn’t disappointed yet.
Danimal - So far, Storm of Swords is my favorite in the series. I actually get the feeling that he knows where he’s going with it – it’s all in his head, and he just needs to get it out. No meandering there.
Just finished Tie My Bones to Her Back by Robert Jones, it’s the story of an immigrant girl who hunts buffalo on the plains in the 1880’s. Gritty and realistic, with a non-preachy environmental theme.
About halfway through 1339 . . . Or So by Nicholas Seare. Seare is a pseudonym of Trevanian, which is the pen name of – someone, I’ve forgotten.
It’s supposedly the scholarly retelling of a Welsh legend, complete with footnotes. It’s a hoot. Seare/Trevanian/? comments on religion, philosophy, morals, etc. Parts of it read like an Abbott & Costello movie.
rereading In This House of Brede, by Rumer Godden
reading The Dragon Reborn, by Robert Jordan. I’ve only recently started reading this series, and I am sorry to say I am finding book 3 to be a bit of a snooze. Does it get better?
about to start a reread of The Dark Is Rising, by Susan Cooper, this is something I always like to reread during the Christmas season.
I’m very impressed by the people who have read Godel, Escher, Bach. I’ve had a copy for years, and about once a year I manage to make it to about page 45, and then it’s just to much to go on. Someday …
Tool of the Trade - Joe Haldeman
IMO Clancy is excellent - read all his fiction.(I don’t count Op Center - he just laid the groundwork - note it doesn’t say BY him)
I just got The War Journal of Major Damon “Rocky” Gause by himself, The Double-Cross System by J. C. Masterman and Strategic Deception in the Second World War by Michael Howard. War Journal is already proving to be hard to put down, but I usually keep more than one going.
“In the Spirit of Crazy Horse” by Peter Matthiessen
When my mind is too foggy to concentrate on that, I read “bauhaus” by magdalena droste.
I am currently reading:
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[li]The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin[/li][li]Acorna by Anne McCaffrey and Margaret Ball[/li][li]Conflict of Honors by Steve Mille and Sharon Lee[/li][li]Wizard’s Eleven by Sheri S. Tepper[/li][li]Ringworld by Larry Niven[/li][li]Everyday Life in Regency and Victorian England by Kristine Hughes[/li][/list=1]
Just finished:
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[li]Dragon Tempest by Don Callander[/li][li]Hunter’s Death by Michelle West (for about the hundredth time)[/li][li]Elfwood by Rose Estes[/li][/list=1]