What book are you reading now?

okay, so now i’m reading hocus pocus by kurt vonnegut


“Organs gross me out. That’s organs, not orgasms.”
-the wallster

Just started The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson.


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“Man of the House” by Stephen McCauley. He also wrote “The Object of My Affection” (same as the movie) and best of all, “The Easy Way Out”. Witty, delicious novels about loser-ish gay guys dealing with platonic female friends. Maddening, touching, funny, everything a rainy afternoon’s light reading should be.

Standing Firm by Dan Quayle. It’s easy readin! :wink:
Actually, just checking out this book called Heaven Found by M.J.Agee.
She says she knows where Heaven is: Saturn. She’s serious.


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OK, so now I just finished William Goldman’s Which Lie Did I Tell? and I’m working on Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason.

Yes, it’s fluff week in Aceland!


I’m your only friend
I’m not your only friend
But I’m a little glowing friend
But really I’m not actually your friend
But I am

I read that for college too, and I still have it in my bookcase, but whenever anybody sees it I get strange looks and the occasional comment… yeesh, I just read the thing, it’s not my bible!

Just thought I’d share that… :slight_smile:

I just finished The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick,

and I recently finished Ender’s Shadow by Orson Scott Card

Right now I’m in the process of reading The Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond, A Guide to Sharks and Rays by iforgetwho, and Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis

… in the pipeline is a book called Creating Minds and Song for the Blue Ocean by Carl Sarfina.

I wish I could read non-fiction as fast as I read fiction, but it just isn’t happening.

“Banned by the Space Pope”

Update:
I just finished Animal Farm and Bloom County: Billy and the Boingers Bootleg.

hehe how’s that for a contrast? One a true classic, revered by all, required reading in Literature classes, a scathing commentary on our times…

…and Animal Farm, too.


Joe Cool

Full speed, right ahead
Don’t stop, you can sleep when you’re dead

In the car, I just finished listening to Olivia Goldsmith’s Young Wives. A good read (or in my case, a good listen).

At home, I’m reading Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen. Very well-written, and extremely depressing. It’s about a woman whose husband beats her up (he’s an NYC cop), and she finally takes their son and goes into hiding. If it weren’t so well-written, I wouldn’t finish it, but I want to make sure everything turns out OK in the end (I don’t know that everything will turn out OK in the end; I just hope it does. If you do know, please don’t tell me).

Next up: the new translation of Beowulf.

Presently reading Storm Rising by Mercedes Lackey. I’ve just finished Storm Warning and the Mage Wind trilogy also by Mercedes Lackey and Dirk Pitt Revealed by Clive Cussler.


I have abandoned my search for truth, and am now looking for a good fantasy.

Green Angel Tower, by Tad Williams.

I Know This Much Is True, by Wally Lamb.

You know you are a vet nurse when: it’s 4 AM and you are out of creamer for your coffee, so you use kitten milk replacer instead.

I’m halfway through ‘Hannibal’ by Thomas Harris. So far, not much action.

spooje: this is not a spoiler. but I have to tell you, Hannibal move much slower than any of Harris’ other books do. Especially if you haven’t read any of his stuff recently. Going halfway through “Hannibal” won’t disappoint you with anything, but IMHO, going any further without getting yourself in the “Harris mindset” will. I would recommend, at the bare minimum, renting or watching/reading Silence of the Lambs or reading Black Sunday, or that other book (I think it was called “Red Dragon”). Hannibal is really good, but you have to be in the right frame of mind for it. I would really like to know what you think of it, as none of my friends have bothered to read it.


Sala, can’t you count?!? I said NO camals! That’s FIVE camals!

Re-reading “Lord of the Rings” for the 3 time and “Notes from a big country” by Bill Bryson.

If you christians were more like your Christ the world would be a better place
-Mahatma Gandhi

I loved it but I can really say why coz I’ll ruin it for spooje . Is anybody with me in thinking that “Manhunter” which was the film of “Red Dragon” was better than “Silence of the Lambs”?


If you christians were more like your Christ the world would be a better place
-Mahatma Gandhi

FBI’s Crime Classification Manual

Umm…

Viral Sex-The nature of AIDS by Jaap GOudsmit
MCSE NT Workstation 4 study guide
Soon to be reading–

Naked lunch by William S. Burroughs
Diary of an addict by Alistair Crowley
Any Dean Koontz book that may happen to come into print anytime soon.


P.S.-- I don’t have AIDS, nor am I a heroin addict :slight_smile:

Excuse my butting in about Thomas Harris, but I read Silence of the Lambs and Red Dragon before they were movies. The Mr. and I read Hannibal and thought it was slow and just awful and can’t blame Jodie Foster for passing on the film version. I thought Red Dragon and Silence were exactly even in terms of quality reading, very enthralling and intense, both of them. But I think Silence was a much better movie to watch, even though both books were just wonderful to read. Manhunter was an OK film, but obscure and had no stars in ilt.