I’m about 30 pages into Joseph Heller’s Something Happened. I don’t think it’ll be as good as Catch-22 so far, but thus far it’s interesting.
Gotham by Edwin G. Burrows.
mug, that sounds really good! Thanks for recommending it.
Just finished Lies and the lying liars who tell them by Al Franken.
Great book.
I just finished re-reading The Annotated Lolita. I read the same annotationed version the first time, but I caught more of the little things this time and I just have a better idea of how this great book was put together.
Up next? maybe Vonnegut’s Hocus Pocus, or going back to Dawkins’ The Selfish Gene.
[hijack]That it is, and I’m enjoying it a great deal. So far it really does seem like an incredibly well thought out view of the future and how technologly might progress, and after reading just some of this (I’m halfway through), The Matrix does seem to pale in comparison.[/hijack]
A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs, for the first time. Had never even heard of it until I started reading this message board. Next up is The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne.
Slogging through Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. Don’t even get me started. I hate every single character. In a deep and personal way. So at least the characters seem real to me, right? Gr. She makes some good points in here, but when she’s wrong shes WAY off. Rand is such a capatalist egotistical…YAR! I’m really too left wing for this book and should stop before I have an aneurism.
The Corrections by Jonathen Franzen, looks good so far (~20 pgs in).
Ward No. 6 and Other Stories by Anton Chekov, fantastic stories.
Darwin’s Dangerous Idea by Daniel C. Dennett, haven’t read much yet, though Consciousness Explained was quite good, IMO.
You know, it’s OK to admit that you just don’t like a book and stop reading. Unless you’ve reached that point where you HAVE to know how it ends or it’ll haunt you.
Fantastic Mr Fox by Roahl Dahl. I found it in the loft - it’s great!
Currently reading Watchmen by Alan Moore, I, Claudius by Robert Graves, rereading No Logo
Sims by F. Paul Wilson
Naked by David Sedaris. After hearing so many friends talk about how wonderful his books were, I was able to find three of them sitting on the shelf at the used book store, so I snagged them, I’m reading them, and so far, they’re GREAT!
Am about to finish “Standing in the Rainbow”, by Fannie Flagg. Neither hysterically funny like her first book, “Coming Attractions”[renamed "Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man], nor as somber as “Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe.” A gentle, simple, comical in parts, slice of small town Midwestern life, post WWII. Poor Tot!
Robert, F. Paul hangs out in the Books forum at Gorezone, nice guy.
I’m reading a soft science fiction book called Things Unborn by ? Byrne (book’s upstairs). It’s a mystery, and the SF part is because some of the characters are “Retreads”, people from different times in history who are reborn at the place where they died.
The concept is similar to Farmer’s To Your Scattered Bodies Go, but not everyone is reborn, and at the time the book starts, it’s been happening for 40 years or so and institutions have developed to assimilate and assist the retreads. And keep them in line.
Richard III is King, there were a bunch of wars led by the Duke of Monmouth (defeated by T. E. Lawrence), and when the story starts, Roundheads are trying to overthrow the liberal government.
It’s not taken too serious fun.
Just finished Villa Incognito by Tom Robins & The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. Just started * The Shelter Stones* bu Jean Auel Like her others, its a little slow starting.
mug – I’d read a review of The Time-Traveler’s Wife and thought it sounded interesting – I’ll definitely keep my eye out for that.
I’m currently reading The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan – a meditation on the evolutionary relationship between humankind and four plants, each of which is about a different kind of human desire: the tulip (desire for beauty); the apple (desire for sweetness); marijuana (desire for intoxication); the potato (desire for control).
As a gardener and evolution buff, this is right up my alley – I’m really enjoying it. Just about to start the third section – since it’s raining (and will apparently continue to rain for most of the weekend), I anticipate getting in some serious reading time – woo hoo!
Am putting off starting One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel García Márquez). It was going cheap in a record store, and I had a vague feeling I probably should have read it at some point. Page one seems okay, but I haven’t overcome the sinking feeling at spotting a family tree. Any book that needs a family tree or dramatis personæ has been heavy going in my experience.
Band of Brothers - by Stephen E. Ambrose
twickster, I always thought that sounded like an interesting book!
I just finished The Green Pearl by Jack Vance. I’m now reading Dreamer’s Tales, a collection of stories by Lord Dunsany. You can see from these that he was a big influence on H. P. Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith. Neat stuff.
Archergal, sitting at the computer instead of being out in the woods on the first day of bowhunting season – what’s wrong with this picture???