Now Reading... (or Recently Finished)

[Nerdcore]

Death on the Instalment Plan- by celine

[dragonluv]

Reading Stiff, The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach.

I read it before a long time ago and now reading again.

[CaT]

inkspell the second book to inkheart and a book called savvy....something about powers on your thirteenths b-day intrigues me

[phee]

Just Reread "The Mysterious Stranger" by Twain... man what a great read.

[Vedoryn]

Terry Goodkind's "Phantom" So glad he stopped writing at a third grade level. No more listening to your editor, Terry! lol. Each (admittedly ginormous) book has plenty of everything i love in a yummy book; blood, action, romance, intrigue, magic and sexy people who actually have a brain behind those pretty eyes, and strong women! yaay! oo! and cool fight scenes!

[AmieLamie]

I'm now reading "I Never Promised You a Rose Garden",

it's about a girl with schizophrenia, and blah blah blah.

But, I feel the need to mention my favorite book.

It's titled "The End of Alice".

Here's a summary (not written by me, but stolen because I'm merely too damn lazy):

"In this deeply disturbing novel, Homes seems to be attempting to create as repulsive a protagonist as possible-a nameless pedophile serving his 23rd year at Sing Sing. Alongside his narrative is the tale of a 19-year-old college coed obsessed by a preteen boy. A large part of the novel centers on the half-real, half-imagined ties that develop between the convict and the college student as a result of her increasingly graphic letters to him. The rest is a reminiscence of his affair with a 12-year-old seductress named Alice that ends in her gruesome murder. Deliberately shocking and confrontational, Homes's purpose seems to be to force the reader into a kind of Dostoevskian identification with the blackest and most perverse elements of human nature."

[Scales]

Commentary on the Dhammapada–by Swami Nirmalananda Giri

This is interesting, but the guy writing it is almost like Christopher Hitchens as a Yogi.

Edited August 15, 2009 by Scales

[Guest Megalicious]

Infinite in All Directions by Freeman Dyson.

I have just ordered a collection of his papers. Cost me a bit, but after reading this book something tells me its going to SO WORTH it.

[bav]

Been on a Charlie Stross kick with Halting State, The Atrocity Archive, and Jennifer Morgue. Stross and John Scalzi are my currently my favorite sci-fi authors-of-the-moment.

Halting State - Tracking down the mind behind the robbery of the banks in what's basically World of Warcraft.

The Atrocity Archive - Cthulhu-punk meets spy thriller with a healthy dose of mathematics-as-necromancy. Throw in some universe-jumping Nazis for good measure. Nazis...I hate those guys.

Jennifer Morgue - Follow-up to The Atrocity Archive with a healthy dose of Ian Fleming.

[pomba gira]

I'm back in my "can't read anything without pictures" space. Just finished Uzumaki (yeah, it was a fansub... sue me). Not usually into horror manga but Ito's brand of creepy grotesquery is endlessly fascinating. Now working on the new Shonen Jump which just arrived yesterday. I need more manga!

I'm now reading "I Never Promised You a Rose Garden",

it's about a girl with schizophrenia, and blah blah blah.

I had that book pretty much memorized when I was in high school. I really wished I could escape into my own hallucinated world.

[xenoterracide]

I'm reading Advanced Programming in a UNIX Environment 2nd Edition. Or at least as much as anyone really reads a technical reference... I'm really skimming it for gold.

[dragonluv]

I'm now reading "I Never Promised You a Rose Garden",

it's about a girl with schizophrenia, and blah blah blah.

But, I feel the need to mention my favorite book.

It's titled "The End of Alice".

Here's a summary (not written by me, but stolen because I'm merely too damn lazy):

"In this deeply disturbing novel, Homes seems to be attempting to create as repulsive a protagonist as possible-a nameless pedophile serving his 23rd year at Sing Sing. Alongside his narrative is the tale of a 19-year-old college coed obsessed by a preteen boy. A large part of the novel centers on the half-real, half-imagined ties that develop between the convict and the college student as a result of her increasingly graphic letters to him. The rest is a reminiscence of his affair with a 12-year-old seductress named Alice that ends in her gruesome murder. Deliberately shocking and confrontational, Homes's purpose seems to be to force the reader into a kind of Dostoevskian identification with the blackest and most perverse elements of human nature."

That book, "I never Promised You a Rose Garden" sounds good. I am going to have to add to my list of books to check out.

[Slogo]

Just started "Lion in the White House, A Life of Theodore Roosevelt"

I'm such a nerd

[Guest Megalicious]

I just finished Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel by Michio Kaku. A very fun ready indeed!!

[Bernadette]

"let my people go surfing' by yvon chouinard, founder of patagonia (the company, not the land).

[Slogo]

I just finished Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel by Michio Kaku. A very fun ready indeed!!

Everything of his I read fascinates me, and I'm not very good with science

[Guest Megalicious]

Everything of his I read fascinates me, and I'm not very good with science

The man is a born communicator *nods*

I just picked up " Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreeich. It doesn't look like my usual read it is for class, but at least it doesn't look boring...

[Fidget(+)]

ehh...it seems lame to everyone else atm but various erotic literature.

ooh and i forgot "Bartimaeus"

http://www.bartimaeustrilogy.com/

[disenchanted]

Elric: The Stealer of Souls (Chronicles of the Last Emperor of Melniboné, Vol. 1) by Michale Moorcock.

The original tortured, damned, oddly-hued sword and sorcery swordsman. Without Elric, there would be no Raistlin or Arthas the Lich King.

Edited September 3, 2009 by disenchanted

[phee]

Anti-Story An Anthology of Experimental Fiction

edited by Philip Stevick

[Rev.Reverence]

...can't tell you

[Scales]

Recently finished:

Exploring the Crack in the Cosmic Egg: Split Minds & Meta-Realities by Joseph Chilton Pearce

The Dhammapada

Reading:

god is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens

The Dark Side of the Universe by James Trefil

[DarkVampire]

One of the newer Star Wars books, Omen.

[Guest Megalicious]

Now reading: QED- The Strange Theory of Light and Matter by Richard P Feynman

Recently finished:Flatland by Edwin A Abbott.

[pomba gira]

Just finished: Buried Alive- the terrifying history of our most primal fear (Jan Bondeson)

Before that: A Brief History of the Smile (Angus Trimble)

It's weird, doing the withdrawal thing is the only time I can read actual full-length books... dunno why but it was the same when the met clinic 86'd me. Started reading again, then stopped as soon as I got on the bupe.