Books you're reading right now!

[jackson13]

Under the Bridge by Rebecca Godfrey


True life story of a group of 14 year old kids, mostly girls, who beat a 14 year old female classmate to death in Vancuver and threw her body under a bridge into a Gorge. The book is a recounting of the events both pre and post murder, with interviews from the actual kids and whatnot. Quite interesting.

[Tyler_Durden_208]

Garth Ennis' entire Punisher run to date. Yeah, I'll see you guys sometime in the next couple of weeks. :p

[silentasylum]

Cannery Row


&

Sweet Thursday


-John Steinbeck


its kind of neat to read them back to back.

[KcMsterpce]

I'm about halfway through SHOGUN and it's fucking awesome.

[RandalGraves]

http://www.booksamillion.com/bam/covers/1/59/486/608/1594866082.jpg

[RandalGraves]

Double post

[bourahioro]

re-reading Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

[RandalGraves]

Grindhouse

[MidnightAngel]

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n3/n17661.jpg

[DrJellyfingers]

"Darkness, Take My Hand" - Dennis Lehane

[Cronos]

just finished The Mountain People by Colin Turnbull....very interesting stuff

[Jim H]

Recently, I read the first 8 Dresden books. Very good.

I'm now reading Nightlife, by Rob Thurman. I've already read its sequel, Moon Shine, which was quite good.

[Lazy Boy]

The Sorrows of Young Werther - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

[yorrick brown]

da vinci code(i`m the only person in the world that hasn`t read this.)

rather good,i can`t wait to see if the movies as good.

[MidnightAngel]

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/x2/x12622.jpg

[Castro]

Originally posted by yorrick brown
da vinci code(i`m the only person in the world that hasn`t read this.)

No you're not. I haven't read it and I'm not planning to.

People used to ask me why not. I used to respond that life is short. Too short for books like The Da Vinci Code anyway (wasted my time with the movie though).

[chasingbanky]

Originally posted by yorrick brown
da vinci code(i`m the only person in the world that hasn`t read this.)

rather good,i can`t wait to see if the movies as good.

I haven't read it either... My friends keep trying to tell me how great it is, and offering me the book (even in audio form), but I just can't get myself to join in. The movie even looks lame.

[AndrewDB]

Just cracked the spine on:

http://images.barnesandnoble.com/images/11590000/11590222.jpg



Is it evident I like history? :)

[RandalGraves]

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0060197374.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

[chinton]

American Psycho



This book is brilliant.

[DrJellyfingers]

"The Hardcore Diaries" - Mick Foley

[Cronos]

Originally posted by yorrick brown
da vinci code(i`m the only person in the world that hasn`t read this.)
i havn't read it, probably won't even bother

[Lazy Boy]

Candide - Voltaire

[KcMsterpce]

Originally posted by Cronos
i havn't read it (Da Vinci Code), probably won't even bother

I read it last month, and when I was done I literally threw it against the wall as hard as I could. Only twice in my life have I EVER mistreated a book. After reading this, and with one hundred pages left in STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND.

That's how much I enjoyed it! :p

[MidnightAngel]

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n1/n9848.jpg

[one_crow_sorrow]

The Warrior-Prophet by R. Scott Bakker

[RandalGraves]

Scorsese: Journey Though American Psyche

[AndrewDB]

My mother just handed me this:

http://images.barnesandnoble.com/images/3240000/3245729.gif

And said "Since I know how much you love movies, read this."

A short synopsis for those who don't know who Irving Thalberg was:

Irving Thalberg is one of Hollywood's success stories - and tragedies. A mogul at MGM by the age of 25, he produced classic films like Ben Hur, Mutiny on the Bounty, Grand Hotel, and hundreds more. Thalberg brought taste, daring, and vast profits to MGM before his tragic death at the age of 37. This is an authoritative look at the "boy wonder" and his achievements.

I'll let everyone know how it reads..:D

[martyds761]

Fat Land: How America Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser

[Out and About]

Four Past Midnight by Stephen King

Loved The Langoliers. Secret Window, Secret Garden is pretty good so far.

The quality of the other two stories remains to be seen.

[KcMsterpce]

140 pages into TAI-PAN, and so far, not much has happened to be honest. It's not boring, but not too eventful yet, either.

[sarah1980]

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1551922444.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_V50388933_.jpg

[Hatfield]

http://www.lynchnet.com/tp/books/coopbio.jpg

I've had this for a while, but after watching Season 2, I just had to dust it off and finally start reading it.

[KcMsterpce]

Originally posted by Hatfield
http://www.lynchnet.com/tp/books/coopbio.jpg

I've had this for a while, but after watching Season 2, I just had to dust it off and finally start reading it.

That's a pretty fun read, especially the "No peeing for as long as possible" experiment.

[Lazy Boy]

http://www.klaus-kinski.de/veroef/pics/buch02.jpg

[silentasylum]

The Red Pony


-John Steinbeck


I am going to read this to the students I teach. I think they are going to like it.

they are 7th graders.

[Tayzlor]

Originally posted by Lazy Boy
]Kinski Uncut

Wouldn't that be great if Kinski went off the rails in his sentences like he does on his movie sets? Please tell me he does.

[Lazy Boy]

Originally posted by Tayzlor
Wouldn't that be great if Kinski went off the rails in his sentences like he does on his movie sets? Please tell me he does.

I haven't gotten too far, but it begins with him on stage using blaspehmous imagery about Christ, which causes a near riot in the audience and leads him to jump off the stage like a coked up rock star...and then he goes into his childhood, and how his skull was punctured after stealing food.

I can only ascertain it gets crazier from there...

[X-Nightcrawler]

http://www.harperacademic.com/coverimages/large/0380973650.jpg

Great book.

[sarah1980]

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1551922460.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_V50388933_.jpg

[RandalGraves]

http://www.forensicgenealogy.info/images/first_in_last_out_firefighting_book.gif

[MidnightAngel]

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n42/n214905.jpg

[one_crow_sorrow]

Originally posted by X-Nightcrawler
http://www.harperacademic.com/coverimages/large/0380973650.jpg

Great book.
Amazing book, Neil Gaiman is one of my favourite authors.

The Thousandfold Thought by R. Scott Bakker

[Out and About]

Skeleton Crew by Stephen King

Yes, I'm on an SK binge right now. I needed something new to read and, when in doubt, I turn to the King.

I'm only about halfway through "The Mist" now.

[sarah1980]

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1551923378.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_V50388933_.jpg

[Mr.HyDe807]

Alan Moore's Watchmen

Damn, its a good read!:D

[Hatfield]

http://www.dynamicforces.com/images/ronin.jpg

[Lazy Boy]

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1573223026.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

[Hatfield]

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/51UuowPdzxL._SS500_.jpg

[HiroProtagonist]

I haven't really had a chance to post in this thread all that much this year - with that in mind, here's what I've read this year :-

· May 16th - Anthony Horowitz - The Killing Joke.
· May 14th - May 16th - Jeffrey Deaver - The Bone Collector.
· May 12th - May 14th - Augusten Burroughs - Running with Scissors.
· May 11th - May 12th - Paul Henry - Diary of a C-List Celeb.
· May 6th - May 10th Jeffrey Deaver - The Tweleth Card.
· May 2nd - May 4th Ian Sansom - The Case of the Missing Books.
· April 26th - April 30th P.J. Tracy - Live Bait.
· April 22nd - April 23rd Mike Gayle - Turning Thirty.
· April 21st - April 22nd Lee Child - Bad Luck and Trouble.
· April 20th - David Llewellyn - Eleven.
· April 18th - Richard Saxon - Future for Sale.
· April 17th - April 18th Lee Child - One Shot.
· April 16th - Lee Child - The Enemy.
· April 13th - Charles Cross - Heavier than Heaven
· April 12th - Danny King - The Bank Robber Diaries.
· April 7th - April 10th - Robert Heinlein - Methuselah's Children.
· April 4th - April 7th - Lee Child - Persuader.
· April 2nd - April 4th - Robert Heinlein - The Door into Summer.
· March 30th - April 2nd - P.J. Tracey - Want to Play?
· March 26th - March 27th - Russell Celyn Jones - Ten Seconds from the Sun
· March 23rd - March 26 - John McCabe - Stickleback
· March 23rd - A.M. Homes - This Book Will Save Your Life

Edit -> Missed a couple.

[sarah1980]

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1551925702.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_V50388933_.jpg

[MidnightAngel]

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n0/n1362.jpg

[Lazy Boy]

http://www.waterbridgereview.org/images/covers/122006/blind.jpg

[yorrick brown]

which lie did i tell by william goldman.

funny the book came out in 1999.and he talks about adapting the now mark walhberg movie the shooter.but it was written for clint eastwood as the lead but was changed to a younger lead when keanu reeve said he wanted to star it.it ends with with goldman saying its now in development hell ,but now after all these years it finally gets made .

[DrJellyfingers]

The Light Fantastic - Terry Pratchett

[KcMsterpce]

Shadow & Claw: The First Half of 'The Book of the New Sun'

by Gene Wolfe

Not bad so far.

[MidnightAngel]

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n27/n135339.jpg

[RandalGraves]

Mindfreak: Secret Revelations by Criss Angel

[Otis Driftwood]

The Briar King - Greg Keyes

[sarah1980]

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/155192756X.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_V50388933_.jpg

[RandalGraves]

The Making of Pirates of the Caribbean

[Powerslave]

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n0/n4254.jpg

[bourahioro]

Originally posted by moviefreak1980
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/155192756X.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_V50388933_.jpg

Same here!

[MidnightAngel]

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/c2/c14662.jpg

[Lazy Boy]

Specimen Days - Michael Cunningham

[DrJellyfingers]

DROP SHOT - Harlan Coben

[zombievictim]

http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/51OihQuDeWL._SS500_.jpg

Got it when it came out but have yet to finish it because honestly I have a hard time finishing books nowadays. However when I do pick it up I end up reading about a hundred pages at a time.

[DrJellyfingers]

Lightning - Dean R Koontz

[jolanar]

Phantom by Terry Goodkind... finally came out on paperback and I'm tearing through it. Got through half of it last night.

[Maeljin_incarna]

Originally posted by zombievictim
Got it when it came out but have yet to finish it because honestly I have a hard time finishing books nowadays. However when I do pick it up I end up reading about a hundred pages at a time.
I just started reading that today.

[Scarfather]

Just started reading The Holographic Universe, pretty neat stuff so far.

[zombievictim]

Originally posted by Maeljin_incarna
I just started reading that today.

Good to see someone else reading it! I have about 100 pages left.

[DrJellyfingers]

"The Kill Bill diary : the making of a Tarantino classic as seen through the eyes of a screen legend"

David Carradine

[Saruman]

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n11/n55632.jpg

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n0/n2786.jpg

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n1/n7769.jpg

[Leloup]

The SteppenWollf - Herman Hesse
Short & good... is taking me a while though since I only read it when I can find a seat on the bus!

[Lazy Boy]

Rant - Chuck Palahniuk

The most readable book of his oeuvre so far.

[arto_j]

Originally posted by Lazy Boy
Specimen Days - Michael Cunningham

How is that? What I've heard says it's very different from his previous work, and I liked most of his stuff.

[Maeljin_incarna]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Go Ask Malice (A Slayer's Diary) by Robert Joseph Levy

[Lazy Boy]

Originally posted by arto_j
How is that? What I've heard says it's very different from his previous work, and I liked most of his stuff.

Didn't much care for it, or the overbearing crutch of one character in each story/timeline quoting Walt Whitman incessantly. I should really try reading The Hours, though.

[sarah1980]

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/044023848X.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_V61160064_.jpg

[Maeljin_incarna]

Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park

[one_crow_sorrow]

The Charnel Prince by Greg Keyes

[Saruman]

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n43/n215387.jpg

[arto_j]

Originally posted by Lazy Boy
Didn't much care for it, or the overbearing crutch of one character in each story/timeline quoting Walt Whitman incessantly. I should really try reading The Hours, though.

Damn, I was hoping it'd be good. I really liked Home at the End of the World, and I enjoyed The Hours too. He's a very good writer, for sure.

[X-Nightcrawler]

Originally posted by Saruman
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n1/n7769.jpg How does that compare to "A Game Of Thrones"?

The SteppenWollf - Herman Hesse
Great go. It's one of the few 'classic literature' books I actually enjoyed a lot.

Anyways.

http://www.home.earthlink.net/~ljbrown1/narnia_book.jpg

I sat down last night and read half of "The Magician's Nephew" in one sitting. These books are so magical and have so much heart, I keep imagining Lewis writing them with pen and ink under candle light.

[therealjohng]

No Country For Old Men - Cormac McCarthy



Damn good so far.


I plan on reading The Road and Blood Meridian next.

[bowieee]

Just finished up Shadow Puppets by Orson Scott Card

[X-Nightcrawler]

http://www.clivebarker.info/imajica1usp1.JPG
Clive Barker's "IMAJICA"

I couldn't find it because Mexico sucks so I had to download an e-book. Hopefully my eyes won't violently explode in a shower of blood and puss and aqueous humour.

Very excited. Looks up my alley.

[Saruman]

Originally posted by X-Nightcrawler
How does that compare to "A Game Of Thrones"?



I couldn't even finish it. It was so boring. Same as A Game of Thrones.

[RandalGraves]

Nightmares and Dreamscapes by Steven King

[sarah1980]

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0061227285.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_V50388933_.jpg

[one_crow_sorrow]

The Blood Knight by Greg Keyes

[Dave3087]

I'm reading

Coldheart Canyon by Clive Barker

Seriously messed up book

[one_crow_sorrow]

The Eyes of God by John Marco

[Lazy Boy]

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J.K. Rowling

[Maeljin_incarna]

Star Wars: Heir to the Empire by Timothy Zahn

[RandalGraves]

Re-Reading Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix

[HiroProtagonist]

The same as a lot of people I suppose, I've re-read the first five Harry Potter books, since the start of July, and then after watching OoTP (hopefully on Tuesday) I'll re-read Half-Blood Prince, before reading Deathly Hallows.

However, until Tuesday I'm in a kinda holding pattern, so I'm currently re-reading :-

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/51D636V1D8L._SS500_.jpg

[Psychocandy]

Originally posted by Saruman
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n43/n215387.jpg

I've read his two zombie books and have The Conqueror Worms sitting on my to read pile. How was this? How did it compare to his other books?

[Tagia_Romero]

http://www.falleen.com/books/deltavenus.jpg
Delta of Venus- Anais Nin

http://www.joker.si/images/clank/3184_200.jpg
Fevre Dream- George R.R. Martin

[DrJellyfingers]

Behind The Scenes of Psycho

Janet Leigh

[yorrick brown]

RANT
by chuck palaniunck

just started.

love the line'lifes greatest comfort is being able to look over your shoulder and see people worse off waiting in line behind you'
and
'some people are born human the rest of us take a lifetime to get there.'

so far so good.

[RandalGraves]

Die Hard With A Vengeance by D. Chiel

[one_crow_sorrow]

The Devil's Armor by John Marco

[silentasylum]

The Pearl


-John Steinbeck

[Maeljin_incarna]

Star Wars: Dark Force Rising by Timothy Zahn

[smok3h]

Originally posted by Maeljin_incarna
Star Wars: Dark Force Rising by Timothy Zahn
that trilogy is the best star wars books ever written.

Reading the wheel of time series right now, i'm on book 4, the shadow rising, but i'm gonna take a break now to read the new Harry Potter book, since I just bought it and all.

[RandalGraves]

http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/Images/stories/2007/mar/hpdhcover.jpg

[Maeljin_incarna]

Originally posted by smok3h
that trilogy is the best star wars books ever written.
To be honest, Heir to the Empire didn't have much that grabbed my attention until about halfway through the book... but the second half definitely sucked me in.

I recently bought just about all the non-children's fare Star Wars novels released in hardcover (that's 45 books so far, not including a few that haven't yet arrived from Amazon) and I'll slowly be wading my way through them soon enough. I started with the Thrawn trilogy since it had the earliest release year (1991) and I figured that was a good launching point considering people's praise for it.

[sarah1980]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v608/nickknight1228/51mAYZ8HaNL._SS500_.jpg

[zombievictim]

I'm a little behind on my Harry Potter books so I'm currently reading the Sixth one. I bought it at midnight when it first came out but I didn't get into it. Just didn't want to read it. But now that the last book came out and I don't want to have it spoiled by someone else since the books are just so...well magical. So I figured I'd take the next week staying away from all spoilers and such and read the last two books. Let's hope I can come through with it.

[yorrick brown]

RANT
this is such a good book,i`m liking it alot better then haunted.just read the chapter of the little goth girl and her pet bat 'monty' and how the parents didn`t know she had rabies they just thought it was a goth thing.

[smok3h]

Originally posted by Maeljin_incarna
To be honest, Heir to the Empire didn't have much that grabbed my attention until about halfway through the book... but the second half definitely sucked me in.

I recently bought just about all the non-children's fare Star Wars novels released in hardcover (that's 45 books so far, not including a few that haven't yet arrived from Amazon) and I'll slowly be wading my way through them soon enough. I started with the Thrawn trilogy since it had the earliest release year (1991) and I figured that was a good launching point considering people's praise for it.
yeah, the first half of heir to the empire is rather slow. The Last Command is just so amazing though. You'll be happy you read the books after reading that one.

i'm halfway through Deathly Hallows right now, so far, pretty good book, i'm happy with the way it's going so far.

[HiroProtagonist]

I read Deathly Hallows yesterday (Took just over 9 hours), and so now I've started :-

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/41wxwNOLu2L._SS500_.jpg

I've been planning to read it for a while, and now I've finally got Harry and Friends out of the way (at least until the re-read of Hallows that I think I'm gonna need before passing judgemen on it) it seemed like the ideal time.

[RandalGraves]

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/41tXVdm+P2L._AA240_.jpg

[HiroProtagonist]

Started this one this morning :-

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/412JRPPnMiL._SS500_.jpg

[Maeljin_incarna]

Star Wars: The Last Command by Timothy Zahn

[ParanoidAndvoid]

Originally posted by yorrick brown
RANT
this is such a good book,i`m liking it alot better then haunted.just read the chapter of the little goth girl and her pet bat 'monty' and how the parents didn`t know she had rabies they just thought it was a goth thing.


Yorrick did you finish it? Im deciding between a few books to read next and one of the choices is Rant. Just wanted to know how good it was.

[one_crow_sorrow]

The Sword of Angels by John Marco

[yorrick brown]

Originally posted by ParanoidAndvoid
Yorrick did you finish it? Im deciding between a few books to read next and one of the choices is Rant. Just wanted to know how good it was.

if you like his books then yes.best book i`ve read in a longtime.my 2nd fav book of his after fight club.

i recomend reading the chapter 'DOGS' on page 17.if you like that then buy the book.

its so good i`m gonna re-read it.as with most of chucks books theres a twist near the end that gets you thinking about what you`ve just been reading.

[silentasylum]

The house of the Spirits


-Isabel Allende

[DrJellyfingers]

Down By The River Where The Dead Men Go


George Pelecanos

[Maeljin_incarna]

Star Wars: The Courtship of Princess Leia by Dave Wolverton

[sarah1980]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v608/nickknight1228/thehuntforredoctober.jpg

[Tagia_Romero]

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n9/n47002.jpg

http://www.bssc.edu.au/public/facilities_services/library/fiction/Term%202%202005/Z-for-Zahariah.jpg

A literary threesome if you will.

[yorrick brown]

nineteen minutes by jodi picoult

[zombievictim]

The Dark Knight Returns
http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/5169ZV5MBVL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_.jpg

Wow. I am LOVING this so far. It's absolutely incredible that's for sure. I've finished book one and that's just amazing.

[X-Nightcrawler]

Originally posted by Tagia_Romero
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n9/n47002.jpg . Any good?

[Tagia_Romero]

Originally posted by X-Nightcrawler
Any good?

Very. It's aimed initially for teens but the story is VERY compelling. I can't describe it, but I guess I can say that it is VERY loosely based on 'Little Red Riding Hood'.

[Tayzlor]

Originally posted by HiroProtagonist
Moon Dust

How'd that work out?


"The Sot Weed Factor" by John Barth

[Maeljin_incarna]

Star Wars: The Truce at Bakura by Kathy Tyers

[Rated R]

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/41K17Y8M6SL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU15_AA240_SH20_.jpg

I am on to the second book. What an adventure so far. It is a bit repetitive but still hilarious. I read the first book a couple months ago and put it down in lieu of a few other titles I wanted to read, hopefully I get the time to finish it this week.

[thedudeman69]

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0393319296.01.LZZZZZZZ.gif

[I Am Legend]

American Gods by Neil Gaiman

[bourahioro]

Originally posted by thedudeman69
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0393319296.01.LZZZZZZZ.gif

I want to read this.

[yorrick brown]

Originally posted by bourahioro
I want to read this.

you should its pretty good.great little twists near the end like most of his books.


the butcher by alina reyes.
saw the movie which i love they reading the novella

[Scarfather]

Originally posted by I Am Legend
American Gods by Neil Gaiman

GREAT novel.

Currently wrapping my head around The Third Policeman for the second time.

I am disturbed and enthralled by how.. something this book it, I don't know what yet.

[Maeljin_incarna]

Star Wars: The Jedi Academy Trilogy by Kevin J. Anderson

[DrJellyfingers]

Blaze - Richard Bachman

[zombievictim]

Quick Change

[Lazy Boy]

God and the State - Michael Bakunin

[Danger^Cart]

I'm currently reading the Sandman series. I've read books 1-4 so far. Halfway through book 5, and aside from the shitty art in chapter 3 (It's hard to tell who it is, exactly, because for some reason they refuse to list the writer and illustrator at the beginning of each issue, like normal fucking folk; although I know it's not Shawn McManus, who rocks fucking ass, so that narrows it down a bit) it's my favorite thus far. Really imaginative shit. Seaons of Mist was really great too. Looking forward to reading the rest.

[Sh8dy Milkman]

http://www.holycow.com/dreaming/images/americangods_cover.jpg

[adamjohnson]

The Club Dumas

After that, The Historion.

[RandalGraves]

http://www.goboxerrescue.com/images/amazon/book14.jpg

[dreamcurls]

Waterworld
by Max Allen Collins

[fooknasty]

Make Love the Bruce Campbell Way

[Sh8dy Milkman]

The Beach- Alex Garland

[DrJellyfingers]

Equal Rites - Terry Pratchett

3rd Discworld novel

[Cronos]

So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish - Douglas Adams

Thought it was about time i finished reading these books, damn funny stuff.

[Maeljin_incarna]

Star Wars: The Crystal Star by Vonda N. McIntyre

Ugh.

[taxi_driver]

http://i11.tinypic.com/4kcrltc.jpg

Very detailed, well written novel.

[Powerslave]

All The Pretty Horses, by Cormac McCarthy

[Lazy Boy]

The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

[Tayzlor]

The Sot-Weed Factor by John Barth

[one_crow_sorrow]

The Simulacra by Philip K. Dick

[one_crow_sorrow]

Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick

[Maeljin_incarna]

Star Wars Tales (Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina, Tales of the Bounty Hunters, Tales from Jabba's Palace) edited by Kevin J. Anderson

[Dead Halloween]

Endymion by Dan Simmons

[Sonny488]

Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom

[Maeljin_incarna]

Originally posted by Dead Halloween
Endymion by Dan Simmons
Small world. I just picked that and Rise up, though I'll have to re-read the Hyperion books before I delve into those two.

[Lazy Boy]

Shadowland - William Arnold

I've been fascinated with reading more about Frances Farmer since watching the Jessica Lange film version a year ago, and I was finally able to check out a library copy of her tragic story.

[one_crow_sorrow]

The Penultimate Truth by Philip K. Dick

[bluesbrother965]

Originally posted by Tayzlor
The Sot-Weed Factor by John Barth


How do you like it?

[Tagia_Romero]

http://www.randomhouse.com/images/dyn/cover/?source=9780345377647&height=300&maxwidth=170

[yorrick brown]

Originally posted by Gollum
BOOK I'M READING AT THE MOMENT:

"Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger

no wonder j d salinger is a hermit.this book is a work of art.

it came out in 1950`s ? and its still a great read.

"Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody".

[Cermond]

Right now i'm finishing Women by Charles Bukowski, Hollywood is waiting to be next.

Also working on:
Johnny Got His Gun - Dalton Trumbo
Survivor - Chuck Palahniuk
Poe collection

[bluesbrother965]

Originally posted by yorrick brown
it came out in 1950`s ? and its still a great read.


Um...?

[Rated R]

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[HiroProtagonist]

one_crow_sorrow - It looks like you're going on a bit of a Philip K. Dick trip (no pun intended ;) ) at the moment - I've recently brought 50+ Philip K Dick paperbacks from a local charity shop for virtually nothing (£5), so I'll be joining you soon - Phil Dick has gotta be one of my all time fav. authors, of any genre.

As for me, well this morning I finished :

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/41XR212YMQL._SS500_.jpg

and over the coming week(s more likely) I'll be reading the first two books in James Ellroys' American Underworld Trilogy

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/51V888FYR0L._SS500_.jpg

and

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/41X27EXRRYL._SS500_.jpg

[KcMsterpce]

CRYPTONOMICON by Neil Stephenson.

So far, so good. It beats the pea-brained idiocracy of DIGITAL FORTRESS.

[fixedMind]

The World Without Us- Weisman

I dont usually read non-fiction based fiction, but this seemed pretty interesting.

[Scarfather]

Currently, The Man Who Was Thursday.

Probably the most flawlessly brilliant I've read all year so far.

Originally posted by Rated R
http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/41FNVTRGE8L._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU15_AA240_SH20_.jpg

Just finished that, tell me what you thought of the ending when you're done.

[DrJellyfingers]

The Overlook - Michael Connelly

[one_crow_sorrow]

Company by Max Barry

[Lazy Boy]

http://www.goodbookslately.com/images/atonement.jpg

[yorrick brown]

i just brought
Josh Hartnett Definitely Wants To Do This by bruce beresford(director of driving miss daisy)


bruce beresford wants to make a movie about chet baker.josh harnett definitely wants to play the part but theres a catch ,he won`t if bruce beresford is the director.

so far so good.

[Inglorious]

Finishing off King's Skeleton Crew really quick. Then I dont know what to read. Maybe Damnation Game, Imagica or start the books of the art series.

Dunno, lots of classics to catch up on too that I own, among others.

[therealjohng]

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/0330312561.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

[Rated R]

Originally posted by Scarfather



Just finished that, tell me what you thought of the ending when you're done.




GREAT GATSBY POTENTIAL SPOILERS!!!!!!!!!!PROCEED WITH CAUTION!!!!!!!!





Gatsby was good, it was a quick read. The ending was drawn out I thought and could have been shortened. After the death, I understand that there needed to be some resolution for Nick and the realization that no one actually cared about Gatsby was fairly obvious. I guess it is kind of the point that not much was really resolved. The people Gatsby worked with will continue doing what they did, as will Daisy and Tom. Meanwhile Gatsby and his parties remain a memory and Nick gets a waek up call on humanity.

Kind of going blindly as I don't have the book in front of me though.

[Rated R]

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/51%2BSiK9L9XL._SS500_.jpg

Just started it for my Sci-Fi english class.



Also starting this:

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/41NX3NQFB3L._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU15_AA240_SH20_.jpg

A buddy lent me this after I told him I had read Brave New World earlier this summer. So far it feels like a high brow Fear and Loathing. I'm sure Heaven and Hell will be different, but it will have to wait.

[X-Nightcrawler]

http://www.today.ucla.edu/2000/images/8-E.jpg
Esperanza's Box of Saints

Had lunch with the author, going to read her works. So far, this book is simple, touching and clever.

[Digifruitella]

http://powayusd.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/teachers/dmasur/Siddhartha/siddhartha%20book%20cover.jpg

[Scarfather]

Just finished The Man Who Was Thursday, my god that was an absolutely flawless book.

I'm going to reread I Am Legend next.

Originally posted by Digifruitella
http://powayusd.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/teachers/dmasur/Siddhartha/siddhartha%20book%20cover.jpg

One of my absolute favorite books, hope you enjoy it.

[sarah1980]

Angels & Demons by Dan Brown

[X-Nightcrawler]

Originally posted by Digifruitella
http://powayusd.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/teachers/dmasur/Siddhartha/siddhartha%20book%20cover.jpg Quite an interesting read. But Herman Hesse's best is "Steppenwolf", in my opinion.

[HiroProtagonist]

Since Saturday I've read The Traveller, by John Twelve Hawks, and started the second in the Fourth Realm series, The Dark River, yesterday - I'm around a third of the way through it, and so far it's keeping my interest.

[Digifruitella]

Originally posted by Scarfather
Just finished The Man Who Was Thursday, my god that was an absolutely flawless book.

I'm going to reread I Am Legend next.



One of my absolute favorite books, hope you enjoy it.

Have you heard of Dan Millman's "Way of the Peaceful Warrior" it's his freshman novel - but it has quite a VERY powerful moral. I'm sure you know about the movie adaptation - which is quite great I thought, didn't touch on deeply on everything in the novel, just the college years.

[DOPEY]

right now im reading stephen king's carrie

[DrJellyfingers]

"The Big Blowdown" by George Pelecanos

[KcMsterpce]

Originally posted by DrJellyfingers
"The Big Blowdown" by George Pelecanos

Sounds like the title to one of my favorite movies. :D

[HiroProtagonist]

Started this yesterday :-

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Q4HWvcrZL._SS500_.jpg

Hoping to have it finished by the end of the weekend (if all goes to plan)

[pablo_super1!]

Just finished

How to Survive a Horror Movie & Zombie Survival Guide

Currently I'm Reading WORLD WAR Z

[RandalGraves]

http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/51-Bvh+q1XL._AA240_.jpg

[bigred760]

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/cc/de/57bcc6da8da09f9e60d31110.L.jpg

[vesaker]

Warhammer 40k Codex: Chaos Space Marines

now this isn't really a book so much as it's a list of rules for hte Chaos Space Marine army in Warhammer 40k but for any who play hte game they know just how rich and in depth the back stories are for this game and wiht the newest edition/revision of the chaos book i'm have lots of fun reading al lthe stories they have in it :)

[Scarfather]

Just finished I Am Legend.

Originally posted by Digifruitella
Have you heard of Dan Millman's "Way of the Peaceful Warrior" it's his freshman novel - but it has quite a VERY powerful moral. I'm sure you know about the movie adaptation - which is quite great I thought, didn't touch on deeply on everything in the novel, just the college years.

That's been on my bookshelf for about a year, and I haven't read it yet, I think I will after The Dharma Bums, which I've neglected even longer.

I'll be back.

[one_crow_sorrow]

Kim by Rudyard Kipling for school.

[yorrick brown]

the ruins by scott smith.
12 years since his last novel(a simple plan) this had better be good and it is so far. its the best horror novel i`ve read.

[Cronos]

"Mostly Harmless" - Douglas Adams

[arto_j]

Finally got around to The Road. I'm about halfway, definitely digging it so far.

[Scarfather]

Originally posted by Cronos
"Mostly Harmless" - Douglas Adams

A-ma-zing.

I just started Way of the Peaceful Warrior, charming is the best description so far. I'll be back.

[Lazy Boy]

Originally posted by yorrick brown
the ruins by scott smith.
12 years since his last novel(a simple plan) this had better be good and it is so far. its the best horror novel i`ve read.

Oh, it gets even better. On par with the best of Stephen King -- it felt a lot like an extended version of one of his finely crafted short stories.

[Sh8dy Milkman]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/51/PhineasPoe.jpg

[HiroProtagonist]

I finished the following a few days ago - 'twas my first David Baldacci read, and I thought it was quite good :-

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/41M0GIgpV2L._SS500_.jpg

And yesterday I started the following :-

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/51V2QK45T0L._SS500_.jpg

[Digifruitella]

http://img119.imageshack.us/img119/6493/whatthebuddhataughtpn3.jpg

[Jim H]

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n44/n221636.jpg

The new Temeraire book. Just came out. I'll have finished it tomorrow. Pretty good so far, but it looks like the second book will remain my favorite of the series.

[silentasylum]

Names will never hurt me


-Jaime Adoff

[poopontheshoes7]

The Talisman By Stephen king and Peter Straub. loving it to pieces. I have to say Wolf is one of my favorite literary characters of all time.

SPOILERSSSS!!

I actually squirted a few tears when he died. Fucking sad:(

[Jim H]

The Talisman By Stephen king and Peter Straub. loving it to pieces. I have to say Wolf is one of my favorite literary characters of all time.



Yeah, good book. I just read it myself a couple months ago.

[HiroProtagonist]

Just started the following, last night :-

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/411W99QABTL._SS500_.jpg

Once I've finished re-reading Pattern Recognition, I'm planning on moving onto Spook Country :-

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/41tv7H1ZW1L._SS500_.jpg

[smok3h]

Went to the book store today looking for some Alien Vs. Predator novels (they didn't have any) and saw this book. Thought it might be interesting so I picked it up.

http://www.collectinghq.com/im/0007488.jpg

[DarthWade]

Smok3h - the sequel to that book comes out this fall.

I'm reading Olympus by Dan Simmons.

[darchangel]

Recently Finished:

Black Alice- 7/10
Flowers In The Attic- 9/10
Petals On The Wind- 6/10
World War Z- 10/10

[abraa cadaver]

"Hombre" By Elmore Leonard
"The Hellbound Heart" By Clive Barker (the novella that inspired Hellraiser)

[Cronos]

"The Average American Male" - Chad Kultgen

Added it to the pile of books i'm currently reading at the moment.

[MidnightAngel]

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/c0/c259.jpg

[Maeljin_incarna]

Star Wars: Children of the Jedi by Barbara Hambly

:(

[Cermond]

Ernest Hemingway - To Have And Have Not

[Le_Big_Mac]

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

[martyds761]

Unshapely Things by Mark Del Franco

[smok3h]

Smok3h - the sequel to that book comes out this fall.

I'm reading Olympus by Dan Simmons.

NIce, I really really enjoyed the book. I bought it on a whim and it surprised the heck out of me! Looking forward to the sequel.

Now I'm reading

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n1/n9267.jpg

[X-Nightcrawler]

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/51S2RRG3MFL._SS500_.jpg

Addictive as hell.

[X-Nightcrawler]

The Talisman By Stephen king and Peter Straub. loving it to pieces. I have to say Wolf is one of my favorite literary characters of all time.

SPOILERSSSS!!

I actually squirted a few tears when he died. Fucking sad:(

God pound you right here and now, that book is fucking great.

[abraa cadaver]

NIce, I really really enjoyed the book. I bought it on a whim and it surprised the heck out of me! Looking forward to the sequel.

Now I'm reading

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n1/n9267.jpg

Book 1 is great, book 2 is ok, and book 3 is just awful. Sorry dude.

[FiveDaze]

Just finished HULK: Grey by Tim Sale and Jeph Loeb-- Definitely a good, quick read...

I pretty much read anything by that team-- Superman: Confidential. The Long Halloween. Dark Victory. Haunted Knight. Superman: For all seasons. Daredevil: Yellow. Spiderman: Blue... They are all good!

I dont give a fuck--- they are such a dynamic team-- if i see they worked on something, i pick it up.

[Digifruitella]

http://img127.imageshack.us/img127/9778/xpkwwlv7m46eqfj0scfsn0bwk2.jpg

[HiroProtagonist]

So I decided not to read Spook Country yet - after re-reading Pattern Recognition I'm kinda "Gibsoned" out for a while, so I've started reading the following instead :-

http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/218HW2DHN5L._PIsitb-dp-arrow,TopRight,21,-23_SH30_OU02_AA115_.jpg

[DrJellyfingers]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9e/Mort-cover.jpg/185px-Mort-cover.jpg

[Maeljin_incarna]

Star Wars: Darksaber by Kevin J. Anderson

[Tagia_Romero]

My History of Terrorism subject text book 'Voices of Terror'.

[Lazy Boy]

Saturday by Ian McEwan

[Digifruitella]

http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/41VNZGWACVL.jpg

[SamSanchez]

In the last two months, I read:
Palahniuk's Survivor - 8.5/10
Bukowski's Factotum - 8/10
Woody Allen's Mere Anarchy - 8/10
Lindsay's Darkly Dreaming Dexter - 8/10
Lindsay's Dearly Devoted Dexter - 8.5/10
Lindsay's Dexter in the Dark - 5/10
McCarthy's No Country For Old Men - 10/10

[Cermond]

Henry Miller - Tropic Of Cancer

Klaus Kinski - I Need Love

[HiroProtagonist]

Just started the following, on the way out this morning :-

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/414GP33Z7TL._SS500_.jpg

[KillerKlown]

The Two Bear Mambo, by Joe R. Landsdale.

[MidnightAngel]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4c/Shiningnovel.jpg/200px-Shiningnovel.jpg

[yorrick brown]

TIPPING THE VELVET BY SARAH WATERS

[one_crow_sorrow]

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

[Maeljin_incarna]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4c/Shiningnovel.jpg/200px-Shiningnovel.jpg

One of the very few Stephen-King-novels-adapted-to-film/televison that I haven't read... but I'm sure I'll get to it sometime soon.

I'm taking a break from Star Wars books for a bit (as if announcing it to strangers gives it some level of importance) so now I'm reading:

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Gatekeeper Trilogy by Christopher Golden and Nancy Holder

[KcMsterpce]

Still reading Neal Stephenson's CRYPTONOMICON. I finally broke the 400 page mark (it's 1200 pages or something).

I'm lovin' it. The dude's a great writer. FUNNY FUNNY similes and shit. I'll pick up more of his stuff in the future. But next on my list is GAIJIN, which is 1300 pages so it will be ages before I get to anything else by Stephenson.

[Digifruitella]

http://www.insidesuccessradio.com/images/products/the%204%20agreements.jpg

[mindkiss69]

Right now, Million Dollar Baby. It's a 6.5/10 so far.

[X-Nightcrawler]

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0765346524.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
Wizard's First Rule

Catching up. I had left it about 400 pages through. Hope to finish it soon. Odd how the instant I grabbed it again, I was much more into it than the first time. I'm really beginning to learn how to read these high fantasy stories.

[outsyder]

Gorky Park

[DrJellyfingers]

"Fireflies" - David Morrell

[one_crow_sorrow]

Regeneration by Pat Barker
The Way the Crow Flies by Ann-Marie MacDonald

[poopontheshoes7]

Just finished Cycle of the Werewolf (very sort) By Stephen King and just started Hearts In Atlantis. Im in a huge King kick right now. Cant help it. i love the man.

[KcMsterpce]

Just finished Cycle of the Werewolf (very sort) By Stephen King and just started Hearts In Atlantis. Im in a huge King kick right now. Cant help it. i love the man.

Speaking of werewolf books, you really should check out THE WOLF'S HOUR by Robert McCammon if you haven't already.
It's a WWII spy story where the main character is a lycanthrope. Super-violent, and action packed. It would be a fucking RAAAAD R-rated action movie!