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The Professional · #41 11-21-2002, 10:44 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Mick
I'm just past the halfway mark of Don Delillo's Underworld.

how is it? i have Don Delillo's Libra but i havent read it yet.

Mick · #42 11-21-2002, 04:10 PM

I picked it up basically because of a quote on the "Choke" cover by Bret Easton Ellis ("Maybe our generation has found its Don Delillo")

I suppose there are some similarities. The only thing I don't really like about it is that some of the characters are really uninteresting, and ruin all the momentum. I guess it'd be OK if I was taking time to read it at decent lengths, but as I'm reading in short spells (on buses (bloody students) and lunch breaks) I'm not getting very far; and all the switching between different characters and decades - well, it can be a pain in the ass.

I'm going to finish it next week, reading at home. So hopefully it'll be a bit more enjoyable. I'll post a proper, although probably still crappy, analysis of it when I've finished it; and learned to stop rambling on so much.

jackson13 · #43 11-21-2002, 05:45 PM

I finished Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk, it was good and I recommend it to fans of his.
Today when I returned it to the library, I picked up Choke. It's been awhile since I read it.

Morgana · #44 11-29-2002, 12:33 PM

The New Sufferings of Young W, by Ulrich Plenzdorf

Of all the books I had to read for my degree in college, this one is by far my favorite and always a joy to reread. A hilarious parody of Goethe's The Sufferings of Young Werther.

peterparker · #45 11-29-2002, 04:41 PM

Just started to read No Logo by Naomi Klein

Moviefan1234 · #46 11-29-2002, 06:01 PM

I recently started "The Eighth Day Of The Week" by Alfred Coppel.

SenorSpielbergo · #47 11-29-2002, 11:23 PM

I just finished Animal Farm and I'm going to try and read The Two Towers before the movie comes out.

JivaFox · #48 11-30-2002, 11:13 AM

I finished Thrill! and am now reading The Love Killers, it's quite an interesting book...

dh1989 · #49 11-30-2002, 07:08 PM

I am currently re-reading The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. Its my sixth time, I believe, reading it.

Gollum · #50 11-30-2002, 07:35 PM

Wow, I've only read it three times!!!

Jerk Shapiro · #51 12-01-2002, 04:53 PM

The Shining by Stephen King.

jackson13 · #52 12-02-2002, 11:09 PM

I finished Choke today so now Im reading Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk. I havent read it in a year so I figure its time to read it again.

The Other · #53 12-02-2002, 11:56 PM

I read Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone again over the period of Saturday Night and Sunday morning (last time I read it was about 2 years ago). Than last night and tonight I was re-reading Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (again, last time I read it was 2 years ago). I ended after chapter 14 tonight, so when I start again tomorrow I'll be on chapter 15..."Aragog".

Annie Hall · #54 12-04-2002, 08:57 PM

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil...no way to not enjoy the book...after seeing the flick, who can help but picture Spacey as one of the leads?

the night watchman · #55 12-06-2002, 12:21 AM

"Nazareth Hill" by Ramsey Campbell
"Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
Just finished yesterday "Lynch on Lynch" by Chris Rodley and (natch) David Lynch

syxxpac · #56 12-06-2002, 02:48 PM

Pet Sematary by Stephen King

SenorSpielbergo · #57 12-10-2002, 11:20 PM

I've just finished Cujo and I've started on It by STEPHEN KING

Moviefan1234 · #58 12-11-2002, 03:46 AM

"Subterranean" by James Rollins

bankholdup · #59 12-11-2002, 02:28 PM

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Bugress.

Should take me a while to read since I read it during my 5th period Graphic Arts Tech class instead of doing all of my work. The NADSAT language is a bit annoying, but I love the movie so I'm giving the book a shot. After this, I plan to read The Godfather. I am basically only into "movie-books".

peterparker · #60 12-25-2002, 11:34 AM

Fight Club - Chuck Palanhiuk
and
M.K. Gandhi - An Autobiography

the night watchman · #61 12-25-2002, 11:54 AM

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Originally posted by peterparker
Fight Club - Chuck Palanhiuk
and
M.K. Gandhi - An Autobiography

Nice combo.

Jerk Shapiro · #62 12-25-2002, 02:34 PM

The Hobbit

James Logan · #63 12-26-2002, 09:28 AM

Vladimir Propp's essays about traditional fantasy tales. Good theoritical stuff...

Romero&Juliet · #64 12-26-2002, 03:20 PM

I'm Reading Ayn rand's the fountainhead... I got it for xmas and I've been reading it ever since. Im REALLLLLLY getting into it.

Moviefan1234 · #65 12-27-2002, 10:20 AM

I just started "Andromeda Strain" by Michael Crichton.

Jess · #66 12-27-2002, 08:03 PM

I'm reading If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor by Mr. Bruce Campbell; Nightmares and Dreamscapes by Stephen King; The Books of Blood vol.1-3 by Clive Barker and The Lord of the Flies for english class.

Nate6 · #67 12-27-2002, 08:40 PM

I'm currently reading David McCullough's so-far great John Adams, and I'll be starting John Katzenbach's Hart's War afterwards.

Gollum · #68 12-28-2002, 04:19 PM

Just started:

"DARK TOWER: The Gunslinger" by Stephen King

Mick · #69 12-28-2002, 07:43 PM

just started Chuck's latest offering, having read the rest of the stuff he's had published.

blankpage · #70 12-28-2002, 11:26 PM

I just finished reading, CATCH ME IF YOU CAN. Now I am going back to STUPID WHITE MEN.

The Young Son · #71 01-06-2003, 06:16 AM

Just finished "Talon of the Silver Hawk" by Raymond E. Feist.

Asokan · #72 01-06-2003, 08:33 AM

Just finished "The Godfather" by Mario Puzo. There were too many subplots and rather unnecessarily bloated secondary characters. Francis Ford Coppola did a great job adapting it, as it's brilliant in places and overall effective, but has its rather uninteresting gaps.

Ren Hoek · #73 01-07-2003, 06:36 PM

just PERFECT for this forum: "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay" by Michael Chabon.

it's about two buddies who create a comic strip about a Nazi-busting superhero in 1939. Little by little, their own lives and that of the coomic character intermingle... GREAT stuff!

Rated R · #74 01-07-2003, 11:17 PM

Just finished The Talisman by Peter Straub and Stephen King

Currently I have six books lined up

House Of Leaves by Mark Danielewski
A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving
Gerald's Game By Stephen King
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

Annie Hall · #75 01-08-2003, 12:21 PM

I'm currently reading The 158 Pound Marriage by John Irving.

Coming up on Annie Hall's big list of books:

100 Years of Solitude
The Belljar
High Fidelity

Sugar Magnolia · #76 01-08-2003, 03:34 PM

"Life, The Universe and Everything" by Douglas Adams. Part of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series.

Moviefan1234 · #77 01-08-2003, 04:21 PM

"Excavation" by James Rollins.

thebloodfeaster · #78 01-09-2003, 01:36 PM

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Originally posted by EdibleCannibalX
im approximately 200 pages away from finishing the great and secret show (clive barker)

Cool man, that's actually next on my list. Right now I'm reading Coldheart Canyon by Barker. It's really excellent to.

thebloodfeaster · #79 01-09-2003, 01:38 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by RenHoek
just PERFECT for this forum: "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay" by Michael Chabon.

it's about two buddies who create a comic strip about a Nazi-busting superhero in 1939. Little by little, their own lives and that of the coomic character intermingle... GREAT stuff!

I read that for my contemporary literature class last spring. I thought it was pretty good, but lost some steam in the latter part of it. They're supposedly making a movie of this.