Just started reading...

[Jax]

I just started reading Gods and Generals. Only a few pages in, so too early to call. Highly recommended though. Anyone got anything else out they are just starting to read?

[Lilith]

Who Moved My Cheese?

[osuche]

Sigma Protocol by Robert Ludlum. I *love* Ludlum -- spy books and government intrigue

[rabbit]

"How Good Do You Want To Be?" by Nick Saban

[Lilith]

"How Good Do You Want To Be?" by Nick Saban

not very, why? You got something in mind?

[rabbit]

LOL...how 'bout a game of strip Bunco?

[Lilith]

I'm in but first you have to search me for the dice ;)

[Jax]

I am changing my book to "bunco 101".

[Jax]

I just picked up another book to read. "The curious incident of the dog in the night-time". Looks to be somewhat mainstream fiction. I tend to read a lot of Sci Fi/Fantasy and intense stuff, so I was looking for something a bit softer.

Everyone continues to be fascinated I am sure.

[maddy]

I'm reading "Converstions with the Fat Girl" by Liza Palmer. It's a breezy no thought book with reasonably good doses of humor.

[Lilith]

I just picked up another book to read. "The curious incident of the dog in the night-time". Looks to be somewhat mainstream fiction. I tend to read a lot of Sci Fi/Fantasy and intense stuff, so I was looking for something a bit softer.

Everyone continues to be fascinated I am sure.

Great book especially if you have any first hand knowledge of kids with autism. If you don't it will be interesting still.

[BIBI]

I just read.....Cowboy Bob and the Scrambled Eggs Gang

[rabbit]

I'm in but first you have to search me for the dice ;)

My pleasure!

...now where did I put those thigh cuffs???

:p

[wyndhy]

i just started the world is flat by thomas l. friedman. so far, so good.

[dm383]

Not started, but just finished one called "The Traveller" by a guy named John Twelve Hawks.

It's quite Orwellian in nature, with a very modern twist to it. A little bit immature in places, but he DID make me think a lot about how much information about each and every one of us is out there, and being USED, every second of every day.

Scary.

DM

[Lilith]

I finished the cheese story. Boy that dude was a brilliant marketer huh?

[Jax]

I never read the cheese story. But I did see a mini movie on it. And yeah, the guy was a heck of a marketeer. Captured a trend that is for sure. Kind of reminds me of the Fish guys. Made it into the fabric of business.

Switching gears, I offer up the following question. Anyone care to guess the book that has the character Jax in it? (Which is in no way like me, just a good name for the character).

[BIBI]

Heir to the Empire?????

[Jax]

Re: the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.

Just finished it. What an interesting and different book. Easy to read and definitely not mainstream.

Re: Gods and Generals.

In the middle. Interesting. I wonder how much of it is true. Good engrossing tale.

[Steph]

i just started the world is flat by thomas l. friedman. so far, so good.

Great book actually sent to me by a Pixie. Loved it!!! Thanks, Mr. Pixie! :D

[Jax]

Picked up "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote. Just started it. Good so far.

[wyndhy]

jailbird by kurt vonnegut
and the sexual life of catherine m by catherine millet

[osuche]

"Twisted" by Jonathan Kellerman

[BigBear57]

"Twisted" was a pretty good one Osuche.. just finished his latest "Gone" definitely another good one. I've also read Koontz's "The Husband" and Patterson's "Beach Road" all pretty good suspense reads if anyone's interetsted. Koontz's book was like seeing an Indiana Jones movie again.. I was almost tired when I finished it... non stop suspense. I'm working nights and reading has been a lot easier LOL

[osuche]

(((((BigBear)))) ~~ makes me happy knowing we're virtually sharing a book. :)

[Aqua]

Cujo... I shouldn't have to name the author.

[Booger]

rereading Menoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

[Jax]

Just picked up Wicked. Interesting. Seems like it should be good.

[FallenAngel5]

I just started reading the Dark Tower series for the third time... it's definitely different after the first time through.

I'm starting the Drawing of the Three. :)

[TinTennessee]

I'm about half-way through A Fist Full of Charms, by Kim Harrison....I like em' a little on the odd side.

[Jax]

I just finished reading "Slow death". True life story of a guy New Mexico who was a warped sadist. Interesting story, but the writing didn't impress me.

[wyndhy]

michael cox, the meaning of night. i'm really enjoying it but i heard it took thirty years to write. if that's true it should be even better. :p

[Eros]

Lets see, what am I NOT reading right now. Just finished The Sandman series by Neil Gaiman for the 3rd time. I'm bad about re-reading stuff I've read a dozen times. Recently finished "The Runaway Jury" by John Grisham and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (3rd time). I've been reading a little from a book of Native American poetry, some of the Chronicles of Narnia (4th time) and some of Lewis Carroll's poetry from a "Best of" book I've had for years and never read. Hopefully I"ll make it Tuesday to the mall and pick up Neil Gaiman's "Fragile Things" and a copy of X3!

[Jax]

I read the book American Gods (?) by Neil Gaiman. Interesting, but a bit long. I just finished reading "Dead Witch Walking" by Kim Harrison. The writing style is a bit bumpy, but I am optimistic it will progress, so I bought the next one. (Anita Blake fans might check this serious out).

[IowaMan]

I just started reading "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote.


I just went back and was reading some of the earlier posts in this thread and noticed that Jax was reading this earlier in the year. Great minds huh Jax? :rofl:

[sodaklostsoul]

Just started Betsy the Vampire Queen by MaryJanice Davidson

[IowaMan]

I'm changing things up a bit and going way, way, way, waaaaaay on the light side and am thumbing through Jeff Foxworthy's Redneck Dictionary II. Just a tad bit easier read than the one I just finished. ;)

[1nutworld]

Game of Shadows

[Jude30]

I'm reading three books right now.

1633 by David Weber and Eric Flint. I've got some of the rest of the series around here too that I've borrowed from my dad. It's decent historical fiction about a late 20th Century early 21st century West Virginia coal mining town that gets transported to the middle of Germany during the 30 Years War. The first book is 1632.

Artemis Fowl The Eternity Code by Eoin Colfer. I've never read any other books in this series but this one was on sale at Walmart so I picked it up.

Good to Great, by I don't know who since I'm reading it for work so I'm reading it at work.

[Irezumi Kiss]

I just finished reading "Fun Home" by Alison Bechdel. Excellent. I finished it in one day.

I'm about to read "Pleasure Dome," an erotic yaoi-manga collection of several stories in digest form by Megumu Minami.

[Cheyanne]

I read the book American Gods (?) by Neil Gaiman. Interesting, but a bit long. I just finished reading "Dead Witch Walking" by Kim Harrison. The writing style is a bit bumpy, but I am optimistic it will progress, so I bought the next one. (Anita Blake fans might check this serious out).


LOL... that is too funny. I just finished Mistral's Kiss by Laurell K Hamilton (Antia Blake author) and was looking at the Dead Witch series by Harrison.

I too re-read a lot of my series books...

I am about to re-read Jean Auel's Earth Children Series. I understand there is a 6th book, but it takes about 10 years between books... :(

[jay-t]

Just finished Eragon by Christopher Paolini

[Jude30]

I read the book American Gods (?) by Neil Gaiman. Interesting, but a bit long. I just finished reading "Dead Witch Walking" by Kim Harrison. The writing style is a bit bumpy, but I am optimistic it will progress, so I bought the next one. (Anita Blake fans might check this serious out).

Never Where, and Stardust are better books IMO by Gaiman. He's probably my favorite author.

[dicksbro]

Who Moved My Cheese?

I read that. Cute ... and pretty good, too.

[Coaster]

I read that. Cute ... and pretty good, too.

Yeah I read that a while ago too.... should re-read it!

Am currently reading L.L.Bean: The Making of an American Icon by Leon Gorman (his grandson)

[wyndhy]

i just finished two. a puffickly fantastic story :D and running with scissors

[Jax]

Just finished up Dan Brown's book "Deception Point" and then started "A long way gone, memoirs of a boy soldier".

[Eros]

Well, again..I'm reading about 3 different books. I just finished a book on Norse mythology and started a book on Egyptian mythology. I've been trying to read Eldest, the second book in the Eragon series. Eragon was decent, way over-hyped in my opinion. Eldest is pretty bad so far. Heart-Shaped-Box by Joe Hill (Stephen King's son) was great. Neil Gaiman's Fragile Things is a great collection of short stories, one of which is nominated for a Hugo Award. Michael Crichton's new one, Next, is OK if you like Crichton, but like alot of his recent books, it's full of plot holes and hardly any character development. Company by Max Barry is a good read and so is Barry's Jennifer Government.

[ReaperWoman]

Finally got to the end of "First Men on the Moon" by H.G.Wells. It was a good read but seemed to take me 4 times as long to read as books normally do.

Next up is... Well "Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy" is on my list, but it depends on whther I can get my hands on it before I'm distracted by something else glittery...

[Oldfart]

Hitch-Hikers was fun.

KG200 is heavy, but interesting.

[Jax]

Been reading some Kim Harrison (Dead Witch...). I like her better than Laurel Hamilton.

Also have James Patterson queued up - Pop Goes the Weasel.

[IowaMan]

I finished the cheese story. Boy that dude was a brilliant marketer huh?
Just read the cheese story a few weeks ago. Have started "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand. That should keep me busy until the final Harry Potter book comes out....... and well beyond I'm sure.

[1nutworld]

Self Matters By Dr. Phillip C. McGraw

[Neige]

I'm in the middle of Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum.

[IowaMan]

Since I last posted in this thread I've read the final Harry Potter book and am nearly thru with Atlas Shrugged. Just started reading, "Weird Hauntings: True Tales of Ghostly Places" by Joanne Austin.

[wyndhy]

19 minutes, jodi picoult. it's about a highschool shooting, really forces one to wonder if they will ever truly know their own children.

[Jax]

Been reading a fair amount of Kim Harrison. I like her better than Laurel Hamilton. Same type of deal..vampires and a female private eye type.

[wyndhy]

the long emergency, kunstler.
not long in yet but so far it seems to me the only purposes of the book are a teeny bit of fear mongering, lots of suburban-american bashing, and the fervent hope of the author's that when the dark ages finally arrive, we'll all call it "the long emergency" thus making him the best phrase-coiner ever..

[Neige]

The Economic Development of Western Civilisation by Shepard B. Clough. :p

[Booger]

I'm reading Cadillac Beach by Tim Dprsey right now.

[Cheyanne]

19 minutes, jodi picoult. it's about a highschool shooting, really forces one to wonder if they will ever truly know their own children.


I finished that one up as well. I thought it was well done, but eerie and very realistic and sad.

[wyndhy]

i recently read my sister's keeper by her as well, chey. another great book that raises some seriously interesting questions. the end left me devastated.

i just finished my secret garden this morning. written by nancy friday, it's the first book written by a woman to compile and explore the realm of female sexual fantasy. i enjoyed some of it. a bit antiquated and slightly exclusive, it even had some undertones of racism. but considering when it was first written, it does a good job of exploring sexual fantasy without casting judgment. some of the women's stories broke my heart and others shocked, but it was nevertheless fascinating and i could literally feel how much empowerment and relief some of these women felt just by being able to write down some of their most private thoughts and know that they aren't "freaks." i have two more by her on stand-by (forbidden flowers and women on top).

[Lilith]

I think I read Woman on Top.

[wyndhy]

that memorable huh? :p

[Lilith]

Is it a collection of short stories? What year is it?

[wyndhy]

early 90's and i believe it's another compilation of sexual fantasies with added commentary/observation by friday: like secret garden but after the sexual revolution and at the the height of women in the workplace, highlighting how female fantasy may have changed since, or been affected by, their new positions of power.

[Lilith]

It's not the same book. I think the one I read was just a compilation of erotica written either by or for women. It was like 10 years ago that I read it.

[wyndhy]

adding on about secret garden and nancy friday here.

i was just reading the intro to the next book, forbidden flowers, and some of what i read has reinforced and validated what i am trying to teach my own children about their sexuality (and yes, although very young, i have learned they do have some very strong ideas and feelings regarding their own sexuality)

[sodaklostsoul]

The Hardcore Diaries by Mick Foley

[Neige]

Today I bought Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey.

[Oldfart]

The latest Flinx novel of Alan Dean Foster.

[Neige]

I'm about 150 pages into Kushiel's Dart, but my friend told me I needed to read Murder in Mesopotamia by Agatha Christie, since it is set on an archaeological site. Apparently Christie's husband was an archaeologist!

[wyndhy]

eat, pray, love by elizabeth gilbert. i'm diggin it.
my mom had given me a whole slew of books recently, one of them being some pile of crap by danielle steel. awful stuff. but eat, pray, love was buried in there and i have to remember to thank her when they come to visit tomorrow (i probably won't mention the steaming pile of crap though ... gift horses and all that:p)

[osuche]

"Rethinking the Sales FOrce" by Neil Rackham. A little dated, but has some great ideas.

Yeah, I'm a nerd :p

[Neige]

I'm reading The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis (as recommended by wyndhy!) - I really like it, I'm going to finish it tonight. Next I'll probably read Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose.

I'm reading a few cookbooks too, and I really really love The Zuni Cafe Cookbook: A Compendium of Recipes and Cooking Lessons from San Francisco's Beloved Restaurant by Judy Rodgers!!!

[Lilith]

I'm reading Duma Key by Stephen King. I was not sure if I was going to be able to read this book because shortly after STO died (He idolized King) I went to see King speak at the university, sort of as a "fuck you" to STO in a time when I was starting to let myself feel angry with him for being such a dumbass. King read a short story about a man who wanted to kill himself. Felt like I was supposed to be there. I was in tears throughout most of the evening.

Shockingly the short story became the novel Duma Key, which takes place in the area I was born in. When the main character decides to live he moves there, to the beach. STO never saw a beach. I sent him and his kids shark's teeth from the area where Duma Key takes place. I know I'm creating the connections but ...

anyhow I'm going to read it.

[osuche]

((((Lil))))

[Lilith]

Thanks. I might be being too honest :p

[scotzoidman]

Thanks. I might be being too honest :p
No such thing. Possible to be too blunt, but doesn't apply here. Everybody has to sort thru the levels of grief their own way.

May seem kinda lightweight compared to everybody else's reading, but I've read (& re-read & re-read) The Fab Four FAQ Book & Long and Winding Roads: the Evolving Artistry of the Beatles. The FAQ book is chock full of trivia bits even a long time Beatlemaniac like me didn't know, not to mention the real stories behind many of the great Beatle myths. The Winding Roads book is maybe more heavy lifting than I really wanted to do, with footnotes that are almost as long as the chapters they apply to, but still some interesting details I can chew on. I can't resist the siren's call of reading more about my heroes, even if nothing I learn has any chance of improving my quality of life...

[Jax]

Just finished Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton. Switching gears to the newest Glen Cook book. Zinc Melodies (I think that's the name).

[AZRedHot]

Lil, I really believe we find connections; if they're not there, we don't see them. But that's just me.

I'm reading What Lips My Lips Have Kissed: The Loves and Love Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay, by Daniel Mark Epstein

[Rhiannon]

the kushiels stories are good but they do take a lot to get into


I'm about 150 pages into Kushiel's Dart, but my friend told me I needed to read Murder in Mesopotamia by Agatha Christie, since it is set on an archaeological site. Apparently Christie's husband was an archaeologist!

[Lord Snow]

I'm reading the Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan. However, I can't wait for the third book from Eragon to come out and then the next book in the Song of Ice and Fire series by George R.R. Martin comes out this fall. I'm a huge fantasy geek.

[Lilith]

I just finished Short Bus. I've just started Paul Coehlo's, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept. I bought Eat, Pray, Love because it's never available at the library and this way I can pass it along to peeps who need to read it.

[wyndhy]

i would have mailed you my copy.^^ i wish i'd thought of it. :(

the devil in the white city by eric larson. historical, interesting, creepy, macabre and i'm likin it.

[Lilith]

I finished Piedra in one sitting almost. Shit I love his stuff.

Started Eat, Pray, Love and really love the symbolism of the set up.

[AZRedHot]

I really liked Eat, Love, Pray. It got me thinking, and that's a good thing. I've got a pile of new books waiting to be read. The Bhagavad Gita just arrived the other day.

[Oldfart]

A Princess of Mars, the Edgar Rice Burroughs classic, from the Gutenberg Project.

[Jax]

I am in the process of reading "whale road". Not sure I'm going to finish it. Lots of slow going. Authors first effort I think. I don't quit many books, but I think I will here.

[Oldfart]

Another Spider Robinson book, "Callaghan's Key"

[Salacious]

i recently read my sister's keeper by her as well, chey. another great book that raises some seriously interesting questions. the end left me devastated.

i just finished my secret garden this morning. written by nancy friday, it's the first book written by a woman to compile and explore the realm of female sexual fantasy. i enjoyed some of it. a bit antiquated and slightly exclusive, it even had some undertones of racism. but considering when it was first written, it does a good job of exploring sexual fantasy without casting judgment. some of the women's stories broke my heart and others shocked, but it was nevertheless fascinating and i could literally feel how much empowerment and relief some of these women felt just by being able to write down some of their most private thoughts and know that they aren't "freaks." i have two more by her on stand-by (forbidden flowers and women on top).

I've read Nancy Fridays, collection of men's fantasies called, Men in Love. Which I believe she had compiled and written after the first three. If found it fascinating. The spousal unit read it too, but yet, he didn't want to discuss any of it. What I like is the divine amount of detail the men have in their fantasies.

[Salacious]

I just started Prisoners in Paradise by Akmal Shebl, a supernatural mystery in Egypt. I'd never found a book with a trailer (http://www.amazon.com/gp/blog/post/PLNKN3ZV4MHN3A6A) ... until now. I am hoping it delivers.

[IowaMan]

The latest edition of Blue and Gold Illustrated. It's the weekly newspaper that covers Notre Dame football.

Haven't started any new books recently. :(

[wyndhy]

i've read too many to list recenly, some research some fiction some non - the new blue media was interesting but dry and a bit "insider". the view from the seventh layer - a collection of short stories - i loved. those are the only two that stand out right now.

still waiting for bonk (too lazy to put it on hold, too cheap to buy it:p)

[Booger]

Just started rereading The Fellowship Of The Rings. After watch the movies last week I realized it had been almost 20 years since I had read the book and figured it was high time I did again.

[jseal]

Bully for you! A powerful beginning of a modern classic.

[AZRedHot]

The Fat Jesus: Christianity and Body Image (http://www.amazon.com/Fat-Jesus-Christianity-Body-Image/dp/1596270942), by Lisa Isherwood.

The premise is fascinating, and rings true to me. However, the writing is really dense academese...I'm giving her one more chapter to hook me.

[Lord Snow]

I've finally made it to the 6th book in the Wheel of Time. It's taken me a year to get here.

[Lilith]

I'm reading Stephen King's new short story compilation and Dewey the Library Cat.

[shadowsfate]

I just started rereading The Servants of Twilight by Dean Koontz. I've read, but it was years ago. I've just barely started it, and already it's sucking me in, lol.

[IowaMan]

Well, I just bought two books: "The Prosecution of George W. Bush For Murder" by Vincent Bugliosi and "Shadowfires" by Dean Koontz, and I plan on starting them both this weekend.

[jbh3]

"Why We Suck"---Dr. Denis Leary

[Jax]

I'm going through a world war 2 phase right now - reading "Ghost Soldiers" about a prison rescue in Bataan. And I just finished Pacifc War Diary.

[AZRedHot]

Antony and Cleopatra: A Novel, by Colleen McCullough. I've read her entire Rome series, which was supposed to end with October Horse, so I was excited to find this new one.

[Oldfart]

The Ghost Brigade, the sequel to Old Man's War.

[SethAwakened]

well i read so fast that i finish books within a couple days of them startign so i read three books in the last week and a half =]
so they were all ken follet books

world with out end (sequal to pillars of the earth)
the third twin
and
one other i cant remember

[Lord Snow]

Seth, I think you're supposed to read them so you can enjoy them. If you don't remember them what good does it do you? LOL. I was like that in high school. Reading three 800 page novels in a week. Believe it or not, I actually had a teacher try and tell my parents I had A.D.D. All I did was read my book for 1 1/2 hours (I was in block scheduling). Not quite halfway through Lord of Chaos (sixth book in Wheel of Time).

[SethAwakened]

only one of the three had more than 800 pages the other two had like 400 i think
ps i have read the first eleven wheel of time books
and an interestign tid bit of information
there are thigns in those books that come from a certain real pagan culture
to be specific a certain word is used to describe a certain groups of "magic using" women
that word is actually part of a sacred pagan language
and was never supposed to be known by anyone outside the religion
anyways just thought id mention that cuz its a very interestign fact =)

[jseal]

The Black Swan - Nassim Taleb

[Lord Snow]

See, all I noticed was the Artur Paendrag reference. A lot of this series aligns quite nicely with the Arthur Pendragon legend.

[shadowsfate]

Currently, I'm about halfway through Jim Butcher's Dresden Files series (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dresden_files). THe books were the basis for the (unfortunately) short lived series on Sci Fi Channel. Surprisingly, I never read the books when they first came out (surprising because the series fits right in with the genres I normally read) and I watched the show until ong after it was cancelled (mainly because I have a hard time keeping up with TV series and remembering when they are on). Most definitely, this series has been a good read for me so far. (I even have the newest novel on pre-order, due out in a month or so.)

And plans are, once I finish reading the Dresden Files, I'll start in on another series that I should have read long before now, the Anita Blake series by Laurell K. Hamilton. Another long series that should hopefully be an entertaining read.

[Lord Snow]

Finally got to the seventh book in the Wheel of Time. Only thing I'm not quite fond of is each book ends in the standard type of cliffhanger that finishes the book, but leaves it open for more, and yet the next book starts some place completely different. Not that big a deal and I doubt the author will ever change them (isn't he dead?), but an opinion can be helpful.

[shadowsfate]

Finally got to the seventh book in the Wheel of Time. Only thing I'm not quite fond of is each book ends in the standard type of cliffhanger that finishes the book, but leaves it open for more, and yet the next book starts some place completely different. Not that big a deal and I doubt the author will ever change them (isn't he dead?), but an opinion can be helpful.

Yeah, unfortunately Robert Jordan did die before he was able to complete the novel. But it is my understanding that he left enough notes behind that the (supposedly) final novel will be able to be finished by another author (according to Wikipedia, it's due out this fall)

This was another series I didn't get into right away, and got daunted by the size of the novels when I finally did take a look at them in the book store (I think the 6th novel had just gotten released). If it wasn't for a friend of mine giving me the 6th book (he gave up trying to read it, because he couldn't follow the plot, having started with the 6th book :roflmao:), I probably would never have gotten and read them all.

[Oldfart]

I just read the first of the Xanth series by Piers Anthony. Very different from what I imagined, but good.

[shadowsfate]

I just read the first of the Xanth series by Piers Anthony. Very different from what I imagined, but good.


One of my long time favorites, ever since I "borrowed" the first 3 or 4 books from my brother years ago (hmmm, I wonder if he's realized that he's still missing them yet :roflmao:). I've kind of lost track of the series since it isn't as readily available in my area anymore (the local bookstore's fantasy/sci-fi section has been dwindling for years, and my only other choice is Wal-Mart, and I've yet to see a single Anthony book there yet).

[Neige]

I just LOVE the way Anthony plays with words. His fantasy books are excellent!!!!!!!!

At the moment I am reading Irving's Cider House Rules which I must admit I found rather gruesome at the beginning. I also just got lent Meyer's Twilight, so I'll be starting that probably tomorrow.

[Lilith]

I loved the movie Cider House Rules and am going to hit Twilight this summer.

[Lord Snow]

(the local bookstore's fantasy/sci-fi section has been dwindling for years, and my only other choice is Wal-Mart, and I've yet to see a single Anthony book there yet).

And that is why there is the internet. Barnes and Noble.com and Amazon.com are your friends. Find them, learn them, love them, but not more than pixies.

[AZRedHot]

I started The Sexual Life of Catherine M. last night; so far, I'm not grabbed, but I'm only 35 pages in.

[rockintime]

I would have liked to start the sexual life of Catherine M (or Catherine D or Samantha T or....) :p

[shadowsfate]

And that is why there is the internet. Barnes and Noble.com and Amazon.com are your friends. Find them, learn them, love them, but not more than pixies.

lol, I've made LOTS of use of Amazon.com, it's just there are way too many choices for me, and I wind up in a daze :roflmao:

In fact, Amazon is where I got copies of novels in the Doctor Who, Torchwood, and Warhammer series earlier this year.

[scotzoidman]

Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography. Charlie Brown was my main role model growing up (whether I liked it or not), astounding how much of Schulz' personal issues he was working out in each daily panel. Good Grief!

[scotzoidman]

lol, I've made LOTS of use of Amazon.com, it's just there are way too many choices for me, and I wind up in a daze :roflmao:

That's where most all my books come from, including the previously mentioned;
My biggest problem with Amazon is I want them all, left to my own devices I'd order 2 dozen books & CDs every month...I don't have time enough to read everything I want to, & my credit card bill would drive me over the line into bankruptcy...

[wyndhy]

dr olaf van schuler's brain by kirsten menger-anderson - short stories that follow a family of doctors for many generations. a very good read.

[Mae]

An interesting short book. "Zen and the Art of Knitting". Also, Ben Franklin's biography and "Creating Bird Baths from Clay Pots". Eclectic mix. :D

[AZRedHot]

Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman, by Richard Feynman, the physicist. It's anecdotes from his life; I'm working up to his QED.

[Coaster]

The Success Principals by Jack Canfield

[wyndhy]

the unknown knowns by jeffrey rotter. first novel. pokes fun at the paranoid post 9/11 world americans live in. i'm on page 10ish. so far, it's a keeper. just finished the first person by ali smith. short stories (i love short stories). despite reading a bit pretentious (pot/black:p), and a common theme (i'd rather be getting a small taste of many themes) it was very good in a sort of existential crisis kind of way.

[Oldfart]

Patrimony.

Any other Flinx/Commonwealth fans out there?

[Jax]

Flags of our Fathers (James Bradley) and Unpacking the Pack Rat (Candice Ciresi).

[Lilith]

Autism and Augmentive Communication- it's a real page turner :yawn:

[Lord Snow]

Sounds like Gone with the........*snore*. LOL

[wyndhy]

the drowned life, jeffery ford.
it's weird. i like it.

[Jax]

Just finished Assegai by Wilbur Smith. A little too slow for my tastes.

But just started the Tony Dungy book Quiet Strength. I think I'm going to like it.

[Maleslut1186]

Just finished " New York" by Edward Rutherfurd. If you like historical ficition Rutherfurd is one of the best

[Oldfart]

Riotous Assembly by Tom Sharpe (again).

jseal and Lord Snow, I think you'd both love this one.

It's a twisted comedy set in apartheid South Africa.

[Rhiannon]

The help Kathryn Stockett.

PRetty funny so far

[Lilith]

superb book^^^^

I loved The School of Essential Ingredients

[Lord Snow]

Riotous Assembly by Tom Sharpe (again).

jseal and Lord Snow, I think you'd both love this one.

It's a twisted comedy set in apartheid South Africa.


I will take a look one of these days.

[Jax]

Just finished reading A Memory of Light (Wheel of Time book 14). It was okay...to some extent one of the better 'last books of a long series' but it had its up and downs. Not sure what is up next for me.

[Lord Snow]

I thought the series only went to 13 with Robert Jordan's final book being number 12.

I'm currently reading Alice in Wonderland.

[Lilith]

I'm reading soooooooooooooooooo many pages for assignments for school. This class is so horrible

[gekkogecko]

OK, Lilith:

HOW HORRIBLE IS IT?

[Oldfart]

If it was any more horrible, they'd bottle it and drop it from bombers in Afghanistan?

[jseal]

"Riotous Assembly"?

TY! I'll check it out.

[Oldfart]

It is an apartheid era tale, a parody for the not so faint of heart.