What are you reading right now?
Toothlessjoe
Acolyte
I'm giving Prozac Nation another go. It's pretty hard to stick with for more than an hour at a time, pretty awesome though.
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Now I'm starting Requiem for a Dream.
Good read but I still prefer his Timeline
Still waiting for his posthumous novel to be released
Currently reading Gladwell books - What the Dog Saw
A classic&absolute MUST READ; especially if youre in to dystopian themes
Just finished some 50s book of short stories that I found in my mother's garage when I was doing her gardening the other week.
Tried reading it in grade 5, got bored, reading it again.
Awesomely crazy read.
That's when I tried to read it as well but quit. I should try to read it again.
Games People Play
Same, I finished about half of it, but I don't suspect I got as much out of it as I could have given my age.
Yeah, I really liked fear and loathing so I thought this would be pretty good. That Hunter's a funny bastard; is that a picture of him next to your name?
You knows it :cool:
You should check out some Kerouac if you haven't already. HST was quite heavily influenced by him. You should check out 'On The Road'. I think that's the second time I've recommended that today.
RIP Michael Crichton
Really liking it so far. Finished the Rum Diaries a couple days ago.
It's an awesome series in general. That's not normally the kind of genre I dig but I loved them all.
But to balance that, some softcore porn - Bullet - Laurell K Hamilton
You really can't read psychology on the bus at 8am on a monday.
I was reading The Road before and got like 80 percent of the way done but I decided not to finish it because it was terrible. Isn't it supposed to be good? I really enjoyed No Country for Old Men so I thought I would like it but it's just boring and you don't connect with the characters.
That was a pretty interesting book. I like the section on alcoholics.
Pharmako Dynamis - Dale Pendell
For any fans of the Ender's Game series its fucking ace.
I read Ender's Game and it was awesome, but I heard there isn't much beyond that. Maybe I'll pick up some of the other books.
I am currently deciding what to read next. It will either be : PiHKAL: A Chemical Love Story by Alexander Shulgin, or How to Read a Person Like a Book by Gerard Nierenberg.
WTF? Dude.
The whole series chronologically goes like this:
Ender's Game >> A War of Gifts (occurs in the midst of Ender's Game) >> Ender in Exile>> First Meetings in Ender's Universe ("The Investment Counselor" specifically, as its several short stories of the "Enderverse") >> Speaker for the Dead >> Xenocide >> Children of the Mind
And don't get me started on the Ender's Shadow series, which is also fuckin awesome.
If anything read Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, Ender in Exile, and Speaker for the Dead.
Crap, I didn't know that was a novel! I just saw the movie.
Oh And viruses of the mind, a book about memetics and how the influnce and replicate in peoples heads. REally good book.
I just finished the book (including the 2 after it, the ones with Numenor and Middle Earth), and my world is actually changed.
Tolkien'll do that
How was that allowed by an editor to not be called 'Pride, Prejudice, and Zombies'?
I dont read fiction, but I enjoyed this one. Im a big fan of jurassic park and the book filled in a lot of holes the movie didnt show. I have the second one but I have yet to read it.
Agreed the book was purtty good.
An excerpt of Evolution: At The Mind's Cinema
"I turn the handle and the story starts:
Reel after reel is all astronomy,
Till life, enkindled in a niche of sky,
Leaps on the stage to play a million parts.
Life leaves the slime and through all ocean darts;
She conquers earth, and raises wings to fly;
Then spirit blooms, and learns how not to die, —
Nesting beyond the grave in others' hearts. "
Political Ideologies - Andrew Heywood
I'm now going to start Jack Kerouacs book of dreams and The Soft Machine by Burroughs. Is the latter any good?
Have you read Naked Lunch? They're not a million miles apart. I think it's awesome but I'm a totally biased Burroughs fan.
I say definitely give it a shot, though. Even if you end up not liking it, it's a significant piece of work in regards to the cut up method and all that crazy Burroughs jazz.