I didn't want to shit up the other book thread and I'm curious.

I'm in the middle of The Glass Bead Game (Hesse), and it's pretty awesome. I'm also still somewhere towards the beginning of Mason & Dixon (Pynchon), though I doubt I'll have it finished by the time his next book is released.

9/14/2006 9:39:16 PM

Walden

9/14/2006 9:40:16 PM

Biochemistry, Principles of

9/14/2006 9:41:00 PM

TWW: The Lounge

9/14/2006 9:43:00 PM

^ Since when is The Lounge a book?

9/14/2006 9:43:36 PM

Amazon links:

Books i'm reading -
Necroscope 2: Vamphyri
Number of the Beast
Exquisite Corpse

Books I want to read -

American Gods

9/14/2006 9:47:35 PM

robinson crusoe, daniel defoe
krik? krak!, edwidge danticat
huck finn, twain
and, sort of: faith and the good thing, charles johnson

9/14/2006 9:48:46 PM

Well, an airline "scrub" stole my Walden

so then I started reading The Prince

and then I can go back to Walden

9/14/2006 9:51:59 PM

9/14/2006 9:54:55 PM

and loving every page

9/14/2006 9:59:52 PM

The Demise of the Dollar
Modern Times
Bobke II

9/14/2006 10:00:42 PM

im still working on jurassic park from http://www.brentroad.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=410293

9/14/2006 10:04:27 PM

^^^excellent book.

9/14/2006 10:08:37 PM

^^Great book, Congo is slightly better tho

9/14/2006 10:10:17 PM

everyone is reading a smart book and im reading jurassic park

9/14/2006 10:12:02 PM

My queue, after those first two are done:
Immortality, Kundera
Residence on Earth, Neruda
Infinite Jest, Foster Wallace
Against the Day, Pynchon (after November 21st, obviously)

9/14/2006 10:12:46 PM

just finished Knife of Dreams

9/14/2006 10:14:15 PM

i'm currently in the middle of 3 books:
Fast Food Nation - just now getting around to reading it because it was on the $5 table
The Godfather
Fundamentals of Vehicle Dynamics - work related

lying in wait on the book shelf are Memoirs of a Giesha and some book called deep survival (it was on the buy 2 get 1 free table)

i'm also in the middle of a book called Misquoting Jesus, but i borrowed it to read during a flight, and had to give it back. Its pretty neat, it talks about how and why the bible is not be as infalable as your preacher would have you believe.

9/14/2006 10:23:07 PM

Chuck Klosterman's IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas and Jeff Chang's Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation

9/14/2006 10:27:29 PM

^^ Godfather was great - just read it 6 months ago

I'm reading Best American Science and Nature Writing 2004
oddly enough, that's the only one i'm working on right now....

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9/14/2006 10:27:56 PM

^^ I read Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman a couple months ago and really enjoyed it. Fargo Rock City not so much, but still mildly entertaining. I've been eyeing his new one, maybe I'll go buy it this weekend.

9/14/2006 10:33:16 PM

I just finished reading SDCCP as well, working on fargo rock city. sort of irrelevant for me. bought his killing yourself to live as well.

9/14/2006 10:35:07 PM

Killing Yourself to Live was great

9/14/2006 10:37:13 PM

Thud! cause, well, I've read all of Pratchett's other books, so why the hell not.

9/14/2006 10:53:17 PM

finished City of Tiny Lights not too long ago, funny British thriller/comedy

9/14/2006 11:02:46 PM

currently reading

junky - william burroughs
breakfast at tiffany's - capote

9/14/2006 11:06:59 PM

I just finished Cat's Cradle

Twas awesome

9/14/2006 11:27:36 PM

i bought freakonomics a few weeks ago but havent started yet

9/14/2006 11:31:06 PM

work & revolution in france

9/14/2006 11:34:18 PM

Charles Darwin's diary during his Voyage of the Beagle.

9/14/2006 11:45:00 PM

Already Dead: started it a year ago, liked it, but never continued

Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates: finished recently...enjoyed it, but haven't formed a real opinion

9/14/2006 11:57:03 PM

Quote :

"Chuck Klosterman's IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas "

Quote :

"I read Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman a couple months ago and really enjoyed it. Fargo Rock City not so much, but still mildly entertaining. I've been eyeing his new one, maybe I'll go buy it this weekend."

Chuck Klosterman is awesome.

Quote :

"Killing Yourself to Live was great"

That's my favorite book of his.

9/15/2006 12:05:03 AM

Quote :

"American Gods"

It's been a long time since is that the sequel or the original?

Right now, a game of thrones.

9/15/2006 12:28:24 AM

Quote :

" Fargo Rock City not so much"

i love that book

9/15/2006 12:56:29 AM

Catch 22

9/15/2006 12:58:33 AM

I'm currently reading Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. I really like it, but it feels like it's missing something. It's very well written, though, even if it is kind of derivitive.

I just finished Liars and Saints by Maile Meloy (sister of The Decemberists' Colin), which was fucking awesome. A really well structured family drama, totally trashy, the type of thing that middle-aged women probably read all the time (except, you know, well written). I'd definitely recommend it.

I'm almost done with that. Next on the chopping block is The Effect of Living Backwards by Heidi Julavits.

9/15/2006 12:59:54 AM

Just got done with:

Everythings Eventual - Steven King

and starting:

The Gunslinger: Dark Tower I - Steven King

9/15/2006 1:44:31 AM

Just finished The Kite Runner
It was fantastic

9/15/2006 2:02:26 AM

Science & Religion: Are They Compatible?
The End of Faith
The Fabric of The Cosmos
The Elegant Universe
A Leap In The Dark: The Struggle To Create The American Republic
Spook
Cryptonomicon
The View From The Center of The Universe
Prayers For The Assassin

9/15/2006 2:34:26 AM

The Difference Engine, by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling
"part detective story, part historical thriller" about what might have happened if charles babbage had invented the analytical engine in 1855--computers and whatnot during victorian era england.

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9/15/2006 2:49:13 AM

Wow, I'm impressed no one has mocked me for my choice of books....

(feel free to do so, I think it's hilarious)

9/15/2006 2:52:46 AM

i read a good bit of the necroscope series. kind of weird, but i pretty much forgot all about it.. except for that one where he goes to the vampire planet, that was pretty cool.

9/15/2006 2:55:39 AM

^^^^^ awesome book

9/15/2006 2:58:32 AM

currently reading Cobra II and Six Days of War for non-fiction
reading Without Mercy for fiction

just got done reading...

Chasing Ghosts, Inside the Wire, Last True Story I'll Ever Tell, and parts of "The Art of War"

9/15/2006 4:12:14 AM

The Light in the Piazza and other Italian Tales by Elizabeth Spencer.

9/15/2006 8:47:55 AM

Going Postal - Terry Pratchett

9/15/2006 11:24:39 AM

running with scissors

9/15/2006 11:26:52 AM

The Selfish Gene

9/15/2006 11:31:17 AM

1984

9/15/2006 11:34:26 AM

Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling by Ross King

non-fiction... I like art history

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9/15/2006 3:28:08 PM