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Old 06-21-2005, 10:19 PM   #1
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What are you reading... Now...

I'm in the middle of a cluster-buster of books:

High Fidelity - Scary good, considering its written how men think....
A Brief History Of Time - Stephen Hawking, baby
A Prayer For Owen Meany - Hahaha, Simon Birch.
War Of The Worlds - So...wait...Tom who?
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Old 06-22-2005, 03:12 AM   #2
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High Fidelity - Scary good, considering its written how men think....
One of the worst books I've ever read. Usually the book is better than the movie, and this time the movie was way better than the book.

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War Of The Worlds - So...wait...Tom who?
Great book.

What am I reading?
  • Outsiders (the most recent issue): mindboggling, Brainiac
  • This thread: sort of new
  • "Media Control" - Noam Chomsky: Great book about how media influences us
  • "Winterkrieg in Tibet" - Friedrich Dürrenmatt: Dead boring and very comlicated, but I have to read it.
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Old 06-22-2005, 08:23 AM   #3
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"In Praise of Nepotism" by Adam Bellow, historical non-fiction about family enterprises.

I'm one of those folks that reads one book at a time, but I usually plow through them within a couple days or so. And thanks for reminding me that I really need to throw down a couple hundred bucks on new reading material.
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Old 06-22-2005, 09:03 AM   #4
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"The Cleric Quintet" by R.A. Salvatore, a collection of five novels about a cleric named Cadderly and his friends Danica and two dwarves named Ivan and Pikel Bouldershoulder. It's over 1,000 pages long and it's very good.
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Old 06-22-2005, 09:03 AM   #5
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I disagree about High Fidelity being bad, I read a lot, and it reads way better than a lot of stephen king books. I just like the first person view into a dude's psyche who thinks an awful lot like every man ever.

Just something I can relate to.

It's a lot like Chuck Palahniuks work, just less prolific and masochistic.

I just finished Palahniuk's 'Haunted'm and have Invisible Monsters to read too.
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Old 06-22-2005, 11:31 AM   #6
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I just got done reading The War of the Worlds......yeah, great book.


Currently reading - Deep Freeze.
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Old 06-22-2005, 11:56 AM   #7
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Old 06-22-2005, 01:27 PM   #8
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I disagree about High Fidelity being bad, I read a lot, and it reads way better than a lot of stephen king books. I just like the first person view into a dude's psyche who thinks an awful lot like every man ever.

Just something I can relate to.

It's a lot like Chuck Palahniuks work, just less prolific and masochistic.

I just finished Palahniuk's 'Haunted'm and have Invisible Monsters to read too.
Yea you need to finish Invisible Monster up bitch.

Any way.
Just finished the Trilogy by Will Christopher Baer.

Kiss Me, Judas
Penny Dreadful
Hells Half Acre

I recommend to anyone and everyone.

Now I kind of have a stack of books that I'm not sure where to start.

American gods by Nei Gaiman
Blindness by Jose Saramago
Pattern recognition by William Gibson

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Old 06-25-2005, 12:47 PM   #9
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right now im reading

NOVELS
star wars NJO the unifying force

comics
MK spider-man
DareDevil
uncanny x-men
ASM
TNA
amazing fantasy
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Old 06-25-2005, 08:16 PM   #10
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I just finished a couple of books...

Shadows by John Saul
Where the Red Fern Grow by...the name esacapes me...
This Was Then, This Is Now... by S.E. Hilton (sp?)
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Old 06-25-2005, 08:27 PM   #11
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My comic shop restocked it's back issues of Swamp Thing volume 2 (virtually the entire series) and I've been scrambling to read them as fast as I can (before other people start buying them).

I've been reading about 15 issues a week and I'm at #80 right now. God damn, these are comic books at their finest.
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Old 06-25-2005, 11:44 PM   #12
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Some AP psychology study books, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams, and re-reading Lords of Chaos.
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Old 06-29-2005, 07:03 AM   #13
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Uh... I just read Inkheart.




...........man i feel dumb T-T
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Old 06-29-2005, 06:10 PM   #14
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"The Cleric Quintet" by R.A. Salvatore, a collection of five novels about a cleric named Cadderly and his friends Danica and two dwarves named Ivan and Pikel Bouldershoulder. It's over 1,000 pages long and it's very good.
Those are awesome books. I read through them about 2 years ago.
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Old 06-29-2005, 06:20 PM   #15
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...This thread.



Okay okay...Star Wars: The Cestus Deception
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Old 06-29-2005, 06:28 PM   #16
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Batman-No Man's Land.

I heard good things about it, so I had to pick it up.
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Old 06-29-2005, 08:52 PM   #17
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American Psycho
Superheroes & Philosophy: Truth, Justice and the Socratic Way
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Old 07-14-2005, 12:16 PM   #18
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life of christiane f.
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Old 07-14-2005, 12:45 PM   #19
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Those are awesome books. I read through them about 2 years ago.
Indeed they are. I started "Quintet" after filling my head with all the awesome Drizzt adventures, which took a good chunk of time. After this I intend to read Salvatore's "The Highwayman."
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Old 07-14-2005, 01:58 PM   #20
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The one from Bahnhof Zoo?

My present book - Joris-Karl Huysmans - "Against the Grain" aka "A rebours".
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