what have you read recently?

[Skinner8]

Bump!

Let's see. I did finish Fight Club, loved it. The other week I was in Gothenburg visiting my father, and I bought some snazzy, English versions of Tales of Mystery and Imagination, which is apparently Edgar Allan Poe's collected short stories and such, and Bram Stoker's Dracula. My father also gave me a copy of Stranstvija i prikljutjenija Nikodima starsjago by Aleksej Skaldin. Russian, that, though the copy in question is translated to Swedish. The other day at the library I picked up Diary by Chuck Palahniuk and The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomasson. If I hadn't forgotten my library card at home today, I would've gotten Fingersmith by somebody I can't remember the name of and Eating Chinese Food Naked, by somebody else I can't remember the name of.

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Having too much free time is great. And I got a nice digital camera for my birthday. ^_^

[Mikey_]

oh man. last thing i read...a comic book lol the uncanny xmen. i don't remember what issue. i usually read time magazines also. i also like anne rice's books.

[Valholy]

pedro paramo,el caballero de la armadura oxidada,learning html,cronica de una muerte anunciada, sidharta...... and others that i dont remember...

[marianoex]

i`m reading 100 years of lonely for gabriel garcia marquez, is a awesome book

[seifermike23]

Over the past efw months I actualy decided to read the bible.. heh. Never thought I could get through it but it really is very interesting if you read from start to finish rather than the small occasion blurb from your preacher on sunday morning.

[Valholy]

gabriel garcia marquez is a good writer

[mrchampipi]

After years of uni, reading only "serious books" (soci-anthropology), I'm back into SF. Lately, I'm reading R. Barjavel books (ravage, 1984 etc.) and Lovecraft's novels (this is some serious insanely abissinal absurde sh1t)

[Mistral]

I just finished rereading 1632 and 1633, both by Eric Flint, and the latter coauthored with David Weber. Oh, and The Forbidden Circle (Containing The Spell Sword and The Forbidden Tower) by Marion Zimmer Bradley, Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchett, On Basilisk Station by David Weber, The Soprano Sorceress by L.E. Modesitt, Jr., and the first volume of Fruits Basket by Takaya Natsuki. Alright, so the last technically doesn't quite qualify as a novel, but it was still a good read.

And I'm still waiting on The Spellsong War and Darksong Rising, sequels to The Soprano Sorceress...I hope the bookstore gets them in by Friday, or else I'm going to have nothing to do come Spring Break next week...at least those and the sequels that they do have in stock (The Shadow Sorceress and Shadowsinger) would tide me over for about two days...

[Sprung]

After years of uni, reading only "serious books" (soci-anthropology), I'm back into SF. Lately, I'm reading R. Barjavel books (ravage, 1984 etc.) and Lovecraft's novels (this is some serious insanely abissinal absurde sh1t)

Correct me if I am wrong, but wasn't 1984 by George Orwell?

Zephyr: I'm impressed, you are very well read

[Solidus Joe]

I just finished reading "Beyond the Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier

it was ok.

[Mikey_]

what was that about.

[Solidus Joe]

it was the sequel to the chocolate war, by the same author. It took place in this all boys catholic school and was basically about a few different m,ain characters in this weird school. There was like this secret student society ruled by this extremely intelligent and manipulative guy named Archie, best character in the story , and yeah, I dunno how else to describe it.

if you are gonna read it read the first one or you won't understand some of it.

but both books don't really end the way I'd want them too, very disappointing.

[Mikey_]

so good books with bad endings. sounds like some of the last "horror" movies i've seen lol

[Solidus Joe]

well like at the end of both, it leaves you wanting to see the bad guys get punished but they don't. see the bad guys always win.

[Mikey_]

read my last post