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Just like the other two topics (lisening and watching).

I'll start it with what i have been reading this winter:
I, Robot
2061:  Odyssey Three  
Robot Dreams
Ghost Story

The Encyclepedia of Heavy Metal

This book kicks ass. Got it for $19.95 at Barnes & Noble the other day.

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=117ejLwAcP&isbn=0760742189&itm=1

The Zombie Survival Guide.

America the Book (of Daily Show fame)
My phychology book, 300 pages for the first exam. Its actually quite intersting.

Odly enough i was thinking about starting a thread like this last night.

I started reading Angels & Demons 2 days ago and have burned thru 300 pages. Roughly half the book.

Once i finish up this one on to the DaVinci Code

My wife just finished the DaVinci Code and is currently reading Angels & Demons

I'm currently reading:

Hawke - Ted Bell
Magician:Apprentice - Raymond Fiest
Berserker - Fred Saberhagen

and still picking away at Lord of the RIngs

George Carlin - When will Jesus bring the Porkchops

The Cleric Quintet Collector's Edition by R.A. Salvatore.

Next I'll probably go back and read the Ice Wind Dale Trilogy again, too. <3's for Drizzt!

After reading all the Drizzt books out at the time of the release of the Cleric Quintet I could not read that series. The first book was boooring. Does it get better?

Do you collect Forgotten Realms novels?

I'm reading
Tides of War by Steven Pressfield
Sharpe's Fortress by Bernard Cornwell
And, the Lone Wolf and Cub Series. Though thats graphic novels.


P.S. I hate those stupid Dan Brown books. Okay, so people love all the symbology and secret orders and crap but sheesh, you can find that stuff anywhere. (I read the REAL history of the knights templar three or four times before The Da Vinci Code came out. The best is Dungeon Fire and Sword by John J. Robinson) I don't think think Dan Brown's that great a writer anyways. For instance the storyline in The Da Vinci code. It's horribly contrived.

I finished up Angels and Demons.
Can't find my copy of the DaVinci Code so i am not going to be starting that.
Haven't bought that book for school yet so I probably won't be reading anythying thill i find one book or purchase the other.

Just read through some of this month's Electric Caver, which is the Cincinnati Cave Grotto's monthly newsletter.  A photo of mine miraculously made it into the issue.  This is not the current issue (not available online for another two months or so), but here's a cover of an old issue:

(http://www.gcgcavers.com/images/ec200408.jpg)

I read what is unfortunately my final issue of Tips and Tricks today.

I want to resubscribe but i don't have the finances right now. Maybe i can bum some money off my dad to pay for it and pay him back later.

More currently i am reading Readers Inc. trying to figure out what i have to do to properly site my work and set up this paper.
It sucks alot.

Why still get it Collectors Corner is going away or is gone so why bother? Everything in that mag is free all over the internet.

Collectors Coset is actually getting expanded based on what i had read in March issue.

Alot of readers seem to be interested in the Select Games (which was greatly expanded to my liking), more coverage of Japanese games (also to my liking more out o getting general knowledge), Collectors Closet which is on its second issue since Joe left (he told me he did half of January but he also had a article in Febs issue) also may be getting expanded.

Actually i like the Mag more now than i have in awhile(they dropped in quality for a couple months IMO). I go thru it much quicker but i can go back to it for referance. That and they are adding to the things i already liked. I am going to miss it if i can't resubscribe soon.

Still need to get a copy of Issue 100 the only issue i missed in about 4 years
I think i started in September 2001.

Well taht s cool about Collectors Closet. I will have to check it out. I have issue 100.   :P

Joe's not doing collector's closet anymore? where have I been? I just got my Tips and Tricks yesterday, I'll have to give it a closer look.

Actually the only one of them I actually own is the IceWind Dale Trilogy Collector's Edition (that last bit is very important to add on, I feel ^_^) but I'm hoping to eventually have them all as I keep remembering to not waste on my monies on makeup.

SOme of the strat guides i bought today at TRU.

Read the DaVinci Code a while back.  Was pretty good but take it with a grain of salt.
Am reading:  The Indwelling, one of the Left Behind series of books.  Religious fiction but pretty well written.  
Picked up to read:  Body for Life.  This is supposed to be a great workout/nutrician(sp?)/life style changing book.  I want to do the program starting this April - it takes 12 weeks.  I'm sure it wont be cheap with all the supplements and dietary aids they suggest using...

not actually reading it yet but I found the 6th book in Orson Scott Card's Alvin Maker series, "The Crystal City".

Now I'm re-reading H.G. Wells War of the Worlds.

Do you mean writer's inc?  We had to use that for high school out here, and it did suck alot.  The thing that ticked me off the most about it was that for a book that was supposed to be so correct, it didn't even have page numbers!  

If the book gets too frustrating, use this link.  http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
It is easier to look stuff up online than in that silly thing.

About the only book I read nowadays is the textbook Mechanics of Materials 3rd Edition, by Ferd Beer and Russ Johnston. Got to make sure we don't have those violent deflections in those bridges and buildings of the future.... don't need another Tacoma Narrows....

As for real books, the last book I actually read through was A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking. I've started other books, such as The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene (a book about String Theory) and George Orwell's 1984, which is currently lying on the floor.

Ahh yes my mistake.

Thanks for the link going to have to get that into my favs when i get home.

Finished America the Book three days ago.  I highly recommend it.  It was hilarious to the very end, and also left the taste of truth in your mouth. Seriously check it out.  (Anyways, drunken post at 2AM)  

i've been working on "the caves of steel" for a few weeks now.

slow moving for me.

Wiseguy. The book Scorsese made The Goodfellas from. Pretty good.

Be Cool by: Elmore Leonard

I recently finished an introductory book on Nietzsche's main philosophical ideas.  Very interesting stuff.  Now I seriously need to finish The Once and Future King.

Once you do, let me know how it relates to X-MEN 2.  

Da Vinci Code.
Found it on a bookself in my closet.

The first 50ish pages have been good so far. I expect it to be good reading all the way thru.

ah, the first book in Asimov's robot series. Lije Bailey and R. Daneel Olivaw. A Sci-Fi detective story. The series get's better with each book, Naked Sun, Robot's of Dawn, Robot's and Empire. Nice choice.

I just got the Icewind Dale books, so I started on those.

I'm reading the Redwall series.  I know, I know, it's a kids' series, but the stories are really good and Brian Jacques' writing style is awesome.

I read this book i forgot i found ata a tag sale a few years ago.
Video Fever.

It was definately meant for kids and written in the early 1980s late 1970s.

Kid has a Atari like system plays a game called Zorn can't beat level 4. Hates his female cousin for messing with his game. She later gets sucked into the game. They also get sucked in. Go thru the game. Kid finally beats level 4. Story ends.
It was a little more indepth than that but more or less you just read the book.

It was interesting to get the perspective from 20+ years ago.

Also have about 50 more pages in Da Vinci Code. Should finish it up in a night or 2 of night reading.

EDIT
Finished the Da Vinci Code about 2 hours ago.
It was a damn good book all the way to the end.


Going to look into a book called Honor Among Thieves.
Written awhile ago it is set back when Saddam was still a dictator. The gist of it is he somehow gets a hold of the original copy of the Declaration of Independace and s going to burn it in downtown Baghdad but the US hires a thief of some sort he makes a duplicate and switches it out. But to kknow the diff between the original and dupe he fixes 2 grammer mistakes on the fake. The one i remember getting fixed is Brittish.

And another one by Asimov Land of the Iron Tanks i believe it was called. I really like that genre of books but have not read anything Asimov has written yet.

still working on Magician: Apprentice by Feist. it's starting to get quite good.

the Hawke book is getting quite ridiculus. the story is okay but the main character HAwke is way too perfect. he's an expert at everything and all the chicks dig him. no flaws.

I finished the Magician:Apprentice by Raymond E. Feist, it was very good. I also finished the 2nd book in the Riftwar Sage called Magician: Master. That one was outstanding. Currently I'm about 100 pages into the 3rd book in the series called Silverthorn and it's shaping up quite well. There is one more in this series called A Darkness at Sethanon.

Feist has several other books based on the same location and characters. It's fantasy so it's a bit like Lord of the Rings but obviously with a more modern writing style. I'm looking forward to reading many more by this author.

I'M StarWars Shadows of the Empire.  I got the book (Hardcover) for $1.00 at our Church Fair.  It isn't the best Star Wars book, but it is a good read.

On the contrary I think it is THE best Star Wars book. I'm still waiting for the movie.

I've just finished the Dark Elf Trilogy and now I'm about to start The Legacy of the Drow.

The Dark Elf serieas kicked ass!!!!! Do you mean the Legacy?

welcome to the RFG forums Ron! when you have a moment please visit the Video Game forum and introduce yourself in the introduce yourself thread.

The infancy of Nazism, the memoirs of ex-gauleiter Alberg Krebs 1923-1933.

Because fiction is for children. Us grown ups read REAL books about the REAL world.

lets see, history books on the the topic of Nazi Germany, the Holocaust or World War II...

The Nazi Doctors - Lifton
Nurumberg - Perisco
Into That Darkness - Sereny
Ordinary Men - Browning
A Holocaust Reader - Dawidowicz
An Honorable Defeat - Gill
Denying the Holocaust - Lipstadt
The Holocaust - Gilbert
Destruction of the European Jews - Hilberg
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, A History of Nazi Germany - Shirer

I've also read many other history books, biographies and autobiographies on various subject matter.

Currently reading "Freakonomics" by Steven D. Levitt.  

In Freakonomics (written with Stephen J. Dubner), Levitt argues that many apparent mysteries of everyday life don't need to be so mysterious: they could be illuminated and made even more fascinating by asking the right questions and drawing connections. For example, Levitt traces the drop in violent crime rates to a drop in violent criminals and, digging further, to the Roe v. Wade decision that preempted the existence of some people who would be born to poverty and hardship. Elsewhere, by analyzing data gathered from inner-city Chicago drug-dealing gangs, Levitt outlines a corporate structure much like McDonald's, where the top bosses make great money while scores of underlings make something below minimum wage. And in a section that may alarm or relieve worried parents, Levitt argues that parenting methods don't really matter much and that a backyard swimming pool is much more dangerous than a gun.

Highly recommended, very interesting book.

Into That Darkness - Sereny

I read this one. I can very much recommend 'Albert Speer: his battle with the truth', from the same author.

I have that book. I have not read it yet. I also have Speer's memoirs, "Inside the Third Reich".

when my wife was finishing up college a few years ago she took a class on the Holocaust. I sat in for all the lectures and read all the text material she was assigned. It got me interested and I read an additional several books after the class was finished.

I finished Silverthorn and A Darkness at Sethanon thus concluding the 4 books of the Ritwar Saga. It was very good. I'm currently about 90 pages into another Feist novel called "Prince of the Blood". It takes place 20 years after the events of the RIftwar Saga. Many of the same chracters are still around, the main 2 being the twin sons of Prince Arutha, heirs to the throne of Midkemia. This story is a 2 book series. Pretty good so far.

I picked up Eye of the World by Robert Jordan today. I haven't read it since seventh grade, so I'm really happy.


He's had such a ridiculous amount of books in the trilogy that I've about forgotten what's happened in the beginning. .___.

I loved those Robert Jordan books until i got to the fifth one and realized there were still five more.
Right now I'm reading: A Soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin (i think the name's close) It's pretty good and someday I plan to make the movie.

I'm reading Medical Marijuana: The History

just finished the new Harry Potter book. I'm also about 15 pages from finishing Prince of the Blood.

after that? I suspect I'll stick with Feist. I've got several more of his books to read though I'm missing a few. I may need to move onto something else till I track down the one's i need.

I've also been reading the omnibus edition of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. I'm about halfway through Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

I started reading this book called Guilty Pleasures.
It has vampires animators, zombies of varios types, ghouls and wererats so far.
It is set in a world where all the stuff is apparently well known about because there are laws in place to protect vampires and they are recognised by at least the USA as a group/race of people.
Not bad so far. I am only about 55 pages but the book is only abuot 260 pages long though...

I'm reading:
The Ultimate History of Video Games
some Star Trek DS9 book
All About Lawns by Ortho
the current PC Gamer
some Readers Digests from earlier this year
Coffee and Tea trade publications like Fresh Cup

Finished up the book i was reading.
Now i can wait for a month or more for my bro to finish the new Harry Potter and i can find something else to readin the mean time or i can just stop reading until he finishes the book...

I have some old Hitchcock short story books i got from my dad awhile ago and never read.
They were some biweekly or monthly publication from the late 60s to late70s i can't remembe the years on them anymore...

That and maybe i will steal one of Dans books next time i see him he has a few things i wanted to read like Time Line by Micheal Chriton(sp?)

I'm still stuck on Raymond Feist.

http://www.crydee.com/

Krondor: The Betrayal is the one I'm on now.

I've also been picking up a lot of the paperbacks based on the Star Trek shows for a quarter a piece at the thrifts. I'd like to read some of these.

*Takes deep breath* War and Peace. All 1600, almost Olde English style writing, pages of it.

I started reading some of Woody Allens stuff, it's flippin hilarious stuff, I recommend the books even if you don't like Woody himself.

God, Guns, & Rock'n'roll - Ted Nugent

ahhh, Terrible Ted. a fellow Michigan boy. so how much of that book is about Fred Bear?

I've been picking up a ton of Star Trek novels lately. most of the thrifts I hit sell their paperbacks for a quarter apiece or 5 for a dollar. how can you pass up a 20 cent book? I think they'll be good lunch break material after I finish the Hitchhikers omnibus.

I'll have to let you know. I just started it last night, it should be a pretty fast read though. It has about the most energetic 1st chapter of any book I've ever read though.

finished Krondor: The Betrayal and Krondor: The Assassins and just started Krondor: Tear of the Gods.

up next is Feists 4 book Serpent War Saga.

For school Beowulf which is actually a decent book/poem/epic so far.
Everyone said it would be boring/dry reading but its not too bad.

And Hardcore Gaming Magazine that came in the mail today.

Well I just finished it. That took way longer then it should have,  I got busy, (busyer then I normally am) and the book got repeditive. Not too much was about Fred Bear, really only the last chapter. The book was about 90% guns and hunting related.

I read Beowulf and understood like three words of it. Grendel was good.

I'm reading The *yawn* Scarlet Letter. Soooooo boring, I love the writing style but the story blows chunks.

just finished "Life, the Universe and Everything", and am about 8 chapters into "So long and thanks for all the Fish".

Ahh, The Guide. Is there really anything else worth reading?

Just discworld.

I have been reading the DragonBall Z mangas lately and they are some how even more long and drawn out then the anime but at least the artwork is good the saving grace of everything DragonBall I guess.

Brave New World Revisited by Aldous Huxley.

Brave New World was a frightening but very good book.  Brave New World Revisited is more of the same, only frightening to a much greater extent.

- Zac

Bill Bryson. Funny stuff.

read Brave New World years ago. haven't read revisited, I do have it though. ever seen the crappy movie version?

let's see....

still on my Raymond Feist kick. I finished Krondor: Tear of the Gods and the King's Buccaneer. Both were quite good. I've read 9 of this guys books so far and haven't been disapointed yet.

I'm just about done with the Hitchhikers's Guide Omnibus. I finished So Long and Thanks for all the FIsh and the short story Young Zaphod Plays it Safe. 'll be starting Mostly Harmless when I go to lunch shortly.

I also started reading Star Trek Movie Memories by William Shatner. I'm about 150 pages in. the next chapter is on the Wrath of Khan.

Brave New World was one of the best books I've ever read.  We had to read it for class, and I can honestly say that was one of the few that I actually enjoyed.  

Also, if you get the chance, check out Into Thin Air.  It's about a tem that climbs Mt. Everest.  When I first looked at it, I thought it was going to be a horrible book, but it turned out to be very interesting.

Den - Are the Hitchhiker books any good?

The Hitchhikers books are a unique read. They remind me a bit of Monty Python, sort of high brow slap stick. It can be hard to follow at times as Douglass Adams always seems to take the most indirect path to make a point and that path is loaded with other references to sometimes seemingly unrelated things. It takes place in outer space so there are countless references to planets and alien races that seem to follow the same naming conventions used by Dr. Suess.

The books are rather funny though. I read them years ago and have been enjoying rereading them. But be prepared for that "what the hell did I just read" feeling.

I'm an engineering student, I am very familiar with that feeling.  

I'll check them out over christmas break, thanks for the info.  I did see the movie, but I have been told that the movie is nothing like the book.

There was a movie...?  How could Huxley allow that?  I mean, he was probably long gone when it was released, but you'd think he would have given the publisher instructions to not let that kind of thing happen...

Oh yeah, and I'm reading the new Nintendo Power.  Is it just me, or is the girl that's at the beginning of the Animal Crossing DS article really really hot?  Talk about random...  Not that I'm complaining (far from it), but still.

- Zac

better yet, a "made for TV" movie.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080468/

I still haven't seen the movie. I have seen and own the old BBC series on DVD and Laserdisc.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081874/

The movie was actually quite good, in my opinion.  It's worth taking a look at it.

Macbeth

I recently finished reading Star Trek Movie Memories by William Shatner. I'm about to start the novelization of Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

I finally finished Mostly Harmless, the last of the Hitchhiker books. Currently reading the novelization of Star Trek the Motion PIcture.

Anything by Chuck Palanhiuk.

Macbeth for school
and
Fall of Reach

the first book in the halo trilogy. Its pretty good so far. I am only into the first chapter.
I don't like the descriptor they used for Grunts though.
The compared some of them to dogs and said some ran on all fours. Which doesn't happen.

The Once and Future King - T.H. White

Medievil fantasy always seems to do it for me, and this is apparently the definitive novel of that area of literature, so I'm giving it a whirl.  I'll admit that a lot of the dialogue is confusing at first, but I'm picking up on it.  Not bad so far.

Red Acropolis, Black Terror.
It's a history of the Greek Civil War and the origins of Soviet-American Rivalry. Some pretty crazy stuff happened after WWII

Say iz, how many times you going to read Macbeth? I couldn't get through it once.

Just finished reading the cliff notes on the book "The Color of Water"
Hopefully thats enough of it.
God was that book dry reading. It trully sucked.

Going to read The Fall of Reach now.
Hopefully i don't intertwine the Halo 2 universe with the racist 1960s tomorrow on my english midterm...

The Colour of Magic, on the other hand, is awesome. And so is the Colour out of Space by Lovecraft.

Hmmm...

Halo 2 universe + the racist 1960's = awesome (?)

The world may never know...

The Measure of all Things

Its about how they figured out the length of the meter, which is 1 ten millionth of the distance from the north pole to the equator.

you mean "was" :P
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meter

"was", "is", same thing.  ;)

Of course you are right, I should have said, "was".

Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy. If you ever want to read well ghost written accounts of political courage, this is the book for you.

From the Earth to the Moon - Jules Verne

Orca - Arthur Herzog

"Naked Pictures of Famous People" - Jon Stewart.
Just finished.  It was ok, not as funny as I had hoped.

Uncle Tom's Cabin for school. Yassir mas'r we 's b' re'd'n'  't re'l nice, - yessum we 's. The idiom's a little tricky but it's pretty good.

Benjamin Franklin: An American Life. Biography by Walter Isaacson.

Very well written and informative, especially about the events in the colonies and in his life prior to the US declaring indepenence from England.

"Nothing's Sacred" - Lewis Black.

When I first saw it in Barnes & Noble, I opened to a random page and it looked like a bunch of rants he had written, so I bought it.   Turns out it's his autobiography.  Very good stuff, I finished it yesterday and liked it a lot.

the only book I actually read is the bible. I try and read some every morning before I go to sleep. Ive read it thru many times and each time gain more and more understanding.

I picked up an old text book last night that has this in it. it also has several other stories. Don Quixote, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea as well as a lot of history, religion, music and art.

I got it for 50 cents at a thrift. copywrite date is 1897. I expect to find old things at thrifts but not something over 100 years old.

That is really cool!

Wow, thats awesome. And probably worth more than fifty cents.

started on my lunch break today:

Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now - Henry Holt

Finished up reading MacBeth today in school.
That was quite a thrilling tale.....

On a personally more pleasing note.
I am still working my way thru Fall of Reach.

I am most of the way done though and if i really invest a good 2 hours(probably less) i should finish it before the end of the week.

Is that the gripping saga of the toothpaste company?

No it was the epic tale of how Master Chief became who he was and lead up to the begining of Halo.
A good read.

Now i just need to decide if i want to start the next book, The Flood, now or wait till i am going to be able to dedicate more time to it...

Reading Huckleberry Finn. Pretty good, 'cept 'gain the idiom's a taint tricky.

Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

Great Book.

Genograms: The New Tool for Exploring the Personality, Career, and Love Patterns You Inherit

Time and Free Will

I disagree. ;)

What a coincidence i am starting that book on monday.
Well officially on monday.
I already read one of the short stories in it.

My english teacher was talking about how it came out when she was born and it use to be science fiction.but now it is just considrered a fiction.

Yes my teacher is VERY old as the bok was originally released in 1935 if memory serves.

Brave New World is science fiction at its purest.  The whole premise revolves around science, industry and technology shaping humanity.  Sure there is some social drama, but the main motivating factor is the society created by technology/industry/whatever.  Besides, social dramas are not important.  Ever.

I just finished up reading Uncle Tom's Cabin, but it was for school. I'm mildly interested in Engines of Creation: the Coming Era of Nanotechnology by K. Eric Drexler as of now.

I read it the first time when I was still in school too. It's a quick read. Do yourself a favor and don't bother watching either of the movies based on it. Both are brutally awful.

I just started reading the Chronicles of Narnia. I'm on book one, The Magicians Nephew.

I've also finally found the last book I was missing from Lloyd Alexander's Prydain Chronicles. I may read those next.

I remember the first book is a bit of a slow read.
It was a good series though :)

I am still reading Halo: The Flood Only 150ish pages in.
Brave New World i am a bit further into.(Thanks for the warnings on the movies)

I also read a poem called The Sniper. That was short and good. Snipers kick ass :)

And one of the short stories in the back of my copy of Brave New World called Harrison Bergeron(sp?)
That was ok too.

is your book a combination of Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited? I know year later Huxley wrote some additional short stories based on Brave New World. I've got them as a separate book. it's rather short so it's possible it's included in the edition you have.

I just started the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and am still muddling trough that Paul McCartney book.

Death of a Salesman for school, but I'm also looking into Kurt Cobain's Diary. After all, Niravana does (or did, depending on how you look at it) happen to be a great band.

I have Brave New World unabridged and unadaptedfrom the original text and with seventeen related readings.

Technically it is only 14 other short stories/articles and then 3 lists of articles for related books, webpages and movies.

One of the 14 is BNW Revisited by Huxley.

Started Killer Angels by Micheal Shaara.

Life Between Life

Pragmatism

"A Clockwork Orange" by Anthony Burgess. I liked the movie, so I decided to look into the book that it was based off of.

The RF Forum

I'm onto the 3rd Chronicles of Narnia book, "The Horse and his Boy". and still working on the Paul McCartney bio.

The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill

Exam Cram 2: CompTIA A+ study guide
Funnn :-/

:laugh: :laugh:

That must be fun!

My boss bugs me every once and awhile to get my A+ Cert.

had a nice paper back score last night. I found 12 novels by Philip K. Dick. One of which was "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep", this was the novel that was made into the movie Blade Runner.

I've meant to find that Blade Runner book somewhere.

I'm currently reading Bill Bryson's history of Americanisms.

For school, I have to read Cold Mountain. It picks up... after the first 100 pages.

finished the 4th and 5th books in the Chronicles of Narnia.

Prince Caspian
Voyage of the Dawn Treader

started the 6th one, The Silver Chair

I'm at the end of The Sea of Swords.  Then I don't know if I'm going to finish up the last three of so books of the Drizzt Saga, or read the Cleric's Quintet first.  Only time will tell.

The Clerics Quintet compared to teh Drizzt books equals  :zzz: :zzz: :zzz: :zzz: :zzz: :zzz: :zzz:

I made it half way through the first book I think.

Well I finished the Sea of Swords last night and I don't have The Thousand Orcs.  SO I guess it's the Cleric's Quintet.  Or since yesterday I picked up The Spearwielders Tail I might start that.  Still havn't decided.

Tyn's right, the Quint is bleh. I couldn't even read 'em.

i rather enjoyed the cleric quintet, it's not as good as any drizzt story especially thousand orcs, but it's very good, especially when Cadderly becomes very powerful.

and for dragonlance i'm super pumped about Dragons of the Dwarven Depths, it's good to have a story about the companions come to light after all these years.

I love the new avatar pic!!!!!

hehe, yeah i'm finally happy with this one, i've prob used a dozen over the years but i've never been quite happy with them, this one here is more in line with what i imagined he looks like, with a bit more human ruggedness than most of the others.

besides the TSR's i've been trying to plug away at the wheel of time series as well, started off really fast but as i got to the 6th or 7th book my interest sort of waned, it's hard to keep the excitement going in a series where every book is like 600 pages long, especially since the story has become fractured into several storylines that jump back and forth one chapter to the next.

Currently reading: The Great Gatsby, because I haven't, and a book on travel writing.

finally finished all the Chronicles of Narnia books. The 7th and last one was called The Last Battle. They were all pretty short, less than 250 pages each but while I enjoyed them I was ready to move on to something else.

I'm back on Star Trek now. I just finished a Star Trek TNG - X-men crossover called Planet X. It wasn't bad but would have been a good story without the X-men.

right now I'm reading the 1st Star Trek novel ever published. it's called "A Mission to Horatius". It's a young adult novel that came out on the Whitman label.

I think i am about 3/4ths of the way thru the second halo book.

I am going to read more now.
I only read now when i sleep at my house and there is nothing good on TV to fall asleep to.
So hardly ever....

finished "A Mission to Horatius". not bad. not the same level of detail as other Trek novels but it was a young adult novel.

I've decided to move on to the Prydain Chronicles by Lloyd Alexander. Yeah I know, more kids books. Having seen the butchered Disney version of the Black Cauldron I've been curious about this series. The first book is called "The Book of Three". So far it's not bad but I keeping picturing and hearing the voices of the Disney characters in my head.

Currently reading Angels & Demons by Dan Brown.  Then its onto the next adventure by Dan Brown - The Da Vinci Code.  And then I'll go watch the movie.

Just watch the movie. It's better than the book.

See, I always get the book and then the movie comes out... so I go watch the movie... and then I can never go back to the book because I know what is going to happen (or so the way Hollywood sees it).

I'm reading Mary Doria Russell's Children Of God....it is the sequel to her amazing novel, The Sparrow......if you like Sci-Fi and Religion as topics in a great fictional novel, i highly recommend this series....you won't be dissappointed....

RFG Forums

I'm going to read Warcraft War of the Ancients The Well of Eternity when I find the time.

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

 Gwydion's Thoughts it's a blog. the link is here (http://gwydionsthoughts.blogspot.com/).

Just started up "The Catcher in the Rye" and I have "Snakes On A Plane" (yes, the novelization, it was a birthday gift) on hold.

Snakes on a Plane LOL

I started up the 3rd Halo book "First Strike" 3 days ago. I have been reading about 10 pages a night so far.

"The Catcher in the Rye"  This is a good book I remember having to read it in high school.

The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks.  I read it back in high school ten years ago and decided to revisit the series.  Going to jump back into Terry Goodkind as well.

Right now I'm reading a lot of Psychology stuff.....I just started working towards my Masters Degree in Industrial / Organizational Psychology.......13 classes and then I can get a job.......

Catch Me if You Can, pretty good although the guy seems pretty full of himself, although it was ghost written, so whatever.

Have you finished it, Invoker? I'm about a third through it and it's an interesting read so far. I'd like to read Freakonomics as well.

I just finished "Indiana Jones and the Peril at Delphi" and that Paul McCartney bio I was reading. I am currently finishing up the novelization of "Waterworld" and I'm about half way through "The Andromeda Strain".

not sure what's on deck yet. I picked up a neat book on Jim Henson. that one would be a quick read through. hmmm maybe another Indiana Jones novel or perhaps back to Star Trek.

Finished Star Wars Republic Commando: Hard Contact and will begin Star Wars Republic Commando: Triple Zero before the year is out ^^

David J. Sheskin - Handbook Of Parametric And Nonparametric Statistical Procedures Third Edition     (its only 1193 pages long)

Actively reading
The Encyclopedia of Game Machines

Just finished The Pale Horseman, second book of a series, an awesome historical novel concerning the Viking invasion of England and Alfred the Great's last stand. I'd take this over fantasy any day, can't wait for the third of the series.

Also reading short stories by Tobias Wolff, he's a great writer, everyone in the world should read his short story entitled "Bullet in The Head."

And now, Euthyphro, for Philosophy 101.

Almost done with the Halo book.

I might start reading the Mortal Kombat book shannon got me next.

Then again i also have to start readin The Odd Sea for english class too....

I recently read some guys philosophy on eating babies too.
The authors name escapes me... but it wasn't true and was meant to prove a point.

Oh yea did i mention i just skimmed over it?

Socrates' Apology. Reminds me of the Bible, just written better .

just finished The Minotaur Wars Vol. II (Dragonlance), started reading Death Gate Cycle Vol. I "Dragon Wing" while i search for Volume III of The Minotaur Wars.

I never could get into that damn Death Gate cycle.

Reading Nickle and Dimed for School, it's all bullshit.

I am probably an hour or 2 away from finishing the last Halo book.
This weekend/monday i will be starting The Odd Sea for school.

From what i have heard in class it will be a good book.

Which is good because i hate being forced to reading shitty books.

Human Competence:  Engineering Worthy Performance Tribute Edition by Thomas F. Gilbert

I'm reading this for my Performance Analysis I/O Psychology Grad. School class.

Currently reading The War of the Flowers by Tad Williams.  Its a fantasy book where a guy with a crummy life gets pulled into a book while he's reading it to unwind.  Thats about as far as I've read but his writing style is excellent.

Sounds like Terry Brooks Magic Kingdom series.

still working on "The Andromeda Strain" by Michael Crichton. just finished "Lennon Remembers" a collection of John Lennon Rolling Stone interviews. also just started "Han Solo At Stars End" by Brian Daley.

The Andromeda Strain is supposed to be good.

I am something like 40 pages into The Odd Sea.

I am probably still something like 80 pages behind though... back to the book.

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/BrianRoss/story?id=2509586&page=1

Its similar to magic kingdom and S. Donaldsons Thomas Covenant Series.  This book is better than donaldson and right on par with brooks

The talisman by S king.

Finishing up The Odd Sea.

Deciding what i am going to read next...

How to Win at Low Stakes Texas Hold 'Em. Just finished Benjamin Franklin: An American Life.

Currently, a collection of short Sci-Fi.  Enders Game sicks out in my head.  From an English standpoint, it is nothing special.  Honestly though, thats not something I care about.  Its the story that blew my mind.

The Postman.  I've been on a short story kicm lately.  It was a lot better than the movie, which isn't waying much.  However, I like the direction the author went in.  An uplifting post apoctylipic setting rather than the max max sty;e that is so popular.  It almost reminds me of an end of days prohpecy.  I'll explain more after I sober up.  Also, I think this is the first time I posted on RF while drinking.

I finished Sandman: Endless Nights and I have to say the Chapter 3 (Dream) was the best.

Halo: Ghosts of Onyx :)

ZOMG ROXXORZ
Reading right now.

Last time i was reading i was too into the book and didn't see any of the monolouges on TV i said i was going to watch.
If that happens again no biggy.

Why is the Halo paperback 13.99? Is it huge?

It is almost 400 pages and 2-3 inches wider & taller than the first halo paper backs

They had Eric Nylund do this book too.

I saw a few other video game based books when i picked this one up i might try and pick the last of them up after Xmas.

World War Z by Max Brooks.  Its fucking awesome.

Graveyards of Chicago

I finished Ghosts of Onyx a couple days ago.

I will be borrowing a Chriton book from my cuz or one of the Harry Potter books i need to catch up on from a friend today.

Ooo I was thumbing through that, it looked awesome.

The Zombie Survival Guide

Yeah I bought that one.

The Zombie Survival Guide is awesome.

It is funny as hell.

I read about 60 pages of Order of the Phoenix last night.
After about 30 i remembered reading it before. I just don't think i finished the book.

Hoping to burn thru another 60-100 pages tonight.

I've got three Doug TenNapel graphic novels to read through...

Iron West
Earthboy Jacobus
Creature Tech

When you're done, seriously read World War Z.

Lake of Sorrows by Erin Hart.

While acquiring Hard Boiled, the John Woo movie, I discovered a comic called Hard Boiled, penned by Frank Miller. It's like a completely insane Blade Runner type thing, is extremely violent and extremely awesome, I was only able to find 3 issues, not sure if anymore were made.

Stephen King- The Gunslinger

Ah, the good Dark Tower book.

Still Harry Potter, all of which is still mostly familiar.

And now Farenheit 451 for school.
Which is decent so far.

Nothing spectacular but it hasn't completely bored me yet.

just finished up angels and demons and started reading strangers by koontz

Picked up I Am Legend. Awesome 40 pages in.

Finished Farenheit 451 and read the xtra crap at the end of the book.

Lame ending. Over all it was one of those books i could have cared less about ever reading.
Not bad but not all that great either.

I just reread through pretty much all of The Walking Dead (pretty awesome comic), issue 33 is really fucked up.

Since i finished reading that book for school i have gotten to start up Order of the Phoenix again.

I read 100-150 pages last night. If it was a paper back i would be way easier to finish it.
Only reading when i decide i am going to bed is making it a bit tougher...

Should be able to finish it this week if life doesn't go haywire again...

In Golden Blood by Stephen Woodworth

The Singularity is Near by Ray Kurzwiel

Started reading, I am a Soldier, Too The Jessica Lynch Story by Rick Bragg

Spandau Phoenix - Greg Iles

I'm nearing the end of Sole Survivor by Dean Koontz. It was a real slow starter. The action didn't really start to pick up until you're more than half way through. It doesn't suck but it's not one of his best.

Read the Marvel Zombies mini-series yesterday. That was pretty cool.

Started reading Starship Troopers this morning.

Since i kept forgetting Starship Troopers at my house i am now reading Job: A Comedy of Justice

Reading through the Lone Wolf and Cub graphic novels since I finally completed my collection of them.

Also started The Road, by some guy who's name escapes me. It's more post apocalyptic fun.

I've been reading Frankenstein (like, the for reals Mary Shelley one) recently. Interesting writing thus far.
Also been reading A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. I'm not too far into it; I've heard it's hilarious, though.

STarted rereading Starship Troopers a couple days ago. I'm about 150 pages in.
Good book. Very quotable.

^Good book.

I finished the last 190+ pages of The Road saturday, having been 12 pages in before that. Needless to say it's a compelling book, very well crafted, not trash fiction as is so common these days.

just finished up digital fortress by dan brown, now all i got left to read of his is decption point and i got that at goodwill for a buck..

Yuck, Dan Brown ;)

angels and demon is his best book, have you read that one?

Nope, never shall, hate the wanker. Sold 100 billion copies of a trashy historically irreverent novel and so I hate him as any good English major should.

I have Digital Fortress and Deception Point i believe.
I haven't gotten to read them though.

He(Dan Brown) is supposed to be coming out with another book this year if memory serves.

Finished Starship Troopers last night.

Probably going to start Congo by Chriton tonight.
I don't know anything about it except it has gorillas and diamonds in it.
Yes i was indeed given a spectacular description...

I just started reading the Forgotten Realms book Homeland. I read it some 10-15 years ago. Awesome series!

I'm on a Discworld marathon at the moment.

The Forgotten Realms book Homeland by R.A. Salvatore.

Virgil's Aenid...

Spandau Phoenix by Greg Iles.

Finished up Congo today.

Going to have to grab a new book outta the trunk to start reading tomorrow.

Ended up grabbing the 2 Doom books out of the trunk.

About halfway thru Knee Deep in Death.

Finished up Knee Deep in Death sometime last night.
Starting up Hell on Earth sometime tonight

Finished Hell on Earth last night.

Gotsta either find a new book or wait for the other Doom books to come in the mail...
that hints at my previously mentioned evil plan....... i have said to much.

Finished Homeland and onto Exile.

Picked up Lisey's Story by Stephen King

You've got allot of catching up (http://p197.ezboard.com/Drizzt-DoUrden-Books-in-Chronological-Order/frasalvatoreforumsfrm1.showMessage?topicID=15.topic) to do. Each book just get's better IMO.  8)

I have read all of them up so Thousand Orcs. But since I didnt remember much I figured I would read them all again. It was been 14 years since I read Homeland.

just finished up the funhouse by dean koontz

Finished Exile and onto Sojourn.

Been reading a series called
Signsof the Zodiac.
I finished the first book a couple days ago and am in the second book now.

It is more geared to a female reader ican tell by the way people and anything that could be sexual is described/detailed/explained.

But it is basically about a group of super hero like people who protect the planet.
There are agents of dark and light who battle it out and the main character is the daughter of the most renowned Light agent and father of the Tulpa ruler of the dark agents.

Since she can acess dark and light information she is supposed to tip the scales in the battle of light and darkness.

dearly devoted dexter

"The Audacity of Hope" by Barack Obama.

Crest of the Stars by Hiroyuki Morioka

They finally translated this trilogy into English; however, it is exactly the same as the manga and anime series, so nothing new.  Of course I'm sorta working in reverse order because the novels came first.

That douche was on Letterman last night. He's incredibly dull and full of bullshit. Letterman pwned him at one point where Obama was blathering about some faggotry or the other by randomly switching the subject to Obama's suit.

I see no hope for Obama to win the primaries and I thank God that this is what I see.

Great summary. Very detailed. :)

I've been trying to read "The Bell Jar" and "The Fountainhead" for like 3 years but I keep putting them down and forgetting what happened, so I have to restart it.

Non-novel wise, I'm reading the Death Note manga.

I am still trying to work thru the same book.

I am probably going to bring the book to work tonight and just pray that we arn't busy.
THat way i can finish it.

I really want to start the Mass Effect.
I picked it up a week or so ago.

So what you're saying is that if Hillary gets the democratic nomination, you'd be happy? Are you also saying you'd vote for Hillary for President?


Yeah. Can you be more specific Leon? I didn't see the Letterman interview.

still on Greg Iles. Just finished Spandau Phoenix and Footprints of God. Currently reading Black Cross.

my cousin told me to check out some greg ilse but still have not, den what is a good first read from him?

I don't give a fuck who gets the Democratic nomination. Fuck Democrats, fuck Republicans, they are not the answer to this country's problems. We need new blood to wash clean the stagnant aristocratic piles of shit that occupy Washington right now.

This presidential race of '08 is already ridiculous. It's just a fucking show. We have the black guy, the woman, Giuliani who everyone loves. Might as well turn it into a TV show and we can just call in our votes after the candidates show us their prowess on the dance floor.

I really don't care who wins the election. At first I figured a democrat would win, because the public hates Bush, and since he's a Republican they would assume Democrats are the answer. Then, when the Democrats do nothing but make retarded policy, pull us out of Iraq, and raise taxes, it'll go back to the Republicans. Giuliani, however, will now win if he gets in. I don't know what he'll do as a pres but I think he'll destroy whoever he's running against.

 I'd personally not be adverse to George W. becoming a dictator. That'd be sweet, and I'd join his secret police and we'd wear protect gear:

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fa/Kerberosinui.png)

And it doesn't matter what Obama was talking about. He was going on and on about something, it was boring, the audience was falling asleep, and Letterman just cut Obama's blathering off and told him he had a nice suit.

Unfortunately, when it comes to elections these days it's a matter of voting for the lesser of the 2 evils. I agree that both parties suck elephant balls, but there isn't a 3rd political party on the rise and there isn't a viable independant candidate either.

So we're still going to be stuck in the 2 party system for a lonnnng time.

Further, the democratic party is really stupid if they think that they're going to win in an election against Giuliani (the likely Republican candidate) with the likes of Obama and Hillary opposing him. I like Obama better, but I don't think he really stands a chance. The only candidate that could be competition for Giuliani on the Democrats side is the one that's not running...Gore. Gore would likely win the election in a walk, but he's still on his global warming crusade.

Elephant and/or donkey balls ;)

Oh and Mass Effect is pretty awesome so far.

I am somewhere between 50-100 pages in.

I don't remember for certain where i stopped and i just realized i am not going to be reading it today since i left the book at work :-/

I'd really find it hard to believe that Gore could win. I pray to God that he never ever steps foot back into politics.

Meanwhile, I'm reading some Heinlein: Stranger in A Strange Land

60ish pages left in Mass Effect.

I heard rumors about a new Halo book being out but have seen nothing to confirm it :-/

I am probably going to burn thru some Christopher Pike books next.

I still need to get the last 2 books in the Doom series.
And i am going to hold off on reading the Illuminati books i have till i figure out how many i am missing from that series and if i can get them.

Finished reading Lisey's Story by Stephen King.  It was an alright book.  Just picked up The Mephisto Club by Tess Gerritsen and it's hard to stop reading it.

reading jurassic park again

I've read Jurassic Park at least 30 time's.  I keep going back to that book every couple of months.   That and Tamara Thorne's Haunted are my to favorites.

depends on what you like. he's pretty across the board. if you like stuff based on World War II, Spandau Phoenix and Black Cross are both great. if you like conspiracy stuff go with True Evil or Footprints of God. if you like Cop/FBI/Murder Mystery stuff go with The Quiet Game, Dead Sleep or Blood Memory.

my favorite of all these has been Dead Sleep. all are pretty quick reads that suck you in. the exception being Spandau Phoenix. that one was his first novel and is loaded with a lot of factual information. it's very good, you just have to pay attention.

Finished Barack Obama's book. Not a bad read. It's worth a library rental.

Imo, he's got no shot of winning an election because he's too clean cut. He definitely loves the USA and has some good ideas, though; but I don't think the average voter would be able to relate to him.

thanks den i'm gonna check out dead sleep first.

Reading
Transformers

Based on the movie.

It is amazing thusfar.
I'm about 100 pages in and things only get better :)

Picked up the Transformers prequel novel.

texas hold em by phill helmuth jr.

i konw the guys a prick but he's one of the best

After reading his book you still won't be. You will just cry more. :P

finished Black Cross, just started Turning Angel.

I'm reading Bravo Two Zero by Andy McNab. It's very good, but I find it hard to take time to read books.

the vampire lestat by anne rice

Awesome book!

I'm reading "It's Only a Movie", a biography of Alfred Hitchcock. Written by Charlotte Chandler. Very enjoyable so far.

A little tidbit: he wanted to direct the original Titanic back in the 20's/30's (?), but the production company went with a different director. I would've loved to have seen a Hitchcock version of that movie...8)

Just picked up The Stranger House by Reginald Hill

Finished the Transformers prequel.
 
Reading the The Moons of Mirrodin.

The first book in the Mirrodin cycle.

Still reading "It's Only a Movie".

Some interesting passages lately about how Hitchcock filmed his silent movies when he got started in such a way that the audience could feel that sound was implied in certain scenes.

Looking back on it and the Hitchcock films that I've seen, he did that a lot even when sound was available for him to use: facial expressions, smart editing, and creative cinematography all told the story as well or better than words can express in many of his films. A good example of this was "The Birds", when the lead actress is sitting on a school bench and in several cuts we see gradually more and more birds perching in the area behind her...and the only sound we hear is the background sounds of a teacher leading her class in a song, oblivious to the danger that's right outside their door...excellent filmmaking.

Mortal Fear by Greg Iles. I've read everything he's writen once I finish this one.

I've got a huge pile to choose from next. I've got a few biographies that look interesting, Lenny Bruce, John Lennon, Roman Polanski.

Starship Troopers.

Just about finished up with The Darksteel Eye.
Second book of the Mirrodin cycle.

Started The Fifth Dawn last night...
Or the night before???

Not sure what i will start next i got alot of choices...

Last Train to Memphis by Peter Guralnick. It's the first of a two book Elvis Presley biography.

Battle Royal

The anime or is it a book from what the movie was based?

Just started reading Ghost Dance by Mark T. Sullivan

The book version.
I'm about 200 pages in.

Once i finish this i have to decide between The Zombie Survival Guide or the Command and Conquer novel...

Finished Battle Royal a couple nights ago and started up The Zombie Survival Guide

The new COmmand and Conquer novel.

The Stand by King

Read Hunter S. Thompson's The Rum Diary and have now moved on to Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. F&L thus far is like reading a script of the movie.

Read the last Harry Potter (yeah yeah shut up) and it was pretty bad. Not sure what happened - like it got way edited or Rowling just didn't know how to end it - but there was some pretty bad writing.

The ending was corny too.

I just finished The Bell Jar last week, great book. Now I'm starting on THe Fountainhead.

I finished the "first book" of The Stand a couple nights ago.
(The book has 3 sub books inside of it.)

I am only somewhere between 4 and 500 pages in i believe.

Just finished "It's Only a Movie". An Alfred Hitchcock biography.

been on a Jaws kick lately.

read:

Jaws - Peter Benchley
The Jaws Log - Carl Gottleib, this is about the making of Jaws

just started:

Jaws 2 - Hank Searls

I also have Jaws: The Revenge. Does anyone know if there was a novelization of Jaws 3? I checked eBay, Amazon, no such luck.

also picked up another shark book by Peter Benchley called "White Shark".

That damn book is sooooo long.

Yea i picked it up again and started reading before going to sleep so i am making more headway in it.

About 3/4ths finished now.

The funny thing is i started reading it because at the time i didn't want to invest too much time reading any of the "series" books i have.

just finished survivor by Chuck Palahniuk. started off really good, i found it a mixture between Fight club and dexter the tv show. however i found that the book just totally changed and once the character was famous and tehre was a porn landfill. it just wend a bit stupid.

i found the same with haunted. it started off good, then the characters became stupid and it let the book down.

survivour and haunted seem to start off with and indepth look at the characters, defining what type of person they are. then never develop it further and the characters become kinda dumb and just fit the characteristics that were set at the beginning of the book and dont act like humans would.
 

Picked up World War Z so i'll be starting that up tomorrowafter i finish The Stand.

Still ignoring the series books i picked up.

Also Leon you are aware that there is a Hitman novel out there?(I picked it up a month or 2 ago.)
And the movie is slated (i believe) for later this year.

Eh, as cool as the Hitman series is I'd much rather just play the same levels over and over than read a book about them.

Currently reading Summer of Night by Dan Simmons.  Talk about a good spooky read.

Harrington on Texas Hold 'Em, volume 2.

I just picked up a book called "Squeaky". It's about Lynette Fromme. She's the former Manson family member who pulled a gun on President Ford.

I'm re-reading The Watchmen.  Can't wait for the movie.

Just started Haunted by Heather Graham.  So far, so good.

Still reading Harrington on Hold'Em, vol 2.

World War Z

Picked up some programming guides for Apache, MySQL and Perl that i have glanced over breifly.

Warcraft Well of Eternity

Just finished Fahrenheit 451 for my smart class.

Reading "The Mother Tongue: English and How it got that Way" By Bill Bryson

Bill Bryson is a great author. He adds a touch of hilarity to his books, which are mainly facts put in everyday lingo, like "A Short History of Nearly Everything" Read him, he's awesome!

I thought that book was pretty good.
I know alot of people who didn't like it though.

I'm not reading it yet but I picked up Hannibal Rising last night. I've been told it's as terrible as the movie. I have not seen it. I grabbed it because it was $1.50 for a hardcover copy and I've read the other three. Might as well go for completeness.

Act of Treason - Vince Flynn

this is not the type of book I would normally read, it was loaned to me by a friend who's reading my Asimov novels. I must admit it's pretty good though.

Currently reading All American by Cpt. Robert P. McGovern.  It's a fairly interesting read about Football, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

Halo Contact Harvest.

I like it thus far.

I Am Legend - Richard Matheson

Good read, a lot of stuff the film adaptations just didn't portray.

Not convinced the new Will Smith version will be as good as Vincent Price's or even Charlton Heston's for that matter.

Just started reading The Third Translation by Matt Bondurant.

the book I'm currently reading is called:

An Almanac of COMPLETE WORLD KNOWLEDGE compiled with instructive annotation and arranged in useful order by me, John Hodgman, a Professional Writer, in THE AREAS OF MY EXPERTISE, Which include: matters historical, matters literary, matters cryptozoological, hobo matters, food, drink, and cheese (a kind of food), squirrels & lobsters & eels, haircuts, utopia, what will happen in the future, and most other subjects.

It'll be better than Heston's, fo' sho

dude, Omega Man is one of the greatest movies ever.

NEEEEEEVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVILLLEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm going to the movie tonight.


Reading "Bringing Down the House" about the true story of Ivy leaguers that scammed Vegas at the blackjack tables.

From what I've read so far, I could easily see this being made into a movie eventually.

Fairly certain Discovery or TLC did a documentary on them.

I just finished up 1602 by Neil Gaiman.  Fucking awesome.

Hannibal Rising - Thomas Harris

guh... I'm about 120 pages in and it is not very good so far.

Finished Halo Contact Harvest last night.

Going to start reading a book called Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, since i can't find any of the books i had planned on reading.

Plus i know this books is funny and i have been putting off reading it for quite some months now.

Harris just went through the motions with this one.... *sigh* still 100 pages to go.

I Am America (And So Can You!) by Dr. Stephen T. Colbert D.F.A.

The Menace From Earth - Robert Heinlein

Bringing Down the House.

Third Degree - Greg Iles

I just finished up The Eye of the World - Robert Jordern.  Awesome characters and story,
but his writing style is a pain in the ass.

I also finished Eaters of the Dead - Michael Crichton.  Pretty cool went a lot faster too.

You just wait until you get to the 7th or 8th book, it starts to get really confusing at times. A shame he died, whoever finishes the series prob just won't be the same.

just finished Eric Claptons autobiography.

Just started reading 20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill.  It's a collection of short "spooky" stories.  So far the stories have been really good.

Finished up Good Omens awhile ago.
Started the Brute Force: Betrayals just about finished with it.

It was kind of irritating how many times the author said things were shred like so much paper or thrown like so many ragdolls or etc, etc

V for Vendetta - Alan Moore

Finished up Brute Force

Reading Hitman: Enemy Within

For those who own lots of books or read alot check out Shelfari.com
Aubrey wanted to find something for her books and turned me onto it.

Just one more thing for me to obsess over trying to keep upto date.

wow. I browsed that briefly and it looks pretty sweet. I'll need to check that out further.

Yea it is a pretty cool site.
I've only got 7-10 books up there now i have a whole lot more to add to a bunch of sections.

Still reading "Bringing Down the House" about the MIT blackjack team that took Vegas for millions in the mid-90's.

From what I'm gathering, they're the reason that casinos no longer allow mid-shoe entry at blackjack tables. 

I created an account. I've put up 68 books so far.

Same here, though I have another 250 or more to add to what I already put into it. I'm spoiled by our database system sorting all the variants, so I know it'll be a shitload of work to get everything into that one.

http://www.shelfari.com/sega_tan

am reading jpod by Douglas Coupland. is better than the tv show which is on at the moment. just bought about 17 books off ebay for like 99p each, my postman is gonna love me this week

Reading "We" by Yevgeny Zamyatin. A university novel of my wife's that we had here for years. :)

I decided I needed to be 25% more American, so I cracked open Steven Colbert's I am America (and so can you).

I want to read that.
Love the picture of him as the Hulk on the jacket.

Starting Jurassic Park.

finished jPod. now reading Lunar park by bret easton ellis. this is my thrid book in a week and a half. is crazy how much time you have when you are off work

White Shark - Peter Benchley

Reading book 2 of the Darksword Trilogy, very impressed with the series so far.

http://www.shelfari.com/books/171109/Doom-of-the-Darksword-(Darksword-Trilogy-The)

I just finished a quick one, GI Joe - Fools Gold by SM Ballard.

I'm currently about half done with Crackpot - The Obsessions of John Waters.

reading interview with the vampire again.

Tess of the D'ourberville's

God damn Victorian lit

Just picked up:

Beast by Peter Benchley

Paper Lion - George Plimpton

Remember when this was turned into a made-for-TV movie? That shit was great.

I have never seen the movie.  After this book I'll probably take up one of his other novels.  Probably The Deep, I've already read jaws.

Started reading:  HOGs in the Shadows by Milo S. Afong.  It's a book of sniper stories from the Iraq war.

look for White Shark. I just finished that one. It's pretty good and not just a rehash of Jaws like the title might make it seem.

I've been reading Halo: Fall of Reach. I'm really enjoying it.

I'll be looking for this one, thanks den

i usually read 2-4 books at a time

right now

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Grave Matters by Max Allan Collins
Harry Potter And The Order of the Phoenix by J.R. Rowling
T2 - The Future Storm by S.M. Stirling

Started reading

The Deep by Peter Benchley

Still on the lookout for White Shark

I only have about 100 pages left in The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan. 

Deliverence - James Dickey

I have since finished Jurrassic Park
Lost World
Mortal Kombat (by Jeff Rovin which was so far from "kanon" it was in slight disbelief)
the first book of the MTG TimeSpiral trilogy
and am starting the second book.

I just finished Deliverance and am getting readt to start on The Talisman by Stephen King.

Just started reading, Duma Key By Stephen King

finished books 2 and 3 of the Time Spiral Cycle

Now i am reading
The Texas-Israeli War: 1999

Just Finished Pet Semartary, now about Half Way Thru the Dark Half both by Stephen King, Next Up is Shadowland by Peter Straub

Started reading Next a couple days ago.

reading the tommyknockers

I re-read "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" in a couple of hours this past week. I've read that book 4 or 5 times now. I love it. I'll probably reread 1984 next...

The Legend of Sleep Hollow by Washington Irving

finished The Talisman, now reading Lord of the Flies.

America's Game.

It's the history of the NFL. How it started out and became what it is today. Lots of interesting info!

For example, I didn't know that there was a merger before the AFL-NFL one in the 60's. The 1st merger took place in the late 40's/ early 50's and is where the Cleveland Browns, San Francisco 49ers and Baltimore Colts were added to the NFL from the defunct AAFC.

during the downtime i read:

stephen king - bag of bones, very interesting read i suggest you guys read it if you like stephen king, once of his better ones.

steve berry- the amber room, took a few chapters to get into but after that the book flew by, very good read.

now i'm reaming dreamcatcher by stephen king.

I just read 'The Five People You Meet in Heaven'. Quite good, and that's coming from an agnostic. :)

I love people who call themselves agnostics.

Enjoy your religion.

Well... It's not technically religion persay. Technically, I am in between Athiest, Agnostic, and Christian. I believe in a god, but not the God. Notice how I didn't use capital g in the first god. I actually don't know what to call myself. :-\
Oh well, but it doesn't matter. I'm going to hell anyway. ;D

In what situation would you actually capitalize the G in your first use of god?

Also, if you believe in a god, doesn't that make you not even close to agnostic? Isn't their belief that the existence of a god or God is essentially unknowable?

Like I said: enjoy your religion. You are obviously something, thus not free of its nasty little grasp.

Started reading The Devil's Labyrinth by John Saul

Still reading "America's Game"

Tyrannosaur Canyon - Douglass Preston

great book den, i read it not too long ago.

i read yhis one last year not bad.

im reading Knife of Dreams- robert jordan

I really gotta get back to the WoT series, I stalled out somewhere around books 8 or 9. Good to know that they found someone to finish the 12th book and conclude the series though, released sometime next year I believe.

Finish Stairway to Heaven: Led Zeppelin Uncensored today. Has to be the quickest I've ever read a book, 400+ pages in a week.

Anyone know of similar books for other bands (i.e. Beatles, the Who, Rolling Stones)?

I hate not being able to take a week to finish a book. I read 400 pages in about 4-8 hours, strait through.

I'm gonna start on 'A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich'. I'll blast thought it in an afternoon. (Wish I could play games for that long.) ;)

Watership Down - Richard Adams

So i finished up
Next

And have read
State of Fear
Time Line
MTG: Myths of Magic
HellGate London: Goetia
and at least 2 other books whose titles escape me at this time

Currently Reading
The Martian Way and other stories by Asimov

Reading Nemesis by Asimov

I have to read 3 books for summer reading, so I'm gonna start on those this week.

the wastelands by stephen king

On the Road by Jack Kerouac.

The Stainless Steel Rat for President (http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1258057.Stainless_Steel_Rat_for_President_The) by Harry Harrison, love the series in all it's forms. :)

Bag of Bones by Stephen King

i really enjoyed bag of bones.

I should read the 7th Harry Potter and be done with it, but I just don't seem to have the courage to start.

its not that bad, really.  ;D

Worst of the series though. Rowling seems to have let her money write 7.

Working on The Great Gatsby and Hunter S. Thompson's Hell's Angels book.

So far it's been a great read.  I'm hoping it's more like Duma Key and not Liseys Story.

i still need to read duma key but i wait till it comes out in paperback, then i will buy it at a used bookstore.

Christine by Stephen King. I just found a box of his old books in my basement, so might as well read them.

My Biology book and Ivan Denisovich by Solzhenitsyn. Both are good.  :)

Finished "Riders on the Storm" by John Densmore today. Back to being bored at work for me.

Still reading America's Game. I'm past the halfway point!

Finally started reading Harry Potter 7 anyway. I'm roughly in a third of the book, it's nice.

I just finished Watership Down. Pretty good action story about... rabbits. I liked it.

I am now reading: I Am Jackie Chan - My Life In Action - Jackie Chan

Jackie Chan wrote a book? (Or let a writer write one for him...) I didn't know that.

Talking of Jackie Chan, there is going to be a film with him on TV today...uuuhm it's *flees to Wiki to find title* AH: "Mr. Nice Guy".
Haven't seen this one yet although I saw most (80% maybe) of his movies. I'm excited :P

Master and Commander.

As in the Aubrey-Maturin series?

Yeah, have been a longtime fan of Bernard Cornwell who is considered the "direct heir" to Patrick O'Brian so I figured I should give him a read. Good stuff thus far.

I was eyeing a Sharpe novel a few weeks ago, looks like something I'd enjoy, same with the Starbuck Chronicles.

Historical/Period fiction seems to be a rare commodity these days, especially considering how much of it is author hypothesis mixed with fact that reads like a dull textbook. It's nice that there are some authors who use events as the basis of the story, but without relying too much on the statistics and facts. Believable yet fresh and imaginative.

Oh yeah, Cornwell does a brilliant job with his fiction. They're as entertaining as High Fantasy--Dragonlance and stuff like that--but have a basis in reality. If you like stuff like that I'd suggest...well...all of it. I started with The Archer's Tale and have since read pretty much everything he's written.

I'm reading the Return of Sherlock Holmes [ebook form].

Great collection of stories.

Read or reading recently:
The Grasslands by Kenneth Tam
The Dilbert Principle by Scott Adams
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Just started:
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
Le Morte d'Arthur
A Brief History of the Vikings by Jonathan Clements
The Dilbert Future by Scott Adams

I find it ridiculous, how hard it is to find a good copy of this in any book store that hasn't been translated into modern English. For such a hugely popular and classic piece of literature, you'd think it would be more widely available. :P

I had a nice hardcover copy from the 60's many years ago, I wish I had never lost track of where it went.

Now onto Back to the Stone Age, by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

I got this copy around Christmas from Coles... it's a great hardcover with some artwork. It's part of the "Collector's Library (http://www.crw-publishing.co.uk/series.php?id=7&bya=0)" (I've also got the CL Editions of Arabian Nights, Complete Works of Shakespeare,  and Edgar Allan Poe)

Thanks for the link, I found the ISBN at Goodreads, maybe I'll have some luck in the half dozen Coles, Indigos and Chapters in my area.

Does anyone else like ebooks [like Project Gutenburg] as much as me?

I read them at work when there's nothing to do.

I've read a couple online but for me, who spends enough time staring at screens, nothing beats a good book you can carry around with you.

The Chosen, by Chiam Potak. Very good so far.  :)

4 past midnight by stephen king

A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick

Still reading "America's Game".

Also reading this year's Fantasy Football Index from time to time.

I don't even really play fantasy football anymore, but the FFI is still a good read :) I get it every year.

Electric Forest by Tanith Lee
Perdido street station by china mieville (more of him to read soon)
Aldous huxley's eyeless in gaza is next also

Just finished charle's stross's new book saturn's children

Tried but failed to enjoy hardwired.

Bunch of others I want to read to.

Currently reading the Planet Strappers.

Another old school sci fi story.

Currently reading:

The Fighting 69th by Sean Michael Flynn <~About a ARNG Unit deploying to Iraq.

Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

That's one everyone should read at some point.

Finished Harry Potter 7.

Took a break from it about halfway, thought it was getting boring in the tent, not much happening. The end totally made up for it though.

It's my favorite HP book along with part 6, simply for the fact they deal about the main story the most.

The House by Bentley Little

Finished Voodoo Planet and Subspace Survivors. Both very average at best.

cell by stephen king

Now reading The Skylark of Space.

Just finished Tuesdays with Morrie.

I got a book full of Edgar Allan Poe poem's, so right now I'm reading The Cask Of Amontillado.

Just couldn't get into The House by Bentley Little.  Just started Eight Lives Down by Chris Hunter.  It's a book about a EOD expert in Iraq.

Finished The Galaxy Primes, by E.E Elmer today.

It sort of sucked.

I don't know if it fits here, but finished Watchmen.

Very good.

i still need to read the watchmen, need to put it on my to get list.

I facepalm.jpg every time I think about a movie version. It's just too much, it's made for the book, not the big screen.

Oedipus by, well, Sophocles ;P

That's a great read.

Finished Spacehounds of IPC, onto Skylark III.

Ghosts Among Us-James Van Praagh

red - jack ketchem

Antigone by Sophocles.

That's pretty heavy.

It was meh.  I like Oedipus better, seemed to have more plot detail to it.  Antigone was more like you're dead, now you are, and now you, etc.

Currently going through The Phantom of the Opera.

Very, very good. Highly recommended if you liked the musical/movies.

You taking a classics course or just reading for pleasure? I wish I had gone into classics sometimes, although I don't think I could deal with learning three languages, all of them dead.

I'm reading Post-Captain by Patrick O'Brian and The Great Shark Hunt by Hunter S. Thompson.

Nah, its just for Senior English, which starts with some Greek lit, then on to European stuff.

Ah that sucks they run you through so fast. I took two quarters on solely classic lit.

passenger by jack ketchum

Reading Brisingr by Chris Paolini

it by stephen king

Finished Adaptation today.

Warlord No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy by Ilario Pantano

I haven't read a book out of will since last school year. I have started 2 'out of will' books, but haven't finished them. I think I just am getting lazy, or not having enough time, or both. :P

Going to start Gulliver's Travels tomorrow.

Been reading 1984 by George Orwell.

Finished up the Asimov collection quite some time ago.

Also read
MTG: Arena
MTG: Whispering Woods
MTG: Shattered Alliance
MTG: Final Sacrifice

Currently reading Grunts!

This was a great book. It got me interested in his movies again. I've got a few DVD of his more recent movies and a bunch of VHS of old stuff still to watch.

Just finished Shock Value by John Waters.

not sure what's up next yet.

The old stuff is fantastic. However, unless by new you mean Supercop new, his new stuff blows.

Does anyone else read books constantly, remember plot details and characters, but never remember the author?

I don't know. I like his new stuff. Forbidden Kingdom was one of the best movies I saw this summer.

Reading lots of short stories lately. Mostly about ghosts and mysteries.

Communist Manifesto.

living dead in dallas - charlaine harris

It's a wonderful fantasy.

Finshed: making a difference: coachbuilt road going ferraris of the 50s and 60s by marcel massini digital edition

almost done with perdido street station

Just ordered Metal Memory a hand made ferrari mystery about #0718 a 250 Testerossa. Gotta wait a month and a half :(

the andromeda strain - micheal crichton

Now up to: A Turn of the Screw

When Organizing Isn't Enough SHED by Julie Morgenstern.

just finished hanniabal by thomas harris now i'm reading hanniabal rising.

Wow... I never actually finished this book. It kinda was... Meh...

I've been reading a lot of obscure Victorian ghost stories. Some if it droll as hell, but a few of them are rather good--one I just read "An Account of Some Disturbances in Aungier Street" was quite Lovecraftian (or maybe Lovecraft was quite Fanuvian), and likewise full of things that I have seen in horror movies.

Hemmingway's Chair - Michael Palin

yep, THAT Michael Palin.

I didn't care for either of those. Hannibal Rising really felt like a cash grab. Hannibal was better but it was obvious Harris was trying to write a book they wouldn't make into a movie. They did... and REALLY changed the ending.

Hard to believe, but it's Pride and Prejudice.

Well, someone convinced me to go for Jane Austen, alright?

Looks like I'm going to reread the Lost World and a few others while I'm on vacation.

Magician: Apprentice - Raymond E. Feist

The Great Train Robbery - Crichton
Haven't Started it just yet. Probably try and get some in between errands and work today.

H.M.S. Suprise by Patrick O'Brian.

Also some Victorian shit.

Moving on with the Aubrey-Maturin novels, up to Desolation Island.

Long Ago, Far Away

Whispers of the Bayou-Mindy Starns Clark

Sharpe's Enemy

Cochrane: The Real Master And Commander looks like a good read as well as it's the biography of the man that both Jack Aubrey and Horatio Hornblower are based on.

George Orwell - Animal Farm.

I'll have to check that out.

Some book called Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt, for World History. Seems more theology-ish, AND I don't like the book.


poo. :(

Bear?

I haven't been putting much into it.
Its a good read but i find myself spending more time trying to beat games or working or surround by noise which inhibits my reading :-/
I'm only about 100 pages and the books only about 280 pages long.

Nope, just a big poo. As in crap, shit, steaming doodle-bug, etc, etc...

Same as Rob (logical). I just got the book from amazon and now apparently I got a huge test fro it. :(

Awww, I like the bear better.

Just finished a collection of the most well known Arabian Night's tales.

I love those stories. So cool.

Roughneck Nine-One by SFC Frank Anternori, and Hans Halberstadt

Finished The Great Train Robbery finally last night.
Starting Halo: The Cole Protocol sometime todayish.

The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly

Romancing The Stone by Catherine Lanigan writing as Joan Wilder 

Just finished "Einstein's Refrigerator and Other Stories from Flip Side Of History" and apart from a few highlights, it wasn't worth reading. 

Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, and Donne.

I hate to admit it, but I actually find Dickinson's work quite good.

outstanding book! make sure to read the 3 other books in that series. Magician: Master, Silverthorn and A Darkness At Sethanon. I love Feist, I think I've read about 12 of his books.

currently reading:

John Lennon: The Life - Philip Norman

before that:

My Life In Toon's - Joe Barbera

[img width=200 height=287]http://www.underdognation.com/images/book/book_jacket.gif[/img]

It's pretty funny.

I read that ^, was pretty good.

The Descent by Jeff Long

The Devil's Sandbox by John R. Bruning

Darkly Dreaming Dexter.

Really into this book.
Some parts seem familiar though i can't quite figure out why.

Just finished the House on the Borderland.

good old gothic horror.

Also finished Flatlands recently too. Now that's a classic.

And math you can enjoy.

Hoping i can get this finished tonight or at least close to finished.

LIES

Serious, Flatlands is a fun book.

Now onto Invaders from Beyond.

Started reading Hell Gate London: Covenant last night

The Keepsake by Tess Gerritsen

Star Hunter

More derivatively trashy sci fi.

Oedipus Rex for English class. I like it a lot.

I read that in the beginning of this year.  I thought it was pretty good too.  Yay incest :)

Just started World War Z (again)

Just After Sunset by Stephen King

That was an excellent read.
Does he have anything new out yet?
I saw a set of Zombie Survival Guide flash cards but couldnt justify the 15+$

I don't think so; but there is rumor of a movie.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0816711/

No idea I started it a long time ago but stopped reading it so I just started over.

Just finished the Wasteland.

Now onto The Return.

Yay for classic horror.

Reading the third Battlestar Galactica novel (classic series). Amazing novels. If they had been able to put these stories to screen the way they wanted to, the show would have been fantastic.

currently: Watchmen - Alan Moore

before that: Silverwing - Kenneth Oppel

before that: Coraline - Neil Gaiman

Hemingway short stories and On the Road by Kerouc

^ Have you read On the Road before?

I'm reading Ender's Game right now.

No, first time.

What do you think of it?

Unwise Child

Now completed.

Still reading this.
I should have finished it by now but i'm takingsuch huge gaps between readings :-/
Pretty sure i have fewer than 50 pages left.

Want to try and finish it tomorrow(or should that be today or even tonight???)

Finished: Planet of the Damned

Onto: Deathworld

Currently reading Hagakure, after that I'm gonna seriously sit down with Watchmen

I'm just about to finish up the biography of the inventor of the MAD Magazine Fold-In:

[img width=429 height=648]http://www.litkicks.com/Images/aljaffee.jpg[/img]

Yeah, yeah, I know: "What's this 'magazine' thing," you're asking yourself.

Sigh... kids these days...

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6f/Shuihu.png)

Shui Hu Zhuan

I know what you're all thinking. "What?"

That is a very fanciful cover.

I'm reading mangas on the commute to and from school. I read through a couple of Great Teacher Onizuka volumes, which had some hilarious scenes, and am now reading Samurai Deeper Kyo.

SDK isn't too bad but it has the most rediculous plotline that could go on forever. There's a million characters, each with "unparalleled power!" Always during a fight when one of the heroes is almost defeated, there's always a new character that appears out of nowhere, or the hero transforms, or pulls of a "secret technique" etc... I'm rolling on the floor with laughter while reading this stuff on the bus. It reminds me greatly of Dragon Ball Z, where it took like a hundred episodes just to defeat Freeza.

"No way! It can't be! That's Mishuritomo no-kana Yoshirakando! The 7th Demon Lord of the Yashuko-Nasaki clan! His power is legendary!" ::)

Been going through a hardcover collection of Life's Imponderables I picked up at a book sale recently.

It's basically a compendium of answers to everyday questions about how things work, or why things are arranged in a certain way. It's the Uncle John's Bathroom Reader of its day (the mid 80s to early 90s).

To me, the most interesting questions and answers involve technology that's no longer used, or is on the verge of obsolescence. Like what the "bias" in high-bias audio tape is. Or the deal with the change-return slot on a pay phone.

Freedoms Landing by Anne McCaffery and then Ill be starting Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins.

I've been reading Rebound (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebound_%28manga%29) mangas, now that I'm through my SDK volumes. Fun series, wish I had more volumes of it (only have 5).

Michael J. Fox's 'Always Looking Up'

Just finished Nanowhere.

Not very good at all.

Started Rave Master. I have a bunch of these.

Gonna read Lone Wolf and Cub methinks. Yeaaaaaah

Delver Magic: Book 1

Ghost in the Wires by Kevin Mitnick

I just finished an H.P. Lovecraft collection and just started reading All Your Base are Belong to Us, seen here:  http://www.amazon.com/All-Your-Base-Are-Belong/dp/0307463559/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1332361619&sr=1-1

Just finished the second Incredible Change-Bots graphic novel, a downright silly TransFormers satire-tribute thingy.

[img width=350 height=455]http://www.topshelfcomix.com/catalog/covers/icbtwocoverroughcrop_lg.jpg[/img]

If it weren't for comic books, I'd probably be illiterate today.

I decided to get away from reading about the history of the Third Reich for a while, and switched to more upbeat material:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51yJcmREpqL._SS500_.jpg)

The Creepypasta Wiki.

What, no link?

http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/Creepypasta_Wiki

Eh, no biggie, I Googled it.

I'm totally diggin' the Nightmare Fuel pics gallery... (http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/Nightmare_Fuel_%28Gallery%29)

I didn't want to open a can worms like last time I mentioned disturbing crap somewhere.

Oh, so you're lettin' me take the fall, then.  :nono:

Man, that is so underhanded and devious.

I knew there was a reason I liked ya...

My plan worked!

Conan the Magnificent

Man, I love Conan stories.

House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski.  I read an ebook copy a while ago but was told that reading the physical copy provides a more...  personal experience.  So far this is correct.

I also plan on buying The Walking Dead: Compendium One today or tomorrow. 

Os Grandes Rios do Mundo(The Biggest rivers of the World) by Anne Terry White. It's a old juvenile encyclopedia that i bought today while i was strolling around a square here in my city for R$ 1,50 (less than 1 dollar). It's very cool, it tells the importance that some rivers had to some historical events. I love history books.

Reading and enjoying The Shack.

[img width=300 height=300]http://cartoonart.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/dv.jpg[/img]

Fanfiction.

The Threat from the Sea novels by Mel Odom

The Ant King and other stories

plus

Conan the Triumphant

[img width=323 height=500]http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9jBbsunLe6U/S8Oc4vpZl7I/AAAAAAAABi4/PnHP5nvMq1Q/s1600/rivethead1.jpg[/img]

My DVD Player manual

No disc! No disc! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRGGGGHHHH :grrr:

I read some more fanfiction

[img width=700 height=840]http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc6/149443_465354026815135_100000216244030_1947480_411821340_n.jpg[/img]

[img width=542 height=838]http://i.imgur.com/5x5Sv.jpg[/img]

I sure hope the fanfics you read don't involve... shall we say... citrus?


As for myself:

[img width=700 height=933]http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTYwMFgxMjAw/%24(KGrHqF,!qUE-ZCmNcCdBPqeOILm7w~~60_57.JPG[/img]

I dug the movie, so I figure the book's gotta be at least twice as good.

I haven't been disappointed so far...

I am reading The Complete Book of Drawing.

Just started another happy-go-lucky tome of unadulterated joy:

[img width=314 height=475]http://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/18952-L.jpg[/img]


And if you think that's an uplifting read, wait 'til ya see what I have on deck:

[img width=300 height=491]http://img2.imagesbn.com/images/111170000/111179367.jpg[/img]

With books like these, who needs prozac?

Eenope, just horrible childhood traumas

What about crossover fics with TransFormers?

I might just read those to see if they're really as bad as I fear they'd be...

There's alot of overlap between the MLP and Transformers fan-base, so probably.  They might be good to, MLP stuff actually tends to be of pretty high quality as far as fanfic goes.

Here's a quick FF.net link:

http://www.fanfiction.net/Transformers_Beast_Wars_and_My_Little_Pony_Crossovers/65/621/ 

They's can't be as bad the Highlander/Twilight crossovers.

Yikes :o

Yeah, let's just say I found one that just the description and reviews OD'd me on stupid.

Oooh! Highlander/Twilight crossovers?!

Well, why didn't ya say so in the first place?

BRB...

I take your "Bile Fascination" is kicking in?

Good grief... I can't even go beyond reading the fanfic descriptions, these are so preposterous.

In the meantime, I think I'll just leaf through a little something I picked up at a local thrift:

[img width=400 height=300]http://animeartbookonline.com/images/detailed/1/IMG_4164.jpg[/img]

At first, I thought it was the Japanese edition of Cosmopolitan magazine. But no, it's all about cosplaying as your fave anime or video game character (COSMO = COStume MOdel). Its only common thread with American Cosmo are some illustrated make-up application tips. At least, I think that's what it's about, seeing as how I can't actually read the text.

If you don't think cosplay in the Land of the Rising Sun is serious business-- and can be downright scary as all get-out-- you've got another think comin'. A lotta the outfits shown look downright uncanny.

The scary thing is, the last page promotes the "Maid and Lolita Photo Party," which would definitely get the Pedobear Seal of Approval, if there ever was such a--

[img width=300 height=300]http://farm1.staticflickr.com/170/456474931_0356ba4a8d.jpg[/img]

Oh right... this is the internet we're talking about.

Yeah, ff.net isn't usually the best stuff, I just grabbed that for a quickie. 

Just finished

From the Hands of Hostile Gods

Will Eisner's The Dreamer

[img width=362 height=480]http://i.imgur.com/XYAvf.jpg[/img]

[img width=294 height=475]http://i1134.photobucket.com/albums/m616/ixtaileddemonfox/148638761.jpg[/img]

Just Started this.

One Piece Vol. 38

[img width=310 height=480]http://i.imgur.com/hqsPt.jpg[/img]

I'm consider reading more fan-fiction. I read some Creepypasta on my phone earlier too.

The Name of the Wind

The Hobbit (yep, again!)

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/pt/thumb/d/d3/O_Hobbit.jpg/200px-O_Hobbit.jpg)

Im reading Christine at the moment(its 1 of my favorite movies) ;D,i also have another copy of it in hardback with a black cover.

Resident Evil: Marhawa Desire

[img width=250 height=382]http://i.imgur.com/treyp.jpg[/img]

An empty Word Document.

...taken from my little black book.  :'(

No, this is the one that would be a fanfic if I wasn't lazy.

I've seen your book though, how did you get Angelina Jolie's number?

The box of my Dingoo a320 :)

Let's just say Jennifer Aniston is more vindictive than you've been led to believe.

As for myself: I've been leafing through a few Nintendo Power game strategy guides I picked up yesterday.

Has anyone read any of the Mass Effect novels? I like the games and the universe, but I'd like to hear from someone else before picking them up.

Commodore 64 manual

The box of Star Wars Trilogy.

The Drew Karpyshn Mass Effect books are pretty good. 

I'm digging through Cracked.com's archive of video-game-related articles and lists.

http://www.cracked.com/humor-video-games.html

I just got done reading 5 Reasons why Bowser is the Most Successful Video Game Character. (http://www.cracked.com/article_18863_5-reasons-bowser-most-successful-video-game-character.html)

Now I'm looking at the big galoot in a whole new way.

I'm reading 5 Reasons why Bowser is the Most Successful Video Game Character too.

Finished The Name of the Wind and it was very good.

Just started A Song of Ice and Fire.

My fanfiction, I think I just got instant writers block.

Real collectors don't read books, they read their games!

Started out with some baby steps. Read Sonic the Hedgehog's Gameworld. Only 10 pages long. Author is SEGA. Was published in 1996. Lets take a look into this exciting, yet educational piece of literature. Only took me 30 seconds to read. Cause I'm a speed reader.

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And it's better than Harry Potter and Twilight :nod:

Moving on we will step into another educational book here. This ones a little more difficult as we are dealing with music here.

Read Tails and the Music Maker. As I am a big fan of Tails I had to do myself a favor and read this. For the most part it's only ten pages long so it was a quick read. The author is SEGA. It was published in 1994. A great piece of literature for you music loving folks. Lets take a quick look.

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http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_401_if-video-game-adaptations-movies-didnt-suck/

On a more serious note. Today I'm going to read through the Zombie Survival Guide written by Max Brooks (Son of Mel Brooks). This 272 page book will teach you survival tactics when the impending zombie apocalypse occurs. I encourage everyone to read this as it may save your life.

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Well in that case, maybe you should read this first:

[img width=389 height=588]http://i.crackedcdn.com/ui/shared/images/marketing/book/book.jpg[/img]

You know, just to be on the safe side...

Good looking out Zagnorch. I suddenly have the munchies now. Don't worry... I'll..... Be......... fine. Ahhhhhh!!!

Oh no!!!!! :-\

Dogland

One Piece Vol. 6

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I just read the Tvtropes page on a fanfic called "the conversion bearu" I'm going to go watch Highlander now to restore my faith in humanity.

Just finished

Eastern Standard Tribe

Nothing :(

It's far too late for that I'm afraid.

Speaking of the darkest depths of depravity, I present you with Cracked.com's list of The 7 Most Horrifying moments from Children's Video Games:

http://www.cracked.com/article_20017_the-7-most-horrifying-moments-from-childrens-video-games.html

'Cuz if I can't have my childhood go unraped, nobody's can!   :grrr:

The Wise Man's Fear

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Micro Series #1

The Gospel of the Knife

One Piece vol. 39

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I'm reading The 10 Most Terrifying Places on Earth:

http://listverse.com/2010/07/07/10-most-terrifying-places-on-earth/

Daughter of the Sun

Yet another Cracked.com video game article, 7 Video Game Easter Eggs Designed to Screw with Your Head:

http://www.cracked.com/article_20038_7-video-game-easter-eggs-designed-to-screw-with-your-head.html

#1. Diablo: The Secret Cow and Secret Pony Levels :D

Witchling

Here's some food for thought:

What if some video game "villains" really are misunderstood, rather than outright evil?

http://www.cracked.com/article_20043_5-famous-video-game-villains-who-are-actually-victim.html


Speaking of food: leave it to Cracked.com to celebrate the first presidential debate by getting down to the most important political issue of the day:

http://www.cracked.com/quick-fixes/elections-top-issue-whether-or-not-to-eat-wang-shaped-food/

Just finished this:

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/847591.Selling_Sickness

A good ol fashioned muck rake re: the pharmaceutical industry and the fda are in cahoots. SHOCKER!

Just found a piece on the priciest high-ticket retro video games:

http://money.msn.com/investing/dollar20000-for-a-retro-video-game


Oh, and a Cracked.com piece on The 6 Creepiest Glitches in  Famous Video Games (Part 2):

http://www.cracked.com/article_20125_the-6-creepiest-glitches-in-famous-video-games-part-2.html

13 Old-Timey Photos That Prove History Was Haunted: :speechless:
http://www.cracked.com/article_20070_13-old-timey-photos-that-prove-history-was-haunted.html

27 Things You Never Noticed in Famous Video Games: :o
http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_312_27-things-you-never-noticed-in-famous-video-games/

27 Science Lessons As Taught by Famous Video Games: :stupid:
http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_388_27-science-lessons-as-taught-by-famous-video-games/

Darkling by Yasmine Galenorn

I am reading those now.

Working on Asimov. Reading End of Eternity now but going to get back into the rest of the Foundation stuff after.

One Piece Vol. 10

The Gathering Storm - Book 12 of The Wheel of Time - Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson

my first time reading through the series and i'm almost done, i have it planned out to finish exactly on the day A Memory of Light (the final book) comes out. love the series so far, even though it does tend to drag on at times.

Just finished Book 9 of the Wheel of Time. Then finished "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (I was reading them, more or less, simultaneously). Now I'm reading "The Girl Who Played with Fire" but I hate the copy I have because the text is so small that I'm coming to realize I might need glasses.

Lonesome Dove.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Micro-Series #3

I'm actually reading two right now:  The Hobbit in preperation for the movie and The Mystery Science Theater 3000 Amazing Colossal Episode Guide.

Finished Lonesome Dove after like forever. Loved it.

Listened to The Sunset Limited at work tonight. Damn good.

Got Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman in the mail, bout to dive in.

Towers of Midnight, book 13 of the Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson. last of the books that are out for this series, and then the final book when it comes out in january! getting excited, the story is starting to really pick up these last couple books.

I'm reading the New Super Mario Bros. manual :)

Just finished the latest book in the Iron Druid series by Kevin Hearne.  Awesome series!  I recommend the audiobooks as the reader does an amazing job.

http://www.kevinhearne.com/

In The Woods by Tana French

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/237209.In_the_Woods

Just a pulpy detective novel that I grabbed at random off my wife's shelf because I wasn't in the mood for anything specific. About 100 pages in, and it's starting to get pretty good.

Been reading The Crystal Shard before going to sleep every night.

Finished In the Woods last weekend. Very disappointing in the end, I would not recommend it.

About two-thirds through Gateway by Frederik Pohl

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/218427.Gateway

Found this book on many "best sci-fi novels of all time" type lists and so far I cannot disagree. It has a satirical tone I was not expecting, and takes place in a fascinating universe.

Just finished a couple Cracked.com articles, starting with The 6 Most Baffling Video Game Spinoffs.

http://www.cracked.com/article_20158_the-6-most-baffling-video-game-spinoffs.html

I don't think you Typing of the Dead fanboys are gonna like the writer's take on the game.

I found the grim-&-gritty Bomberman reboot downright baffling... and something to add to my hunt list.




And while you're there, I dare you to check out The 6 Geekiest Sex Toys. 'Cuz I'm not gonna link it here, for reasons that will become obvious.

All I'll say about it is, I have to get off the internet...

...forever.

And stay the hell away from me, you sicko.

He didn't do his research anyway, half the comments were correcting things he screwed up in the Sonic section of the list.

The other half were comments correcting the comments.

And people wonder why I don't believe in anything anymore...

I'm about 7% of the way into The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest. I've enjoyed the series but I'm about ready to get back to book 10 of The Wheel of Time. I might also pick up the newest Steven Colbert book. I very much enjoyed "I am America and so Can You".

how are you liking wheel of time so far, and is it your first time reading it? i just finished book 13, my first read through, one day before the final book comes out. if it's your first time going through it, you'll be happy to know it gets much more exciting again from about book 11 and on. it had some definite good parts in the middle books, but overall i wasn't a big fan of books 7-10...parts of 6 were boring too but it finished so epicly that it's hard not to like it.

It is my first time through and my buddy, who got me started on the series, has told me exactly the same thing you just said. I agree that book 7 through most of book 9 was relatively uneventful.

I gave up the series years ago about 10 chapters into book 9. I was super bored and had just discovered Dragonlance about that time.

Hellbound Hearts by Clive Barker

I'm so slack with my reading lately.

Caffeine the novel

A Memory of Light, book 14 (the final one) of The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson

it finally got here in the mail! it was supposed to be released on the 8th, so it's 6 days late which i'm a little mad about. but now i'm just happy to have it and be reading the series finale.

Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman

I'm reading The Robots of Dawn by Asimov. The final book in the robot series, and by far the best. I liked the first two novels a lot but I cannot believe how much better this one is by comparison.

The gunslinger by stephen king.

Moon and Sixpence.

i just finished The Wheel of Time series! it was amazing, i highly recommend it to anyone that likes fantasy. as overused as it is, there's no word that describes the final book better than epic. i mean seriously it has about 150 pages of politics and character development, and then 750 pages of non-stop action with a massive world war.

Just over 400 pages into Murakami's "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle."  I've put down reading for quite a while after getting burned out from reading in graduate school; probably averaged somewhere between 2-3 novels a week + papers.  Really enjoying and now and glad to be back.  Read "Norwegian Wood" a few years ago and really liked it.  Have a few more Murakami books on order right now.

I'm going to finish In Cold Blood today.

It is one of the best books I have ever read. I'm very curious to read something else by Capote because In Cold Blood is so masterfully written It really makes the reader feel like he is with the characters, which makes the book very disturbing. I'm curious if that masterful writing transfers well to something that is not at seedy and sensational, like Breakfast at Tiffany's.

Omaha

It's actually about hacking and drug deals. Sort of.

I'm reading something called "Knights of the Blood" I got in a Dollar Store, the actual story is interesting, but the writing is really clunky/beige and hard to get used to(it took me about 50+ pages to get used to it enough to ignore it) and the characters are kinda dull.

Boy the writer loves his cars though, the minute he gets a chance to talk about cars, or have a character talk about cars. the writing gets really enthusiastic and detailed.

Rereading Dark Knight Returns.

Seven Swords

basically Seven Samurai but fantasy.

Wolves of the Calla

Took a stroll through Cracked.com, and found a few things of interest, like...

Five Iconic Characters Who Got Insane Reboots in Foreign Comics:

http://www.cracked.com/article_20340_5-iconic-characters-who-got-insane-reboots-in-foreign-comics.html

The two entries you vidya freaks will find most interesting are #3 (German Mario) and #2 (Brazilian Mega Man).


Then there's The 5 Most Offensive Attempts at Video Game Marketing:

http://www.cracked.com/article_20339_the-5-most-offensive-attempts-at-video-game-marketing.html

Good going, guys-- just give Jack Thompson and his ilk more ammunition to use against you.


Aaaand, just for fun, here's 24 Details That Would Make Video Games TOO Realistic:

http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_551_24-details-that-would-make-video-games-too-realistic/

NOTE: please refer to http://www.rfgeneration.com/forum/index.php?topic=11649.0 before reading this entry, thanks.

Highly recommended reading:

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Reading Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer...needless to say I don't think I'll ever try Everest.

I've been lost on the Disc.

Reading Jingo now after finishing Equal Rites.

I started reading The Best Horror of the Year Volume One as seen here:  http://www.amazon.com/Best-Horror-Year-Vol-1/dp/1597801615/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1365392001&sr=8-2&keywords=the+best+horror+of+the+year

I bought it back when Borders was going out of business and never got around to it.

Reading The Black Company

Pretty interesting fantasy world. Really evident that Bungie raped it for their Myth mythos.

The Variant Effect

Reading "Kafka on the Shore." I've been on a big Murikami kick recently.

I'm re-reading a YA novel I liked as a kid called "Werewolf Rising", it's funny because it does the "try to humanize the monsters" thing like Twilight, but's actually pretty good and it's own little self-made Werewolf mythos is kinda interesting. 

Finished the first three Black Company novels. Really fun blend of low/high fantasy that's really well written. Makes ol' RR Marty look like the twelve year old kid that he is.

that's not difficult

"BOOBIES"

Started American Gods by Neil Gaiman.

Finally reading The Hobbit, which I got as a birthday gift last year. Having already read The Lord of the Ring in years past, it's amazing to see how the difference in writing between the two books. It's almost like each novel was written by a different person.

ya you really should have read the hobbit first. besides story sequence, it's a much better experience to go from the light hearted Hobbit into the much better written LotR rather than the other way around.

Would have love to, but the cards fell a bit oddly on this one. The Lord of the Rings trilogy was given to me years ago when the movie had just hit the theaters, likewise with The Hobbit. Writing aside, I also already have a general idea of story progression, what with growing up on multiple viewings of the Rankin-Bass films. :D

i still need to see all the rankin bass ones, even though i've heard they're terrible compared to the peter jackson versions. i'd also like to listen to the 1981 BBC radio play of Lord of the Rings someday, it even had Ian Holm as Frodo (instead of Bilbo that he played in the peter jackson movies).

it's not a trilogy.

The animated hobbit isn't really bad at all. The LOTR ones cut wayyyyy too much.

The Rankin-Bass films aren't really that bad, in my opinion, but it all depends on what you're trying to get out of them. They aren't the action packed adventures that the Jackson films are, but they are examples of decent animation mixed with great story telling. Having seen the newer Hobbit film, I think the Rankin-Bass version is superior. But yeah, as The Infinite Leon said, the LOTR animation is lacking a lot of content, to the point that it's pretty much a highlight reel of the most important of the important parts of the trilogy.

Tokyo Underground

I just read a little bit of fanfiction last night, because I'm becoming addicted to weird crossovers.

Started Sandman, I like Neil Gaiman.

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Been rereading Bill Bryson's travel books. The Lost Continent, Notes from a Small Island, and Neither Here nor There. Going to start A Walk in the Woods next.

I'm trying to read A Tale of Two Cities. My high school teachers were not joking when they said it was an incredibly hard read.

Homeland by R.A. Salvatore

Finishing up In a Sunburned Country by Bryson then have to decide if I want to reread his science-minded books.

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood.

It is scarily believable.

Exile by R.A. Salvatore

Eh, maybe in a Muslim world. I think we've moved well past the possibility of any sort of Christian based patriarchal takeover in this country. Atwood was writing in a time when the liberal college crowd thought there would never be an end to the reign of Reagans, and likewise that Reagan was the worst thing to ever happen to the country.

Currently working on Small Gods by Terry Prachett.

I appreciate the context Leon, and you're right. The pendulum has swung far away from the Christian right, for now. However what scares me about the book besides a possible theocratic takeover is the way she applies what we know from reading histories of other totalitarian regimes and applies them to our country.

I may be overselling it, and we've all read our share of dystopian novels, and I've read more than my share of memoirs from behind the iron curtain. This book falls in line with the better ones, I'm just enjoying it a lot because I like this kind of stuff.

Read Lone Wolf & Cub Volume I: The Assassin's Road this weekend.

Hmmm what next?

took my dad on a flight to a small town on the mainland, Chilliwack. we had lunch at the local cafe and a slice of cherry cheesecake, everyone at the flying club had recommended their cakes and pies, now i see why. http://www.airportcoffeeshop.com/

Pardon me sir, but I think you want this thread:

http://www.rfgeneration.com/forum/index.php?topic=2700.570

Lol oops