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Kaenash
Comic Overlord

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I am reading "The Areas of my Expertise" by John Hodgmon. It is basically a book of complete human knowledge. Its pretty cool, because the cover is supposed to have this mettalic silver dragon swooping down to either rescue or eat a beautiful, nearly nude sword maiden as she falls off a cliff. All of this is overseen by the bitter glare of the ever-uncaring Triple Suns.

Okay, I am not really reading it. I am more or less just thinking about how cool the cover is.

2-02-06 4:30pm (new)
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JESUSSANDWICH
is a wonderful person

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Another Roadside Attraction by Tom Robbins.

Catcher in the rye(2nd time)

Slapstick by Kurt Vonnegut

Franny and Zooey (2nd time)

The place of dead roads by William S Burroughs

Ghost of a chance by burroughs

I renewed my library account. :D

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2-02-06 4:43pm (new)
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Kaenash
Comic Overlord

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Catcher in the Rye was a good book.

I can point to that book and say "That is what changed my literary style of writing in high school". I went from describing something the way a painter who paints landscapes does, to being more illustrative.

2-02-06 5:47pm (new)
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Zaster
Wait for it...

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The Singularity is Near, by Ray Kurzweil.

It's either the most important book I've ever read, or the damnedest load of crap. I'll get back to you in 20 years with my follow-up review.

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2-02-06 5:52pm (new)
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ivytheplant
Obsessive Comic Disorder

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The Map That Changed the World - Simon Winchester
America: The Book
High Hearts - Rita Mae Brown
The Science Fictional Universe
Devils and Demons - Rod Serling
The Cat's Pajamas & Other Stories - James Morrow
The Lost World (3rd time) - Michael Crichton (side note, several months ago I finished Jurassic Park for the 17th time)
Pimp: The Story of My Life - Iceberg Slim
Conquistador - SM Stirling
This Is The Way The World Ends - James Morrow (been reading that for a few years, actually)
Batman: Year One
Son of a Witch - Gregory Maguire
Anansi Boys - Neil Gaiman
Southern Discomfort - Rita Mae Brown
Zodiac - Neal Stephenson (though I keep losing it)
Filth - Grant Morrison (taking me a while since he makes my brain hurt)

And none of this is counting my textbooks. and supplemental reading material for class that I would have read on my own anyway.

I've also been reading The Foundation Trilogy since 1989. I will get halfway through the second book, get distracted by another book, and when I pick Foundation up again, I've forgotten everything so I have to start over. Lather, rinse, repeat.

2-02-06 5:53pm (new)
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boorite
crazy knife lady

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I'm reading two nonfiction books: Sight Unseen by Budd Hopkins (about UFO invisibility and transgenic humans) and Communion by Whitley Streiber (an autobiographical account of UFO abduction by a famous horror writer). OMG I can feel myslef geting smartar!!!1

But seriously, if you like it when fairly normal-seeming people say completely outlandish shit with a totally straight face (and who doesn't?), you will LOVE these books.

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2-02-06 6:00pm (new)
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The_young_scot
Makes out like a Lesbian

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I'm reading "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams. Its got all 4 books in the series ("The Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy", "The restaraunt at the end of the universe", "life, the universe and everything" and "So long and thanks for all the fish")

I just started "The restaraunt at the end of the universe"

I've also read the first 5 books of the Discworld series, which rock.

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2-02-06 6:41pm (new)
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bunnerabb
Some bloke.

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I finished Snow Crash late, last year and I'm trying to find time to re-read some vonngut that Pita got for me. Best B0x set EVAR!1

Mostly, I'm reading the help manuals for Nuendo 1.6.1

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2-02-06 7:25pm (new)
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dcomposed
C3H5N3O9

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Batman created by Bob Kane

2-02-06 7:37pm (new)
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NooniePuuBunny
Horny Female Tentacled Kaiju from Outer Space

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2-02-06 7:43pm (new)
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pita
La fille qui a joué avec le feu

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The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou.
One of my favourites:

"I couldn't tell fact from fiction
or if my dream was true,
The only sure prediction
in this whole world was you.
I'd touched your features inchly,
heard love and dared the cost.
The scented spiel reeled me unreal
and found my senses lost."

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2-02-06 10:01pm (new)
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Commander_t
Pink Donkey Wrangler

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Jurgen by James Cabell Branch

Dark Tower 7: Dark Tower by Stephen King

The Holy Bible by Various

The Republic by Plato

That's just a small few...

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2-02-06 10:44pm (new)
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LuckyGuess
hm

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I'm rereading "Practical Demon Keeping," and beginning "Count Zero."

I also read any Lewis Carroll any chance I get.

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the kid's getting old, the kid's getting old

2-02-06 10:55pm (new)
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umfumdisi
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Hell, how are you ever going to read all 14 (or is it 15?) books in the Foundation series at that pace?

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Recently finished C.S. Lewis' Out of the Silent Planet trilogy. The first book is wonderful. The second book starts out very well, but the middle part is turgid, and the end is ridiculous. The third book is interesting, but the ending is quite anti-climactic due to an incredibly quick resolution of events.

Currently reading Down Beat: 60 Years of Jazz and Harlan Ellison's Deathbird Stories.

On deck is Potty Training for Dummies.

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Chicken Feather Bed Bugs Bunny Hop Sing Out Side Street Walker Texas Ranger Cookie Dough Boy Wonder Years

2-02-06 11:36pm (new)
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HotRodDeathToll
Satanoscillatemymetallicsonatas

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Nineteen eighty-four

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The dictator of love and his weapon of mass destruction

2-02-06 11:58pm (new)
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BigFrank105
Obsessive Comic Disorder

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"Ford Tough"... basically a biography/autobiography of Ford Motor Company

I just finished reading Le Petit Prince (en Francais) for the millionth time.

2-03-06 7:12am (new)
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ftc
Stripcreator's Big Boss

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'tis - Frank McCourt.

Sequel to Angela's Ashes (childhood memoir)

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Poo perhaps?

2-03-06 7:30am (new)
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attitudechicka
is never bored.

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On deck is Potty Training for Dummies.


That seems to be the only type of book I can find time to read these days. "Caring for Your Child, Birth to 5 Years" is the one that I have successfully master 12 times already, though I keep going back as if some kind of new information might magically appear, such as the two dollars that appeared themselves in my purse last week.

I haven't read Potty Training for Dummies yet, but I've got several others, including a pop up book on how to use the bathroom and wash your hands. The major problem is Travis is in size 6 Huggies brand diapers, and they don't make them any bigger so I'm being forced into early potty training.

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2-03-06 8:18am (new)
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UnknownEric
and the Goblet of Mountain Dew.

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I love the Glass stories. The greatest books in which absolutely nothing ever happens, yet you still can't put them down.

Currently I'm reading DC Showcase Presents The Justice League of America Vol. 1. Great cheesy early 60s comic goodness, although I'd like to throw Snapper Carr down a well.

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I has a flavor!

2-03-06 8:30am (new)
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theReverend
Sometimes back but not all the times.

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Trying to get through the biliography of Guns, Germs and Steel, and the new Discover just came. Also Funny Times.

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2-03-06 10:28am (new)
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Cre8tive13
Stripcreator Regular

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2-03-06 11:23am (new)
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TheGovernor
Talentless Hack

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I'm reading "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams. Its got all 4 books in the series ("The Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy", "The restaraunt at the end of the universe", "life, the universe and everything" and "So long and thanks for all the fish")

I just started "The restaraunt at the end of the universe"


Coincidences Ahoy! thats exactly what Im reading again right now also, and Im just up to the start of Restaurant. It could be said Mostly Harmless was the fifth part of the 'trilogy' but I believe it wasnt finished, but is the reason Im re-reading the lot so I can finally see for myself.

The Last book I read was a christmas gift called The Shadow in the Wind by Carlos Zafon, Which I found to be quite magically brilliant in parts, although the end suffers from the Author not knowing when to call it quits (a bit like the movie Return of the King, where you've just watched a wonderful epic story come to a conclusion, but then have to wait half an hour while they wrap up all the loose ends.

2-03-06 11:40am (new)
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UnknownEric
and the Goblet of Mountain Dew.

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Mostly Harmless was finished, I just don't like the ending he gave it. ;)

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2-03-06 11:51am (new)
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niteowl
Level 1 Forum Troll

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I'm currently reading this:

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2-03-06 11:55am (new)
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boorite
crazy knife lady

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Probably the most important collection of one sf author's stories in the last 25 or 30 years.

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2-03-06 1:43pm (new)
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