Animal Farm, published in like the 40's.

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Need to read it before the movie ruins it this summer.

Just finished reading "The Handsomest Man in Cuba" by Lynette Chiang. Very interesting and funny story of the author's solo bike tour of our neighbor country to the south. This brave soul was seeking to understand the Cuban culture and see the land, free of the political filters that distort our perceptions. Easy read, lots of adventure, inside view real people of Cuba and big fun.
Check it out at her website: www.galfromdownunder.com

All you Aussie, here is a chance to hear from one of your own, enjoy!

Any recommendations for that guy?

indeed. brilliant works of science fiction from dick. a true visionary who was far ahead of his (an quite possibly our) time. recommended: radio free albemuth.

yes and, speaking of sci-fi, i've just completed the third book in adams’s hitchhiker’s guide
series, life, the universe and everything. follows much the same formula as noted in previous
works of the series - prolific imagery, wacky, idiosyncratic characters, and above all, adams’s
robust mastery of comedic tension and release. in short- rich, sidesplitting stuff here.

1066: The Year of the Conquest - If you like medieval history, it is a good read.

indeed. brilliant works of science fiction from dick. a true visionary who was far ahead of his (an quite possibly our) time. recommended: radio free albemuth.


Cool. I think I have a copy of that one laying around.

Thanks.

Just finished Chuck Palahniuk's Fugitives and Refugees.

Re-reading Dave Eggers' A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius.

Annie Dillard's "An American Childhood"

I finally got around to reading Death of a Salesman. Finished it yesterday & heard today that Arthur Miller died yesterday.

Despite being in play script format, it was a great read.

I inherited a bunch of old "Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine", so I've been going through those. A lot of people who later went on to fame wrote for this mag. I like good science fiction, fantasy and horror, but I find these markets to be overrun with copycat shoddy writing, Asimov's always did a good job of cutting through the crap.
I just ordered Crimeth(inc)'s "Recipes For Disaster", has anyone read this book?

currently reading (er, sight reading) jim chapin's advanced techniques for the modern drummer (coordinated independence as applied to jazz and be-bop). some of the figures in this one are utterly mind boggling. wish me luck.

John J Nace, some wicked pilot books

Animal Farm, published in like the 40's.
sounds good :rolleyes:

yeah, its a book we have to read in school. really crappy.

Picked up Kafka On the Shore again. I love his books.

Here's a review of it:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/06/books/review/06COVERMI.html

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Need to read it before the movie ruins it this summer.
I dunno man, they might do a good job *fingers.crossed*

Check this out -- http://movies.yahoo.com/movies/feature/thehitchhikersguidetothegalaxy.html

still, it's a must read and you've got two months :D

Oh, that stuff was great! I had a lot of trouble reading the end. I was so invested in the characters and the story, it was almost offensive that it had an end!
Agreed!

There's a short story with Lyra that takes place two years later. Nothing to do with the original story, per se, but still fun.

well there is nothing wrong with "middlesex" or "the secret life of bees" of which they'll try to make
into a Hollywood movie, and fail miserably on all accounts. currently reading, "imperial hubris, why the
west is losing the war on terror" by anonymous (a real cia operative) and "french women don't get fat"
by mireille guiliano

Today I bought John Harper's "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man." Fascinating story..

well there is nothing wrong with "middlesex"

Who said there was? I enjoyed it.

Currently reading "A Game of Thrones" by George RR Martin. A very good read if you dont mind fantasy. Good interesting characters, that have thus far been presented in a good plot.

Recently finished all of Peter F Hamiltons books, this guy is the master of Sci Fi!

The Last Season ~ Phil Jackson

Emei BaguaZhang Theory and Applications by Yang Jwing-Ming & Liang Shou-Yu

The Devil in the White City, by Erik Larson. It's about a serial killer who ran loose in the Columbian Exposition in 1890's Chicago. A great read.

I got 2 new books for my birthday, both lance books... 23 days in july, and images of a champion

Currently reading "A Game of Thrones" by George RR Martin. A very good read if you dont mind fantasy. Good interesting characters, that have thus far been presented in a good plot.

Recently finished all of Peter F Hamiltons books, this guy is the master of Sci Fi!
For the most part, I can't stand the fantasy genre, since most of it seems like rehashed Tolkien, but this is one of the greatest series of books I have ever read. I wish the author would get over his writer's block or whatever, the next volume is LONG overdue, and if he waits much longer, I'll have to go back and reread everything!

I've just moved onto my next John J Nance book! The last one was really good, Headwind but i'm expecting even more action in the next.

I'm reading Faulkner's "The Sound and The Fury" for my English term paper this year. i read "As I Lay Dying" last year and loved it. I love "TSTF", I just want to keep reading it, but I'm very confused. I just can't seem to get it all together right now. I hope that once I'm finished it will make some sense, but right now it's just not.

I've just moved onto my next John J Nance book! The last one was really good, Headwind but i'm expecting even more action in the next.
Sounds Great....

I don't usually get into books much, unless i have to do it for school, or someone tells me that its a really good book. At the moment i just read through my usual Car magazines.

Yup. I was never a book person but its a routine thing at night before i go to sleep really. And a good book you look forward to reading. I only read about 1chapter a night which is nothing, but it spaces it out for me. Dont want good books like these to be over too quickly:P

I remember reading a book called Hatchet. First time i read it, i loved it. Second time, it got boring a bit. I think theres a few Hatchet books around that i haven't read.

Yup. I was never a book person but its a routine thing at night before i go to sleep really. And a good book you look forward to reading. I only read about 1chapter a night which is nothing, but it spaces it out for me. Dont want good books like these to be over too quickly:P

That the way I was doing it before my wife started working 2nd shift(I work 3rd). Now she's asleep when I get home and I can't read in bed unless I use the guest bedroom. I even bought a new book a few weeks ago that I'd been looking forward to and I haven't even cracked it. Lame....

I enjoy Piers Anthony if anyone has heard of him

just started reading 'little children' by tom perrotta and in the middle of 'leaves of grass' by walt whitman. just finished 'magical thinking' by augusten burroughs.

the wu-tang manual, by rza.

Just finished "Billion Dollar Baby " by Bob Greene, a biography of Alice Cooper. I've had it since I was fifteen, but I hadn't read it for about twenty years. I wanted to loan it to a friend and fellow fan, so I had a quick peep again myself.

Today's lunch break treat will be the latest Reader's Digest.

I'm finishing up Extraordinary Adventures of a Young Mountaineer by Bradford Washburn. Non-fiction is atypical for me, but it's a great read nonetheless.

i can't seem to put this one down, very entertaining....

Recently finished up the latest Murakami and was left with that feeling of amazement that he's so good at.

Picked up The March of Millenium which is a thumbnail sketch of the history of mankind on earth, written by Isaac Asimov and some other guy. It's a nice introduction to the subject of history and a good detailed timeline.

Fahrenheit 451 ~ Ray Bradbury

I Seem To Be a Verb :R.Buckmaster Fuller\ Quentin Fiore\ Jerome Agel.

Recently finished up the latest Murakami and was left with that feeling of amazement that he's so good at.

Ugggh, I can't wait for the paperback to come out so I can actually afford it!

Fyodor Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov

For now. I have a feeling I'll end up giving up on it, like I've done with pretty much any book by any acclaimed Russian authour.

Fahrenheit 451 ~ Ray Bradbury
classic

Just finished Stephen King's Wolves of the Calla (Dark Tower Book 5), Book 6 is on the near horizon.

stacey, Don;t you hate that now King has added low men and regulators
and all that crap from desolation into Dark tower?
I really like King's style but he hasn't had an original idea since
shortly after It.
saw the last book (the dark tower)at 1/2 price last week.
Marty

It's kind of a love/hate kind of thing Marty. The journey with Roland, Eddie, Jake & Susannah/Detta towareds the Tower has been a non-linear adventure of the first degree. That has kept it very interesting. Him bringing Father Callahan (Salems Lot) forward/back however you care to view their parallel existance I thought was sheer genius. However, going back to Book Four ... Marten in the Emrald City (ala Wizard of OZ) was reaching.

"IT" Could someone please explain that to me...I swear that Stevie was tripin bad when he penned that.

I did really enjoy 'The Girl who Loved Tom Gordon" and "Hearts in Atlantis"

Same thing here love/hate. Guys a genius. I liked Father Callahan
showing up. but the whole Low men, lost dog Hearts in Atlantis
thing kind of wore on me (although I really like Hearts).
IT. A very strange book dealing with some bizarre cosmologies
i.e. the turtle etc. "Don't eat the Brown Acid" . . .

My personal favourite was "the Body".

Marty

Just finished "Survive" by Peter Deleo..... hard to even image surviving in them conditions...