The Saint - Dan Abnett.

maybe he meant henry david?

pitboss— i also highly recommend eggers' 'how we are hungry'; it is a splendid little volume of short stories/vignettes. many of them include characters from 'you shall know...' and 'heartbreaking...'.

I read that a couple years ago and really enjoyed it. Until my wife said, "Whats it about?" I had no idea. But I still really enjoyed reading it.

Shelby Foote's three-volume The Civil War. I have read the whole thing several times, but every few years I pull them out again. I have to wait until I forget how it ends. :-)

No, seriously, very well written, very readable, and I have an hour every day on the train, which I need because the three volumes range from 700 to 1000 pages each.

I'm gonna preface this story by saying my whole family is pretty intensely and sincerely Christian.

So I bought my brother's fiance Midnight's Children by Rushdie for Christmas - the night I brought it home my Mom was asking me about it, about Rushdie, &etc. After I told her about how he got a Fatwa declared on him for Satanic Verses she got really concerned and asked me if I thought as a Christian girl she'd like a book by an author who'd write something like that.

I laughed and reminded her it isn't difficult to offend the kind of Muslims that declare Fatwas when it comes to their religion. She just looked kind of puzzled and concerned. The gift was well received though.

"about the man who began flying after meeting her" is my favorite story from how we are hungry. oh! and "naveed." i've finally gotten around to reading what is the what. a little over 100 pages in and it's excellent.

Just started this one for school...

Lamb - The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore

i have a strange love affair with joyce; i first started with finnegans wake and then moved to other, less difficult works.

joyce is a great writer, mindblowing in ulysses and fw.

Be Here Now by Ram Dass

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole. The funniest **** ever. The way it got published was amazing, too.

Philip Roth - Exit Ghost
Michael Pollan - In Defense of Food

Both are absolutely amazing. I love Roth in this book.

Fiction ... The Historian

Non-Fiction ... 4 volume set of John Adams' diaries

true dat, one of the funniest books i've ever read. i was jus playing about thoreau earlier. walden is my alltime fave.

The Beautiful Machine - Graeme Fife
The Voice of the Fire - Alan Moore

my mother-in-law is reading that.. hehe you're reading a mom book oh and my grandma was in the circus.. she rode elephants and also hung by her teeth like 50 ft. in the air or some *****..

anyways..

im reading the necroscope series by brian lumley.. i loves me some sci-fi and fantasy books

it was recommended from a friend. i've been trying to change it up a bit with some newer books rather than the older literature i normally read.

Its more of what i havent read. I read alot, so ive red every W.E.B. Griffin, Jack Higgins, Lee Child, James Patterson, Louis La'more. Ive read a few Tom Clancey books not really into them. I basically have a small library. If anyone ever wants to talk opinions on books msg me on aim.

i've been reading nothing but Bukowski and Burroughs since september.

Just finished. Four stars.

how counter-culture.