Can Man Live Without God?, Dr. Ravi Zacharias

took me about 30 years to find this guy

Thanks for the recommendation--I'm always looking for a good next read.

God Emporer of Dune by Frank Herbert

MiddleMarch by George Eliot.

no problem. i keep meaning to buy his book "why dogs chase cars", but i end up just lazing about at powell's (largest independent bookstore in the world, if i recall correctly) and reading it. i checked out some of his other stuff as well...also good, but i highly recommend "why dogs chase cars". i read the shortest of the collected short stories contained in the book, and in 8 pages, it went from hilarious to moving, with some memorable characters, even more memorable when you read the other stories.

Link here. It's a pseudofictional account of a 150k mountain road race told in 150 pages (Krabbe is obviously drawing from his own racing experiences), translated from the Dutch. Pretty good. References Coppi and Merckx and Paris-Roubiaux and all that other wool-jersey stuff you want to come across.

Can anyone recommend a really comprehensive history of competitive cycling in the 20th century, especially covering the stars and the big Grand Tour races?

the lovely bones-alice sebold
and i finally got around to reading '1984'

Palahniuk's cool, I like his ideas, and that he's trying to write smart "dude books" but yeah, it gets kind of same-y after a while.

Although Stranger than Fiction was actually really good.

Check out Blue Highways by William Least Heat Moon. Awesome road trip book.

palahniuk--i like "choke", but that's all i've ever read, and it doesn't really count, because i only got halfway through, and it was a book on tape, so i didn't really read it. but he apparently gave it to my girlfriend with instructions to give it away to someone.

last book i read off my list was "the lust lizard of melancholy cove" by christopher moore. funny ****. it had that douglas adams style, where half the humor is in HOW he says things. it took 60 pages for me to warm up to the characters and settings, and then it took off with a wry, quirky sense of humor well worth reading. the ending seemed a little weak, but i was also really tired and fighting off the need to sleep so i could finish. i'd recommend it to anyone who likes douglas adams, for sure.

sidney sheldon and danielle steel and jackie collins. good writing and story.

Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

Just finished reading:

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines

Just finished: How to Avoid Prison and other Noble Vacation Goals

Working on: Programming the Universe

Almost done with The Kite Runner. Wow. Highly reccomended.

oh! i despise that book. what did you think?

i am currently reading

and

i liked it....i dont normally like novels but yeah i thought it was well written

its in my 'when i get around to it' pile

i thought the first half of that book was entertaining, but i found the last few chapters weak and forced.

I've been slowly reading Camus' Myth of Sisyphus, work and school have been intruding a lot though. and I just finished the last of the dune prequel books (in the machine crusade trilogy).

I actually keep something by thoreau or emerson next to my bed and will read a bit of it at night when i need my transcendentalist fix.

Other than that I unfortunately haven't read a book for fun in way too long. School sucks like that. If I had the time I would read this ... because, well, I love Mozart.

The Arrogance of Power 'the secret world of Richard Nixon' by Anthony Summers.
Something my fatherinlaw though I'd like.......poorly written and hard to follow.

I pretty much gave up on school a couple of months ago, but I've been reading a bunch of academic books about Jamaican music. Today at the library I checked out:

a non-academic book about Jamaican music -


a couple more books in the 'master and commander' series -


A random book about the history of swordfighting that looked interesting -


and finally this-

(hey, I just spent the weekend in kentucky, okay?... )

haha. Betting on horses ... My family tried to school me in such matters but I couldn't give up my "if the horse looks good that's good enough for me" view of the whole thing. Kentucky sure is pretty though.