The Man Who Was Thursday - G.K. Chesterton

I enjoyed that book. It mad me realized that I have a completely wrong impression of Frankenstein ('s moster)

Started reading the Curse of the Chalion, by Lois McMaster Bujold.
I actually read the sequel first (Paladin of Souls) and it's prequel (Hallowed Hunt >_<) and I really like it.

LOL out of sequence much?

I listened to Stephen Colbert's audio-book I Am America And So Can You again. Best book ever. Even better on tape as read by Stephen Colbert his self.

hehe.. i have finally read Maddox's 'The Alphabet of Manliness' now ^__^ it was really good.
i'm reading a sort of documentary book on foundlings called "nobody's child" by kate adie at the moment.. id on't really recommend it as reading since it's not fiction, just subject matter.

but ive loaned the satanic bible off a friend. lol that one should be interested =P

Actually, I'm not so out of sequence, sincwe the prequel was the 3rd book. Instead of 1,2,3 y read them 2,3,1

I am reading Peter F. Hamilton's Fallen Dragon again.

Fantasy SciFi in the future where corporations control the galactic power. Damn good book.

Many recommendations from me to you now get reading!!



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Please check it out. I actually bought the hardcover the week it came out and the paperback when that was available.

I don't mind lending the paperback if anyone is seriously interested in this wonderful book.

William Gaddis - The Recognitions

Man, I've got to throw one of my favorite books at you guys.

Laurence Sterne - The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy

Bah, how can you not dig, can you resist, I wonder, a novel in which the protagonist declares in the 14th chapter that "I have been at it these six weeks, making all the speed I possibly could - and am not yet born"?

Currently reading a book called Intensity, by someone named Koovtz (sp?). It was a friend recommendation, and he usually reads fantasy or scary books, this one being the latter. I really like it.

I also have wanted to get my hands on a high school favorite, Flowers for Algernon. Perhaps I'll get it for Christmas.

Dean Koontz.


Currently reading: Laughter in the Dark - Vladimir Nabokov.

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman. Again.

I've been looking for the english language original of this book for a while, can't find it. But even the translated version is perhaps my second (or, in a good day, first) favorite book.

last week i read finally read 'The Catcher in the Rye' online which people have said is good for ages and GITS:SAC references so i meant to read it for both those reasons but never got around to it unless now.
i expected it to be a lot heavier reading, i figured i'd give up before the end of chaper 1 .. maybe even before the end of paragraph 1! but it was definitly not what i expected.
i really enjoyed it though, maybe more so because i didn't expect to. but i don't think i'd recommend it to everyone cus i saw a lot of negative comments about it as well and i don't think it's neccessarily a book for everyone. but if you feel like it give it a whirl.

The only book by Gaiman I wasn't bored by was American Gods.
Look for that, Gnash, if you haven't already.

Just read The Gun Seller, by Hugh Laurie, of the tv shows House and A Bit of Fry & Laurie.
Basically, it's P.G. Wodehouse meets James Bond.
When asked why he wrote it, he said he had started to keep a diary, and after a few months he went back and re-read the entire thing - "to my utter disgust."
He basically just wanted to invent a more interesting life.
Which is a pretty damn amusing reason to write a book, by my count.
Good stuff.

I bought that book somewhat recently and reread it as I had read it in school. Not to sure what the hype is about because the story really isn't all that great, as the main character is a big loser, and not a whole lot is accomplished in the plot. I mean it's ok, but nothing all that great now that I reread it. [spoiler]It is kind of funny that the catch phrase of the book is just a misquote of a famous line by the main character. A bit anticlimatic .[/spoiler]

I'm currently going through the Foundation series, currently at #3 Second Foundation. Also reread Brave New World, which is still very good, and read Anthem, which I think is the Ayn Rand book people should read, as it's short and to the point.

Picked up Fahrenheit 451 and the second in the Ender series (Speaker of the Dead) will probably be finish them in the next 2 weeks or so, not much else to do on a plane.

@ttc - yeah, thats exactly why i would say it's not a book for everyone, cus i think most people would find it that way. there's a very narrow window of how to take the book to enjoy it. god knows why they make people read it in school. when we read books i LIKED in school i had trouble enjoying it.

I'll deffo have to look up things by Hugh Laurie. he's brilliant! I read Stephen Fry's blog and stuff online he's done a lot in the media and Laurie done less. but they're comic genius those two. XD

I just finished Nightlife by Rob Thurman and The World at Night by Alan Furst.

Theodore Ayrault Dodge - History of the Art of War: Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, Gustavus Adolphus, Napoleon (in 12 volumes)

oh yeah this!

i recently read a book called Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse which was.. incredible to say the least. part of it was that it personally had a lot of significance but also he is a great writer. it's originally in german and he is so good that even in translation it's awesome. and some friends of mine who are german also both of them (being 8 years apart) read it in school and also agree that he is amazing! so i have got some of his other books out of the library now too. and they are also good. one friend highly recommends Goldmund though there wasn't a copy of that in the library.

^___^

Steppenwolf is good. You should try out Siddhartha, Damian, Magister Ludi (The Glass Bead Game), and Narcissus and Goldmund.

Samuel Johnson - The Idler

On a recommendation from a friend, read A World of Difference by Harry Turtledove. Interesting read about Americans and Russians flying to Mars (Minerva) except there are intelligent aliens there in the middle of a war. I would give it about a 7 out of 10.