Official What Are You Reading Thread:

[BrianCarroll]

Maurice G. Dantec "Cosmos Inc."

 

[Buzz762]

The Epic of Gilgamesh

I dunno who wrote it.

 

[Pauly]

The Red Queen by Matt Ridley

 

[distressed_romeo]

The Atheist's Tragedy, by Cyril Torneur. Old Elizabethan play. It's actually pretty good.

 

[Desecrated]

Hendric Weisinger - Give and recive critsism the right way.

 

[JJ Rodriguez]

Just ordered 2 Forgotten Realms books, Extinction (Book 4 of the War of the Spider Queen series) and Streams of Silver (Book 5 of the Legend of Drizzt).

 

[Drew]

Just finished Vonnegut's "Bluebeard" (interesting, but not on par with, say, "Cat's Cradle"), and am about to start David Sedaris' "Me Talk Pretty One Day" which I've been told I should love.

 

[technomancer]

The Waste Lands - Stephen King

 

[Hellbound]

I just started reading "A Scanner Darkly" by the wonderful Philip K. Dick(same writer for "Blade Runner").

I watched "A Scanner Darkly" with Keanu Reeves and was like holy shit I've definately got to check out this novel.

 

[distressed_romeo]

'Low Red Moon' by Caitlin R Kiernan
'The Cencci' by Shelley

 

[ohio_eric]

"A Power Governments Cannot Suppress" by Howard Zinn

Then I'm going to get into "Fiasco" by Thomas Ricks

 

[technomancer]

Wizard and Glass - Stephen King
No Plot? No Problem! - Chris Baty

 

[garcia3441]

Tales of the South Pacific- James Michener

 

[eaeolian]

"What's The Matter With Kansas" - Frank. It's enlightening, even if I'm zoning on the author's first name. A sobering tale told with wit and intelligence.

I'm about to start "Accelerado" by Charles Stross.

 

[No ConeSS]

Online version of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" by Luo Guanzhong, translated by C. H. Brewitt-Taylor. 21 chapters down, 99 more to go.... whew.

 

[Drew]

Julian Barnes' "Flaubert's Parrot." It's awesome, though it's about as postmodern as they come (i.e - the second chapter consists of three different chronologies of Flaubert's life, one stressing his accomplishments and conquests and making him seem like a raging sucess, the other the failures and deaths of loved ones, making him seem like he lived a miserable life and died a failure, and the third a collection of his reflections on his life over the course of it, which is understandably pretty neutral).

The chapter about the difference between an author you like and an author you're passionate about, with the analogy about killing 28 Wolf Cubs and feeding them to carp, is absolutely priceless (author you merely like - "what? No, he's a good chap. He'd never do that." Author you believe in. "Oh, well, you see, carp are an endangered species, and as everyone knows if you have a late spring then the only thing a carp can eat is minced Wolf Cub, so he selflessly sacrificed twenty-eight Wolf Cubs and one fair-to-middling authorr (he was painfully modest) for the preservation of a species. Besides, he bequeathed the carp pond to a pack of Boy Scouts in his will, and they've refurbished seven church meeting rooms with the proceeds from admission they've charged to see the scene of the crime.").

 

[distressed_romeo]

Just finished 'The Castle of Otranto', and am about 100 pages into 'Daughter of Hounds' by Caitlin R. Kiernan.

 

[technomancer]

The Dain Curse - Dashiell Hammett

 

[technomancer]

Working for the Devil - Lilith Saintcrow

 

[Aaron]

The satanic bible-Anton Levay
Modest Mouse Biography-Forgot the auther