What are you reading?

I don't think we have had one of these in a while and I need something new to read. My recent list includes:

The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Dune - Frank Herbert
Prophet of Dune - Frank Herbert
Microserfs - Douglas Coupland

Vernor Vinge - Rainbows End
Terry Pratchett - Making Money
Neil Gaiman - Stardust
Sandworms of Dune - Brian Herbert and Kevin J Anderson

That last one is an absolutely terrible conclusion to Frank Herbert's work, avoid unless you really, really have to read all the Dune books. I wish someone would tell Kevin he can't write before he tries to ruin any more classics :/

Vice's guide to sex, drugs and rock and roll

just finished freakonimics though, Wasn't very good.

That Vice guide is great. I left my copy in a hostel by accident.

i am currently reading enders game. i started i on july 7th, read some more of it in august and am currently 85pages in. its not that i am a slow reader or that i do not like the book, its hard for me to sit down and read when i could be doing so many other things.

Can't recall which ones they were, but his star wars books weren't bad (oh god I am a nerd )

I'm reading this:
Amazon.com: Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Collins Business Essentials): Books: Robert B. Cialdini
really badass. also very applicable to a business me and my girlfriend are trying to get off the ground.

ali - enders game is really badass, and throughout the book, it just gets better and better. sit down and read the whole thing through.

That book always caught my eye in the store, but I never did check it out. Was it just lacking anything you didn't already sorta know about?

Just finished Count of Monte Cristo. Well worth the time! Tonight I'm gunna watch the movie (the newer one). Seen it before and remember really enjoying it, but I'll see whether I still find it as good after having just finished the real thing.

Either gunna start Catch 22 (by Joseph Heller) which is supposed to very funny. Or Book one of Lian Hearn's Tales of the Otori series called Across the Nightengale floor. It's some samurai series I picked up for something new.

I just finished Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and all.

I started reading another book of his, but i think i need to try a new author before i do that.

I might borrow Hocus Pocus from my friend.

Vonnegut is the shit. Hocus Pocus was one of my favorites by him, after Breakfast of Champions and Cat's Cradle

Hello fellow nerd I actually thought his SW books were really bad as well, although not quite reaching the level of wanting-to-claw-your-eyes-out of the Dune efforts. Timothy Zahn, Aaron Alston, Michael Stackpole or Troy Denning are all better than him by a long way. He writes like a 12 year old kid, and doesn't seem to care much about maintaining continuity when he starts producing books set in an existing universe. Not my favourite author :|

do magazines and message boards count?

Just Finished:
'Welcome to the Monkey House' - Kurt Vonnegut


Currently Tackling:
'Either/Or' - Soren Kierkegaard

naked lunch - william S buroughs

for the 5th time, i'm trying to get SOMETHING out of it.... =P

talking assholes for the win!

currently reading: "truman capote's complete stories" - truman capote - it's all of his short stories from before he got famous

just finished: "middlesex" - so tough to get through the first 100 pages, but then it's really worth it. great book

Trying to make it through Al Gore's "The Assault on Reason". It's very good, but I can never find time to read it.

I still think he's an asshole, though.

The ex-girlfriend was telling me how sad, yet very well written this book is not too long ago. What are your thoughts on it?

zahn and stackpole. that was the thrawn trilogy and most of the xwing series respectively, correct?

No books for recreation right now because my school list is as follows:

Reading...
Secrets of the Night Cafe (about Vincent van Gogh) by Cliff Edwards
International Relations by Joshua Goldstein
The Bible (old and new)
The Battle for God: A History of Fundamentalism
The Juvenile Justice System by Arafani

and a few International Relations and Criminal/Juvenile Justice books. Most of it is as boring as you think but I'm a religion nut and am fascinated about getting into the police force so it works for me.

The last book I did read for pleasure was Germinal by Emile Zola.

Nothing, not in print anyway. The last book I read was "You On A Diet", which was actually a pretty interesting book about the physiology of hunger and such. Before that, shit. Probably "What Dreams May Come" and "Lure the Tiger Out of the Mountain". Both of which I read over 5 years ago. I just don't dig print. It seems to me like an outmoded method of learning in the digital age.

Yeah, I want to learn like they do in the matrix Hope they have something like that before I die.

I've never been a sit-down-and-read a book kinda guy. always been too many places to go, too many things to try.

i just finished up The Four Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferriss, pretty interesting read...next up is a biography about Big Papi David Ortiz

I love reading biographies of people/companies

About the same, interesting to see what is happening to Afghanistan through the eyes of someone who has lived there and in the west.