Soooo what're you reading now?

Yeah we have these threads frequently, but I wanted to share

I recently finished Ice Station and Contest both by Mathew Reilly. Reilly is an Australian author in his mid-20s who writes pure action books. For anyone who has ever read a Clancy, you'll know how his stories are structured action, boring, action, boring, boring, boring, action. Well, Reilly has dispensed with the boring bits and written nothing but 100% action! And it's damn good action too, yeah it's cheesy and sometimes verging on totally unbelievable (especially Contest), plus it's hardly the greatest writing in the world, but freaken hell if it isnt fun to read.

Fans of frenetic-paced action-packed cheesy Clancy-esque books, go out and pick up Ice Station now, you'll love it

/me heads off to start reading Temple.

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There is no spoon.

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I read Prey by Michael Crichton last weekend. Not sure what I'm going to read next...

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Do you have stairs in your house?

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Prey suck-diddly-ucked

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The Massassi-Map
There is no spoon.

I'm reading a whole bunch of ray bradbury's short stories to try to find one to make into a movie...

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gree gree.

I didn't think so
Maybe not as good as some of his others, and it did have a sort of hokey ending, but I thought it was alright...

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Do you have stairs in your house?

Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam

As of now, I'm reading Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens for school. It turning out quite well actually.

For leisure(sp?) I'm reading Zen and the art of Motorcycle maintenance (don't remember the author offhand). Not too bad so far-almost makes me wish I had a motorcycle .

To read: The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton. Recommended to me several years ago, and never got around to reading it.

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Tell me not in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream, For the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not as they seem. Life is real, Life is ernest, the grave is not it's goal; Dust thou art, Dust thou returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.
~William Shakespeare

Richard Dawkins - The Selfish Gene

LOTR all over again.

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Map-Review | Digital Core | The Matrix: Unplugged

Farewell, MaDaVentor. In our hearts, you'll always live on.

Tonto and the Lone Ranger Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie. Supposed to be a dark, humorous book about life on the Spokane reservation in Washington, but all it really is is a story about a community of depressed Indians who constantly seek escapism from their self-hatred, depression, and poverty by drinking themselves to sleep.

Boy, I'm really enjoying this one. Yay for assigned readings.

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"LC Tusken: the idiot is the person who follows the idiot and your not following me your insulting me your following the path of a idiot so that makes you the idiot"
NMGOH || Jack Chick preaches it || The Link of the Dead

I just finished Boychiks in the Hook - Travels in the Hasidic Underground, and I'm currently reading Mystical Experience interlaced with a little bit of Dubliners. In a while, I plan on reading Why I Am Not a Muslim.

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I have become Death, destroyer of newbs.
Statavad-Gita 8:14

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I'm rereading Farenheit 451 for a paper I'm doing in English, and I'm also reading Trainspotting.

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Jennifer Government (Holarious.)

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galazy (Holarious.)

Broken Sky 7 (Wrah! r0x.)

The Giver (My 4th time reading it.)

The Lord of the Rings (Trying to get past the first book, I hope the other 5 aren't this boring)

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Home is behind, the world ahead, and there are many paths to tread. Through shadow, to the edge of night, until the stars are all alight. Mist and shadow, cloud and shade, all shall fade, all shall fade.

I'm reading through the Lord of the Rings books before I finnish Isaac Asimov's Foundation seres.

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"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke

"Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right." -Isaac Asimov

Les Miserables (Abridged edition, thank goodness)

Executive Orders (kinda)

The Bedford Introduction to Literature

Macbeth.

Western Heritage.

Spokesman-Review, Sunday, February 15th.


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"Your entire base belongs to us."

"It would be highly appreciated if someone would set the bomb up for us"

Angelmass by Timothy Zahn. Creepy stuff.

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The Matrix: Unplugged

I'm a C4D b****!

I just finished Momo by Michial Ende and am going to read the Discworld novels by Terry Pratchet next.

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Sorry for the lousy English

The second book in the Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind.


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<Glyde> but.. you can't pick pickled peppers, even if a pickled pepper picker could pick pickled peppers!

Game Over - David Sheff

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"This hole is octogo. Ogiganeel. It's Octa.. It's got eight sides."
"We interrupt this program again, A. to annoy you, and B. to provide work for one of our announcers."

"The View From The Mirror" - an epic fantasy series by Ian Irvine, another Australian author. And he does away with that tired fantasy cliche of setting it in the northern hemisphere! Yep, in these books everything takes place BELOW THE EQUATOR! In fact, there may not even be land above the equator! Take that, you northern hemisphere imperialist dogs!

(The books are pretty good, too, with some really good characterisation. They're a bit slow in some points, though.)

Fahrenheit 451 is one of my very most favourite books [and movies] of all time ever.

Most recently i have finished:
-Windup Bird Chronicles [Haruki Murakami, entrancing addictive and beautiful, already read Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World by him as wlel which was delicious!]

Currently i am reading:
-Foucalt's Pendulum [Umberto Eco, also unbelievably great and outstanding, the sheer discordianism alone is enuogh to make me happy]
-BAD: Or the Dumbing of America [Paul Fussell]

Soon i will read:
-The Name of the Rose [Umberto Eco]
-Through a Scanner Darkly [Philip K Dick. for the at least second time]
-Eye in the Sky [Philip K Dick]
-Dance Dance Dance [Haruki Murakami]

and then a number of more technical/political books [like one about information ownership, and more about the dumbing american school curriculums and such].

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"You'll have to face it, the endings are the same however you slice it. Don't be deluded by any other endings, they're all fake, with malicious intent to deceive, or just motivated by excessive optimism if not by downright sentimentality. The only authentic ending is the one provided here: John and Mary die. John and Mary die. John and Mary die." -Happy Endings [Margeret Atwood]
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I just finished Survivor's Quest by Zahn. 'tis a good book. and stuff.

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Moo.

Ive been reading through the Discworld series. Im working on 'Reaper Man' right now...

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The future is here, and all bets are off.

I'm reading Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams. I've also been reading The Count Of Monte Cristo on and off for a while.

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"Church, women are like Voltron, the more you can hook up, the better it gets!"
-Tucker
Red vs Blue

Ph34r t3h Cute Ones

Legacy of the Drow Collector's edition. Yum. More Drizzt!

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Eat the pudding.

No books at the moment. Too much reading from readers from reading books

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I'm not an actor. I just play one on TV.

This is undoubtedly a very interesting book, but take what Ibn Warraq says with a grain of salt. The man makes no secret of his distaste (almost contempt) for Islam, and while I don't doubt the guy's credentials, I sort of place him in the same category as Mark Gabriel, the al-Azhar-scholar-turned-Christian-anti-Muslim author. Basing a book about the dark side of Islam on the Rushdie affair is a little dubious as well.

Some art history book and some math book, I forget the actual names. Having 3 studio art classes doesn't leave me any time to read for fun... I'm actually searching for an image for art history class right now and reading massassi while the pages load. :/

Required reading this summer is the complete and unabridged version! The book's a monster.

I have also been reading the Hitchhiker's and that is brilliantly funny and satirical. I didn't like the fifth and final one much though.

Currently, I'm reading George Orwell's The Road to Wigan Pier. I've already read 1984 and Animal Farm.


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To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.

Xenocide by Orson Scott Card
and yea.. slowly making my way through the X-wing series

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<Genki> oh, where are you going, with beards all a waggin, no knowin no knowin what bring dear Mr. Baggins, and Balin, and Dwalin, here down in the vally Ah ha!

I'm reading Dude, Where's my Country?. Much of it is rather humorous, although some of it makes me mad at the people in charge of the USA.

As for the Hitchhiker's guide, I doubt I could reccomend it any more than I already am. I got to read it when my brother was lucky ennough to find the whole collection, "The Ultimate Hitchiker's Guide", from Barnes&Noble for only $15US. The last one seems kinda rushed, though, but I can understand why.

I also reccomend Douglas Adam's other works:

Dirk Gentley's Holistic Detecive Agency,
The Long Dark Tea-Time for the Soul (the sequel to the one above), and
Last Chance to See.

The first two books are like the Hitchiker books, only more down-to-Earth, literally. The last one is actually a book on endangered species, with Adam's own humourous twists added in.

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Nes digs around in the trash can.
Nes finds a hamburger!
Nes puts the hamburger in his backpack.

Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

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"I am downright amazed at what I can destroy with just a hammer."
-Atom and His Package

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I'm almost finished with Streets of Laredo by Larry McMurtry. Next up is Wonderous Strange buy Ken Bazzana.

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Shut up. I'm GOING to do this whether you like it or not.

I just got finished Revelation Space by Alastair Renolds and am about to read Coalescent by Steven Baxter. if you dont know (i'm not sure how popular they are, but i like them) they're hard SF writers. pretty heavy stuff, but a great read if you're into it.

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"Some people play tennis. I erode the human soul"
-Tycho, Penny Arcade
"I'm a Cannabal-Vegitarian. I will BBQ an employee if there is no veggie option"
-DX:IW

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I read Ice Station when it first came out, awesome book....would make an excellent movie. His others aren't quite as good, but still pretty enteraining.

I'm currently reading the first Mechwarrior: Dark Age novel after recently -finally- finishing the 60 odd book classic Battletech era I've been reading for the last...decade or two.

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Cantina Cloud | BCF | The Massassian 1 & 2 | Gonkmeg
Corrupting the kiddies since '97

Ibn Warraq seems to be a gifted eccentric, with a grudge. What he says could be applied to any major religion, I suppose. I just find his whole Islamic apostate shtick intriguing.

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I have become Death, destroyer of newbs.
Statavad-Gita 8:14

Just finished:
Michael Criton(s?): Timeline/Prey

Reading now: The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick

Favorite read: Battlefield Earth

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"I'm going to beat you until the laws of physics are violated!!" ! Maeve's Warcry

RIP -MaDaVentor-. You will be missed.

Ok, here's the last 3 I've read, finished the first on the list last night.

Watchers[/b] - Dean Koontz, very... well it was suspenseful I'd say. Loved it.

Drink with the Devil[/b] - Jack Higgins, think ex-IRA James Bond type. Very good until the kind of 'oh, we hit 400 pages, end the book!' ending.

Angela's Ashes[/b] - Frank McCourt, I usually enjoy action packed books, but I'd have to say this is one of my favorite books of all time. I think they made a movie of it. It's charmingly witty with an overbearing sadness.

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I'm currently reading nothing. I simply don't have the time to sit around reading these days.

What a wonderful world we live in... Everyone else that I interact with simply must leech away my time.



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Most people regard me as the dark and immoral side of Massassi. At least I'm getting what I want out of life.

An excedrin bottle.

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