You should know how this works. Please also recommend the good ones/steer us away from the bad ones. I've gotten ideas for books to pickup from threads like this in the past.

I just finished:

Jennifer Government by Max Barry. Read for fun. I would recommend if you hate globalization or if you like a pretty exciting plot with decent satire. It's not particularly well written, but that makes it a quick read.

"The Judgment" by Franz Kafka. Read for fun. It takes about ten minutes to read and has a sweet ending. You can read it here: http://facstaff.bloomu.edu/spring/courses/honors/kafkajudgment.html

Currently reading:

Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk. Reading for fun. I would highly recommend so far, especially if you've enjoyed anything Palahniuk before. If you were grossed out by "Guts"---don't worry, this one doesn't involve "pearl hunting". Well, not as of page 100-something anyway.

The Republic --- Plato. Reading for class. Umm, I think that you know if you want to read this or not based on what you like to study.

Frankenstein --- Mary Shelley. Reading for class. I recommend it. It's not as funny as Young Frankenstein but it's pretty short and well written. Some parts are less exciting than others if you're not into nature and romantic **** like that.


Plan-to-read:

Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut.
"The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka.

C++ for dummies

This thread. Because I'm at work and have nothing better to do.

A study book for the GRE so I can get a good score on the test and get into grad school.

How to get drunk instantly.

Jennifer Government was freaking awesome. I bought it the day it came out. I love it.

This Boy's Life by Tobias Wolff, for english class.

Also a bunch of books on Heinrich Himmler for my term paper.

A Lesson Before Dying, by Ernest Gaines, for english class. It's excellent so far.

fight club(almost done for the 4th time) and survivor(just started the first time) by chuck palahniuk.

Nothing at the moment. And <3 for Jennifer Government.

Maybe not reading so much as referencing, but here's the list in any case, all for class:

Crafting a Compiler in C
Game Creation and Careers
Fundamentals of Computer Graphics
Contemporary Logic Design
Introduction to Algorithms

No novels at the moment

The Science of Star Wars.

Pretty interesting, according to the book, the Death Star is the most realistic technology that comes from Star Wars.

I also read that all lasers make a instant line and are invisible in space.



Maybe plasma is the way of the future...

Way of the Clans - Book Seven of Eight - Prince of Havoc
By. Michael A. Stackpole

Reason: I ****ing wanted to again (And I got the whole set for Christmas, yay)

Just finished reading:
A Game of Thrones by George R R Martin.

Really, really impressed by it. GRRM doesn't treat his main characters like invincible heroes, if the odds are stacked against them, they bleed or die. It's very low fantasy, no orcs or magic everywhere, in fact it's almost a historical novel set in medieval Europe. When magic does appear it's scary and wreathed in a lot of superstition.
Finally all the little sub-plots make it interesting to read throughout the entire book, it seems very realistic with each character following their own schemes towards their desires, for power, honour or family, rather than the simple flat characters who are either pure good or evil which make up most fantasy novels.

Currently reading:
A Clash of Kings by GRRM :p

Just finished:

Thud! by Terry Pratchett, which makes fun of racism, chess, and the Da Vinci code all in one smooth motion (still trying to find the "Where is my cow?" book they released along with it in Britain, thanks to Power Cable, Nebraska we over here on this of the drink don't get any of the good stuff).

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling, which is pretty darn decent. Actually made want to go back and re-read parts of books 4 and 5.

Star Wars, Episode III: Revenge of the Sith by Matt Stover, which clarified some parts of the movie and actually cast a whole new sinister light on Vader. At first I hated Matt's writing style, but then I realized that it's how I write too, so, whatever.

Just starting:

Star Wars, Episode II: Attack of the Clones by... someone, I can't see the name from here. I just got it from a walmart cheapo bin, so I can't wait.

At The Mountains of Madness and Other Tales by Hewlett-Packard Lovecraft. Poe meets Tolkien. Take that how you will.

-There was asomething else... forget what.

Haruki Murakami- Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

I personally thought it was excellent. Very much a modern surrealistic novel but with a beautiful melding of Semi-Cyberpunk and Fantasy. My only complaint was that his “explanation” of the concepts of encryption was almost complete BS.

currently reading:

Hunter S. Thompson - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Mario Puzo - The Last Don

Jean-Paul Sartre - Nausea

I just finished Spare Parts by Buzz Williams. Great if you are interested in the U.S. Marines, First Gulf War, or if you are joining the Marine Reserves.

I am reading The Life of Pi right now. Amazing so far.

"The Nameless City" by H.P. Lovecraft Why? Because I'm bored and it's short (See, I have what you might refer to as the attention span of a fly)

Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy.

I'm reading it because 1. It's a classics book, so required 2. It's REALLY interesting. Basically it's about why bad things happen to good people, and why bad people go unpunished.

Popular Science (current issue)

How to Teach Reading (When You Are Not a Reading Teacher) - book came from a workshop I attended. It's actually pretty good.

I'll be reading the Chronicles of Narnia when I get them back from a friend. It's been about 10 years since I've read them.

For fun (basically... Or for my job if you really think abou it )
Wild at Heart by by John Eldredge
Love your God with all your Mind by J. P. Moreland

Those are the ones I'm actively reading, I've started:
Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
Questions that Matter: An Invitation to Philosophy by Ed. L. Miller, Jon Jensen (for a class but I find it good nonetheless)
Deductive Logic by Terry Halpin (Class)
Naked Empire by Terry Goodkind

Well, earlier in the summer I blasted through the Da Vinci Code pretty quickly. After that I was having a hard time finding stuff to read, so very recently I just finished...

Angles and Demons
By Dan Brown

Chosen because it was written by the man who wrote the Da Vinci Code. Yes, I know that a lot of the things in Da Vinci Code are based on what ifs and theories, and I know it's a bit of a stretch and I don't take it seriously. I enjoyed the pace of his previous work, and the way it makes you really get into it. Angles and Demons was exactly what I was looking for.

Then I recently bought, and read...

Vengeance
By George Jonas

This book is the true, factual story of an Israeli Mossad agent who was put in charge of a mission to assassinate 11 of Black September's highest ranking officials. For those of you who need a memory refreshing, Black September was behind the Munich Olympic games tragedy. For those of you who still don't even know what I'm talking about, it was the 1972 Olympic games in Munich when a few Black September terrorists went in and massacered 11 Israeli athletes, demanding the release of other terrorists being held captive.

I'm still looking for more to read, since I finished both these books in one month. :p

I am currently in the middle of alot of books now:

for fun:
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Peter Pan - Sir J.M. Barrie
Crime and Punnishment - Dostoevsky
The Return of the Shadow - J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lays of Belerian - J.R.R. Tolkien
anything by Edgar Allen Poe
The complete works of Emily Dickenson


for school:
C by dissection
Electric Circuits
Engineering Mechanics: Statics
Fundamentals of Logic Design

for good and for awesome:
the Bible
Taste and See - John Piper
and I plan on picking back up and finishing Systematic Theology - Charles Hodge


I don't know what I'll finish all of them but thats what I'm reading now

I just finished:
Allice in Wonderland & Through the looking glass.

Reading:
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Third time through! Yay!

Just Finished:
I Watched A Hog Eat My Baby! A Colorful History of Tabloids in America
Pretty interesting actually, bought it at a library book sale, for like a dollar.

Currently writing:
The Chosen One and The Madess by ME
Just because I'm writing a book.
I'M WRITING A BOOK!!
*Ahem

sorry about that...

Hamlet by William Shakespeare - For class, and because Shakespeare rocks

I started re-reading In the Beginning Was the Command Line by Neal Stephenson, but I lent it out to a friend. It's really just a collection of essays on operating systems and computers melded together into one wonderfully writen book.

I have a hard time getting in to books enough to finish them.

Actually, I'm starting up the SW: New Jedi Order series again (Like 16 books or whatever). With college, haven't really had time for a series that long before with classes - since studying, projects, and everything else takes away my free time. So, I only read like the first four then stopped when it first came out. Have a light schedule now, reading them fast.

Reread Vector Prime and now on the 2nd book Dark Tide I - Onslaught.

The Great Divergence, by Kenneth Pomeranz. Because I'll be tested on it in a few weeks.

This Thread. duh.

An Experiment With Time, by J.W. Dunne. My perception of reality has been turned upside-down.

i never learned to read... but luckily most of the voices in my head can read so it all works out


anyway Sniper by Adrian Gilbert

Buckminster Fuller's Critical Path. I definitely recommend this one. It talks about how mankind, sometime in the seventies, reached a point where we can all "make it." It talks about how Malthus' theory of scarcity is no longer relevant. It talks about changing our quality of life through a principle known as ephemerialism - doing more with less. It talks about the invisible power structures of the world throughout all the history of man; the structures that persist falsely with the idea that we have to compete with one another to survive. It talks about mathematics, philosophy, god, economics, science, and much much more. All from the man who brought us the geodesic dome and the dymaxion house.

Read this one if you haven't.

The Zombie Survival Guide, because it's only a matter of time before the zombies get here, and I want to be prepared. Read this if you want to live.

I finally read Nineteen Eighty-Four a few months ago, definitely reccommend it to anyone and everyone.

Haven't read anything but textbooks and CRTs since.

lol, when has Starwars ever been realistic?

(I would have cried if someone told me that when I was like 4 )

Edit: Reading - The Great Gatsby or something like that for english, it sucks.

ya know... I haven't read a book in So long...

Anything from Harry Turtledove, all his alternate history stuff is the best, and fun to read to boot.

OMG THIS THREAD

And uh, concerning books... nothing. I think I read some crappy poem book lately though.

dont be silly, everyone knows finnish people cant read.

I didn't say I read them, a robot reads them for me. Same robot who writes this stuff for me.