Shake Hands With the Devil, by Romeo Dallaire. It's about his experience leading UNAMIR, and the genocide in Rwanda. I've been meaning to ever since it came out. I just like how the man thinks.

The Tipping Point by Malcom Gladwell. So far, it's extracted the common threads between disease, fashion, and other epidemics and made a good attempt at explaining their mechanics. He uses ancedotal antecedents of studies and people to support his thesis in an entertaining and informative manner. And stuff.

I have to make another plug for Mediated, though. The first chapter is available here. Read it. It's the best presentation of the best explanation I've found for our society, full stop. We're all mediated, Method actors making performances of our expertly tailored identities. Remember all those classic criticisms of consumer whores who define themselves by their purchases? Expand that to encompass the whole of our identity generating apparatus: our tastes in music and friends, our blog/facebook/last.fm accounts, our manner of speech and posture, our verbal affectations, et cetera. It's The Project of our generation: an endless reflection on ourselves.

Freelancer: Sounds really good. Especially since Fuller used to live in a geodesic dome in my hometown. Although that doesn't make any sense.

The Mandalorian Armor - K.W. Jeter

I've read the second and third of the trilogy and got my hands on this yesterday, yay i finnally get to find out the begining

I'll have to read that one. If you're interested in the subject, and you haven't already read it, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families by Philip Gourevitch is another good one. I read it for my international relations class last year, and it taught me practically everything I know about the Rwandan genocide.

The Power of Now
A New Earth

by Eckhart Tolle.

The only book anyone ever needs to read

Just read that last week. Very good.

Currently reading "Different Seasons" by Stephen King, an anthology of four novellas. Finished the first "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption", liked it but was surprised at how the film adaptation was actually more fleshed out than the book. Currently on the second novella "Apt Pupil" which seems good so far.

[QUOTE=Michael MacFarlane]I'll have to read that one. If you're interested in the subject, and you haven't already read it, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families by Philip Gourevitch is another good one. I read it for my international relations class last year, and it taught me practically everything I know about the Rwandan genocide.[/QUOTE]

Hmm, I'll look into that one, thanks. I wish I had more time to read for leisure. All these school texts are burning my brain

Last couple books: Memoirs of a Geisha, Jane Eyre, and Brave New World

Now: Wicked (because somebody lent it to me) and Marilyn's Last Words (again... because somebody lent it to me).

Why? A lot of the books I read aren't exactly my taste moreso than I swapped books with a friend (Which happens quite a lot) or somebody told me to read it. Variety is nice at times.

Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
The Scarlet Letter - N. Hawthorne
Spanish Step by Step - Charles Berlitz
Trekking in Bolivia - Yossi Brain
Lonely Planet South America
Scientific American Feb. Issue

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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.[/QUOTE]

I'm reading that very book again right now. Awesome.

Physical Chemistry a Molecular Approach, by McQuarrie and Simon, because I have too, and speaking of which, I should get back to it.

Isn't the first chapter fuuun

I hated The Scarlet Letter...and Gatsby too . We watched the movies also...great excuses to take a nap during school

Just finished Huck Finn, I thought it would suck but it was actually pretty neat!

I just started Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy (for the third time!) It's about World War 3 - started when some Muslim radicals set a Soviet Oil plant on fire, wiping out 30% of the USSR's oil. It's a really neat book, features some guerellias in Iceland, a really cool Intel officer, a cool Frigate captain, plus a kick-arse Chopper Pilot. (anyone who's read it knows who I'm talking about) Definitely a recommended read

Cell by Stephen King

So far, It's interesting. i'm like 1/4 the way through it.

development across the life span: for class
writing past dark: for another class
Plato's republic: for yet another class
guns, germs, and steel: for fun