What are you reading right now?

Brog the Stoop by Joe Boyle. An entertaining little fantasy, however you shouldn't think too much about how it all works... it has some annoying (to me) mistakes in it, simple stuff like the Stoop females can only ever bear one youngster (which would halve the population every generation). I just analyse stuff too much, I want even fantasy to be a kind of fantasy that might work...

Before this I read Century Rain by Alastair Reynolds. A very good SF story, and it does stand up to a nit-pick reader like me

 

I'm reading a John Lennon biography (size of a bible), Life, The Universe, And Everything (sequel to Hitchhikers Guide; hardest of the 'trilogy' to get into so far).

 

iron john
by
robert bly


~~~

 

Still Life With Woodpecker by Tom Robbins.

It's great so far (just like the rest of his books)

 

I just finished Schlachthof-Funf or Slaughterhouse Five by Vonnegut. Very good read if you ask me. Now I am starting Good Omens by Neil Gaimon

 

Big Sur. Tender and brilliant, & good to see (sorry, read) Dean Moriarty's back albeit under another pseudonym. Poignant, and sad, uplifting and noble. What human spirits these guys were!

Zen and The Art Of Motorcyle Maintenance - for the umpteenth time - metaphysics and a absorbing road trip, too. Deservedly a cult classic. Quality!

 

I just finished "This Wheels on Fire" The autobiography of The Band. I highly reccomend it.

 

Chronicles, Vol. 1- Bob Dylan

 

Just finished reading Home Before Daylight by Steve Parish (far out book on the life on the road with the Dead)

just started reading Demon Box by Ken Kesey

 

A Confederate General from Big Sur - Richard Braughtigan

 

As I Lay Dying
Tartuffe by Moliere
Les Miserables by Hugo....this one is great but is a serious time investment
The Lemony Snicket series and Harry Potter(every single one over and over)... I hope to write children's books
Also my own book(not published and still on my computer)...It is about growing up in the deep south and is a funny account of the conflicts between wanting to fit in to a society but knowing you never will... Haven't decided on a title

 

That was the only thing I ever had to read in my entire college career for which I had to resort to Cliff's notes. "My mother is a fish." ??????????? Billy be trippin', dude! And I think the "perriod" key on his typewriter just didn't work. He couldn't fix it, 'cause he kept spending all his money on booze. That style of his was just what he had to do to accomodate that.

 

Just re-read Saving Private Ryan again. I finally saw the movie (I rarely watch movies) and wanted to read the book again.

 

I'm half way through Diamond Age by Neil Stephenson.
I finished his Baroque Cycle (a trilogy) over the Holidays.
Great author; one of the best.

- azimuth

 

i am reading the 2005 Almanac and The 3rd book in the "Princess" series... "Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia"

 

Pompeji by Robert Harris

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Chronicles by Bob Dylan

 

THe Purpose Driven Life and the Left Behind Series book 12.

 

Freedom's Children: Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Own Stories

 

The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle

 

im reading angela's ashes-by frank mccourt, its his autobiography of his life as a poor irsh catholic. so many ppl dont like it cus they dont like his writing style, but i find it to b interesting! i think im gonna read tess, the sequil on my own.

im also reading on my own sleeping beauty-by anne rice, at least i think thats the right title, regardless its anne rice's interpritation of the sleeping beauty tale....i had no idea it was gonna b so graphic in the sexuality department hahaa she has such an imagination...

and im always rereading catcher in the rye, cus its just my fav. book of all time=)i read it when im sad and it makes me feel like someone understands lol