The Pipe Book: A Guide to Nearly Every Pipe Created (http://www.amazon.com/Pipe-Book-Guide-Nearly-Created/dp/0517161877/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208953507&sr=1-1) by Alfred Dunhill
Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality (http://www.amazon.com/Blue-Like-Jazz-Nonreligious-Spirituality/dp/0785263705/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1207095061&sr=1-1) by Donald Miller
Our Dumb World: The Onion's Atlas of the Planet Earth, 73rd Edition (http://www.amazon.com/Our-Dumb-World-Onions-Planet/dp/0316018422/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1207095174&sr=1-1)
mlemmond
04-01-08, 08:14 PM
Currently Reading
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Got Garton's Ravenous and Acevedo's Nymphos of Rocky Flats in the ole "to read" list.
Mr. Plow
04-02-08, 04:29 PM
Acevedo's Nymphos of Rocky Flats in the ole "to read" list.How is this? I read the first chapter and was pretty turned off by his somewhat amateurish writing style. The story does interest me though and I want to know if it get's better.
I'm reading Abercombie's The Blade Itself and I have Brook's World War Z on deck.
How is this? I read the first chapter and was pretty turned off by his somewhat amateurish writing style. The story does interest me though and I want to know if it get's better.
I'm reading Abercombie's The Blade Itself and I have Brook's World War Z on deck.
Once I get thru it, I'll give ya a report.
Mr. Plow
04-02-08, 07:27 PM
Once I get thru it, I'll give ya a report.
Thanks.
Ron G
04-02-08, 08:31 PM
Nothing for fun right now, though I just finished re-reading Frederic Pohl's The Day the Martians Came.
For work, I'm reading:
Hemingway's In Our Time
Various pieces of literary criticism on Dante's Inferno
Narrative Theory and the Cognitive Sciences (edited collection of essays)
Chaucer's House of Fame
Just finished The Tipping Point, just started The Greatest Game Ever Played.
dtcarson
04-05-08, 03:03 PM
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and
The Best of Damon Knight
rkndkn
04-06-08, 06:12 AM
Finished Matthew Reilly's Contest. Interesting premise, but I didn't care for his writing style -- his "tada!" emphasis in italics every page got annoying.
Terry Brooks and his IMO comeback novels Armageddon' Children and Elves of Cintra.
I've loved Terry's novels over the years, but honestly the last couple of Shannara series (Voyage and High Druid) were average at best. The series he wrote in the 90s I did love was the Word and Void which showed he could be a compelling writer without having to rely on Tolkien themes. This new trilogy which should be completed this September merges the Word and Void into the beginning of the world of Shannara and is amazingly good.
His writing style has kept the tone of what worked so well in the Word and Void series and blended it in with the themes so familiar with the Shannara series. I had kind of hoped he would leave Shannara alone as it has never returned to the quality of the first trilogy and the Heritage series, but I'm glad he decided to return to it one more time in this way as Word and Void were really some of his best novels.
Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality (http://www.amazon.com/Blue-Like-Jazz-Nonreligious-Spirituality/dp/0785263705/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1207095061&sr=1-1) by Donald Miller
Great Book! Blue Like Jazz is one of my favorites.
Just finished:
Women: Images and Realities: A Multicultural Anthology edited by Kesselman, McNair, and Schniedewind
Still working on: The Decameron and El Paraiso en la Otra Esquina
TheNightFlier
04-07-08, 07:45 PM
Just finished Black Cross by Greg Iles. Great, great book.
lattethunder
04-07-08, 07:48 PM
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The Bus
04-07-08, 08:56 PM
Recently finished Liar's Poker. Last night I read:
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Life Sucks
It's really good. Basically imagines vampires as being enslaved to those who "turned" them. In this case, the protagonist works as a love-smitten convenience store clerk who falls in love with a human goth. His boss is Eastern European (an "original" vampire from Transylvania).
Then again I wasn't too happy with "Spook", so this new subject matter is direct and automatically funny.
DJLinus
04-09-08, 09:02 AM
Great Book! Blue Like Jazz is one of my favorites.
Yeah, I'm enjoying it a lot. I have his Searching for God Knows What and considered reading it next, but I think I'll take a short break from Miller and read Rob Bell's Velvet Elvis after I finish BLJ
Speaking of Blue Like Jazz, a companion book was recently released: Jazz Notes (http://www.amazon.com/Jazz-Notes-Improvisations-Blue-Like/dp/1404105158/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1207746084&sr=1-6)
A funny book. I'm about half-way through. Forrest just escaped from the cannibal island where the king was a Yale graduate who loved chess. Forrest knew that if he lost a game, he was lunch, so he sorta had incentive to learn fast.
Just discovered Paul Park and inhaled A Princess of Roumania. Now I'm on the second of four, The Tourmaline. A touch older crowd than Rowling or Pullman, but perhaps a better writer than either of them. Happily I won't be able to say for sure until I finish the next one, The White Tyger, then wait for the finale to be published.
Interesting so far and I hope it keeps my attention.
Oh, give me more info when you finish that book. It looks very interesting.
chris_sc77
04-22-08, 10:04 PM
^^Holy sh!t, that's a tough read. Curious to see if you like it or not.
So I finished Last Exit to Brooklyn today. Overall I enjoyed it and found only a few sections difficult to get through (The Queen Is Dead segment was the most challenging I found.) Not as good as Requiem for a dream which i remember reading about 6 or 7 years ago when I was about 15 but overall an interesting work.
Interesting so far and I hope it keeps my attention.
I found it the entire book to be riveting, for what it's worth.
lattethunder
04-25-08, 11:04 PM
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RocShemp
04-26-08, 08:31 AM
Just finished reading Devil May Cry and am now starting Dream Chaser. Both by Sherrilyn Kenyon.
xmiyux
04-26-08, 09:19 AM
I just finished this book: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51%2B1B4WKxOL._SS500_.jpg
It turned out to be quite the page turner. It hooked me like Flander's Panel did... I'm starting to wonder if i have a weakness for Spanish suspense writers.
Dusty Bottoms
04-26-08, 09:26 PM
I just started Swan Song by Robert McCammon.
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cornyt
04-27-08, 04:02 PM
Just finished:
Chang Rae Lee's "Native Speaker"
Reading:
Kevin Brockmeier's "A Brief History of the Dead"
Donna Tartt's "The Secret History"
mlemmond
04-27-08, 05:50 PM
I just started Swan Song by Robert McCammon.
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Buy: