since we lost the last one, i figured i'd restart this. so what are you reading at the moment?

i'm close to finishing Robert Jordan's The Dragon Reborn and i've got a lot of books waiting to be read...maybe White's The Once & Future King, King's The Gunslinger or Duerrenmatt's The Pledge. (which one of these is not like the others? ;))

DJ

Just finished Derek Walcott's epic poem "Omeros."

Lawrence Watt-Evans, _Dragon Weather_

I just finished Geek Love by Katherine Dunn -- and what a strange (but good) book that was.

The Dark Elf trilogy by R.A. Salvatore.

F. Paul Wilson's The Tomb. After that I will jump into his next Repairman Jack novel Legacies.

-Steve

Great, great books- the Spearweilder's Trilogy is also good by him.

I'm choking through "As I Lay Dying" by Faulkner... I'm apparently not smart enough to understand his writing style.

I have a very strange habit of reading about 5-10 books at one time. Right now, those books are:
'Lemon' by Lawrence Krauser
'Demonology' by Rick Moody
'Almost No Memory' by Lydia Davis
'A Model World' by Michael Chabon
'On with the Story' by John Barth
'Jimmy Corrigan : The Smartest Kid on Earth' by Chris Ware
'Wittgenstein's Mistress' by David Markson
'The KGB Bar Reader' edited by Ken Foster
'The Age of Wire and String' by Ben Marcus
and two books by Donald Barthelme: 'Snow White' and '60 Stories'

Crap. That's 11. I'm over my limit. Luckily, most of them are short story collections, so I don't get too confused. I read them in a sort of 'round-robin'-ish manner. It's just a strange habit of mine. I guess I have a short attention span or something.
I have a feeling I'm going to enjoy this new forum. Time to go see what else it has to offer.

"Suppressed Inventions and Other Discoveries" and "The 70 Greatest Conspiracies Of All Time". Hardly what you'd call great literature, but interesting brain food none-the-less, I suppose.

I think that would make my brain hurt to much. :)

Those are some great books. I still can't forgive the person who got me hooked on them. ;)

I just finished reading Dante's Divine Comedy. Looking forward to reading Chuck Palahniuk's Choke later next month.

I'm brushing up on my Tolkien by rereading Lord of the Rings

I'm also flipping throught the pages of God In the Docks by C.S. Lewis. All, of course, good stuff for Spring reading.

George Carlin's new book Napalm and Silly Putty. Almost as good as Brain Droppings. Also getting ready to start Sudden Prey.

Now ?
 

American Tabloid by James Elroy.

Right now, Atlantis Found by Clive Cussler. I'm also going to start reading The Lost World(michael Crichton), and maybe a couple of others.

robyn

finished reading first four books of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, now reading 1984

I'm presently reading Dennis Lehane's A Drink Before
the War.

Arthur C. Clarke's "3001: The Final Odyssey"

I'll scream if V'Ger makes it in this book! I'm halfway through.

At work, in the lunchroom, someone decided to put a bookcase in there, and it's now become a bookswap, you can pick and choose paperbacks and the only stipulation is to bring one of your own for everyone you take. So I've been just reading "3001" on my lunch break. It's basically what Clarke envisions life in the 30th century.

That's a great idea! I am going to see about getting something like that where I work.

Maybe we could set something up via the forum (like DVDExchange, except for books).

-Steve

I'm finishing up Peter Straub's Mr. X, a pretty wickedly humorous/horrific parody of Lovecraft. It might be my favorite Straub. I've also read the first few pages of Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves and I'm hooked, so I'll be starting that in earnest as soon as I'm done with the Straub.

Darin

Breakfast of Champions - Vonnegut

The Exorcist

Dragons of Summer Flame - Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman

The Elegant Universe - Brian Greene

Mayniac

river god by wilbur smith so far this is an excellent book