What Are You Reading? November 2006
 

Another month, another thread.

I just put down Lisey's Story because I just could not get into it at all. I may pick it up at a later date, but for now I'll pass it on to my wife and see if she enjoys it better than I.

Now reading:

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I just finished reading the six Harry Potter books that took me all of October
I am currently reading: I shouldn't even be doing this! and other things that strike me as funny by Bob Newhart

Just finished World War Z: An Oral History Of The Zombie War by Max Brooks.
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Up next is The Burning by Bentley Little.
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Just finished the excellent God Delusion
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Currently reading Echo Park
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And also reading through The Areas of My Expertise
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I'm really enjoying the new John Hodgman and Michael Connelly books.

I just finished Mapping the Edge (Dunant) and am now on The Good German (Canon). I recently ordered Lisey's Story (King), The Black Dahlia (Ellroy), The Road (McCarthy), Guests of the Ayatollah (Bowden), Freakonomics (Levitt), Sharp Objects (Flynn), Oh What a Slaughter (McMurtry), The Colorado Kid (King) and World War Z (Brooks). Not sure which one I'll be starting on next, but I'll probably get through all of them by the end of the year.

I'm currently re-reading James Blaylock's fantastical "The Last Coin".

I just ordered that the other day, looking forward to reading it.

Just finishing up Larry Niven's Ringworld, about to start Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles.

Flyboys, by James Bradley... talks about the navy pilots in ww2, and the overall behavior of Japanese soldiers against U.S. POWs.

Good book so far...

I will say there were a few parts that irritated me. I realize he was trying to be aggressive about his points on atheism, but at times he got a little too self-richeous for my tastes. Still a great book though and does give you a lot to think about.

Still reading The Foundation Trilogy (Asimov).

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The Prince. Eh.. To really understand the book you need to understand Renaissance Italy in the 1500's and I don't. It would also help if you knew your Roman emperors as well, which again I don't.

I do have a 15 hour lecture on the subject on audio book and I am learning a lot from that, however I'm not sure if it is worth all the hassle. :)

Just finished:

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Now Reading:

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Going between The Art of War (probably my 100th reading of it), Palahniuk's Survivor (again), and finishing World War Z

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera. Fantastic so far.

just finished World War Z

am almost finished with Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts

I recently started:

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almost finished with:
Contest by Matthew Reilly



about to start:
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America's First Superhero by William Kalush and Larry Sloman

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I'm a big Eric Larson fan and I could not wait to jump in to this one!

Been reading some of the old Parker books by Richard Stark - currently on The Seventh.

Still reading...

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The Count of Monte Cristo (unabridged) by Alexandre Dumas.

Slow reader + 1500 pages = it'll be a while before I get to another book

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And for school:

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Just finished The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

Started The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

Just finished:

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Now reading:

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and when I have time also reading:

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I'm reading this classic again and loving it. I'm working on my MA in English, so I have very little time for leisure reading. For those who aren't aware, Apocalypse Now is based on this book.

Next class starts next week and its Film Genres. Should be fun!

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Just finished this one. As always, this guy rocks the Casbah.
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This one's pretty cool. The Japanese culture comes through pretty well in the translation. Hardly any vampires so far, but cool information about high school and college activism during Vietnam. I'm sure there will be plenty of vampires later on.

Just started:

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Blood: The Night of the Beasts was very, very cool. Basically if you like most of Mamoru Oshii films, you will dig it. Very brief action and not a lot of vampire sightings, but the dialogue was really neat and the humor very dry (in a good way).

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Started this. A bittersweet moment. I've been putting this one off because it is the last Sci Fi book of his that I haven't read and his next book, "Matter", is not going to be Sci Fi and we won't see another one for a loooong time. I love his non genre fiction (some of it is practically sci fi) but my favorites are his Culture books. I'm already loving the shit out this one, but I'm a little sad that this is it.
:banana: & :sad:

Just started:
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This is a BIG book, and it will probably take me a while!

After reading the Star Trek Book thread:

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Robert Silverberg's "To the Land of the Living".

So far it seems to have a similar setting to Farmer's Riverworld books.

Just started:
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Finished Foundation Trilogy, and started reading this:

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Just finished Grave Descend by John Lange
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Currently reading The Millionaires by Brad Meltzer
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Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl

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Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders by Neil Gaiman

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Collected Interviews: Voices from Twentieth-Century Cinema by Wheeler Winston Dixon