I just finished The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

Lord of Chaos, Robert Jordan

"crow_daw
ummm........Harry Potter: Order of the Phoenix."
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Seems childish, but they are actually good bookz

I finished up my other reading projects over the weekend, and have decided to finish out the summer with cataclysm/end of the world books. I'm reading Lucifer's Hammer at the moment.

Before picking up "The Book of the Samuri" - I was reading Deborah Tannen's "Talking 9 to 5" - finished that, now along with "The Book of the Samuri," I just started ""Team Bush: Leadership Lessons from the Bush White House"

Read Stranger in a Strange Land by Heinlein last week, working on Skinny Legs and All by Tom Robbins.

Forgot a great one - I read the Godfather also last week. It really fills in a lot of backstory from the movie. Not that the movie was significanlty different, but there are events that are implied by letting you see the results, and the book fills in the gaps.

When the Lion Feeds by Wilbur Smith

I just finished the Lord of the Rings Trilogy (Quadrilogy if you count "The Hobbit")...

I am now making my way through the Harry Potter Series...I am on the 3rd book. Can I just say, this series IS much better in book format.

I mostly read ALOT of computer manuals though, I am a computer programmer, so I have to stay abrest to all things programming...know what I mean...(heh, he said "abrest"....heh)

Started Naked Empire by Terry Goodkind this weekend. Not too shabby, but was hoping for better.

Mr Mephisto, I generally prefer fiction, as I think that many non fictions are fairly dull, and my life is dull enough as it is :P

However, I intend to read the books that you listed which seemed interesting.

Besides Catch-22, there's Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. I like other books, but these 2 are ones that I'd recommend to basically everyone who has not read them.

I picked up the latest Harry Potter book Saturday and finished it last night. Definitely not deep and pithy but an amusing read.

I havent read a book in 4 yrs ya that pretty bad

Just finished reading "The Giver" by Lois Lowry again. An excellent book - it deals with many current issues today in a very open manner including euthanasia and the use of drugs for so many emotional, psychological purposes.

My favorite book of all time is "The Count of Monte Christo" by Alexander Dumas - the same author of "The Three musketeers". "The Count of Monte Christo" Is several thousand pages long - it took me a whole summer to read it but it was so well worth it.

Now:
Da Vinci Code -Dan Brown

keith richard's biography

terry pratchet "Night Watch"
Hilarious so far!

The Order of the Phoenix.


Never heard of the that one before, right?

I'd recommend The Old Man and the Sea to anyone.
Regarding Heinlein, I recommend Friday, Glory Days, the Cat Who Walks Through Walls and, of course, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress.

Currently I'm reading Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov.

I loved Neuromancer, Ender's Game, and Night Watch. Thanks for reminding me. :)

Goosebumps #29

Some 'Rich Dad Poor Dad' thing. I got it as a graduation gift from my rich friend's parents, so I figure they know something is right about the book.

The Source.

It's about Israel's history, or somethin'.

Sam Shepard's, Cruising Paradise

Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 by Simon Winchester... it looks at how the cataclysmic explosion of the island of Krakatoa impacted on the planet... geologically, metorologically and culturally...

Right now I'm reading this thread.:p

The last book I read was Harry Potter: Order Of The Phoenix, but I finished that a month ago.

Wildlife Wars: The Life and Times of a Fish and Game Warden by Terry Grosz.

Interesting read so far (about half way through) about a game warden in CA from the mid 60's till recent times. Good stories about catching those breaking the law. A little repetitive at times (how often can this guy mention that he was 6'4" 320lbs? Apparently 30 or more times in 120 pages) but some of the stories are funny as hell.

The "Original Uncut" Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein.

The Lando Calrissian Adventures. Covers three books and almost done with the last one. :(

Strangers by Dean Koontz...it starts out kinda slow so I'm hoping it gets rolling soon. Am about a quarter of the way into it.

The beach by alex garland

McNally's Dare by Vincent Lardo

Well it just so happens that I am reading a Clancy novel right now. "Rainbow Six". Had just finished Volume 1 of Dante's "The Divine Comedy", I got the translation by Mark Musa, and he is praised pretty well for his work on this peice of literature. His notes on the text are helpful if you need them and they also provide history for the true-life characters included in "The Inferno" as well as the stories of the mythical beings that are found in the poem as well. It is very interesting and gives you some knowledge about Italy around the time of Dante's life as well as the stories and poets he himself respects and learned from. Oh and "Rainbow Six" has a lot of good action in it, more than the other Clancy novels I have read (not many) and so far it is turning into a very entertaining read.

Book Three of His Dark Materials: The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman.

I recommend all three!

I would like to say I am reading Catch 22. Which Ive yet to finish. But Im really not. After I read it though, I will read Johhny Got His Gun and Cats Cradel.

I just finished a Mary Higgins mystery and am going back and forth between a How to Speak Spanish book and a new novel by Payne Harrison (Thunder of Erebus). Harrison is a new author for me, so I have no idea if I'm going to like him or not.

i'm reading the autobiography of gabriel garcia marquez.

an excellent book showing where he got his inspiration for all his novels. a must read for fans !!!

at the moment it isn't released in english yet. but it's worth the wait.

The Mustache
by Emmanuel Carrere
Bout a guy that shaved off his mustavhe that he had for ten years and nobody noticed. So far it's aight

The Silmarillion by Tolkein.

Ball Four by Jim Bouton

If you're a baseball fan I highly recommend it.

If you're not, then I recommend it too.

Quick but fun read.

I'm in the middle of the new harry potter. Great book, i love the series.

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