This thread is for people to discuss what they are reading and to give recommendations to others.


I'm currently about 100 pages into You Shall Know Our Velocity! by Dave Eggers. I really liked his writing in A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius so I decided to read more from him.

My next book will be either The Assist by Neil Swidey or The Last Shot by Darcy Frey, whichever comes in through my library first.

I am reading "V For Vendetta". The Graphic novel by Alan Moore. Very good.

$$$$er: An Autobiography - Dick Gregory
HLM 5: Hierarchical Linear and Nonlinear Modeling
One in 100: Behind Bars in America 2008 - Pew Charitable Trusts
Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life - Annette Lareau

Drawing of the Three by Stephen King, right now.

The Woman Warrior: A Memoir of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, by Maxine Hong Kingston
Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the 10th Dimension, by Michio Kaku

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Originally Posted by Rocko Drawing of the Three by Stephen King, right now.

I just finished Wizard and Glass (#4 of the Dark Tower series), do you like it so far?

Right now I'm reading Choke by Chuck by Chuck Palahniuk

Currently reading Ishmael by Daniel Quinn. I'm probably gonna go through Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson again when I'm finished.

I've been chipping away at 'In the Blink of an Eye: How Vision Sparked the Big Bang of Evolution', by Andrew Parker.

Its about optics as it relates to the accelerated evolution during what we call the Cambrian Explosion.

I almost exclusively read non-fiction, mostly dealing with topics related to genetics and evolution.

star wars vision of the future

Naked Lunch, by William S Burroughs
Only Revolutions, by Mark Z Danielewski

Originally Posted by SneakyPenguin Naked Lunch, by William S Burroughs

Is that the book that spawned that incredibly insane movie about the pest control guy getting high off his poison? That was one ed up movie.

The Charwoman's Shadow, by Lord Dunsany. For anyone who's gotten worn down by post-Tolkien fantasy, going back to the greats who predate him is wonderfully refreshing, and while Dunsany couldn't be more different from Robert Howard (as a person and as a writer), they're both great reads if you're tired of all the now-cliche genre tropes: dark elves, orcs, bands of adventurers, blah blah blah.

Originally Posted by GrimNecroWizard I just finished Wizard and Glass (#4 of the Dark Tower series), do you like it so far? Right now I'm reading Choke by Chuck by Chuck Palahniuk

Yeah, I'm liking it. I'm glad to be rid of the constant flashbacks of The Gunslinger. I've got to get to the book store and pick up the third book soon.

The Rum Diary - Hunter S. Thompsom: Basically thompson takes a newspaper job in puerto rico and s, smokes, gambles, and drinks his way through san juan until he gets pissed off and stirs up some shit.

Originally Posted by joe2187 The Rum Diary - Hunter S. Thompsom: Basically thompson takes a newspaper job in puerto rico and s, smokes, gambles, and drinks his way through san juan until he gets pissed off and stirs up some shit.

Noice . This book is also going to be the material for the next movie.

Currently reading my networking + book. Yay me.

The Game: The Underground Society of Pickup Artists - Neil Strauss

Originally Posted by Maklershed Is that the book that spawned that incredibly insane movie about the pest control guy getting high off his poison? That was one ed up movie.

Yep, though the movie isn't based exclusively on the book, it's based on a bunch of Burroughs stories, and some of his life.

Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder - Richard Louv

Great Ecopsychology read.

For school:

Colonial America, Jerome Reich. Red, White, and Black: The Peoples of Early North America, Gary Nash. Race and Revolution, Gary Nash. Major Problems in American Colonial History, Karen Ordahl Kupperman.


For fun: The Hardcore Diaries, Mick Foley; also Re-reading the Wheel of Time series. That will be followed by A Song of Ice and Fire series.