What are you reading?

Rollins can weave a good yarn that's for sure. I've got a video tape of one of his spoken word gigs where he talks about Joe Cole being killed and man is that intense.

I've read a couple of his books and they are really depressing. I want to get Get in the Van, but keep putting off buying it. I've got his spoken word version of it, but I'd like the photos as Black Flag rules.
 
I just finished The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomsason. Now I am reading Babylon Rising by Tim LaHaye and finishing American Gods by Neil Gaiman.
 
I'm always in the middle of reading either Fight Club or Survivor, both by Chuck Palahniuk of course.

Last thing I read besides those was The Anti-Christ, by Nietzsche. Soon to read Beyond Good and Evil, The Geneology of Morals, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra.

A Clockwork Orange and Catcher in the Rye are also on my shelf waiting for their time.

Usually I spend my time reading magazines though, I had over 20 subs last year, but I've let a few expire so it's probably around 15 now.
 
I finished Michael Crichton's Prey a few weeks back. Right now I'm not reading anything, but starting next week I get to plunge headfirst into great books like these:

Telling Stories - An Anthology for Writers
The Legal and E-Commerce Environment Today
Advertising - Principles and Practice
Marketing
Fundamentals of Management

. . .and much, much, more! The joys of college.
 
I'm 2/3 of the way through Project Arcade: Build Your Own Arcade Machine. It's an excellent read and very informative although I'm a little lost on the electronic/computer mumbo-jumbo... I can't wait to start building!
 
[quote name='Ledhed'][quote name='dtcarson']He can still tell a tale, and he can definitely be hilarious; his habit going way off topic then returning to the story twenty minutes later keeps you guessing. But when we saw him in January, I believe, it seemed 'typical', with him jumping on the bash-Bush bandwagon. Some of his anecdotes were hilarious or moving, but much of the show didn't offer anything you couldn't get from late-night TV.[/quote]

I have to know. During the spoken-word set you attended, did he tell the story of how he once went home from his office to find a guy trying to break into his house? He sees the guy at the window, and figures it's some guy cleaning the windows. The guy looks at Henry, and looks panicked. Henry wants to know what's going on, so he asks, 'What are you doing out there?'. The thief says, 'Hi, I need to talk to you. Let me inside...' Of course Henry says 'No', they talk a little longer, and the thief takes off down the street towards Henry's office. He calls his office and gets on the phone with one of his assistants. He tells the assistant to look outside for a man running down the street toward the office. When the assistant says he sees him, Henry tells him that the guy just tried to break in. The assistant says, 'I'm on it', drops the phone, and starts boking it down the street towards the thief! Henry had already called the cops about the thief, and had to call them back to make sure they didn't go after his friend by mistake![/quote]

yes! that was one of those 'That can't be real!' stories. I think he said the assistant or whoever had a cell phone with him, so he called the cops and said 'Yeah, *puffpuff* here he is on 4th and Vine *puffpuff* I'm chasing him now'.
But as they say, truth is stranger than fiction.

Is that tape Live from the Box, I think it's called? We had that oen, definitely very intense. you almost have to pause it after certain anecdotes to absorb it.

A Clockwork Orange is of course classic. Do you have a copy with the '21st chapter?'
And I try to make it through magazines as well; we get probably 2-3 a day, it seems like. I just went through the magazine rack and took out close to a hundred to get rid of. They are, shall we say, 'library' reading, and I didn't pay for any of them, so I don't mind them just sitting there for a while.
 
[quote name='defender'][quote name='cag1000']the anarchysts cookbook[/quote]

thats an instruction manual ....good read :)[/quote]

So long as you don't have the version designed to get people to kill themselves. A lot of would-be weathermen nipped in the bud by that one.
 
[quote name='sblymnlcrymnl']I'm always in the middle of reading either Fight Club or Survivor, both by Chuck Palahniuk of course.

Last thing I read besides those was The Anti-Christ, by Nietzsche. Soon to read Beyond Good and Evil, The Geneology of Morals, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra.

A Clockwork Orange and Catcher in the Rye are also on my shelf waiting for their time.

Usually I spend my time reading magazines though, I had over 20 subs last year, but I've let a few expire so it's probably around 15 now.[/quote]

I've read Catcher in the Rye and that is an amazing book. Very quick and enjoyable read; it's quite interesting when you start to analyze it more in depth. Only book that I have ever analyzed in a class that I enjoyed since I read it before the class. Most people don't understand it though. When you start to read it, make sure to pay close attention to the first page and the first question presented on the page about how the protagonist is going to tell you about a madman. Most people can't figure out who that is.
 
Glad to see so many people enjoying Catch 22. My favorite book of all! Anyone read the sequel? Don't read it if you're expecting more of the same. It's extremely postmodern especially when compared to Catch 22.

I'm reading One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. I used to love this movie as a teenager and never read it. It's pretty short, and seems decent so far.
 
Well, I just finished Ender's Game yesterday. Good book, kinda depressed me, though. In any case I believe I'll pick up Speaker For The Dead today or tomorrow.
 
[quote name='sblymnlcrymnl']Just got Jon Stewart's "Naked Pictures of Famous People", I think I'll start reading it very soon.[/quote]

He does one bit in that book where he goes into an MTV chat room and starts quoting Shakespeare to see if anyone notices. It's hysterical. I think it's the one you are talking about.
 
I don't like reading that much. The last leisure book I read was Lord of the Rings Trilogy in high school. I used to read religion books on Buddhism and Hinduism. Now I only read the textbook for college. I love reading manga/comic books too.
 
I'm halfway through 'Betrayal' by Linda Chavez. It documents the extraordinary corruption of the big labor unions and makes a good case for just disbanding the whole lot and returning the money to the workers.
 
Manga wise I am currently reading far too many to name but some favorties would be Naruto, Flame of Recca, and GTO.

Novel wise I just finished reading The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen which was an excellent book.
 
Battle Royale
Stupid White Men
Dude Wheres My Country

I find Michael Moore interesting and Battle Royale is one of my favorite movies.
 
Lately, I've been very into reading manga, so I'm in the middle of a Sailor Moon book right now. Yes.. Don't make fun. Girls like me like those kind of stuff.
 
Jeers to Sailor Moon, but speaking of manga. I just ordered the new volume of Blade of the Immortal like an hour ago. And finished the second volume of Arm of Kannon earlier today.
 
I just started reading Enders game a couple of days ago, and I have the whole book series. It's all in Ebook format so I can read it on my PDA.
 
i'm in the middle of 5-7 books, just finished seinlanguage yesterday, now i have to read to kill a mocking bird for school, at least the movie is kick ass. and it's a story i'll like compared to the millions of other crappy school books.
 
The last books I read, and this was quite a long time ago, were the three Halo books. They are great.
 
I just finished reading Seabiscuit. I had to read it for summer reading, and enjoyed it, but, it being summer, I had lost all attention span and it took about a month to finish
 
[quote name='xzafixz']Manga wise I am currently reading far too many to name but some favorties would be Naruto, Flame of Recca, and GTO.

Novel wise I just finished reading The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen which was an excellent book.[/quote]
I'm HOOKED on Naruto. Each chapter coming out is like the highlight of my week. I'm reading "How to Read a Book" for school. It's really repetitive.
 
I read Battle Royale over the summer, which was amazing. Now I'm reading about computer networking and deductive logic.
 
The O'Reilly Factor.
His show is certainly combative, and the tone is similar in the book, but I'd bet everyone would find something to agree with in this book, its verydown to earth.
And I'm working my way through Sailor Moon S1 and S2 on DVD.
 
Blood, Money & Power: How LBJ Killed JFK
Another product of my watching JFK for the first time. Can't get enough of them conspiracy theories!
 
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish - Book 4 of the inaccurately named Hitchhiker's Trilogy by Douglas Adams.

I've had the whole series sitting of my shelf for years now, and I never got around to reading beyond the first one, so I've been making the effort to do so lately.
 
[quote name='Zenithian Legend']a lot of college textbooks soon...[/quote]

Now why do you have to ruin a perfectly good week before school starts by mentioning that?

I've started reading a few political books because of the stupid election (how did I get drawn into these?). Mainly Shut up & Sing by Laura Ingraham which I enjoy cause it attacks the crazy, extreme hollywood liberals(hypocrits mostly). The only downside is she gets kind of out there at times.

I plan on reading Michael Moore is a Big, Fat Stupid White Man by David T. Hardy and Jason Clarke pretty soon. If you can't tell I'm not a fan of hollywood liberals like Michael Moore. I think part of the reason I may be voting for Bush is just to piss them off.

Anyway back to topic, I also read a minimum of 7 comics every wednesday (new comic day!). I think I may read either Jurassic Park (for about the 6th time) or The Davinci Code (picked it up, in true cheapass style, at Half Price Books for about $12 ) instead of the Michael Moore book. I have this thing about reading one book and playing one game at a time until they are finished.
 
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