Guest aaron313 Posted October 12, 2008 Report Posted October 12, 2008 SRV: Caught in the Crossfire How did this great book slip past me for this long? No clue. But it is fantastic!
Chekhonte Posted October 12, 2008 Report Posted October 12, 2008 It's a shame that david killed himself not too long ago. I liked his essays and fiction.
Guest aaron313 Posted October 12, 2008 Report Posted October 12, 2008 It's a shame that david killed himself not too long ago. I liked his essays and fiction. Reading that one, too. I read his essay on Usage a couple years ago, and it fully ignited by passion for all things snooty in the English language.
Salt Peanuts Posted October 13, 2008 Report Posted October 13, 2008 Listening to an audiobook version of Good Omens by Pratchett and Gaiman. It's been a while since I've read the book.
manaox2 Posted October 16, 2008 Report Posted October 16, 2008 Right now, only the Godfather. I read The Prince by Machiavelli and before that I read The Rum Diaries. Plan to start on Palahniuk's Snuff as soon as I get ready to grab a copy. Also waiting for Pygmy to be released... I've just finished the first draft of a novel called "Pygmy," a dark comedy about terrorism and racism. The lead character is a 13-year-old foreign exchange student sent to live with a suburban, white, middle-class family. Oh, and they're Christians. The visit is for six months, and he's one of a dozen similar kids, all shipped to America to live with typical families. The secret truth is that Pygmy is a terrorist, trained since infancy in martial arts, chemistry and radical hatred of the United States. He has six months to build a prize-winning project for the National Science Fair. If he succeeds, he and his project will go to Washington, D.C. for the finals competition -- where the project will explode, killing millions.
Icarium Posted October 16, 2008 Report Posted October 16, 2008 Pretty good but perhaps not as good as his previous trilogies. For the like 5th time. His only really good book imo. Excellent offering from the Malazan universe.
penger Posted October 16, 2008 Report Posted October 16, 2008 I just read Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger and am starting Regeneration by Pat Barker.
Hopstretch Posted October 19, 2008 Report Posted October 19, 2008 J.M. Coetzee -- Disgrace I took a couple of his classes in college and he was a fucking dyspeptic old bastard well before he got run off into semi-exile with nothing but a Nobel prize for his pains.
ingwe Posted November 26, 2008 Report Posted November 26, 2008 There Are No Electrons: Electronics for Earthlings by Kenn Amdhal Justin and Gary: watch your ass.
The Monkey Posted November 26, 2008 Report Posted November 26, 2008 Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
ingwe Posted November 26, 2008 Report Posted November 26, 2008 Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron I saw the documentary. Very scary stuff.
The Monkey Posted November 26, 2008 Report Posted November 26, 2008 I saw the documentary. Very scary stuff. It's eerie how timely it is now.
postjack Posted November 26, 2008 Report Posted November 26, 2008 Read Stephen King's "On Writing". Required reading for anyone who ever writes anything OR reads. Or just loves reading Stephen King when he writes in his first person normal voice (his review of Ryan Adams' "Easy Tiger" is one of my favorite bits of writing). Back to Stephenson's "Quicksilver" now, which I started but put down.
Chekhonte Posted November 26, 2008 Report Posted November 26, 2008 Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the 19th Century
laxx Posted November 26, 2008 Report Posted November 26, 2008 The Fifth Dawn: Mirrodin Cycle Book III.
aardvark baguette Posted November 26, 2008 Report Posted November 26, 2008 Read Stephen King's "On Writing". Required reading for anyone who ever writes anything OR reads. Or just loves reading Stephen King when he writes in his first person normal voice (his review of Ryan Adams' "Easy Tiger" is one of my favorite bits of writing). Back to Stephenson's "Quicksilver" now, which I started but put down. Steven King reviewed Ryan Adams?
Hopstretch Posted November 26, 2008 Report Posted November 26, 2008 Something something Google something something twat something something. Smiley.
ingwe Posted November 26, 2008 Report Posted November 26, 2008 Back to Stephenson's "Quicksilver" now, which I started but put down. I too put it down. IMO its worth slogging through the first couple hundred pages. Snow Crash, by Stephenson Ah yes!
ph0rk Posted November 26, 2008 Report Posted November 26, 2008 Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett. That man's footnotes will test any ebook reader, thats for damn sure. Stanza no likey.
laxx Posted December 11, 2008 Report Posted December 11, 2008 The Fifth Dawn: Mirrodin Cycle Book III. Finishing it up. Last 20 pages or so. Should be done on my commute home from work. Then I'll be starting Johan: Antiques Cycle Book I.
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