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[Jacki O.]

I just finished Jeffrey Brown's "Little Things" - it's a graphic novel, but it still counts as a book to me!
It was a good quick read.
I just restarted Inga Muscio's "Cunt" (cuz i love cunts!) again. It is one of my favorite books, I've read it so many times....i love it.

Also just finished "Atlas of the Human Heart" by Ariel Gore - which is a really good book about a young girl who travels around the world by herself in the 80s.

[weener]

For work-related purposes (Youth services library employee), I'm reading the Twilight series. You know, the teen vampire romances written by that Mormon chick from Mesa. All the teen girls are so crazy about it right now. For me, it swings back and forth between "yeah, I was 15 once. I can sort of enjoy this" and "Ugh. This sucks and needs an editor."

[John MFer]

Right now I'm reading both "The Audacity of Hope" by Barack Obama, and "Husband Coached Childbirth" by Dr. Robert Bradley.

[danielle]

I just finished Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami yesterday. I liked it.

[hunter]

Palahniuk is overrated. :/

I'm on a big Bernard Cornwell kick right now. Next up after him, George R.R. Martin is my favorite author.

[johnnytron]

John Grisham- A time to kill

Not bad except for the rape part.

Makes my stomach a little queezy!

[mancopter]

I started "Me Talk Pretty One Day" last night.

Entertaining stuff.

[mig50]

i read about 90 pages of 'the rules of attraction' by bret easton ellis last night.

[innerear]

I started "Me Talk Pretty One Day" last night.

Entertaining stuff.

I just started Sedaris's new one When you are engulfed in flames and it's amazing.
Just fininshed Augusten Burroughs Magical thinking also very good for the most part.

[Ranger-X]

i am looking for some new books to get into....drop recommenmdations here....i am a fan of fiction mostly in the vein of good science fiction, but i will read any story worth reading...

thanks!

check out "Limbo" by Bernard Wolfe....in the vein of "Brave New World" and "1984" but seriously twisted post-apocalypse viewpoint....dig it

Huh...that looks like a good book, I'll have to see if my local library can get it.

I mostly read fiction myself. I just read Seize the Night by Doon Koontz...what a captivating book. Now I'm reading through Rising Sun by Michael Crichton. I'm a huge Crichton fan, and while this one isn't one of his best, it's still a good read so far. It could be my fascination with Japan keeping me going though. One thing I like about it is that even though it was published in 1992, it still has a fairly modern feel to it.

I've been thinking about reading through Catcher in the Rye again. I remember liking it when I read it for school several years ago, but don't remember much about it.

[bob]

i recommend 'hard revolution' by george pelecanos and 'shutter island' by dennis lehane.

[Jadbgjoka]

The Selfish Gene : 30th Anniversary Edition - Richard Dawkins

Critical Thinking : An Introduction to the Basic Skills, Second Edition - William Hughes


I haven't been reading many fictional books as of late...

[raubhimself]

My reading lately has slowed waaaay down...

I read Love Is A Mixtape not too long ago. Great book for music lovers and lovers of love. The whole book is pretty much a biography/auto-biography of the author and his late wife. She died young and he writes about how great she was etc, but each chapter relates to a mix tape (which is listed at the beginning of each chapter) and how that mixtape fit the moment.

I'm in the middle of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas right now. I read the first half while on a mini-vacation at the beach over a month ago. It's taken me this long to get around to reading 2 more chapters. I've seen the movie at least 6 times, but never read the book. I think the book is much better, and I love the movie.

[Jacki O.]

My reading lately has slowed waaaay down...

I read Love Is A Mixtape not too long ago. Great book for music lovers and lovers of love. The whole book is pretty much a biography/auto-biography of the author and his late wife. She died young and he writes about how great she was etc, but each chapter relates to a mix tape (which is listed at the beginning of each chapter) and how that mixtape fit the moment.

fuck yeah! i just started that!

[glitterbot]

i am re-reading the entire Dark Tower series from S. King. I have read them all before, but never all in a row. I read The Gunslinger when I was about 12 (circa 1984), and then read the rest of the series as they were released, with a couple re-reads here and there. The final book came out a few years ago. SO, I am revisiting this series that I have been reading, like, most of my life. I am on Song of Susannah, which is part 6. I plan on being done with the series by the end of the week. I am really enjoying them all in a row. When I am done, I plan on reading Monster Nation and Monster Planet, the follow-ups to Monster Island by David Wellington. After THAT... I am not sure.