I don't know if there's been a recent thread like this because I havn't really been checking the forum everyday, but what have all of you been reading? I just started Salem's Lot and I'm liking it so far (I've been meaning to read more Stephen King ever since I read Different Seasons). Before this, I read The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (I think that's his name...) and that was a great story. Then before that I read a Jimi Hendrix biography called Hendrix. Very informative and enjoyable, but hard (for me) to read for an extended period of time. It was more of a read half of a chapter and put it down kind of thing. Probably cause there was a lot of information and it was hard to absorb it all or something. What's everyone reading?

i have not enjoyed reading since i was in the 6th grade, but all of a sudden i've been going to book stores regularly and spending way too much time reading random stuff. something must be wrong with me, haha. i'm really only attracted to goofy books that have no purpose at all, such as:

The Useless Book of Information, presented by the Useless Information Society
Eating Your Auntie Is Wrong: The World's Strangest Customs by Stephen Arnott
and a book that i can't remember the exact title of, but it's something like The Hypochondriac's Guide to Terrible Diseases You Probably Already Have

I'm also interested in picking up the Lewis Black book, Nothing Sacred, and Tucker Max's I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell

I've been thinking about reading The Kite Runner.

I just finished 'New Rules' by Bill Maher, 'The Truth (With Jokes)' by Al Franken and to complete my comedy/politics trifecta I'm reading 'America: The Book' (Daily Show Presents) right now which I'm almost done with. Next up is 'The Time Traveler's Wife' and then probably 'To Kill A Mockingbird'. I go through a book a week lately because I'm a super-nerd.

I was unaware Lewis Black had a book. I'm all over that.

pam said:

yeah, it's friggin hilarious. the first page say something like "warning: if you are affiliated with any of the christian religions, you will be greatly offended by this book. there. i just saved you 13 dollars. don't say i never did anything for you!"

HST - Fear and Loathing in America : The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist

Henry Miller - Tropic of Capricorn

u dont wanna no.Zarathustra's secret. By a german prof.,translated by an english prof.,i mean from england.

farenheit 451

last two books I read were
Rule By Secrecy - Jim Marrs
The Twelfth Planet - Z. Sitchin

now I'm reading Behold a Pale Horse - William Cooper

Man in the shadows, stiff, and parliment of whores.

retzam, you are BSV always make threads like this.
awesome.

currently, "A People's History of the USA" by Howard Zinn. Last read were "Diary" and "Survivor" by CHuck Palahniuk, and "The Jesus Papers" by Michael Baigent. Also "Cat's Cradle" and "Slaughterhouse 5" by Kurt Vonnegut.

p.s. PAM ~ The Kite Runner was excellent

I just finished reading an english translation of the Dhammapada.

I just read Robert Anton Wilson's Cosmic Trigger 1 and 2
Both great, fun, truly interesting books that I'd recommend to anyone who likes to think of themselves (haha) as a free thinker...second one's optional, first one's really great

Nietzsche's The Antichrist, don't know how I missed that one in high school
Jonathan Swift's Abolishing Christianity and other essays (it's cute)
G.I Gurdjieff's Meetings with Remarkable Men, picked this up because of what Wilson wrote about him, haven't made much progress so far
and finally...Rafael Sabatini's CAPTAIN BLOOD!!!

I'm start about to start World War Z by Max Brooks after I finish the current issue of Fangoria. Can't wait.

I reread The Antichrist in 1989. Most agree Nietzsche was well on his way to syphilitic megalomania by 1888, when he wrote it. Take it with a grain of salt.

I just read a couple of great books:

Cities in the Wilderness: A New Vision of Land Use in America - Bruce Babbit
The Log from the Sea of Cortez - John Steinbeck
and I reread The Hobbit, haha.

bored of the rings?

not really a book but "Pride of Baghdad" by Brian K. Vaughan, it's a comic that just was releashed into a trade paperback, it's amazing, based on a true story (minus the animals talking) the US bombed a zoo in Baghdad freeing 4 lions into the streets, it's a story of their survival and what freedom really means.

Nietzsche was well on his way to syphilitic megalomania the day he was born, dude.
I try to take everything I read with a grain of salt, but when it comes to Nietzsche I always enjoy his writing style (well, what of it survives the translation, who knows) more than his message. The words just jump off the page like Lewis Black's stand up delivery sometimes

The Redneck Manifesto

^Same as CNV, also just read the back of a Lysol can while torqin' one out on the shitter. Short read, but very informative. :-)

the_reverend said:

Hahaha, yeah, well, people seem to like talking about what their reading, but no one thinks to make threads like this on a metal forum.

they're*

pam said:

I strongly recommend it. It really is a great story with lots of facets to think about.

Murph said:


I'm reading "A People's History of the USA" too, I usually read a few chapters in between my other books. I read "Lies My Teacher Told Me" by James Lowen last spring, if you haven't read that, it's worth reading.

I've read Survivor, Fight Club, Lullaby, and Choke by Palahniuk. I love the way he writes but I stopped reading his stuff because the whole anti-hero plot got a little redundant. How was Diary??

Slaughterhouse 5 is on my list, too.

retzam said:

I knock people down to get to a book conversation. I rarely get one...most people I know aren't readers which is an unending disappointment.

Howard Zinn is a kike not an anarchist.

No one called him an anarchist...

i am currently half way through Fellowship of the Ring.

Devil’s Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three by Mara Leveritt

Book threads are always fun, and you can't go wrong with A People's History of the US or Lies My Teacher Told Me. I'm reading Foundation and Earth (Asimov), The Shining, Dark Lord of Derkholm (Jones), and The Golden Bough (Frazer) and just finished Life of Pi, which I had been putting off for years but finally jumped on once I found out Jeunet was adapting it for film.

If I read more than 1 book at a time ,My head will implode

I realize no one said anything about him being an anarchist. I'm just blurting out cause I'm a piece shit.
I just think he's full of bullshit utopian ideas honey. Anarchism being one of them. Thats all. He'll never get his hands dirty.
I know my shit. I'm a well read hillbilly. ;-)

Skål!

Oops! I forgot to quote you Pam!

I have no idea what you're talking about.

me either
nevermind

reading an incredibly detailed biography of Che Guevara's life called "Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life" by Jon Anderson. I can't get over how thoroughly researched the book is. Also kind of picking at "Guns, Germs, and Steel" by Jared Diamond. I need to read some good fiction soon, haven't read anything since I read about 4 books be Haruki Murakami...who rules.

pam said:

My friends harass me to no end about my reading.

Pam, I think Diary is the most innovative book I've read by Palahniuk. The whole premise is just so counter to anything I've read, which is why I find it so odd the writers like Vonnegut and Palahniuk have appeared so closely (in a generational sense.) Chuck P. is brilliant to me because he paints vivid pictures of the things we either don't want to picture or just wouldn't think to picture (my opinion) and for me Diary is just a notch above his other works.

John Fante - Full of Life

Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
this book called Quietus
Soul Music by Terry Pratchett
Code of the Samurai by Thomas Cleary
Johnny Got his Gun by Dalton Trumbo

I'm reading a heafty stack for school, but one title I am reading for my own enjoyment is:
The Political Zoo by Michael Savage

After not having much time to read in the past few weeks, I've found myself perusing between my favorite works of Hawthorne, Thoreau, Lovecraft, Arthur Machen, and Goethe.

A trip to the bookstore seems to be in order.

just started

the stand by stephe king

white tiger - aravind adiga
supernatural - graham hancock
Tibetan Folk Tales - A.L. Shelton
the ocean of theospohy - william q. judge

Charlie Papazian's "Joys of Homebrewing"

Jim Norton's "Happy Endings - The Tales of a Meaty Breasted Zilch" and "I Hate Your Guts"

Maddox's "The Alphabet of Manliness"

Finding Darwin's God - Kenneth R. Miller

After Dark - Haruki Murakami

nothing currently, but I'm interested in buying both the Denis Leary book and the Artie Lange book

Homer : Marge, I'm bored.
Marge : Why don't you read something?
Homer : Because I'm trying to _reduce_ my boredom.

both are on my "to buy" list

The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine - Maoshing Ni trans.

Moshing in Trains

The Collected Works of T.S. Eliot
Chatterton - Peter Ackroyd
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell (beyond excellent)
The Road - Cormac McCarthy

A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R R Martin.

Shit is fucking epic. Nothing but war, kings fucking shit up, sex, and incest. so fucking good.

http://www.bravewords.com/braveboard/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=83538

Franny and Zooey - JD Salinger
You Get So Alone At Time That it Just Makes Sense - Charles Bukowski

I finished The Abstinence Teacher by Tom Perotta a few weeks ago. Worth a read if you're into Perotta.

the owl papers

The Picture Of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

I am reading "Invincible" which is the ninth book in a nine book series in the star wars world. The series is called "legacy of the force" and it takes place when Luke Skywalkers son Ben is about 13-15years old, and Han Solo, and Leia Organa Solo's kids are both jedi. I just finished a 14 book star wars series called "the new jedi order" which is right before the current series in the timeline.

the road. second time, its even better. hope the movie does it justice

Are those any good(maybe a stupid question since you just read 23 of them)? I tried reading some of the books, but with the exception of Timothy Zahn's Thrawn Trilogy, I couldn't get into them.

just finished "gonzo"

Philosophy/ethics book that contemplates the futility of modern civilization and its inevitable collapse. Definitely a recommended read.

the Thrawn trilogy ruled!!!!
anyway, there are good and bad S.W. books.
i highly reccomend
Yoda: "Dark Rendevous"
Shadows of the Empire
The Rise of Lord Vader
Outbound Flight
and
Survivor's Quest

the legacy of the force series is good, not great. the last one that i am reading now is fantastic. (invincible) The series is written by 3 authors, aaron allston, then a girl who i forget, then troy denning, and that order repeats two more times. If you can get through the books that she writes, the other 6 are great. The new new jedi order series is good from start to finish, and it's written by about 10 different authors, so the writting styles don't get too boring.... I read what most of you would call "smarter" books too, i read the entire (up to where it left off) Wheel of time series, and loved it, i read a lot of books, i just really like star wars.

gaia project 2012
power vs force
the book of divinity
the healers manual
the origin of the devil.

That's funny,I'm reading Shadows of the Empire now,and I just ordered the Dark Lord trilogy,and the the Darth Bane series.
Also reading,Neuromancer and Good Omens,after all of those I was thinking about Rendezvous with Rama

I didn't like the Darth Bane book. It seems really juvenile.

After I finish those Martin books, and then finally read Children of Dune, I'm gonna move to Shadows of the Empire.

I read those George Martin books. They are fucking awesome. The last one... i think it was a feast of crows... or something like that... anyways, it wasn't out when i read the other ones, did you read that one yet? Is it as good as the earlier ones?

Its sitting at my house, waiting to be read. From what I read about it, its just as good as the others. I'm finishing up Clash of Swords now. There's going to be three more books too. I hope he doesn't die before he finishes them. I was a little hesitant in starting to read them, being that they are very long books, but I'm so glad I did. Lots of musical inspiration in there.

Demons by fyodor dostoevsky just got it on christmas.

Ya, that's books are really good. I think i might have to re-read them. It's been probably 8 years since i read them.

i haven't read the bane book yet.
i heard good things....but i guess it depends on taste.

i also read a pretty decent book on Darth Maul....but i read it a few years back and forgot the fuckin title!

Its not bad, just very simple. I think I just expected more.

Moran- You haven't read any of the new jedi order, or the legacy of the force series yet? They really are worth reading. How about the Wheel of time series.

None of those. I'll have to check those out next. NJO is the really long series right? About Luke rebuilding the Jedi Order?

yeah, its great. The occupation of Borealis is wonderful, and Jaina/Jacen Solo are badass as hell.

Nice. I wish I didn't already spend my Barnes & Noble gift card. I'll look into those. But, I'm out of here, work just let us out for the weekend.

yah, i am about 2 minutes from being let out.

Clive Barkers new book "Mister B. Gone" its awesome

swamp thing

The Global Bell Curve

Too Fat to Fish - Artie Lange

stephen king - just after sunset
and i've been thinking of digging out the dark elf trilogy. it's been so long...

Stephen king's Desperation

Glen Cook The Black Company

Dante's inferno

awesome,even for being written in the 1300's

Of wolves and men.

Re-reading. Best book written in the last 50 years.

last book I read:






should start re-reading it soon...

i'm still reading A Million Little Pices by James Frey. It's a good book even though the author is a liar. I think he made himself out to be a badder ass than he really is, yar.

Can you reccomend any worthy versions for me? I've been wanting to read that but every time I go to the bookstore, they have so many different versions with various editions and translated and modernized versions and whatnot I don't know which one to get!

I'm reading this on and off, too. Hitchens is the man.

I just requested The Road by Cormac McCarthy from paperbackswap.com, everyone keeps telling me to read it.

read it. best book i read last year.

try and dig up the translation by elio zappulla, published by vintage. after each canto is an explanation of all references, culture, and all things relevant line by line. i have never found his translations of purgatorio or paradisio, but you just reminded me to look again.

Sextrology

Goethe's Faust

might be my favorite book ever.

Anyone who likes Chuck Palahniuk should immediately go find anything they can by Philip Wylie. He doesn't get as gruesome but his style is a definite precursor to Palahniuk. I think he was writing from the 30's to the 60's. Mad man.

Now that is a GREAT (better than good) book.

The Assist by Neil Swidey

I like some of Chuck's books... I'll check him out, thanks!

I just got The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time in the mail today. I gotta finish up a few books before I start it, anyone else read it?

Yes, it's a turd.

The Road-Cormac McCarthy
The Living Dead-various compilation of horror writers
the wavering knife-Brian Evenson
the Conqueror worms-brian keene
the marijuana chef cookbook-s.t.oner

same guy that wrote No Country for Old Men... so fucking good.

I loved it. It's the funniest and saddest damn thing I think I've ever read. Super quick read, too.

Tragic lack of pointing out other races' inferiority for you?

Sweet.

Who wants to buy $60 worth of Borders books gift cards for $50? YAY!!!

This morning I read half of

But it's been kinda useless to me so far. Maybe I should of read a newer book.

I would strongly recommend Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy to anyone who is into apocalyptic suffering.

I'm gonna pick that up next..."The Road" was great also...totally bleak
and brutal. I'm reading a compilation called "Wastelands:stories of the Apocalypse"right now thats pretty good too if you like end of the world
stories.

Bleak and obscene literature for a dismal, snowed in day.

I'm probably starting it tonight...RTTP BOOKCLUB!!

Thanks, dude. I've got it on my wishlist.

I enjoyed reading the Answer Me! issues more than both of his books. Recently I've been reading 'Teenage Wasteland' by Donna Gaines, whom I found out about through Jim Goad. It's pretty interesting and based on the shitty underside of white teen life in the suburbs during the early 90's. Though the teens are seemly into crap musically, she makes mention of Big Black and Test Dept. which is enough for me

Next on the must read list: Standing in Two Circles.

How about "I hope they serve beer in hell", it wasn't a literary masterpiece... like all the starwars books i read, but it was funny as hell.

I NEED TO READ THIS AS WELL !!!!!!! I haven't been able to find it any cheaper than $60 anywhere.