Thread: What are you reading?

A Handmaid's Tale by Margret Atwood. Not really into the writing style so much, but I'm only 30 pages in so hopefully it improves.

update...Ive finished the farseer trilogy by robin hobb...and all I can say is...wow. Ive immediately picked up the second trilogy she made about the same characters, the tawny man trilogy, and have almost finished the second book already Golden Fool. Hobb is an excellent story teller and the plot is superb.

Escape from Evil by Ernest Becker. It's about the root of inequality in human society and the subsequent rise of greater evil.

"We are here at one of the ultimate crossroads in social theory . . . If the cause of the trouble were force, to "expropriate the expropriators" would be enough. But if force did not establish the domination of the master, then perhaps the slave is somehow in love with his own chains . . . a deeper psychological malady..."

"The first person who, having fenced off a plot of ground, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society."


"If the emergence of social privilege marks the Fall of Man, the Fall took place not in the transition from "primitive communism" to "private property" but in the transition from ape to man."

Awesome!

Also finishing up the Odd Thomas series by Dean Koontz.

Just finished "Under the Dome" by Stephen King. It was excellent.

Originally Posted by Man of Steel

Sort of reading a few right now. I checked the Sword of Shannarra trilogy (along with a few other Terry Brooks books) out of the library to re-read, but I'd forgotten how blasted slow they are, so I'm stalling.

I am reading The Bearers of the Black Staff, right now! I really like his books. I read the three Shannarra books prior, as well. I am stalling the finish of his latest; I hate it when a book ends...301.

Originally Posted by darknightedlady

I am reading The Bearers of the Black Staff, right now! I really like his books. I read the three Shannarra books prior, as well. I am stalling the finish of his latest; I hate it when a book ends...301.

I'd actually read that one right before I posted that; it's what made me want to re-read the older books. Right now I am, sadly, not reading anything. Too busy with life.

Originally Posted by Man of Steel

not reading anything. Too busy with life.

:/

I'm trying to finish Dune... the first one. Still.
*sigh*

"Draculas" by five different horror writers who really hated the concept of the oxymoron "Sexy Vampire", and wrote one of the goriest and most brutal vampire books I've read. Really brilliant.

Also reading "The Touch" and "Fatal Error" both by F. Paul Wilson, a writer of "Draculas," "The New Marriage Rules," and "Lucid Dreaming: Journey to the Inner Self." Finally, got back into reading.

"The Dark" by Marianne Curley. I recieved it today after I ordered it off of Amazon.

My reading list right now is By the Light of the Moon and The Key to Midnight by Dean Koontz, and The Coffin Dancer and The Twelfth Card by Jeffery Deaver.

Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison, and The Law of Nines, by Terry Goodkind.

"Modern Aeronautics" by Lou Padaloupe; "The IT Revolution" by Mike Rowsoft; "Diary of a Call Girl" by Sheila Blige.

I am STILL reading the first Dune lol
Hubby and I were near the mall today and I tried to talk him into going, but there was a big sports game so traffic was crazy and he wouldn't.
I refuse to finish the book without the next ones in my possession.
Hopefully, we'll get to the Mall tomorrow. I can't keep reading that book forever

Finished The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway on a pleasant (though cold and overlong) train journey. Now reading assorted Hunter S. Thompson newspaper articles.

Also Marlowe's Faust, which is proving kick-ass.

everyone in The Picture of Dorian Gray is homosexual.

That story was amazing though. I loved how visual his corruption was.

The last book I read was Las Intermitencias de la Muerte by José Saramago. Im currently reading Ensayo Sobre La Ceguera also by José Saramago.

this is some good literature.

I'm reading this great book on Anti-Gravity. I can't put it down!

Originally Posted by The Cusp

I'm reading this great book on Anti-Gravity. I can't put it down!

That was horrible.

(But I laughed on the inside.)

Originally Posted by The Cusp

I'm reading this great book on Anti-Gravity. I can't put it down!

I know what you mean, Cusp. I've been looking for a book on Modern Camouflage Techniques, but I can't find one anywhere.

But here are three more recommendations: "Hearts and Minds: the Afghan experience" by A.K. Fortis-Evan; "Piscatori Romani" by Titus Linus, and "1939: the Annexation of the Sudetenland" by Hans Upp.

.. and that Anti-Gravity book. Apparently, the Publishing Company responsible has just been floated on the Stock Market.

Almost finished reading Small Gods by Terry Pratchett. I've had it for a while, but I keep getting distracted. I blame the internet.

Also reading the graphic novel Death: The High Cost of Living, which is, once again, written by Neil Gaiman. I'm actually trying not to go through it too quickly.