The ' What are you reading? ' Thread!

Ron Paul "Foreign Policy of Freedom"

Ayn Rand "Atlas Shrugged"

"The Tipping Point"

Stephen King Dark Tower series

The Cosmic Serpent DNA and the Origins of Knowledge by Jeremy Narby

I didn't finish "Emma" by Jane Austen, though I liked her other books. I found the character of the title to be insufferably stupid.

It was really a stretch to make it to the end of "A Passage to India" by E.M. Forster. That was one of the worst books I have read, I hated the characters and their timid, insipid ways.

I read "Wuthering Heights" by Charlotte Bronte and while I realize this is a lot of people's favorite book, and that I am supposed to like it, I kept asking myself "am I obligated to finish this?" I did make it through but it really pissed me off.

Of course those are all well written books, that goes without saying, I just couldn't engage with the characters, I didn't give a shit what happened to them, I didn't like them as people. I didn't respect them.

The Shock Doctrine - Naomi Klein.

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Anygood?

I still have NO LOGO sat on my shelf waiting for me to pick it up.

but I love a lot of science fiction and William Gibson is one of my favorite authors, so it's pretty hard to pigeonhole what I like.


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"Emma" by Jane Austen

"Wuthering Heights" by Charlotte Bronte

Im going to force myself to read those soon, just to see what all the fuss is about.

Don't laugh...

I decided to reread my daughter's "Little House on the
Praire" books...I'm reading "Farmer Boy" now.

Felt like reading again about the simplier life, although
some things weren't easy.

Ron Paul "Foreign Policy of Freedom"

Ayn Rand "Atlas Shrugged"

"The Tipping Point"

Stephen King Dark Tower series


Fuuuuuuuuck, need to buy some Ayn Rand.

I have a couple of the Dark Tower series, but i have not started them because they are out of order and i want to start at the first.

Cant recall which ones i have, Wolves of the Calla(sp?) The Dark Tower and another one.

My favorite Dickens is "Our Mutual Friend". Did anyone else read that and do you remember how the junk man who couldn't read hired that sheet music seller/shyster guy to read to him, and they chose Gibbons' "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"?

I didn't finish "Emma" by Jane Austen, though I liked her other books. I found the character of the title to be insufferably stupid.

It was really a stretch to make it to the end of "A Passage to India" by E.M. Forster. That was one of the worst books I have read, I hated the characters and their timid, insipid ways.

I read "Wuthering Heights" by Charlotte Bronte and while I realize this is a lot of people's favorite book, and that I am supposed to like it, I kept asking myself "am I obligated to finish this?" I did make it through but it really pissed me off.

Of course those are all well written books, that goes without saying, I just couldn't engage with the characters, I didn't give a shit what happened to them, I didn't like them as people. I didn't respect them.


Im going to force myself to read those soon, just to see what all the fuss is about.

Dark Tower is great; the first one is really weird but you have to read it to get the context... just remember that it gets better :-)

I didn't finish "Emma" by Jane Austen, though I liked her other books. I found the character of the title to be insufferably stupid.

It was really a stretch to make it to the end of "A Passage to India" by E.M. Forster. That was one of the worst books I have read, I hated the characters and their timid, insipid ways.

I read "Wuthering Heights" by Charlotte Bronte and while I realize this is a lot of people's favorite book, and that I am supposed to like it, I kept asking myself "am I obligated to finish this?" I did make it through but it really pissed me off.

Of course those are all well written books, that goes without saying, I just couldn't engage with the characters, I didn't give a shit what happened to them, I didn't like them as people. I didn't respect them.


Im going to force myself to read those soon, just to see what all the fuss is about.


Wuthering Heights is awful. Enough brooding to meet the requirments of a batallion of Russian novelists.

Read Jane Eyre instead. That's one I periodically read again.

Dark Tower is great; the first one is really weird but you have to read it to get the context... just remember that it gets better :-)


My experience was opposite, I loved the spare writing of the first book! The thing began declining after the Wastelands (I knew we were headed for choppy water when the Emerald City made its appearance), and the final book left me feeling like Stephen King had mugged me and then defecated on my pillow afterwards. Betrayed and ill-used, if you see what I mean.

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Just finished Aldous Huxleys' Brave New World. That was trippy.

Ugh, why does he ALWAYS do that!? It's like he gets bored with the story and just farts on the last 75 - 100 pages, or in this case, the last book.

My experience was opposite, I loved the spare writing of the first book! The thing began declining after the Wastelands (I knew we were headed for choppy water when the Emerald City made its appearance), and the final book left me feeling like Stephen King had mugged me and then defecated on my pillow afterwards. Betrayed and ill-used, if you see what I mean.

I know its obvious, but you guys have such great taste in literature if any of you have never picked up anything by Philip K Dick you MUST.

Especially.

Do Androids dream of electric sheep.
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A Scanner Darkly

I see William Gibson on the street sometimes in Vancouver, jealous?

Oh, yeah "joke's over" By Ralph Steadman. great bio on Hunter S. Thompson.

Oh, yeah "joke's over" By Ralph Steadman. great bio on Hunter S. Thompson.


I have not got into Thompson yet, but i have Hells Angels waiting on my shelf.

I have 100s of books, im lacking certain literary classics and cult classics though, No Twain, Some HG Wells is missing, No Ayn rand.

Im working on it though, id hate to draw up a list but i have gotta have at least 300 books, and most of them are pretty well known to fans of literature.