What Book Are You Reading? -- Part V

Le petit Prince, good choice SD :wink:

I love Aldous Huxley i know it’s cliche, but you should read (if you haven’t already) Brave New World. or Point counter point.

If your interested in some of his experiences regarding psycadelic drugs, you should read his essays “The Doors of Perception”

I just finished reading Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, which is an 1884 novella by Edwin A. Abbott. Despite being written in the 1800s, it’s an extremely easy read and really makes you think about perception. (well, it’s mostly suppose to be a satire of Victorian society, but the math alone is interesting.) I highly recommend this book to everyone, even people who don’t like math. Actually, you can read like half the book using the “view inside” feature at the Barns & Noble website.

I am also reading Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer , about an asteroid knocking the moon into a different orbit, which causes disasters on Earth.

And Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick, the inspiration for the Blade Runner movie.

i got that book for my friend as a gift, since his favorite book of all time is Brave New World, he’s been meaning to read The Island (i think he has also read Brave New World revisited)

me? i am reading Timequake (to be honest, i ALMOST wrote ‘TimeQuake’ but stopped myself notanaddict) by my man Kurt Vonnegut.

I have to say i think it’s my favorite Kurt Vonnegut book so far, except maybe Cat’s Cradle, because it seems to be the classic Vonnegut i know and love… “to the extreme” so to speak. Although there is a story, a lot of the book is just seemingly random ramblings and other stories about people he knew.

i bought The Dark Tower VII (even though i haven’t read the dark tower 1). It was on sale, hardcover, for 8 usd! imagine that!

speaking of cheap books, i also started reading a little book called The Areas of my Expertise my John Hodgman, who was (is? i dunno) a newspaper writer for the New York Times. He’s very funny, and has compiled a book of… random, false facts. For example, he has stats on all 51 united states. He also claims that Chicago doesn’t actually exist but people believe you can visit it when it rises out of Lake Michigan once every 100 years. only 4 usd! :razz:

I Just bought Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman 5: A Game of you, in hardback.

I’ve read all of his novels and short stories and watched all his films so I figured that I’d make a start on his comics, up to number 5 already, the man is a freaking genius.

Do you know any other books written by him?

James: if you’re into comics, all the Sandman series is a must.

If you like books, you should badly look for American Gods and Good Omens.

Always a thanks Bruno :wink:

Good omens… One of the best books ever.
I have stopped reading lately. I started reading “Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen (Misspelled, probably) in english, but I just can’t seem to concentrate on it.

I got Good Omens for Christmas, i will start reading it soon.

I’m reading Psychocybernetics since someone recommended it to me. It’s soooo amazing, and I haven’t even made it to the second chapter yet!

I read: My New Filing Technique is Unstoppable, and: My New Fighting Technique is Unstoppable, with the former of the two being the funnies. It was a sort of absurd-humor comic type thing. I was crying I was laughing so hard at times. It has a lot of swearing in it though, A LOT, so heads up, hahaha.

Wow, it’s really been slow around here…

Reading Europe Through the Back Door by Rick Steves. It has a lot of valuable travel information and tips for saving money in Europe. For instance, eat a lot of picnics when in Europe, can save up to $10 per meal. Or, stay at hostels, and save 50 dollars in Scandinavia per night. Stuff like that. Very exciting stuff to read about, travel. I can’t wait to go this summer, then once again next October.

Also, stalled on the Three Muskateers, hopefully temporarily. The way the characters talk to women is awful, so ridiculously old fashioned…I stopped reading it because of it. Considering 1/3 of the book is exactly that, you can see why I quit reading, hahaha.

Hahaha, true, people don’t read books in January? :tongue:

/me has been finishing some of the books he posted about before, but which he didn’t have an opportunity/the patience to finish when he started them. :tongue:

i finished Timequake, which might have been my favorite Vonnegut yet. It’s between that and Cat’s Cradle.

Also got through The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger, which was pretty much the best thing ever. Started on The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three, but i’m not liking it as much (at least from the first 30 or so pages). It’s still good though

i have Dune here but i’m not quite sure if i am going to get around to reading it anytime soon. Might finish all the Dark Tower first, i’m sorta hooked.

I’m reading “Marley and Me”, it’s pretty good. It’s about a couple that decides to get a dog, which turns out to be the most naughty and untrainable dog in the world :tongue:

I’m currently reading “The Husband” by Dean Koontz. I always think that a book will be strange or not interesting but I seem to almost always like them… I guess I just doubt too much. I really like the Dean Koontz books I’ve read lately, and I recommend “Odd Thomas” and the two sequels to anyone that’s interested.

Finished Bourne Ultimatum. Pretty good trilogy, although I felt that Bourne Identity was the best of the three. The third one was a lot easier to put down than the first two.

I am now reading A Writer at War, by Vasily Grossman, about the German campaign in Russia during the Second World War. Very interesting stuff. It has a bunch of tidbits of information about how life was then, what they ate, as they retreat further and further back into Russia. A bit I enjoyed was how, after a German soldier froze solid, some Russians would lift them back onto their feet, and so he would stand there, completely dead and immobile until a huge gust of wind would knock them over. Fun stuff.

Still reading the Three Musketeers, although slow progress is being made. I started No Birds Sang on the Second World War as well, by Farley Mowat. It’s a harder read though, because it’s a rather darker book, about the atrocities of war. Fun stuff.

Inspired by the porteño charm of the town I’m calling “home” for the week, I’m currently reading Jorge Luis Borges’ Ficciones (again :roll:) and Julio Cortázar’s Rayuela. :smile: