Reading List Thread

[marduk1507]

Liquid Modernity from Zygmunt Bauman. A great book from a very wise sociologist. My recommendations.

 

[Delirious]

I bought three books in a three for two deal recently, and I don't know what to read first...

Chuck Palahniuk - Haunted
(Edit: if you saw what was writen here before... laugh it up) J.D Salinger - The Catcher in the Rye (yeah I never read it)
or Kurt vonnegut - Slaughter house five

What do you reckon? I'm fresh off the back of a reimmergence into the realms of murgos, dryads and sorcery... so maybe something abit more real.

slaughterhouse five is great, so if you're not going through them all in a row i recommend that one.

haven't read haunted, though, and the cathcer in the rye apparently is erased from my mind (i know i read it in school, but i can't for the love of it remember anything).

 

[Deathmetal_head]

I have just finished reading by Raymond E. Feist, A Darkness At Sethanon, not normally my sort of style the fantasy books but very good reading

 

[La Rocque]

"My Bad":25 Years of Public Apologies and the Appalling Behavior that Inspired Them
by Paul Slansky / Arleen Sorklin
I don't believe most of these people who apologized were sincere its more that they were caught doing something wrong

"Unholy Messenger" the Like and Crimes of the BTK Serial Killer by Stephen Singular
BTK aka Dennis Rader was different than most serial killers as he lead an ordinary life, had a wife, two children went to work everyday was an outstanding member of the church but over 30 years he did the BTK(Bind, Torture, Kill) thing. This guy was f'n weird

"A Simple Act of Murder" by Mark Fuhrman
a JFK assassination read -

 

[La Rocque]

'Before the Legend' the rise of Bob Marley by Christopher John Farley
Bob Marley is the most universal recording artiest evah, you'll find his music being played in deepest darkest Africa, on top of mountains in the Himalayas and in the finest penthouse on Park Ave

"My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever" BM

 

[hyena]

Currently through book 6 of The Chronicles of Narnia, thus nearing completion of a whole year spent reading CS Lewis. First came The Screwtape Letters, then The Great Divorce, then I took a break, only to fall rabidly on the bulk of his theological writing in March (Mere Christianity was literally devoured in two days with moments of sheer delight that will not come back, and The Four Loves was underappreciated because I was tired and stupid). I took another short break before leaving for Narnia, and now that I'm almost at the end I am looking at Miracles and, more excitedly, at Surprised by Joy. Of course this is not all he's written, but I will have the main bases covered.

I think that if I had met CS Lewis while he was alive I would have hated him with a passion, because that's the kind of thing that happens if someone puts words to my thoughts. It's easy to get used to this incredible feat, only to get really angry in the very rare circumstance that something does not fall into place.

 

[La Rocque]

^ When I joined UM I almost took the ID; Wormwood

Just picked this up today
'100 People Who are Screwing Up America' by Bernard Goldberg

 

[solefald]

Just finished Mao II by Don DeLillo. The end is a little bit unexpected but the idea of an author who lives retired from society and writes for years on his new book and fears to release and finish it reminds me of J.D.Salinger.

 

[marduk1507]

Bought Choke from Palahniuk, read it, it was great as usual.

Now Im reading The So Called Evil from Konrad Lorenz.

 

[Dark_Silence]

I am currently practicing my German but reading HP and the Philosopher's stone in German. Have read it in French and in English before, it helps to figure out what the vocabulary means...

 

[Malaclypse]

@ whoever it was who wanted to get some feedback on "firewall" (if it isn't too late already):

don't buy it if you have at least a slight understanding of modern computer systems and communications. the protagonist is one who doesn't have the slightest clue about such things, and obviously the author hasn't one, either. the thing is mildly entertaining as a standard thriller, but don't expect anything too fancy regarding techie stuff, it's all too vague and the bits which are there are often far-fetched and sometimes plainly wrong. read cryptonomicon instead.

just a small example without spoiling it all: two people being part of big conspiracy, having written a virus that will do massive damage and plunge mankind back towards medieval times, communicate over standard telephones?

NR: frank schätzing - lautlos (silently)

 

[La Rocque]

Just picked up
"Queens Reigns Supreme" Fat Cat, 50 Cent and the Rise of the Hip-Hop Hustler
by Ethan Brown
Base on police wiretaps and interviews, the story of how the streets and the housing projects of southeast Queens took over the rap industry, a look inside the connections of the gangster culture in hip-hip today.

 

[La Rocque]

'The Man Who Knew Too Much', Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer by David Leavett
"a number is computable if its decimal can be written down by a machine"

 

[RampageSword]

"The Dice Man" by Luke Rhinehart. Only read three pages so far so I don't have much to say yet.

 

[KitKat]

I'm into Henning Mankell these days (weeks)

 

[Siren]

I'm reading the Da Vinci Code (only because it was a gift). I'm not even in page 50 yet, and i'm already bored. Let's see if i manage to finish this one.

 

[KitKat]

I'm reading the Da Vinci Code (only because it was a gift). I'm not even in page 50 yet, and i'm already bored. Let's see if i manage to finish this one.

You're not obliged to read it, even if it's a gift hehehe ... You don't have to be ashamed of reading Dan Brown books. lol

 

[atchoum]

-"the pillars of the earth" by Ken Follet is great big novel which takes place in middle age in England, it's about the building of a cathedral. there is suspens, conflicts ect... really great thing to read if you have time.
-"moskovslaïa saga" by Vassili Axionov is about destiny of family during the first period of communism in URSS. it's really intersting because it teaches us a lot about soviet citizens ' life between 1924 and 1953 and also about the "soul" of russian people : poets, literature ...

 

[solefald]

I'm reading the Da Vinci Code (only because it was a gift). I'm not even in page 50 yet, and i'm already bored. Let's see if i manage to finish this one.

I saw the movie to do a friend a favor and if the book is in the same way like this horrible stupid boring senseless movie...oh dear. another book for burning.

I always recommend "Focault`s pendulum" by Umberto Eco to those who are into easy stuff like dan brown and interested in church history, holy grail and other mythological legends but for most people this book is too complicated*g*

anyway I picked up The human stain by phillip roth.

 

[marduk1507]

I always recommend "Focault`s pendulum" by Umberto Eco to those who are into easy stuff like dan brown and interested in church history, holy grail and other mythological legends but for most people this book is too complicated*g*

A good recommendation! However, this book is complex, and a lot of people might see it as complicated. I prefer The Name of the Rose from Eco, but Ive also read and own FP.