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Since we all know all ya all read comics, what else are you reading?
I'm reading 2 books..."Good in Bed", a novel, and "Gut Feelings", Carnie Wilson's autobiography.

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Good Omens.

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2 books.... Finder by Greg Rucka

then a book on Prophecy from the Bible..

I find I can easily read 1 fiction book and another opinion/non-fiction book... 2 works of fiction at teh same time are too much IMO

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This thread.

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A shitload of comics???

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Does Rucka's Batman: NML novel count, thats the only "book" im reading, otherwise, like jaburg said, shit load of comics [biiiig grin] [biiiig grin]

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Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank

And N-Space

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I recently picked up Victor Hugo's Les Miserables again after a long hiatus from reading and jumped right back in where I left off. Still am not quite halfway through, but I'll be darned if that ain't a great book!

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A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess.

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Understanding Power- Noam Chomsky

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Napalm & Sillyputty- George Carlin

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Textbooks. Too many textbooks.

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I don't read comics...

The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract by...uh, Bill James
Why is the Foul Pole Fair? by Vince Staten

What can I say, it's baseball season again...

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I'm finishing up The Chronicles of Narnia, reading PAD's New Frontier hardcover from a year or so ago, and, well, a shitload of comics. [wink]

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In addition to reading Les Mis for leisure and recreation, but I'm also reading John Dewey's Individualism Old and New for my Modern Philosophy class...

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Summer of '49 by David Halberstam
Bad As I Wanna Be by Dennis Rodman

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Segments of Hans Walter Wolff's Anthropology of the Old Testament, Bishop Kallistos Ware's The Orthodox Way, and John Howard Yoder's Politics of Jesus in preparation for the final day of my three-day Systematic Theology final on Monday...

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Besides numerous Doctor Who and DS9 novels in the last few weeks Ive read

TIMELINE by Michael Crichton

reread
To Kill a Mockingbird
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Catcher in the Rye
both as a result of a conversation I had with Stareena

Later tonight plan on starting to re-read the Hobbit et al.

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I'm reading "Slander" by Ann Coulter and "Bias" by Arthur Goldberg. Both books show how the media attempts to distort the truth.....except of course Fox News Channel which is Fair and Balanced.

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HRRMMMMMMMMMMMM pressed peanut sweepings [DOH!]

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I just finished my second re-read of Terry Pratchett's Night Watch. Time travel, revolution, rogue cops, torture, murder, and dancing monks. What more could you ask for?

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I've recently been perusing A Date Which Will Live In Infamy,an alternate history anthology of short stories about Pearl Harbor.

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Seeing as how it is now the summer and I've been chosen to direct my school's spring play next year, I'm currently reading a ton of plays to get ideas. (I'm taking suggestions, if anyone has them.) Today, I finished up Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee and have started 100 Lunches by Jack Sharkey and Leo W. Sears, which I'll have finished by day's end.

Over the course of the next week, I'll read Till Death Do Us Part by Billy Van Zandt and Jane Milmore, Look Homeward, Angel by Ketti Frings, Claptrap by Ken Friedman, and seven full-length plays by Christopher Durang - The Idiots Karamazov, The Vietnamization of New Jersey, A History of the American Film, Beyond Therapy, Baby and the Bathwater, The Marriage of Bette and Boo, and Laughing Wild.

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I'm reading Harry Turdledove's The American Front. I'm also reading some "Before you get married" workbook.

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The Glory of Their Times by Lawrence S. Ritter
Private Parts by Howard Stern

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I just finished reading "King Solomon's Mines," and I'm waiting for the next harry Potter novel to come out. I've really gotten hooked - I can see why it's so popular with so many readers.

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Gah! Ya stole my thread (which I stole from Shaggy Faust).

I'm reading Black Dahlia by James Ellroy.

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Props to Mxy & Pig Iron. Both books are favorites on mine!

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"Choke" by Chuck Palniuhuk (sp.?) and "October Light" by John Gardener.

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Books I have lined up in the "read next" pile are:

"Disturbance of The Inner Ear" by Joyce Hackett

"Niagra Falls All Over Again" by Elizabeth McGraver

"The Poorhouse Fair" by John Updike

"Seek" by Denis Johnson

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quote:
Originally posted by Joe Mama:
Props to Mxy & Pig Iron. Both books are favorites on mine!

Yippie!
I'm also reading Will Eisner's Comics and Sequential Art.

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I've been reading through some of my Dragonlance novels lately. In the middle of "Dragons of Spring Dawning" right now, then going to read the Twins Trilogy which I've never read before.

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It's been a long time since I read it, but I remember the Twins trilogy as being very good.

None of the Dragonlance books that appeared after it were much cop in my opinion.

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Really? Thanks. Honestly I havent been a big fan of the Chronicles Trilogy. But I really want to read the Twins so I started back at the beginning to remember what all happened in the first series before I jump into the sequel. Cause come on..Raistlin kicked ass. He's the best character Dragonlance has got.

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Currently I´m reading The Guin Saga.
A japanese fantasy book...

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Two of my passions in life.

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I'm re-reading the Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons though normally I try to avoid too much sci fi - I have comics for that.

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quote:
Originally posted by backwards7:
It's been a long time since I read it, but I remember the Twins trilogy as being very good.

None of the Dragonlance books that appeared after it were much cop in my opinion.

Here's some I can recommend:
Weasel's Luck and Galen Beknighted, also Stormblade. But for god's sake, steer clear of those Forgotten Realms Harper series (urgh)!

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quote:
Originally posted by Mr. Nobody:
Gah! Ya stole my thread (which I stole from Shaggy Faust).

I'm reading Black Dahlia by James Ellroy.

Great book.


Reading American Noir: Underground Writers and Filmmakers of the Postwar Era by David Cochran.

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Two books have been getting much of my attention lately.

One is Speeding Bullet, the George Reeves bio by Jan Alan Henderson. If you want to know just how royally screwed up the investigation of his death was, that book's a real eye-opener.

The other is In Search of Dracula by Raymond McNally and Radu Florescu. It's about how the exploits of Vlad the Impaler and Elizabeth Bathory inspired Bram Stoker to write Dracula. And let me tell you something; after reading about the shit Vlad the Impaler pulled, I'm not the least bit surprised that Stoker wrote a story where Vlad got reincarnated as a vampire wreaking havoc on England. That guy was one sick bastard.

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