All Fun And Games Until Someone Loses An Eye by Christopher Brookmyre

Die Hard meets Sean Connery meets my life. Brookmyre is bloody brilliant.

I'm reading "Jingo" by Terry Pratchett and the "Illuminatus! Trilogy" by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson. It's the most fucked up shit I've ever read. It's totally stream of thought, so it changes perspectives, time frames, and characters all the time. It feels less like a book and more like an experience; I love it.

Next by Michael Crichton

1984 by Orwell, for the 2nd time because I have nothing else to read right now. I requested The Jungle by Upton Sinclair from the library because they didn't have it at my local branch.

QB VII by Leon Uris

Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan

I, Lucifer by Glenn Duncan.

Great Expectations by Dickens


for my english class, due monday.

Benito Mussolini: The First Fascist by Anthony L. Cardoza

I am reading a load of Jenny Crusie for I am a girl and have no shame.

The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood

Trying to finish Father and Son ....boring
Starting the Communist Manifesto when I'm done with it.

I am very slowly reading Little Children by Tom Perrotta. It was made into a movie, but I haven't seen it. It's good so far, but I just can't get myself to sit down and read it because I've been kinda preoccupied lately.

Jumping around between three books right now, based on my mood.

Mort by Terry Pratchet
Searching for the Sound: My Life With the Grateful Dead by Phil Lesh
The Joke's Over: Bruised Memories: Gonzo, Hunter S. Thompson, and Me by Ralph Steadman

I'm reading The Shooting Party by Anton Chekhov.

The Blue Wolf by Frederic Dion. I like it.

Hunger by Knut Hamsun

finally sat down and actually read and finished it

Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas F. Hofstadter

And I was reading Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace but I had to return it to the library. Great book though, I'm definitely going to buy it eventually, though.

Started and finished The Perks of Being a Wallflower last night.

Hardcore Diaries by Mick Foley

Started reading American Gods by Neil Gaiman. I started it like last Sunday and I'm already half way through, so I'm impressed with myself.

Oh my god, that book is win. My all-time favorite.

I'm reading Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson at the moment. It's fun.

The Orientalist by Tom Reiss.

I just read On My Own- The Diaries of a Teenage Girl.

Basically this girl goes off to college and writes down everything that happens. She's a born again christian, which is different to my tastes to say the least, but it made for an interesting read considering I'm from the exact opposite side. Sort of makes me want to try giving church a try one sunday.

I am now deciding between The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera and Franny and Zooey by Salinger.

Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche

This is like my 4th time trying to read this book, hopefully I'll get past part II this time.

The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky

I decided to get it and challange myself (I never willingly read anything before World War I). I'm only a few pages in though, and it's a long book, so who knows if I will make it, but I'm gonna try.

Behind The Urals

Now reading Common Nonsense, by Andy Rooney (a guy from the show 60 minutes). Awesome.

That's one of my favorite books, I love the characters. Though I remember looking at one of the translations and some parts of conversations, especially certain expressions sound awkward in English but maybe it was just a bad version.

Still reading Infinite Jest and Zarathustra, now also reading Ghost Wars: The Secret history of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001, by Steve Coll

I've been reading the Gardner 007 books. In the past week I've read the first three and I'm on number 4 now. I'm excited for the pretty decent library at my school again.

I've got Crime and Punishment and Pride and Prejudice to read for school. Started C&P, hated it, but I'm liking P&P. I've always enjoyed old-english vernacular.

Oath of Featly-Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle

I just finished Harry Potter 7

Just finished Candy

A Clockwork Orange

Through The Looking Glass. Almost done with it, actually.

just finished Heart of Darkness for school

I haven't updated this in so long either.
I read a couple more Gardner books and I'm starting Doctor Zhivago soon. Never actually read anything by Pasternak.

Decided to read Jarhead. I'm liking it better than the movie.

That blows.

Read The Long Walk, The Running Man, and The Mist, all by Stephen King within the last month or so. God I wish his brains hadn't been scrambled by the impact of that van hitting him. He hasn't written anything good since.

I also tried my first Dean Koontz novel, Velocity. It was pretty good. I wasn't really sure what to expect going in. Even though I had never read any of his books, I just figured I wouldn't be into him. It was good enough to convince me to pick up another book of his, Seize the Night, when it was on sale. He better not disappoint me. *shakes fist*

100% correct.

and i figured i might as well update what i've read >_>

+ The Dead
+ Death in Venice
+ a bunch of poems by Yeats
+ many random short things that also blew.

I wanna get the books "Smack" and "I should have listened to Alice" (it's called something like that).

I haven't read a novel since high school. :-(

Crime & Punishment along with The Scarlet letter.

Scarlet letter = boring, predictable novel.

I liked that one

have to read kafka's metamorphasis this weekend, but i'd really rather not :/

is it any good?

Yeah, it's pretty enjoyable. It's certainly short, so you can get through it quickly if you find otherwise.

No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy; liking it a lot so far.