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[RaNdAlL]

What are you currently reading or have recently read?

I'm reading The Shadow Over Insmouth by H.P. Lovecraft.

[Sebastian]

I have so much to read, mainly for assignments in school however. :S

Not for school:
Make Love! The Bruce Campbell way!
Giger's Necronomicon
A Nine Inch Nails/Trent Reznor biography written by someone whom I've forgotten the name of..
A biography about Tycho Brahe
Everything is Illuminated
Heart of Darkness

The list never ends..

[Henry Krinkle]

I never seem to have as much time to read as I'd like - and when I do make the time I tend towards non-fiction. Last book I read was How to build a Nuclear bomb and other weapons of mass destruction. Got some great reactions reading it on the tube to work - you can actually see people back off when they see the cover 

[fitzley]

Currently reading:

Shadow of the Hegemon by Orson Scott Card

Fray the graphic novel by Whedon, Moline, and Owens--next will be History of Violence

After reading V for Vendetta, my first graphic novel, I am on a graphic novel kick at the moment.

Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[SM]

Picked up all the Robotech novels from Invid Invasion to The End of The Circle when I was O/S recently for $1 a throw.

Re-read the Southern Cross series, and now about halfway through Invid Invasion.  Pulpy as, but we never really got the Robotech series beyond Macross down here so I want to find out what happens and this is the only way short of spending big bucks on the DVDs.

After I'm done with them it'll be back to reading for research I suspect.

And before that I read William Goldman's What Lie Did I Tell.  Brilliant.

[Jaz]

The last book i scanned through was Ham on Rye by Bukowski. Didnt get to finish it.

Before that i think it was Bukowski again- Women. One of the greatest books iv read. Reminds me i really need to pick up a book soon. Been too long.

[Demoness]

I'm reading The Shadow Over Insmouth by H.P. Lovecraft.

Do tell us if you liked it when you're done. That's one of my fave short stories.

Latests books I've read were The End of the Tether by Joseph Conrad and Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami. The End of the Tether is a dark novel, having melancholy and even anguishing atmosphere, and there's some gallow's humour about the usual themes of greedyness of men etc.. The plot is about a sea captain who meet unexpected misfortune in his old age. About Murakami's book I can't think anything intelligent to say at the moment, apart from that it's a good, untraditional sci-fi / fantasy story.

[SM]

Sounds like an unusual change of pace for Conrad there...

[Cuckoo For Caca]

A Nine Inch Nails/Trent Reznor biography written by someone whom I've forgotten the name of..

If it's the same one that I read, I can tell you that it's a tad dull.

[Dutch90]

Just finished The Animal Farm by George Orwell, for a book report in English class. Great read, I love the political allegory.

[drake]

I'm reading 'For Queen and Country', a biography of a man who went to the Falklands' war. It's really good, and very explicit at times.

I want to read 'Make Love the Bruce Campbell Way' and 'If Chins Could Kill', both by Bruce Campbell, but both were ?25 quid in my local bookshop 

[deezelboy]

I really liked End of the Tether.  The ending's one of the most downbeat I've ever read, even for Conrad!

Currently reading: London Orbital - Iain Sinclair's psychgeographic writings on walking round the M25.

M. John Harrison's short story collection Things That Never Happen.  Harrison's criminally underknown IMHO.

[Dutch90]

Right now I'm reading The World of Kong (in English), the Skull Island encyclopedia released by Weta Workshop. I'll probably take it with me on vacation to Berlin (I'm leaving this Sunday). Really great writing, good science (considering the fact that everything's made up) and superb illustrations.

Not sure it qualifies as literature; it's not a story but it is a work of fiction.

[Corporal Hicks]

Lol I can't make up my mind.

Deja Dead
SG1: trials by fire
SGA: Rising.

[NERMAL]

'Rich Dad, Poor Dad' by Robert Kiyosaki.
'Principles of Medical Genetics' 2nd edition.
'Taken' by Dean Koontz