Anything I can get on bipolar... I'm trying to find a good book that explains some things. Just finished one called Maintaining Your Bipolar or something like that
"Tales of Heresy", which is a collection of short stories se in the Warhammer 40,000 universe during a specific time period. Fairly bad as literature goes but amazing as far as entertainment goes. After this little foray into the land of the mindless, I'll probably read the Divine Comedy and the Inferno by Dante Alighieri. I want to buy the video game when it comes out and I figure I should read up on it.
I'm finishing up "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris. He wasnt as funny as I was hoping, but I have had a laugh from time to time.
I'm currently reading The Hyperion Omnibus by Dan Simmons. Amazing! Also, I'm reading Magician: Master by Raymond E. Fiest - it's the second of four books in the Riftwar Saga. Truly something... Best regards, RiftwarFan
Break by Hannah Moskowitz If you're a Chuck Palahniuk fan and don't get squeamish, you'll like this. She is such a great writer. I'm totally envious.
Vampire Hunter D: Twin-Shadowed Knight and The Pirate King from Forgotten Relams. Both are pretty good stories, though the former moreso.
Just finished up The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (which, btw, is probably the most exciting piece of American fiction in the past 5 years), now taking a break with Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith (because I loved The Talented Mr Ripley)
Just finished Twin-Shadowed Knight so I'll finish up the Pirate King as well. From there I'll go onto the Death Note book I got as a Xmas present. After that I'm not sure, probably see if the Ghost King is out in paperback yet.
I might as well say how I close out the year. Reading The Martian Way (and other stories) by Isaac Asimov. About 1/2 way through. Reading The Witching Hour by Anne Rice. Around 1/3rd of the way through. Finished the Templar Legacy on CD Audiobook. Listening to Simple Genius by David Baldacci on Audiobook. Unless I find the time to listen to 6 CDs in 2 days (unlikely) The Templar Legacy will be the final book I'll finish in 2009, for a total of 140 books finished in 2009 including books read and audio books listened to. Actually, I'm counting magazines too, of which I read 7 in 2009. They were mostly Ellery Queen Mystery Magazines, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazines, Analog Science Fiction, which are about 120 pages (or double-sized) of short stories, so I think it's fair to count them. Most of them were audio books I listened to (101) so the breakdown for 2009 is: I listened to 101 Audiobooks. I read 32 books. I read 7 magazines. For a total of 140 books/magazines for 2009. I keep track of them all. I don't know why.
I actually liked a number of them. The Book of Lies by Brad Meltzer (I listened to on audio) was great, may be one of my favorite books. I love all his books. That one got me in more than one way: I'm a thriller novel fan and a comic fan, this was a thriller novel tied to a mysterious murder with clues in old Superman art hidden in Superman creator Jerry Seigal's childhood home. I also read Meltzer's (regular book) the Zero Game in 2009, which was excellent. David Baldacci's Camel Club series were excellent. (I read the Collectors, 2nd in the series, and listened to the others.) I enjoyed the Road, and the last installment of Stephen King's Dark Tower series. Dean Koontz' Frankenstein book 1 was good. Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman was good. Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series always cracks me up, even if they are all kind of the same. I read a few of those. I also read The Truth by Al Franken, which I enjoyed, albeit not as much as Lies and the Lying Liars. There were some nonfictions I liked. Founding Faith was a good analysis of the religious views of America's founding fathers. The Invention of Air was very interesting, as were Freakonomics and Outliers. Some classics like Shakespeare's King Leer and some old Edgar Allen Poe works I re-read. The Postman Always Rings Twice. Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Farenheit 451. Something Wicked this way Comes.
I just finished The Accidental Sorcerer. I have mixed feelings about it. I love the story, blew through it in two days, but it had a bunch of stuff that pissed me off. The characters just didn't react naturally to the situations at hand. They were incredibly stupid during the most insensitive times, just fine after being tortured for nine days straight, accepted as truth the most outlandish (but true) theories with no more than minor circumstantial evidence. GAH! But I still loved it.
I am reading a few college books (shoot me; I'm excited ), and I just picked up a new Sedaris book from the library. Omigosh I've needed "light" reading so badly; it's nice to have these books.
I'm in the middle of reading Catch-22, and it took me a while to just sit back, relax, and enjoy the humour. I thought it was terrible at first, but now I'm finding all its absurdities hilarious.
Gosh, been a while since I posted on this forum! Must be the new year and all that. I'm reading two books on the go right now, received one last Christmas and one this Christmas! The first is a book called Nonviolence by Mark Kurlansky. It's a thorough and deep look at the true meaning of nonviolence and it's progression through history. This was the book I received last Christmas, I put it on hold since I thought it was more a collection of papers and lectures rather than a erudite history of nonviolence movements. Extremely readable, persuasive - albeit one sided - and educational. I had no real interest in events such as the American Revolution until I read about them in this book, really good stuff. Thoroughly recommended. The other book is The Never-Ending Days of Being Dead by Marcus Chown. Haven't finished it yet but it's an extremely readable and thought provoking look at cosmology and rather philosophical. Perfect for those like me who are interested in these things but are dissuaded by the complex nature of such fascinations, again, really recommended from what I've read so far.
I'm currently reading The Age of Reason, Gravity's Rainbow, and Don Quixote. Really, though, I should be reading "Calculus III" and writing "An Explanation of A Priori Knowledge". O-o
Ive just finished reading it and like you thought the start was a bit boring, but it just gets better and better. At the moment I'm reading; One Flew Over The Cukoo's Nest.
I find myself in the middle of a few books. I'm about 1/3 of the way through Catch-22 by Joseph Heller and also The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice. However I made the mistake of tagging along to the library and brought back three more. Currently reading The Traitor Game by B R Collins. As a lover of metaphors, I think this book is brilliant. It is set in a modern day Catholic school for boys, dealing with the prospect of bullying (and also looking like it will edge into homophobia). The main character Michael and his best friend Francis have created an alternate fantasy world, Evgar. Every few chapters we jump to Evgar, where their story is echoed by the antics of two boys who meet in that world. Don't know where it's going, but I'm more than happy to be along for the ride.
