What are you reading? - December 08/What books are on your Christmas list?

[Guybrush Threepwood]

Because no one will make the thread on GAF 

I just finished this:



And I'm starting this:



As for my Christmas list:

Nation - Terry Pratchett
2666 - Roberto Bolano
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Amusing Ourselves to Death - Neil Postman
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
On Stranger Tides - Tim Powers
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Toole
World War Z - Max Brooks
Life Of Pi (Deluxe Illustrated Edition) - Yann Martel

[Madrun Badrun]

Just finished A short history of nearly everything and started consciousness explained.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

I just started Last Call



Kind of awesome so far. It stars Bugsy Siegel as the Fisher King, who built the Flamingo hotel (and Las Vegas) as some sort of inverted talisman of arcane power. The Tarot, T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland, and the Grail legend also heavily inform the worldview. It's pretty rad.

[Rman]

I'm going to start ''reading'' the following, meaning I'm getting the audiobook.  Gladwell is a great speaker.

[MrAngryFace]

Im not sure what im going to never read cause im zoning out watching food network

[G The Resurrected]

Just a few books and graphic novels

Zombie Survival Guide
Batman: Killing Joke
Batman: Joker
Batman: Arkum Asylum
Ghost Recon
Walking Dead
Mass Effect: Ascension

I'm looking for more stuff like Mass Effect-ish but not finding much out there that holds my interest. I love future weapon books like Endwar and Ghost Recon and alternate history mmmm. I might have to cozy up to some books soon.

[Rman]

Im not sure what im going to never read cause im zoning out watching food network

When did you get cable?  I remember you didn't have it for a bit.

[Phoenix Dark]

A Dance with Dragons

spoiler (click to show/hide)

fuck you Martin :'(

[close]

[Joe Molotov]

I've tentatively started reading this:

[Kestastrophe]

Right now I'm reading "Use of Weapons". Straight off my Amazon wishlist:

Peddling Prosperity: Economic Sense and Nonsense in an Age of Diminished Expectations
by Paul Krugman

The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008
by Paul Krugman

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
by Nassim Taleb

The Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch
by Michael Wolff

Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
by Dan Ariely

A Canticle for Leibowitz
by Walter M. Miller Jr.

Game Boys: Professional Videogaming's Rise from the Basement to the Big Time
by Michael Kane

Snow Crash (Bantam Spectra Book)
by Neal Stephenson

The Sheep Look Up
by John Brunner

[Eric P]

Axe by Ed McBain, but i'll probably finish it on the train home tonight.

i'm about half way through. it's a really short read at 136 pages (in the edition I have, a used Australian copy) and it reads like a TV show. Lots of dialogue.

there is also plenty of flavor text regarding the characters so you can get a good grasp on them even if you're only going to spend a page or two with them.

If you're a fan of cop shows you'd probably be a fan of this.

I'll probably finish this on the train today. no idea what's next on the reading agenda.

[Eric P]

The Sheep Look Up
by John Brunner

desperately need to get this book
it's been in my wishlist forever

[Howard Alan Treesong]

Bolano, more Iain Banks, Cod

which Banks did you move onto? I've read all his SF and half of his "regular" stuff at this point so I can make pretty good recommendations

[Tauntaun]

Reading:



I have to finish Battle Royal, great book.

[MrAngryFace]

Im not sure what im going to never read cause im zoning out watching food network

When did you get cable?  I remember you didn't have it for a bit.

Just recently. I got the barebones 30 dollar subscription just for food network and mah LIBRUL MSNBC programming. It also helps to have something for nights when I cant sleep. I still watch most of my TV on DVD just cause I cant keep up with the schedule.

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

Disney War - I love corporate exposes

[Bacchus7]

Play It as It Lays - Joan Didion, to cap off a post World War II American literature course. Not excited.

[muckhole]

Finally reading Snow Crash, which I've put off for years.

Edit: *GASP* I've Senior Member'd! Time to collect evilbore pension!

[drew]

[ManaByte]

I've tentatively started reading this:

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You read Red Mars first, right...?

Reading these right now:

[muckhole]

Wow, that may be the worst Ender's Game cover I've ever seen.

Brings this to mind:

[ManaByte]

Wow, that may be the worst Ender's Game cover I've ever seen.

Yea, the one I'm reading is the older cover.

[Joe Molotov]

You read Red Mars first, right...?

Green Mars was the only one they had when I was at the bookstore the other day, so I'm just going to roll with it.

[Van Cruncheon]

an awful cover for an awful book 

[Don Flamenco]

Just finished:
From Hell by Alan Moore  (fucking awesome...still need to read the annotations.)

Currently:
The Road by Cormac McCarthy (fucking awesome.)

On deck:
V for Vendetta
The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster

Xmas list:
2666

[Guybrush Threepwood]

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When does this book pick up?

I just finished Chapter 3, and it's very confusing/confusingly written. I'm not getting into it so far.

[drew]

seconded

[Phoenix Dark]

Picked up Black Company again. It's good but it kinda jumped the shark. Too much magic for my tastes

[Eric P]

David J Schow's Gun Work for Hard Case Crime.

Great Googley Moogley.

If you want some bad assery in book form, check this out.  it's like the greatest action, revenge, crime movie never filmed.

[Cormacaroni]

All non-fiction for a change. Plus the Lucifer comics. ()

[siamesedreamer]

[Reb]

Reading about the british while staying in England. You should read it too, Kosma.

[Reb]

Yeah, that's cool. Right now I'm switching between Hoorn (Holland), Huntingdon and Farringdon, but I will be in England all week starting januari.

[Reb]

Where were you again? More south, right?

[Guybrush Threepwood]

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I liked this book.

I haven't eaten fast food since I read it (around three months now).

[Reb]

That's an hour and a half from Londen, that should be doable.

[jiji]

Just finished: Marshal Law: Blood, Sweat and Fears

Reading now: Nausea by Sartre

On my Christmas list: a big old list of photo books (Doisneau, Daido Moriyama, Avedon, Kertesz, Winogrand, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Frank, etc). And Krazy Kat: The Art of George Herriman. It should be a good introduction to the strip for me.

[Madrun Badrun]

edit:  Wrong thread. 

[recursivelyenumerable]

The Scar.  so far I like it even better than Perdido Street Station

also Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach by Russell & Norvig.  so far it's not really turning me on, typography looks bad

[Eric P]

Genre hopping seems to suit horror writer Schow (Havoc Swims Jaded) as he lets out all the stops in this high-caliber action story. It's no exaggeration to say that Barney has a more intimate relationship with guns than he does with any human, living or dead. That's why Mexicans call him el hombre de las armas, the gunman. It's also why old army buddy Carl Ledbetter drags him into a messy situation when Carl's fiancée, Erica, is kidnapped in Mexico City. At the prearranged money drop things start to go awry, and eventually a badly beaten, mutilated, shotup and half-starved Barney emerges, determined to get revenge on the kidnappers and anyone else who gets in his way. This is a gory, fast-paced pulp tour de force in the classic style. (Nov.)
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SWEET JESUS FUCK GET THIS GODDAMN BOOK YOU PANSIES.

[recursivelyenumerable]

I approve of her expression, though what's up with the position of her eyes?

[Cormacaroni]

You've been reading Criminal, haven't you.

Someone needs to make a big torrent of all those old noir movies for me.