What book are you reading?

[My Final Heaven]

Island of the Sequined Love Nun by Christopher Moore. (Not the big fat guy)

He is a sick man.

[eXo]

Moved on to Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. ( may he rest well. ) I've always loved his books, and though those were two-hundred pages or so and let his voice and talent flow for such a long time, his short story collection is also great. Vonnegut has a real talent for taking any situation and making it his, and I love reading him for it.

God, I wish I'd met him. . . It was one of my few pure goals in life.

[Words of Ivory]

Brother Odd, by Dean Koontz.

After the wonderfully written Odd Thomas, the second book, Forever Odd, was a terrible let down. Thankfully, this second book is a lot more solid, and a wonderful charming read in that way that only Dean Koontz can write his book.

[Akira Avelon]

Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King.

One of my favorites. It actually has no actual dragons in it. But the story and intertwining characters make it a great read. Plus if you know other works by him. You can see that things from this and other books intertwine and go through the books to make most of them connected and in a bigger storyline if found.

(next read by him.. I'm gonna attempt the dark tower series.. But that's seven books with a tonne of story and characters I'll only fully get if I read the corresponding books that have them in.))

[Aerith]

Required-A Seperate Peace
Independent- Heart Shaped Box (has NOTHING to do with the song )

[LoveArya]

The Husband, by Dean Koontz <3

[Aibbie]

Angels and Demons - Dan Brown

[Sovereign]

The Bomb: a Life by Gerard De Groot.

Picked this book up as part of my research for my History project (Hiroshima), and it's turning out to be a real fascinating read. If your at all curious about the birth, and brief history, of the atomic bomb then I'd recommend you pick it up. It really hits home how close the world was to being obliterated by scientific curiousity. Scary stuff indeed.

[Angry Bear]

The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri.

This is writing. Fantastic stuff.

[Laxinaer]

1984- George Orwell
A Handmaid's Tale-Margaret Artwood

[sarcasm] The future looks promising. [/sarcasm]

[Ragnarok]

The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien

I'm a fan of anything related to war and this book has gotten me hooked.

[EoT]

A song of Ice and Fire.

I'm reading the first book, called A Game of Thrones. So far the book is very detailed and I'm enjoying it.

[The Man]

That's probably my favourite series of all time.

Right now I'm reading Joyce's Finnegans Wake. It's one of the strangest books ever written; it's intended to detail what goes on in a dream, and thus its meaning is largely undecipherable, but it's clearly there, because Joyce put so much effort into it that it features puns in over sixty languages and so many obscure references that it's essentially a reflection of the reader's own mind. It's damn hilarious to boot.

Also Orwell's Homage to Catalonia, which is his retelling of the accounts of the Spanish Civil War. It originally started out as anarcho-syndicalists and libertarian socialists against Fascists and Stalinists, but depending on who you ask, political orientations changed significantly as time went on. This was the defining event that led Orwell to oppose Soviet Communism, as he fell distinctly into the "libertarian socialist" category.

[Honest Abel]

Oy, I'm related to Joyce but haven't read Finnegan's Wake yet. I'm putting it on my list for next summer.

Right now I'm making my way through the best edition of Paradise Lost ever published:
Milton: Paradise Lost (re-issue) (2nd Edition) (Longman Annotated English Poets); Alastair Fowler

It also happens to be one of the greatest scholarly works written in the last century (the notations are ample and amazingly detailed), in my opinion and in the opinion of many others. It was damn expensive though, so I'm making sure to get the most out of it.

[The Man]

There's actually no apostrophe in the title of Finnegans Wake. But you're related to Joyce? Cool. I want to read Ulysses next.

I should read Paradise Lost one of these days, as well as the rest of Dante that I haven't read (I've only read The Inferno, and it was a long time ago).

[Honest Abel]

Man, most people start with Ulysses because it's a bit more coherent (though not greatly).

[The Man]

I was in the mood for oddball humour, and Finnegans Wake is packed with it. Some dude wrote a lengthy dissertation on Ulysses that's available as a separate book at the bookstore I work at; I'm thinking of purchasing them together.

Which edition of Ulysses is the best, btw? I'm thinking of getting the 1961 revision, because I'm told that the version from the 1980s actually has more errors than the original print run. It's kind of disappointing that the damn book's been out for eighty-five years and still hasn't been printed exactly as Joyce intended it.

[Honest Abel]

I don't have a copy of Ulysses myself, so I can't really help you out with that.

After getting through Paradise Lost, I'm probably going to read the full unabridged version of The Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E. Lawrence. Then I need to get back She Loves Me by Estarhazy from my friend (who I let borrow it before I even read it).

[Derek]

Orphen Vol.1, and Fullmetal Alchemist Vol. 5 & 7.
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[The Dude]

Dragon Lance, the twins series. It's alright. I like how [spoiler]Raistlin discovers that even though he and Fistandentalus lived centuries apart from one another, because of time travel they are infact one in the same.[/spoiler]