Unofficial What are you Reading Thread?

[LMNO]

Goodness gracious!  Whatever is that doing there!?






Thanks, man. 

[Richter]

"Better than Sex" by Hunter S. Thompson, courtesy of Dok.

[rygD]

A Void sounds very interesting.  Thank you for mentioning it, el minnow.

[rygD]

Also, according to the Wikipedia article on Gadsby, it may have inspired La Disparition.

[Iason Ouabache]

I'm reading "American Fascists" by Chris Hedges thanks to HoverCat's mind rays. Excellent book so far. I was afraid that he was going to over-generalize everything but he makes a point to say that he's not talking about liberal or moderate Mainline Christians but the hardcore, Rapture Ready, "fuck everyone but God" right wing assholes that use their religion as a club to bash other people over the head.

I actually had to stop reading in the middle of the chapter on conversion because it was giving me weird flashbacks of churches I attended when I was a teenager.

[Jasper]

Reading Anathem.

AAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUGGHBRBBRGRBGGRBG AAAAAAAGGH MADE UP WOOORRDDDSSS

[LMNO]

Suck it up, you sissy.

[Jasper]

And finished.

Christ, what an asshole. 

(No I actually loved it.)

[LMNO]

You must have been reading it for quite a while before you posted that.



Also, I just finished Common Nonsense, and I wouldn't have belived it possible, but I hate Glen Beck even more now than I did before.  He more or less truly defines what I consider "a waste of carbon".

[Jasper]

I was mostly finished by the time I mentioned that I was reading it.  I find that whenever I announce that I'm starting something just as I start, I almost always leave it unfinished.  Awful habit.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

You must have been reading it for quite a while before you posted that.



Also, I just finished Common Nonsense, and I wouldn't have belived it possible, but I hate Glen Beck even more now than I did before.  He more or less truly defines what I consider "a waste of carbon".

I honestly am unsure of what to think about him. I want to think that he hams it up to boost his ratings and book sales.

Not that that makes it any better.

[Rev. St. Syn, KSC (Ret.)]

I unpacked my Transmetropolitans out of storage, so I started that while finishing up Fear & Loathing '72.

RAH! I've read vols 1 and 2. This is a keeper, so I've bought 'em. (yep I quoted from two years ago - get over it.)

Also reading a few other sci-fi books: Can't get enough Dick (Philip K. ) - Man in the High Castle is up next. Dune - YES, FOR THE FIRST TIME! Read the Graphic novel(s) of The Surrogates. Well written except for a few nerve jarring stupid statements and dumb grammatical errors. I'm no grammar Nazi, but fucking hell. Some William Gibson; Just finished Virtual Light.

[Cain]

Been considering re-reading Dune at some point myself.  Honestly though, of late, the most interesting thing I've read is a French phrase book.

[the last yatto]

John Hinterberger's 47th snail


its about a snail eating contest... well so far

[Mangrove]

You must have been reading it for quite a while before you posted that.



Also, I just finished Common Nonsense, and I wouldn't have belived it possible, but I hate Glen Beck even more now than I did before.  He more or less truly defines what I consider "a waste of carbon".

I downloaded a sample chapter to my Nook the other day. Just from reading in the introduction I want:

a) to watch his show
b) something really really bad to happen to him.....(more than once)