Recent books read?
 

In the past few months I have read several books, some for entertainment, some for education. Just wondering what yous guys are reading if anything.

God Is Not Great - Christopher Hitchens

Meet The Next President - Bill Sammon

Liberal Fascism - Jonah GoldBerg

Oval Office Oddities - Bill Fawcett

The FairTax Book
FairTax The Truth: Answering the Critics - Congressman John Linder & Neal Boortz

Liberalism Is a Mental Disorder - Micheal Savage

The Terrible Truth About Liberals - Boortz

Somebodys Gotta Say It - Boortz

Time Life Book Of Religion

And

U.S. Presidents Facts Book - Random House Reference


You?

All manga :( No real books.

The last (not school related) book I finished was Why I am Not A Christian by Bertrand Russel. I am currently read What Liberal Media?

Well aren’t we the critical one.

I’m reading Bodies of Evidence a deeper look into the field of forensic science.

Anal For Dummies

A shit-load of Fantasy. Since January:

Robin Hobb - Assassin's Apprentice
Robin Hobb - Royal Assassin
Robin Hobb - Assassin's Quest
Robin Hobb - Ship of Magic
Robin Hobb - The Mad Ship
Robin Hobb - Ship of Destiny
Robin Hobb - Fool's Errand
Robin Hobb - The Golden Fool
Robin Hobb - Fool's Fate
Robin Hobb - Shaman's Crossing
Robin Hobb - Forest Mage
Robin Hobb - Renegade's Magic

Terry Pratchett - Making Money

Jennifer Fallon - Lion of Senet
Jennifer Fallon - Eye of the Labyrinth
Jennifer Fallon - Lord of Shadows
Jennifer Fallon - Medalon
Jennifer Fallon - Treason Keep
Jennifer Fallon - Harshini

Walter Moers - Rumo and his Miraculous Adventures
Walter Moers - The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear
Walter Moers - The City of Dreaming Books

Steven Erikson - Gardens of the Moon
Steven Erikson - Deadhouse Gates
Steven Erikson - Memories of Ice

I'm in the process of reading House of Chains by Steven Erikson, and I've got another three Erikson books to read after it, with the eighth in the series coming out in the Summer.

I also flicked through a multitude of History textbooks for my Personal Study, but I'm not putting them down because I didn't really read them.

Just finished The Nightcrawler by Thomas Tessier. Probably one of the most fucked up books I've read. Extremely graphic.

I'm protesting reading, and concluding on my study that not reading anything extra-cirrucular than the ordinary really does slow down your intelligence and dumbs you down to the point where you seem like you are uncomprehensive.

Finished reading The Man in the High Castle by Phillip K. Dick. I was rather disappointed by the ending, and the rest of the plot for that matter. The setting was fantastic, though.

You mean incomprehensible?

Haha.

What does it all mean? by Thomas Nagel. I hardly find any time to read books these days, which is a nuisance.

I've only read stuff for school

Great Expectations
Romeo and Juliet

Just started reading Dan Brown - Demons and Angels

I have been really interested in Chinese culture for the past few months and have read two books that have been pretty popular there. The first is called Rainbow, by Mao Dun and the other is called Chronicle of a Blood Merchant, by Yu Hua. Both show Chinese culture during the Revolution of 1911 and the Cultural Revolution that China went through when Mao was Chairman. The reading level is not that high up because of translation issues, but still very decent books.

A Man Without a Country(nonfiction) - Kurt Vonnegut.

Excellent so far.

One of my favorite non-fictions.

Just started reading Why Darwin Matters by Michael Shermer.

Gay. So gay. God dammit, so fucking gay.

I hate Dan Brown, and that book in particular can suck my testicle juices through a straw.

I haven't read much of anything lately. The last bunch of stuff I read was a Lovecraft collection, Cell by Stephen King and a second reading of A Scanner Darkly.

Deception Point and Digital Fortress
both by dan brown and were in my opinion SO MUCH BETTER than his other 2 books. seriously incredible stuff here.

Strawberry Panic light novel.

An actual word book O_O

Mind telling me what you didn't like about it while not giving anything away?

1) I was forced to listen to the audiobook, in the car, the entire way back driving home from Rawlins. I was exhausted after a 12 hour workday, outside, in the middle of sweltering summer heat. On top of that, it was my birthday, and I had to endure a four-hour drive to be able to celebrate it. That shitty audiobook was just the icing on the worst birthday cake ever.

2) It's just such a cornball story. Played-out "secret society" nonsense, retarded Michael Bay-like doomsday weapons, and an introduction that's basically copy/pasted from The Da Vinci Code.

3) I find pretty much all "high-tech conspiracy theory" fiction to be pretty lame, and this book epitomizes everything I don't like about the genre.

you should read his other 2 books. i thought they were so much better

Dan Brown is feasting on your tonsils in his mansion.

Three others, actually, with a new one coming out this year.

Digital Fortress, 1998
Angels & Demons, 2000
Deception Point, 2001
The Da Vinci Code, 2003

The Solomon Key, will possibly be published in 2008