What are you reading?

[OddjobAbe]

You're being too generous.

[MeechMunchie]

Look at that thing.



Does this make me a Shell-y?

Though of course, nothing compared to this. A fruit fly and one of its sperm.



EDIT: Dammit, I've actually become slightly aroused by the barnacle.

[Bullet Magnet]

That not even a quarter extended.

[MeechMunchie]

Currently re-'reading' Should You Be Laughing At This? by Hugleikur Dagsson. They're a bit like Cyanide & Happiness cartoons condensed into a single frame.

[dripik]

I've been reading Brave New World lately, for the second time. One, it's fun to read if you're into futuristic utopias (and dystopias, for that matter). Two, it's what my thesis will be about, comparing it with We, written by Yevgeny Zamyatin. The latter is also good - if your liked BNW, you'll like this one too.

[Josh]

Currently re-'reading' Should You Be Laughing At This? by Hugleikur Dagsson. They're a bit like Cyanide & Happiness cartoons condensed into a single frame.

I love that book. Yes, I should be laughing at that.

*REMOVED FOR DECENCY DUE TO EVENTS, SORRY IF ANYBODY WAS OFFENDED*

[MeechMunchie]

Dammit. Couldn't find 'Did I say routine checkup? I meant murder.'

[Disgruntled Intern]

Cormac McCarthy's stuff. I have a total fucking boner for the guy. Depressing books or no, they're still amazing.

[OANST]

Cormac McCarthy's stuff. I have a total fucking boner for the guy. Depressing books or no, they're still amazing.

I went to Borders the other day with the intention of buying The Road. I picked up a couple of books for Abbey, grabbed a favorite book of mine that I had lost at some point, and went to the counter to pay. When the lady told me my total, I handed her my H&R Block card that I got when I did my taxes. She looks at the card and asks to see my i.d. I politely tell her that the card doesn't have my name on it. It just says H&R Block Customer. She says that she still needs to see my i.d. So I say, "Okay. I'll be happy to show it to you, but tell me this, What do you intend to learn from it?"

She says, "Fine. Have it your way." At this point, I realize that I forgot to grab The Road. I take one look at the clerk's pinched, angry face, and realized that it would be best for me to just get it another time.

[Disgruntled Intern]

While you're at it, go ahead and pick up no country for old men. And child of god. And everything else he's ever written. Seriously.

[Wings of Fire]

Very nearly finished the second Earthsea book Tombs of Atuan and will start the next one tonight.

[Lord Stanley]

Star Wars: New Jedi Order: Star by Star. I like Star Wars books. I read two or three a week -- actually, I just finished my third of the week yesterday.

[Strike Witch]

NJO was too fucking long. Also it built Jacen up then Dark Nest turned him into a loser.

[enchilado]

I've been reading Brave New World lately

What a coincidence! I had to read that for English recently. Actually, it was just over a week ago that I started school, and everyone else was on page 50 already. At least, they were supposed to be.

The teacher (haven't got her name yet :P) said we had to read page 110 by Monday, five days later, but I finished it on Sunday morning. Then we had to tell her predictions about what was going to happen in the end... uh-oh! I just made up some crap.

It's a pretty good book, actually.

[Ridg3]

Then we had to tell her predictions about what was going to happen in the end... uh-oh! I just made up some crap.

It's a pretty good book, actually.

Tell her what really happened and blow her mind.

I've just started to read Dick Francis' Under fire, he died recently and I just wanted to give him money that he can now never use

[OANST]

I read The Road yesterday. In it's entirety. It was very good.

[Phylum]

Agatha Christies The Moving Finger. I wanted a Poirot book

[enchilado]

I've just started to read Dick Francis' Under fire, he died recently and I just wanted to give him money that he can now never use

I was in the second-hand bookshop my mother works in every Friday a week or two ago, and a guy came in with a Jamaican woman. He sees that my mother is reading a Dick Francis book, and goes on to say that he knew him quite well.

Apparently, this guy runs a Cayman Islands newspaper, and Dick Francis came to him once, asking to examine a printing press so he could describe it properly in his book. That's how they met; I don't know how close friends they were.

He could have been making it up, but I don't know why he would.


I'm reading The Penultimate Peril by Lemony Snicket aloud to my brother. To myself, I'm reading Guards! Guards!, although I haven't read any for a number of weeks.

[Nate]

I was thinking about Guards! Guards the other day, trying to remember the conversation Vimes had about the relative darkness of coffee. With... Sham Harga? I'm not sure.

[enchilado]

That was Men at Arms, wasn't it? It was damn hilarious, though, whatever it was from.

[Nate]

I'm pretty sure it was Guards! Guards!, because later on in the book Sham, or whoever the restaurateur is, washes out his pots and pans in honour of the upcoming coronation of the new King.

Also, I'm having flashbacks to high school and completely failing to spell the word 'Guards' in to the library catalogue computers. Goddamn that 'ua' makes no sense.

[enchilado]

But this is the first time I've read Guards! Guards!, and I definitely remember that conversation from ages ago.

[Nate]

It appears that you are correct. On the plus side, my very old memory of it being with Sham did get it right.

[Mac Sirloin]

I read The Road yesterday. In it's entirety. It was very good.

I did that too! But I was at work, so I win the contest of book reading.

Forever.


I just finished reading 'Whatever you Say I am' which is a biography about Eminem.

Ha, I can't actually write that with a straight face. No, not a biography, and Anthony Bozza (the guy who wrote it) spent more time sucking Rap and Hip-Hop's dick, talking about who won music awards when, and constantly going off topic to generally retarded shit than talking about Em's life. Oh, you want to read about Marshall and Kim's divorce? Fuck that, instead here's an entire dedicated to why Gangsta rap isn't as good as what 'Underground' rappers like Mos Def or Del do. There's actually an entire chapter where he talks about Slipknot, Fred Durst and Korn for absolutely no justifiable reason. It's asinine.

[OANST]

I just finished reading The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy, and it is possibly the best book that I have ever read. It's sort of a spiritual sequel to All The Pretty Horses, but it's easily ten times the book that the first is. The prose is lyrical, breathtaking, and fucking important. Read this book.

[T-nex]

I just bought "World Without End" by Ken Follet. I had read 'Pillars Of The Earth' some time ago and I friggin loved it. I've been sort of looking and anticipating the sequel for a while now, not knowing whether to buy it or not. But I missed reading something so I thought what the heck.
Well even if it's considered a sequel it doesn't have a lot to do with the first book, except the time and location(but it does happen some years after the first story I think, and it's about something completely else).
I really loved Pillars of the earth. So I'm hoping this is going to be just as good =D

[scrabface]

Me reading Metro 2033 right now. Dunno why, but I love the end time scenario. Because it always has this taste of the possibility of doing whatever you want. when I'm finished with this one I can give you a review.

@ Phylum - Poirot rocks!

[OANST]

I imagine that you would like the idea of getting away with whatever sick desire strikes your fancy.

Rapist.

Go watch American Pie.

[Wings of Fire]

I've finished the first four volumes of Lucifer, is good. Read it.

[OANST]

And Tehanu? How's Tehanu coming, fuck ass?