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#202  Edited By StrikeALight

I've been ona bit of a Ryu Murakami stint lately. I just finished In The Miso Soup, and will tackle Piercing when my nerves have recovered fully.

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#203  Edited By FireBurger

Making the Corps for the second time.

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#204  Edited By iDarktread

Marvel vs. Capcom 3's official strategy guide.

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#205  Edited By nail1080

what's a book

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#206  Edited By louiedog
@nail1080 said:
" what's a book "
It's something you light on fire to see at night because your gameboy doesn't have a backlit screen. You kids wouldn't know about that.
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#207  Edited By Azteck

Finished reading Looking for Alaska about a week ago. I really loved that book. 
 
Onto new territory, I suppose!

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#208  Edited By cnlmullen

Just finished The Shadow of the Torturer, moving on to The Claw of the Conciliator in Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun series.  
 
Incredibly rich writing style and universe. My favorite sci-fi novel since I read Iain Bank's Look to Windward.

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#209  Edited By Alex_Carrillo
 "Books your currently reading." 
 
Lol.
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#210  Edited By somethingdumb

I've been really into Terry Pratchett lately. I just started the series he did with Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart called "The Science of Discworld". It somehow blends great fiction with hard science, dedlivered with the perfect amount of tongue-in-cheekiness. By the way, if you haven't rad any Terry Pratchett, go buy The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic right away. He's the Douglas Adams of fantasy, but better(?).
I also just finished Goodbye Columbus by Philip Roth. It's a really interesting story that centers around the prejudice and class differences that happened as a result of suburbanization in the 50s. 
In between books I've been reading a bunch of Lovecraft stories. Dude can write like a motherfucker. He's like horror Dickens, if Dickens was any good.

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The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger.

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#212  Edited By nywt

Working my way through The Great American Novel by Keith Malley.

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#213  Edited By BaneFireLord

First Lord's Fury by Jim Butcher

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#214  Edited By Chindie

Perdido Street Station - China Mieville
 
A little bit unweildy and a little bit too weird at points, but a cool steampunk yarn.
 
@somethingdumb:
I'm a big Pratchett fan (as the pic attests, his best character), my favourite author and a great shame he's got Alzheimers. If you're only just working you way through his (very big) back catalogue, he takes a few books to really start nailing what the Discworld is and where it's going, it all clicks around the time he writes Guards Guards, and from there on in it's pretty much universally glorious. The Colour of Magic and the Light Fantastic are him more overtly writing a parody of fantasy, when he starts to seriously write the Discworld as an entity and weaves in the parody, the politics and the satire of the real world it goes to another level. Night Watch is probably the point where it all reaches it's crescendo, a great book and one to look forward to if you've not got to it yet.

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#215  Edited By dichemstys

I'm reading The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King. I like it but I never have time to read it.

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#216  Edited By Jimbo

A Wise Man's Fear, the sequel to The Name of The Wind (which was rad) came out a few days ago, so I'll pick that up soon.  A Dance with Dragons just got dated for July 12th too, and the trailers for the HBO series are looking neat.  I don't read a whole lot of fantasy (or any fiction really), but these series' have their hooks in me pretty bad.

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I'm going through The Accidental Billionaires but it's kind of disappointing so far. I'm only fifty pages in though, so it might get better.

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#218  Edited By Tsoglani

Vampire Wars: part of the Warhammer Old World series. Written by Steven Savile.
 
Vampire Wars is a decent read, but as I get nearer to the end, my interest wanes.

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#219  Edited By Gizmo

Thinner by Stephen King 
 
Nearly half way, it's all right so far, but it's only just coming to the boil.

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#220  Edited By WatanabeKazuma

Othello,oddly I hated it when I read it in college, now in University it's a completely different story.

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#221  Edited By jasta

Biomega - Volume 1.  

Only on Chapter 7 so still alot more to read before I can really comment, however the illustration is amazing.

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#222  Edited By DelroyLindo
@TheBeast said:
" I'm switching between a few depending on where I am/what state of mind I'm in - nothing fictional at the moment though:
  • The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins
  • Long Way Down - Ewan McGregor & Charley Boorman
  • C.O.D.E. - Charles Petzold
  • Don't Make Me Think! - Steve Krug
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if your reading long way round you should check out Jupiters Travels by Ted Simon (they meet him in mongolia). Im about a quarter in and its really good so far
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#223  Edited By Aus_azn
Candide by Voltaire
Ultimate Power by Anthony Robbins
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#224  Edited By pwnasaurus

-Dune 
- Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? 
- never not reading LOTR trilogy.

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#225  Edited By Enigma777
The Wise Man's Fear by Patric Rothfuss 
 
Really, really damn good so far!
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#226  Edited By Dylabaloo

The Fry Chronicles, the biography of Stephen Fry. I'm 100 or so pages in and its damn good. He's had a genuinely interesting life and has a very enthralling writing style.

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#227  Edited By JackBauerCTU225

Reading  
Broke 
and Mass Effect novels

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#228  Edited By Falx

Dostoyevski - motres from underground, should finish it very soon

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#229  Edited By SlightConfuse
@Enigma777 said:
" The Wise Man's Fear by Patric Rothfuss  Really, really damn good so far! "
i ordered that, yesterday  did not realize it was out already. first book was so good
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#230  Edited By Brendan

Other than textbooks I'm finally reading through "Dune" which I have been told to do for a long time.  

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#231  Edited By Punk1984

Gauntlygrym by R.A. Salvatore it is a Drizzt Do'Urden book

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#232  Edited By velucyraptor
@CH3BURASHKA said:

" ... The Yellow Wallpaper is fucking incredible..."

Fucking, amen
 
also 
@DirrtyNinja: I really, really want to pick up Revolutionary Road at some point, how is it? 
@filthreaper: A student in one of my lit tutes at uni lent me a copy of  On Writing out of nowhere, I loved it 
 
At the moment I'm reading The Pig That Wants To Be Eaten, which is basically a collection of really intriguing thought experiments. Great to sporadically pick up &put down, incredibly thought-provoking, great conversation starter, the occasional mindfuck. 
 

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#233  Edited By thebeast
@DelroyLindo: Cheers, will take a look!  

@Enigma777 said:
" The Wise Man's Fear by Patric Rothfuss  Really, really damn good so far! "
Just reading that at the moment too - so damn good, I don't want it to end. Such an excellent world he creates.
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#234  Edited By NoCookiesForYou

I haven't read in a while, but i have plenty of books on my shelf that are next on line. I should probably read Game of Thrones before the HBO series comes out.

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#235  Edited By Jazz
@TheBeast said:
" @DelroyLindo: Cheers, will take a look!  

@Enigma777 said:
" The Wise Man's Fear by Patric Rothfuss  Really, really damn good so far! "
Just reading that at the moment too - so damn good, I don't want it to end. Such an excellent world he creates. "
and so am i. 
For a book written with music as such a focus it's wonderful how well the words flow. 
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#236  Edited By Joe_Wildheart

Currently reading A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess and also Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh

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#237  Edited By Skald

Just finished Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut, diving into Pandemonium by Daryl Gregory. 
 
Next book I read will probably be by either Rex Stout or Raymond Chandler.

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#238  Edited By Sayishere

Well iam reading The Watchmen Graphic Novel :D

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#239  Edited By Commisar123

Always quick to recomend Dan Abnett
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I'm reading "Priceless", a book about the psychology of pricing.  It's not actually an economics book; it's more like a book that shows how humans aren't the "rational actors" of economic theory, so economics does a poor job of modeling real human behavior.

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#241  Edited By EpicBenjamin

Halo: First Strike by Eric Nylund.

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#242  Edited By MattyFTM  Moderator

Reading "Mostly Harmless" by Douglas Adams, the fifth book in the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy trilogy. I'm pretty sure that The Matrix rips off a small part of that book - the whole "Being virtually killed by a virtual laser in virtual space is just as effective as the real thing, because you are as dead as you think you are" thing is exactly like dying in The Matrix.    

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#243  Edited By Skald
@MattyFTM said:
" Reading "Mostly Harmless" by Douglas Adams, the fifth book in the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy trilogy. I'm pretty sure that The Matrix rips off a small part of that book - the whole "Being virtually killed by a virtual laser in virtual space is just as effective as the real thing, because you are as dead as you think you are" thing is exactly like dying in The Matrix.     "
I'd say it's more likely that they got the idea from Snow Crash, which is more thematically in-line with what happens in the Matrix. Whether or not Neal Stephenson got the idea directly or indirectly from Douglas Adams, I can't say. 
 
Just a guess. I've read both.
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#244  Edited By CharkeeFarlee
  • Darkly Dreaming Dexter
  • The Dante club
  • Men of the otherworld
  • Legend of Sleepy Hollow (For the millionth time)
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#245  Edited By Yummylee

Got me two books at once, lika BOWUS! Reading Scaredy Cat by Mark Billington, as well as The Stolen Thrown Dragon Age book.

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#246  Edited By breadfan
  • Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
  • Wuthering Heights (for a literature class)
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#247  Edited By buzz_clik

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, for probably the twelfth time. Damn, I love that book. Not a big fan of the follow-up, though.

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#248  Edited By sweep  Moderator

I just ordered "The Wise Man's Fear" which is the second book in the King Killer Chronicles series by Patrick Rothfuss. It was recommended to me by Jayge and I really enjoyed the first. 
 
I also just ordered the fourth Gears Of War book. I don't want to talk about it.

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#249  Edited By dungbootle

Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

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#250  Edited By mnzy

"Your or You're for Dummies"