What We're Reading Now...2!

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What We're Reading Now...2!

Postby tak197 » 28 Dec 2007, 11:08

I decided since some people get all bent out of shape over necro'd threads, I would start up this thread. The original is found here.

Discuss any books you have been reading recently, especially with Christmas giving some of us new books to read.

I started Christopher Moore's book Lamb: the Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal. Got through the Prologue, and I'm already in stitches. Such as this exchange:

"Welcome back to the living," the angel said.
The man blinked, then held his hand before his eyes as if he expected to see through it.
"I'm alive," he said in a language he had never heard before.
"Yes," the angel said.
"What are these sounds, these words?"
"You have been given the gift of tongues."
"I've always had the gift of tongues, ask any girl I've known. What are these words?"
"Languages. You have been given the gift of languages, as were all the apostles."
"Then the kingdom has come."
"Yes."
"How long?"
"Two thousand years ago."
"You worthless bag of dog shit," said Levi who was called Biff, as he punched the angel in the mouth. "You're late."
The angel picked himself up and gingerly touched his lip. "Nice talk to a messenger of the Lord."
"It's a gift," Biff said.


So tell us what you think of your books and if you suggest them to people.
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Postby Sable » 28 Dec 2007, 11:17

I absolutely love Lamb.

I'm also reading (albeit slowly) Moore's excellent The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror, which also stars Raziel.
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Postby tak197 » 28 Dec 2007, 11:18

Sable wrote:I absolutely love Lamb.

I'm also reading (albeit slowly) Moore's excellent The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror, which also stars Raziel.


My brother got that for Christmas, and it sounds so funny.
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Postby AlexanderDitto » 28 Dec 2007, 11:49

Vonnegut. I'm pathetic for not having read all of his books.

I just finished, in this order:

Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center, Bell Hooks (brilliant)
Breakfast of Champions, Vonnegut
The Cuckoo's Egg, Stoll (awesome)
Hocus Pocus, Vonnegut (probably my favorite of his books so far)

and I will be reading...

Short Stories from the New Yorker, various
a few books on Artificial Intelligence,
C++ Primer and the Perl manual, if I get the chance.

I need to go back to the library. My list books I want to read is growing longer faster than I can read the darn things.
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Postby Cake » 28 Dec 2007, 12:07

Currently, I'm reading Cisco Certified Network Associate Study Guide. It's pretty much a dry read. It lacks plot. And Characters. Also, it's not a novel, so that sucks.
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Postby The Hitman » 28 Dec 2007, 12:12

AlexanderDitto wrote:Vonnegut. I'm pathetic for not having read all of his books.


Me too. I have read a pitiful amount of Vonnegut and should really fix that at some point.

AlexanderDitto wrote:Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center, Bell Hooks (brilliant)


Worth reading? I haven't read too much about feminism (that is to say, formal not-strictly-gender-related feminism) and have been looking for some good sources.

AlexanderDitto wrote:a few books on Artificial Intelligence


I've got Russell's "Artificial Intelligence: a Modern Approach," although I haven't read the whole thing. It's got a good introduction and seems to cover all the major bases, so it might be worth checking out if you haven't read it already.
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Postby Vicky » 28 Dec 2007, 12:29

I just finished reading "Slaughterhouse Five" by Kurt Vonnegut.
It's interesting because during the course of reading the book, I kept thinking, 'why is this such a classic? it's so weird', but I couldn't put it down. When I finally did finish it, I was in awe of the amount of information my brain was attempting to process, sort and disfigure into sense, and how significantly after finishing the book was I still thinking about it. In short, it was awesome and you should all read it, or at least another one of his many wonderful books.

I just started reading, "Vernon God Little" by DBC Pierre, and "The Doors of Perception" by Aldous Huxley. Not sure how either are going to turn out, as they were both gifts. :3
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Postby CyberTractor » 28 Dec 2007, 13:27

I read City of Bones which is a pretty good teen-oriented fantasy book.
Finally finished Son of a Witch.
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Postby Lord Chrusher » 28 Dec 2007, 14:31

About a week ago I read Making Money by Terry Pratchett.

Right now I am reading through all of the Tintin stories which I bought yesterday in hardcover.

Not books but I have been reading the science proposals for TMT (Thirty Meter Telescope) and ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter Array). I have also been reading through An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics by Carroll and Ostlie.
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Postby Allen! » 28 Dec 2007, 16:26

Going through L.E. Modesitt Jr.'s series again. Also reading through the Deathgate Cycle at the same time.
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Postby Anachronism » 28 Dec 2007, 17:53

I'm on vacation so I've put aside the denser reading for now. I just finished reading all published Order Of The Stick compilations which a friend of mine lent me for the break. I'm getting re-started on reading the Song of Ice and Fire series by George R.R. Martin starting with A Game of Thrones. Academics got in the way last time.
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Postby The Pious Flea » 28 Dec 2007, 17:55

Just finished re-reading A Civil Campaign for... let's say the sixteenth time.

Also, The Pennsylvania Heritage Cookbook.
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Postby Cosine » 28 Dec 2007, 18:43

I'm currently reading World War Z by Max Brooks. Its written by the same author as The Zombie Survival Guide. So far its been a very entertaining read. The book is written through a the compiled interviews between various survivors of a world wide outbreak of "The Walking Plague".
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Postby Elaro » 28 Dec 2007, 20:07

I finished reading Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. Yes, I know I'm late.
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Postby wilson_x1999 » 28 Dec 2007, 21:15

Right now, I'm reading The Day of the Triffids, it was written in the early 60's, but it doesn't feel old, I totally recommend it to people who like zombie and end of the world type of things :)

Cosine wrote:I'm currently reading World War Z by Max Brooks. Its written by the same author as The Zombie Survival Guide. So far its been a very entertaining read. The book is written through a the compiled interviews between various survivors of a world wide outbreak of "The Walking Plague".


It's really good, also if you have the chance, listen to the audio book, it has great performances and it's awesome XD
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Postby anotherearth » 29 Dec 2007, 00:33

I'm currently reading through the Ender's saga of books by Orson Scott Card, and am in the middle of "Xenocide" right now. Great books! Highly rec'd!
As I'm also a serious foodie, I always have a stack of cookbooks and cooking mags to casually read as well. A recent fav is "The River Cottage Meat Book" -definitely a carnivore's dream. As for magazines, Cook's Illustrated is prolly the only magazine that I'll actually read in its entirety from cover to cover.
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Postby dark_realm » 29 Dec 2007, 00:53

I am reading Big City Nights
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Postby The Hitman » 29 Dec 2007, 02:34

wilson_x1999 wrote:Right now, I'm reading The Day of the Triffids, it was written in the early 60's, but it doesn't feel old, I totally recommend it to people who like zombie and end of the world type of things :)


Excellent book. The movie was a joke, but the book is awesome.
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Postby emma » 29 Dec 2007, 16:38

I don't remember the title or the author of the book I'm reading.

But it's a murder thriller about Dickens and Poe.
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Postby JesterJ. » 29 Dec 2007, 17:11

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Postby Kara » 29 Dec 2007, 17:29

I just finished rereading 'Great Expectations' the other week. And I also read 'This Lullaby' by Sarah Dessen, which was a good read.

Hopefully I'll be picking up the Stephen Colbert book.
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Postby theINC » 29 Dec 2007, 17:43

Can't say I've been reading a lot of fiction lately.

I have been reading:
The Chaser Annual - a parody newspaper, in an annual. Funny stuff.

Dr Karl's new book - he disproves myths with Science®. Like Mythbusters, but in a book, without explosions

The Little Book of Stress - a book filled with ways to make everyone around you, and yourself, stressed. For example: record the sound of a dentist's drill. Play it at bed time.
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Postby wilson_x1999 » 29 Dec 2007, 19:06

The Hitman wrote:...Excellent book. The movie was a joke, but the book is awesome.


They made a movie? wtf

I'm still thinking about reading the 2nd book that came out, it's by a different writer, but the people who did read it said that the writing is very similar to the original author so I may give it a shot.
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Postby JesterJ. » 29 Dec 2007, 19:10

Anyone read the new Bourne, or know anyone who has?

Frankly, it sort of ruined it for me when I learned it was coming out: I never got to finish the 3rd book (Accidentally left it backstage at a theater), so I didn't know if Bourne lived or died: I assumed lived, but there was always the chance...

But that's my own fault for not finishing it. Anyone read the new one, is it like Ludlum's, is it any good?
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Postby Ribonizer » 29 Dec 2007, 20:48

I'm tempted to list manga I'm reading but I realise that's not what the thread poster intended.
I'm reading the Discworld series, and the 6th novel of the Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu series.
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