what... are... you... READING

[DirtDawg]

I actually have several going most of the time, but I found one I had only heard of but never read by Asimov. Money has been tight, so I have not been to my favorite book store in a while. I used to go every few days.

Came home with seven CDs, three DVDs and two Asimov books ...

The Sensuous Dirty Old Man, which includes a selection of his favorite limericks re-written, but mostly they are his. 

Also enjoying Asimov's  brain in The Annotated "Paradise Lost"


I am for some reason intrigued by Zelazny's work right now, also.



The only fascinating,  serious book I have going at the moment is from the library:

The New Concise History of the Crusades,  by Thomas F. Madden,  A very clever volume!

[Calandale]

Wish I had some stuff I haven't read already. 

Or, at least in a long time.

Rereading a history of F.T. Ward,
founder of the Ever Victorious Army.

[DirtDawg]

I thought you were involved at a university. Are you saying that you have read out the entire university library?

Try a local state funded library. I don't know about your area, but our public libraries have gone apeshit with funding during the Bush Administration.



Aw, shit! I said something good about Bush.

[Calandale]

I'm no longer a student, nor working there.

IF I had the energy to make it to the library (where
I'd need to get a card - and I plan on leaving soon),
I could just make it to the goodwill, and pick stuff up
there. Too apathetic.

[Parts]

If you don't mind reading off the computer try here http://www.archive.org/details/texts

[Calandale]

Haven't fallen to that. I can't really read
off the screen well.

[Parts]

Neither can I but some of the stuff is interesting enough to try
You can always read the shampoo bottles in the bathroom

[Calandale]

I COULD buy the newspaper,
if I get desperate.

Plus, there's always the yellow pages.
Been a long time since I've read them.

[Parts]

I read the yellow pages too.  It's even better now because I have an add in them

[Alex179]

A couple of Jewish authors for some class I had to do since this school has one extra Literature class as a requirement than the other state schools (UF, FSU, UCF, etc.).    The first one has a good deal of stories including demons and has mixed up demonology references.   Hurmizah for example is referred to as a female demon in one story and then a male in the other.    Still it is centered on Satan and the role of him and his demons in tempting humanity into giving in to their animalistic desires and thereby assuring their presence in hell.   Some of the stories are hilarious and it won the Nobel Prize for Literature.   That one is called The Collected Stories, by Isaac Bashevis Singer.   It is better than the usual fare I read in LIT and ENG classes 10 years ago when I actually went to a school that had less English requirements.   Kind of depressing.  The Jewish poetry is written by a female and very love centered with a good deal of nostalgia thrown in, nothing special in my opinion.

[Kosmonaut]

[odeon]

"Social Intelligence" by Daniel Goleman

[ozymandias]

The Boston Globe newspaper

[Tristeza]

Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

[Lucifer]

"Social Intelligence" by Daniel Goleman

how's that going?  his style less grating yet?

i'm just geting to the last knockings of "kafka on the beach" by muikami.  nevr been sure whether i actually like him or not, but this one, and the last one of his i read ("south of the wind, west of the arse", or some such thing - i'm rubbish at titles, sometimes), i really enjoyed.