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Re: So what are YOU reading?
« Reply #40 on: April 27, 2006, 02:51:55 PM »
I'm currently finishing my collection of Lovecraft stories. Then I'll probably move on to Watchmen, and from there, who knows? Colby Buzzel - My War (Killing Time In Iraq) is on my shelf.
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Re: So what are YOU reading?
« Reply #41 on: April 27, 2006, 03:39:40 PM »
I need to read more Neil Gaiman. I'm woefully out of the loop...but American Gods (yeah, I know, cowritten) was awesome!
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Re: So what are YOU reading?
« Reply #42 on: April 27, 2006, 09:35:23 PM »
I've kind of got two very interesting books going at the moment.
Beyond World's End by Mercedes Lackey & Rosemary Edghill - as I've been working my way, however slowly, through the Bedlam's Bard series and, well, I read Baen'd Books.

I'm also working through The Barbary Coast: An Informal History of the San Francisco Underworld by Herbert Asbury. A very, very, interesting read. Unfortunatly, due to the time the book was published, there isn't any information on Prohibition (the book was published in the early 1930s.) A very fascinating read. This same guy also wrote "The Gangs of New York", which inspired a certain movie which many of you may have seen...
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Re: So what are YOU reading?
« Reply #43 on: April 27, 2006, 09:58:58 PM »
Quote from: choctaw on April 27, 2006, 03:39:40 PM
I need to read more Neil Gaiman. I'm woefully out of the loop...but American Gods (yeah, I know, cowritten) was awesome!

Don't you mean Good Omens?  American Gods was a solo effort on Gaiman's part.  Either way, both are great books.
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Re: So what are YOU reading?
« Reply #44 on: April 27, 2006, 10:16:58 PM »
Quote from: Oniichan on April 27, 2006, 09:58:58 PM
Quote from: choctaw on April 27, 2006, 03:39:40 PM
I need to read more Neil Gaiman. I'm woefully out of the loop...but American Gods (yeah, I know, cowritten) was awesome!

Don't you mean Good Omens? American Gods was a solo effort on Gaiman's part. Either way, both are great books.

Aww! You beat me to it! I was just posting that but saw yours when I scrolled up. Good Omens was w/Terry Pratchett. I felt Terry's style dominated, but I really couldn't complain. Funny funny book.
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Re: So what are YOU reading?
« Reply #45 on: April 27, 2006, 10:25:04 PM »
I lent my copy of American Gods to the boy for the plane ride, so now I can't read it again. *pout*
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Re: So what are YOU reading?
« Reply #46 on: April 28, 2006, 05:08:15 AM »
I feel like Neil and Terry were so busy trying to out-do each other in Good Omens that the book suffered for it.

Still enjoyable.  Just... kind of strained.
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Re: So what are YOU reading?
« Reply #47 on: April 28, 2006, 05:29:56 AM »
Quote from: Oniichan on April 27, 2006, 09:58:58 PM
Quote from: choctaw on April 27, 2006, 03:39:40 PM
I need to read more Neil Gaiman. I'm woefully out of the loop...but American Gods (yeah, I know, cowritten) was awesome!

Don't you mean Good Omens?  American Gods was a solo effort on Gaiman's part.  Either way, both are great books.

Yes, I did...I'm an idiot. I've recently read them both, and I wasn't thinkin'. :(
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Re: So what are YOU reading?
« Reply #48 on: April 28, 2006, 07:18:40 PM »
It's ok choctaw, I think we can forgive your stupidity.  Just this once though, k?   ;)

I liked Good Omens, it made me want to read more Gaiman.  And more Gaiman is always good. 
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Re: So what are YOU reading?
« Reply #49 on: May 03, 2006, 04:39:49 PM »
Gaiman is superb, but Pratchett is superior. Anyone read a lot of him? Anything featuring Sam Vimes or Death is a great read in my book. (Get it? BOOK!?)
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Re: So what are YOU reading?
« Reply #50 on: May 03, 2006, 04:42:21 PM »
Torso: A True Crime Graphic Novel by Brian Michael Bendis and Marc Andreyke

It just came in the mail today....pretty good so far. It's about the case Eliot Ness caught after the Untouchables, in Cleveland.
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Re: So what are YOU reading?
« Reply #51 on: May 03, 2006, 05:56:38 PM »
Tora, you had me startled for a second, there.  There's a manga by the name of Torso that is one of the most twisted, brain-breaky things I have ever seen.  And I've only seen it raw.  The fact that I immediatly thought 'Oh my god!  She got it translated!  Where?!'  just says that much about me...


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My friend juat gave me the complete collection of Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter books.  I'm still not quite sure what I think of it yet.
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Re: So what are YOU reading?
« Reply #52 on: May 03, 2006, 07:17:45 PM »
I tried to read the first Anita Blake. Got halfway through and tossed it to read Neverwhere.
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Re: So what are YOU reading?
« Reply #53 on: May 04, 2006, 07:02:51 AM »
Jude The Obscure, just started it so I dont have an opinion yet
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Re: So what are YOU reading?
« Reply #54 on: May 04, 2006, 05:06:34 PM »
Hot and Sweaty Rex by Eric Garcia.

These are some of the wittiest and most clever contemporary fiction books I've read in a long while. The entire triology is just so ridiculous, but it's pulled off so smoothly and I can't help but just applaud Eric Garcia for being such a slick, funny bastard.
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Re: So what are YOU reading?
« Reply #55 on: May 04, 2006, 06:02:34 PM »
Krushchev, The Man and His Era.  Ok so far.
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Re: So what are YOU reading?
« Reply #56 on: May 04, 2006, 06:23:20 PM »
For Us the Living-Robert Heinlein and then The Cat Who Walks Through Walls by the same.
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Re: So what are YOU reading?
« Reply #57 on: May 04, 2006, 07:29:49 PM »
Currently reading:
Gentlemen & Players, by Joanne Harris
The History of Love, by Nicole Krauss

Recently read (most recent first):

The Highest Tide, by Jim Lynch
Bed Rest, by Sarah Bilston
Recipes for a Perfect Marriage, by Morag Prunty
Elegance, by Kathleen Tessaro
Lamb, by Christopher Moore
A Dirty Job, by Christopher Moore
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, by Lisa See

Planning on reading:
Bad Twin, by Gary Troup (which is, apparently, a tie-in to LOST)

Uh, yeah.  I work at a bookstore, where I have the luxury of checking out anything I want for free.  And spend a lot of dead time by myself up at the register.  And have an hour bus ride to and from work.  So I read a lot. >_>  But yay books!  There are actually more, but those are the ones I can remember that I actually finished.   And now I have a whole lot more to look at, thanks to you guys!  :D
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Re: So what are YOU reading?
« Reply #58 on: May 07, 2006, 07:14:29 PM »
The Virago Book of Erotic Myths and Legends. I've only read the first story so far.
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Re: So what are YOU reading?
« Reply #59 on: May 07, 2006, 07:17:15 PM »
A book on Eastern Religions - Shinto, Hinduism, Taoism, etc.
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