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[Cardinal Synn]

What book are you reading just now? Is it good etc etc. Please tell.

I've just finished Scar tissue by Anthony Kiedas. It's a good read, though I skipped a lot of the early years lifestory stuff. The rise of the Red Hot Chili Peppers and his life long love-hate realtionship with coke and smack and various ladies make it very readible - lots of juicy stuff.
I'm now reading Johnny Rotten's autobiog - No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs. Very different. It gives some good insights into the British punk scene in the '70s and explodes some of the myths.
My next read will have nothing to do with the music industry. I hope.

[Truman]

Just finished "Persepolis" by Marjane Satrapi. It's extrordinary. Looking forward to reading her newest one.

Just started "A Tale of Love and Darkness" by Amoz Oz. It's my first time reading anything by Oz. Good stuff.

[moonraven]

CANAIMA, an adventure novel set in the Orinoco Basin, by Venezuelan writer (and president 1948-53 until he was deposed by a military coup), R�mulo Gallegos.

[Guy Courchesne]

I'm just getting into Phaedrus for the second time.

Otherwise, the Bible is a constant read.

[Twisting in the Wind]

A couple of bios on Father Damien of the leper colony of Molokai, Hawaii. Because Mr. T and I are going to vacation there (Yay!) in March. He was, I guess you could say, the Mother Theresa of the 19th century. He ran a leper colony in a time when leprosy was still uncurable, and ended up catching it himself.

[Twisting in the Wind]

[James_T_Kirk]

I just finished Sex Lives of Cannibals by Maarten Troost...highly recommended!

[Glenski]

Trying hard to finish more than one book simultaneously (although reading with one book in each hand is tricky):

Don Quixote (unabridged)
The Day of the Jackal (original, not a screenplay)

A fair number of articles on EST and ESP.
A couple of books on forensics or general science experiments that HS students can do.
My son's Lego train instructions (although they are in German and Japanese, so my wife has to handle that)

Stuff on the shelf to be read:

Gulliver (unabridged)
War of the Worlds (original)
Titan, by John Varley
The High Window, by Raymond Chandler

[distiller]

I am reading and enjoying Identity by Milan Kundera, It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis and Moscow to the End of the Line by Venedikt Erofeev as well as my one of my favorite magazines, AdBusters.

[ls650]

I'm about 3/4s of the way through the science fiction novel Omega by Jack McDevitt.

[blue jay]

Immortality by Milan Kundera

A critique of the plot:
http://www.kundera.de/english/Bibliography/Immortality/immortality.html

[sigmoid]

AND NO! THE GUY'S NAME IS NOT PHILIP *BEEP*!!
LAME ONE ADMIN!

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[Guy Courchesne]

sigmoid...good selections

[merlin]

I wandered off my normal genre over the holidays.
Red Dragon
and
Silence of the Lambs

Better than TV but just barely.

Now it's back to educational literature and I'm working through the Microsoft Excell Users Guide to brush up my spreadsheet skills.

[leby26]

I was assigned Journey Into the Whirlwind (Eugenia Semyonovna Ginzburg's memoir of her eighteen years in soviet prisons and labour camps during Stalin's reign of terror) by a friend of mine who adored the book so much she said I just had to read it. I've been trying to read it, really I have been, and ofcourse it is very very good (again, highly recommended!). I just haven't been in the mood for the subject matter lately so I've been cheating quite a bit by reading some Sade and Chaucer instead . But again, Journey Into the Whirlwind, seriously a good read.