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Mental · 07-25-2008, 12:38 AM

I just finished Orson Scott Card's - Xenocide (Which was an EXCELLENT book, and hte series has been beyond amazing). Already Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead. Plan to read the rest of the series but a buddy at work gave me Good Omen by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaimen. Which I'm pretty excited about since I like both those artists solo.

Started Good Omen tonight so should be done with it by tomorrow, maybe Saturday at the latest.

Suliman · 07-25-2008, 03:45 AM

^Damn good series, I just finished Xenocide myself

. He's a really talented writer, but I don't think any of the other books topped enders game, that book tripped me out.

Mental · 07-26-2008, 12:36 AM

Yea, Ender's Game had me really wrapped up in it. And the ending was trippy as fuck. I didn't even expect it and in the end was like "That makes PERFECT fucking sense....." I liked Speaker of the Dead, though I think I liked Xenocide a bit more. Especially how he wraps up what happened with the family/planet. Hoping Jane makes as large of an appearance in the next books as she did in Xenocide.

**Pharm Girl** · 07-27-2008, 05:34 AM

Dancing the Medicine Wheel............... which is all about how we can connect with the Earth via rocks, minerals and plants. It explains how to build Plant or Medicine Wheels for healing and well-being.

WildWill · 07-27-2008, 09:28 AM

I'm almost finished with Bernard Cornwell's The Last Kingdom, the first part of his "Alfred" series. I started his "Arthur" series earlier this year and finished the first two parts of the trilogy and need the third. I've got the second and third parts of Alfred coming from eBay.

Last week I finished Nymphos of Rocky Flats by Mario Acevedo. Didn't like it very much.

Also finished Phule's Company by Robert Asprin, and found it to be fun but formula.

Started reading the Mercy Thompson series by Patricia Briggs. I have the second book waiting after my wife snatched it up and read it first. I have to go buy her the third book.

I need to go purchase the new Robert Crais book.

peterpan_syndro · 08-08-2008, 04:18 PM

I'm reading Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut.

kamikazi89 · 08-09-2008, 10:52 AM

the ten-cent plauge..the great comic-book scare and how it changed america by david hajdu

strange news from another star by hermann hesse

naked to nude, life drawings in the twentieth century by george eisler

snuffleupagus · 08-20-2008, 12:17 PM

invisible monsters by chuck palahniuk

all of his books that ive read so far are pretty much awesome

BearsysRevenge · 08-20-2008, 12:56 PM

Snuff - Chuck Palahniuk

The Cannabis Grow Bible - Greg Green

CBCOOLEST · 08-20-2008, 01:29 PM

The book I am reading, right now, is called Uncle Toms Hut

Flamingnun · 08-20-2008, 01:46 PM

FindingBalance · 08-20-2008, 06:23 PM

halarious!

myxomatosis · 08-21-2008, 12:56 AM

Just grabbed four things from the library a week ago.

No Country For Old Men - Cormac McCarthy
People's History Of The US - Howard Zinn
Anansi Boys - Neil Gaiman
Omnivore's Dilemma - Micheal Polan

Currently on Anansi with the others on their way but I've read the first couple pages of the rest.

I forgot. I also just was given Vonnegut's Mother Night from this homeless dude that comes in the store. Pretty sure he dumpstered it from the library or something. Sadly never read any of his stuff, I was supposed to read Slaughterhouse Five in school I'm pretty sure and never did. Hopefully Mother Night isn't a terrible departure from the rest of his stuff.

Bearsy, Snuff was good. I own everything he's put out so far, but since I never finished Diary I haven't moved onto his other stuff. That said I bought Snuff and Rant before going to MI and decided to read Snuff. It's normal Palahniuk fare but I certainly found it better than Diary, which I couldn't for the life of me seem to get into, and have sadly lost my copy of. I don't think anything has yet unseated Choke or Survivor as my favorite works of his.

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Originally Posted by snuffleupagus

invisible monsters by chuck palahniuk

all of his books that ive read so far are pretty much awesome

Third on my list as far as his books go.

**30_Units** · 08-21-2008, 06:25 AM

I'm partially through about half a dozen Oliver Sacks books....uncle tungsten-his memoirs and how chemistry, the london blitz, etc shaped his love of science, chemistry and later neurology

awakenings- was adapted into a movie with robin williams in the 80's, about a drug trial on post-encephalitic parkinsonian sufferers.

the man who mistook his wife for a hat- typical Sacks musings on his case studies

as is
an anthropologist on mars focuses a lot more on high-functioning autistics and savants, other profoundly disabled (yet gifted) people

speed tribes by Karl Taro Greenfield is about Japanese culture from the early 90's, basically a dissection of life there that really opens a lot of doors for a whiteboy amerikkkun like mahself.

And my bathrooms are filled with Uncle John's Bathroom readers....all get read pretty regular

That Sudhir Venkatesh book about gangs, from Redking, was amazing. I'd recommend it to anyone

Man in Black · 08-21-2008, 03:17 PM

Aristotle's "Poetics"

grieves · 08-21-2008, 11:48 PM

"The Book of Five Rings" Miyamoto Musashi

Terry · 08-22-2008, 11:34 AM

The Scar by China Mieville

slapstick · 08-22-2008, 04:51 PM

all families are psychotic by Douglas Coupland.
I've read most of his books. got me back into reading.

07-25-2008, 12:38 AM	#261 (permalink)
Mental Remember Rule #33! Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Arizona Posts: 248 Thanks: 2 Thanked 14 Times in 13 Posts	I just finished Orson Scott Card's - Xenocide (Which was an EXCELLENT book, and hte series has been beyond amazing). Already Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead. Plan to read the rest of the series but a buddy at work gave me Good Omen by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaimen. Which I'm pretty excited about since I like both those artists solo. Started Good Omen tonight so should be done with it by tomorrow, maybe Saturday at the latest. __________________ In the land of the Normal, I choose to be me. In the land of the Confined, I choose to be free. In the land of the Oppressed, I choose to to enlightened. To those that understand I greet you hand to hand, for in this world, it is we few that choose to stand. Welcome to the new world, where the inmates are free, and the world isn't as it used to be. Welcome to the new life you will begin to live, free your mind and the rest will follow.

07-25-2008, 03:45 AM	#262 (permalink)
Suliman ҰÅĦǾΏҜλИ Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Hawaii Posts: 150 Thanks: 123 Thanked 10 Times in 10 Posts	^Damn good series, I just finished Xenocide myself . He's a really talented writer, but I don't think any of the other books topped enders game, that book tripped me out. __________________ But they all do sort of the same thing, and that is rearrange what you thought was real. They remind you of the beauty of pretty simple things.You forget, because you're so busy going from A to Z, that there's 24 letters in between...

07-26-2008, 12:36 AM	#263 (permalink)
Mental Remember Rule #33! Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Arizona Posts: 248 Thanks: 2 Thanked 14 Times in 13 Posts	Yea, Ender's Game had me really wrapped up in it. And the ending was trippy as fuck. I didn't even expect it and in the end was like "That makes PERFECT fucking sense....." I liked Speaker of the Dead, though I think I liked Xenocide a bit more. Especially how he wraps up what happened with the family/planet. Hoping Jane makes as large of an appearance in the next books as she did in Xenocide. __________________ In the land of the Normal, I choose to be me. In the land of the Confined, I choose to be free. In the land of the Oppressed, I choose to to enlightened. To those that understand I greet you hand to hand, for in this world, it is we few that choose to stand. Welcome to the new world, where the inmates are free, and the world isn't as it used to be. Welcome to the new life you will begin to live, free your mind and the rest will follow.

07-27-2008, 05:34 AM	#264 (permalink)
Pharm Girl Turtle Island Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 2,382 Blog Entries: 4 Thanks: 253 Thanked 158 Times in 130 Posts	Dancing the Medicine Wheel............... which is all about how we can connect with the Earth via rocks, minerals and plants. It explains how to build Plant or Medicine Wheels for healing and well-being. __________________ When you're BAD you have to sit in the BAD chair just like everyone else!!

07-27-2008, 09:28 AM	#265 (permalink)
WildWill Go Medical! Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Beverly Hills Adjacent Posts: 308 Thanks: 48 Thanked 41 Times in 36 Posts	I'm almost finished with Bernard Cornwell's <b>The Last Kingdom</b>, the first part of his "Alfred" series. I started his "Arthur" series earlier this year and finished the first two parts of the trilogy and need the third. I've got the second and third parts of Alfred coming from eBay. Last week I finished <b>Nymphos of Rocky Flats</b> by Mario Acevedo. Didn't like it very much. Also finished <b>Phule's Company</b> by Robert Asprin, and found it to be fun but formula. Started reading the Mercy Thompson series by Patricia Briggs. I have the second book waiting after my wife snatched it up and read it first. I have to go buy her the third book. I need to go purchase the new Robert Crais book. __________________ Custom Volcano Bags http://www.geocities.com/wmnoe/volcanobags.html

08-08-2008, 04:18 PM	#266 (permalink)
peterpan_syndro YaHookan Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: pittsburgh, pa Posts: 22 Thanks: 0 Thanked 3 Times in 2 Posts	I'm reading Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut. __________________

08-20-2008, 12:17 PM	#268 (permalink)
snuffleupagus the queen slug Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 181 Thanks: 0 Thanked 3 Times in 3 Posts	invisible monsters by chuck palahniuk all of his books that ive read so far are pretty much awesome __________________ this world is hopeless, but i love it anyway.

08-20-2008, 12:56 PM	#269 (permalink)
BearsysRevenge Adminfiltrator Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: I've got BuffaLOVE Posts: 4,552 Thanks: 625 Thanked 146 Times in 107 Posts	Snuff - Chuck Palahniuk The Cannabis Grow Bible - Greg Green __________________ Ladies and Gentlemen, Hobos and Tramps, Cross-eyed mosquitoes and bowlegged ants. I come before you, to stand before you, to tell you a story I know nothing about. One bright morning in the middle of the night two dead fellows stood up to fight. They stood back to back, facing each other, drew their swords and shot each other. If you don't believe my lie, it's true, ask the blind lady on the corner, she saw it too.

08-20-2008, 01:29 PM	#270 (permalink)
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08-20-2008, 01:46 PM	#271 (permalink)
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08-21-2008, 06:25 AM	#274 (permalink)
30_Units FordPrefect Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 4,621 Thanks: 26 Thanked 122 Times in 73 Posts	I'm partially through about half a dozen Oliver Sacks books....uncle tungsten-his memoirs and how chemistry, the london blitz, etc shaped his love of science, chemistry and later neurology awakenings- was adapted into a movie with robin williams in the 80's, about a drug trial on post-encephalitic parkinsonian sufferers. the man who mistook his wife for a hat- typical Sacks musings on his case studies as is an anthropologist on mars focuses a lot more on high-functioning autistics and savants, other profoundly disabled (yet gifted) people speed tribes by Karl Taro Greenfield is about Japanese culture from the early 90's, basically a dissection of life there that really opens a lot of doors for a whiteboy amerikkkun like mahself. And my bathrooms are filled with Uncle John's Bathroom readers....all get read pretty regular That Sudhir Venkatesh book about gangs, from Redking, was amazing. I'd recommend it to anyone __________________ "There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory." -- Marcel Proust

08-21-2008, 03:17 PM	#275 (permalink)
Man in Black sic semper tyrannis Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Dayton, Ohio Posts: 816 Thanks: 186 Thanked 67 Times in 53 Posts	Aristotle's "Poetics" __________________ Don't let it bring you down, it's only castles burning, find someone who's turning and you will come around

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grieves Pimp Nutz Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Terra Sancta Posts: 7,844 Blog Entries: 1 Thanks: 420 Thanked 214 Times in 102 Posts	"The Book of Five Rings" Miyamoto Musashi __________________ It's so controlled, it's sitting in most, just sit and stare, At a television with a distant glare, And I'm ashamed to admit it, I'm a slave to this shit, As much as anybody but I'm not afraid of it, This is where the change comes, and this is where we make some difference, Embrace what's within us and escape from this prison, All it takes is a little bit of faith, And a little bit of love, to get rid of all the hate,

08-22-2008, 11:34 AM	#277 (permalink)
Terry Illuminated One Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Missoula, Montana Posts: 2,722 Thanks: 0 Thanked 81 Times in 65 Posts	The Scar by China Mieville __________________ The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. -Omar Bradley

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08-22-2008, 04:51 PM	#278 (permalink)
slapstick marvel fanatic Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: las cruces, New Mexico Posts: 158 Thanks: 3 Thanked 3 Times in 3 Posts	all families are psychotic by Douglas Coupland. I've read most of his books. got me back into reading. __________________ here we go again, out of our medicine out of our minds now we want in yours, let us in!