It's forever alone month and I am reading...

Like... Fight Club?

The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Great book on the impact of the highly improbable! My "to read list" has increased tremendously since I started reading it. He keeps describing the works of philosophers and authors such as Karl Popper, Dino Buzzati and Frederic Bastiat in a way that makes it impossible not wanting to read those books as well.

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Bastiat fo' life!

"If goods do not cross borders, troops will."

"Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."

Loved it. Gotta see the film now, Daniel Radcliffe is Arthur

I started reading We Were the Mulvaney's, since it has been laying around my house for a while, but once more I am finding that I do not care for Ms.Oates writing style and I find myself avoiding picking up the book.

I need to go book shopping. I don't want to read any of this junk i have around here.

I finished Ender's Game a couple of days ago. It was pretty fucking good. What originally hooked me is that I'm a "Third", with a brother as the eldest and a sister that's the middle child. Kinda awesome. Not sure if I wanna read Speaker for the Dead, though.

I'm pissed that they're making Ender's Game into a movie. Card's already talked about how freakin' much they're cutting out from the book. While I was reading it, I was imagining how to adapt it into a movie, and settled on the idea that it had to be animated. I won't be able to take it seriously otherwise.

Anyway, now I'm starting on The Day of the Jackal. Hope it's good.

It's not going to be animated? I guess they're probably going to make him twice as old then.

Jess, are you going to read My Father's House? I want to give Ben a good discussion over there. He's such a cool guy.

Yeah! I should be getting it any day now. I really did enjoy his other book a whole lot.

Oh sweet! I'm stoked. You rock.

Currently reading work in progress until I decide what to read next.

I thoroughly enjoyed the film - totally worth paying to go see it.

Finished Vacation by Jeremy C Shipp. Not what I was expecting. It was much better.

Starting Seven Spanish Angels by Stephen Graham Jones. It's been a while since I read one of his books.

I really want to see this. Mostly because I'm curious to see what sort of actor Daniel has grown into after playing the same character for so long.

I heard he quit acting after The Woman In Black.

Daniel Radcliffe annoys me greatly! Have you read about his "drink problem"? It's embarrassing, really. In interviews he's very awkward and strange, it makes me feel uncomfortable watching him!

I am going to see The Woman in Black today. The book - I didn't think much of it. The writing style irritated me but the scary parts were pretty good and I like the ending.

I LOVED Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides!! It left me feeling so happy and good about people.
Within 30 pages of Fante by Dan Fante I felt pretty cynical again. It's very interesting though. John Fante had some bad luck during his career =[

I really enjoyed Middlesex and I'd like to read Jeffrey Eugenides' new book.

I think I'm going to have to read Middlesex, I'm glad it's good. I need a feel good book.

I finished Blood, it was a good read, but the subject matter was proabably not the best thing for me to read about (serial killer chasing after pregnant women, or women who've had abortions and being obsessd by their blood). And, I started reading it in the pathology waiting room, waiting to get my bloods done!

I think I'll buy Middlesex, and read a bit more of Ina May's Guide to Childbirth.

I couldn't get into Middlesex, i tried. Virgin Suicides is a class though.

Started A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh.

Very arrogant, yes. I somehow quite like it though. He might be a pain in the ass if you have to meet him everyday at work, but the arrogant tone works out to his advantage in the book in my opinion. It makes him even more interesting somehow.

I don't agree with the shorting down though. Everything that's in the book is gold, and I would have hated the editors from removing all the sidetracks and miscellaneous facts, which I love.

I am myself almost finished with my Bachelors degree in business and economics and I suspect that people who haven't studied any statistics or finance might find the book slightly less interesting than I did.

I've also read Fooled By Randomness, which is good, but The Black Swan is way better. I have yet to read The Bed of Procustes though.

I read 7 Days in Rio in a day and a half and it was quite good but I was expecting better things from it.

I'm going to finish off Skels by Maggie Dubris.

Goodbye, Columbus by Philip Roth.

Finishing off The Revelations by Alex Preston and I'm finding it disappointing. It's only just got going and I've only 50 pages to go. I had high hopes for this book.

Absolutely loving As a Machine and Parts by Caleb J Ross. He was one of my favourite people I met in New York years ago.

I'm reading Maggie: A Girl of the Streets for my literature class and i'm enjoying it. Much better than the other stuff we read like The Awakening by Kate Chopin *shoot myself in the head* or Huckleberry Finn ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ......

Will be finishing Juliet, Naked soon. Really like it.

Started Black Dogs by Ian McEwan.

By the Nails of the Warpriest by Nik Korpon.

By the Nails was really good. But I liked Old Ghosts a little better. Still a good read.

Next up is Crime Studio by Steve Aylett.

Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth.

That is my next one.

L.A. Confidential (James Ellroy)

That was a great movie.

That was a mediocre movie, the book is 100 times better.

Agreed.

I'm reading Damned (don't make fun of me) and I like it so far.

Who would make fun of you? This is a Chuck Palahniuk fan site. I'm going to read that soon too!

I'm digging Prayers For Rain by Dennis Lehane.

Portnoy's Complaint.

I'm in the middle of reading The Awakening, because it was yet another book that has been lying around here for ages, and I gotta say, the main chick really is a characterless twit.

I mean, I get all her inner passion and turmoil and stuff, but there is no personality to her at all, no character development whatsoever aside from that whole not realising she is a twit that is so unaware of her own emotions she letting herself fall in love without any active involvement or contemplation about it because, I suppose, she has nothing better to do with her lazy summer.

And the language itself, while quite pretty, is just... almost too much.

I'm going to see it through though, because I've set down several books in a row now, and I should just get on with finishing one then go out and buy some stuff worth reading.

By the Nails of the Warpiest - Nik Korpon

Yes, i found it far too wordy. It's like Chopin wanted to convey how bored the narrator was with her life by focusing on all of the mundane things in her life but she overdid it i think. I couldn't keep up with all the internal stuff in the story.

You Deserve Nothing - Alexander Maksik

It's about a student-teacher affair in an international school in Paris... and apparently autobiographical.

Just started Moby Dick by Herman Melville. Great so far.

YES and I'm torn between wanting to read all of it at once or trying to make it last longer. I've read about half of it so far.