I'm still working on "Every Dead Thing" by John Connolly - it's taken some interesting twists and turns. What I THOUGHT would be the ending happened about halfway through the book, so I can't imagine where it's going now!

I'm reading:

Amerika by Kafka
Dirty Havana Trilogy by Gutierrez
Essays by Susan Sontag
Excavating Kafka by Hawes

My anthropology textbook. It's a bit anticlimactic, but the chapter devoted entirely to monkeys is pretty neat. 2/5 stars.

I'm just finishing up Clown Girl by Monica Drake.

This month, I plan on reading
A Clockwork Orange
Pygmy
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
1984

One book a week is an achievable pace, right?

i'm reading Her Fearful Symmetry by the chick that did The Time Traveler's Wife.

supposed to be good.

Tyger, Tyger
burning bright

The Coma - Alex Garland

I haven't progressed at all. Still doing the dark tower series.

I'm considering heading down to the library to get some books. They have Eleanor Rigby and The Gum Thief, by Douglas Coupland. Anyone know if these are supposed to be good?

Still reading Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea by Carl Zimmer and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Tried finishing the former last night to start fresh today, but sleep won out.

Might start The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan, The Scientists: A History of Science Told Through the Lives of Its Greatest Inventors by John Gribbin, or His Dark Materials Trilogy by Philip Pullman will probably decide last minute.

Still reading Helter Skelter. I plan on re-reading Spies by Michael Frayn next.

NEW JAMES ELLROY!

Uh, it's not such a happy tale, matter of fact...

I'm currently working on "Filth" by Irvine Welsh. This month I plan on reading "Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World" by Haruki Murakami and "Notes from the Underground" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. If time permits, I'll also tackle a Philip K. Dick novel, either "Dr. Bloodmoney" or "The Game Players of Titan".

Arrrgh, Ritt, just fix your post.
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I keep seeing books by Haruki Murakami at book stores, but I've never got one.

that's the only thing i'm reading right now too because school takes up so much time. anyway, i can tell he rushed some of the story here and there but it's pretty damn good. super violent and gorey too.

About four years ago I found a collection of very old looking hardbacks on the London Underground whilst coming home after a night out. Among them was a really nice copy of Uncle Tom's Cabin, which is what I have just started reading. I like it so far.

It was enjoyable enough. There was no real climax, despite the constant foreshadowing. The only part I really liked was the very end, and I like it more now that I think back on it, than I did reading it.

I actively pine away for the time that it took for me to read that. I want my hour and a half back, Garland. I want it back.

I'm 2/3 of the way through Anna Karenina by Tolstoy. I really like it. I didn't think I would.

Harrington on Hold'em - Dan Harrington

not sure what i'm going to do next

The Talented Mr Ripley by Highsmith for book club. It was suggested and I backed it like crazy. If it sucks, it's my ass/

The Social Construction of Reality by Berger and Luckmann. Thus this book recommendation went like this...
"Have you read the Berger and Luckmann book? You should. Man, I fucking hated it. So happy I don't ever have to read that pile of garbage again. But you should... like yesterday."

Fantastic...

Still reading American Tabloid. It's 400 pages, it'll take me six months!

What do you, slow or something?

what do you, fast or something?

What is, with the, misplaced commas?

It's not really a strategy book so much as it is fascinating non-fiction and really well written.

Disregard my previous statements in this thread.

I just bought Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman and Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Gaiman.

Completely unexpected. I walked in planning on buying 1984 and somehow walked out with these.

good choices. i like the work of both these authors.

neverwhere will make your head spin, sometimes it's hard to visualize what gaiman is trying to describe. oh, and mind the gap.

pratchett's a great satirist. i still think that guards! guards! is one of his best work.

trying to read penny dreadful, house of leaves, cujo and the dimsum of all things. i keep switching it up. at this rate, probably won't finish anything.

House of Leaves is one that really needs to be read by itself.

Demian by Hermann Hesse

Lick Me by DeLeon DeMicoli.

This Boy's Life-by Tobias Wolff

Scorch Atlas by Blake Butler

Its great, really enjoyable plus his short story collection The Curse of Jezebel is worthy.

I finished reading The Gum Thief by Douglas Coupland. It wasn't particularly good. Next I might read Eleanor Rigby, or since I'm home I could re-read Kiss Me, Judas.

I liked Demian a lot, so I just went to the library and picked up Steppenwolf. It seems like it's the work of Hesse that's got the most recognition.

The Novels of Friedrich Durrenmatt.

i wish i could read as much as you guys. when i'm in school i can only read one book at a time.

What the hell! I'm using FireFox now, and there's no fucking up!

Hm.

that must why i didn't notice up until now, I use firefox at home but my parents don't have it on their computer.

For anyone not using IE, the page is normal up until Ritt 'new james ellroy' post, after that all the writing on the page is 'title size', orange and in capitals.

don't. use. IE.

Heartsick by Chelsea Cain.
I'm waiting on my copy of the contorshonists handbook by craig clevenger to arrive.

I'm attached to IE, it's all I've ever used.

I use Chrome and forgot how good it was until I was ran through IE, as it is my default browser, and waited ten minutes for it to load a half screen and then crash.

Try Chrome or Firefox. Chrome is easier to use but Firefox seems to be more secure.

Also, I'm reading The Drop Edge of Yonder by Rudy Wurlitzer.

Rereading American Tabloid, then later The Cold Six Thousand, and finally Blood's a Rover.

After that, perhaps the L.A. Quartet all over again.

Survivor by Terry Nation. Sounds like another version of the Stand so I snapped it up.

Ahahah I didn't know! Fine, I'll fix.