What are you reading?

[Chadzilla]

The Official Godzilla Companion by J.D. Lees and Marc Cerasini.

and

The Reckoning by James Byron Huggins - a Men's Action novel (think David Morrell) so dripping with macho testosterone that, if I don't finish it soon, will have me shaving two or three times a day.

Next on the reading deck...

A Winter's Haunting by Dan Simmons
The Evil Dead Companion by Bill Warren
The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass by Stephen King (this will be my second attempt at reading the book, I couldn't finish it the first time)

[Cool Tester]

"If Chins Could Kill."  When I first read that it conjured up strange images, all in black and white strangely enough (AAAAH!  The Chin!  We must flee!).

I just finished reading "On Basilisk Station" by David Weber.  This is the first book in the Honor Harrington series.  This series has been described as Horatio Hornblower in outer space.  I know little about Hornblower, so I can't say if this is true or not.  It's a good book if you like military SF.

Currently I am reading "The Ophiuchi Hotline" by John Varley (science fiction).  This is Varley's first novel.  Good stuff.  I'm a huge John Varley.  Unfortunately, he's not a prolific writer (he wrote "Steel Beach" in 1989, and then his next one was "Golden Globe" in 1997).  His short stories are the best.  If you can find his collection "Blue Champagne" anywere, get it.  That's some of his best work.  The Gaean Trilogy is good as well (Titan, Wizard, and Demon are the titles).

Next I'm going to read either "Requiem for the Sun" by Elizabeht Haydon (book four in the Rhapsody series) or "Honor for the Queen" (book two in the Honor Harrington series).

[raj]

Silmarillion is great, though the first hundred pages can be a bit slow (sort of Old Testament like).  For the movies, I reread it, then The Hobbit, Fellowship of the Rings, and am currently rereading the Two Towers.  I'm also reading "Nothingness"  about the physics of empty space. (just don't ask me about the math involved)

Brother Ragnarok wrote:
>
> I just finished an issue of Doctor Who Magazine, and am about
> to embark on the Silmarillion.  Lookin' forward to it.
>
> Brother R

[Funk, E.]

Err... Tomas Aquinas Selected Writings, Esential Augustine, Philosophy on Mind, Elements of Mind... Guess who's studing Philosophy in college! 8-D

[Garfunkel75]

I'm in the Middle of "Stupid White Men" by Michael Moore. Very interesting, especially from an "outsider's" perspective (I'm British).

[Drezzy]

Bret Easton Ellis' novel Glamorama

[Bonehead XL]

"The Day After" by David Machintyre, Sean Catlett, and Stephen Zacharus. A great read, highly recomended.

[Brock]

I recently have read "The Hours", "Virgin Suicides", "Confederacy of Dunces", "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind", and "The Crucible".  Next up is "Wicked: the life and times of the wicked witch of the west", "High wind in Jamaica", and "A Void" by Georges Perec, a mystery novel that manages to never use the letter "e".

[Pancho]

I'm finishing off the Necroscope series right now and that's to be followed by a reread of Heavier Than Heaven, a great Cobain biography, and after that I need to read something by Lovecraft.  It's been too long.

[Susan]

the "letters from a nut" series.

highly recommended for those with a warped sense of humor. Absolutely true stories of one mans dedication of writing the most ludicrous letters to companies in order to see how they would respond

[JohnL]

>highly recommended for those with a warped sense of humor. Absolutely true
>stories of one mans dedication of writing the most ludicrous letters to companies
>in order to see how they would respond

This reminds me of a web site I found once where they had a section containing letters they'd written to different places and the responses they received. The longest series of exchanges was when they wrote to a hotel chain and told them that they felt a little uncomfortable with the hotel's new policy of having the restroom attendant hold their penis while they stood at the urinal. :)

[Susan]

>>This reminds me of a web site I found once where they had a section containing letters they'd written to different places and the responses they received. The longest series of exchanges was when they wrote to a hotel chain and told them that they felt a little uncomfortable with the hotel's new policy of having the restroom attendant hold their penis while they stood at the urinal. :)<<<

LOL! Well this guy has questions from the absurd (like asking a hotel chain if he can bring his ant farm along which he lets out of the box but they are trained) to interesting questions that could happen (like asking a cruise liner company if they could accomodate him as he has a bad case of terrets syndrome..where he also writes spurts of profanity throughout the letter) heh
Somehow, stuff like that amuses me