What 'cha readin'?

Tapestry · Post by **Tapestry** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 10:04 am

I'm currently reading "Ivanhoe" by Sir Walter Scott.
Why? Because I've never read it before.
I try to alternate between reading fiction and non-fiction books.

Rusted Iron · Post by **Rusted Iron** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 6:47 pm

Heart Shaped Box, by Joe Hill

(more horror)

skeetsh00ter · Post by **skeetsh00ter** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 7:15 am

catherine zeta jone throatjob...don't think i've read that one. Someone in another thread got me interested in Heinlein again, i just picked up 'Friday' but cant really get any reading done until i'm done w/ my last damn midterm on monday. fuck school.

helitack · Post by **helitack** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 7:29 am

Fuck school. That's good. Burger King is hiring...

skeetsh00ter · Post by **skeetsh00ter** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 7:39 am

fuck school in the sense that i'm tired of it, not in the sense of 'fuck it i quit." i should be graduating this semester w/ all my friends but i've decided to stay for my masters...doesn't seem worth it at this point.

but i think i would work at mcdonalds before burger king...seems classier?

Post by **AntiM** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 7:57 am

skeetsh00ter wrote:catherine zeta jone throatjob...don't think i've read that one. Someone in another thread got me interested in Heinlein again, i just picked up 'Friday' but cant really get any reading done until i'm done w/ my last damn midterm on monday. fuck school.

There ya go, that's the reasons I've been asking folks to pretty please not respond to spammers; the post gets buried in the thread, and you sound crazier than the normal eplayan for ranting on about non-existent posts once they've been deleted.

Thanks, and good luck on the fucking mid-term. I'd love to see the grading curve on that.

skeetsh00ter · Post by **skeetsh00ter** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 8:14 am

awww...i do sound crazy now...damn. well, off to study. have a great day everyone.

OregonRed · Post by **OregonRed** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 6:42 pm

John Brown; The Legend Revisited. Biography of an abolitionist. The abolitionist as far as I can tell... Courage of his convictions and all that. Pretty cool, even if I am reading it for my American History class.

Tiahaar · Post by **Tiahaar** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 10:24 pm

"Kirith Kirin" by Jim Grimsley, going around through it a second time to pick up on all the hints I missed the first time...its dense in places. Highly recommended for all you faerie mage-warrior types.

It's an excellent and deep fantasy and magic tale of a young boy of 15 being chosen as apprentice to a Prince's temple, and then going on to become much more. Set in a pre-industrial medieval type world.

If you love first person stories, magical beings and horses, and true same-gender love this is a great read especially if you like books such as "The Last Herald-Mage", "Wraeththu", "Nightrunner" and "Door Into Fire".

Toolmaker · Post by **Toolmaker** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 11:17 pm

skeetsh00ter wrote:catherine zeta jone throatjob

I couldn't find this book .. where did you get your copy?

diane o'thirst · Post by **diane o'thirst** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 11:32 pm

USDF Connection, the magazine you get with your United States Dressage Federation membership.

Pretty good articles, but the advertised businesses are geared towards the on-the-road-nine-months-a-year professional competitors.

Bin Noddin · Post by **Bin Noddin** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 7:52 pm

A mournful time for readers:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... N6Q3M1.DTL

They blame the Feds for cutting off timber receipts, but the voters of Oregon for decades have fucked themselves by resisting the taxes needed to pay for good schools, libraries, sufficient police etc.

diane o'thirst · Post by **diane o'thirst** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 10:56 pm

Oregon <i>always</i> votes down taxes. They wouldn't get much from us anyway...the entire state population could fit in the greater Bay Area with enough elbow room to blanket the area in farms.

It's the government. Everything and everyone across the nation is getting gutted to fund the goddamn Iraq war, and we have a saying up here. Oregon is the brake shoes of the nation: whenever the economy slows down, we're first to feel the heat.

Libraries? Sorry, I love to read too, but that's small beans. We've lost fire departments and highway patrols hand over fist. This is why Fivea Sharpoff was able to drive all the way from Salem to Albany, thirty miles, southbound in the northbound lane, and kill the two principal violists from the Eugene Symphony without anyone catching her drunken ass.

The California prospectors' axiom about doing so much with so little that they're qualified to do practically anything with next to nothing should be graven into a stone just inside the Oregon border. The libraries won't die until and unless the books do; I'm betting some community-minded citizen will take the initiative and collect them in a space for lending out. Someone always steps up to the plate and takes a stand for what they believe in here.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 9:13 am

The Noonday Demon. THE book on depression for the next 15 years or so.

The CO · Post by **The CO** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 10:40 am

"The Confusion" by Neal Stephenson. Volume 1 (900+ pages) of a thre volume set.

BAS · Post by **BAS** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 2:13 pm

JobNet job postings for Dane County, Wisconsin (and, occasionally, Sauk County, Wisconsin). Occasionally I have been writing in my spare time-- nothing ready for viewing by others yet, though.

I've been looking through a roleplaying game book I got for $1 (with the purchase of something else-- I got a $1 miniture). It is the first edition Midnight core book from Fantasy Flight Games. The second edtion recently came out, so Chimea Hobbies was liquidating them at a gaming convention in Platteville I attended.

B.

Blackbird · Post by **Blackbird** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 7:47 pm

I am taking forever and a half to read The Meaning of Life by Simon Winchester. Ordinarily I'd have been finished in a week, tops. But school drags me down. This has been a pretty icky semester so far, lots of work, but not much decent learning going on =\ I don't like the teacher for what I thought was going to be my favorite class, so that sucks. But I digress. ..

I'm also half-reading Lewis Carroll's Phantasmagoria. It's a collection of poems so I can pick it up whenever. Very excellent, especially if one is a fan of Carroll.

Fex · Post by **Fex** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 7:58 pm

Solar Revolution: The Economic Transformation of the Global Energy Industry by Travis Bradford. An analysis of the power industry (with a primary focus on economics, not environment) and the directions it's going in. Seems mostly geared toward the US but gives a pretty good picture world 'round... for a normally bleak-outlooked person like myself (I need to check out that one Fishy's reading), it's pretty encouraging. Solar power's not the delusional diversion the skeptics & naysayers want you to believe it is; it's seriously sinking its roots in.

K-mom · Post by **K-mom** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 9:57 am

I'm guessing you would have figured this out already, but The Confusion is book 2 of the Baroque Cycle - book 1 is Quicksilver, book 3 The System Of The World.
The Confusion is also the book I chose to read on my first trip to the desert couple of years ago!

BAS · Post by **BAS** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 6:36 pm

Fex wrote: Solar Revolution: The Economic Transformation of the Global Energy Industry by Travis Bradford. An analysis of the power industry (with a primary focus on economics, not environment) and the directions it's going in. Seems mostly geared toward the US but gives a pretty good picture world 'round... for a normally bleak-outlooked person like myself (I need to check out that one Fishy's reading), it's pretty encouraging. Solar power's not the delusional diversion the skeptics & naysayers want you to believe it is; it's seriously sinking its roots in.

That sounds like another one I should add to my "I should read that someday" list! (Along with "Guns, Germs, and Steel" and "Collapse", both by Jared(?) Diamond.)

I'm pretty cetain we humans could maintain a decent level of civilization if we weren't so obessed with find one, blanket cure-all for our upcoming energy crisis. Anyway, I am wandering off-topic.

B.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 9:56 am

I have read all theSimon Winchester I am going to.

Blackbird · Post by **Blackbird** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 1:30 pm

theCryptofishist wrote:I have read all theSimon Winchester I am going to.

What does this mean? Do you not care for him? This is all I've read (as far as I know) of his, and I'm not even halfway through. I do enjoy his humour though.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 1:44 pm

I got a little annoyed at the Krakatau book, it just seemed skimpy in some ways, but it was the Professor and the Madman that really got me. It was like he had to say, over and over: "He did innumerable good things for the OED--and he was completely mad." AFter about the 10th time, I'm going, yes, I know he was mad. THe title kind of tipped me off. This is the late 20th century. Madness should be a little more than a freak show.

He also pissed me off in some interview with something that he said about San Francisco and earthquakes. I no longer remember what. Writing him off means I no longer have to clutter my brain with him.

gyre · Post by **gyre** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 4:05 pm

Oh, earthquake's no worry.
It's the inevitable flood as california shifts below sea level that is a worry for those lacking fins and so on.

RingO'Fire · Post by **RingO'Fire** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 6:56 am

I'm reading Burr by Gore Vidal. It's a historical novel about Aaron Burr and is supposedly one of Vidal's best novels. Although the dialogue is fabricated, the historical facts are accurate. So far (about 100 pages) it is an excellent book.

I just finished reading Vidal's novel Kalki, about the last incarnation of Vishnu, the end of the human race, etc. I liked it well enough that I thought I'd give him another chance.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 9:33 am

So, Live from Golgotha was a mistake...

BAS · Post by **BAS** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 2:02 pm

I was reading a collection of Dylan Thomas poems I picked up in Center Camp at the end of Burning Man last summer. I don't usually read poetry, but I apparently like Dylan Thomas' stuff.

I am still working on getting through Jared Diamond's "Collapse." When I am done with that, I intend to read his "Guns, Germs, and Steel."

B.

Post by **AntiM** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 3:01 pm

Guns, Germs and Steel is a dense read, requires thinking.

BAS · Post by **BAS** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 3:20 pm

AntiM wrote:Guns, Germs and Steel is a dense read, requires thinking.

"Collapse" is proving to be that way, too, which is why it is taking me so long. (I still feel I should read both of them, esp. since both received a fair bit of attention.)

B.

diane o'thirst · Post by **diane o'thirst** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 3:25 pm

In a few hours, after I'm done downloading it from RPGNow, I'll be reading the revised Uktena tribebook for Werewolf:the Apocalypse.

Did I mention my puppet, Nothing-to-Prove's tribe is Uktena?