Hahaha, I read a lot of shitty books in 2009 (new resolution: stop reading shitty books) and I'm absolutely convinced anyone can get anything published with some success.

Murders in the Rue Morgue E.A.Poe.

predictable? yes sir.

That is my favorite King novel. The despair. The conquered. The surrender. A depressing catastrophe was never more fascinating!

I am halfway through Barack Obama's Dreams from my father.
Remarkably candid, but then it was written before he had any idea he would become president. He admits using cocaine, pot and booze, and of course the constant stream of cigarettes, but the real meat is the insight into his upbringing in a bigoted world, and his perception of it and how he dealt with it.

I am even more amazed he is President now that I have read what he had to overcome to get there!

1984 again.

Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris. [Yeah yeah, I know..]
The Right Hand of Evil by John Saul.

Recently Finished: The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls by Emilie Autumn. [Perhaps one of the most intense books I've ever read. Not suggested for anyone prone to cutting, suicidal tendencies, or other self-destructive behaviors.]

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov.

Lost horizon- James Hilton

"A Distant Mirror, the Calamitous 14th Century" - Barbara W. Tuchman

Shelley's Frankenstein... for the first time. How, in my 31 years, I have not read this is beyond me. Like Dracula abd most of Dickens, I had simply assumed that I had due to general cultural literacy.

Next up- Barker's Books of Blood. For old times' sake.

Catch - 22. I haven't read it before and it was cheap so I thought why not.

It's great.

I hope it's as good as it's meant to be, I hate being disappointed by books that don't live up to their hype.

And The Hippos Were Boiled In Their Tanks

Currently rereading Earth Abides by George R. Stewart

Gothic Charm School- Jillian Venters, The Goth Bible - Nancy Kilpatrick, and The Lightning Thief - Rick Riordan because they are forcing me to read the lightning thief for a school project.

Charlotte sometimes - Penelope farmer the song by the cure is great too

I read that last November. It was OK considering it was aimed at tween readers caught in pubescent identity crises . Robert Smith was 10 when that book was published. I wonder if it was really a childhood favorite of his or if he picked up on it later. It certainly shares themes with several Cure songs.

Lucifer's Hammer, by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle

The Right Hand of Evil by John Saul.

Then, probably start on the Wheel of Time series. Perhaps. Possibly.

Forever Barbie: the Unauthorized Biography of a Real Doll

I went to Barnes & Noble today and had to pick up a couple of their Barbie collector guides...omwagwad...they have pictures and everything, almost every single one. I felt like I did when I discovered Barbie Shanghai - just an N.R.F.B. taking her first plastic-heeled step out into the real, deluxe set, accessories included world.

http://images.google.com/images?hl=e...-8&sa=N&tab=wi

Writing The Natural Way--Gabriele Rico

This chick has one--maybe two--creative writing tips and she's made a 260 page book out of them. Gotta love those writing advice books.

The only writing book I read as an adult was Stephen Fry's The Ode Less Traveled, I couldn't stick with practicing poetry but I still like the book and recommend it to anyone who wants to write poetry, and I try to force it on people who make me read their nonsensical angst fest prose.

Anywho, finished The Feminine Mystique today, it took me a while. It was good but she lost me after quoting Freud about homosexuality, saying that homosexuals are basically immature men, and by forcing women to stay home it makes men more feminine and therefore more overtly homosexual. So yeah its horribly heteronormative and completely ignores women of colour and anyone below middle class, but it was 1963, so I don't hold it against her or the rest of the book. Wish she made another edition after psychology stopped treating homosexuality as a mental disorder.

Started Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale.

Aaaaand I have the book finished already, it was that hard to put down. Clearly I need to read more Atwood.

Now reading Mushishi Volume Two! To tie me over until I go to work tomorrow and pick up another novel.

I am now reading Coroline by Neil Gaiman

I'm currently re-reading The Temporary Autonomous Zone and Ontological Anarchy by Hakim Bey. It's been a while.

The Haunting of Hill House--Shirley Jackson

I've always liked the 1963 movie version and now I see the book is even better....but that is usually the case.

I just finished coraline

I'm reading "Sexual Knowledge" its a "sex-ed" book from 1917. I've learned a lot about how masturbation can make you a "slope shouldered sissy" or prevent you from "receiving the crown of womanhood". I'm so glad I was born in the latter half of the 20th century.

The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins. Good, quality arguments here, no BS or cop outs and almost anyone can understand his logic.

head game by tim downs. psycho terrorists.

I'm reading Secretum by Monaldi & Sorti, good stuff.

That book sucks.

The Physics of Immortality: Modern Cosmology, God and the Resurrection of the Dead - Frank J. Tipler. I've had it for a while now and have only just got round to starting it.

"Ferrets for Dummies."

I am reading it to make sure I take very good of my furballs.

How is it? That's one of the few I haven't read.

I'm reading The Message in the Bottle by Walker Percy.

Bend Sinister by Vladimir Nabokov

"The Last Watch" - Sergei Lukyavenko (again)

reading romeo and juliet . i read it all the time

I finished The Year Of The Flood by Margaret Atwood today, was pretty good but probably should have read Oryx And Crake first.

Reading Bitten by Kelley Armstrong. Its bad, but at the same time its at least entertaining. So far.

The Federalist Papers. I am not going to enjoy that.

Franz Kafka compilation.

I finished Bitten. Didn't hate it but didn't like it either, wouldn't recommend it. Armstrong needs to learn to show, not tell. I could skip the protagonist's long, long angsty rants explaining how she's feeling about the situation at hand and not miss anything.

Now I'm reading Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse. I find it weird I found it at HMV.

romeo and julet love that story

I`m torn between finishing The Master and Margarita, Wuthering Heights and Notes from the Underground (Dostoyevsky)

Anyone got an opinion on what should I start with?

Read Wuthering Heights first. It's a favorite of mine. Altho, Notes From The Underground is damned good as well.

I'm currently reading Stein On Writing by Sol Stein. Supposedly one of the best writing books around. We'll see....

The diary of a chambermaid, by Octave Mirbeau

Charles Baudelaire - The Complete Verse

Just something from the pack of Vampire books I downloaded.
Yes I know, I am a torrent download whore.

Torrents FTW!!

@Man In Room 5: Thanks! I`ll do just that.

It was lovely, despite the fact that the actual point of the story only happens at the end and everything else is just drinking and talking.