Rereading Harry Potter and Haruki Murakami's master piece "Kafka on the Shore"

For lack of new interesting material.

You'd like the book I'm reading now! I'm getting pretty freaked out reading it.

I'm currently reading "French Women Don't Get Fat" by Mireille Guiliano.

I just finished "The Summer Country" by James A Hetley. It wasn't a terrible read, but it was definitely not what I expected. I am more interested in fantasy with a political or emotional undercurrent, a real story about growing up or struggling with various aspects of life. In some sense of those words, this book had it, since the main character is a victim of forced intimate encounters trying to deal with additional suffering brought on by an abusive father, religious zealot mother, and living with her slutty, confident sister. Ultimately, it is like a more mature version of Twilight, sans vampires and enter wizards.

Regarding The Pain Of Others by Susan Sontag

Necroscope ~ Brian Lumley

My mother recommended this series to me when I was 14, but I was too busy reading 'Dracula' and 'Interview With The Vampire' to give it a chance. Once again Mother schools me with her book selection....some 19 years down the road...

I just borrowed The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo from a friend. I've heard good things, hope they're true.

I don't know how to feel about it. I had misgivings about it after I read it, I ranted about it here quite a bit, but I still overall enjoyed it. But now as time passes I like it less and less.

Not to discourage you, I don't feel like it was a waste of time reading or anything.

Just finished "Grin in the Dark" by Ramsey Campbell, which sadly I really didn't like. I loved the idea of a lost silent film star (ala Paul Auster) and clowns terrify me... but it was a disjointed mess with a weak and predictable ending.

Now I'm reading Bright's Passing by Josh Ritter, and maybe picking up my copy of David J Schow's The Kill Riff as I'm still in a horror mood, just want it to be GOOD. :)

When I finish it I'll let you know what I think.

Just finished "Good Omens", fucking fantastic. Neil Gaiman must have some kind of magical powers to be able to create so much awesomeness.

Samarcande- Amin Maalouf

but the books my university required me to read held me back from reading it but i'm planning to continue reading it after my exams...

Why Nations Go To War by John G. Stoessinger.

OK, I have stocked up my summer reading supply:

Nietzsche:
The Birth of Tragedy
Twilight of The Idols
Human, All Too Human
The Will To Power
Ecce Homo

Kafka: The Complete Stories (I was ripped off! Amerika is not in it! Complete, my decayed ass...)

Aristotle: The Art of Rhetoric

Seneca: Essays and Letters

Kant: A Very Short Introduction by Roger Scruton

Stumpf: Socrates to Sartre - A History of Philosophy

I began by reading the last one listed now, and it flows very well, with some but infrequent trips to the dictionary. I should have read this one first before diving into Nietzche's Beyond Good and Evil and The Genealogy of Morals. In fact this last one is so enlightening about philosophy in general that I think I will buy something by Cicero and read that and the Seneca book first before continuing Nietzsche maybe even preclude him with Schopenhauer and of course Hegel . But I do want to read the Germans before the French (Montaigne, Descartes) as I have heard it then becomes dry reading the other way around (the French then the German philosophers) although I do not know why, I find them both equally fascinating.

A Study in Scarlet. After I finish this I want to read Koontz's Frankenstein.

War by Gwynne Dyer.

Current read
 

My uncle pressured me into reading Lacan's Écrits... translated I will admit. He said no self-respecting English major can graduate without it! :p

A theoretical challenge! Let's start there...

Just finished Verland: The Transformation by B.E. Scully... a gothic literary masterpiece. No self-respecting literary goth should be without it!

I'm beta reading for a couple of other writers, so I can't say titles but they are totally outside my genre and I'm enjoying it.

The Sexual Politics Of Meat by Carol J. Adams. Had a lot of reading to do for school so finally getting around to it, only bought it in May.

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles by Haruki Murakami.
This book is amazing it's been giving me the weirdest dreams and it's a very enjoyable read.

cult classics
 

I'm reading Panther's Bite and Lightning Through the thoughts of the abyss both vampire cult classics, never mind the price its as much as eating out and this lasts longer

I just obtained a very large chunk of H.P. Lovecraft's non-horror writings. It's interesting to learn about him from his own pen.

Grimmie by Linda S. Cowden. It's about the Grim Reaper doing things outside his job description.

At the moment I'm re-reading paradise lost aswell as the players manuel for vtm .

The Faber Book of Madness. Edited by Roy Porter.

The elliptical philosophy and study behind madness, containing poetic quotes from certain known and unknown writers along with unspecified jargon consisting of the ever-growing contingencies of psychological studies. All in my opinion of course.

Professor and the madman and soon, The Rum Diary.

Marketing the menacing fetus in Japan by Helen Hardacre, and some steamy Yaoi novels (a.k.a male homosexual novels) on the side.

Human .4 for my school book club, has anyone read it?

.......and I'm rereading Sandman volume 5. The amount of checkouts I've made for that series must appall my librarians ^.^

20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill.

cult classic
 

The vampire novels are a bit like prose sa to ofer a differnce to what is usally meant by something of this fashion. Lightning through the thoughts of the abyss shows a mark on religion as taken by the stolen mind to refute and Panther's Bite includes the harvest of what subsides as indiffer3nt but to limit one's graces as a shallow return to nevelop reason by mystery that contains...two must buy, a bit costly, but never mind the pizza!

The heart and the fist by Eric Greitens.

Wow there really are humanitarians around still.

Wuthering Heights. For a class on ghost stories. I hate it less every time I read it. Maybe with another 4 or 5 tries I'll actually begin to enjoy it?

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova. I'm pretty addicted to it. First time reading a book with so many pages. 600+

A game of thrones, so far so good.

Boneshaker

Boneshaker Baby?

:p

Hamlet and Fordham's An Intro to Jung's Psychology.

Both for class, but both worth the read.

Lady Oracle, A Study in Sherlock, and the Steve Jobs biography.

The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood, so far its depressing me. She's an awesome author but in some books like this, Cat's Eye, Moral Disorder, etc, the theme seems to be "women's lot in life is HORRIBLE."

Margaret Atwood is one of my favorite authors. She does tend to use her work as a way to comment on social issues, but so far I've never felt like anything she wrote was unreasonable. The Blind Assassin is incredible. Have you read The Handmaid's Tale? Because, geez.

Oh I don't mean she uses hyperbole, its just that kind of social commentary is starting to get to me.

Handmaid's Tale didn't depress me as much, might have been because I read it all in one night, whereas since I don't have much time for reading I've been reading Blind Assassin for a few weeks now. I think that and Year Of The Flood were my favourites.

I like Alias Grace and Blind Assassin best. I've probably read the latter close to 20 times.

A Study in Sherlock. So far, I've loved every story.

I'm reading the Wheel of Time series again plus loads of classics. I would name them all but it's a massive list.

A Storm of Swords - yes, I caved after Game of Thrones withdrawal set in. The writing style is annoying, but I'm finding the storyline compulsive as fuck.

I've got a sci-fi kick going right now. Have been reading the Star Wars novels. Am now on "Heir to the Empire" by Timothy Zahn.

Thats a really good book, did you also read the graphic novel version that Dark Horse comics published a while back ? :)

I have quite a few Star wars books in my collection, my favourite being `The Star wars Chronicles` which is amazing !!!. :)

You have good taste in books !!!. :)


Currently reading ...


Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War

Translation by Martin Hammond

I really love reading about anything historical !!!. :)