Three at the moment:

The Price of Everything: Solving the Mystery of why we Pay what we do, by Eduardo Porter

W.V. Quine's Methods of Logic, 4 ed., for my upcoming advanced symbolic logic course

and McGraw-Hill's Global Issues 10/11 for another upcoming course.

In the near future I plan to read these:

Blood Meridian and The Outer Dark, by Cormac McCarthy
Pynchon's Mason and Dixon
and I biography of someone important, don't know who yet.

Nothing at the moment. until college starts and I can invade the library again.

Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (for the gazillionth time) and A Breath of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon at the moment. I usually have about two books going on, and I'll read one or the other depending on my mood.

Freedom by Daniel Suarez. Its the sequel to Daemon. Both are extremely good books.

Chris Ryan: Standby, Standby


A good book I find about an SAS soldier who's wife was killed by an PIRA bomb and sets out on his own personal mission to avenge his wife by killing the man who ordered the bombing. Declan Farrell.

Macroeconomics by Paul A. Samuelson and William Nordhaus. Can't wait to finish this book so I can start reading more advanced economics books.

Curse of the Mistwraith, by Janny Wurts. Love her books, and re-reading in anticipation for her next release in the series

The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair

The Darwin Awards: Countdown to Extinction

The latest chronicle of the Darwin Awards, awarded to idiots who remove themselves from the gene pool in a spectacular way

-Urinating on a transformer at a power substation
-Jumping out of a plane to film skydivers.......while forgetting your own parachute
-Lighting a cigarette in a warehouse full of explosives
-Overestimating how much dynamite is required to blow open an ATM machine
-Swallowing nitroglycerine tablets to see if they still work
-Playing Russian Roulette with a semiautomatic pistol

Sort of like 1000 Ways to Die, but all the stuff actually happened.

Infernal City, the only time I really read is when I'm sitting on the can. :confused:

The Sword of Truth series, however i'm on hiatus from it because, I have them all except the first. And I don't want to read through the other 5 without reading the first.

A Practical Guide To Racism (Hilarious)
The Cracked book (That's not the title, but I don't remember the title, also hilarious)
Inside Delta Force (The Unit was based off of it, they canceled the unit [disappointingly], so I am reading the book.

I've been trying to read Perdido Street Station for the past few months, after numerous recommendations here. It's really pretty good, but I'm finding it hard to keep reading up at university. Back home, it was easy. But here, there's just too much other stuff to do, and I don't even mean the schoolwork.

I also impulsively bought a cheap edition of A Game of Thrones a few weeks back, once again, after hearing countless accolades of it here. We'll see about that one if I can ever get around to finishing Perdido Street Station. :teehee:

Edit:

That's part of what I like about the book though, his use of technical language. It makes sense within the context, and these characters wouldn't be trying to simply their speech to one another because they all understand it. And it's been a while since I last read the book, but I don't remember the language being that difficult.

Just so you know, about 90% of Kings books tie into his Dark Tower series in one form or another. You won't realize it until you've read the entire Dark Tower series first tho, but after that, if you go back and re-read his books, you will be stunned at how many references each book contain to the gunslinger series. As far as I can tell, Rolands World is the primary world, and all the other worlds his books are contained in revolve around that one(well, you could argue the world with the you know what in the vacant yard is the primary world, but ehh). I mean, literally, with the exception of his short stories, I've found references to the Dark Tower series in I think every book of his(well, now that I think a bit harder, I'm unsure about The Running Man, and Geralds Game, but Geralds Game might have one, just a bit more obscure, I'll have to go back and re-read it).

Some of his books are more blatant then others: His Shared books with Peter Straub(Black House and can't think of other title) actually go to Rolands World iirc. Insomnia revolves heavily, IT does as well, The Stand, and....Needful Things as well. The other books aren't as heavily connected, but you will be surprised the references in there.

A few years ago, I heard a rumor that after he finished the Dark Tower series, that he was going to write Sequels to all his books, and finish tying them all into the Dark Tower Series. No idea how much truth was behind the rumor, but man that would be quite interesting.



I'm currently reading The Good Guy by Koontz, it's very good, and not quite as predictable, and it retains some of it's mystery all the way to the end(I have like 40 pages left, and I still haven't learned about the main characters past, just bits n pieces that seem to make him much more then you originally are told)

Sorry for the double post, over a year on this forum and I still haven't figured out how people quote more then one person in a post.

Anyways, Wyrm, California Voodoo Game, and Prometheus Road are all great books, and the author of Prometheus Road had a hand in Neuromancer, at least according to his website. The last two have major flaws though, and that is, simply put, they feel unfinished, and neither have a sequel. Course, California Voodoo Game is the third in a series, but I haven't read the other two, and I had no problem getting into the book as a stand alone.

Right now I'm about 300 pages in to Atlas Shrugged.

I've heard that's a beast of a book - so far do you think it's worth it? It always seems to end up on those "top 100 books" or "books you should read before you die" lists, but they never say whether it's because it's actually enjoyable or if it's just for the bragging rights.

It's really quite an interesting book, but it does take a little while to get things really rolling into gear. Even 300 pages in, I still haven't gotten to the biggest premise of the book. However, that said, it's an incredibly detailed story, which some may find to their tastes and others not so much. Personally, I am enjoying it very much.

Earth Abides, and rereading To Your Scattered Bodies Go.

At the moment the book "The Scourge of god" which is a historical fiction book that takes place 3 years before the fall of the western roman empire with the scourge being Atilla the hun and thus far has been a good read. Afterwards going to be reading "Prospero Burns" in the Horus Heresy series being into action science fiction that I am.

I have also seen a copy of "Brave New World" at Barnes and Noble with me having hearing good things about it considering getting that next.

The first book from Anthony Kenny's "New History of Western Philosophy", volume 1 (ancient philosophy). Over the weekend I am going to either start reading "Zeitoun" by David Eggers, or "Resurrection" by Leo Tolstoy. Probably the former.

Beyond the Shadows by Brent Weeks, it's the third (and last) book in The Night Angel trilogy.
And for school I'm reading lord of the flies.

Rand's masterwork Atlas Shrugged

EDIT: Didn't realize i wasn't alone. Hell of a great read.

I'm not really into fiction literature. I have read fiction, but not addicted to it...Geoffrey Chaucer, George Orwell, J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Clive Cussler....et al.

I've recently been spending time in:

"American Specimen Book of Type Styles" 1912 American Type Founders Co.
"ATF Specimen Book and Catalog" 1923 American Type Founders Co.
"American Metal Typefaces of the Twentieth Century" by Mac McGrew
"How to Restore Your Harley Davidson" by Bruce Palmer
"Henley's Twentieth Century Formulas, Processes, and Trade Secrets" Henley Publishing Co.

I mainly like non-fiction books that deal with my interest in antique letterpress printing and motorcycles.

The Shadow Witch by Gertrude Crownfield (yeah I have weird taste sometimes)

But also I'm reading Anti-intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter as well as The Conquest of Bread by Peter kropotkin

Not exactly light reading and certainly heavy on philosophy and history (just the way I like it )