What Books Are You Reading Right Now? May 2003 Edition

robertduffy · **Posted:** Mon Mar 31, 2003 7:12 pm

This is what's on my plate:

Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Corey Doctorow: Very good very good. 1/4 through.

You Shall Know Our Velocity by Dave Eggers: Not as good as his debut, but very entertaining still. Halfway through.

De Capo's 2002 Best Music Writing: Interesting to see what people consider the best writing about music..

What about youse? Surely you read more than just porn.

timstepford · **Posted:** Mon Mar 31, 2003 7:21 pm

one at a time for me, i'm kinda slow...

currently reading:
noam chomsky - understanding power

on the horizon: something a little less intense, maybe a calvin & hobbes retrospective, or the history of shampoo....

corggirl · **Posted:** Mon Mar 31, 2003 7:46 pm

A whole smattering of books about the Holocaust for my Form and Theory of Fiction class...

"The best subversive political cartoons"

"Your Career in the Comics"

superunison · **Joined:** Thu Jan 30, 2003 12:54 pm **Posts:** 2239

i am also reading you shall know our velocity, and i pretty much agree with you so far, but we'll see by the end. also:
phantoms in the brain - v.s. ramachandran
radio on - sarah vowell
the blank slate - steven pinker
exploring consciousness - rita carter
rational mysticism - john horgan
myth and the movies - stuart voytilla
and i'm looking forward to the amazing adventures of kavalier and clay, and rereading the his dark materials books.

yes, i have no attention span. yes, it takes me like 4 months to finish a book because i'm always reading like 40 at once.

stephen mejias · **Posted:** Tue Apr 01, 2003 10:39 am

i remember my college days when i'd be reading 10 books at a time, and have to finish them all in a week or two. how in the hell?

now i read maybe 1 every two months. much better.

currently: Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan. it's pretty fun. this sci-fi / crime novel. basically it's a bunch of killing. in the future.

i think the movie rights have been bought by the Matrix people.

bush_hawg · **Posted:** Tue Apr 01, 2003 11:56 pm

just finished empire falls by richard russo. now into harry potter and the goblet of fire. next up: probably straight man by russo. i get kind of obsessed with an author/band and do an intensive dig on them until i find out all i want to know; including influences, contextual info., bio., etc.

greenhorn1 · **Joined:** Tue Apr 01, 2003 11:04 am **Posts:** 2897

serialm · **Posted:** Sat Apr 05, 2003 6:50 pm

corggirl · **Posted:** Sat Apr 05, 2003 7:01 pm

robertduffy · **Posted:** Sat Apr 05, 2003 7:26 pm

serialm · **Posted:** Sat Apr 05, 2003 8:11 pm

e. · **Posted:** Mon Apr 07, 2003 9:12 pm

in the process of re-reading the 'tao te ching' [a different translation] and then next in line is the 'i ching'.

robertduffy · **Posted:** Tue Apr 29, 2003 1:43 pm

eqj · **Joined:** Tue Apr 01, 2003 10:17 pm **Posts:** 3857

Re-Reading: Return of the King

Perusing: The Art of Looking Sideways
Always Reading and Re-Reading: Bhagavad Gita, Dropping Ashes On the Buddha

Anybody want a signed, numbered first edition of Place of Dead Roads by one William Seward Burroughs? Don't know if there are any lunatic fans on the board that would cherish it. Right now, it is just taking up space on my bookshelf.

greenhorn1 · **Joined:** Tue Apr 01, 2003 11:04 am **Posts:** 2897

corggirl · **Posted:** Tue Apr 29, 2003 4:13 pm

mike · **Posted:** Tue Apr 29, 2003 4:24 pm

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robertduffy · **Posted:** Sun May 11, 2003 2:44 pm

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methodmal · **Posted:** Sun May 11, 2003 7:16 pm

shmoopatties · **Joined:** Wed Feb 19, 2003 12:08 am **Posts:** 184

I just started reading:
The War on Freedom: How and Why America was Attacked, September 11, 2001 by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed .

The last book I finished was:
Un-Jobbing The Adult Liberation Handbook by Michael Fogler .

Kinda ironic as I have a job interview tommorow and hopefully will be gainfully employed for the first time in years with a well-known company that has been called 'evil' elsewhere on this board. Ah well, I had a good run of being 'unjobbed', but I want health benefits again and I don't feel like becoming a Canadian citizen.

spacehum · **Posted:** Tue May 13, 2003 1:14 pm

ayn rand - the fountainhead

been putting off reading it for too long, its a great read if you're a neocon like me.

corggirl · **Posted:** Tue May 13, 2003 4:12 pm

danza · **Joined:** Mon May 19, 2003 3:35 pm **Posts:** 17

Just finished "Samaritan" by the dude that wrote "Clockers." Good insight into how fucked up parents can be. Now I'm reading "Forever" by Peter Hammill. It's about a Irish guy born in the 1700's who goes to Manhattanm to avenge his family. While there he is granted immortality. The catch? If he leaves Manhattan island, he dies. Kind of a Highlander rip, but at least it's a smart one.

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