The Written Word

Chemuel

Currently Reading: Nocture by Adam Rapp

Next: Wolfblade, by William King

Favorite(s):
The Long, Dark Tea Time of the Soul, by Douglas Adams
A Sunburned Country, by Bill Bryson
1984 by George Orwell
Good Omens series, by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Fragile Things, Neverwhere and Stardust, by Neil Gaiman
Rest Area, by Clay McLeod Chapman

Sykin

Currently reading: The Stand by Stephen King, Chronicles of the Black Company by Glen Cook (I just sort of picked this trilogy-in-one book from the bookstore because of its name and cover art... it's not bad), Beyond Good and Evil by Nietzsche (yes, I have really spread myself too thin and have also abandoned reading; I feel like a criminal).

I was also reading that second book in the first trilogy of Diablo novels. I believe it's called The Black Road but I sort of put it down and used its bookmark for The Stand after awhile. I wasn't getting into it too well... which is a shame. All the novels that Blizzard commissions authors to write usually attract my attention from the time I buy them until I finish reading them the next day or so. Especially the ones stemming from Starcraft... oh yes.

Pay no heed to this geekiness.

**exsuscito**

Last finished: Against All Enemies - Richard Clarke.

Currently Reading: The Shock Doctrine - Naomi Klein.

Next: Maybe something on Chavez, or philosophy again. Failing that, I haven't finished Brave New World.

**Bayamos**

Last finished: Plato - Gorgias

Currently re-reading: Anne Rice - Memnoch the Devil

Next: Robert Axelrod - The Evolution of Cooperation

**ArchDuke**

Currently Reading:

NightTrace

I hold dear my 1984 edition of 1984 SMILEY

**shearman**

I am totally addicted to 24 and I have read/currently reading many books, including the fiction series as well as book based around theory or political philosophy of the show.

I've just bought the first book in the Dexter series "Darkly Dreaming Dexter", and I'm sure I'll continue with the rest of the series.

I also just finished a book entitled "The Numbers Behind Numb3rs", which explains the math behind the TV show numb3rs, and gives in-depth info on how math is used in every day crime fighting. (You'd probably have to like math as well as the TV to like this book, liking the show won't be enough to keep you interested.)

Most of the books I read are based around TV shows I watch because let's face it, real life is pretty boring, for most of us anyway.

NightTrace

Oh, I'm also a huge huge reader of military history books. and in the end history itself.

I have a nice collection when it comes to that, ranking amongst my favorites are "A pictorial history of WW2" [circa 1948], a very very nice collection of on the scene black and white [they had any other kind then? SMILEY

] in order of date, with a few paragraphs describing what is going on/has happened in each picture. I also have a history book titled "Lies My Teacher Told Me" which I HIGHLY recommend to anyone who in the last bit enjoys history/reading. it goes over many of the aspects that school text books tend to gloss over or even flat out avoid/lie about.

SMILEY

**exsuscito**

shearman wrote:

I've just bought the first book in the Dexter series "Darkly Dreaming Dexter", and I'm sure I'll continue with the rest of the series.

Read the first two, avoid the third.

**shearman** · 02/27/2008 14:12:04

exsuscito wrote:

shearman wrote:

I've just bought the first book in the Dexter series "Darkly Dreaming Dexter", and I'm sure I'll continue with the rest of the series.

Read the first two, avoid the third.

I wouldn't be able to. I can't leave a story unfinished.

**exsuscito**

shearman wrote:

exsuscito wrote:
shearman wrote:

I've just bought the first book in the Dexter series "Darkly Dreaming Dexter", and I'm sure I'll continue with the rest of the series.

Read the first two, avoid the third.

I wouldn't be able to. I can't leave a story unfinished.

Read an honest synopsis from someone on Amazon (to name but one source), which goes into how Jeff Lindsay 'explains' Dexter.

Just...ugh.

Chemuel

Oh! Also, I'm Currently Reading Whiskey Tango Foxtrot by Ashley Gilbertson and Dexter Filkins.

Pyraci

Sykin wrote:

Beyond Good and Evil by Nietzsche (yes, I have really spread myself too thin and have also abandoned reading; I feel like a criminal).

We need to have a discussion about this, when and if you have the time.

**exsuscito**

Pyraci wrote:

Sykin wrote:
Beyond Good and Evil by Nietzsche (yes, I have really spread myself too thin and have also abandoned reading; I feel like a criminal).
We need to have a discussion about this, when and if you have the time.

Ooh, I didn't see that at first glance. I'm in the same predicament with regard to Beyond Good and Evil, though I got a fair chunk of it read.

**PBlade**

I ordered Simulacra and Simulation a few days ago, because I've never actually read it *braces self*, so I will be annoying those of you who have already read it as and when I've read it.

That is all.