If there was already a thread like this in the past little while, forgive me.

So I got around to going to a bookstore today, of course whenever I get the urge to read something this place never has what I'm looking for, So I ended up buying one and ordering another, so it's on it's way.

What's everyone else reading or is on your list to read?

I'll start!
what I got today


...and what's on the way (I am not myself these days by josh kilmer-purcell) *just incase you can't read the cover, I didn't use large pix*



& you'll follow in behind!

Just read...





On my list...

Reading:


In my to read list:
The Dark Tower I - The Gunslinger
The Dark Tower II - The Drawing of the Three
The Dark Tower III - The Wastelands
The Dark Tower IV - Wizard and Glass
The Dark Tower V - Wolves of the Calla
The Dark Tower VI - Song of Susannah
The Dark Tower VII - The Dark Tower

If I can ever find them

^ Also (re)reading 'The Stand.'

Just finished:
'From a Buick 8'


After that, I'm starting Anne Rice's 'Mayfair Witches' series


Somewhere in there I'm going to read John Polidori's 'The Vampyre' as well.

Recently read:



On my list:

the last book i read and really enjoyed was: Confessions of a Fallen Angel by Ronan O'Brien. i have just bought a copy to send to my sister.

i think i will look out for the Twilight books next.

reading critical by robin cook and re-reading the boy in the striped pyjamas.

prb said:

the boy in the striped pyjamas was excellent, broke my heart.

angelcat said:

i was speechless 4 ages after reading it- and 4 me that is a miracle
my heart still races when i think of this novel, yrs after i first read it

i love the fact that when ppl talk about it- they dont give anything away-it would so spoil the story.

i want to watch the movie, and i dont eant to watch it

prb said:

i don't think that i could watch the movie either, the book was so good that i would hate to spoil it, but to see it acted out would be horrible.

angelcat said:

i am in two minds about it. i'll probably wait 4 the dvd release, buy it, and leave it sealed up 4 six mths.

strange thing is, hubby actually wants to see it- i think my description of the book ( he never stays still long enough to read it himself) -_ had an effect on him_ must have been my omg x1000 reaction once i found my voice

i never owned this book til this week. id read my workmates copy and had been intending to buy it formyself ever since. spoke to my mum about the book on wednesday night-went to work next day- and it was the offer of the week- nearly half price
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prb said:

you were meant to own it then!

angelcat said:

and the strange thing was- i got extra pay this week-enough to cover the purchase.

next book i want to read

whispersquietlytwilight

reading barack obama's book The audacity of hope

and getting jane fonda's book my life so far

currently reading:

CarrieMpls said:

His descriptions of the story of Lot from the bible in that book are hilarious.
I found myself laughing out loud, but I'm prejudiced cause I hate that story and it's twisted moral ethics to begin with.

Imago said:

I've heard of Lot but I have no idea who he is or the story.

I'm not going to get the jokes, am I?

I'm only 10 pages into this one, but I haven't laughed so hard
in just the first opening pages of a book before in my life.





This is renewing my love of sci-fi. I would agree with the critics,
the McDevitt is the logical heir of Asimov and Clark




Feels almost like you're watching a film noir/pulp fiction hybrid
set in Bangkok. A very entertaining read







I read multiple books at the same time

am reading 'the sex lives of cannibals'

CarrieMpls said:

Aren't you from the mid-west? What the hell kind of ex-Christian are you?

He's the guy that lived in Sodom.
Angels came to his house disguised as men, and he let them stay with him.
The villagers of Sodom (those villagers just loooooved buttsex) came to his
house demanding to have sex with the 'visitors'.

Lot, so offended by the prospect that his guests would have to have
sex with other men, offered his daughters up "for the villagers to do as they pleased" cause it's better to perform statutory rape on unwilling girls you know than to have sex with other men.

Anyways, God destroys Sodom cause I guess the buttsex and loud House music and t-parties were disturbing the villages within earshot.

Lot's wife looks back towards Sodom as they were leaving, and was turned into a pillar of Salt. I'm unsure why an all powerful God couldn't destroy Sodom but spare Lot's family of his fury, even if they looked back at the destruction while it was occuring, but meh... he's god and that's that.

Finally, when Lot and his daughters make it to safety, to continue the bloodline, they get their father drunk on wine and have sex with him.



Remember: This fucked up family was God's chosen... The only moral people in Sodom

Imago said:

omg. That's crazy!

And I've never been a christian. I think I was baptised but that and a few weddings and funerals are the extent of my church involvement as a child. I decided I was an atheist at about age 13.

CarrieMpls said:

I can't make this kind of shit up

Imago said:

Good shit. I NEED to read the bible.



Or that book from Dawkins, I actually saw that in a store and thought about buying it. What is 'Absurdistan' about?

Phishanga said:

I'm not 100% sure what the plot is yet
But it's about a super obese, super rich Russian business man
who is also very reclusive, and has these eccentric friends.
It's satire I'm told.
The first few pages him and one of his American ex-patriot
friends like to get together and do 'Rap Kereoke'

Take a wild guess what super rich Russians and their
white, middle class American friends have to rap about.

It's alot of fun.