Currently, I am reading On Writing by Stephen King.

I have always liked Stephen King. On Writing is one of the best books about writing. It is very entertaining.
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a very sparse thread

slm4m said:

Yes, I enjoyed that book too. I'm a huge SK fan and this one was a nice change and well written.

I am currently reading the second book from the Earths Children series called "Valley of the Horses". Very good book and great series.

in the middle of mark twain's short stories.

kisscamille said:

SK's Salem's Lot was the first full length novel I ever read when I was young. Man that book scared me half to death.

slm4m said:

The Color Purple....
I never saw the movie, nor have I seen the play in NYC....I need to do both of those things.
I love to read.....

Slavoj Zizek: "The Sublime Object Of Ideology"

cubic61052 said:

Great movie

I'm re-reading the Tao Te Ching right now, cuz it's time and also cuz I don't have anything else to read.

After just having finished a grueling semester. Im not reading anything.... that is until next week, when the spring semester begins.

cubic61052 said:

The Color Purple is an awesome book. I think I've read it at least 5 times. I love the movie too. I think The Color Purple is one of my top 10 favourite books.

everywhere that mary went, by lisa scottoline

surrealist women by penelope rosemont..

some yukio mishima.
and saint genet by satre.

I'm jumping (as usual) between about 3 books:

"The Life of Pi" by Yann Martel

"Young Goodman Brown, and Other Short Stories" by Nathaniel Hawthorne

"The Nobel Lecture in Literature, 1993" by Toni Morrison


OH! and I almost, ALWAYS, have some tattered, beat up paperback by Erica Jong stashed away in a purse or knapsack for reading impromptu on the subway
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MY PET GOAT

"Therapy" by David Lodge. It's not the best cure though.

dreamfactory313 said:

!!!

!!!!!

I am reading: The Scret History by Donna Tartt

and I am LOVING it

I'm reading 'The Night Buffalo' by Guillermo Arriaga. He's the guy wrote the scripts for 'Amores Perros', '21 Grams' and 'The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada'. It's a fantastic novel.

Natsume said:

I loathe Mark Twain.








And I'm currently reading Wicked, The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire.

CarrieMpls said:

what! the man is GENIUS! seriously, why do you loathe him?

I forgot to mention that I'm also constantly reading my boyfriend's collection of old 1960s and 70s Playboys that he has stashed away. I read them for the articles and short stories - really! There's hardly any nudity at all!

Natsume said:

Because he blathers on and on and bores me to death.
I was supposed to read A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court for an advanced English class in, I think, 10th grade and I just... couldn't... do it. I couldn't read it. I hated it so much.
And I never attempted to read anything by him again. Now, all these years later, maybe my perspective would be different. But I've been firmly against him for years.

CarrieMpls said:

here, read this. it's very funny and very sweet. I promise!

i'm reading Poet in New York by Federico Garcia Lorca

"but i'm sure there are no dancers
among the dead.
the dead are engrossed in devouring their own hands.
it's the others who dance with the mask and its vihuela.
others, drunk on silver, cold men,
who sleep where thighs and hard flames intersect..."

summerdawn said:

i love this poet..he's my favorite next to rimbuad and wilde....i actually made this cool shirt with lorca collage on in it..

endorphin74 said:

I've read this book every year, around Christmas, since it was released in 1992...It's my bible.

"Does such a thing as the fatal flaw--that showy dark crack running down the middle of life-- exist outside of literature, I used to think it didn't and I think it does and mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs..."

I love Henry Marchbanks Winter!!!!!

The Secret Supper - spanish author Javier Sierra

Natsume said:

OK, I promise I'll give it a try. Soon.

I haven't been reading anything lately. I've had so many other things going on that I still have the same book on my night stand as I did six months ago.