SpcMs said:

That is a neat plan, but I cannot understand how they can make Hannibal Lecter cut his own hand off and run away when the book ends with him and Clarice Starling dancing in the moonlight... very much in love.

The Joy of Cooking

I'm making a birthday cake for some twins! They are the ones who came into this world after only 25 weeks gestation...3 years old this weekend!

IceNine said:

Although i haven't seen it, i guess sequel-reasons? btw, imho, if u never read the book, the movie and the ending work, so, that's better than most movies, i'd say, give them a break

The mistic qaballah

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I am waiting to read The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera.

Supposedly it will get rid of my fear of getting a tattoo.

We will see!

American Gods by Neil Gaiman
From Publishers Weekly
"Titans clash, but with more fuss than fury in this fantasy demi-epic from the author of Neverwhere. The intriguing premise of Gaiman's tale is that the gods of European yore, who came to North America with their immigrant believers, are squaring off for a rumble with new indigenous deities: "gods of credit card and freeway, of Internet and telephone, of radio and hospital and television, gods of plastic and of beeper and of neon." They all walk around in mufti, disguised as ordinary people (...)"

'The Poisonwood Bible'


its pretty good.

I am reading Possessed: The Rise and Fall of bkw.

This Thread

wkb said:

If you read it in a mirror, it would be:

wkb fo llaf dna esir ehT

Tinderbox: U.S. Middle East Policy And The Roots Of Terrorism by Stephen Zunes (Associate Professor of Politics and Chair of the Peace & Justice Studies Program, University of San Francisco)

An informed and informative explanation and analysis of current U.S. policies in the Middle East, with a particular emphasis on their political shortcomings with respect to the rise of international terrorism and American "national security." Specifically addressed is the critical question of whether or not American political policies with respect to the Middle Eastern nations have diminished or engendered terrorism... With an especial eye upon the September 11 attacks and their root causes... A welcome contribution to the national dialogue regarding the current "war on terrorism."

Abarat by Clive Barker

IceNine said:

WoW! That's deep :O

AnotherLover2 said:

Just finished Iberia by James Michener.1000 pgs ouch! took me 6 weeks.

Money by Martin Amis

umm like VIBE magazine dirtay...justin bee on the cover son.

THE ART OF LOOKING SIDEWAYS. By Alan Fletcher.

Before that I was reading "Slave to the Rhythm" by Liz Jones, which was pretty tabloidish. I'm hoping "DMSR" by Per Nilsson will be better.

SpcMs said:

Believe me, it's a right piece of shit. It doesn't get any
better than wherever you're at now.

2the9s said:

I browsed through it and I think that mr Wolfram is full
of shit imo. He's got some clever ideas but he's too keen
on stressing the point he's clever. It made me want to

have some herbal tea and a good

"The Fourth Hand" by John Irving

I'm currently reading:


* "The Language Instinct: How The Mind Creates Language"
by Steven Pinker.


Just finished this two days ago and it was very interesting,
altho a bit dry at times [496 pg]. However I did enjoy it.
Everything about language, where it comes from, wether it
might be a biological function, begot throug evolution etc
etc etc.


* "The Mismeasure of Man"
by Stefen Jay Gould


Started in this one yesterday and it's about our tools for
measuring intelligence and how most of those [even our IQ
test] are derived from or related to racist propaganda. It
also deals with what is being measured and if the outcome
of an IQ test really does measure intelligence, and if so,
what 'kind' of 'intelligence'. Aargh. I'm gonna need some
nicotine and coffee to get me through this.


Which is why I'm also reading:


* "The Children of The Dead"
by Elfriede Jelinek


I've had this book in my collection for 2 years now, staring
at me from the shelve with all it's 577 pages and could just
not muster up the courage to begin reading it. [since I had
a quick flick through it and it's unreadable. like the most
freaked out poetry you ever read, scrambled and translated
into ancient Japanese dialect].

But when I heard that Polanski's flick "The Piano Teacher"
is based on one of her novels, I decided I'd give this dark
beast another shot. And it worked. Damn, this is strung out
and dark. I'm not sure what to think of it tho. It's very
well written and a bit experimental, but at other times you
get the creepy feeling that she slipped in a few Danielle
Steele lines, just to piss on your head.

It's about dead people, fcuz, about violent dead women who
castrate men, amongst other things. It's set in Austria.

Not sure wether this one has been translated into English.

Hop On Pop.

wizberg said:

hey wizberg ive read this too great book the prose are so on the "money"

if you havent already read London Fields do so the keith talent character is worth the admission fee alone



oh yeah im reading "the crook factory" Dan Simmons &

"it must be beautiful: great equations of modern science" edited by graham farnelo,
this is an excellent book for explaining how equations we have heard of but not necessarily understand fit in to the world and universe around us
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Freud: Darkness in the midst of vision... - Louis Breger

Nothing. I just do sit there thinking about Prince and Lenny Kravitz and why I'm so obsessed.
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IstenSzek said:

I don't think it has been. I know somebody who teaches Jelinek regularly and who, I think, wrote her dissertaion on her.

I've never read Jelinek, (mainly because I don't read German), but I've heard good things about her and about another Austrian woman writer, Ingeborg Bachmann (from this same person).

As for an Austrian writer I have read ( ) and liked very much, you should try Thomas Bernhard, IstenSzek, if you haven't already. His novel, Gargoyles is really strange and wonderful.

2the9s said:

Ah yes, I remember Thomas Bernhard, you mentioned him in
one of your previous "what are you reading" posts, so I
put him on my 'check these out' list.

I've been meaning to buy a book about him and Jelinek and
Peter Handke, called


"The Rhetoric of National Dissent in Thomas Bernhard, Peter
Handke, and Elfriede Jelinek" by Matthias Konzett.


I say 'meaning to' since it's a hardcover volume, priced
at 74 Euros, which is about 60 dollars I think.

So I'll just wait until the paperback is released and in the
meantime I'll pick up a copy of Gargoyles.

'la mujer arana'

-Daniel Puig


'fellowship of the ring' (again)

-Tolkien


'dead famous'

-Ben Elton



three great books