Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams.
Otherworld Series, Tad Williams.
The Years of Rice and Salt, Kim Stanley Robinson.
Around the World in Eighty Days, Jules Verne.
Yes, I’m reading them all at once. Is that any odd?
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Dark Tower series - Stephen King
<i>History of Western Philosophy</i> Bertrand Russell
<i>The Wolves of Calla</i> Stephen King
(and I’m still waiting for a friend to lend me a few more of his RA Salvatore books)
Well, I wouldn’t recommend someone to just read the Wolves of Calla without reading the other Dark Tower books beforehand. I mean, there’s a foreword or something explaining everything up to that point, but it really isn’t the same.
Actually, I really need to read WoC. I have a bunch of books on the backburner.
Pratchett goes without saying. As time goes on his books are less a parody of a fantasy world and more a parody of the real world; he’s extremely incisive and clear-headed about the whole thing, and really funny to boot.
Wow…For once I agree with you. Just…wow. O_O
I can only remember the last two books I read, thse were On A Pale Horse and Stranger in a Strange Land by Piers Anthony and some other guy respectively.
I’ve read two of the books I have to read for summer reading. She Said Yes, and Inherit the Wind . I thought She Said Yes was too depressing, but I liked Inherit the Wind .
I had a really good literature teacher for middle school. Every year the eighth graders would read To Kill a Mockingbird then discuss it, take a test on it and watch the movie. The highschool that the middle school is close to is doing To Kill a Mockingbird with the freshmen. This means that the eighth graders won’t be able to discuss that book. The literature teacher thought a bit and decided to have them read and discuss A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. I decided to get it and read it. It’s really good. It is probably one of the only books I’ve read that got me interested in the first chapter
I read a bit of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. I got it for Christmas two years back. Too bad I haven’t read all of it yet…I remember one thing it said in the first chapter, about how the people thought that the folks who came to church to the early service were thought to be really “holy” and all that but instead, they had been up all night clubbing and such and decided to go to church early to get it over with. Heh, I always liked that.
I’ve read all the Phalniuk books, and while most of them are pretty good, they all seem too much alike, and his Dark Comedy niche really deprives Phalniuk of the depth as a writer that I think he can achieve.
I’m more into reading books other people love and hating them. Wheel of Time suffers from Tolkienism - which is being too long with too little substance and meaning. Lots of thinking, lots of descriptions, lots of this, lots of that, too little action, too little of anything meaningful. Reading a 1000 page book is not my thing. That and the story is just lame and silly.
I’ve never read Hitchhikers, and I don’t really intend to. It looks like it would suck, so thats how I’ll treat it.
The last good book I read was “The Dirt: Motley Crue”, which is a fantastic book that covers all of Motley Crue’s many exploits through their career. Hella fun to read.
If you think you need a translator for that!? See “The Eye Of Argon”… not one simple noun is used! Al descriptive! And they only recently found the last page in some small town library!
Ninten:cool:
RC, what the hell? I’m telling him to read something, and you agree with me?
I’m going to read every single Stephen King book, even the ones that I’ve already read. I don’t know how long it will take me, but I’m going to do it.
Read them both. Loved em.
I like Cats Cradle and Sirens of Titan the best though. Read those.
Also Mother Night, Player Piano, and Deadeye Dick were all very good.
I thought it was humourous that the alter for the Holy Virgin always had the most flowers because it was most popular with the nuns.
Yeah, that was pretty much the gist of my post, wouldn’t you say?
I mean, wow.
@Other dude who agreed with me (wow as well), I didn’t like Cat’s Cradle that much. The whole thing about freezing the planet, but not the inhabitants isn’t very realistic.
The novelization of Tron.
Don’t worry, I still think you’re retarded. 
McDevitt’s Polaris was one of the better books I’ve read in while. Nice odd happenings in it. I read Tad William’s War of Roses recently and it was nice enough. Evil plans everywhere.