The Cliver Cussler novel I was reading was good tongue-in-cheek 3/4 of the way through but then the tongue bit the cheek and the storylines went awry.

So now I'm reading Dan Brown's "Angels & Demons". I didn't care much for "The Da Vinci Code", I hope this one is better as I've always been fascinated by the Illuminati.

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Good book. I like it so far.

Hey Crazed, I'msure you have but have you read the Illuminatus! Trilogy by Shea and Wilson? i liked it.

Yep, I've read the Illuminatus trilogy. I enjoyed it as well. I'm always looking for good novels on the Illuminati as well as cheesey conspiracy books.

Capitalist Patriarchy and the Case for Socialist Feminism by Zillah Eisenstein. Oh yeah.

At home: The Melancholy of Resistance by Laszlo Krasznahorkai.

At work: The Dick Gibson Show by Stanley Elkin.

Recently read The Running Man by Michael Gerard Bauer. It's a teen book, I found it rather easy to read and enjoyable experience.
Been picking stories from Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales. Interesting book, its got a collection of stories from various countries and cultures.
Now I'm trying to get into The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant but to no avail. Keep feeling rejected by the book. Just cant get into it.
My partner's been reading Gene Wolfe's The Wizard, apparently good.

Needing something both light and horror, I picked up on Carrie Vaughn's "Kitty and The Midnight Hour". It's about a female disc jockey/radio show host who's also a werewolf or shewolf or whatever. Fun pre-summer read, so far.

I'm sorry I haven't checked this thread in a while. Crazed have you read Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco? It is one of my favorite conspiracy books, its dense but rewarding.

I'm presently reading Men of Tomorrow by Gerard Jones. Its a great glimpse into the origin of the American comic book, yeah, my geekness is showing.

and Making Patriots by Walter Berns which I am reading for a course I am facilitating for teachers this summer. It is interesting.

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Originally posted by juanboy:
I'm sorry I haven't checked this thread in a while. Crazed have you read Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco? It is one of my favorite conspiracy books, its dense but rewarding.

Haven't read that one, I'll have to check up on it. Nothing like a good conspiracy book!

Recently started on another Charles de Lint novel, "Spirits in the Wires". As revenge for a date gone bad and the consequenses thereof, a virus is sent to take down a favorite website. But this is no ordinary website as people trying to access the site are drawn into the worldwide web spirit realm. Yikes! Not sure how they escape, maybe their souls are purchased through an ebay transaction or perhaps they can be cloned after being burned onto a cdr. This is defiantely an interesting read.

I'm about 80% done with "The Karamazov Brothers"
by Fyodor Dostoyevski. It's about 950 pages long. Those Russian authors sure do like to write long books. The book seems to get better and better as it goes along.

I am currently re-reading my copy of Songs for the Doomed by Hunter S Thompson. Love it.

I just finished The Kite Runner by Hosseini, a truly fantastic book. Currently I'm reading The great war for civilisation by Robert Fisk, The plot against America, and 1491 by Charles Mann.
By the way, this site is a great way to find good books.

I just finished reading J.M. Coetzee's awesome novel Disgrace. WOW! I highly recommend this book to all. It won the Nobel Prize for literature (in 1999 or 2000), and I can understand why. It's about a 52-year-old professor living in South Africa. At first, I couldn't stand this womanizing, arrogant ass . . . . but over the course of the novel, I started to really respect him and root for him. At the beginning of the book, he has an affair with a student in one of his classes, and that's one of the first points of connection to the novel's title. There are more connections to come, and the plot has many intersting turns, most of them unexpected. GREAT BOOK!

I'm reading "Suite Francaise" by Irene Nemirovsky and I think it's insanely overrated.

Currently reading Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried. This collection of short stories can be read as a novel because the stories focus on the same characters. It was published in 1990, but it's getting lots of attention now because it's about war and the psychological and physical effects war has on diverse individuals. O'Brien is writing about the Vietnam War, and the title refers to the tangible things the soldiers had to carry on their backs as well as the heavy burdens they carried in their hearts. This is my first time reading this book, and so far, I like it a lot. It's depressing, but rewarding.

Have any of you read Dark Rain, by Conor Corderoy? If you have, did you notice the code? Apparently it's related to his next book, The Eden Cypher! Can't wait! If it's as good as Dark Rain, I'll go nuts!

Yeah man, I read it. Good book but it messed with my head. Like it was giving me a message or something. Its a deep book. As to the code, i got there are five chapters (5th letter of the alphabet E for Eden?) and the ISBN is a multiple of 5 (cool, huh?). Number of pages is multiple of 9 and the 9th and 10th word on the first line of the first page are an anagram of Eden. Howm I doing? But there's more to the code than that.

I am currently reading A Clockwork Orange, I have been able to figure out what a few of the weird words mean so far. A friend of mine was impressed. I'm also supposed to be reading Things Fall Apart for school and annotate it. I've barely started.