Philip K. Dick

Cosmos - Carl Sagan

I'm finishing A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius-Dave Eggers.

Next up is The Road-Cormac McCarthy. Made the wife have nightmares, and she cried seeing the preview for Viggo's movie the other day.

I'm gonna get to Kitchen Confidential-Anthony Bourdain soon.

The wife is also trying to read 50 books this year. I'm gonna try and read 10 before the year is up, myself.

50! She's read 34 so far. She's lacking confidence, but I know she'll do it!

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

revolutionary road- richard yates

hadn't seen the movie and the book was at the library.

just finished the last noel by michael malone. nice quick emotional summer read.

Currently trying to find time to finish Foucault's Pendulum, it's one of my usual summer reads and i i'm in love with it again. Read if you haven't, check it:

Foucault's Pendulum (original title: Il pendolo di Foucault) is a novel by Italian novelist and philosopher Umberto Eco. It was first published in 1988; the translation into English by William Weaver appeared a year later.

Foucault's Pendulum is divided into ten segments represented by the ten Sefiroth. The novel is full of esoteric references to the Kabbalah, alchemy and conspiracy theory, so many that critic and novelist Anthony Burgess suggested that it needed an index. The title of the book refers to an actual pendulum designed by the French physicist Léon Foucault to demonstrate the rotation of the earth, which has symbolic significance within the novel. Although some believe it refers to the philosopher Michel Foucault, Eco "specifically rejects any intentional reference to Michel Foucault" (see "Umberto Eco & The Open Text" by Peter E. Bondanella p. 133).

The plot of Foucault's Pendulum revolves around three friends, Belbo, Diotallevi and Casaubon, who work for a vanity publisher company in Milan. After reading too many manuscripts about occult conspiracy theories, they decide they can do better, and set to invent their own conspiracy for fun. They call this satirical intellectual game "The Plan".

As Belbo, Diotallevi and Casaubon become increasingly obsessed with The Plan, they sometimes forget that it's just a game. Worse still, when adherents of other conspiracy theories learn about The Plan, they take it seriously. Belbo finds himself the target of a very real secret society that believes he possesses the key to the lost treasure of the Knights Templar.

LOVE. Also i have to say i enjoy this book even more because of the names of the main characters, Belbo, Diotallevi and Casaubon. They sounds such an awesome bunch of guys, great picks, i must say.

the monster of florence- mario spezi & doug preston

the true story of the serial killer that goes uncaught and the journalists who unravel the truth and get caught up in the crime themselves.

great summer read.

Just finished Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows last night so now I am going to start The Hobbit and then LOTR.

I haven't read either before so I am hoping that LOTR isn't as lame and boring as the movies.

Im reading a bunch of shit at once right now

Mike Royko- One More Time

Sam Pocker- Retail Anarchy

Charles Bukowski- The Last Night of the Earth Poems

"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows"

Re-reading to catch up on "Legion of Three Worlds" as well. Oh, Geoff Johns...yooooooou...

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South of the border west of the sun (Murakami again !) is next and after that I'm determined to finally tackle Don Quixote.

I'm reading Don Quixote right now and it's great. The translation I'm reading was done by Edith Grossman.

Before that I read Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human by Richard Wrangham and up next is My Experiments with the Truth Ghandi's autobiography. Exciting stuff.

'Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks' by Christopher Brookmyre.

My Girlfriends mum got me one of his books for xmas and after moving in with my brother it turns out he has two others so im reading them.

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.Its just great.

Needed some light reading, All the Colours of Darkness by Peter Robinson.

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Originally posted by Kinda-Fonda-Wanda:
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.Its just great.

Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters should be out soon if it isn't already.

the true blood series.

yes, i have come this low. unemployment and a pool will do that to you.

You haven't sunk anywhere until you've read, and were not infuriated by, the Twilight books.

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Originally posted by Ðô¢†ö® Ģǿñこō:
You haven't sunk anywhere until you've read, and were not infuriated by, the Twilight books.

that was so last summer, pfft.

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller.

Finished all of the Sin City books over the weekend... need new trade paperbacks.

a book on the history of phonograph and it's cultural impact/concurrence in America late 1800s to approx 1950. written by a college prof (Kent State?), it's quite good.