Slapstick was pretty damn hilarious. I would read that next if you are taking suggestions.

I'm on books 43 and 44 of the year. I'm reading
"Carl Sagan - Cosmos" and
"Upton Sinclair - Oil!"

Here is what I've read so far this year:

Lewis Black - Me of Little Faith
Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange
Bruce Campbell - If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor
Mark Childress - Tender
Peter Corris - Saving Billie
Peter Corris - The Undertow
Lionel Dahmer - A Father's Story
Don Everts - Jesus with Dirty Feet
Cathy Hapka - Lost; Secret Identity
Ernest Hemingway - The Sun Also Rises
Kenneth Kamler - Surviving the Extremes; A Doctor's Journey to the Limits of Human Endurance
Stephen King - The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born
Stephen King - Just After Sunset
Stephen King - Nightmares & Dreamscapes
Stephen King - On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Dean Koontz - Forever Odd
Jon Krakauer - Eiger Dreams
Jon Krakauer - Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
Michael Lang - The Road to Woodstock
Steve Lopez - The Soloist
Cormac McCarthy - All the Pretty Horses
Chuck Palahniuk - Haunted
George Pelecanos (Edited By) - D.C. Noir 2: The Classics
George Pelecanos - The Way Home
Laura Pritchett - Hell's Bottom, Colorado
Daniel Stashower - The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Invention of Murder
Robert Louis Stevenson - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Mark Sundeen - The Making of Toro: Bullfights, Broken Hearts, and One Author's Quest for the Acclaim He Deserves
Hunter S. Thompson - Better Than Sex; Confessions of a Political Junkie
Scott Turow - Limitations
Barry Unsworth - After Hannibal
Kurt Vonnegut - Slapstick
Scott Wolven - Controlled Burn
Stuart Woods - Capital Crimes
Stuart Woods - Dirty Work
Stuart Woods - Iron Orchid
Stuart Woods - Reckless Abandon
Stuart Woods - The Short Forever
Stuart Woods - Shoot Him if He Runs
Stuart Woods - Short Straw
Stuart Woods - Two Dollar Bill
Various Authors - Amplified; Fiction from Leading Alt-Country, Indie Rock, Blues and Folk Musicians

And Another Thing-Its bound to upset some people isnt it?

e.e. cummings - the enormous room

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Originally posted by EgoTrip:

Bruce Campbell - If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor

I have to check this one out.

I'm reading The Order of the Phoenix...

A Tale of Two Cities.

a gate at the stairs by lorrie moore
i've read criticism that it goes nowhere, but i'm enjoying her writing so much, that i think i don't really care. maybe i will feel differently later on. we shall see.

En tid for alt by Karl Ove Knausgård

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Tell My Horse by Zora Neale Hurston, and Mystic River by Dennis Lehane. Impressions to come.

'The Art of Travel' by Alain De Botton

Magic: 1400s - 1950s

They really shouldn't make books this big . . .

Porno- Irving Welsh,a fine follow up to trainspotting

Reading and really enjoying The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton.

please recommend a good read, thanks.

The Magic Mountain

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Originally posted by Ingmar Bearman's Magic Lantern:
The Magic Mountain

ok. haven't read that much german literature from that period.

Have you read Black Swan Green?

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Originally posted by Hilbert Cheesecake:
Have you read Black Swan Green?

no, but i just read cloud atlas, so i might dig this.

I haven't read Cloud Atlas, so I can't compare.

But I really loved Black Swan Green. Really unique narration; I was suspicious at first, but slowly hooked.

i really enjoyed could atlas.

the boog gives it two thumbs up.