I hear most cereal boxes has some excellent prose too shambler :)

Cheers. I love you.

Bitch. 

Reading the Quake manual 

And I'm planning to finish reading my three books of H.P. Lovecraft stories sometime soon.

With that I'll leave you with this brilliant quote from CyBeAr:

<blehbear> t3h best of hewlett packard lovecraft
<Bal> rofl 

Nausica� valley of the wind - go read if you haven't. 

do you folks keep calling them graphic novels?
they're comics!

what with the geeky defense mechanism? :) 

Graphic novels: subcategory then, currently mainly meaning lots more visually intense with nice color glossy and all that. I've seen some good ones, but currently read only black and white comics series just as much graphic novel style. Cerebus (currently at about page 5700 of 6000), Thieves and Kings, A Distant Soil, Bone.

All Tomorrow's Parties by Gibson: I liked _Idoru_ a lot, that's a sequel you know, good though.

Current read Greg Bear _Darwin's Children_ about some interesting implications of normal human DNA retroviruses. Also recent good L. Niel Smith _The American Zone_ on alternate American realities (including freedom), David Brin _Kiln People_ with neat first person views of both the MC and his clones, Philip Dick _Clans of the Aliphane Moon_ where people get classed into the various mental deficiency groups and live happily ever after. Lots more Brin, Baxter, Niven, all that stuff.

I'll have to check back on this thread when I need more.. 

Currently I'm reading Kurose/Ross - Computer networking; a top-down approach featuring the internet. Quite damned boring. Wouldn't reccomend it to anoyone.

Other than that, I'm going to read all the Narnia books again, because they are my number one favourite book series ever (even though the last few books gets all rabid religious and preachy,) and I've read them about a zillion times. Narnia movie? ugh. There was already the series by BBC or whatever, which was a mildly acceptable translation, despite the �1 costume budget. 

Which three books do you have? The Omnibusses?
I'm reading those too currently and really do like them. The english is a bit hard for someone who isn't a native speaker but it's quite OK.

Besides that I'm reading 'Stupid White Men' by Michael Moore currently, and I have to say I really like that one, if you haven't read it yet, go and do so. 

currently re-reading the Honor Harrington series... good space warfare...

read Camus' "The Plague" and "The Stranger"...
"Count of Monte Cristo" is pretty good, but long...
Anne Rice's vampire chronicles are also pretty entertaining...
um... yeah... that's more or less it... 

read Camus' "The Plague" and "The Stranger"...

Do you mean 'The Outsider'? Or is 'The Stranger' a different book?

The Outsider is a classic, for all us existential gothy loners ( well, it helped me get an A in Higher English :P ) 

Jennifer Diane Reitz's Unicorn Jelly is shaping up to be a very nice two-part series.

I should know. I'm one of the editors. 

Yeah, I checked it out from your site link - really cool stuff. I like the universal map. And the shatterel storm is a nifty idea; I like that sort of stuff. 

Just finished that last week, and amazing book, though it slackens in pace an humour to a dull ending which left me wanting more, and asking, did he have anyone read this and tell him, heh, you never wrapped it up. 

I felt like there was so much more Gibson could have done with this book. It has been some time since I read it, but the whole rock icon thing really reminded me of the believability factor of Bill & Ted's excellent adventure. I think the closest thing to this would be Bono of U2, and does anyone truly take him seriously? Rez was pretty lame imho, so lame in fact, that after Gibson spent most of Idoru emphasising the fact that Rez was so amazing he seemed to transcend all of the fads, only to become a fad himself in All Tomorrow's Parties. All Tomorrow's Parties also could have ended after the third chapter, there really is no meat to the book, just set-up loads of filler and an ending...I will admit though that the ending is cool and all considering what the Idoru does, but.....heh...

Whats the worst book you ever read?

I read this book titled Format C: one time....it sucked ass.

I have to admit to reading two fo the the Left Behind books. While they are loaded with Christian themes which might piss many off, the story itself is rather good. Might as well see what the fuss is about I figured. Kinda got sucked into them much in the same way the Harry Potter books can be major addicting. 

Have you read The Stand and Hearts in Atlantis? There are some major relations between The Stand and Dark Tower books. Good read if you never read it, and having read the DT books, you will see loads of links. It is over 500 pages or so but a really interesting story. There is also some inference to The Dark Tower in Hearts in Atlantis....Some characters we have yet to see in DT books called Low Men, and The Breakers.....at least I cannot remeber them. 

I can't believe that no-one has mentioned Iain M Banks/Iain Banks yet!

Feersum Endjinn
Use of Weapons
Inversions
The Bridge

All fantastic, but for different reasons. Holding them all together, though, is excellent writing style and some brilliant narrative structure/styles, mostly involving skewing the reader's perception of an event or series of events and then slowly revealing an altenative reality. I can't praise them enough :) 

Seconded - although I'd swap Use of Weapons and Inversions for Player of Games and Walking On Glass....Feersum Enjinn and The Bridge are superb though, first 1/2 of the bridge is one of the best things I've read... 

I'll forgive you both for missing out Excession. Probably my most read book, think I'm up to about 8 times now.

Bal, go read PKD. 

A lot of King's books seem to be related to the Dark Tower, including:
Salem's Lot
The Stand
Insomnia
Hearts in Atlantis
Black House

Also, if you go to Stephen King's website, www.stephenking.com , there is an audio excerpt from the upcoming fifth Dark Tower book, read by King himself. It's fairly interesting, a flashback depicting the demise of Alain, Cuthbert and Jamie de Curry. 

No, not the Omnibuses. I hadn't heard of those, actually. The titles are:

The Dream Cycle of H.P. Lovecraft: Dreams of Terror and Death
The Transition of H. P. Lovecraft: The Road to Madness
The Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre 

Those ones I'm talking about:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0586063226/qid=1052839440/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/102-8530110-1898516?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0586063242/qid=1052839440/sr=8-2/ref=sr_8_2/102-8530110-1898516?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0575003391/qid%3D1052839593/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr_11_1/102-8530110-1898516

Altho I'm wondering why the third one isn't available on amazon.com but is available in english over amazon.de... *shrug* 

The Stranger and The Outsider are one and the same, although, the actual title, L'�tranger, more litterally means Stranger than outsider. I guess it depends on who translated the book... :) 

Great book that. Horrorshow.

Is it just me that imagines John Lydon (Johnny Rotten of Sex Pistols fame) doing the "talking book" version?

BTW, apparently the twenty-first chapter was dropped from the initial American release, and from Kubrick's film, according to this copy's intro. Burgess was mighty upset. End of uninteresting historical aside. 

wow, those sound really uplifting!

:) 

necros: yes of course, I forget that I read a translation :/ thx

wrath: they are very cheery :)