What you reading?

[Lord Funk]

I remember Seer starting this thread maybe a couple of years ago... kind of like an intellectual version of 'what you bumping' on the main board

I'm about a quarter of the way through a novel called 'Black Swan Green' by a dope writer called David Mitchell. I got into him about 18 months ago when I read his 'Cloud Atlas', an amazing novel where he tells six interweaved stories about individuals throughout history, present day and an imagined future. Easily one of the most incredible stories I've read.

This is a lot more down-to-earth - it's a 'coming of age' story about a kid growing up with a stammer in the Malvern Hills in Worcester. t's a really easy read - highly recommended.

[Bramsterdam (see ya)]

I finished reading The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho which was a fantastic read. Now I'm on The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck.. Then I might give Ulysses a crack.

[The Watcher]

i don't read much fiction @ all. about 2 months ago i read all 6 of the harry potter books, but other than that all i read are comics or technical (computer) books. before the harry potter books, the last fiction book i read was when i was 16 in highschool (im 26 now)

[mrtonguetwista]

Garfield

[Fuck Your Existence]

Band of Brothers-Stephen Ambrose(3rd time)

Im more amazed each time

[westkoastanostra]

just finished reading "cheating death, stealing life" by eddie guerrero. excellent biography frum him. i think its one of the best bios from wwe. worth checking out from a man who went from a negative to a positive.i'm currently reading "the death of wcw" and "have a nice day" by mick foley.

[No Compute]

Catch-22

[gav09]

I've just finished reading My Life With Bob Marley by Rita Marley, now Im readin Gangs : A Journey Into The British Underworld by Tony Thompson and next Im gonna read Dr. Dre : A Biography by Ronin Ro. I dont read any fiction books, not 4 me!

[eS El Duque]

I just finished reading  Fantasyland by Sam Walker

Book about one mans passion with Roto basbeball ...fuckin funny if you like baseball.

Now i need a new book to read...

[Boo-Yaa †]

Iain Banks - The Bridge

"Iain Banks' 3rd novel tells the tale of a car crash victim and the symbolic dreamscape he inhabits while deep in a coma"

I HIGHLY recommend this book to everyone on here, or any of his books for that matter... He is a genius!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bridge_(novel)

[Samoan Enforcer]

pornography

[ToOoOoN!!!]

AN OLD 1967 FRENCH BOOK - LES TEMPS MODERNES : LE CONFLIT ISRAELO/ARAB BY JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

[E-L-P]

Just finished reading a book called "The Greatest American Speeches". Now I'm reading a book called "Jesus for the non-religious".

[Lord Funk]

Iain Banks - The Bridge

"Iain Banks' 3rd novel tells the tale of a car crash victim and the symbolic dreamscape he inhabits while deep in a coma"

I HIGHLY recommend this book to everyone on here, or any of his books for that matter... He is a genius!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bridge_(novel)

Sounds a bit like 'Life On Mars' on the BBC!

[Low Key]

I haven't read anything in about a year besides the newspaper and some magazines.

The last book I read was called "An Underground Education" by Richard Zacks. It's a non fiction book pretty much going into detail with photos of the stuff history books have left out of their pages. From the real origins of fairy tales (not the watered down versions today) to Pocahontas being a spokeswoman for the tobacco industry to the 1949 Nobel prize winner who performed lobotomies with an ice pick. It's pretty interesting to say the least.

Here's an excerpt:

Jackie Robinson was not the first black man to play in the Major Leagues. A handful of blacks player in organized major leagues, such as the American Association, in the 10th century until they were banned in the late 1880s. Black jockeys won fifteen of the first twenty-eight Kentucky Derbies until they were ousted in 1911. The majority of blacks were legally disenfranchised in the southern and boarder states from 1890 to 1907. In 1896, the Supreme Court upheld segregation. Enormously popular minstrel shows barnstormed the country depicting blacks as toadying fools. An African pygmy was exhibited behind bars at the Bronx Zoo. In 1921, whites in Tulsa, Oklahoma, dropped dynamite from a plane onto a black ghetto, killing seventy-five people and wrecking more than 1,100 homes.