Currently reading: One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez Recently Finished: Paradise Lost - John Milton Blindness - Jose Saramango Though Paradise Lost was half a year in the making. Read a little here... a little there...

I like readin One hundred Years slowly. Real slowly.

I re-read Ann Marie MacDonald's Fall On Your Knees earlier this week for about the tenth time before lending it to a prof, who seems to love it as much as I do so far (take that, Grid!) Now I'm reading Unless by Carol Shields, borrowed from the same prof. I must say, for all that I like writing short stories, I find novels so much more satisfying to read. I picked up a collection of Shields's short stories a few weeks ago and while they were lovely, I like something I can really sink my teeth into like this latest book instead of just little nibbles of literature. Chronos, I couldn't get into Midnight's Children either, but my problem wasn't that the sentences weren't interesting...too much of the history went over my head, I think, as did many of the mythological references. That's one book I think I'd enjoy more if I had to read it for a class. I never did finish it - only made it about a third of the way through. Shameful. cheap internet access organic search marketing

Just Finished The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins Currently Factory Girls: From village to city in a changing China, by Leslie T. Chang And more things than I care to think about for school :/

Almost done with my reread of the V:TM clan novels. I love Theo Bell. Assamites work for blood, the oldest and the most potent. Hiring Lucita to kill Moncada would cost Caine's left nut. Maybe the right one too.

Finished Roger Zelazny's Lord of Light the other day. Absolutely wonderful book. I bought a copy just so I could give it to people and say, "Read this!" It had pretty much everything I love about science fiction.

World War Z. I appreciate the creative journalism Q&A side of the beginning, but other than that I can't really get into it. For some reason, I keep drawing parallels to John Hershey's Hiroshima and keep wanting to go back and read that instead. I am only about 30 pages in, though. Does it get better?

I went audio book with WWZ. You should go that route as well.

World War Z. I appreciate the creative journalism Q&A side of the beginning, but other than that I can't really get into it. For some reason, I keep drawing parallels to John Hershey's Hiroshima and keep wanting to go back and read that instead. I am only about 30 pages in, though. Does it get better? The endless switching of perspectives kinda got on my nerves. You'd just be finishing up someone's really awesome story and then you're plunged into more relatively boring exposition. But I'd say yes, it does get good nearer the end.

World War Z. I appreciate the creative journalism Q&A side of the beginning, but other than that I can't really get into it. For some reason, I keep drawing parallels to John Hershey's Hiroshima and keep wanting to go back and read that instead. I am only about 30 pages in, though. Does it get better? IMO World War Z really picked up once the outbreak was widespread, and the stories started to focus on how individuals and states were reacting to it, esp. the Redekker bit.

Finished Roger Zelazny's Lord of Light the other day. Absolutely wonderful book. I bought a copy just so I could give it to people and say, "Read this!" It had pretty much everything I love about science fiction. Read Doors of His Feet, Lamps of His Mouth while back in Iraq, absolutely loved it. He's got such varied style and stories, it's wonderful. I should really check out some full books by him. Reminds me vaguely of PKDick Got a copy of WWZ I've been meaning to dig into. Prolly gonna wait until after Snow Crash though, so I don't get distracted.

Currently reading: One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez Recently Finished: Paradise Lost - John Milton Blindness - Jose Saramango Though Paradise Lost was half a year in the making. Read a little here... a little there... I just started Love In The Time Of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I really really want to read Paradise Lost, but I haven't gotten around to it (It's on my list of 100 Books I Need To Read Before I Die.) I just finished Still Alice, a poignant tale about a fifty year old Harvard professor who discovers she has early onset Alzheimer's. But I've never heard of Blindness or its author. Enlighten me please.

I currently am fully addicted to all things Stephen King and intent to make my way through all of his works, I just finished the Dark Tower series, the Stand, Salems Lot, the Eyes of the Dragon, I currently am reading The black house and intend to read IT next!

I'll be reading The Terror by Dan Simmons and Kerouac's On the Road once I finally finish East of Eden. Then, and only then, will I pick up The Stand, which I've wanted to read ever since I read the description. But I've never heard of Blindness or its author. Enlighten me please. It's about a whole city that slowly becomes infected by a white blindness. Government freaks out and quarantines the first few hundred people in an abandoned mental facility. Depravities ensue.

I have my choice of Gravity's Rainbow, Naked Lunch, or either Child of God or Outer Dark from Cormac McCarthy. I do not know what to do.

wow, talk about the giants of post-modern literature. I'd go with Pynchon myself. Coincidentally, I am currently reading Pynchon's 'Vineland', along with Don Delillo's 'Underworld'. Both treats for the head.

I currently am fully addicted to all things Stephen King and intent to make my way through all of his works, I just finished the Dark Tower series, the Stand, Salems Lot, the Eyes of the Dragon, I currently am reading The black house and intend to read IT next! If you're on The Black House right now, read The Talisman next instead. Black House is it's "sequel".

right now for class, i'm reading albert camus' the plague. i dig the hell out of it thus far.

If On a Winter's Night A Traveller by Italio Calvino is an awesome book. I wont pretend I fully wrapped my head around some of the highly experimental techniques and ideas, but the mystery of it all makes it that much more wonderful. Within the first few pages (and I don't want to spoil too much here), It makes the reader (you) conscious of you're own act of reading the novel and lulls you into almmost becoming a character in the book itself...it's unusual and engaging, hypnotically' un-put-downable' (as a back-of-a-book critical blurb might say). Definitely one of the most self-reflexive, self-aware pieces of writing. Super fun to read, highly recommended.

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hi This is candace. i really look forward to be an active member in this forum. i do run a resume writing website... EPIC FAIL! Hot linking your personal pages on a first post is a quick way to get in trouble on a forum. If you're serious about writing, check out the Rules and FAQ and try lurking more

EPIC FAIL! Hot linking your personal pages on a first post is a quick way to get in trouble on a forum. If you're serious about writing, check out the Rules and FAQ and try lurking more I'm fairly certain candace isn't a human. Has anyone picked up John Dies at the End? AVCLUB gave a super positive review, and I'm a fan of most of Cracked.com's stuff... thought I'd drive to Border's after work and pick it up.

I'll be reading The Terror by Dan Simmons and Kerouac's On the Road once I finally finish East of Eden. Then, and only then, will I pick up The Stand, which I've wanted to read ever since I read the description. But I've never heard of Blindness or its author. Enlighten me please. It's about a whole city that slowly becomes infected by a white blindness. Government freaks out and quarantines the first few hundred people in an abandoned mental facility. Depravities ensue. What he said about the book. Was made into a terrible version of the book by Hollywood, the analogies of the prose were lost. Jose Saramago is a portugese writer (I think?), he's got several books out, all of which I've heard good things, but blindness was the only one I've read to date.

If On a Winter's Night A Traveller by Italio Calvino is an awesome book. I wont pretend I fully wrapped my head around some of the highly experimental techniques and ideas, but the mystery of it all makes it that much more wonderful. Within the first few pages (and I don't want to spoil too much here), It makes the reader (you) conscious of you're own act of reading the novel and lulls you into almmost becoming a character in the book itself...it's unusual and engaging, hypnotically' un-put-downable' (as a back-of-a-book critical blurb might say). Definitely one of the most self-reflexive, self-aware pieces of writing. Super fun to read, highly recommended. I have to second this. After I work my way through all the new books I have I want to go back and reread it. It's a post-modern novel that's fairly easy to read and enjoy as a story, even before jumping in and trying to figure out what everything means.

The Stand is the most metal thing you will ever read