Castles of Steel, about the naval side of WWI. Great read.

Still in the Asimov "Robots" series.

I'm halfway through the last book, though.

One of those you don't want to end.

XC164-16 User Manual from Infineon. All 800+ pages.

1) Managing Technological Innovation
2) Systems Analysis & Design Methods

What I'm not reading? Fun recreational books.

Grad school.....

Work.

Half way through "The Templar Revelation" . That January 17th stuff gets me . I've always been fascinated with symbolism , especially the grail.

Re-reading Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy for the 4th time.

I'm also reading 'A Conquest of Gaul' By Julius Caesar, finishing The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla, and I picked up a couple reference books from work (yes, I read encyclopedias. Yes, I am a nerd). One is on American History from 1900-2000, another is Ancient EuroFuckyLand, 8000BC-1000AD, and the other is our new Enc. of Surgery. Nice light reading. Yes, my nightstand is FULL of half-read books.

Tom Waits.

Ooops! Wrong thread.

I'm reading the newest isntallment of the Brian Herbert Dune novels: The Machine Crusade. Brian's books aren't quite as good as the ones his father wrote; but, it's just nice to read a new book set in the Dune universe.

jack: buhahahahaha

Finished The Dream of Scipio. Highly recommended. Now reading The crimson Petal and the White.

A can of Yuenling.
Longingly.

it'll taste better saturday

Sunday, it's Sunday.

It'll taste better Sunday than it would Saturday. Today it's crap.

MONSTER Truck rally, on SUNDAY, SUNDAY, SUNDAY!!!!

I hear ya, Peeps.
I was only messin'.

SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY!

The Amateur's Lathe - L.H. Sparey
Cast Bullets for the Black Powder Cartridge Rifle - Paul A. Matthews.

The Trouble With Islam - Irshad Manji
For The Time Being - Annie Dillard
You Are Not a Stranger Here - Adam Haslett

I'm still finishing the book I bought in DC for my bus ride home.
The Little Friend - Donna Tartt.

There's always the "Foundation" series when you've finished.

And Nemesis, if you just want a single book.

As for me, currently:

- Through the Looking Glass (once again).
- Guns, Germs and Steel (Jared Diamond)
- The Scarlet Petal and the White
- Infinite Jest in very short spurts

and the odd browse through Lord of the Rings and the Silmarillion, the Victorian novels of Charles Palliser (the Unburied, the Quincunx) and the Name of the Rose.

I haven't had time to enjoy a good book in the last month.
In what little free time I get, I've been slowly translating
my copy of Album Zutique. My French is good,
but it's not Fin-de-Siècle good.

I'm still reading Foucault's Pendulum.

My French is lousy! There's one more offensive thing Abby and I can do together at LCLF!

Yeah, half a meter of books on the shelf.
That should last for some time.

Hope to finish "The Wolves of Calla" next
weekend.

Next book will be something written by
Iain Banks. "Inversions" maybe.

I´m sure Sixela would love his books
(at least some passages with the most
freaked out language deformations
- in "Excession" and "Feersum Endjinn" -
I´ve ever seen), hehe

If you haven´t read
"THE PERFUME" - Patrick Suskind
until today, please, please get a copy immediately!!

It is really THAT good, trust me!

I'm re - reading The Autobiography Of Bienvenuto Cellini , it had been a while and I just found this one illustrated by Dali. Last week was Francis Steegmuller : Cocteau

i like to read the Highlights magazines found in dentist's offices.

Do you get help on the big words?

I like that part where you have to find the things that are different between two similar pictures.
Boy, those are hard.

Continue with the empire and foundation series
Assimov , in one of his last books; had listed a storyline chronology of all his sci-fi novels from the robot to detective thru empire and foundation series. They were not written in(real time?)chronological order .

I suggest you read them in the order he listed them . (Sorry, I moved about a month ago and all my Sci-fi's are still packed so I can't list them or refer you to which book had the list. Try a search)

Hmmm...
You'll be practicing Frenching
together?
I'll pay for the room if you wanna
share.

I'd suggest inserting a break for Nemesis, and if you want to see something different from the same author (except his books on physics ;) ) -- the End of Eternity, which reads like a cross of HG Wells and Asimov and is completely orthogonal to all the rest.

Ideal for the times the First or Second Foundation and/or Gaia are making your hair hurt.

In the same vein, there's also "The Gods Themselves", which doesn't talk about gods at all, but whose chapter titles spell out "Against Stupidity, the Gods Themselves are Powerless".

Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are is a pretty good read.

Fuck yeah! That's one of the best books ever written.

Just finished re-reading it for the gazillionth time.

I'd like to re-read Slaughterhouse 5 and see if I get it this time.

DG

Now, that's another book I could re-read a gazillion times.

But right now, it's "Absinthe, a myth always green".

"Winter's Tale" by Marc Helprin...it's a modern adventure, sci-fi, romantic, historical, allegorical fuckin' masterpiece...a true classic!!!

Due to my pending life change:

"Talking to Strangers: Improving American Diplomacy at Home and Abroad"
by Monteagle Stearns

want some candy?

Be careful. In Washington, some strangers are stranger than others...and those are the normal ones.

I just finished "Lullaby" by Chuck Palahniuk. It was good.

Mooch and I were reciting Green Eggs
And Ham from memory yesterday.
It was good.

You still have a memory?

Could you please give Sixer and Buck a call and sing them a tune?

Lamby,
I forget, mebbe I do.

I would not eat them in a box. I would not eat them with a fox...

I would not eat them in the rain. I would not eat them on a train...

I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam I Am.

Try them, try them, and you may. Try them and you may, I say.





yeah, I've been doing some serious Dr. Seuss reading in the last 6 months. Do you all have any idea how hard it is to read that stuff to a toddler without slurring or screwing up the words after a few absinthes? Damn!

Still trying to finish Wolves of the Calla. I only know how to start books and get to the last 1/5. I never can get myself to finish them.