Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell

Shakespeare's Lost Kingdom by Charles Beuclerk.  I haven't gotten far enough into it to decide what I think, but he offers some interesting arguments for Shakespeare's actual identity being Edward DeVere, Earl of Oxford, and for Oxford being the illegitimate son of Queen Elizabeth I and Lord Admiral Seymour.

Journey to the End of the Night by Ferdinand Céline

It's kind of like a darker ironic version of On the Road. Also French. So it's pretty weird but I can't put it down.

Still with Life of Johnson, long time now - 3 months, but it goes so slow.

Hayek

"The Duel: The Eighty Day Struggle Between Churchill and Hitler" by John Lukacs.

It's actually pretty good and easy to read.

"East Asia: Identities and Change in the Modern World; 1700 to Present" by R. Keith Schoppa.

"The Holy Man of Mount Koya" by Izumi Kyoka (This is more of a short story).

"Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination" by Edogawa Rampo

One of my professors brought in a sack of books he didn't want anymore and I picked up The Ask by Sam Lipsyte.  I've read one page and I can already tell it's going to be spectacular.

Reading A Scanner Darkly by Philip K Dick, i'm maybe a third of the way through? Takes place a 'futuristic' or alternate reality, science fiction. The main factor in the book is 'Substance D,' this super-addictive, cheap, widely used, fatal recreational drug. The characters are believably insane. It's really interesting, some of the best imagery and phrasing i've read in a long time, and a fun one to read if you, hm, have ever participated in consumption of illicit substances 😉 Probably be done with it pretty soon.

Quote from: Jaimey on September 01, 2010, 10:27:01 PM
One of my professors brought in a sack of books he didn't want anymore and I picked up The Ask by Sam Lipsyte.  I've read one page and I can already tell it's going to be spectacular.

I'll have to read it; you have similar taste to me; hopefully our stupid library will have it.

As for me, Ash by Malinda Lo.

Man Without a Country - Kurt Vonnegut

Dragons Prefer Blondes - Candace Havens

I love a bit o' chick lit "beach" trash every now and then.  Cute little story - one of the sequels in a series - reads a bit like Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Charlie's Angels, and has all of the cheesy romantic plot, references to pop culture and couture.

Good for filler between reading more chunky material.

I just concluded reading Nine Lives by Dan Baum.

Gennee

Reading Dracula now.

Reading "Temple of the Winds" by Terry Goodkind... book 4 in the Sword of Truth series. So amazing. Seriously.

i'm DESPERATELY trying to finish Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.

Quote from: Lexine on September 21, 2010, 12:26:59 AM
i'm DESPERATELY trying to finish Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.

OMG I've been wanting to read that for the longest.. is it any good??

Quote from: aranikace on September 21, 2010, 12:30:42 AM
OMG I've been wanting to read that for the longest.. is it any good??

It's really good! Honest Abe isn't being honest after all 😉

The Witch of Hebron, James Howard Kunstler....

The Medici Aesop

I Don't Want to be Crazy by: Samantha Schutz

It's written in the same format as an Ellen Hopkins book (she wrote Crank, Glass, Burn, etc.) except instead of being about drugs, it is about a girl who develops Panic Disorder and begins questioning her sanity. I'm liking it so far.