"the island" by aldous huxley.
not as good as brave new world, which was a great book.

before that, it was "world war z," which was pretty cool.

anais nin's little birds. to feed my filthy mind and boredom.

i tried to read that a few weeks ago but gave up about a quarter of the way into it.

flesh house- stuart macbride

long pig? it's what's for dinner!

Finished the collected Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories (1st & 2nd Book of Lankhmar) by Fritz Leiber.
I dunno what to read next, I buy too many books and then they pile up and then get forgotten about while reading something else and then I lose interest in them :(

i dont blame you, the thought crossed my mind a couple times. but i figured i would power through it.
did you ever read brave new world? that was a great book.

Yeah, I really liked brave new world. The Island just seemed to wander on for flippin ages. I really wanted to get into it but it just seemed to be a bloke on a beach, from what I could gather.

yeah thats a good summation of what ive read so far.

My book list to read:

Dracula - halfway done and slowly moving.
Good Omens by Gaiman
Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled - and More Miserable Than Ever Before
Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas
Monkey Bridge
Candide
Utopia
Ecstasy Club
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
Gideon (some novel that just sounded interesting, not some hidden gem)
A Christmas Carol(just cause)
Caffeine for the Creative Mind (some creativity stimulus book)
The Hardcore Diaries (3rd Mick Foley book)

took me a week but finally finished it tonight. great read. never would of guessed how it ended. metaphor for american society? i think so

reading:
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
gathering dust unread in the bookcase:
American Splendor - Harvey Pekar, various - I got this for a birthday or christmas a few years ago :\
Don Quixote - Cervantes - got to page 736 of 982 and gave up, it was a slog
Collected Short Stories, vol IV - Philip K. Dick - read some
The Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens - wanted to start on Dickens, picked wrong book
The Great Dune Trilogy - Frank Herbert - read Dune
The Complete Chronicles of Conan - Robert E. Howard - read the first ten short stories
Les Miserabes - Victor Hugo
The Garden Party (and other stories) - Katherine Mansfield - had this in year 11 literature, still haven't read it
Everyman's Library Tales of Mystery and Imagination - Edgar Allan Poe
Red Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson - been putting this off for years
Tierra del Fuego - Jennifer Strauss - same as Garden Party
to read pile:
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
Everyman's Library The Maltese Falcon/The Thin Man/Red Harvest - Dashiell Hammett
Everyman's Library The Dain Curse/The Glass Key/Selected Short Stories - Dashiell Hammett
The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
American Tabloid - James Ellroy
The Cold Six Thousand - James Ellroy
I plan on reading those last two when Bloods A Rover is released at the end of September.
I find it very hard to pick out 'modern' literature to read, I never know what to do or source to turn to :(

W.G Sebald - Rings Of Saturn

About halfway through this, not liking it as much as i did Austerlitz.

since quite a few of you are into science fiction, I might as well post this here...

At the Science Fiction Message Board, it is our ambition to have a thread for every notable science fiction author, bar none! We would particularly welcome your book reviews, links to relevant websites, personal reminiscences, cover scans, recommendations, and anything else that seems relevant. Discussion is always encouraged.

One of the main ways we add to our list is holding our annual "Author August" post-a-thon. This event, now in its 4th year, spotlights a different SF writer for every day of this hot summer month. To choose which authors to focus on, we need your assistance.

The list below shows all the authors we've added to our August assembly over the past few years. We'd like to add a few other names, old or new, for 2009. The names with an asterisk against them were covered in 2008, so we don't want to feature them again this year. Authors from previous years, however, are eligible for a reappearance if you've got somebody you would really like to discuss this August.

So, who do you want to see on our August 2009 roster? Let us know by posting in this Nomination Thread!

The only rule (besides that the authors should at least write some science fiction, of course!) is that after you have nominated an author, you should wait until another person has made the next nomination before you suggest another yourself.

In a couple of weeks we'll be posting a calendar showing who will be celebrated on each day of the month. We hope you will be able to drop by regularly to join in our month-long celebration of the people who make science fiction possible for us all to enjoy!

Douglas Adams
Brian W. Aldiss
Poul Anderson
Piers Anthony
Isaac Asimov
J. G. Ballard
* Iain M. Banks
* Elizabeth Bear
Greg Bear
Gregory Benford
Alfred Bester
* Lloyd Biggle Jr.
Leigh Brackett
* Ray Bradbury
Marion Zimmer Bradley
David Brin
Fredric Brown
* Rosel George Brown
John Brunner
Algis Budrys
Kenneth Bulmer
* Edgar Rice Burroughs
Octavia Butler
* Pat Cadigan
John W. Campbell
Orson Scott Card
C. J. Cherryh
* Arthur C. Clarke
Peter David
L. Sprague de Camp
* Storm Constantine
Samuel R. Delany
Phillip K. Dick
Gordon R. Dickson
Thomas M Disch
David Drake
Harlan Ellison
Phillip Jose Farmer
* Neil Gaiman
Hugo Gernsback
* William Gibson
Kathleen Ann Goonan
Edmond Hamilton
* Peter F. Hamilton
Harry Harrison
M. John Harrison
* Robert A. Heinlein
* Zenna Henderson
Frank Herbert
Nalo Hopkinson
Daniel Keyes
* Caitlin Kiernan
Damon Knight
C. M. Kornbluth
Nancy Kress
Henry Kuttner
* Keith Laumer
* Tanith Lee
* Ursula K. LeGuin
Fritz Leiber
Murray Leinster
* Stanislaw Lem
H. P. Lovecraft
* Katherine MacLean
Anne McCaffrey
* J.T. McIntosh
* Vonda McIntyre
Judith Merril
Pat Mills
Walter M. Miller, Jr
* Elizabeth Moon
* Michael Moorcock
C. L. Moore
Larry Niven
Andre Norton
Chad Oliver
Alexie Panshin
Marge Piercy
* H. Beam Piper
Frederik Pohl
Jerry Pournelle
Alastair Reynolds
Adam Roberts
Keith Roberts
Spider Robinson
Justina Robson
Joanna Russ
Eric Frank Russell
Fred Saberhagen
Nick Sagan
John Scalzi
Robert Sheckley
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Nevil Shute
Robert Silverberg
Clifford D. Simak
Cordwainer Smith
Norman Spinrad
Neal Stephenson
* Bruce Sterling
Sheri S Tepper
James Tiptree Jr. (Alice Sheldon)
Harry Turtledove
Jack Vance
* Jules Verne
* Joan D. Vinge
* Vernor Vinge
A. E. Van Vogt
Kurt Vonnegut
Howard Waldrop
Ian Watson
H. G. Wells
Walter Jon Williams
Jack Williamson
* Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
* Roger Zelazny

Is somebody important still missing! Nominate them NOW!

I don't see Gene Wolfe on that list.

again.



burroughs. i just adore him.

I thought it would've been

^ dude. that is so next on my list! no way i will ever get thru the actual pride & prejudice. but add zombies to anything and it makes everything better. :)