watchya readin'?

[pmwasson]

I've been plowing through audio books this year, finishing one week or so.

I've recently read almost everything written by SF author Greg Egan. Even though I love his work its hard to recommend as it is a very particular taste.

I'm currently reading Neal Stephenson's new book: Fall; Or, Dodge in Hell: A Novel. I'm quite enjoying it, especially the religious analogies in a digital afterlife.

[MRP]

I've been keeping track of books I read this year for the most part (prose, not graphic novels-I've currently read 50 collected edition trades or OGN so far this year), and after I finished the D&D Art and Arcana book (that I mentioned in my last post in this thread) a few days after New Years, I've been reading mostly old pulp and sci-fi novels...


-Conan of Cimmeria by Robert E. Howard, Lin Carter and L. Sprague de Camp
-Frazetta Sketchbook Vol. 2 by J. David Spurlock & Frank Frazetta
-Blackhawk by William Rotsler
-Conan the Freebooter by Robert E. Howard & L. Sprague de Camp
-Conan the Wanderer by Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp & Lin Carter
-Tarzan #4: Son of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs
-Gateway by Frederik Pohl
-The Avenger Vol. 1 Justice, Inc. by Kenneth Robeson
-The Executioner Book One: War Against the Mafia by Don Pendleton
-Doc Savage, Man of Bronze by Kenneth Robeson
-The Guns of Avalon by Roger Zelazny

currently I am making my way through the first Fu Manchu novel, The Mystery of Dr. Fu Manchu by Sax Rohmer.

-M

[B-Lister]

Star Trek Memories by William Shatner

[Donkey Hoatie]

Just picked these up. I've read/loved Camus' The Stranger and The Plague, so I'm looking forward to starting The Fall. Gonna' follow him up with a writer I'd never heard about before: Raymond Carver. A buddy of mine at work, who is also into Bukowski, recommended that I check out Carver's Cathedral, so I found this collection which includes it.

As a HUGE Raymond Carver fan, I'm glad to see you giving him a go. I've read everything he ever published, multiple times. The book right there is about 90% of his life's work. Sure, there are earlier versions of stories in collections like Furious Seasons, and Near Klamath (which is pretty much impossible to find), but you'll get the meat of it all with that one book in your hands. Curious to see if any of the other stories strike your fancy, and if they are the same ones that really get to me. Enjoy the journey.

[J.B.]

Just picked these up. I've read/loved Camus' The Stranger and The Plague, so I'm looking forward to starting The Fall. Gonna' follow him up with a writer I'd never heard about before: Raymond Carver. A buddy of mine at work, who is also into Bukowski, recommended that I check out Carver's Cathedral, so I found this collection which includes it.

[Mr.Marion]

I do most of my reading at work during breaks and lunch. Finished Hunter Thompson's stint with the Hell's Angels and am halfway done with his shenanigans in Vegas. Gonna' finish it up with some Buk.

When I first saw Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas on the big screen, I had never heard of Hunter and was completely lost in the movie, but did have a big laugh, and still do to this day when I see it on YouTube, at the "Too Much Adrenochrome" scene.

I used to have that F&L poster in my dorm room. I think it bombed at the box office even has a sub-50% rotten tomatoes score if you can imagine that. Either way it's an imaginative film and definitely a passion project for Johnny Depp, he still talks about it.

[apes3978]

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[apes3978]

Currently reading "Infinite Tuesday" by Michael Nesmith

[MRP]

Picked up this hefty tome while at Target Mego hunting this afternoon. It was going to go on my Christmas list, but my wife and I saw it and took it home with us. I have been flipping through it travelling down memory lane since...



-M

[palitoy]

Viddy well, my Brothers. Just arrived today. My first hardcover version of this masterpiece. Ultra Violence, here I come.

In college, i did a (probably terrible) paper on this book, i must confess, I really didn't finish the book back then. I feel like reading it now just out of penance.

It still haunts me, I even saw my prof at SDCC a while back and ducked him out.

Currently reading: When by Daniel Pink
I grabbed this book mainly because I'll read any of Pink's efforts, he makes psychology fun!

[pmwasson]

Not to get too political, but I just finished reading "Utopia for Realists" and really enjoyed it:

After working all day at jobs we often dislike, we buy things we don't need. Rutger Bregman, a Dutch historian, reminds us it needn't be this way-and in some places it isn't.

[Donkey Hoatie]

Oh cool, I've got their other book "Decisive" on my nightstand right now but I'll seek out "made to stick" on your recommendation, thanks!

To be fair, I work as a creative in advertising/marketing, so Made to Stick definitely resonated more with me from a career standpoint. But, the lessons in there are far-reaching for anyone with any type of entrepreneurial standpoint. Or, at least as far as I remember. I mean, I did read it like a decade ago. You would have think the content would have stuck. Uh, oh. Maybe I shouldn't have recommended it!

[palitoy]

It's been a number of years, but I remember Switch being pretty good. Not as good as Made to Stick, but still well worth reading. I need to check out their other books from more recent years.

Oh cool, I've got their other book "Decisive" on my nightstand right now but I'll seek out "made to stick" on your recommendation, thanks!

[Mongoose1983]

Now reading this one. Fast and easy reading, and filled with some incredible stories and recollections.
Highly recommended to anybody interested in Sabbath and the birth and development of the Heavy Metal culture and musical genre.

[Donkey Hoatie]

Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard, by Chip Heath

I have trouble putting it down lately.

It's been a number of years, but I remember Switch being pretty good. Not as good as Made to Stick, but still well worth reading. I need to check out their other books from more recent years.