What are you reading?

[sir archely]

you own books you haven't read?!?

~faints~

[night faerie]

yeah, I own books I've read, I've halfread, I've been meaning to read, I probably wont ever get around to reading but feel that I should read, and I've read so long ago I've forgotten half of them and therefore they go back on the 'been meaning to read' list.

Yeah, I know, I'm a spazz.

[Apoc]

I'm reading Cloud Of Sparrows by Takashi Matsuoka...ummm yeah...not my thing so far...its more a romance than a samurai book. I'll read it a bit more....but as a back up I have War and Peace.

Wow....Cload of Sparrows....yeah...wow.

Just finished reading it. Though the beginnings a bit iffy it just evolves so amazingly into this great story of samurai, ninja's, geisha's, cowboys....yeah cowboys...so cool. I didn't really like Emily but apart from her it was such a cool read.

Shigeru, Genji's mad uncle is just sooo cool. Never have I come across such a cool character, Mathew Stark...the cowboy..is also really cool, but wow. The endings a bit but other than that it was really .... ummm .... ummmm ...cool

[Anita Blake]

yeah, I own books I've read, I've halfread, I've been meaning to read, I probably wont ever get around to reading but feel that I should read, and I've read so long ago I've forgotten half of them and therefore they go back on the 'been meaning to read' list.

oooh!! me too! i think i just sometimes buy books on sale but then i'm reading somethign else and am never really "in the mood" for the sale books which just keep getting pushed to the back of the shelf where i forget about them for a few years and then one day am cleaning up and go "hey! what's this?! i don't remember reading this! i shoudl read it!" and then i do and think "wow, now i know why i never read that before" or else, "i can't believe i let that sit there for so long!".

[Arianna]

oh, i have so many books on my shelf i havent read yet...some are borrowed (eternally, mwahhaha) and others i bought on sale.

now i'm reading another Stephen King (i swear, i go through King phases where i read like 3 or 4 of his and then none for months) so, the Talisman...its set in present about a kid who can travel into an alternate reality called the territories, and he has to accomplish this big quest...pretty good so far.

[sir archely]

owning books you haven't read is Wrong and Evil.

[wiggin]

Very true, arch, very true. The total number of books I own and have not read is vanishingly small. There are a few isolated cases, though... someone gave me a copy of the "Youngling", and I could never get into it.

Ender

[sir archely]

okay, i will agree, there are exceptions to the rule. for hs graduation, someone bought me this awful "millenium" something or other piece of crap book. i own it, but i think it's busy collecting dust under my couch or something.

[Apoc]

I'm currently reading, Hagakure: The Book Of The Samurai.

Hagakure meaning Way of the Leaves, is a manual for the Samurai classes consisting of a series of short anecdotes and reflections that give both insight and instruction in the philosophy and code of behaviour that foster the true spirit of Bushido-The Way of the Warrior.

It is not a book of philosophy but rather a collection of thoughts and sayings recorded over a period of seven years, and as such covers a wide variety of subjects, often in no particular sequence.

I am currently about half way through and so far I am finding it incredibly intriguing but at the same time saddening, as this "Way" is now extinct from our modern lives, and I am finding it makes a weird kinda sense to me.

Very deep, it is....as yoda would say

[Dregs]

The Origin of the Species: Charles Darwin. Its such a simple theory, and it revolutionised science and society that I don't think has been seen since.

[QuirkyTemplate]

Closing of the American Mind: Allan Bloom. Take that cultural relativism!

[LaughingTurtle]

Haven't started just yet, but my bro has gotten me hooked on starting Snow Crash by Neal Stephensen.

How has he gotten me hooked? Read this review and find out

From the opening line of his breakthrough cyberpunk novel Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson plunges the reader into a not-too-distant future. It is a world where the Mafia controls pizza delivery, the United States exists as a patchwork of corporate-franchise city-states, and the Internet--incarnate as the Metaverse--looks something like last year's hype would lead you to believe it should. Enter Hiro Protagonist--hacker, samurai swordsman, and pizza-delivery driver. When his best friend fries his brain on a new designer drug called Snow Crash and his beautiful, brainy ex-girlfriend asks for his help, what's a guy with a name like that to do? He rushes to the rescue. A breakneck-paced 21st-century novel, Snow Crash interweaves everything from Sumerian myth to visions of a postmodern civilization on the brink of collapse. Faster than the speed of television and a whole lot more fun, Snow Crash is the portrayal of a future that is bizarre enough to be plausible

[Dregs]

Haven't started just yet, but my bro has gotten me hooked on starting Snow Crash by Neal Stephensen.

How has he gotten me hooked? Read this review and find out

From the opening line of his breakthrough cyberpunk novel Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson plunges the reader into a not-too-distant future. It is a world where the Mafia controls pizza delivery, the United States exists as a patchwork of corporate-franchise city-states, and the Internet--incarnate as the Metaverse--looks something like last year's hype would lead you to believe it should. Enter Hiro Protagonist--hacker, samurai swordsman, and pizza-delivery driver. When his best friend fries his brain on a new designer drug called Snow Crash and his beautiful, brainy ex-girlfriend asks for his help, what's a guy with a name like that to do? He rushes to the rescue. A breakneck-paced 21st-century novel, Snow Crash interweaves everything from Sumerian myth to visions of a postmodern civilization on the brink of collapse. Faster than the speed of television and a whole lot more fun, Snow Crash is the portrayal of a future that is bizarre enough to be plausible

Wow, that sounds like something I'd like to read.

[Amos]

me too, dregsy *steals book*

*e-book thief*

[night faerie]

ooh, me too. Excellent, I'm on the last Anita Blake book and I need something to ease me through withdrawal.

By the way, now, not only am I dreaming of vampires and lycanthropes and conspiracies, my dreams now begin like regular dreams, and then slowly degenerate into text, so I'm actually reading large segments of my dreams now. WEIRD.