at the moment i'm alternating between Augusten Burrough'sDry" & David Sedari's "Me Talk Pretty One Day" & i'm looking forward to Jen Sylvania's forthcoming novel which is already getting a lot of attention.

any recommendations? i like non-fiction.

[Edited on Feb 22, 2005 by LittleRedWriter]

a548456

United Kingdom

OLD SKOOL

FEB 22, 2005 10:53 AM

I'm currently reading Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, and I'd always reccomend Luke Rheinhard's The Dice Man.

[Edited on Feb 22, 2005 by Spike]

PeetyMcGee

New York, NY

November 2003

FEB 22, 2005 10:59 AM

The Prince of Providence: The True Story of Buddy Cianci, America's Most Notorious Mayor, Some Wiseguys, and the Feds
by Mike Stanton

ms_n_thrope

Columbia, MO

August 2004

FEB 22, 2005 11:02 AM

i started reading 'neverwhere' by neil gaiman on the plane over here for the third time. since then i've either been too lazy to read or just not in the mood when it was within reach.

emilygee

Chicago, IL

December 2003

FEB 22, 2005 11:04 AM

Right now:

A Thousand Plateaus - Capitalism and Schizophrenia

I would highly recommend it.

crucified

Germany

January 2004

FEB 22, 2005 11:08 AM

just finished ´Media Control´ by Noam Chomsky

_DictionaryGirl_

NEWSWIRE

San Diego, CA

FEB 22, 2005 11:08 AM

At this very moment, for my Euro History class:

Russett, Cynthia Eagle. 1989. Sexual Science: The Victorian Construction of Womanhood. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.

It's actually a lot more interesting than it sounds. People believed some really fucked up things about gender and race back in the day...

everytingends

Canada

December 2004

FEB 22, 2005 11:09 AM

LittleRedWriter said:
at the moment i'm alternating between Augusten Burrough'sDry" & David Sedari's "Me Talk Pretty One Day" & i'm looking forward to Jen Sylvania's forthcoming novel which is already getting a lot of attention.

any recommendations? i like non-fiction.

[Edited on Feb 22, 2005 by LittleRedWriter]

I've read dry, I enjoyed it. I found it got a little slow in the middle, but the ending is great

Trucker_Fiction

Normal, IL

December 2003

FEB 22, 2005 11:17 AM

jstone

Victoria, BC

November 2004

FEB 22, 2005 11:19 AM

I just finished Niel Gaimans american gods, pretty good.

beaky

Miami, FL

April 2003

FEB 22, 2005 11:24 AM

Enfant_Terrible said:
I think everybody should read...

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Linda Brent

Linda Brent was a slave in North Carolina and it is her narrative of what she experienced from her first memories to old age. Great, yet heart wrenching, book.

It is a fast read, and I mean it when I say, everybody should read it.

I'm just surprised that you read....

Oh snap....

Clover

SUICIDEGIRL

USA

FEB 22, 2005 11:26 AM

Plague: The Mysterious Past and Terrifying Future of The World's Most Dangerous Disease

beaky

Miami, FL

April 2003

FEB 22, 2005 11:30 AM

Enfant_Terrible said:

beaky said:

I'm just surprised that you read....

Oh snap....

HAHA...hahahaha....ha....eh...

SOOOOOO, no suggestion from you then? No, no, no...put down the comic book, those don't count...anything else?

American Gods (Neil Gaiman), The Parsifal Mosaic (Robert Ludlum)

Shal

Los Angeles, CA

October 2002

FEB 22, 2005 11:31 AM

Currently reading:
Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
Eva Luna by Isabelle Allende

Just ordered:
Kingdom of Fear by Hunter S. Thompson
We Are Three by Rumi

Going to finish:
Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present one of these days.

[Edited on Feb 22, 2005 by Shalome]

Cash

USA

OLD SKOOL

FEB 22, 2005 11:34 AM

right now:

1. Caught Inside: A Surfer's Year on the California Coast by Daniel Duane
2. Lamb by Christopher Moore
3. re-reading 'Tis by Frank McCourt

I like to have a few books going at once so I don't get too bored.

Shal

Los Angeles, CA

October 2002

FEB 22, 2005 11:35 AM

Enfant_Terrible said:

Shalome said:
Going to finish:
Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present one of these days.

[Edited on Feb 22, 2005 by Shalome]

1492-Present!? What the hell? Are you reading highschool text books?

Sort of. Although I'd love to find the school district that taught from Howard Zinn's textbooks. I'm pretty sure that just about anywhere in the US, if you tried to teach from them, you'd get fired by the school board immediately.

Check it out sometime.

[Edited on Feb 22, 2005 by Shalome]

Meeks

Canada

November 2004

FEB 22, 2005 11:44 AM

100 years of Solitude... and too many textbooks

_DictionaryGirl_

NEWSWIRE

San Diego, CA

FEB 22, 2005 11:53 AM

Enfant_Terrible said:

dictionary_girl said:
At this very moment, for my Euro History class:

Russett, Cynthia Eagle. 1989. Sexual Science: The Victorian Construction of Womanhood. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.

It's actually a lot more interesting than it sounds. People believed some really fucked up things about gender and race back in the day...

Have you read Religion and the Decline of Magic, Keith Thomas?
I really liked it, and it has pretty interesting/funny descriptions of superstitions and gender specific beliefs, as they were accepted in 16th and 17th Century England. Some are still believed or, at the least, used in language today.

Hysterical!!(this specific word choice is a pun for those who get it)

Bahahahahaha hysterical indeed! I would check ...Decline of Magic out, but modern phrenological science tells me that my childlike girly mind is too soft and chewy to read books written by men. Now, good sir, please excuse me while I check into the Freudian clinic so that my skeezy middle-aged psychiatrist can "relieve" me of my "womanly hysterics" in a controlled and orderly fashion. I can't be late; he always looks so thrilled when I get there and he snaps those rubber gloves on...