So, what are y'all reading besides the board here?

I love comic books, but being broke means I'm not reading much new comics. And Ocala's library is seriously lacking in their selection of graphic novels. Jacksonville's library had a really good stock of trades.

I just started "Do Sleeping Androids Dream of Electric Sheep"
just finished "Post Office" by Charles Bukowski
before that was "Libra" by Don DeLillo

Well you know I love the comics. I of course also really like photography books.

Bukowski is just about on of the only authors that doesn't put me to sleep. Not because everyone else is boring but because I have some sort of weird dyslexia making it very hard for me to read for extended periods. Usually just frustrates me or puts me to sleep.

Topics that keep me awake:

Human and Animal Abnormalities
Unexplained Mysteries/Strange Phenomena
Circus Life/Freak Shows
Urban Myths/Folklore
Cryptozoology
True Crime/Crime Encyclopedia
Forensics/Death Scenes
Tattoo/Body Mod History
Medical History
Pinup Photography/Art
Vintage Cars
Horror Effects/Techniques
Books About Diff Movie Genres (go figure)

And pretty rainbows, uh...you get the idea.

In the last two months I've read:


Off The Map (CrimethINC letters series)
Half-Life (Shelley Jackson)
Cat's Cradle (Kurt Vonnegut)
Fight Club (Chuck Palhaniuck)


and I'm currently reading Zen and the Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig.

how is "Zen and the art" ? i was never quite sure, is it a novel, or more like essays and shit?

Rock on. I've had a lot of free isolated time to read these past few months:

Bluebeard and also Slaughterhouse (Vonnegut)
The God Delusion (Dawkins)
Memory of Running (McLarty)
The Good Fight (Nader)
The Art of the Infinite (Kaplan) <== math book--i'm a nerd.

I'm also unfortunately wasting too much time studying for my FE exam.

finished up "The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World" by AJ Jacobs, it was awesome. true story from a guy who reads the entire encyclopedia and then keeps a diary during the whole thing. I learned a lot of stupid shit.
now I'm picking up his other book "The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible" title alone sounds awesome.

stuff that I've read some part of and eventually plan on finishing:
"The Tipping Point" - Malcolm Gladwell (only got a chapter or so left)
"It's Not About The Truth" - Don Yaeger
"Five C's of Cinematography" - Joseph Mascelli
"I Am America and So Can You" - Colbert
"Final Cut Pro 6 User Manual" shit is fucking huge
also been flipping through a book with a lot of Banksy's work in it, guy is fucking genius.

I've heard of both these books, think I saw interviews about both of them on the Today Show. Didn't realize they were the same guy.

i just picked up I Have Fun Everywhere I Go, Savage Tales of Pot, Porn, Punk Rock, Pro Wrestling, Talking Apes, Evil Bosses, Dirty Blues, American Heroes, and the Most Notorious Magazines in the World by mike edison

it's already an amazing read

Fucking mouthful on the title!!

recently read:

the plague - camus
misquoting jesus - can't remember...not trendy athiest hipster stuff, just an authors take on the history of the bible and how it got changed thru the years

reading now: terror and liberalism - paul something. interesting history of islam...so far.

waiting on: evolution of a cromagnon - john joseph. im trying to blow thru my current book so i can read this

after that: exile and the kindgom (first press!!!!) - camus

then i got a whole bunch of books about politics, satan, and some other somewhat related stuff.

Vonnegut is the man, but this makes me realize I've been slacking off. I'm putzing around in Lexicon Devil and putting off finishing The Man With the Golden Arm but really I just want to read some more Vonnegut.

i just finished Zen and the Art of.... right now, i'd say it's my favorite book ever. the beginning is a bit laboring to get through but when it gets into its pace it's really good.

i really really enjoyed it. it's a non-fiction recounting of the author's trip with his son through the dakotas, montana, washington, and then to california as he tries to explain his attempt to merge eastern and western philosophy through their 'creator' (in his opinion): Quality.

starting this past summer i've read:

Invincible by Cristy Road
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pursig
Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk
Florida Roadkill by Tim Dorsey
Play the Piano drunk like a percussion instrument by Bukowski
Rant by Chuck Palahniuk
Crash by J.G. Ballard
The Brave Cowboy by Edward Abbey
My Life in a Jugular Vein by Ben Snakepit
various zines
Razorcake up to issue #45 (the Leatherface cover)


currently i'm alternating between:

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
and
Nigger by Randall Kennedy

I'm not too much of a reader but I like to always be in the process of reading . I just finished Hardcore Zen by Brad Warner and I've been reading the ginormous People's History Of The United States by Howard Zinn for a couple months. I think my next purchase is going to relate to the Spanish inquisition or the Black Panthers. I may also further my reading of Zen Buddhism. It's a novel idea but I'm not entirely convinced.