What was the last really good thing you read?

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Hmmm.....I just read a really good article in a new ahir magazine this morning. I guess that would be it.

"The Lovely Bones" by Alice Sebold

A chat thread with a boi..... about sushi..... that made me drool with delight

I finally read "Grapes of Wrath" - my kind of book.
But, the last thing would be any online article, news article, or trade magazine article. I love articles, ya see...

Well the really last good thing I read was part eight in the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich. I bought it and took it away on holiday. I was reading (and enjoying) it so quick I had to stop myself just to make it last the full week - I'd only taken the one book.

"Sophie's World". I just plain loved the intelligent simplicity of it. It's one of those sensitive fantasies that don't patronize children or bore adults...it never had a dull moment and reading it was an extraordinary experience.

A 2 page spread in the Sunday paper that basically said global warming? Global schwarming! It showed how ridiculous the notion is, printed graphs comparing global temperatures with greenhouse emissions that showed absolutely no correlation, alongside a graph of global temperatures compared to variations in solar radiation output that had almost perfect correlation. The author then proceeded to show how most green activists are ill informed malcontents who are simply looking for a way to fight the establishment and feel superior to people who don't believe the greenhouse gas hype. It was great!

Misery by Stephen King.

The book I'm reading now is really good--it's called Longing, by J.D. Landis, and it's about Clara and Robert Schumann. The last book I read was also really good: Motherless Brooklyn, by Jonathan Lethem, who is an excellent writer.

Oh, I've read that book. I loved it!

A very nice IM from a friend

I've just started a library book called "Stranger - Dark Tales of Eerie Encounters" edited by Michele Slung, 2002. So far it's quite good.

It was just after that novel that I stopped reading Stephen King. I think it was 'Delores Claybourne' that was the next one, right? Wasn't 'Misery' freakin' great though?! God, I remember when that cop came by and she...well, you know...how frustrated I was for that poor author.
I think the movie actually did that book justice, for once. It was sure well-cast.

A tag on a mattress which said it can only be removed by the owner. Will the mattress police arrest me if I remove the tag?

I'm just crazy about it. Didn't you love Sophie?

Probably "All Music Guide". I was just reading it a little while ago.

The Mattress Monitors' eyes are upon you!!!! (Imagine an echo sound effect with that, it's much better.)

An echo like the Church Lady got when she said 'Satan' or a less cheesy, more scary effect?

The CD insert for a White Zombie CD
and a T-Shirt that read:
I frighten my family

Reader's Digest.

More like the horrific reverberation of, say, the calm-defying music when that landshark we've been hearing about manages to enter under the guise of delivering a 'candygram'. That kind of scary.

We're talking old SNL here!

Yes it's great!
I just started reading King last year and I'm trying to read everything I find,the books before Misery were great,but I like books post-Misery too.

Well, I'm reading Stephen Jay Gould's "The Flamingo's Smile" (a collection of natural history/biology/geology/evolution essays) at the moment. Some of those essays are really fascinating. (While I'm on the subject, I was reading one of his essays about Noah's flood and it was interesting, so I did a search online to find out more. I turned up an essay by one BrianW. Any relation Brian?) I've also just started reading "The Book of Man" by Walter Bodmer and Robin McKie (sp?) which is all about genetics. I got it out of the library because I noticed that it was by the principal of the college in Oxford that I may be going to. I've only read the first chapter, but that's pretty good too.

The last thing that I finished reading was probably "Memoirs of a Geisha" which was good, but not as great as the hype had made it out to be.

I've read some great stuff here at SC too

One place that I'm *not* reading good stuff is in the folder where I keep a lot of my poetry. Ack! Sometimes when I read it, I just want to shred the lot for beinmg so bad

Not the one about the ants?

Actually, that's probably called "Sophie's Nest"......

I Don't Remember.

Every school child should be given it to read during the holidays as a beginners guide to philosophy. Sophie was so, I don't know, its like she kept a cool head in a surreal world. Great character depth.

http://members.lycos.co.uk/sophiesworld/
It is a must read - as recommended by confetti and myself. Need I say more!

No, and not "Sophie's Choice" either

That's exactly the next thing I was going to say to you. Ugh, we're doing it again...

Read whats that? lol Seriously I havent had time to sit down and read nothing lately.

Ah, I haven't even *heard* of that!

It will break your heart. So don't chase after it.

The Mahabharata

_Celtica_ (I can't remember the author) was an interesting read. The premise of the book is that Merlin was actually a supernatural being who has walked the earth from the beginning of time, and that he could weild magic at the cost of his near-immortality--the greater the magic he used, the greater the drain on his unusually powerful but finite life force. The first in a series, this book covers Merlin's travels with Jason and the Argonauts (as their sorceror) through his first adventures with a tribal leader from whom Arthur is descended. Interesting low- to mid-fantasy reading.

it would either be Super-Cannes by J.G. Ballard or a book on XML whose title I can't remember.

A fanfiction story.

Cute explanation text. The last great book I read was S-h-i-t Magnet by Jim Goad.

Transworld Skate Mag

A Brief History of Everything by Ken Wilber

An article in 'De Groene Amsterdammer' about Israeli historian Tom Segev.

Too bad Stephen Jay Gould died a few weeks ago. He was a fascinating man.

I know. I wish I'd come across his work before he died. I've already decided that I'm going to buy as many of his collections of essays that I can at reduced price. There are a couple on my university reading list. I have to read a couple of books by Richard Dawkins too so that should provide quite a different perspective!

I get emails almost everyday saying something about enlarging my penis. Seeing as I don't have a penis, I'd really like to know how they are going to do that.

Seriously, it would have to be The Painted House by John Grisham.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire... I'm still reading it.

Cujo

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I am reading Dune.

Oooo, 'Cujo'. I liked how he ended it so much more realistically than the producers decided to end the movie. Did you read 'Tommyknockers'? Another good one.
And 'Talisman' - great stuff, except I could have done without Straub in there, it was weird reading two authors at once. (Wasn't that the book that King and Straub both wrote?) They're both great separately though - I loved 'Ghost Story' by Straub.
Well, I'll bet you sure didn't bid for all this with your one-syllabled answer above, did you? (Sorry, it's been a while since I've been online and I'm flowing at the mouth.)

I'm reading "Humboldt's Gift" by Saul Bellow, who I always thought would be insipid. Turns out he's really good! Who woulda thunk it?

An e-mail from my best friend.

One of Jemmy's comments on a survey I was reading a few minutes ago. It was beautiful

"The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman

"One Star-lit night, millions of years ago, legend has it that a falling star showered it's rich nutrient-rich stones over an area that would later become known as the vinyards of stellato.

Found on the lable of a bottle of Merlot.

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Dune is an Enthralling book. Have you seen the Sci-Fi Channel movie?

I have seen the DeLaurentis version and I plan to rent the SciFi channel version.

you will find it a far more accurate rendition.

I have been told that.

While I was in Europe in July I read a Tom Robbins book called "Skinny Legs and All." I really dig Robbins; his novels tread the line between prose and poetry. He plays with language a lot. Also, the stories are so off the wall they crack me up. Since then I have been reading Ludlum's Bourne series (gotta keep up with the pop culture ya'know?) The Bourne Identity the movie is quite a bit different from the book. I love to compare movies to the books they are based on. I just finished the 3rd book today, so now I need to hunt for something new to read. I didn't think the Ludlum books were *good* but enjoyed them as fluff reading. Hopefully I'll get some ideas from the survey

I just saw Tom Robbin's wife yesterday at the grocery store here in the town where I live. Her name is Alexa and she is a lovely lady. I worked as a production assistant on an independent film she had a part in called Counting Days. We had lunch together on the set and talked about pets. They live nearby in LaConner, Washington.

Did you know that Tom Robbins uses an odd writing technique. He actually writes and edits one word at a time. It might take him all day to write one sentence. He doesn't outline or plan ahead he just sits and writes whatever comes to mind....one word at a time.....editing as he goes. Bizarre! and very cool.

Aw, you thought one of my comments was beautiful? I'm so flattered, thank you!

That's funny, I always assumed Tom Robbins was gay...

whoa...

newspaper

Hmm, don't know