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Phantom - Terry Goodkind

The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway

Hemingway is my anti Stephen King, his books start out slow but I love the endings.

I'm reading Choke, by Chuck Palahniuk. I just finished The Maltese Falcon, by Dashiell Hammett.

Bio book. I have a test tomorrow. Geck. And also lab notes, for I also have a lab practical tomorrow. Joy.

How much time do you have? Umm...

-All in One CompTIA A+ Certification Exam Guide by Mike Meyers
-All in One CompTIA Network+ Certification Exam Guide, also by Mike Meyers
-Sam's Teach Yourself: Networking by Joe Habraken and Matt Hayden
-TCP/IP Jumpstart: Internet Protocol Basics by Andrew G. Blank
-Workbook 10. Network Applications of Red Hat Academy 030: Linux Essentials
-How Linux Works: What Every Superuser Should Know by Brian Ward
-Sam's Teach Yourself Unix (Second Edition) by Dave Taylor and James C. Armstrong

I've also got a copy of Sam's Teach Yourself: Web Publishing with HTML and CSS that I thumb through for reference on occasion (this Sam guy really knows hit s***...)

And when I become convinced I can't cram any more information into my head (I get this feeling just about every day), I have my faithful copy of Douglas Adams' The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Short Story...


Before anyone jumps in to point out that I can't possibly be reading all of this at once, my reply is, I do so only a little at a time, but yes, I am currently reading through all of these books slowly but surely.

Chuck Palahniuk's Guts short story on his website gives me nightmares

Nitrodist wrote:

Chuck Palahniuk's Guts short story on his website gives me nightmares

As much as I'm enjoying Choke, I don't think I dare look at his website while at work.

Currently reading The Hobbit with my daughter and Boomsday with myself.

VB.Net in a nutshell (ORLY)
Actionscript 3.0 by "I can't remember but it's good so far"
20,000 leagues under the seas, again, for the millionth time.
God, the Failed Hypothesis.

Cybermancy - Kelly McCullough

Feet of Clay - Terry Pratchett

2 school books, one on XP Pro and one A+ prep.

When I'm done with the two fiction books, I'll probably start Diamond Age again and finally finish it.

The Road by Cormac McCarthy - quite depressing

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner

and school Philosophy book

Children of Dune when I can. Mostly though books for classes... sadface...

Look at My Striped Shirt!

I'm teaching a couple of graduate e-campus courses and have been reading lots of badly written student essays.

Guns, Germs, and Steel

Sproul's Chosen by God

Looking for Knowledge wrote:

Guns, Germs, and Steel

How is it? I saw the PBS series on this, which was pretty good, and figured I should read the book.

Slant - Greg Bear

Just started The Count of Monte Cristo.

Looking for Knowledge wrote:

Guns, Germs, and Steel

Good book, but it took me forever to finish it.

Right now I am reading Damien by Herman Hesse again because it is a great book.

Isaac Asimov - Foundation and Earth

Just finished:
The Credit Crisis of 2008 and what it means- George Soros

Currently Reading- VERY S-L-O-W:

Good calories bad calories.

Looking for Knowledge wrote:

Guns, Germs, and Steel

awesome book.

im reading The Long Emergency by James Howard Kunstler
we are running out of oil. and soon the world is going to have to drastically change how we do things.
(but this guy was also ranting about the y2k virus haha)
its interesting stuff

Inkling wrote:

Looking for Knowledge wrote:

Guns, Germs, and Steel

How is it? I saw the PBS series on this, which was pretty good, and figured I should read the book.

As a couple previous posters stated, it's a good read.

I enjoy learning, and that's a big part of this book for me. For example, I learned about seeds yesterday. A large percentage of wild almonds contain a lethal amount of cyanide, some seeds need to pass through an animal's digestive track to germinate, etc.

It all just reminds me that humans are another species on this planet and like the rest we need to move, die, or adapt to our ever changing environment(s). Survivors are not always the strongest or the most advanced....and sometimes survival means the eradication of another life-form.

Nitrodist wrote:

Chuck Palahniuk's Guts short story on his website gives me nightmares

I read Chuck Palahniuk's "RANT" in between chapters on Guns, Germs, and Steel. It was smaller and made for a better travel book.

It's a fun read too. I love Chuck's books. Sick and twisted at its best. I hear they made Choke into a movie and are maybe working on Invisible Monsters. Choke and Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake are two of my all time favorite novels. I'm sad when books like those end.

Learning to See Creatively by Bryan Peterson.

Started another one.

How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie.

Surprisingly good advice, I would recommend it to anyone.

Before They Are Hanged, by Joe Abercrombie. It's his second in a series. Very good.

Dawn by Tim Lebbon and when thats finished (another 40 pages or so) Fallen, also by Tim Lebbon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchh ... the_Galaxy

I am currently reading all in one part of this novel.. BEST BOOK EVER READ