Anyone a avid Reader?

[Ack]

We actually have this thread every five months or so. I recently finished a collection of Robert E. Howard's Conan stories, The Bloody Crown of Conan. I'm really glad they're re-releasing these things, as I've never been able to check them out before.

Those books are awesome dude. I bought the three hc versions from SFBC plus the Kull one. The Kull book is worth checking out if you have not yet.

I'd been wondering about Kull. I'll give it a look the next time I get a chance, thanks.

[link343]

wow your a junior high student with a Mystery Science Theatre avatar, that show was cancelled probably when you were 3 or 4...well done

Sir, I must correct you. I am not in Junior high, but I am (now was) a Junior in High School (or 11th grade). I am going into my Senior year in September. And yes, that is a mst3k avatar. I think I was 8 when the show was canceled. That makes me 18 sir. And would you let a 7th or 8th (maybe even 9th) grader read Lord of the Flies?

Sorry, but I just felt like correcting you. Back on topic now. Has anyone read If Chins Could Kill? I was thinking about picking up for a read, I wanted to know if it was a good read.

[Mod_Man_Extreme]

wow your a junior high student with a Mystery Science Theatre avatar, that show was cancelled probably when you were 3 or 4...well done

Sir, I must correct you. I am not in Junior high, but I am (now was) a Junior in High School (or 11th grade). I am going into my Senior year in September. And yes, that is a mst3k avatar. I think I was 8 when the show was canceled. That makes me 18 sir. And would you let a 7th or 8th (maybe even 9th) grader read Lord of the Flies?

Sorry, but I just felt like correcting you. Back on topic now. Has anyone read If Chins Could Kill? I was thinking about picking up for a read, I wanted to know if it was a good read.

Anything with Bruce in it is fantastic, period.

[zarathstra]

wow your a junior high student with a Mystery Science Theatre avatar, that show was cancelled probably when you were 3 or 4...well done

Sir, I must correct you. I am not in Junior high, but I am (now was) a Junior in High School (or 11th grade). I am going into my Senior year in September. And yes, that is a mst3k avatar. I think I was 8 when the show was canceled. That makes me 18 sir. And would you let a 7th or 8th (maybe even 9th) grader read Lord of the Flies?

Sorry, but I just felt like correcting you. Back on topic now. Has anyone read If Chins Could Kill? I was thinking about picking up for a read, I wanted to know if it was a good read.

I'm pretty sure I read Lord of the Flies in 9th grade English.

[jfrost]

I've been slacking with my reading lately, but usually I read quite a bit. I've been on and off for the last few months reading A Mencken Chrestomathy, which is great.

Unlike most video game geeks, I don't like science-fiction. There might be one or another work I may appreciate, but overall I don't the genre. I do read some fantasy once in a while, but it's not something I'm overly enthusiastic about either. As to what I like, give me any book by P.G. Wodehouse or Mark Twain. I also like Oscar Wilde, Bernard Shaw, Charles Dickens, Anton Chekov, Fyodor Dostoievsky, Salinger, José Saramago, and some others, what makes me look like some sort of literary elitist.

Other than fiction, I read a ton of books about politics (political theory, mostly) and economics. My shelf is filled with free market anarchist literature.

Finally, if this counts, I also read a lot, probably too much, manga. Right now I'm catching up with One Piece (I'll also watch the whole run of the anime later). And I think that's it.

[OldSchool_Boy]

The Road

[Haoie]

I read everything.

But mostly, free etexts from Project Gutenburg, I read those at work. Yay sneakiness.

[Funk, E]

I read a book or three a week. Various genres, sometimes reference books or how-to manuals, sometimes sci-fi or thrillers. Whatever strikes my fancy at the time.

[Octopod]

I'm currently reading After the Ice: A Global Human History 20,000 - 5,000 BC.

[wip3outguy7]

Mostly reading cyberpunk. This year I've read through Gibson's "Sprawl" trilogy (Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive), Stephenson's Snow Crash, Stross's Haulting State, Strickland's Looking Glass and I'm currently reading through Stross's Atrocity Archives (not really cyberpunk).

All of the above I would highly recommend. Well, save for Snow Crash. I know a lot of people who preach this one as essential cyberpunk but I didn't care for it. It had some good ideas but Stephenson didn't pull those ideas together, IMO.

I have read novels in other genres this year but I would have to check my bookshelf to remember. I'm on again off again reading through Max Brooks's World War Z.