I am now currently reading Denying the Holocaust. The author is bashing those who claim it didn't happen. It's very eye-opening.

By the way, what's with all the Steven King fans? I can't read those kind of books...but to each his/her own.

Clive Cussler is the Dirk Pitt stories?

I'm currently reading Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity by Lawrence Lessig. ISBN: 0-14-303465-0
and the hard cover version (which I don't know why I bought both on Amazon; I thought they were different)

Free Culture - How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity - by Lawrence Lessig (ISBN: 1-59420-006-8)
Digital Copyright - by Jessica Litman (ISBN-10: 159102420-X ISBN-13: 978-159102420-0)
The Future of Ideas The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World - by Lawrence Lessig (ISBN: 0-375-726444-6)

noticing a pattern here?

Yup that's the one. I've read either 7 or 8 of 'em, don't remember right now.

Finished Diary by Chuck Palahniuk last night, so will be picking another one off my shelf tonight. I'm thinking that it's going to be either Misery by Stephen King, or Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins.

Liseys Storey, wasn't too bad, an enjoyable read. Though I do Have to say the mutilation of her chest.....well I had some problems getting through that part......Ouch!

At the moment I am reading a series that Grinler actually recommended quite a while back. Tad Williams - Memory, Sorrow and Thorn.
I'm up to book three and so far its very "I can't put this down. You want dinner?! Can't you see I'm reading?".

So thanks Grinler for this wonderful story.

I was lost that's why I read Opening to God by Thomas Green. Very enlightening book.

You are very welcome. It is an incredible series.

I just finished Ruins by Scott Smith. I did not think the book was great, but there was something about it that was very disturbing. I definitely had anxiety when reading it.

Well I finished "Running Blind" over the weekend. Good book, crappy ending. Now I have moved on to Sam Bourne's "The Righteous Men" Its a little slow for me but I need to read a slow book ever once and a while.

Oh, and I've quit reading my Linux books for the time being and moved on to "HTML and CSS in 24 hours" (expanding my horizons)

Moving on to more classical works now (as the last book I read,See post above, is hardly worth summarizing). I am now reading "The Tale of Genji" by Lady Murasaki Shikibu. It's toted as being the Worlds first novel.

Working for a Japanese Mega-carrier, I am currently reading "Die Kultur Japans" from Florian Coulmas (free translation: The culture of Japan).

Its from a small German publisher concentrating on specialised books, like law books, social and cultural, economical and the like. High reputation and "heavy food for thoughts", but very interesting.

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I'm reading "The Stone Dragon" by Australian author Peter Watts. He's Australia's answer to Wilbur Smith.

I just finished The Descent by Jeff Long and it was excellent.

I enjoyed it so much, in fact, that I may buy the sequel in hard cover. I hate hard covers.

Grinler, I share in your distaste for hardbacks, however I also abhor the small print in many "Mass Market Paperbacks" (those 6"x3" copies that are most prominent), while I usually read in Mass Market Paperbacks I prefer the "Trade Paperbacks" which are the same size as a Hardback. (2 pennies)



While Reading "The tale of Genji" (which I have come to find is no more than a series of short Romance Novella's) I have needed a break So I have read John Skipp's "The Long Last Call" and Stuart Woods' "Fresh Disasters". Both of which were good books and john Skipp introduced me to the world of "Splatterpunks"(a sub-genre of horror) which I must say I am enjoying.

Currently reading Lightning - Dean Koontz

On the night of Laura Shane's birth, a stranger appears from the lightning to prevent her delivery's being botched by an alcoholic physician. Throughout Laura's childhood the stranger reappears at times of danger. He protects rather than threatens, yet menace seems to follow him. Thirty years later another storm flashes and the stranger collapses, shot, at Laura's door. Now Laura protects her erstwhile guardian from mysterious hunters. He reveals that he and the hunters are time travelers. Laura, quick-witted and brave, leads the way to a bloody showdown. The paradox in time travel's tampering with history provides an interesting twist in this gripping thriller by a popular writer.