What book are you currently reading?

Just finished Dune Messiah. I also was trying to get through Neuromancer, but i couldnt understand what was going on.

Emily Dickinson " Quest Perception ".
O.T Bible book - Book of Jeremiah.

Batman & Me by Bob Kane

Stan Lee and the Rise & Fall of the American Comic Book by Jordan Raphael & Tom Spurgeon

Rat Girl by Kristin Hersh ( memoir from Throwing Muses leader)

Hadley wrote:

Just finished Dune Messiah. I also was trying to get through Neuromancer, but i couldnt understand what was going on.

I got rid of Neuromancer and never finished it because of Gibson's overly vague and implicit prose. You should check out Burning Chrome instead, if you haven't. It was his first short story collection based in the same world as Neuromancer and much better as it covered more ideas without the bullshit that Neuromancer had.

Anyways, I'm reading the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, Japanese language stuff, and (trying) Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, but it seems to be much more sluggish than even The Hobbit, which I actually liked. I really enjoy reading, especially challenging material, but only if the material is very interesting to me personally. Finding so many books that are not for me and having come off a habit of reading in the past for all the wrong reasons has made me hate both fiction and non-fiction. Regardless of whether it's supposedly educational, it can only benefit as much as I'm willing to exercise the use of that knowledge or be projected into a field that demands it. I don't need books like The Diary of Anne Frank, The Souls of Black Folk, or even Wiesel's Night to tell me that racism and the holocaust are bad. Some thoughtful reflections throughout these otherwise boring books, but common sense and natural wisdom makes them a bit superfluous to me. I honest don't mess with fiction at all these days except video games and only the ones that aren't so invested in the story. I don't care for movies, television, novels, or cinematic games like Heavy Rain or Uncharted.

I'm reading Deeply Odd, by Dean Koontz. Trying to finish up this series.

Neat and Tidy - The Story of Neat Records by John Tucker.

brokentulsa wrote:

Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops (The lost toys, trends and taste of the 70s & 80s) by Gael Cooper

This sounded like fun so I'm reading it now as well. Bringing back some memories!

Witchfinder wrote:

Neat and Tidy - The Story of Neat Records by John Tucker.

Just started this.

Punk Rock Blitzkrieg: My Life as a Ramone by Marky Ramone - I'm about 1/3 of the way thru it already, very cool read thus far.

Eyesore wrote:

I'm reading Deeply Odd, by Dean Koontz. Trying to finish up this series.

I think he needs to stop milking this Odd Thomas series and move on to something else.

Newsflash: Saint Odd is the last book in the series. Reading it now. "Milking"? It was intended as a seven-novel series. Oddly enough (pun intended), SA is book seven.

Right now:

Underneath It All by Traci Lords

On deck:

Comic Wars: How Two Tycoons Battled Over the Marvel Comics Empire ... and Both Lost! by Dan Raviv

Medieval Torture Device wrote:

Newsflash: Saint Odd is the last book in the series.  Reading it now. "Milking"? It was intended as a seven-novel series.  Oddly enough (pun intended), SA is book seven.

Well that's Odd...    

I thought he just didn't have any new ideas.

Just finished:
Anti-Rock: The Opposition to Rock N Roll by Linda Martin

Just started:
VJ: The Unplugged Adventures of MTV's First Wave by Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman, Alan Hunter and Martha Quinn

Just finished:

Snakes! Guillotines! Electric Chairs! My Adventures in the Alice Cooper Group by Dennis Dunaway

and just started:

Rocks! by Joe Perry

AC/DC Maximum Rock&Roll - Murray Engleheart with Arnaud Durieux

The Divine Comedy - by Dante - (1960's HB) with Dore drawings.
I stopped reading, at one point, and listened to CHARON by Mercyful Fate
and also - Running Wild's REALM OF SHADES -
You do wonder if the book was made-up or a actual vision - by Dante.

Also, book of Isaiah / bible, OTbook - 66 chapters -
Just as scary, in some parts.

Just finished Mustaines autobiography and fixing to start "John Hughes: A Life in Film: The Genius Behind Ferris Bueller, The Breakfast Club, Home Alone, and more".....

Iron Man: My Journey thru Heaven and Hell with Black Sabbath by Tony Iommi

Armageddon: The Battle For Germany, 1944-1945 by Max Hastings

manny wrote:

Iron Man: My Journey thru Heaven and Hell with Black Sabbath by Tony Iommi

That is a really great book and covers a lot of Black Sabbath history within , I am sure you are enjoying it.

Just started:
The Other Hollywood: The Complete Oral History of the Porn Film Industry, by Legs McNeil and Jennifer Osborne

Fat Freddy wrote:

Just started:
The Other Hollywood: The Complete Oral History of the Porn Film Industry, by Legs McNeil and Jennifer Osborne

You said Oral... huh huh huh huh