what are you reading right now?

[Jharry5]

I'm halfway through Anthony Keidis' autobiography 'Scar Tissue'; (for those who don't know, he's the lead singer of the Red Hot Chili Peppers).
It's a really quite interesting read, but it does help if you're into the band...

 

[crimson5pheonix]

SOS SOS SOS SOS SOS SOS SOS (Sorry I didn't have time to create a new post):

I need a little advice...

What is the difference between the XBOX 360 that is $200, $400, $600 US? What is the extra memory necessary/most used for?

I need some expert advice on buying a raffle item for my group's Christmas concert? All suggestions would be helpful.

You sir are a fail. But as for your request, it's mostly the size of the HDD. Now go away.

 

[theklng]

care to elaborate?

um, ill try...
It's targets start at people who sell natural products like fish oil, and goes into detail about the largest fish oil "experiment" in the world that had no control, no measureable outcome and was essentially a media mockery. It mentions Scientific Faux Pas like Cherry Picking results from studies and how results can get skewed.

If your'e asking about the mag its got trivium on the cover and the tab to Girls, Girls, girls

no it was the book i was curious about. i've been looking for something similar for a while in articles, i wouldn't have expected a book for that idea. nevertheless, i might give it a go.

 

[theklng]

I just finished The Graveyard Book, by Niel Gaiman. Its a very intresting childrens story, about a boy whos raised by ghosts and vampire in a graveyard. It does in about 300 pages what Harry Potter did in a few thousand, in that it follows his life and he and the short storys within the book mature as they go. So where as the early storys when hes 6 is about being ghouls, near the end of the story hes fighting off phycopaths.

I woulnd't say its one of Niels best, not as good as his other children book, Caroline. Its slightly anti-climatic, but its funny, creepy, and kind of fairytale like. Its still way way better than a lot of the crap childrens books have been churning out recently *Looks at Eragon with discust* so if you fancy a good kids book, or just want something to give your children then deffintly pick it up.

EDIT: Oh, also, I know you shouldn't judge a book by its cover, but its got some beautiful art, theres a new picture before each chapter.

[img/]http://www.fidrabooks.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/graveyard-book.jpg[/img]

Its by the same guy who did The Edge Chronicals, which Ive never read but they look nice.

never been into "children" stories as it were, but this sounds interesting. i usually go largely around them because i find them very cheesy (i thought harry potter was just that). is this similar to the harry books, or what is exactly better about it? you'll have to forgive that i ask for such a comparison, but it's hard to judge subtle things like these out from direct reviewers on sites.

 

[Trace2010]

SOS SOS SOS SOS SOS SOS SOS (Sorry I didn't have time to create a new post):

I need a little advice...

What is the difference between the XBOX 360 that is $200, $400, $600 US? What is the extra memory necessary/most used for?

I need some expert advice on buying a raffle item for my group's Christmas concert? All suggestions would be helpful.

You sir are a fail. But as for your request, it's mostly the size of the HDD. Now go away.

Don't quite know where you're going with that one. If you're going to attempt to insult me at least use a sentence that is grammatically correct in the future. Sorry for the unintended faux paux.

 

[Fruhstuck]

Soul Music by Terry Pratchett
Aaaaaah Yeah Home-Boys!!!

He parallels life perfectly in all his work with something outrageously logical

 

[jim_doki]

Soul Music by Terry Pratchett
Aaaaaah Yeah Home-Boys!!!

He parallels life perfectly in all his work with something outrageously logical

Soul Music is worth reading just for the band names and the song names.

 

[Dudemeister]

Just after sunset - Stephen King

 

[Scorched_Cascade]

Idlewild a science fiction novel by Nick Sagan; its split between two settings the not-too-distant future (middle of the 21st century) and a generation later. A virus has rendered humanity infertile and cuases death-it was hidden in the human genome for quite a few generations before it took effect and so is irreversable. It's a great book but can be a little confusing at times, several massive twists and don't expect a happy ending; I really can't give too much away without spoilers but heres a brief summary cut from the wiki article:

"I'm not dead. A dim realization, but an important one, because I should have died." So begins Idlewild.

A young man wakes up with no memory of who he is, where he is, or anything about his life and is initially unable to move. He knew only three things ? he was a young male student, someone was trying to kill him, and Lazarus was dead. He didn't even know who Lazarus was.

"Why was Lazarus dead?"

"Because I killed him."

After a short period of time, he regains motion, but no memories. Over the next few pages, he is faced with flashing lights, disembodied voices, a cathedral, teddy bears nailed to wooden posts, graveyards, the realization that he is both alone and that his world is impossibly small, and terrifying creatures known as Nightgaunts, before meeting with Jasmine, a 'human' who identifies him as Halloween.

I realise this probably doesn't seem to you to be relevant to the settings I outlined but rest assured it is; also Halloween (the main character) has a thing for lovecraft.

 

[Lord George]

I have 2 books on the go at the moment which are

Harold Shipmen: Prescription for murder - Brian Whittle
This is a quite fascinating account into one of England's most notorious serial killers, turns out he was a loving friendly family man who frequently killed old people

The carpet people-Terry Pratchett
This is a good book describing the events that take place in land that is in fact a giant carpet its all very well done and is a fantasy story with sharp wit and at times quite dark themes but it was Pratchetts first full published story and I recommend it to everyone

 

[Flour]

It
A Song of Ice and Fire part 1

Shouldn't have to give the names of the people who wrote the books

 

[SomeBritishDude]

I just finished The Graveyard Book, by Niel Gaiman. Its a very intresting childrens story, about a boy whos raised by ghosts and vampire in a graveyard. It does in about 300 pages what Harry Potter did in a few thousand, in that it follows his life and he and the short storys within the book mature as they go. So where as the early storys when hes 6 is about being ghouls, near the end of the story hes fighting off phycopaths.

I woulnd't say its one of Niels best, not as good as his other children book, Caroline. Its slightly anti-climatic, but its funny, creepy, and kind of fairytale like. Its still way way better than a lot of the crap childrens books have been churning out recently *Looks at Eragon with discust* so if you fancy a good kids book, or just want something to give your children then deffintly pick it up.

EDIT: Oh, also, I know you shouldn't judge a book by its cover, but its got some beautiful art, theres a new picture before each chapter.

[img/]http://www.fidrabooks.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/graveyard-book.jpg[/img]

Its by the same guy who did The Edge Chronicals, which Ive never read but they look nice.

never been into "children" stories as it were, but this sounds interesting. i usually go largely around them because i find them very cheesy (i thought harry potter was just that). is this similar to the harry books, or what is exactly better about it? you'll have to forgive that i ask for such a comparison, but it's hard to judge subtle things like these out from direct reviewers on sites.

I would say its better than Harry Potter, and this is coming from a fan. If your worried about cheese, this is deffintly not that. Niel Gaiman has a very...blatant way of wrighting. Theres often no moral or grand meaning, its just a series of events, wheather they be the wierd and creepy of American Gods, funny yet gruesome of Netherwhere, or more fairytale like this one and Caroline. If your going to pick up this one and you like it I would deffintly pick up Caroline, which, for a childrens book, is fucking scary.

 

[GenHellspawn]

It started with Terminator, then it got worse with Sgt. Rock, and now... I find myself reading Judge Dredd
I've been developing an addiction to retro comics lately.

 

[Nimbus]

at the moment I'm working through Terry Pratchett's Diskworld sereis but I'v taken a break to read The Northen Lights - Phillip Pullman (I dont think I spelt it right). One book I Recomend alot is "Shades Children" from Gareth Nix an exelent book that kept me so intrested I hardly stoped reading even after I got Red-Eye.

WOW! Just just mentioned three of my favourite books/series!
Anyway, currently re-reading the demonata series by Darren Shan.

 

[Lukeje]

Just finished One Hundred Years of Solitude. Man, that book makes me contemplate never reading another work of literature again. It just seemed so perfect that I get the feeling that nearly everything else will just seem like a pale imitation...
But when I actually do get round to reading something again, it'll probably be one of the novels in a Philip K. Dick collection I recently purchased.

 

[PersianLlama]

Rereading Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. I'm also reading Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe for English. Plan on reading Children of Hurin by Tolkein/Christopher Tolkein next.

 

[Alone Disciple]

I'm actually enjoying the "Legacy of the Force" 9 book arc. I just finished book 7, Fury, and before I delve into book 8, I'm taking a break and reading a crime novel outside the SW universe.

 

[TheGhostOfSin]

Life, the Universe and Everything.

 

[Jaythulhu]

books 9 and 10 Terry Goodkind's sword of truth series, Abhorsen by Garth Nix and Farenheit 451 again for kicks.