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Post by Noname on Oct 13, 2004 16:25:19 GMT -5
ABC of Witchcraft - Doreen Valiente.
Magick Without Tears - Allister Crowley.
Goetia - Crowley.
Liber Null and Psychonaut - Peter J. Carroll.
Pythagoras' Trousers - Margaret Wertheim.
Kybalion - Three Initiates.
The Farside Gallery book 2 and 3 - Gary Larson.
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Post by gstring on Oct 17, 2004 0:29:49 GMT -5
I really ashamed to admit this...but i did go a bit mainstream...I really loved the da vinchi code and angels and demons by dan brown...i like the way he uses religious historical events and intertwine them into a non fiction story...
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Post by 7thWoman on Oct 17, 2004 22:45:49 GMT -5
I totally understand. I wouldn't have looked for it either, but if it's as good as you say it is, and it's a short story, I figured I might take the time to read it someday. Well somday turned out to be yesterday. I had an amazon gift certificate so I went ahead and bought the Larry Niven Short Stories Volume 1 eBook for $6 or so. Inconstant Moon was a pretty good story. It actually takes place in Westwood near the UCLA campus, and the guy spends the night with one of the girls in his little black book, ending up in her apartment on one of the upper floors of some westwood apartment building. He never went to the mountains, though that was discussed as a possibility. He did stock up on supplies though, and he tried to find all sorts of interesting ways to spend his last night on earth. When I have some time, I'll read the rest of the stories in the eBook and let you know if they're any good. |
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Post by Vball818 on Oct 18, 2004 17:06:51 GMT -5
I find it amazing that I had time to read four books this year considering how busy my schedule is. Most of the books I read are not best sellers and written for a particular market, some from Oprah's Book Club and a few that were best sellers. I would say that the books I read is just easy reading - something to get my mind off of something for awhile. Here is my list for 2004(picked up this hobby/interest up again in spring of '97 and since then I have read 110 book):
*Mystic River - Denis Lehane
*Cane River - Lalita Tademy, I learned quite a few things from this book and more about my American history
*The House on Mango Street - Sandra Cisneros, second time I read this book and very rarely do I read a book a second time(the other book that I read twice was Memoirs of a Geisha: A Novel, by Arthur Golden)
*Ransom at the Opera - Fred Hunter, read this book in four days(10/04-10/08)
*Someone Killed His Boyfriend - David Stukas(just finished reading this book two days ago, 10/08-10/16)
Now reading, The Dying Ground - Nichell D. Tramble, it's a hip-hop novel, story is set in '89 in Oakland, CA, main character is a former little league/h.s. basball player who went to Cal, quit Cal's baseball team, not in a gang but his friends are who are invovlved in an Oakland drug wars...so far the story is keeping my interest and what is going on in this story is very familiar to neighborhoods in south central L.A./Watts/Compton or the housing projects in Chicago or NYC
Funniest books I've read so far were written by David Sedaris(he's a freqeunt reader/guest on "Late Show with David Letterman"), those books are Naked and Me Talk Pretty One Day
Two books I plan to read is The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck and Martin Bauman: Or a Sure Thing by David Leavitt
Happy reading y'all!
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