Aug 29, 05 08:28 pm — What have you been reading?
angels and demons is pretty good. crazy-ass ending, though. the guy falling out of a helicopter and surviving was a little too far-fetched for me...
Haha! Agreed. That put the "willful suspension of disbelief" to the test.
Todays two~ The five people you meet in hell And Do elephants jump?
Currently reading Secrets & Mysteries of the World by Sylvia Browne .
Anatomy and Physiology, Fifth Edition by Martini and Fundamentals of Biostatistics by Bernard Rosner. Oh, and Superman Red Son by Mark Millar (coolest comic ever.)
Started it a couple of weeks back, but its pretty involved, and I have to admit I'm struggling with it. The characters are quite complex, and their motives aren't very well explained, so its not the most easily understood book I've read.
I hope to be finished it in a few weeks though.
That was an awesome read, I'm sure you're enjoying it. 
Yeah, kinda, despite the complexity.
Dont go spoiling it on me now, and telling me what Dick and Jane buy when they go to the shops with Granmda ! 
You don't wanna know about spot? 
I'd be more worried about what they do once they get home, inflate it, and put the batteries in. I bet grandma has a go...
Thats the sequel....havent read it yet.
Righty, I won't spoil it for you but I will say things get intense.
It turns out that Darth Vader is Dick's father!
Just finished The Secret Man by Bob Woodward on the identity of Watergate's Deep Throat.
I had thought that everything had already been said and written about Watergate that could be, but Woodward puts the scandal into a different light. It was more a battle between the Nixon White House and the FBI than it was something between the government and the media. The FBI had cracked the scandal before Woodward or Burnstein ever came on the scene, but all the information was secret Grand Jury stuff that couldn't legally be released to the public while the investigation was ongoing. What made matters worse is that while the FBI knew the true story, Nixon and his people continued to blatently lie to the public, which made people like Mark Felt, aka Deep Throat, angry at their arrogance and dishonesty.
All this time I thought it was the media, especially The Washington Post that somehow cracked the story, when it was the FBI all along.
i'm reading D-Day by Steven Ambrose currently -- however, I think i've been reading it for a couple months now because I can never seem to sit down and actually READ it! once the weather starts getting not so nice out, I might have more time to read...
anyways, the book is about the history of D-Day -- i've found myself intrigued by WWII lately, so i've been reading alot of ambrose -- i find his writing style very interesting. his books all do an excellent job of expressing the human aspect of war.
*Excellent* book. I'd also highly recommend Parachute Infantry: An American Paratroopers Memoir of D-Day and the Fall of The Third Reich
awesome -- i've read about 4 other ambrose books (band of brothers, citizen soldiers, wild blue and another) -- i'll have to go pick this one up soon
thanks for the suggestion!
teh intertron.
I've been working on Angels and Demons for a little while now, just haven't been able to find the time to pick it up much unfortunately.
magazines and such
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Just finished Orson Scott Card's "Earthborn" for the second time, going to start either a William Gibson, Frank Herbert or Greg Egan. I just bought a whole pile from a second hand book store...
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Marrying Buddha - Wei Hui
Henry & June - Anais Nin
Dead With Walking - Kim Harrison
Seduced By Moonlight - Laurell K. Hamilton
XXXHolic 2 - Clamp
Story Of O - Pauline Reager
Abes
Ken Kesey's "Sailor Song." My second attempt.
I read "Angels and Demons" by Dan Brown last week. Before that was "The Constant Gardener," by John Le Carre.
Ho hum! Nothing overly interesting.