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Just finished "The Name of the Rose" started "The Road to Wigan Pier" and a Terry Pratchett book [guilty pleasure]. Debating picking up some textbooks I've put down...

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier - was quite good. Insanely referential. Couldn't be arsed to read the prose bits yet, just looked at the pictures.
V for Vendetta - was quite good.
RUR / The War with the Newts - meh. Big on allegory.
Sirius (Olaf Stapledon) - good so far. I like Stapledon, him cool.

Just finished "A Clash of Kings", the second book in the "Song of Ice and Fire" series on which HBO's show "Game of Thrones" is based. On to book 3, "A Storm of Swords."

Starring Sherlock Holmes by David Stuart Davies. Beautiful hardcover coffee table book about the history of Holmes on film that I recently bought for $26 on Amazon. Worth every penny.

I recently finished reading Teotihuacan: An Experiment in Living by Esther Pasztory.

In short, Teotihuacan, a city dating from Late Antiquity to the terminal high Middle Ages, was the largest city in the Precolumbian Americas and one of the largest in the world at its height. Its apartments were nice even by contemporary standards and the Teotihuacano ideology was compared with that of Communism, various Andean Civilizations, the Indus Valley Civilization and China.

The book was very well written and the city has strongly enticed me since I read the book.

From the sublime to the shite, and both dealing with the same subject matter (uplifted dogs) - Sirius (Olaf Stapledon) was excellent - one of the best books I've read in some time, a really good take on the non-human protagonist; the titular Sirius is decidedly Other, alienated from (wo)Man and dog alike, tormented by a conflicted nature - but City (Cliff Simak) was rubbish, the worst kind of "science? we don' need none o' that fancy book-larnin'" nonsense ("oh, the dogs are inheriting our surgical alterations to them" for instance) and while the writing style was reasonable the tone was myopic, avuncular and misogynist.

Moving on to The Difference Engine (Gibson, Sterling) next.

God is not Great by Christopher Hitchens; page 246/286
(It's gotten better; I think it's 3/5 stars. I plan on finishing today.)

Overcoming Obsessive Thoughts: How To Gain Control of Your OCD by Christine Purdon; page 55/160
(Trust me; I would be much further into it if it weren't one of those "chapter a week" books.)

Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and The Japanese Psyche by Haruki Murakami; page 81/384
(I'll pick this one up again after I finish the Hitchens book.)

Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy; page 37/400
(The Presidents--with emphasis on the Kennedy family--were my special interest for much of my childhood, so I figured I'd read/listen to this one and hopefully become interested again. I'm terribly lost without a long-term special interest. I've only gotten through the first conversation, as I've been busy with school, but I'm worried that I won't finish before I have to turn it back in to the library. Maybe I'll buy it; birthday is coming up.)

The Difference Engine, meh. It was alright (though there were some seriously annoying errors of setting), but it didn't develop into anything interesting.

Now reading Mr. Norris Changes Trains, which is a better read, but creepy. Goodbye to Berlin (on which Cabaret is based, which is partly why I'm reading them - they get referenced so friggin' often) next.

I just started reading the fantasy novel, "Ship Of Magic" by Robin Hobb. I have the second book in the Liveship Traders series,"Mad Ship" but I'm going to have to look for and buy the third book, "Ship Of Destiny". I don't know yet if it's any good. So I'll have to write about that later.

I ordered the first two books of the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett. I've never read anything by him. I'm just going to buy and read his books in that series in order.

Reading Clan of the Cave Bear, a friend bought it for me.

I finished Dune. It's a great book, but the best stuff is in the first act IMO

A very awesome book

I'm not reading anything. I need to start reading books again.

^^^ I think I did too, Taupey. I know it was on WP. They are a wonderful curl up on the couch on a rainy day read.