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"Left Behind" by LaHaye and Jenkins... couldn't call it anything other than simplistic biblical fantasy. Right up there with "The Davinci Code" for simple minded, predictable (and I'm not talking the Revelations part) and improbable... Within two weeks of millions of people mysteriously vanishing around the globe, everything's back to normal?!?

I just finished reading a novel, Fallen by T. Jefferson Parker. The hero is a detective who, after being thrown out of 6th-floor window and surviving, develops a form of synesthesia where he perceives people's emotions as colored shapes. This basically makes him a human lie detector. He ends up investigating the death of the San Diego Ethics Authority's top investigator. I thought it was pretty good as far as mysteries go, with some interesting twists.

I also liked his book Silent Joe. Excellent book.

My next book...a forensic science textbook.

I'm reading a book on cult leader Jim Jones. I like to read about that weird sort of stuff.

I'm just about to start reading Brave New World by Alduous Huxley.

I'm just finishing One Day the Ice Will Reveal by Clare Dudman. It starts a little slow, or maybe I was impatient, I thought it was boy-meets-girl-etc but by page 50 it turned into a very very good book, extremely well-written. Glad I stuck with it.

The trial of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens

The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spirtiual Growth by M. Scott Peck

I often read several books and pick the one I most want to read, then change when I feel like it.
Right now I'm reading:
"Red dragon codex" by R D Henham (I love these dragon books! They're based on dragon types from the Dragonlance series)
and "Stolen voices" by Ellen Dee Davidson; a book that was compared with "The giver" by Lois Lowry.

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No mocking here, however I'm reading Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Which has inspired me to ponder how to introduce vampires, werewolves and killer robots into other literary classics.

Besides, after Get in The Van (Henry Rollins) and American Hardcore: A Tribal History I feel maxed out on machismo.

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The Black Hole War, by Leonard Susskind

The Elf Queen of Shannara by Terry Brooks.
It's part of a series. and just about anything by Terry Brooks i've found to be pretty good.

next on my list is The Host by Stephanie Meyers. I've already read the Twilight series, and i'm hoping this will be just as good if not better.

I'm nearly finished with Anne Frank: Diary of a young girl. It's alright.

i'm cross between reading Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking, Artemis Fowl and The Opal Deception by Eoin Coulfer, and The Funhouse by Dean Koontz

The Road by Cormac McCarthy, and it's depressing the hell out of me. but very good.

The Glass of Time by Michael Cox. It's the sequel to The Meaning of Night (probably my favorite book ever) and just as beautifully written, though much slower, and not with the same punch. I'm enjoying it immensely regardless. I highly recommend both to anyone interested in beautiful, dark Victorian revenge thrillers. "After killing the red-haired man, I went to Quinn's for an Oyster Supper."

Also started Clive Barker's "Books of Blood Vol. 1-3" and enjoying it so far, though I've yet to feel scared by it.

I also juuuuust barely started China Meiville's "The Scar," a semi-sequel to his excellent "Perdido Street Station," which was the best dark fantasy I'd read in a long time.

I've finished Anne Frank. It was good, then it got slow, then it got good again.

3/5

Currently, I'm reading Vol.6 of Godchild (which is an awesome manga)