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Just finished Shadow Warrior Its now the extremely rare occaision when theres nothing original left in the house for me to read... Anyway my next book will probably be Star Wars: The Joiner King, followed by the rest of the Swarm War trilogy.

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Here are a few I'm currently reading.
The Lexus and the Olive Tree (Thomas Friedman)
Democracy for the Few (Michael Parenti)
Religious Literacy (Stephen Prothero)

When I need a break from those:
Cosmicomics (Italo Calvino)

The Magician's Nephew from C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia

Healthcare for Children on the Autism Spectrum, Fred R. Volkmar, M.D. and Laura A. Wiesner, M.D.

I'm reading:

Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating by Jane Goodal
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Dead Names: The Dark History of the Necronomicon by Simon
Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo
The Last Time I Wore a Dress by Daphne Scholinski
The Romanitc Manifesto by Ayn Rand
and
Waters Luminous and Deep: Shorter Fictions by Meredith Ann Pierce


phew...

American Creation by Joseph J. Ellis and The Civil War A narrative: Fort Sumter to Perryville by Shelby Foote and Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler

The TV Guide. (no, that's a sin)

Politics - Aristotle
Counterculture Through the Ages - Ken Goffman
The Treasured Writings of Kahlil Gibran - Kahlil Gibran

I am currently reading Looking for Jake, a collection of short stories by China Mieville, who delves a little more into character development than in his novels (the principal weak point of which was always the lack of believable characters, although I loved them in spite of that fact).
All of the stories in this book use elements of horror or magic realism to deal with themes of loss, that common experience we've all had of trying to hold onto something that has had a profound effect on our lives but that eventually left us never to come back.
It's definitely worth reading even if you aren't familiar with Mr. Mieville's other works (although it helps).

I'm reading Soul Music by Terry Pratchett.

"Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze? and 114 other questions" - Written by NewScientist

Imajica by Clive Barker.
Its supposedly "deep" message is simply hateful and sexist and one of the main characters who is supposed to be admirable is a major b***h, yet Mr. Barker wants us to see this as a good thing.
I hate it, I think the moral of the story is crap, and I can't believe I'm wasting my time with it, but at the same time, Mr. Barker's prose and imaginative detail are keeping me turning the pages.

The Custom of the Country- Edith Wharton
Everyday Enlightenment- an honorable Buddhist nun
A Midsummer Night's Dream-for school

Metallica So what
GPS for Land surveyors

Litany of the Long Sun - Gene Wolfe
Kokoro - Natsume Soseki
The Bloody Crown of Conan - Robert E. Howard
Kiss of the Fur Queen - Tomson Highway

Sorry, Posted in the wrong thread.

I'm currently reading a book called Personality, which talks about why people are the way they are.

I'm also reading the current issue of the Reader's Digest.