SRV: Caught in the Crossfire

How did this great book slip past me for this long? No clue. But it is fantastic!

It's a shame that david killed himself not too long ago. I liked his essays and fiction.

It's a shame that david killed himself not too long ago. I liked his essays and fiction.

Reading that one, too.

I read his essay on Usage a couple years ago, and it fully ignited by passion for all things snooty in the English language.

Listening to an audiobook version of Good Omens by Pratchett and Gaiman. It's been a while since I've read the book.

Right now, only the Godfather. I read The Prince by Machiavelli and before that I read The Rum Diaries. Plan to start on Palahniuk's Snuff as soon as I get ready to grab a copy. Also waiting for Pygmy to be released...

I've just finished the first draft of a novel called "Pygmy," a dark comedy about terrorism and racism. The lead character is a 13-year-old foreign exchange student sent to live with a suburban, white, middle-class family. Oh, and they're Christians. The visit is for six months, and he's one of a dozen similar kids, all shipped to America to live with typical families.

The secret truth is that Pygmy is a terrorist, trained since infancy in martial arts, chemistry and radical hatred of the United States. He has six months to build a prize-winning project for the National Science Fair. If he succeeds, he and his project will go to Washington, D.C. for the finals competition -- where the project will explode, killing millions.

Pretty good but perhaps not as good as his previous trilogies.

For the like 5th time. His only really good book imo.

Excellent offering from the Malazan universe.

I just read Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger and am starting Regeneration by Pat Barker.

J.M. Coetzee -- Disgrace

I took a couple of his classes in college and he was a fucking dyspeptic old bastard well before he got run off into semi-exile with nothing but a Nobel prize for his pains.

There Are No Electrons: Electronics for Earthlings

by Kenn Amdhal

Justin and Gary: watch your ass.

Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron

Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron

I saw the documentary. Very scary stuff.

I saw the documentary. Very scary stuff.

It's eerie how timely it is now.

Read Stephen King's "On Writing". Required reading for anyone who ever writes anything OR reads. Or just loves reading Stephen King when he writes in his first person normal voice (his review of Ryan Adams' "Easy Tiger" is one of my favorite bits of writing).

Back to Stephenson's "Quicksilver" now, which I started but put down.

Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the 19th Century

The Fifth Dawn: Mirrodin Cycle Book III.

Snow Crash, by Stephenson

Read Stephen King's "On Writing". Required reading for anyone who ever writes anything OR reads. Or just loves reading Stephen King when he writes in his first person normal voice (his review of Ryan Adams' "Easy Tiger" is one of my favorite bits of writing).

Back to Stephenson's "Quicksilver" now, which I started but put down.

Steven King reviewed Ryan Adams?

Something something Google something something twat something something. Smiley.

Back to Stephenson's "Quicksilver" now, which I started but put down.

I too put it down. IMO its worth slogging through the first couple hundred pages.

Snow Crash, by Stephenson

Ah yes!

Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett.

That man's footnotes will test any ebook reader, thats for damn sure. Stanza no likey.

Robinson Crusoe

The Fifth Dawn: Mirrodin Cycle Book III.

Finishing it up. Last 20 pages or so. Should be done on my commute home from work. Then I'll be starting Johan: Antiques Cycle Book I.