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The Madman: His Parables and Poems - Kahlil Gibran

Poems of Rupert Brooke - Rupert Brooke

Rip Tide - Lincoln Preston

I just joined the site today. Found it while reading a book my parents recommended me since Asperger's is causing me trouble as of late... but on to the book.
I'm reading a few, so I'll list them
Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
and I'm rereading (for I think the 4th time, which is weird for me. I never reread books) Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind

Hitler's Private Library

I'm currently reading Running With Scissors which, is a factual account of Augusten Burrough's early if not very bizarre life..

The Castle of the Winds, The Singer and the Sea, Shadow of the Seer.

Will shortly be rereading Thursbitch and am trying to do a translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Visited the Green Chapel and Thursbitch today.

Logic for mathematicans. Very difficult

I just finished a Terry Pratchett-Night watch.

I see two people reading Stephenson here.

For pleasure I'm reading Neal Stephenson's System of the World, having finally got hold of The Confusion just after the New Year: I'm now reading the Baroque Cycle through. This is excellent writing.

I'm also reading Asperger Syndrome and Long term Relationships by Ashley Stanford. I'm hoping it's not too late to save my relationship.

http://www.wrongplanet.net/postp3410772.html#3410772

Just finished reading and reviewing The Shining for my book-reading blog, gave it a perfect 10/10. So, that makes...how many books have I given 10/10 in my book reading blogs?

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling

I Shall Wear Midnight by Terry Pratchett

Monster, volume 4 by Naoki Urasawa

Doctor Who: The Ancestor Cell by Stephen Cole and Peter Anghelides

Doctor Who: The Quantum Archangel by Craig Hinton

and now, The Shining by Stephen King

Out of nearly 200 books read and reviewed in the past couple of years, six have had perfect scores.

Paradise Lost.

Afterwards I will read the communist manifesto.
afterwards I will read either some Sherlock Holmes tales or A Peoples History of the United States, by Howard Zinn.

I just started reading The Solace of Leaving Early by Haven Kimmel.

She also wrote:

A Girl Named Zippy and She got Up Off the Couch

Found out that she's good friends with Augusten Burroughs. (I highly recommend finding new authors through their peers and mentors.)

A book I read almost daily is Bill Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words as I am always in pursuit of perfect grammar.

I'm currently reading a book of poems by the swedish poet Karin Boye.

I just finished reading Haven Kimmel's "The Solace of Leaving Early." Next on the list is "Looking For Atlantis" by Mark Magrs.

I'm not reading these now, just the best of a lifetime of reading.

Always check the library first!

History

Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky
Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky
Who Invented the Computer? The Legal Battle That Changed Computing History
by Alice Rowe Burks and Douglas R. Hofstadter
The Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
(Time said it is the best book of the 20th century. I wouldn’t argue.)
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II by Iris Chang
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen Jay Gould.

Biography

Moshe Dayan: Story of My Life by Moshe Dayan
Boss Tweed: The Rise and Fall of the Corrupt Pol Who Conceived the Soul of Modern New York by Kenneth D. Ackerman
Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago by Mike Royko.
My Dark Places by James Ellroy
Alias Shakespeare by Joseph Sobran
Lee Considered: General Robert E. Lee and Civil War History by Alan T. Nolan
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character) by Richard P. Feynman


Finance

Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story by Kurt Eichenwald, (The Enron collapse)
Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street by Michael Lewis,
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis
Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions
by Ben Mezrich
The House of Rothschild: Volume 1 and Volume 2: The World's Banker: 1849-1999 by Niall Ferguson


Politics

Future Jihad: Terrorist Strategies against the West by Walid Phares
Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power by Niall Ferguson
Collapse by Jared Diamond.


Military

Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage by Sherry Sontag and Christopher Drew
The Making of a Quagmire by David Halberstam


Fiction

The Magician's Assistant by Ann Patchett
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Backroads by Tawni O’Dell
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole.
Kockroach: A Novel by Tyler Knox
The Emperor of Ocean Park by

Guilty Conscience Fiction

Little Girl Lost and Gone Baby Gone by Richard Aleas
Jack Reacher novels by Lee Child


Children’s Books

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
The Pushcart War by Jean Merrill
The Mouse that Roared by Leonard Wibberley
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graham
The Great Brain by John D. Fitzgerald
Pierre, Chicken Soup with Rice, Alligators all Around by Maurice Sendak
Amphigorey by Edward Gorey

I read tons, have read about 10 novels in the last month. Currently reading A boy beyond reach by Cheri Florance about a severely autistic, mute and profoundly deaf boy