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I found it mostly "a bit stupid." My least favorite of the few Palahniuk books I've read.

I trust your judgment. I'll probably pass it back to the charity shop...

God Created The Integers, by Stephen Hawkings. It's about the mathematical advances made in history. Great book, and the bits on Boolean Algebra, Euclidean Geometry, and Gödel's Incompleteness Theorum were great, but a lot of Cantor's and Fourier's math is over my head

QFT. I read that book, not having read the interview, and was confused about how it had gotten a reputation as being "a book about censorship." It must have been given that reputation by people in denial about the fact that the book was about them and their addiction to infotainment and giant TVs, who simply ignored that Fahrenheit 451 is primarily a book about the dumbing down of people. Also, RE: "...you have no clue what's going on or what they're talking about," at no point was I confused while reading Fahrenheit 451. I found it to be quick and easily comprehensible, while still managing to contain great substance despite being a light read. Not the most entertaining dystopian novel out there, but one of the more realistic.

The Story of the Titanic, as told by its survivors.

This book covers the more famous extracts from reports concerning the sinking.

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami.

World War II-era Japanese school children mysteriously fall to the ground hypnotized, fish and leeches rain from the sky, and two people - an intelligent but fated 15-year-old runaway and an old man who can talk to cats - embark on intertwining, and reality-bending, quests.

This is the first Murakami I've read, and I must say I really like it. He manages to be disturbing, complex, absurdly humorous, though-provoking, intertextual and compulsively readable all at the same time - quite a feat - and writes in an understated, concise style which manages to make the most bizarre things seem sensible and even common.

He's clearly Japan's most significant contemporary novelist for a reason; I'm near the end of Kafka, and I can't wait to read some more of his work.

The Icelandic Sagas - authors unknown but obviously Icelandic circa 12th - 14th centuries.

This collection is such a remarkable collection of prose. The tales, often following family lineages, are simple yet epic, matter-of-fact, magical, passionate, and so far, have made for a very gripping read. I highly recommend!

Currently reading Tolstoy's Anna Karenina.

I liked Magnus Magnusson's translation of Burnt Njal's Saga - it was full of Schwarzenegger-style one-liners. Don't know if they're in the originals.

I've just finished reading all of Haruki Murakamis books for the second time. and "Kafka on the shore" is my favorite

Have to read The Martian Chronicles for school.
Very quick read, so once I complete the essay assignment for it, I will be reading something else more interesting.

Charles R. Saunder's Dossouye, which stars an African warrior woman---now that's my kind of story!

At the moment I'm reading Inherit the Wind, by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee. Not so much a novel as a play-- but it is in paperback format.

The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver.

I was talking to a guy from Trinity last week, who recommended a few books. Currenty reading Dante's Inferno, it's a great book

I am re-reading Christopfer Paolini`s Eragon, Eldest and Brisingr.
Waiting for book 4