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I'm re-reading YOU GET SO ALONE AT TIMES THAT IT JUST MAKES SENSE by Charles Bukowski. It's a collection of poems. Here's a good one:

16-bit Intel 8088 chip

with an Apple Macintosh
you can’t run Radio Shack programs
in its disc drive.
nor can a Commodore 64
drive read a file
you have created on an
IBM Personal Computer.
both Kaypro and Osborne computers use
the CP/M operating system
but can’t read each other’s
handwriting
for they format (write
on) discs in different
ways.
the Tandy 2000 runs MS-DOS but
can’t use most programs produced for
the IBM Personal Computer
unless certain
bits and bytes are
altered
but the wind still blows over
Savannah
and in the Spring
the turkey buzzard struts and
flounces before his hens.

I'm reading City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare.

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency- Douglas Adams (Not the Hitchiker's Guide series)
Holy Blood, Holy Grail- I don't remember

I'm reading a novel called Brave Story. It's a Japanese book that is translated into English. As with all other Japanese things, this book is very interesting. If you read the book from start to finish, you would probably start to feel that the story is like a RPG, but like I said it is very interesting.

I'm reading Extras by Scott Westerfield.

Why Spirituallity is Difficult for Westerners
David Hay

"A zoologist by profession, David Hay's research has been guided by the hypothesis that religious or spiritual awareness is biologically natural to the human species and has been selected for in the process of organic evolution because it has survival value. Although naturalistic, this hypothesis is not intended to be reductionist with regard to religion. Neverthelessit does imply that all people, including those who have no religious belief, have a spiritual life."

If you haven't read or don't plan on reading "Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro, I don't want to know you.

Currently reading A Whole New Mind by Daniel Pink about the rise in importance of those with strong right-brain thinking. Good read.

Z

REAL Ultimate Power (The Official Ninja Book) by Robert Hamburger.

It is perfectly executed nonsense, great for switching the brain off sometimes.

Ye old bookworm topic

Becoming Eichmann, by David Cesarani

Synopsis: The process of Eichmann's becoming a genocidaire.

It's for school and I'm writing a paper on it.

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Synopsis Long story short; it's like Gone with the Wind if Scarlet had married Ashely at the beginning of the novel and the Civil War hadn't happened.

It's not good...

"Shantaram" by Gregory David Roberts

[My favorite book in existence, about a heroin-addicted convict who escapes from prison in Australia and flees to India, where he works as a clinic doctor in one of Mumbai's poorest slums, a gun-runner for the mafia, and a counterfeiter, among other things. It's really a book that encompasses the full span of human emotion, and it's absolutely beautifully written. And, at over 900 pages long, it will keep you occupied for a fair amount of time.]