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"Screwtape" is a phenomenal book! I read it my senior year in high school and thoroughly enjoyed it!

"Mere Christianity" will always be my favorite of Lewis' works, though...

Picking up Angels and Demons tomorrow.

I just finished Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez for class. Up next is July's People by Nadine Gordimer.

Jon Stewart:
Naked Pictures of Famous People

Hey Chewey I SOO agree. Screwtape is awesome!!! Everybody at work thinks it's some sex book-pretty funny! I wanna re-read it again just to make sure I caught everything Lewis said. It's so fascinating the way he words complex thoughts and Christian theology...absolutely amazing!

My lil sis is taking a C.S. Lewis class next semseter...which I could It sure has been a fun journey through Uncle Screwtape and his nephew Wormwood though

My roommate (an English major) was writing an artist profile on Lewis last night, so I was getting all sorts of interesting Lewis trivia as I was checking my e-mail. That Lewis lived quite a life, to be sure!

Tell him I want a copy of his paper!!!!!!! I wanna learn

It's sad that I started this thread, but haven't been here in a while, especially considering how much I've read since my last post. Here's an incomplete list, with quick review:

Stupidest Angel by Christopher Moore. Funny book. A quick read. Definitely more enjoyable if you've read past novels, but still a good read. Night Of The Living Dead meets your town's Nativity Play.

Danse Macabre by Stephen King. Nonfiction. King discusses the horror genre from 1950 through 1980. Interesting and easy-to-read. I read it every October, then discover/rediscover some movie/book/TV show/radio show that's worth my time. Highly recommended.

The Rising by Brian Keene. Zombie Apocalypse. Keene juggles multiple characters and multiple storylines pretty well, but predictability and bad dialogue kill (NPI) what could have been a good novel.

Agitator: The Cinema Of Takashi Miike by Tom Mes. Retrospective/discussion of Miike's films. Dry reading, but interesting. Audition was #11 in Bravo's Top 100 Scariest Movie Moments. I would've liked some more opinion and review (synposis alone bores me). Reads like a college student's term paper.

Spiral by Koji Suzuki. The sequel to Ringu is more science fiction than horror, but it has some really unsettling "scenes". The translation is better here than in Ringu - it's more fluid and reads easier. Good book.

The Complete Bone by Jeff Smith. This has/had a thread dedicated to it somewhere in these boards. A great example of what is so good about comics. Disney fans will like this. Comic fans will like this. Fans of literature will like this. Incredible storytelling!!!

Currently, I'm reading Harlan Ellison's Strange Wine. I won't have to finish it before saying this: Harlan Ellison is one of the best science fiction/fantasy/horror/literature/comedy/nonfiction writers out there. I recommend ANYTHING you can get your hands on! After this, I'll probably grab his script for I, Robot (written in the 70s, deemed unfilmable by the technical standards of the time, and having nothing to do with the Will Smith movie) or re-read his script for the Star Trek episode City On The Edge Of Forever.

James Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain

About a third-through Angels and Demons. Loving it.

Don't get your hopes up. The ending sucks ass.

I don't think it sucked as much as it was disappointing and a bit predictable. However, there were aspects of Deus Ex Machina in it that really didn't sit well with me. I dunno...maybe it did suck. But Da Vinci Code rocked!

I finished Strange Wine and loved it. There were quite a few stories that made their way into my nightmares. But not nearly half of them were horror stories, and the book is definitely worth your time.

I'm currently reading Ellison's The Glass Teat, followed by The Other Glass Teat. They're collections of essays he wrote about television and the world that are as relevant today as the were when originally written ('68/'69 - '71/'72).

You thought the ending was predictable? It was completely un-predictable. Its one of the worst endings of any book ever.

I thought the "big revelatory twist" was a bit predictable. But I agree with you, the more I think about it: the ending was lame.

I swear, no spoilers.

And endings are never predicable for me. I can't do mysteries very well.

I'm reading An Omelette and a Glass of Wine by Elizabeth David.

You can trace the cosmopolitan tastes of contemporary English society back to pioneers like Elizabeth, who set the ball rolling by attempting to broaden our tastes in food and promote good quality cuisine.

This book is full of short articles that she wrote for various magazines and newspapers. A mixture of food oriented travel writing, recipes and opinion pieces.

I never read that book.

Good story. Ending sucked.

It's funny. I've known about that book for years but never bothered with it.

Don't bother wasting your time Pariah...just rent the video...horrible ending. I prefer happy endings were only the bad guys die!

Machiavelli - "The Prince"

Various Authors - Black Scenes (Edited by Alice Childress)

Picking up The DaVinci Code tomorrow.

Are you getting the original version, or the one that just came out with pictures of the paintings and works referenced?

Someone said the picture version is $20 at Wal-mart.

I'm re-reading Angels and Demons now for my next review.

Whatever's at the UF library...

If you get the old version, Dan Brown's website has most the pics.

It was almost impossible to find a decent pic of the mona lisa when I read the book.

I am curremtly reading "Lord of the Rings" by Tolkien.

I know just about everyone & their weird cousin(aka LLance)have read this,but I never did until after I saw the movies.Thankfully it's different from the movies enough to where it's quite enjoyable & refreshing reading.It's amazing how much the movie differs from the book.Almost the entire first part of Fellowship of the Ring is totally different from the movie.I likes it a lot.

Dixie Victorious:An Alternate History of the Civil War by Peter G. Tsouras

I'll check out Wetwork. I think I've read some Nutman before. Keene isn't terrible, and I'll probably try him out again, but The Rising really disappointed the shit out of me. It wasn't like I was trying to figure things out ahead of time, y'know?

As soon as I finish Ellison's The Other Glass Teat, my reading choices are wide open. Do I re-read some Twain? James Herbert's Haunted? Some novels that were recommended to me by my gal - her message board-buddies sent her a few of their books? Or do I bite the bullet, hit the bookstore, and hope something jumps out at me?

Decisions, decisions...

So, since I'm on a waiting list for The DaVinci Code, I'm rereading Sharpe's Rifles again. For those of you wanting to begin reading the Sharpe series, this is probably the best book to start with.

P. N. Elrod's 2001 vampire novel Quincey Morris, Vampire.

I love vampire fiction, especially when the vampire is the protagonist.

I just got Digital Fortress out of the library. So far so good.

I liked it until I got near the end. Then the various "revelations" seemed a little too convenient or forced. But a decent read overall.

I quit reading it about halfway because of that.

You and I seem to have the same tastes in books, Rex. What was the last good one you read?