What are you reading right now?

[Frankennietzsche]

Don't alienate the cods.

[willerror]

A couple of books by Christopher Hitchens ("God Is Not Great" and "Letters to a Young Contrarian") and "The Ballad of the Sad Café" by Carson McCullers.

I haven't read "Letters" but the other two are great! Reminds me, I haven't read any McCullers in *years*...

[willerror]

The Dirt by Motly Crew. Good book lot of nastyness, but more more drugs and sex than drink. Except Mick Mars he's a boozaholick extrodinare.

Bought that in hardcover as soon as it came out. Not b/c I'm such a huge Crue fan but, as a fan of rock'n'roll debauch, I knew I would get my money's worth. And I did. It is seriously one of the greatest rock music bios ever.

[slipperyyoke]

I'm currently trying to finish up one of those things that I should have read years ago, but never got around to it.

"The Divine Comedy" - Dante Alighieri.

I'm about halfway through "Purgatorio" at the moment. I'll see all you drunkards in Paradise. Cheers.

[Frankennietzsche]

I'm currently trying to finish up one of those things that I should have read years ago, but never got around to it.

"The Divine Comedy" - Dante Alighieri.

Meh, he's not that funny.

[BeerMakesMeSmart]

I'm currently trying to finish up one of those things that I should have read years ago, but never got around to it.

"The Divine Comedy" - Dante Alighieri.

Meh, he's not that funny.

Don't listen to him. All he likes is dick jokes.

[Frankennietzsche]

What about this one: what's brown and sounds like a bell?

DUNG!

[Swede]

Got a couple of pages left of "The Dirt" which is following the lives of the Mötley Crüe members, starting with each of their childhoods. I ordered "Slash" and "Welcome to the Jungle" the other day. Recently read Nikki Sixx's "Heroin Diaries". As Slash was a friend of the band and Nikki in particular I expect to see some interweaving stories. While "Heroin Diaries" was mostly from Nikki's point of view with shorter comments from other people - Slash included - "The Dirt" is the same story told by everyone in the band, including John Corabi and managers and whatnot, it's somewhat overlapping and shows how the same thing can be perceived so differently by different people. In the GnR books I'm hoping to read a bit more about Axl who, in the Mötley books, is depicted as an class act A-hole.

After this I have to get the Ozzy book, hope they release a pocket soon. I'm sure it'll have some very interesting reading as Ozzy shows in stories in The Dirt that snorting ants, pissing and licking up his own piss as well as Nikki's - all in the same moment - is a good way to display that he's in fact the craziest son of a bitch of them all.

[Milspec]

The Unvanquished by Faulkner..just finished planet of the apes by boulle on the can.

[Shane-O-Matic]

A couple of books by Christopher Hitchens ("God Is Not Great" and "Letters to a Young Contrarian") and "The Ballad of the Sad Café" by Carson McCullers.

I haven't read "Letters" but the other two are great! Reminds me, I haven't read any McCullers in *years*...

Having enjoyed McCullers once more (I enjoyed "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter" last year), I'm planning to get further into "Letters..." tomorrow. Been reading "God Is Not Great" tonight, but a few more beers and I'd have to revisit it all again tomorrow.

Also have "Lucky Jim" by Kingsley Amis and several Hemingway books waiting in the wings.

[waahoohah]

Packing For Mars, by Mary Roach. I bonded with the Alberts. I now know what fecal popcorning is.

[Steve]

Just started Haunted by the guy who wrote Fight Club, whose name I have trouble spelling or pronouncing.

[BeerMakesMeSmart]

Just started Haunted by the guy who wrote Fight Club, whose name I have trouble spelling or pronouncing.

Jo Polniaczek

[Steve]

Just started Haunted by the guy who wrote Fight Club, whose name I have trouble spelling or pronouncing.

Jo Polniaczek

Close enough.

[binary]

Starting in on Hemingway's short stories and looking to make a tour of the Lost Generation's literature. It's nice sitting down with a book again, haven't done it in a while.

I'm also reading many books about chess on the side.