Finished 2010: Odyssey Two last night.
Now I’m reading The Jesus Incident by the same guy who wrote Dune. It’s turning out pretty well (but then again, I’m only reading it while waiting for the 3rd Space Odyssey book).
Currently reading “Sahara” by Clive Cussler.
Something about love. I can’t remember what it’s called right now. I’ll edit this tomorrow or something. 
But it’s a good book. 
I am about 30 pages away from finishing “The gunslinger part one of the Dark Tower series” By Stephen king.
Thank you for making me want to buy it Mohegan!
My Current list:
The Forensic Casebook
The Idiot’s Guide to Private Investigating
How to Write a Mystery Novel
Murder in Mesopotamia by Agatha Christie
Kenneth - tell me how Sahara turns out. I never finished it because I was like 12 when I tried reading it…
And in my opinion, Agatha Christie > Sir Arthur Conan Doyle so far, mostly because Conan Doyle’s short stories consist mostly of someone telling what happened and why they’re hiring a PI…
Seems you want to write a police mystery novel, MatrixManNeo… 
I’m reading many books in the same time.
The Chronicles of Froissart : chronicles of the Hundred Years’ War, written by a monk around 1370…and it’s of course in old french. Some passages and anecdotes are very funny in my eyes, especially an incredible war between Edward III and the Scots, and it gives a good idea ot the Middle Age way of thinking.
The Limits of Interpretation, by Umberto Eco. Rather complicated, it’s about semiotics. He’s trying to bring back this fuzzy science to some common sense, especially after the big mess that has been put in it by some french “professional confusionists” like Derrida or Genette. 
The Elegies of Duino, by R.M. Rilke. Poetry. Just beautiful.
And I’ve recently read Moonfleet, by J.M. Falkner. It’s a lot darker than Fritz Lang’s adaptation (my favourite movie) but it’s a great novel about smugglers in the XVIII century, and a mysterious cursed treasure…
Edgar Allen Poe - The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings
I’ve only read a couple of stories and poems so far and i’m finding the old style of language difficult.
I did really like ‘The City In The Sea’ poem. As i was reading it, i started to visualise all the detail. It’s very descriptive.
I’m on and off reading “The Hammer of God” by Arthur C. Clarke.
And in school we are reading Things Fall Apart.
I just finished The Light Fantastic, the second book in the Discworld series. At the moment I have several new books to read:
The next Discworld book.
The first book in Stephen Kings Dark Tower series.
The sixth book in The Wheel of Time series.
Still have a little bit left to read in The Salmon of Doubt by Douglas Adams.
It was an ok book, a typical run-of-the-mill action novel. As for the plot, Wikipedia’s entry on the book has a volumous résumé, but be aware that it is full of spoilers, including giving away the ending.
It was also made into a movie, but I found it very dissapointing. About the only thing the movie didn’t mess up compared to the book was that the names of the characters were correct. 
Lets see…
For school, I have been reading * Louis Hjelmslev’s Prolegomena to a Theory of Language;
- Manuel Bandeira’s Seleta em Prosa e Verso;
- Manuel Bandeira’s A versificação na língua portuguesa;
- Parts of Aristotle’s Poetics;
- Homer’s Iliad;
- Parts of Anatol Rosenfeld’s O Teatro Épico;
- Parts of André Martinet’s Elements of General Linguistics;
- Ferdinand Saussure’s Course of General Linguistics;
- Emil Staiger’s Fundamental Concepts of Poetry;
- Antônio Cândido’s Na Sala de Aula;
- Antônio Cândido’s Vários Escritos;
- Parts of Antônio Cândido’s O Discurso e a Cidade;
- Marx & Engel’s The Communist Manifesto (again);
- Zygmund Bauman’s Liquid Modernity;
- Max Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism;
- Judith Butler’s Is Kinship Always Already Heterossexual?;
- Parts of Michael Warner’s Publics and Counterpublics;
- Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs and Steel;
- Rondo Cameron & Larry Neal’s A Concise Economic History of the World;
- and a serious lot of papers. :shock:
And for fun, I’ve been reading some poetry books and Arthur Danto’s After the End of Art.
And I’m probably forgetting about something else I have been reading.
And yes, it is humanely possible.
Discworld series is fantastic, I’m up to book 8 at the moment. It’s funny though, Pratchett switches between comedy (like those with the walking treasure chest and Rincewind the Magician) and real drama (with Granny Weatherwax et al). It’s good though, I like how Pratchett changes the pace every other novel. 
The first three novels in the series are fantastic! Unfortunately, it goes downhill from there on… 
John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath
I have just finished:
Dyanna Wynne Jones’ “Howl’s Moving Castle”
Neil Geiman’s “Coraline”
Philip Ardagh’s “Awful End”
Philip Ardagh’s “Dreadful Acts”
And am now reading Kōshun Takami’s Battle Royal.
I’ve read it too recently. Hayao Miyazaki’s anime adaptation is far better. It’s very interesting to see what changes he has done.
I have to disagree with that. He took such liberties with the translation, and a lot of good things were lost in the process. I didn’t particularly love the style in which Diana wrote HMC, but it was a far better story than the adapted film. I think what bothered me most was the loss of continuity. How come Sophie often appears as a young woman in the film when she is trapped inside the body of an old woman? The whole part about the war that never was irked me, and Howl himself was so different from the quirky, flawed novel version. As with most things, the original is usually better. And if not seen in that light, at the very least, it’s truer.
I read Coraline not too long ago, and for a children’s book, it was quite creepy. Gaiman sure knows how to tell a story. 
I just finished Mercy by Jodi Picoult. Anybody read any of her novels? She’s my favorite author.
pendragon: the lost city of faar by DJ MacHale
its a pretty good series so far 
finished “Animal Farm” by George Orwell
Bruno> Guns, germs, and steel was a great movie (we watched it in History last year 
).
I have “A Farewell to Arms” collecting dust on my nightstand.
I re-read “The Redemption of Althulas”. Great book, it’s god everything… plus a talking cat 
“How to Become A Famous Novelist Before You Die” by Ariel Gore
nonfiction that starts out in an interesting way
Tomorrow I’m going to go get “Slaughterhouse Five”.
I am currently reading “The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide” by Douglas Adams, for about the fifth time.