The written word., Books are good food. ^ ^ Options

[Bryn]

Ok, I know that with: school, PSO, work, PSO, family obligations, & PSO; there isn't a whole lot of time left over for other pursuits. But, since reading for pleasure is one of my passtimes, I'm curious as to whether there are other book worm peeps here, and if so, whats on the current menu?

For those that are interested, my books du jour are:

All Tomorrow's Parties by William Gibson - Future, cyber, coolness.
The Death of Sleep by Anne McCaffrey (and some loser) - Typical Sci-Fi fare.

Oh, and true geek that I am, I consider comic books as literature, so comics count too!

Titles I'm currently picking up:

Marvel's X-Statix (the new incarnation of the now defunct X-Force)
DC's Filth (Grant Morrison )

[AC9breaker]

lmfao @ Woe's sig.


Anyway, blows dust of thread. Whats everyone been reading these days?
Besides an assload of college text books I managed to finish up a book my uncle recommended to me. Miguel Marmol. A Book about the life of a Salvadorean proletarian worker, which also tells about the proletarian worker movement in El Salvador and various other historical aspects of it. It was orginally published in Spanish but was translated into English sometime in the late 80's. It was pretty cool for me to see the Salvadorean manner of speaking, translated into english. Really nicely translated. If you like Revolutionary literature or are interested in socialist movements or various other political aspects of our world, I would recommened you read this book.

Book #2 The Power of One. This was a book assigned to me by my Literature class. I wasn't expecting much out of it but man what an enjoyable story. Takes place in South Africa in the late 1940's. Its basically about How a small child manages to figure out the intricacies of the world we live in and discovers the power of one that lies dormant in all of us. I couldn't put the book down once I started but was dissapointed with the ending. I guess because I began to project too much of myself into the main character.


On the comic book side, I've been trying to collect back issues of The Ultimate Avnegers series. LOL @ Hawkeye taking out a group of militants who where torturing with literally his fingernails. I only have a few issues but I'm really liking the story arc.

So what about you doods? Wassup!?
I know oddies has been taken plunges into the Black Library! Share with us!