curious what others are readin' these days between... i've just recently reread neuromancer & mlo since i found a hardcover edition for the latter... reread the bridge trilogy maybe last year... some really good books i've read were plainsong by kent haruf, american gods & anansi boys by neil gaiman, rats by robert sullivan (which incidently touched on 9/11 quite a bit as well)... read the davinci code by dan brown on advice from friends... but found it a poorly written fun read...

Rudy Rucker's 'ware quadrilogy; Karl Taro Greenfeld's Standard Deviations and Speed Tribes (very good studies of Asian youth culture), and the Black Dahlia by James Ellroy

welcome to the board Sgt.

I have recently read anasii boys, but didn't think it was as good as American Gods. The best books I have read since PR have been Atonement by Ian McEwan and Eleanor Rigby by Douglas Coupland

Been away for a while - first post for a long time.

I've just finished Cormac McCarthy's latest (I think): "No country for old men". Violent, but sensitive and constantly unexpected. Departure from Plains Trilogy (the place to start if you're not familiar with him). And before that, Annie Proulx's "Accordian Crimes". "Shipping News" will probably remain her best known work, but this most recent one seems to me to be her masterpiece - in the true sense of the term.

You will find what most people are reading in Random, as after all that has little to do with Pattern Recognition (the book).

Try the various "Current Reading..." threads, one per month.

Kafka On The Shore by Haruki Murakami.

High Priests, Quantum Genes by Michael Hayes.

China's Major Mysteries: Paranormal Phenomena and the Unexplained in the People's Republic by Paul Dong.

Patiently sitting underneath these books, biding their time until it's their turn to infiltrate my mind, are:

Samurai William: The Englishman Who Opened Japan by Giles Milton.

[I}Secret Histories: Finding George Orwell in a Burmese Teashop[/I] by Emma Larkin.

I don't have time to read Gibson. =D

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Originally posted by Mystic Muppet:
Kafka On The Shore by Haruki Murakami.

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I know we have been directed elsewhere, but I just wanted to say I am reading this at the moment and it is brilliant