So whatcha reading?, Novels, Mags, Comics, etc... Options

[The Metal Mallet]

I'm surprized I haven't noticed a thread for literature so I guess I'll start one up.

So recently, I just finished a novel called "The Alphabet of Manliness" by Maddox. The author goes by his website alias, he's become quite popular in North America, and likely other parts of the world through his website, "The Best Page in the Universe".

It's a very humorous novel if you're into his sense of humor, it has a certain immature taste to it. But I find that hilarious. Overall the novel goes through the 26 letters of the alphabet, each letter representing something manly. For instance, J is for Beef Jerky, or N is for Chuck Norris.

I highly suggest it if you're into immature humor, though it might be hard to get overseas unless you're in the UK, you can get it through Amazon I believe.

[DoomedOne]

Alright right now I've got:

"The People's History of the United States" by Howard Zinn. It goes through the entire history of the US from the perspective of people whose perspective was ignored, the Indians, the black, the workers, the South Americans, the victims basically.

"Failed States" by Noam Chompsky. It talks about what happens that causes a state to become unable to unwilling to provide for their people, and gives some very good example. I read like a page and sleep on just that, it's so compacted with facts, knowledge and thought provoking material.

"The Global Class War" by Jeff Faux. This regurgitates a lot of stuff you learn by reading any book about why our world is so screwed up right now. But once you get passed that it really lays out the reasons for why we are where we are, who the perpretrators are, everything. I mean, it was this book that got me to hate Bill Clinton and think of him as a traitor to human rights advocates and environmentalists, a wolf in sheep's clothing.

"Science Fiction Treasury" by Isaac Asimov. He only wrote like one story in it, but they're all classic short stories from the 60s and 70s. Some of them are achetypes for things we see a thousand times over today.

I've been picking up whatever one I fell like reading that night. I also just finished "Citizen of the Galaxy" by Heinlein. That was an interesting read about a former slave who experiences different cultures and lifestyles on his attempt to find his true home.