What are you reading right now?

If you like any of the following:
- Japanese forms of poetry, such as haiku and tanka
- Regular free-verse poetry
- Learning how a young artist is using Photoshop and naturally-shed plumage to call attention to endangered bird species, via an interview with him
- Essays that involve either parenting, the US Sonora Desert, or this long one I'm in the middle of reading about a motorcycle tour of Western Scotland

... kind of all tied together with what the editor alleges is the theme "playing outside," I guess because summer, then try this webzine:
http://halvard-johnson.blogspot.com
 
Working on Quarantine by Jim Crace. Probably the fourth or fifth book I've read by him. Guy is becoming my favorite author, I think.
 
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If you like that story and the associated ones about how a lot of phreakers turned into the pioneers of computer technology some one put out a comic book series about that whole era you might like to check out I have the name saved some ware I'll dig it out when I'm back home.
 
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Dear Leader: The Unauthorized Autobiography of Kim Jong Il. My Gods, it is awesome. As you can see, my cat loves it too.I heard about it from my history teacher and it just sounded to crazy to not read!
It's not really by Kim Jong Il, but the author Michael Malice wrote it based on works that were written by him.
The first chapter starts out amazingly sane, and you even feel sympathetic to him. There's still little things in there that you know aren't true. By chapter 3 or 4 the tone shifts to "horribly misguided" crazy, but with worrying touches of sense and truth. I never learned much about the Korean war in school, so I have no idea what is kind of true and what is complete crap.(Some things were pretty obviously BS, but I did have to look up some events just to see another, saner, perspective.)
As I read further, it just went from understandable levels of crazy to batshit insane. I won't spoil the good stuff to much, but apparently the problem with American industry is that we are enslaved by robot overlords.
 
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Dear Leader: The Unauthorized Autobiography of Kim Jong Il. My Gods, it is awesome. As you can see, my cat loves it too.I heard about it from my history teacher and it just sounded to crazy to not read!
It's not really by Kim Jong Il, but the author Michael Malice wrote it based on works that were written by him.
The first chapter starts out amazingly sane, and you even feel sympathetic to him. There's still little things in there that you know aren't true. By chapter 3 or 4 the tone shifts to "horribly misguided" crazy, but with worrying touches of sense and truth. I never learned much about the Korean war in school, so I have no idea what is kind of true and what is complete crap.(Some things were pretty obviously BS, but I did have to look up some events just to see another, saner, perspective.)
As I read further, it just went from understandable levels of crazy to batshit insane. I won't spoil the good stuff to much, but apparently the problem with American industry is that we are enslaved by robot overlords.
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Dun and bought, thank you prime. Book sounds awesome, thanks for the heads up. Cannot wait.
 
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One of Yahtzee Crosshaw's books. For as much as he bitches about hating "snide, smarmy" characters, he writes a novel where that's the main character's whole worldview.

Also reading a history of Nazi concentration camps. The former is the brain bleach for when the latter's too much.
 
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A friend lent me her copy of Age of Reason, so I'm going to start that soon.
 
I'm in a bit of a rut. Can anyone recommend me some good fantasy or dystopian sci fi?
 
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Revelation Space was absolutely amazing. Instead of the bright and optimistic future of space exploration, it's dark and twisted and Lovecraftian. Human kind isn't exploring the stars, it's racing from planet to planet to keep from being in the empty shadows between worlds for too long.

It was one of the inspirations for Mass Effect, if that means anything to you. It's a little long and takes a bit to get going, but is probably one of my favorite sci-fi books.

There's also The Teleportation Accident. It's a bit of an odd book - ostensibly about a German theater producer who is travelling the world to find a girl, but it combines a lot of elements of different genres, like science fiction, the noir novel, and comedy. It's not a pure sci-fi book, but it has elements and it's one of those weird funny books that sticks with you.

Not really into fantasy, so I can't help you there.
 
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I'm re-reading Death's Heretic by James L. Sutter, one of the Pathfinder licensed novels. Not quite as good as the Dave Gross ones, but I like the way it goes into the different planes, especially the more obscure ones (i.e., ones other than Hell/The Abyss). Most players don't really think about that aspect of the setting. If you like Pathfinder or Dungeons and Dragons, the Pathfinder books in general are actually pretty good for licensed novels.
 
Have been on a bit of binge lately, but just finishing off this:

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Amazing non-fiction book about the rise of one of Italy's lesser known criminal empires. Genuinely shocking. Reminded me a lot of McMafia by Misha Glenny (but better IMO).
 
A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin
It's a little slower than the first, but it's interesting.
 
Just finished The Son by Jo Nesbo and I Started reading The Scarlet Gospels by Clive Barker.
 
I found what appears to be a old edition of Science and Health, so I'm reading Christian Scientist literature over time. For fun.
 
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