What BOOK are you reading right now?

dude where's my country? by Michael Moore

"I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky."

"He has weapons of mass destruction -- the world's deadliest weapons -- which pose a direct threat to the United States, our citizens and our friends and allies."

I'm reading Lucifer's Hammer, by Niven & Pournelle. Excellent End-Of-The-Earth book. 30 years old, and could easily apply to here and now.

Yeah, ringworld was okay. I like his later stuff better, especially w/ Pournelle. Mote in God's Eye is one of the best books I've ever read. I took my long time name from FootFall. . . great stuff.

Now that I think of it, his short stories from the 60's and 70's are pretty good. I used to have a compilation of his works. . .need to find it again.

As a child, Morrison read virtually everything, from drawing-room comedies to Theodore Dreiser, from Jane Austen to Richard Wright. She was compiling, in her head, a reading list to mine for inspiration. At Hawrhorne Junior High School, she read Huckleberry Finn for the second time. "Fear and alarm are what I remember most about my first encounter" with it, she wrote several years ago. "My second reading of it, under the supervision of an English teacher in junior high school, was no less uncomfortable -- rather more. It provoked a feeling I can only describe now as muffled rage, as though appreciation of the work required my complicity in and sanction of something shaming. Yet the satisfactions were great: riveting episodes of flight, of cunning; the convincing commentary on adult behavior, watchful and insouciant; the authority of a child's voice in language cut for its renegade tongue and sharp intelligence. Nevertheless, for the second time, curling through the pleasure, clouding the narrative reward, was my original alarm, coupled now with a profoundly distasteful complicity."