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A Million Little Lies : The Man Who Conned Oprah

"Book Club" author's best-selling nonfiction memoir filled with fabrications, falsehoods, other fakery, TSG probe finds.

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What is Andy reading? The most obvious answer is "who cares" but...

This will be extremely nerdy, and many of you will think to yourselves, "God, this guy is really pathetic."  For the rest of you who are interested, for whatever reason, I thought I would let you know what books I'm currently reading at any given time (yes that's books (plural), I find the need to read several books at once, chalk it up to some sort of reader ADD), and let you know if I think they're good or bad or neither.  Without further ado here are the books I'm currently "reading". (I've put reading in quotes because I listen to audio books as well, my job requires this, otherwise I would go completely insane) 
I will indicate which version I'm reading, A for audio and B for an actual book.

A - When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? by George Carlin
B - The Essential Dalai Lama (his important teachings) by The Dalai Lama
A - The Green Mile by Stephen King
B - The Truth (with jokes) by Al Franken

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STEPHEN KING WRITING HIS DARK TOWER FOR MARVEL

For those of you who are Stephen King and/or The Dark Tower series. 

Stephen King and Marvel Comics seems now to be a corroborated collaboration.

On Thursday, Publishers Weekly’s Calvin Reid reported that King has agreed to write a new installment of his own Dark Tower series as a graphic novel to be published in 2006, and drawn by Jae Lee and colorist Richard Isanove.

According to Reed, a spokesperson for Marvel confirmed a deal regarding the publication of a King work will be announced on Friday, although no more details were disclosed.

Reed also reports that “sources” say that the new Dark Tower installment will be published first as a comic book periodical beginning in April and later released as a Marvel hardcover in the fall of 2006.

The deal has been widely rumored since Marvel itself released the “King” teaser image at last summer’s Comic-Con International: San Diego. Though those rumors have centered on which Marvel property King might work on … an adaptation of his own work can be considered something of a surprise..

That information surfaced yesterday when the UK-based website PN Online, first reported King/Jae Lee/Marvel as confirmed and announced it would be based on Dark Tower.

Chomsky named top intellectual

            Noam Chomsky, the American linguistics expert and US foreign policy critic, was named the world's top public intellectual, according to a new British magazine poll released.

Best known for his loud and consistent criticism of the Vietnam War and US foreign policy over the last 40 years, Chomsky, 76, decisively beat Italian novelist and academic Umberto Eco and third-placed Oxford University professor Richard Dawkins to top the poll. READ MORE

Chuck Palahniuk

Portland is lucky enough to have one of the finest fiction writers living right here.  (part time anyhow)  Chuck Palahniuk has written many great books, a lot of you have no doubt read one or more of them.  His most popular work is Fight Club, which was also made into a damn fine film.  So visit Chuck's website and give a look around, you can submit stories, and read tons of great articles.  If you like stories that twist your mind, chuck is your man. I would recommend picking up Invisible Monsters or Survivor, if you've already read Fight Club.  If you plan on visiting Portland soon, or are just interested in bizarre and fun things to do while in Portland, check out Chuck's book Fugitives and Refugees : A Walk in Portland, Oregon

Joseph Campbell

If you're not familiar with Joseph Campbell you should really pick up and read one or all of his books.  His work has had a HUGE impact on my life, and I constantly find inspiration in his works.  For those of you who don't know, Mr. Campbell's book Hero With a Thousand Faces inspired much of what we've come to know as Star Wars.

"Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends." - JC

"The conquest of the fear of death is the recovery of life's joy. One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only when one has accepted death, not as contrary to life, but as an aspect of life. Life in its becoming is always shedding death, and on the point of death. The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure — fearlessness and achievement." - JC

If the Creationists get to label our science books...

Warning:  This is a work of fiction.  Do NOT take it literally. 

Content Advisory:  Contains verses descriptive or advocating suicide, incest, bestiality, sadomasochism, sexual activity in a violent context, murder, morbid violence, use of drugs or alcohol, homosexuality, voyeurism, revenge, undermining of authority figures, lawlessness, and human rights violations and atrocities.

Exposure Warning:  Exposure to contents for extended periods of time or during formative years in children may cause delusions, hallucinations, decreased cognitive and objective reasoning abilities, and, in extreme cases, pathological disorders, hatred, bigotry and violence, including but not limited to fanaticism, murder and genocide.