Right now I'm reading Insatiability by Stanislaw Witciewitcz; it's about this Polish guy losing his virginity right before Poland was invaded by Russia (which apparantly when the book was actually written hadn't happened yet). Heh, that's the best way I could describe the plot at the point I'm at, midway through the book. It's definately something I would reccommend.
I've taken a break from reading, but this is what I was reading.
The eyes of the Dragon By Stephen King - I really like the rivalry between the two brothers in this book.
Memnoch The Devil By Anne Rice - Great beginning and relationship between the two characters, but pretty boring.
Buddhism By Kevin Trainor
The Tempest By Shakespeare - Just started this one
I've been re-reading my Yu-Gi-Oh! Graphic Novels, I'm currently reading Volume #4. I also feel like starting to re-read a novel i have called: "Rainbow-Boys" which I'll probably start here soon.
Currently I am reading "Naming the Dead" by Ian Rankin, part of his Rebus series of books, next on my pile of books to read is "Tricks of the mind" by Derren Brown and also reading "The Feeling's Unmutual: Growing Up with Asperger Syndrome (Undiagnosed)" by Will Hadcroft
The Wheel of Time series, by Robert Jordan; Waiting for book five to be transferred to library.
Aeolienne, you might want to look up 'Briggflatts' by Basil Bunting if you're into Quakerism, English poetry and Baroque music. It's a long poem amongst a set which he oddly refers to as Sonatas, although it's pre-Baroque rules he goes by - or doesn't go by. It's a pretty major modernist English landmark poem but if Heaney's English I don't know what'll be in that collection.
What's Foucault's Pendulum like? I'm a sucker for anything postmodern and bought that along with 'The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana' (which has comic-cartoon-like artistic interludes: now that's an AS forum's kind of novel) together for a low price. They are both pretty thick though, hmm.
They're was a recent book claiming Joyce, Yeats, Beckett...pretty much all modern Irish Literature... as autistic. Beckett's 'Watt' encourages an Aspie reading for sure, and a great time!
Rereading zen and the art of motor cycle maintenance
Sun Tzu -The Art of War
Terry Pratchett -Carpe Jugulem
J.V Jones -A Fortress of Black Ice
Yelena Tregubova, Tales of a Kremlin Digger (available only in Russian and German: Jelena Tregubowa, Die Mutanten des Kreml)
have a look at:
the_book_review
Luke Jackson: Freaks, Geeks and Asperger Syndrome. A User Guide to Adolescence. (recommended on T. Attwoods homepage)
"Likely to die" by Linda Fairstein.
& Samuel; what about Flann O'Brian?
What if being aspergian is only another way of saying "being Irish"!? You could be on to something here...
It does seem to account for most of my favourite stuff (though W.B Yeats is a bit much for me - I like his brother, Jack). I think Modernist Irish fiction has a creativity that is much more appealing than, say, Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time and other books about the autistic spectrum. I love Flann O'Brien. In fact, I recently wrote an essay on the use of objects in 'The Third Policeman', though at the time I was thinking only of absurdist traditions. It didn't occur to me that there are some pretty strong AS displacement issues with a lot of those characters. It's probably that absence of human communication/ presence of bizarre inventions that drew me to it though.
Currently reading the new Collected Poems of Louis MacNeice.