I see you found the book you were looking for Pete. I saw that one recommended when I googled but that is a rather short list of books that fall into that category.

I'm reading I Am Legend again for the third or fourth time. Matheson is becoming one of my favorite writers. The man is ****ing talented. I just finished the passage about the dog. It's one of my favorite parts of any book. I get choked up every time. Poor Robert...

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I'm just starting it, mom says it's terrifying!

Been reading the second book in the whole Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series. Generally I despise the thrillers that one can find in Wal-Mart, but these have at least one good character (Lisbeth Salander) that keeps you interested. I'm never exactly sure why it is that I can't put these books down, since they have a lot of what bugs me about thrillers in general, but whatevs.

Just finished Frankenstein for English 151 and am in the process of ruining it with a research paper. Immediately picked up The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn for subsequent destruction through mechanical separation.

Frankenstein is definitely one of my favorite classics.

I was surprised by how much I enjoyed the characters, but meticulously comparing Victor Frankenstein to Percy Shelley is sucking the life out of me.

****ing talented with a capital F (or *, as you would have it). This is one of my top five favorite books ever.

I've had this book on my book shelf for a few years now, and not cracked it open yet. Please let us know how it is!

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Jam by Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw

For the uninitiated, Yahtzee is a video critic of the ever popular "Zero Punctuation" video series on the Escapist. Very funny guy who says a lot more about a game with his brand of humor than a lot of others say in their more professional reviews. His first book, Mogworld, was a pretty spot-on riff of World of Warcraft and some fantasy tropes, and was very funny, especially if you're a fan of Douglas Adams or Terry Pratchett. Jam is still as funny, but removed from a fantastical world and planted in a more contemporary one, where humanity is under attack from carnivorous jam. Yes, jam, the stuff you put on toast.

Just read Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor, and I highly recommend it. It's not fulfilling in that the conclusion is just as you'd hoped, but it's entertaining and leaves you with an appropriate amount of emptiness.