What are you reading?

shoreman1782 · Jan 23, 2009

Originally Posted by chorse123

Finished NEVERLAND by Joseph O'Neill. Highly recommend, perhaps more for New Yorkers.

Read this last weekend myself--very enjoyable, and more sophisticated I guess I expected. I want to read his "Blood-Dark Track" but it seems to be OOP.

Now I'm back on Sandman compilations (on The Kindly Ones now) and still trying to get through "Europe Central", which I've been reading on and off for months.

pscolari · Jan 24, 2009

Originally Posted by denimdestroyedmylife

ah cool. i read ask the dust a long time ago but i didn't realize it was the last of a trilogy. i arrived at fante through bukowski.

I think most people arrive at Fante through Bukowski. As a matter of fact, Bukowski wrote the introduction to Ask the dust. I did read a lot of CB around and shortly after Bukowski, but now it is 10 years later and I have found Fante. Interesting.

denimdestroyedmylife · Jan 24, 2009

yeah despite that my opinion of bukowski has been more critical after the initial shine wore off i am indebted to him for his finger-----he pointed me to a lot of great literature

ash01 · Jan 24, 2009

eminem - the way i am - biography, its good.

lawyerdad · Jan 24, 2009

Originally Posted by rdawson808

China Mieville's Perdido Street Station (this ****'s really weird)

You said it. Creepy in an enjoyable way, I thought.

kwilkinson · Jan 24, 2009

Heat by Bill Buford

Alter · Jan 24, 2009

Originally Posted by denimdestroyedmylife

yeah despite that my opinion of bukowski has been more critical after the initial shine wore off i am indebted to him for his finger-----he pointed me to a lot of great literature

20 years since I read Bukowsky...could you give me a short-list of the ones he led you to?

denimdestroyedmylife · Jan 24, 2009

gosh. uh. Celine. Fante. Dos Passos. um. just off the top

BrendanIYC · Jan 24, 2009

A Cook's Tour, by Anthony Bourdain. very good book

Alter · Jan 25, 2009

Originally Posted by denimdestroyedmylife

gosh. uh. Celine. Fante. Dos Passos. um. just off the top

Got it. Just Fante I am not familiar with. Will check it out. Thanks!

King Francis · Jan 25, 2009

Originally Posted by rdawson808

China Mieville's Perdido Street Station (this ****'s really weird)

That book is fantastic in every sense of the word.

life_interrupts · Jan 28, 2009

A History of the World in 6 Glasses, Tom Standage.

chorse123 · Jan 28, 2009

Do you like it? I made it about half way in and was underwhelmed.

rdawson808 · Jan 28, 2009

Originally Posted by King Francis

That book is fantastic in every sense of the word.

re: Perdido Street Station.

Well, I hope something a little more serious happens soon. Though the clerk did just steal the caterpillar, and that does not bode well. Something very very bad will come of it. I just wish it would happen faster.

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life_interrupts · Jan 28, 2009

Originally Posted by chorse123

Do you like it? I made it about half way in and was underwhelmed.
Just about finished with it. I like it from a "history through a different lens" point of view, but hardly scintillating reading.

What are you reading?

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