What are you reading?

shoreman1782 · May 27, 2009

Light reading.

johnapril · May 27, 2009

"After the Race" by Joyce

Rambo · May 27, 2009

Just got sidetracked with this since the movie is coming out on DVD. A fun read and another excellent work by Gaiman. B+

delirium · May 28, 2009

Originally Posted by Magician

The Amazing Adventures of Kavelier and Klay.

Not only does it live up to the hype, it exceeds it. This book is inanely, depressingly abso-*******-lutely brilliant. Everything I had trouble with in the Yiddish Policeman's Union (another fine work by Chabon) is completely gone. It has this grand old-world romance and the emotions punch you in the stomach.

This should be mandatory reading in any kind of decent curriculum dealing with western literature.

was looking through this thread for ideas to go to the library with.
this title caught my eye, and i think i'm going to give it a shot.

i don't really like my fiction to be super heavy and hard to read.
last summer two of the books on my list which i didn't end up reading were infinite jest and gravity's rainbow. i managed to get through 100 year's of solitude and the pay off was great, but the length and lack of action was trying at a times.

i don't know if it's worth it. there have to be many books which capture and provoke me without the pain.

johnapril · May 28, 2009

Originally Posted by delirium

was looking through this thread for ideas to go to the library with.
this title caught my eye, and i think i'm going to give it a shot.

i don't really like my fiction to be super heavy and hard to read.
last summer two of the books on my list which i didn't end up reading were infinite jest and gravity's rainbow. i managed to get through 100 year's of solitude and the pay off was great, but the length and lack of action was trying at a times.

i don't know if it's worth it. there have to be many books which capture and provoke me without the pain.

With Marquez you might start out with something shorter like Strange Pilgrims or No One Writes to the Colonel. I can't say I appreciate either Pynchon or Wallace at all.

geejay1221 · May 29, 2009

Originally Posted by denimdestroyedmylife

are you two going to cyber?

if we were, what's it to you?

seriously. people need to get a life.

coldarchon · May 29, 2009

to every birth its blood

Britalian · May 29, 2009

The Dubliners.

Saw Portrait of a Lady which impressed me. Hope the book does the same.

rdawson808 · Jun 2, 2009

Almost done with this. It's been amusing and interesting.

Then I will start this.

thewallychamp · Jun 2, 2009

the dubliners

itsstillmatt · Jun 3, 2009

The Mirage of Social Justice.

greekonomist · Jun 3, 2009

Originally Posted by iammatt

The Mirage of Social Justice.

chorse123 · Jun 3, 2009

SNOWBLIND by Robert Sabbag. It was recommended to me. I have to say, I didn't think I'd like it (true crime about a drug smuggler) but it is fantastic.

itsstillmatt · Jun 3, 2009

Originally Posted by greekonomist

It's very good. The first in the series is probably my favorite non-fiction book, so I am not sure why it has taken me so long to get around to the second.

Chris2289 · Jun 3, 2009

Just started American Psycho, I am only 100 pages in but I haven't laughed out loud so many times at a book in a long time. Not very good when you are on the train, especially when you are reading American Psycho, cue dirty looks.

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