What are you reading?

[Dedalus]

Originally Posted by upstarter

Blank Slate, by Steven Pinker
His hair is AWESOME. I'm reading more books on Go. One on sanrensei fuseki and another on connecting groups.

 

[rdawson808]

Rick Steves's Paris 2009 guide
China Mieville's Perdido Street Station (this ****'s really weird)

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[chorse123]

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

Currently reading Can't be Satisfied (Muddy Waters biography) and finally started the recent Jhumpa Lahiri collection.

 

[Connemara]

Originally Posted by chorse123

Currently reading Can't be Satisfied (Muddy Waters biography)
PLEASE let me know how that is.

 

[chessplayer]

"Buddenbrocks" by Thomas Mann. Next will be Oliver Twist.

 

[globetrotter]

Originally Posted by chessplayer

"Buddenbrocks" by Thomas Mann.

one of the best books ever

 

[upstarter]

Originally Posted by Dedalus

His hair is AWESOME.

I'm reading more books on Go. One on sanrensei fuseki and another on connecting groups.

I know, lol. His charlie rose interviews are also great.

 

[Alter]

I am reading 10 Days to less Distracted Child...but it is taking me forever to finish it

 

[California Dreamer]

American Wife. Very disappointing, given the advance notices. The last quarter is so redolent with recent fact that she might as well have called her character Bush and be done with it It's fine to write a novel that is clearly based on events, but this one pretty much just retells them. (It even refers to "Charlie" getting the Patriot Act extended). As a result it just comes off clumsy and awkward. Just finished "Oscar Wao". Not bad, although there was too much Spanish patois in it for me. I simply did not follow what the narrator was saying whenever he dropped into Spanish, which was quite often. Would be a much better book for someone who knows a bit of Spanish.

 

[Kas]

Reading Old Man And The Sea now. I liked For Whom The Bell Tolls so this will probably be good too.

 

[chorse123]

Originally Posted by Connemara

PLEASE let me know how that is.

It's just okay. Entertaining, but not transcendent. Don't read unless you really want to read 300 pp about Muddy.

 

[pscolari]

I haven't posted to this thread in awhile. Recently read:

Suttree by Cormac McCarthy
The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy by Rick Atkinson (part ii of the liberation trilogy)
The Road to Los Angeles by John Fante (2d in the Bandini series, but actually the author's 1st book)

Just started:

Ask the Dust by Fante (the 3rd in the Bandini series)
Holy Smoke: The Big Book of North Carolina Barbecue by Reed, Reed, and McKinney

 

[Bruce9241]

Zhou Enlai, The last perfect revolutionary by Gao Wenqian.

Great book. Really shows the other side of Zhou.

 

[denimdestroyedmylife]

Originally Posted by pscolari

I haven't posted to this thread in awhile. Recently read: Suttree by Cormac McCarthy The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy by Rick Atkinson (part ii of the liberation trilogy) The Road to Los Angeles by John Fante (2d in the Bandini series, but actually the author's 1st book) Just started: Ask the Dust by Fante (the 3rd in the Bandini series) Holy Smoke: The Big Book of North Carolina Barbecue by Reed, Reed, and McKinney
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.

 

[denimdestroyedmylife]

just finished wind up bird chronicle.
meh.
now reading what i talk about when i talk about running.
i like reading murakami, he cleanses the palate, but i am not sure any of his books leave any kind of impression on me at all. reading him is like breathing or drinking water