What are you reading?

[edinatlanta]

Street Fighters: The Last 72 Hours of Bear Stearns -- Little late on that one but **** is it good.

Tokyo Vice -- Really good so far. Haven't gotten to the yakuza story yet, sure it is great. Just reading about the entrance exams for journalists in Japan fills me with profound respect for my Japanese colleagues.

 

[Kappelan]

Just finished "House" of Frank Peretti and Ted Dekker . Is not impressing me. "The Oath" of Frank Peretti was much better.

From best last read for me were: Aldous Huxle's "Brave New World", "Animal Farm" and "Nineteen Eighty-Four" of George Orwell.

 

[attainproxy]

The Girl Who Played with Fire - Larsson.

I really enjoyed the first book. Now it's a movie!

 

[breakz]

Finished Lolita (but not Kafka on the Shore). Onto

Another Country by James Baldwin
The Story of Philosophy by Will Durant**

**Recommended as a great introductory book on the history of philosophy, and my knowledge of philosophy sucks. Plan to read Plato's Dialogues after this.

 

[Jerome]

Just browsed through the charming novella 'First Love' by Turgenev. That author is smypathetic to me. Next I'll probably read Gogol or skim over Schopenhauer's 'Senilia' (the notebook from his later years that came out recently).

 

[HORNS]

Originally Posted by racetrack

I like to mix in a non-fiction book every now and then.

I'm reading this right now. Quite the undertaking by the author.

 

[Pennglock]

Some non-fiction at the moment.

 

[kwilkinson]

Originally Posted by Pennglock

You like this one? I had it as a textbook in college. IMO, it's very, very good.

 

[ter1413]

"Flawless-Inside the largest Diamond Heist in History"
-Scott Andrew Selby and Greg Campbell

 

[GQgeek]

Aside from the usual technical books, Sandworms of Dune. It's the finale to the original series. Honestly, the writing isn't of the same caliber as when Frank Herbert was alive, but it will provide closure at least.

 

[TheDarkKnight]

Originally Posted by GQgeek

Aside from the usual technical books, Sandworms of Dune. It's the finale to the original series. Honestly, the writing isn't of the same caliber as when Frank Herbert was alive, but it will provide closure at least.

This sounds pretty cool. I love the film of Dune, but have never read any of the books.

I am now about 100 pages into The girl with a dragon tattoo, and it is proving to be excellent.

 

[MetroStyles]

Just finished Money by Martin Amis. Probably one of the best written books, I've ever read. I was cracking up out loud in ways I hadn't in a long time. His mastery of English is the best of any modern writer I've read. Money is a very thick, densely-written book in that every sentence drips with colorful imagery and wordplay. The anti-Murakami. Though in the end, I think they both seem to converge on a kind of nihilism, existentialism, and nostalgia.

Anyway enough of my amateurish attempt at literary review. Just get the book if you can handle dense-ish writing.

 

[tagutcow]

Originally Posted by MetroStyles

Just finished Money by Martin Amis. Probably one of the best written books, I've ever read. I was cracking up out loud in ways I hadn't in a long time. His mastery of English is the best of any modern writer I've read. Money is a very thick, densely-written book in that every sentence drips with colorful imagery and wordplay. The anti-Murakami. Though in the end, I think they both seem to converge on a kind of nihilism, existentialism, and nostalgia.

Anyway enough of my amateurish attempt at literary review. Just get the book if you can handle dense-ish writing.

Metro, I love how you're always totally confident, coked-up, pre-1987-crash Manhattan. I'm probably going up to NY in fall of this year. I want to know what love is. I want you to show me.

 

[breakz]

Tore through 90 pages of Another Country in one evening. That puts me waaaaay ahead of schedule for book club, so I'm taking a detour and reading these:

 

[Biggskip]

Winning Low Limit Hold'em by Lee Jones. A futile attempt to keep up with all of my coworkers poker jargon.