What are you reading?

[james_timothy]

Write your own egyptian hieroglyphs, by Angela McDonald.

Surprisingly good.

 

[javyn]

I'm finding that I really identify w/ Todd Andrews in the Floating Opera. GREAT book.

 

[kwilkinson]

 

[APK]

Picked up The Last Lincolns on a whim Saturday night and had trouble putting it down. If I wasn't at the gym, eating, or sleeping, I was probably reading it. What a tragic, unlucky clan. That third and final generation was a real piece of work.

Breezing through that tempted me to start chipping away at American Lion, which I got as a Christmas gift three years ago. Unfortunately, me following a pattern of reading a chapter or two and then letting the book sit for MONTHS at a time means I'm still only a fourth of the way in.

 

[youngScholar]

Just finished The Doors of Perception.

 

[kwilkinson]

I just finished Ham on Rye. Really good book, and I love Bukowski, but this was not my favorite of his.

 

[james_timothy]

Try Heaven and Hell- when I read those two together, I found it to be what I expected Doors of Perception to be.

 

[Daseinflaw]



Started up House of Leaves by Danielewski, pretty interesting so far.

That book is pretty fun to read. I enjoyed myself thoroughly.


I'm reading Writing and Difference by Derrida.

 

[Pinhas]

Amazing book

 

[Yggdrasil]

 

[1969]



A comprehensive interview with David Foster Wallace. So many great lines.

http://www.dalkeyarchive.com/book/?...file=A09F8296-B0D0-B086-B6A350F4F59FD1F7.html

Thanks for posting!

Currently on vacation and reading the new Bowie bio "Starman". Fun stuff...

 

[Joffrey]

7 months and 600+ pages in I finally gave up on "The Thirty Years War". Currently plowing through "All Too Human" By George Stephanopoulos.

 

[clark kent]

i always get sucked into sci-fi trilogies. the name of the wind (The Kingkiller Chronicles) by patrick rothfuss, the painted man (demon cycle) by peter brett, are both great starts to what should be excellent trilogies. i'm waiting for the third book to be released in each trilogy, i hate the book waiting game.

currently reading Atlas Shrugged, a little slow, but good so far.

 

[javyn]



i always get sucked into sci-fi trilogies. the name of the wind (The Kingkiller Chronicles) by patrick rothfuss, the painted man (demon cycle) by peter brett, are both great starts to what should be excellent trilogies. i'm waiting for the third book to be released in each trilogy, i hate the book waiting game.

currently reading Atlas Shrugged, a little slow, but good so far.

I'm trying to decide on whether I should read Canticle for Liebowitz or Snow Queen next. Both very good sci-fi stories supposedly.

Currently trying to finish The Floating Opera, which started out strong, but now has completely bored me halfway through it. I guess the ridiculous lawyer exploits would humor most people, but I deal with types just like this every day so it's ho hum to me. Still, hinging one's entire case on hoping that a liberal beats a conservative in the next state appellate election is pretty funny. Makes me realize this country was always friggin stupid when it comes to politics.

What do you do when you hit a dud? Finish to say you're read it, or don't waste the time and move on?

 

[james_timothy]

Put it down, go on to the next book.

It just isn't worth it to slog though a book you don't like.