What are you reading?

[samurai]

"Tender Is The Night" by James Joyce. A haunting story, beautifully written. "Gatsby" was superb, but this is a greater work, full of subtle perceptions of peoples sufferings...

 

[rdawson808]

^ A typo surely. F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Making Money by Terry Pratchett

 

[Homme]

Just finished Great Expectations. Absolutely loved it. Am now a few chapters into Wuthering Heights.

 

[MetroStyles]

Originally Posted by greekonomist

Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction by Thomas McCraw

What's that all about?

 

[itsstillmatt]

Man, Economy and State by Murray Rothbard

 

[Get Smart]

jumping on the SF bandwagon, I picked up that "Luxury lost its luster" book that's been bandied about recently in various threads

 

[AlanC]

Originally Posted by iammatt

Man, Economy and State by Murray Rothbard

Hardcore stuff.

 

[The Wayfarer]

Just finished up My Uncle Oswald, been skimming through Freud's The Joke and Its Relation to the Unconscious. I think The Government Inspector by Gogol may be next.

 

[eg1]

Just finished A.N. Wilson's The Victorians.

Now onto After the Victorians: The World Our Parents Knew ...

 

[Jerome]

I'm just inbetween books right now...I have to decide which direction I want to take: I have started a bio. of Michelangelo Buanarotti and another book on Taoism, yet I'm not sure if I should take up my old pasttime of demonic evocation and indulge myself- also practically- in the Goetia again and esp. re-read a 17th century version of the Grimorium Verum? (for which I always had a weakness)....difficult times, this...

..on the other hand I had already planned since last year to indulge myself into the study of the subject of "Time" (accompanied by the Yi Jing) itself for which I had also bought a couple of books, too...(or should I return to art history with Kandinsky's stuff?)...pretty undecided as I said...even bordering on some sort of melancholy....(for which I would have the right books, too, btw.)

 

[dpw]

Renaissance Rivals: Michelango, Leonardo, Raphael, Titan by Rona Goffen

 

[Mujib]

Forcing my way through those chapters of Moby Dick.

 

[Despos]

Just finished the 7th and final book of Harry Potter. reading all 7 books was a challenge from my 12 year old daughter. I enjoyed the series quite a bit.

Thought I would lighten things up around here.

 

[rach2jlc]

Originally Posted by Despos

Thought I would lighten things up around here.
I, for one, appreciate it! Good lord, there is some heavy reading going on here; after teaching heavy stuff all day, I want to read something fun and light. As such, this summer a whole stack of P.D. James and Josephine Tey mysteries have been very good "medicine."

 

[Nil]

Neil Gaiman's Fragile Things.