What are you reading?

[milosz]

aside from textbooks, Juliana Hatfield's memoir When I Grow Up. Which consists primarily of her whining about being insecure. And one short chapter detailing her various drug-addict boyfriends without being specific enough to identify them.

Much preferred Dean Wareham's book on life inside the indie-rock world.

 

[pscolari]

Originally Posted by milosz

aside from textbooks, Juliana Hatfield's memoir When I Grow Up. Which consists primarily of her whining about being insecure. And one short chapter detailing her various drug-addict boyfriends without being specific enough to identify them.

Much preferred Dean Wareham's book on life inside the indie-rock world.

I'm sure one of the boyfriends was Evan Dando based on their song My drug buddy.

 

[eg1]

Jordan Peterson's Maps of Meaning

 

[Britalian]

Originally Posted by rdawson808

Instead, I have started Alain de Botton's The Architecture of Happiness.

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This is a future read for me; please post what you think after.

 

[mr.loverman]

no one should ever read the absurd garbage that chuck palahniuk ***** out. he is a talentless asshole who relies solely on his ability to shock. his work has absolutely no substance and is only taken seriously by gullible and tasteless hipsters who read books simply to impress their friends.

 

[breakz]

Originally Posted by robbie

I am trying to give up television completely.

Mad Men is my one and only temptation, so I think I might soften my cravings by reading some F. Scott Fitzgerald. I used the cliff notes to pass the test on Gatsby in high school... and am sure I would have enjoyed reading the book were I not more interested in potential poon than books and learning in high school.

I recently reread The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald's a master.

 

[kwilkinson]

Just finished up The Picture of Dorian Grey. Love this book. I've read it 4 times now.

Next on the list is either Atlas Shrugged, The Stranger, or The Maltese Falcon.

 

[Connemara]

Originally Posted by kwilkinson

Just finished up The Picture of Dorian Grey. Love this book. I've read it 4 times now. Next on the list is either Atlas Shrugged, The Stranger, or The Maltese Falcon.
Maltese. Like I said on IM, don't bother with Rand. I'm currently doing A Cure for Night by (forget the author's first name) Peacock. Reading a bunch of assorted books for classes. I'm also like 40 pages in to The Road but I am already reading far too much.

 

[robbie]

I never got around to reading the fitzgerald.

I've been reading 'blue like jazz' here and there recently. It is similar to the little Anne Lamont i've read, very fresh ideas on religion and christian spirituality.

robbie

 

[Tangfastic]

I'm working my way through Fitzgerald, recently finished the Beautiful and Damned and just picked up This Side of Paradise. He's one of few authors who can completely immerse me in another time and place, on a very superficial escapist level its like watching a 1920s version of Dallas set on the east coast.

I'm actually reading Pynchon's 'V' at the moment. I was put off by the size of it having found the slim crying of lot 49 very dense (though enjoyable), but so far its a fun easy read.

 

[Homme]

Decided to take a break from 18th & 19th century Britain... am currently on 'A Confederacy Of Dunces', by John Kennedy Toole.

 

[pscolari]

Just finished Sea of Poppies and next up is Consider the Lobster by DFW.

 

[pscolari]

Originally Posted by Connemara

Maltese. Like I said on IM, don't bother with Rand.

I'm currently doing A Cure for Night by (forget the author's first name) Peacock. Reading a bunch of assorted books for classes. I'm also like 40 pages in to The Road but I am already reading far too much.

My vote would be for The Maltese Falcon as well. I read a few of Hammett's books a few years ago and then went on to some Raymond Chandler. Good stuff.

 

[Cary Grant]

Rereading heinlein... quite a bit of it. Cat who Walks through Walls atm.

 

[jhao]

the 33 strategies of war by robert greene