What are you reading?

[jaypee]

 

[StephenHero]

Originally Posted by arl0

A Little History of the Worlds - E.H. Gombrich

Nice pick. Gombrich was an exceptional person.

 

[Connemara]

 

[Mountains]

 

[breakz]

Finished recently: Perfect, by Lew Paper. The story of Don Larsen's perfect WS game and the players and coaches involved in it. Great insight into baseball culture circa 1950s. These guys were great ballplayers by necessity--otherwise, they'd struggle to feed their families. Infinite Jest by DFW. Finished this back in September and I stopped reading everything for two months thereafter. Emotionally draining, somewhat disappointing, very bleak, but it was very important to me nonetheless. No way I'm re-reading it though. The Little Prince. Great book, hadn't read it since high school. Fun little read. The Sandman series, by Neil Gaiman. Went for this a few months after IJ. I expected light reading, got a fantastic comic series with interesting thoughts on family, love, duty and responsibility. Well-illustrated and organized, and v.highly recommended. Manhood for Amateurs, by Michael Chabon. Jumped between the book's essays. Some were fun, some were half-baked. Enjoyable but not essential. Tried Animal Spirits by Akerlof and Shiller for a bit...dropped it. Too self-promoting--very academic in how they try to sell you on their idea. I'm also burnt out on economics right now. Right now: Lolita (reading this like a Lit assignment, with annotations and notes and self-assigned chapters) Kafka on the Shore, by Murakami (my first by him...any other rec's? The Master and Martini, hopefully in time for a book club during the middle of March.

 

[shootspeed]

Currently:

 

[leftover_salmon]

Finished since the new year: The Sellout - Charlie Gasparino Too Big to Fail - Andrew Ross Sorkin The Devil in the White City - Erik Larson Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt Read all those over Winter Break. But seeing how classes have resumed, so much for reading anything interesting...

 

[ektaylor]

Started this Friday afternoon, finished it about 5 hours ago. Easy read, mildly entertaining, 400 pages. If you want to relive the primaries and general election of 2008 you should probably skip this and read Game Change. I'm a chapter in and it's already much better.

 

[why]

nm

 

[Wallcloud]

I have about 45 pages of, You Cant Go Home Again, left.

 

[Pennglock]

Anyone reading Delillo's latest?

 

[johnapril]

Originally Posted by Adam_Lee

I don't remember having to look anything up, why do you mention?

How did you deal with crozzled? Have you seen a scarpbolt? I don't know. His word choices are so specific. I found this alone fascinating.

 

[BossTweed]

Getting my reinsurance on...

 

[505t]

Rudyard Kipling, Plain Tales From the Hills.

Try it.

 

[wmmk]

'Finished' Fate a couple days ago. Perhaps simpler than Nature or Experience, but I get the sense that this is Emerson at the height of his rhetorical power.

Reading The Souls of Black Folk by DuBois and Benito Cereno by Melville now.