What are you reading?

lawyerdad · Aug 4, 2009

Originally Posted by GoSurface

Finished E=mc2: Biography of the Equation. Now starting Blood Meridian.

I'd be interested to hear what you think of Blood Meridian. Lots of other folks rave about it. I've read and enjoyed several other McCarthy books, but I found the unrelenting grimness of that one to be tiresome.

Rye GB · Aug 4, 2009

Four on the go:
American tabloid.
Catch 22.
Shakespeare: The World as Stage by Bill Bryson.
Monster: Autobiography of an LA Gang Member.

Connemara · Aug 4, 2009

Will be reading one (maybe both!) of these after finishing Brideshead Revisited.

Dakota rube · Aug 4, 2009

Originally Posted by Connemara

Will be reading one (maybe both!) of these after finishing Brideshead Revisited.

WTF is with the "will be reading" conne?
That's like saying you "will be" banging the Panera girl Thursday. Or some other nonsense.

StephenHero · Aug 4, 2009

Those books don't look very good, Conne. Looks like something my grandma would read.

Connemara · Aug 4, 2009

Originally Posted by StephenHero

Those books don't look very good, Conne. Looks like something my grandma would read.
They are on the Booker long list for 2009. I've never read a bad book off of the long/short lists and I don't think it will start now.

StephenHero · Aug 4, 2009

Don't you read classics? I think the newish translation of War & Peace would be better suited for a man of your quality.

poorsod · Aug 4, 2009

The Complete collection of Sherlock Holmes. He is much more of a bad-ass than made out in the movies. Hopefully the new version with Robert Downey Jr will change that perception.

SField · Aug 4, 2009

Re-reading:

god is not Great by Hitchens.

Also, a book of essays by Capote.

AntiHero84 · Aug 4, 2009

So ******* good. I read it when I was 14, but it's so much better now.

mansard_roof · Aug 5, 2009

City Of Theives - David Benioff

Great blend of comedy and tradgedy from the perspective of a boy in WWII Russia during German invasion.

Fatto_in_Italia · Aug 5, 2009

Go Surface · Aug 5, 2009

Originally Posted by lawyerdad

I'd be interested to hear what you think of Blood Meridian. Lots of other folks rave about it. I've read and enjoyed several other McCarthy books, but I found the unrelenting grimness of that one to be tiresome.

I'm not particularly bothered by the grimness or the unwaveringly graphic violence; in fact, those scenes almost always end up leaving me cold (Someone told me I must be really ******* jaded). The problem I have with the book is the language. It's unrelenting, yes, but only in how overwrought and try-hard it is. I don't think it lacks originality, but rather, subtlety.

I'm sure McCarthy fanboys will come in saying I just don't know how to read the book, but I kind of 'got it' after the first 5 pages.

AlanC · Aug 5, 2009

Commodore Hornblower, by C.S. Forester

MetroStyles · Aug 7, 2009

Richard Branson's autiobio. Pretty compelling read.

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