What are you reading?

topbroker · Feb 28, 2008

Originally Posted by Cordovan

"Bleak House" by Dickens

My favorite novel of all time. I hope that lawyerdad has read this, too; given its legal themes; it would be a shame if he hadn't. There was a delightful little volume published many decades ago called Charles Dickens as a Legal Historian that I read with great pleasure in conjunction with Bleak House.

Mr T · Feb 29, 2008

Currently Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur. This is a nice break from my typical rotation of Hemingway, Murakami, and Kafka. Especially Hemingway. Especially For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Sun Also Rises - both of which I recently read for the gazillionth time.

TheGreek · Mar 1, 2008

Currently reading "Predators' Ball" by Connie Bruck

California Dreamer · Mar 1, 2008

Just finishing Orhan Panuk's My Name Is Red and am moving onto The People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks. Got to support the local talent, don't you know. Lying around my table is the new Peter Carey, His Illegal Self, which I am dying to get into. (The cover reminds me of the U2 album, Boy). Exciting news announced today is that there will be a new Tim Winton in a few months, his first novel for 7 years. That will be a great read no doubt. When I visit India, I always stock up on books because they are far cheaper than here. Apart from the Panuk, I bought a Daniel Pennac children's story called Dog. Also bought historical books The Terracotta Army, Necropolis and Thug. Also bought Eileen Chang's Lust, Caution. Oh and I finally found Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Fooled by Randomness. So all these are now on my list.

Matt · Mar 1, 2008

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

California Dreamer · Mar 1, 2008

Originally Posted by gumercindo

Just picked up:
The Teammates: A Portrait of a Friendship, by Dave Halberstam
The Ghost War, by Alex Berenson
I loved The Teammates. Even though I am not into baseball in the slightest, Halberstam made me really care about Ted Williams and his friends. It's a great read on a lot of levels.

Thomas · Mar 1, 2008

Finished:

The Secret of Scent - Luca Turin
Never Let Me go - Kazuo Ishiguri
The Last Dance - John Feinstein
The Pope's Ceiling - Russ King (?)

In progress:

Friend of the Earth - T.C. Boyle
God is Not Great - Christopher Hitchens

Britalian · Mar 1, 2008

Just started God Is Not Great by the Hitch.

Jerome · Mar 1, 2008

I bought a couple of nice books that I'd like to go through over the week-end:

Mistress of Modernism: The Life of Peggy Guggenheim by Mary Dearborn and

This kick-ass shoe-book.

lawyerdad · Mar 1, 2008

Originally Posted by topbroker

My favorite novel of all time. I hope that lawyerdad has read this, too; given its legal themes; it would be a shame if he hadn't. There was a delightful little volume published many decades ago called Charles Dickens as a Legal Historian that I read with great pleasure in conjunction with Bleak House.

Actually, it's one of the Dickens novels I haven't gotten to yet. Based on that recc^, I'll have to bump it up the list. I tend to approach law-themed books, movies, etc. with hesitation. That said, A Frolic Of His Own is a favorite of mine and have I always enjoyed the Rumpole novels, so that's more like a quasi-rule.

topbroker · Mar 1, 2008

Originally Posted by lawyerdad

Actually, it's one of the Dickens novels I haven't gotten to yet. Based on that recc^, I'll have to bump it up the list. I tend to approach law-themed books, movies, etc. with hesitation. That said, A Frolic Of His Own is a favorite of mine and have I always enjoyed the Rumpole novels, so that's more like a quasi-rule.

Another great Victorian novel with a legal flavor is Trollope's Orley Farm. Wonderful book.

SoCal2NYC · Mar 2, 2008

For my book club I just read The Perks of Being a Wallflower.

King Francis · Mar 2, 2008

Originally Posted by Thomas

God is Not Great - Christopher Hitchens

What a bad book.

I'm reading A. D. Nuttall's Shakespeare the Thinker, D. H. Lawrence's Women in Love, and a book of classical Arabic philosophy. Also assorted volumes of The Onion.

Thomas · Mar 2, 2008

Originally Posted by King Francis

What a bad book.

What don't you like about it? I have my own opinions about it, which I'm keeping to myself for the moment.

topbroker · Mar 2, 2008

Originally Posted by Thomas

What don't you like about it? I have my own opinions about it, which I'm keeping to myself for the moment.

Oh dear, this could take the thread in a whole new direction.

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