What are you reading?

nerdykarim · Mar 18, 2008

Nassim Taleb's The Black Swan. Really enjoying it so far.

Connemara · Mar 18, 2008

Still working on Banville's The Untouchable. It's absolutely fantastic.

lithium180 · Mar 18, 2008

Fitzgerald - The Beautiful and the Damned

Edward Tufte - Envisioning Information

I'm slowly working my way through all of his books which document the history of man's attempt to display quantitative and qualitative information as effectively as possible in 2-dimensional spaces. Great stuff if you like graphic design science and history.

skalogre · Mar 18, 2008

While I have not yet finished the book on Korolev, I got this in today. Long overdue? Maybe

Anyway, in honour of a famous photograph of a notorious pair of Polo shoes...

Dedalus · Mar 19, 2008

Originally Posted by LabelKing

He was also interestingly, a homosexual, and was convicted for it despite his achievements.

A lot of the more interesting 20th-century intellectuals and academics apparently loved the cack.

Fuuma · Mar 19, 2008

Manuel Puig - Heartbreak tango

Dedalus · Mar 19, 2008

Just finished Leibniz's Discourse on Metaphysics. This is a great accompaniment to Voltaire's Candide, which I had read a while back. Discourse, in its dogma, seems like a step back from Spinoza and fully deserved Voltaire's mocking. I'm on Leibniz's The Monadology now, but it's much nicer.

Thomas · Mar 19, 2008

Originally Posted by lawyerdad

I enjoyed Friend of The Earth (apologies if we've already discussed this).
His short stories really are excellent.
Just finished Michael Dibdin's "Vendetta". Scanning my shelves (and piles) for what's next.

I recently re-purchased Descent of Man (T C Boyle) just for the short story "The Extinction Tales". And "Bloodfall". and "Dada". And others. But I still doubt any of them touches "Sorry Fugu". Simply indelible, that one.

So I was scanning though the Italian crime genre looking at some of the authors you recommended - how did you like Vendetta?

I started Sampson's The Masters last night. Liked Hogan a lot, so I figured this was a safe bet from the used book shop.

eg1 · Mar 21, 2008

Walter Mead's God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World

globetrotter · Mar 21, 2008

Originally Posted by Dedalus

Just finished Leibniz's Discourse on Metaphysics. This is a great accompaniment to Voltaire's Candide, which I had read a while back. Discourse, in its dogma, seems like a step back from Spinoza and fully deserved Voltaire's mocking. I'm on Leibniz's The Monadology now, but it's much nicer.

ok, next time I am playing "trivia pursuit, the philosphy version", you are so on my team!!

juicemakesugar · Mar 21, 2008

The Road by Cormac Macarthy
The Stranger by Camus (for the 3rd time)
Voices of A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn

Connemara · Mar 21, 2008

AndrÃ

Aciman's Call Me By Your Name. I have not been able to find a single negative review of this book, so I have high expectations.

Dedalus · Mar 21, 2008

Originally Posted by globetrotter

ok, next time I am playing "trivia pursuit, the philosphy version", you are so on my team!!

Only if you will be on my team when I have to play against the Washington Generals.

globetrotter · Mar 21, 2008

Originally Posted by Dedalus

Only if you will be on my team when I have to play against the Washington Generals.

deal

chorse123 · Mar 21, 2008

Originally Posted by lithium180

I didn't make it to the finish line on this one.

Me neither. I made it about half way through and felt like I'd had enough. I'm glad I read some of it, however.

Just read Laura Lippman's WHAT THE DEAD KNOW and while it kept me turning pages I didn't love it.

Now I'm tearing through Malamud's THE NATURAL. Much better.

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