August, Summers nearly over and I'm reading...

screw timezones.

i'm reading the tesseract by garland followed by i hope they serve beer in hell by tucker max. after mysterious skin, i need a little light reading.

Homicide: A Year on the Killing Street by David Simon

Haruki Murakami's biography by Jay Rubin (I'm too lazy to check english title)

About to finish Less than zero by BBE  and then on to Maoi by Don Delillo

I quit reading The Lovely Bones ages ago.I was not being entertained.

I'm almost done with Behold the Man.  It's actually really good.  I thought I wasn't going to like it because I'm pretty religious - but so far it's been really entertaining. 

The book really has a modern feel.  I was surprised to see in the copyright information that it was originally published in 1969.  Not that that is so long ago - but the book is sort of reading like Apathy and Other Small Victories (Apathy is still much better being one of my favorite books).

I finally finishedThe Lovely Bones CRAP!

Im now off to bed with Manual by Daren King

I'm reading Pnin by Nabokov.  I wasn't too impressed with King, Queen, Knave, which is the last book I've read by him, but I've heard this is amongst his better ones.

I loved that book. Let me know what you think of it.  Have you read The Beach? I think The Tesseract is slightly below The Beach, but still an outstanding read.

I'm reading Jailbird by Vonnegut.  It's ok so far.  Most of Vonnegut's books take a little while for me to get fully wrapped up in, so I'm sure it'll pick up.

i loved the tesseract. i read the beach first and that's what led me to the tesseract. i can relate to it because i spent my college years in manila and grew up in a small city close to the location of the rural story plot. the native dialogue was a bit clunky (as expected, i doubt garland is a native speaker though he probably had help) but all the social and superstitious rural mores were pretty much on target. all the plots weaved together nicely in the end.

the beach was fantastic. i saw bits of the movie first (i don't remember finishing it and i don't remember liking it) but i'm really glad i picked up the book. it is outstanding for a first (?) novel.

yeah, the beach is his first and one of my favorites. im glad hes moved to movies now but i wish hed write another book or ten. COMA is also a pretty interesting read with illustrations by his dad.

That pisses me off aswell, as soon as I see he has a new movie out I rush to the bookshop only to find out there is no book. The Beach is one of my favourites of all time.

i'm reading a book name of Rides of the Midway. s'good

Around the middle of Gravity's Rainbow by Pynchon.  Took a while to get traction with it, as the first two hundred odd pages are extremely fragmented, but it's showing some definite potential, with your typical Pynchonian cast of bizarrely named characters and sweeping paranoia. 

ugh I remember reading that it ages ago because it had amazing reviews but it was rubbish!

I'm reading The Man Of My Dreams by Curtis Sittenfeld.

 I'm reading Song Yet Sung by James McBride. It's about slavery and the Underground Railroad and the secret code that was used to pass along messages to all those involved. I expected it to be sort of adolescent, as most historical novels about slavery in America are, but it's not. The dialogue is gritty and full of awesome Old South slave lingo. Good stuff.

Just finished........Moon Palace  by Paul Auster.  I just LOVE this book.  Only my 3rd by him, and I'm becoming a BIG fan. 

Gonna read............Blindness by Jose Saramago

Blindness? What a great book, when you are finished reading it look for the Book club thread from last year. If you cant find it I will bump it for you.

i'm checking out blindness, i should get it in a week or so. i have two more books both by augusten burroughs to read after tucker max.  i don't say it often but i'm really glad we have these monthly book things, i get a lot of great recommendations.

I spent most of the summer reading Koji Suzuki, I finished the Ring books, Birthday, and Dark Water. I've also read Truancy by Isamu Fukui, Rumors by Anna Godbersen, and Things the Grandchildren Should Know by Mark Oliver Everett.

 I'm not reading anything!  

Im halfway though The Wakness by Dale C Philips, so far so good just not anything special.

did anybody here read any of the books from the twilight series by stephanie meyer? it's been getting a lot of buzz lately and i want to know if it's work picking up or not.

Can't we multiquote anymore? I read the Twilight books and would recommend them but only if you like young adult girl books (which I do).

I just started Snuff.

I'm reading No Country for Old Men.

Just finished Jailbird by Vonnegut yesterday, and not surprisingly, it ended up being excellent.

Started What is the What by Dave Eggers this morning.

I have read the first three books in the series, and have book four waiting on my shelf. They're fun little reads, and pretty quick. I equate them with other fantasy series books (like The Dresden Files, of which I'm a fan); there's nothing really arty or edgy about them, they're just fun little adventures.

I liked them a lot. Loop is a great conclusion to the series and a something you wouldn't expect. I suggest you read Loop before Birthday though because I made the mistake of reading birthday first and it spoiled everything else.

Im reading The Shack by something Young, Im too lazy to go upstairs and see what his firstname is.

I read Snuff on a plane last week....meh.  It was a little awkward because the guy next to me was reading it over my shoulder the whole time and I don't think he could've been a day older than 17 and I'm like, a grown up.  

And now I'm reading American Gods by Neil Gaiman. 'Tis very gewd so far.

THE LONG TRIAL OF NOLAN DUGATTI by stephen graham jones.

for those of you who dont know, dr jones' book is out. this one, i mean. next week comes LEDFEATHER. order them, trust me, you wont regret it. though ive yet to read even a page of this one. okay, read time.

I'm trying to slog my way through Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl. I'm forty pages in and already driven batty by the incessant annotations. Has anyone else read this? Does it get any better?

I'm plugging through The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It's a summer project for school to make sure the students read a book over the summer, but I have already gone through 9 or 10, and this is the last one I feel like reading. Oh well.

I'm reading Invisible Monsters. Then I'm goint to read Cayote Blue. I hope Moore is good....

I have read A Dirty Job by Moore and it was excellent. I have yet to read Coyote Blue, but I'm sure it won't dissapoint you.

I've only read two Moore books,  [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lust_Lizard_of_Melancholy_Cove]The Lust Lizard of Melancholoy Cove[/url], which was OK, and [url=http://www.amazon.com/Lamb-Special-Gift-According-Childhood/dp/0061438596/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_k2a_3_img?pf_rd_p=304485601&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-2&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=0380813815&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=01S7ZK1RVZ2FKCPR7CZY]Lamb:  The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal[/url], which is one of my favorites....

just finished THE LONG TRIAL OF NOLAN DUGATTI by stephen graham jones. as in, literally just put it down. simply ate that book, ran through it. wholly satisfying. really hit me in a way that i appreciate from words written on pages.

pick this one up, people. just great and by a good friend of the cult. so, buy it, love it.

I'm kinda starting to miss spending 50 bucks a week on books.

Miss Wyoming. I havent read any Coupland in years.

I read it and enjoyed it but the annotations are annoying, it stays like that throughout the book but its worth reading.

  I'm almost done Crooked Little Vein by Warren Ellis, decent so far.  Next is Rant, I'm excited.

Im starting Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris and Sanctuary by Ken Bruen.

You and the person who loaned it to me said the same thing, basically. The story's apparently rather good, but she picked a rather pedantic and exhausting way of writing it (even though it's "in character"). I've got to ask, though: do the annotations ever really lend anything to the story? I've begun skimming over them and I'm afraid I'm missing something, but I just can't read each one word for word. She just never seems to get to the point that way.

Whoops. Double post for the price of a single. That's "special," kinda' like the book itself!

No, it doesn't get better. Put it down now! (Sorry Barca Boy!)

ooh i want that. anansi boys was good but i'm hoping there's another spin off from american gods.