January. You're reading something. What is it?
I'm reading [B]We Need to Talk About Kevin[/B] by (the female with male name) Lionel Shriver.
I have to say that so far it's excellent.
You?
Dostoevsky's The Double
started reading this in the bar on new years eve and everyone looked at me like i was a weirdo
Still plowing through "Infinite Jest" by David Foster Wallace... Good stuff..
I've looked everywhere in the house for [I]Memoirs of a Geisha[/I].
Couldn't find it so i've started [I]Wild Swans[/I]. You know, just to get the 'China in perilious times' vibe, in time for the movie of [I]Memoirs of a Geisha[/I].
chinese-japanese
close enough
oops. Oh well. Communist crossovers.
[QUOTE=Mr. Brown]Finishing up CAT CHASER by Leonard and thinking of getting King's DESPERATION. Heard it's about a sherrif like fucking LOOSING it and freaking the fuck out and going on a kill crazy rampage.[/QUOTE]
I enjoyed Desparation. Good old fashioned horror. This month I'll be starting Brave New World.
[B]Until I Find You[/B]-John Irving, 815 pages. I'm kinda of bored here at page 71, but I have faith that Irving will yank me in.
The Illustrated Brief History of Time, Updated and Expanded Edition - Stephen Hawking
Think for yourself. Question Authority.
Ok check this, borrowed my mom's library card and scoped out the terrain. Library has a SHITLOAD of books. Scored me Elmore Leonard's WHEN THE WOMEN COME OUT TO DANCE (short stories), King's Triple Whopper sized DESPERATION and McEwan's THE CHILD IN TIME.
Started reading The Getaway Man by Andrew Vachss. I'm not into it enough to give an opinion yet...
[QUOTE=PGoutis01]Started reading The Getaway Man by Andrew Vachss. I'm not into it enough to give an opinion yet...[/QUOTE]
Vachss? Didn't he once write a Batman novel where Batman went after child pornographers? Read that when I was like yay high, felt kinda cheap detective stuff.
Brown I read that as Bateman and I was wondering what american pyscho would do to child pornographers...
i am so frustrated, i have had 3 bad books in a row
the fuck up,
electric jesus corpse
naked lunch
(the last two were reccomended as deranged and freshly original, but were really bland, and the first one was pretentious as hell and had not a single interesting detail).I DESPERATELY need something to re-enstate the love of reading.
[QUOTE=UbikRex]Brown I read that as Bateman and I was wondering what american pyscho would do to child pornographers...[/QUOTE]
Would he see them as evil? Does Bateman even think in those terms? That's a tough sell gee.
Hollywood by Bukowski
Then trainspotting, which my friend has been insisting i read for ages. Now he's got it me for xmas i feel like i have to. I know it's meant to be a classic but it doesn't really appeal to me. I'm keeping an open mind though.
Then The Road to Wigan Pier by Orwell
Men Of Tomorrow; Geeks, Gangsters, & The Birth of The Comic Book - Gerard Jones
Journal of a Seasoned Cobra Veteran - Keith Pille (short story, found over at mcsweeneys.net)
[QUOTE=mirka][B]Until I Find You[/B]-John Irving, 815 pages. I'm kinda of bored here at page 71, but I have faith that Irving will yank me in.[/QUOTE]
I want to hear how this goes. I'd like to read it eventually but haven't heard anything about it.
[QUOTE=Mr. Brown]Vachss? Didn't he once write a Batman novel where Batman went after child pornographers? Read that when I was like yay high, felt kinda cheap detective stuff.[/QUOTE]
Damn, where were you when we did one of him other books - Shella - for the book club. (I think it was last year.)
I think he only wrote one Batman (graphic?) novel.
It's not what I'm reading, it's what I've finally finished. And that is the illustrated version of [I]The Da Vinci Code[/I]. Next move unknown.
[QUOTE=Mr. Brown]Vachss? Didn't he once write a Batman novel where Batman went after child pornographers? Read that when I was like yay high, felt kinda cheap detective stuff.[/QUOTE]
Sex crimes, especially pedophilia, seem to be his favourite subject. Long ago I read one of his Burke series novels. Very poor writing and awfully stereotypical characters (the lone vigilante above the law, with a bunch of colourful sidekicks).
Douglas Coupland - [i]Hey Nostradamus![/i]
i just read postsecret by frank warren and thought it was very interesting how secrets you thought only you were thinking were exactly the same as secrets of other people.
[I]Marabou Stork Nightmares[/I] by Irving Welsh. About halfway through it and I'm loving it.
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Flicker by Theodore Roszak. It's actually really, really good.
[QUOTE=mirka][B]Until I Find You[/B]-John Irving, 815 pages. I'm kinda of bored here at page 71, but I have faith that Irving will yank me in.[/QUOTE]
Well, I got yanked in at page 493. I think this is the first time it's taken me about [size=7]500[/size] pages to get "into" a book. Jesus. I didn't even laugh out loud until page 187. I may reread Owen Meany again after this.
I just read the first few stories in Hempel's [I]Reasons to Live[/I] and I've been working my way through the first print version of [URL=http://www.insidiousreflections.com]Insidious Reflections[/URL] horror mag. It makes for an interesting mix so far. I've got three other books that arrived but probably won't get to them. [I]Contortionist's Handbook [/I]would be first out of them, though.
i am reading the queens night by deborah chester
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[QUOTE=mirka]Well, I got yanked in at page 493. I think this is the first time it's taken me about [size=7]500[/size] pages to get "into" a book. Jesus. I didn't even laugh out loud until page 187. I may reread Owen Meany again after this.[/QUOTE]
Pretty fast reader. I saw that book in the store. You could kill a person with that book.
Almost done with WHEN THE WOMEN COME OUT TO DANCE by Leonard and I can not wait to get into the McEwan. Read the fist page and it was like a seeing a movie, only in prose. Gorgeous prose.
[QUOTE=Mr. Brown]Pretty fast reader. I saw that book in the store. You could kill a person with that book.
Almost done with WHEN THE WOMEN COME OUT TO DANCE by Leonard and I can not wait to get into the McEwan. Read the fist page and it was like a seeing a movie, only in prose. Gorgeous prose.[/QUOTE]
Is that a short story collection by Leonard?
I hope you like Atonement by MCEwan. I don't want to build it up too much, but based on the films you like, I think you'll enjoy ( [size=1]LOVE[/size] ) it. 
[QUOTE=mirka]Is that a short story collection by Leonard?[/QUOTE]
Yeah, it has, among others, Karen Cisco from OUT OF SIGHT dating Carl Tillman, another bankrobber, who's only mentioned in OUT OF SIGHT and it shows how Chickasaw Charlie got his job at the Tishomingo Lodge, which is continued in TISHOMINGO BLUES.
[QUOTE=mirka]I hope you like Atonement by MCEwan. I don't want to build it up too much, but based on the films you like, I think you'll enjoy ( [size=1]LOVE[/size] ) it. :)[/QUOTE]
I heard lotsa good stuff about. I love Schrader's and Harold Pinter's adaption of McEwan's THE COMFORT OF STRANGERS. I heard it don't really rises up to the novel, but many films don't.
So I finished The Getaway Man and I thought it was really good. I liked Shella though too and half the people here ragged it. I guess Andrew Vachss is just gonna be my guilty pleasure. I should have posted [I]that [/I]in the Guilty Pleasure thread. 
I read The Coma yesterday. I'm not really sure what I thought of it. It was kind of boring and went nowhere. But I guess it kept me interested enough to finish it in a day... yes I know it's really short but still.
Today I started reading The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. So far I'm liking it.
[QUOTE=mirka]Well, I got yanked in at page 493. I think this is the first time it's taken me about [size=7]500[/size] pages to get "into" a book. Jesus. I didn't even laugh out loud until page 187. I may reread Owen Meany again after this.[/QUOTE]
I [I]love[/I] Owen Meany. Got a used copy several years ago in really good condition. Sucks about the new book, though. Have you read [I]The Fourth Hand[/I]? I'm not recommending it, no, just asking. I read it a couple of years ago and, having finished, wondered to myself, what the fuck was the point of that? Maybe he's losing his touch. I hope not, though.
On a related note (for a change!!), I took [I]The World According to Garp[/I] out of the library today and that shall be my reading material for at least part of January. Re-reading. Cause I don't remember it all that well.
[QUOTE=UbikRex]Brown I read that as Bateman and I was wondering what american pyscho would do to child pornographers...[/QUOTE]
I would talk to them and after that....cut their dicks off....unless they are nice guys off course...then maybe just their balls
Just finished [I][B]The Beautiful and Damned[/B][/I] by Fitzgerald, and wishing I were in school so that I had a reason to do an analysis on it. I love Fitzgerald's work.
Starting [I][B]The Sound and the Fury[/B][/I] by Faulkner today. I've read some of his short stories but never his novels, so I'll let you know.
[CENTER]Simple Logic is Wasted on Simple Minds.[/CENTER]
Onto book number 2 - Cyclops by Clive Cussler. Then I think I'm going to start Collapse by Jared Diamond, but it's a very intimidating book considering it took me well over a month to digest Guns, Germs and Steel, which I recommend everyone read.
Think for yourself. Question Authority.
Woo i just got a 3 book set of william falkner
as i lay dying, the sound and the fury, & Light in August for 4 bucks! I love used book stores and the goregeous nerdy ladys that occupy them.
[QUOTE=Unhygenix]Woo i just got a 3 book set of william falkner
as i lay dying, the sound and the fury, & Light in August for 4 bucks! I love used book stores and the goregeous nerdy ladys that occupy them.[/QUOTE]
I'm getting ready to read [I]The Sound and the Fury[/I], and rather excited about it. Wanted to also get [I]As I Lay Dying[/I] but they were out of copies. Thanks Oprah.
I am very interested in the POV he uses throughout each of these books.
Let me know what you think of [I]As I Lay Dying[/I].
[CENTER]Simple Logic is Wasted on Simple Minds.[/CENTER]
I'm about half way through The Stand by King. I'm surprised at how good it is. My favorite of his by far already.
[QUOTE=Cindy Weston]I'm getting ready to read [I]The Sound and the Fury[/I], and rather excited about it. Wanted to also get [I]As I Lay Dying[/I] but they were out of copies. Thanks Oprah.
I am very interested in the POV he uses throughout each of these books.
Let me know what you think of [I]As I Lay Dying[/I].[/QUOTE]Definitly will do..OOH
i went back to the book store and bought the great white sharkhunt by hunter s thompson.First things first must read as i lay dying.
[QUOTE=urmynme]I'm about half way through The Stand by King. I'm surprised at how good it is. My favorite of his by far already.[/QUOTE]
Yeah The Stand is amazing but everyone should check out King's Dark Tower series. It takes some time to get through it but it pays off. The last book is probably King's best.
It has ties with The Stand as well.
Right now I'm 1/4 of the way through Joey Goebel's [I]Torture The Ar[/I][I]tist[/I]. I am rather pleased by it so far.
[U]In Cold Blood[/U] by Truman Capote. After I finish reading it, I want to see the movie, [I]Capote[/I]. I also just finished [U]Survivor[/U], which was cool. It seems like Chuck's novels are really fast reads, but in a good way.
[QUOTE=singlemalt]reading [I]about a boy[/I] by hornby. never read him before so what the hey.
no one's reading chuck. . . interesting.
favorite stephen king book? [I]the shining.[/I] hands down. scary as the movie. and more better.[/QUOTE]
No one's reading Chuck because most people have [I]read[/I] Chuck.
[QUOTE=Ballerina]I [I]love[/I] Owen Meany. Got a used copy several years ago in really good condition. Sucks about the new book, though. Have you read [I]The Fourth Hand[/I]? I'm not recommending it, no, just asking. I read it a couple of years ago and, having finished, wondered to myself, what the fuck was the point of that? Maybe he's losing his touch. I hope not, though.
On a related note (for a change!!), I took [I]The World According to Garp[/I] out of the library today and that shall be my reading material for at least part of January. Re-reading. Cause I don't remember it all that well.[/QUOTE]
I may have misrepresented myself and the book earlier. I mean if I got yanked into the book at 483, the book was good enough to hold my attention just to that point. That's a book in itself. Irving has always maintained that he doesn't want to hook a reader in the first 30 pages, just keep them occupied and interested so when the fun begins around page 300, they're stuck, hooked, there to the bitter(sweet) end.
Anyway, the book is actually incredible. The first 500 pages have a lot of background which I'm now starting to understand with a sinking stomach and I'm flipping back to read certain pages, like no, no, NO WAY. He's brilliant with how he returns to the groundwork he laid earlier.
So, yes, I like it a lot. And I think it may very well be his best novel yet. But, I don't know, I've onlyt read 5 and he has 11. The problem with me is that I usually read Owen Meany again instead of one I haven't read yet when I need an Irving fix.
hey folks. its been a while.
just finished neil gaiman's anansi boys. going to pick up fugitive pieces by anne micheals.
Finished Goebel's [I]Tortue the Artist[/I] and enjoyed it. Now i'm going to finish reading [I]All The Beautiful Little Sinners[/I] by Stephen Graham Jones which I was halfway through in october and put down during a literary slump. Starting back to page 1.
[QUOTE=Cindy Weston]
Let me know what you think of [I]As I Lay Dying[/I].[/QUOTE]
Amazing, go read it immediately...99% of the story is phenominal, the only thing i didnt 100% like was the youngest child vanahman( thats no were near right cant remember how to spell it). The story is amazingly simple, realistic, & gritty. The story its self is timeless at its core because it revolves mostly around how strained the relationships are amongst the family.Again go read it immediately.
How odd is it that oprah endorsed this book?
[QUOTE=urmynme]I'm about half way through The Stand by King. I'm surprised at how good it is. My favorite of his by far already.[/QUOTE]
I'll agree, awesome book, but DO NOT watch the made for tv movie based on the book, it's pretty horrible, albiet relatively faithful. Are you reading the extended version(the one I read), or the original? I think the extended has somewhere around 200 more pages.
Think for yourself. Question Authority.
[I]Seven Types of Ambiguity[/I] by Elliot Perlman. It's a little gimmick-y, I think, but interesting so far. My boyfriend called it a "big poseur book" (see also: [I]Infinite Jest[/I])
Finishing up CAT CHASER by Leonard and thinking of getting King's DESPERATION. Heard it's about a sherrif like fucking LOOSING it and freaking the fuck out and going on a kill crazy rampage.