May, Pygmy is out and I am reading...

About to finish The Lie by Chad Kultgen and then read As I Lay Dying by none other than the Faulk-man

This book on Krav Maga!

I'ma learns some fightings!

the double-by jose saramago

Gonna pick up Pigmy when it comes out, but for now I'm listening to the Choke audiobook.

Re-reading The Road, after arguing with a friend how good it was I want to remind myself. Will pick up pgymy soon.

Money by Martin Amis. Palahniuk meets Nabokov in strange sort of way.

The Bedroom Secrets Of The Master Chefs by Irvine Welsh.

'i was a teenage fairy' by francesca lia block.

Finally finishing up War and Peace this month. It has been an incredible, beautiful masterpiece but I am ready to finish it and move on to my next read.

The following are books that are waiting around in my room to be read, if anyone has any suggestions on which to start first, that would be appreciated.

- Gertrude by Hermann Hesse
- Total Freedom by J. Krishnamurti
- Vanity of Duluoz by Jack Kerouac
- Ape and Essence by Aldous Huxley
- The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
- For Whom The Bells Toll by Ernest Hemingway
- Cities of the Red Night by William S. Burroughs
- 2666 by Roberto Bolano
- Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe

I couldn't get past the third chapter. Tell me, is it worth reading on?

The Contortionist's Handbook.
50 pages till done.
Then I'll pick up Jekyll and Hyde to read before PYGMY.

Reading Amy Hempel's Reasons to Live. Not really that crazy about it. My favorite story so far is In the Cemetary Where Al Jolson is Buried.

I personally didn't understand the point of the book.

I also am not really pumped for Pygmy after the shitpile that was Snuff.

Still reading Uranium, people should check it out - even if just for a historical perspective of what life was like in the 50's and how we (the American people and the world) allowed things to happen that would NEVER happen now.

what did i do?

EDIT: nevrmind, i read that wrong. instead, i'm buying 'battle royale' today so i can finally read it.

I know... I'm trying really hard to "get" it, since so many people recommended and it's highly acclaimed.... I just, can't.

1982, Janine by Alasdair Gray

I bought the manga version of Battle Royale the other day, then returned it when I found out that my bank account was empty. In retrospect, I should've returned the Choke audiobook, seeing as how I've already read it.

yeah i have issue 3 of it because i accidentally got that one instead of the actual book.

The problem most people have with Hempel is the fact that they read it like it's a straight story. What she's putting onto the paper isn't always what she's saying. You have to take your time and sort of study the story - figure out what she's is really telling you.

Slavoj Zizek - Die gnadenlose Liebe
Hubert Selby Jr. - Requiem for a dream

waiting for Pygmy...

let me know if this is any good. I grabbed it the other day but haven't read it yet...

The Roberto Bolano book is getting nothing but glowing reviews on this forum... I'd read that next

i read 'RASL' by jeff smith and i started on 'battle royale' today. i had no idea it was 600 pages.

The following are books that are waiting around in my room to be read, if anyone has any suggestions on which to start first, that would be appreciated.

- Gertrude by Hermann Hesse
- Total Freedom by J. Krishnamurti
- Vanity of Duluoz by Jack Kerouac
- Ape and Essence by Aldous Huxley
- The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
- For Whom The Bells Toll by Ernest Hemingway
- Cities of the Red Night by William S. Burroughs
- 2666 by Roberto Bolano
- Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe

For Whom the Bell Tolls is my favorite Hemingway.

Nikolai Gogol's stories are really good and if you're interested in him you you should check out the biography that Nabokov wrote on him

Thomas Wolfe is my favorite author when I first started reading seriously in high school. My favorite by him is Of Time and The River, although, I would recommend you read LH,A before you dive into that. Some people really can't stand him but I love his over the top prose. I read all his books in high school and haven't had the time to revisit them all yet, I wonder if my tastes have changed since then.
I'd go with either Wolfe or Hemingway

Knellers Happy People by Etgar Keret.

I am reading Nobody Move by Denis Johnson

I read one of the installments in Playboy. I really liked it and actually was hoping that he would publish it as a book.

I'm still going with Poisonwood Bible I'm enjoying it but it's taking ages, I'm having a very slow reading month.

I have also just started "We Need To Talk About Kevin" By Lionel Shriver.

Re-reading The Sun Also Rises (after reading Old Man and The Sea, I've been in a Hemingway mood like no other).
I'm going to dive into Faulkner soon, starting with either As I lay Dying or The Sound of Fury, and I'm expecting to be blown away regardless of decision.
Of course, I'll read Pygmy when it comes out later this week.

Ive become a shorty story junkie and Im reading Driving the Heart by Jason Brown and loving it.

I seriously am the world's worst about plowing through a book of short stories and expecting it to all be fluid and make sense like a novel. Did the same thing with Miranda July's book of short stories. I liked it, but not as much as I felt I 'should.'

On another note, I just finished Revolutionary Road and I really ---- REALLY ---- liked it. I empathized with the characters the entire time, despite the fact that I disliked them most of the time, too. And the language.... God, it was beautiful.

I usually LOVE shorty story books. Something about getting the message across in such a short compact fashion. Every word should be the perfect word. Everything has to be so tight.

You don't get that with novels...

Ok my Summer Book-a-thon 2009 has started off great. Reasons to Live on Friday, Revolutionary Road Sunday, and I read The Road last night.

The Road. Wow. When I finished the book (at 2 am), I laid it down beside me and I WEPT. I sobbed... it was only for like, 30 seconds, but I'm not a crier. This book tore me into tiny, weepy pieces.

Yeah I re-read that last week - it's very emotive, love it.

Next up for me is Popco by carlett Thomas. I read another by her last year and it was really good. Also Thesselian is a fan of hers aswell.

Currently reading 'Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing" by Margaret Atwood. Hopefully by the time I'm done, Pygmy will be here and I can read that.

I'm reading Knowing Nothing, Staying Stupid by Dany Nobus.

Popco is very different from The End of Mr Y. I loved all the maths geekiness in it and it was relevent to me due to my work as well. Hope you enjoy it!

Doing some research, slogging through another Nag Hammadi book.

i'm enjoying battle royale, the only hard part is remembering the names. it's hard to differentiate between them sometimes. it's a fun read though.

Abandoned 3 Musketeers when it became clear that I wouldn't finish it in time for book club this month...finished A Mighty Heart and started Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather... I'm ambivalent about it

Real World by Natsuo Kirino

I loved Out. But I still haven't gotten around to reading the other one.

Let me know what you think of Real World.

In the past week, I've finished Reasons to Live, Revolutionary Road, The Road, Crooked Little Vein, Pygmy, and am half-way through Contortionist's Handbook.

Up next: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (started, but not finished), Less Than Zero, and Heartsick.

Yay for summer reading.

It looks like Pygmy is going to be this month's Book Club selection.

Make sure you participate.

I just finished it last night and really liked it. I didn't think I was going to be able to get into it because of the language. But you get used to it really fast.

Yes sir. :]

I am currently reading nothing... because I am waiting for Joe Meno's new book The Great Perhaps to come out on monday