Whatcha reading this April?

American Psycho, and Trainspotting

[QUOTE=PokerDude422]i just finished reading the da vinci code late last night and I am about to start Survivor here in a second, anyone know if survior is any good[/QUOTE]
Hmm, well... IMO [I]Survivor[/I] is Chuck's best book, so you should like it. :biggthump

i read dharma bums and player piano, next is survivor.... yeah, still havent read it

[QUOTE=phoenix in flight]i read dharma bums and player piano, next is survivor.... yeah, still havent read it[/QUOTE]
Vonnegut... nice.:biggthump

[QUOTE=mary]I'm reading Happy Baby by Stephen Elliott.[/QUOTE]

Excellent book.

re-reading:
Irvine Welsh - Filth
Thom Jones - Cold Snap

new:
Saul Williams - The Dead Emcee Scrolls

Finally conquered Don Quixote, sped through The Da Vinci Code for something a little more on the light side, devouring Hesse's Siddhartha at the moment, and then we'll see what kind of a mood I'm in.

[QUOTE=Mr. Brown]Just got me Sun Tzu's ART OF WAR. It's a thin book with just the original translated text. No essays in between, no explanations, just the old school saying of Master Sun. Maybe Iater I'll read some more on what was written about the original text, but for now I'm gonna tackle it like this.[/QUOTE]

i have this, i read through most of it.......wasn't what i thought it was gonna be. it seemed like a history book, just describing the battles.......i expected something more like a text book on battle schemes and theory...

i should go back to it.

THIS APRIL:

picked up my first Ernest Hemmingway....short stories collection titled "snows of kilamanjaro"(SP) or something like that...

also:
"The Alchemist" recommended by my brother...long ago in spain, a shepherd follows the guidance of a child in his dream who guides him to the pyramids of egypt in search of treasure.

Hemingway.

[QUOTE=JKuhlmann]"The Alchemist" recommended by my brother...long ago in spain, a shepherd follows the guidance of a child in his dream who guides him to the pyramids of egypt in search of treasure.[/QUOTE]

The Alchemist rules.

[QUOTE=PokerDude422]i have also been thinking about reading Crash by J.G. Ballard, i have heard mixed opinions on this book, u guys think its worth readin?[/QUOTE]

I haven't read Crash, but Concrete Island sucked.

If someone has actually read it, perhaps they can give you a better idea of what Seeing is all about, but Saramago doesn't really seem like the kind of guy who is going to write a stellar novel like Blindness and then totally half ass it on the sequel. I think the Nobel Prize can probably attest to that. If you're worried about investing in the bad boy, my personal opinion would be not to sweat it as long as you dig Saramago's gloriously pessimistic outlook on the people who inhabit this world.

Update: My mood chose Tim O'Brien's In the Lake of the Woods. I love that man.

Been going through WCB's [I]Kiss Me Judas[/I] during my break at work and reading shorts from the site here in the evenings after work. Started rereading DJ's [I]Jesus Son[/I] tonight, but I ran into a friend and he was curious about the title so I let him read the first story Car Crash While Hitchhiking (I think that is the title....its pretty close.) and he loved it and wanted to borrow it when I was through. I lent it to him then since I had already read it and I haven't been around much so when I see him next he'll have already of finished it.

who reads anymore ?
I'll wait for the movie to come out

unless it has subtitles.

A friend lent me the two Jonothan Safran Foer books - Everything Is Illuminated, and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. They're both really good.

I also ordered that Douglas Coupland book, jPod...has anybody read it?

A Dirty Job~ Christopher Moore (best since LAMB! WOOT!)
A Scanner Darkley~ Philip K. Dick (I <3 DICK)

I've read Thud by Terry Pratchett, ideal hang-over reading. Today I finished reading a book called Freakonomics, it's by an economist who's used statistical techniques to answer some amusing social issues, it's very interesting. For instance, he shows that legalising abortion has done more to decrease crime in America than pretty much anything else that the government has ever done.

Now I think I'll read some Douglas Coupland, I've got Hey Nostradamus and Miss Wyoming. Quick, somebody tell me which one I should read.

Hey Nostradamus. Just ignore Miss Wyoming.

Have you read both of them, which other ones have you read and which did you enjoy?

I've read a fair few of them. They didn't make much of a lasting impression on me but they were very enjoyable. I liked Hey Nostradamus, Girlfriend in a Coma, Eleanor Rigby and Microserfs. I was not keen on Miss Wyoming and I hated Shampoo Planet. Maybe I just didn't get them, they're very zeitgeisty and I was reading them ten years later.

Angry White Pyjamas (Robert Twigger)

What [I]am[/I] I reading? Tiny tiny hardback Ghost Town by Patrick McGrath, it's three stories about New York. Apparently it's part of a series called The Writer And The City or something. I'm only on the first story and although it's bogged down a bit with historical detail there are still flashes of typical McGrath gothic awesomeness. I was bored to death, really until about five pages in when I was slapped by the line, "Before me on the table now I have her skull" completely out of the blue. Dear Mr. McGrath, Dont ever change!

Notes for my exam.

Just finishing up [B]Henry Miller: On Writing[/B].

He's a whacky, self-obsessed cat - but whoah there's some great meandering brilliance in there at times.