What are you reading right now?

Jennifer Goverment by Max Berry (sp)
And Dark tower book 1 by stephen king.

i just finished The Da Vinci Code and i thought it was really good so i recommend it. After finishing that and Lamb by Christopher Moore which i also recommend i am now on American Pyscho by Bret Easton Ellis which was very much overdue and i am thoroughly enjoying it.

Partway through Diary (for the 3rd time) so I know what I'm talking about in the B&N discussion.

Just finished I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (2nd time)

And just finished Shella.

I'll probably finish Diary and then get more books by Andrew Vachss.

[QUOTE=Malakaiii]Partway through Diary (for the 3rd time) so I know what I'm talking about in the B&N discussion.

Just finished I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (2nd time)

And just finished Shella.

I'll probably finish Diary and then get more books by Andrew Vachss.[/QUOTE]

Someone once said that you should never read the same book twice because there are too many good books out there to read. A life-time is not enough time to read everything you should...

[QUOTE=Detached]Someone once said that you should never read the same book twice because there are too many good books out there to read. A life-time is not enough time to read everything you should...[/QUOTE]
I have read many books more than once. Am I a sinner? Or am I just mismanaging my time? I like rereading books over and over. That's just me though.

I tend to re-read books I really like or did not get the first time around.

Also, due to monetary constraints, it sometimes is re-read something or read nothing at all.

I [I]still[/I] havent finished - Charlie Wilson's War.
Dune, The Battle of Corrin - I loved the original Dune series and feel I own it to Frank Herbert to read the books his son has written to continue the story. (I am suffering though)
Reds -McCarthyism in the Twentyeth Century

Just finished... The Dive from Clausen's Pier - Ann Packer

I would like to weigh in on the re reading book issue. The only book I have ever read twice was Catcher In The Rye(my favorite all time) and that was because I was teaching the book (I am a high school teacher). I wish I had the time to read all of my favorite books again, especially since I am a former pot head who forgot most of them, but I agree with Detached. How can i justify reading a book a second time when there are 10 books on my reading list (now 11 thanks to this book club)

By the way, I am now reading The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. I am only 40 pages in but I can tell it's something special. So far, because the story is a reaction to the Holocaust, it reminds me of Everything is Illuminated. I'll let you knwo how it is when I read a bit more.

[QUOTE=Malakaiii]Partway through Diary (for the 3rd time) so I know what I'm talking about in the B&N discussion.
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Hopefully I won't get mudered on here for saying this, but I was never able to finish Diary...I just couldn't get into it like I could the others. So there it sits...on my dresser...collecting dust. Actually I bought that copy at B&N, they had a shelf full of autographed copies, so I picked one up. Sadly I have yet to finish it.

[QUOTE=jimmer116]Hopefully I won't get mudered on here for saying this, but I was never able to finish Diary...I just couldn't get into it like I could the others. So there it sits...on my dresser...collecting dust. Actually I bought that copy at B&N, they had a shelf full of autographed copies, so I picked one up. Sadly I have yet to finish it.[/QUOTE]

Naw, I know what you mean. It was quite different from his other works. That's actually why I read it more than once. I get more from it each time. Also, the B&N discussion with Chuck was awesome for further understanding and appreciating the book.

I did struggle through it the first time, but I really do like it now! It's worth getting all the way through.

I have just finished Fight Club (3rd time) and Catcher in The Rye and am currently reading The Hitchhikers trilogy (2nd time for all 5 books) and Survivor (2nd time)

i am reading Night of the wolf by alice borchardt and Changeling by cate tiernan

Amelié Nothomb = "your humble servant"

[color=blue]House[/color] of Leaves

Coming up:
Douglas Coupland - Shampoo Planet
Poppy Z. Brite - Exquisite Corpse

Ooo I really enjoyed Shampoo Planet!

Finished:
On The Road

Starting:
How To Talk Dirty And Influence People; The Lenny Bruce Autobiography

I finished Kiss me Judas which I thought was good but definitely needs a second read through and now i am embarking on America but Jon Stewart. So far it is very very funny. i recommend it to all.

Just started reading [I]The Coma[/I] by Alex Garland. Just finished [I]The Beach[/I]. Both had, or are having, their moments, but I'm not too sure they are ones that I am going to take much away from. They seem like time killer.

Next up:
[I]Island[/I] by Alistair Macleod
[I]Jade Peony[/I] by Wayson Choy
[I]Wonder Boys[/I] by Michael Chabon

[QUOTE=Detached]Someone once said that you should never read the same book twice because there are too many good books out there to read. A life-time is not enough time to read everything you should...[/QUOTE]

But you like Dan Brown..

so your opinion really doesnt count.

[QUOTE=MockyMockins]But you like Dan Brown..

so your opinion really doesnt count.[/QUOTE]

I tried reading The Divinci Code, and I did find it (the story) somewhat entertaining. All the while however I kept saying to myself, and my girlfriend who recommended it, that this guy's writing sucks.

[QUOTE=Detached]Other then the OCBC book of the month, what are you reading right now?

I'm currently reading Digital Fortress by Dan Brown. Dan Brown also wrote The Da Vinci Code. (Which I plan on reading as soon as it comes out in paperback.) Digital Fortress is a smooth read. Have read twelve chapters in two days. I highly recommend it...[/QUOTE]

I'm working my way through 'The Good Soldier Švejk' by Jarslov Hašek, which is very funny. It is rough around the edges, as it was posthumously published and only four of the intended six parts got written. Much like his contemporary, Kafka, his work was left in a very raw form. And like all drunks, he rambles.

It has some of the paradoxes of Bohemian life in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which is Kafkaesque as well. It also has similarities with 'Don Quixote,' and 'Confederacy of Dunces.' 'Catch-22' set in Prague in 1914 is also an apt, if incomplete comparison.

There are also times where he reminds me of Pynchon, early HST, and Camus. If you can reconcile all that, you're nuts.

Which is to say that it's a unique book, one that probably influenced directly or indirectly a lot of the 20th Century's best books. Or maybe Hašek was simply swimming in the same Jungian sea of collective consciousness, I don't know.

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well i proceeded to anthony burgess, and his book clockworkorange. fine language, little difficult, but some viddy lines.

[QUOTE=ville_tarke]well i proceeded to anthony burgess, and his book clockworkorange. fine language, little difficult, but some viddy lines.[/QUOTE]
clockwork orange was one of the first books i ever read....i loved the movie but once i read the book i never wanted to watch it again. When i read it, i didn't realize there was a dictionary at the end of the book to help the reader better understand the text. at first i was pissed but it was actually a better experience reading and trying to figure out the slang myself.

by the way my mom is from finland and right now i'm wearing homemade finnish socks

Fathers & Sons - Turgenev

Proton or Mocky Mockins,

I know that both of you are Canadian, and I was wondering if by chance, either one of you has been in the bookstore lately and seen a book by Wayson Choy called, All That Matters, which was nominated for the Giller Award.

If so, I was wondering also if you knew how much it was...

Justin, I work in a bookstore, a Chapters to be exact. "All that Matters" is still in hardcover and I think its abour $36.00 Canadian. That's the in-store price, online prices vary, and books over 25.00 at the [URL=www.chapters.ca]Online Site[/URL] are usually 30% offf, so it would bring All that Matters down to ~26.00.

Did you read the Jade Peony by any chance because I think All that Matters is a continuation (i could be wrong, havent read either)

[QUOTE=Proton]Justin, I work in a bookstore, a Chapters to be exact. "All that Matters" is still in hardcover and I think its abour $36.00 Canadian. That's the in-store price, online prices vary, and books over 25.00 at the [URL=www.chapters.ca]Online Site[/URL] are usually 30% offf, so it would bring All that Matters down to ~26.00.

Did you read the Jade Peony by any chance because I think All that Matters is a continuation (i could be wrong, havent read either)[/QUOTE]

Yeah I have read The Jade Peony, and Paper Shadows. I've met Wayson a couple of times where I went to school as he comes there at least once a year. I want to read All That Matters but I don't think it comes out here, in the US, until later in the year.

Thanks for the prices...I might have to go across the border and pick a copy up.

nice avatar, btw

[QUOTE=Proton]nice avatar, btw[/QUOTE]

thanks. katie needed a break.

"The Good Soldier Švejk" by Jarslav Hašek

Also, though unrelated, a book on HTML/XHTML. Finally broke down and decided I needed to learn the mechanics of some of this coding stuff.

[QUOTE=Chelsea Weston]Changeling by cate tiernan[/QUOTE]

I love it! Don't tell anyone.

just started Lolita