What do you be readin'?

#201

that photo is appropriately large and imposing

#202

I'd like to read that myself one day, not sure if it was translated or if I can even find an original copy.

You have... well groomed nails.

I started Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five.

#203

erich von däniken k

#204

Four Plays by Matei Vișniec. His A Paris Attic Overlooking Death was the first play I went to as a teenager and despite my gaffe of not acquiring headphones and having to watch then everything in French (which I hardly understood), the spectacle was actually spellbinding - it received a great staging by a leading director.

Can't decide what book, next.

#205

The Night Stalker by Philip Carlo. It's an account of the real life serial killer Richard Ramirez, I'm about 1/4th of the way through and it's amazing so far

#206

Timo K. Mukka k

Timo Kustaa Mukka (17 December 1944 – 27 March 1973) was a Finnish author who wrote about the lives of people in Lapland. Over his career he completed nine novels, written in a lyrical prose style, about the harsh conditions in Lapland, the region of his childhood and of most of his adult life.

#207

H.P. Lovecraft. Classic Stories.

#208

Oryx & Crake (by Margeret Atwood), per the book club list that fingersplints created. I'm reading that one right now.

I recently finished Cradle to Cradle, a book about the life of the many different items we encounter on a daily basis, and what happens when they're no longer useful. A little depressing, but informative.

#209

Metalmarsh89 wrote:Oryx & Crake (by Margeret Atwood), per the book club list that fingersplints created. I'm reading that one right now.

I checked that out of a cruise ship library on my last cruise nine years ago. Yes, I read a novel on a cruise. Two actually. Eloh had just given birth to our son- the cruise was planned and paid for well before she knew she was pregnant- so we spent a lot of time in the cabin for nursing and naps.

I enjoyed it a lot, even if a lot of it felt dated. I plan to read the other books in the series someday.

#210

Octopus!: The Most Mysterious Creature in the Sea by Katherine Harmon Courage.

I have fallen in love with these clever, mischievous, fascinating cephalopods.

#211

Bubbles wrote:The Night Stalker by Philip Carlo. It's an account of the real life serial killer Richard Ramirez, I'm about 1/4th of the way through and it's amazing so far

Ooooh, I'm putting this next on my list. I really enjoy serial killer nonfiction.

No, I'm not weird.

#212

An absolute treasure. This is one woman who should have lived past 39.

**http://www.last.fm/user/nutella23** · #213

Anyone else here read the comic Saga? I just caught up and it's SO FKING GOOD. Highly recommend.

#214

nutella wrote:Anyone else here read the comic Saga? I just caught up and it's SO FKING GOOD. Highly recommend.

what's it about?

#215

Vompatti wrote:Krishnamurti k

#216

Finishing Saramago's All the Names.

#217

I'm still reading the dictionary. I'm still on the letter R. Life is busy and there are Olympics to watch, so I haven't actually read a page during the month of August yet.

I have been reading through the Republican National Convention platform little by little. I plan on reading through the Democrat's, Libertarian's and Green Party's platforms as well and comparing and contrasting them before election day.

#218

^ D < G < L < R

#219

political stufff

#220

Finnish theosophical magazines from the 30s and 40s k

#221

This thread.

#222

Killing Willis, by Todd Bridges. quite interesting so far

#223

The Flood by J.M.G. le Clezio. Trippy writing, so far.

#224

Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio (French: [ʒɑ̃ maʁi ɡystav lə klezjo]; born 13 April 1940), usually identified as J. M. G. Le Clézio, is a French-Mauritian writer and professor. The author of over forty works, he was awarded the 1963 Prix Renaudot for his novel Le Procès-Verbal and the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature for his life's work, as an "author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization".

#225

Yes, I believe his book is the one I'm reading.

#226

Heads up to anyone who's into murder stories, there is a humble bundle ebook sale right now:

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/true ... ook-bundle

#227

The Mass Psychology of Fascism by Wilhelm Reich k

#228

Stuck halfway through Italo Svevo's Senility. It seems James Joyce admired, befriended and supported this writer and his novels, but I'm sort of at a loss. It all reads like 100 pages of socially-inadequate-man's-tale-of-batshit-jealousy post-romantic malaise. :\

#229

In this moment I'm reading The Magical Revival by Kenneth Grant.

#230

Currently reading A Song of Ice and Fire series, almost done book 3.
Don't really read too much, just stuff like Bukowski and the like.

#231

The Collected Ghost Stories of M.R. James. I knew I would like it based on the negative Amazon reviews complaining that it was hard to read and used too much Latin.

#232

I started re-reading 4.50 from Paddington by Agatha Christie a few weeks back, thinking that I'll get back into it eventually.

#233

Cryptonic wrote:Currently reading A Song of Ice and Fire series, almost done book 3.
Don't really read too much, just stuff like Bukowski and the like.

I am currently rereading the series myself. I do it every year in the vain hope that I will have the story fresh in my mind should GRRM will finally bring out the next book

#234

I'm still boycotting George RR for criticising everyone else's endings while never writing one himself.

#235

I'm a Westeros junkie

#236

Vompatti wrote:In this moment I'm reading The Magical Revival by Kenneth Grant.

This book doesn't have much structure or coherent argumentation k

Also less extraterrestrial sex magick than I expected

#237

Vompatti wrote:
Vompatti wrote:In this moment I'm reading The Magical Revival by Kenneth Grant.
This book doesn't have much structure or coherent argumentation k

Also less extraterrestrial sex magick than I expected

Man, what a letdown.

#238

thellama73 wrote:
Vompatti wrote:
Vompatti wrote:In this moment I'm reading The Magical Revival by Kenneth Grant.
This book doesn't have much structure or coherent argumentation k

Also less extraterrestrial sex magick than I expected
Man, what a letdown.

ture

However I started Nightside of Eden today and it seems potentially more promising

#239

I'm about to start reading Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates.

#240

S~V~S wrote:I'm a Westeros junkie

Me too.. me too.. even hosted a 6 sided mafia game based on it. Idk why I'm so drawn to it.

Just start book 4 today tho. The epilogue of book 3 was pretty awesome

#241

My dad is reading a lot these days, probably to test his new goggles. He devoured a 150+ book in a day and a half, while it's been a month and I'm still stuck with

Ricochet wrote:Stuck halfway through Italo Svevo's Senility. It seems James Joyce admired, befriended and supported this writer and his novels, but I'm sort of at a loss. It all reads like 100 pages of socially-inadequate-man's-tale-of-batshit-jealousy post-romantic malaise. :\

Anyway, he wanted me to give him a new book to read from my collection.

I gave him Blood Meridian.

I've no idea what I'm doing.

#242

Still working on the dictionary. Here's my latest update. It's been almost a month since I read a page but I'm determined to finish the dang thing this year. I'm currently in the early pages of letter S.

#243

What did you think about ricochet? Did the word make any impression on you?

#244

I'm feeding my fascination/obsession with the ancient world with The Birth of Classical Europe by Peter Thonemann and Simon Price. It's a thorough if still somewhat basic overview of the beginnings and progression of the cultural identity we know as "European" from the early Bronze Age Aegean through the fall of the Roman Empire. Reading it has made me ache for a chance to go back to the Aegean region with more time to explore all of the sites I missed the first time. I love this stuff.

#245

G-Man wrote:

Still working on the dictionary. Here's my latest update. It's been almost a month since I read a page but I'm determined to finish the dang thing this year. I'm currently in the early pages of letter S.

I didn't know about this project until now. I just read all your entries. Most interesting!

#246

I just finished Multiple Choice by Alejandro Zambra, which is a novel told completely within the confines of Chilean SAT questions. It really depressed me (content not format).

#247

Mongoose wrote:I just finished Multiple Choice by Alejandro Zambra, which is a novel told completely within the confines of Chilean SAT questions. It really depressed me (content not format).

What time period did the book cover?

I am interested in reading Latin American literature, particularly magical realism.

#248

A Person wrote:
Mongoose wrote:I just finished Multiple Choice by Alejandro Zambra, which is a novel told completely within the confines of Chilean SAT questions. It really depressed me (content not format).
What time period did the book cover?

I am interested in reading Latin American literature, particularly magical realism.

pinochet

#249

Mongoose wrote:
A Person wrote:
Mongoose wrote:I just finished Multiple Choice by Alejandro Zambra, which is a novel told completely within the confines of Chilean SAT questions. It really depressed me (content not format).
What time period did the book cover?

I am interested in reading Latin American literature, particularly magical realism.
ricochet

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My father is testing out his new goggles (either that, or his mid-life crisis hobbies have suddenly led him back to reading fiction) and during this two week holiday, he has read (always demanding that I choose a book for him):

Orhan Pamuk, White Fortress
Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
Paul Auster, Mr. Vertigo
Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

Meanwhile, I only managed to finish To Kill a Mockingbird (which I understand is the equivalent of an eight grade syllabus reading in the US of A)

Why is my father so superhuman, while I am just a dirty bum hole?

#250

To Kill a Mockingbird inspired me to become an attorney.

I am currently reading the genre-bending fantastic The Last One by Alexandra Olivia

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