What book are you reading?

vant0037

Finally finished Women In Love by D.H. Lawrence. Longest it's taken me to finish a book. Really tough.

Just started this:

freshymad

"The Hero With a Thousand Faces," by Joseph Campbell. I got about 40 pages in and had to stop reading because it scared me. I put the book down and sat by the river to watch a thousand fireflies light up the ridge. It's funny, the first night, I didn't even see them til I left the fire and stared long enough at the darkness for my eyes to adjust. It was the most beautiful sight; bugs like shooting stars under the clear night starry sky framed in the trees -- and it was all real.

23scidoo

The great Phillip K. Dick - The divine invasion

PJSiren

The Bird Artist by Howard Norman(for the second time, it's actually my favorite book)

robertstackarmy

I am reading it for my book club. I don't like it, but i am only half way through.

Byrnzie

A Philosophy of Walking - Frederic Gros



"It is only ideas gained from walking that have any worth."—Nietzsche

In A Philosophy of Walking, a bestseller in France, leading thinker Frédéric Gros charts the many different ways we get from A to B — the pilgrimage, the promenade, the protest march, the nature ramble — and reveals what they say about us.

Gros draws attention to other thinkers who also saw walking as something central to their practice. On his travels he ponders Thoreau’s eager seclusion in Walden Woods; the reason Rimbaud walked in a fury, while Nerval rambled to cure his melancholy. He shows us how Rousseau walked in order to think, while Nietzsche wandered the mountainside to write. In contrast, Kant marched through his hometown every day, exactly at the same hour, to escape the compulsion of thought. Brilliant and erudite, A Philosophy of Walking is an entertaining and insightful manifesto for putting one foot in front of the other

Byrnzie

Newch91 said:

I couldn't figure out what book to read to begin my summer, so I had a little poll on Facebook to see what book I should read first (which afroannie was part of). My choices were One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Sun Also Rises, and Ham on Rye. This was the one had the most replies:

Not a bad choice at all.

23scidoo

Night Film by Marisha Pessl..great thriller..800 pages..

StevieG

I'm about to start Sex Lives of Siamese Twins by Irvine Welsh.

Enkidu

I just started the new Stephen King and it's all I want to do. Just read read read.

http://annlewishamilton.com/

dankind

gimmesometruth27

A Clash of Kings.

about 1/4 of the way through it.

F Me In The Brain

Just started this book, like it so far but waiting for the hook really to be set:

smarchee

marilor

dankind said:

I can help you if you need it ! :-h

ldent42

Finished The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula LeGuin the other day. Immediately started re-reading it cuz I didn't have a good handle on the changes in narration and the characters and places in the beginning. That said I do understand why it is considered such an exceptional work and I wish I would've read it in paperback (instead of epub) the first time.

frozenwithsalt

The Perfume Collector.

kein_gerede

Right now I'm reading "Afterdark" from Haruki Murakami. I haven't read much, but I like it so far. I like how different Japanese and Chinese literature is compared to European or American.

Is any of you on goodreads.com?

madtowndave

Sanctuary: A Postapocalyptic Novel (The New World Series) by G. Michael Hopf

dankind

marilor said:

dankind said:

I can help you if you need it ! :-h

Well, it all started with my mother....