What book are you reading?

tobbac

bhagavad gita

care of the soul by thomas moore....

soulsinging

this is my summer reading list... all books i have accumulated over the last few months and havent been able to read due to law school:

julian barnes- arthur and george
raymond chandler- complete works (ive read 3 of his novels, i wanna hit the rest)
wilkie collins- woman in white
fyodor dostoyevsky- brothers karamazov
james ellroy- black dahlia
jasper fforde- lost in a good book, well of lost plots, something rotten
gabriel garcia marquez- love in the time of cholera, 100 years of solitude
uzodinma iweala- beasts of no nation
ken kalfus- a disorder peculiar to the nation
chad klutgen- average american male
adam langer- crossing california
tim obrien- things they carried
steven pressfield- gates of fire
richard russo- straight man
ian samson- case of the missing books
dana spiotta- eat the document
oscar wilde- picture of dorian gray
howard zinn- people's history of the united state

20 books, plus however many novels i havent read in the chandler collection. ive got my work cut out for me

i finished 'woman who walked into doors' by roddy doyle last night. he's an amazing writer and that was a pretty gut-wrenching book.

mookie_in_eugene

I'm on a huge Vonnegut kick right now

Breakfast of Champions

then I'll be on to Sirens of the Titans

RIP Vonnegut

Aldigbaxher

Beyond Good & Evil by Frederich Nietzsche
Nestor Makhno; Anarchy's Cossack by Alexandre Skirda
Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes

That's everything!

rrivers

Finally finished an awful book, "The Descent" by Jeff Long. Horrible!

I am a few pages from finishing "Travels" by Michael Crichton and will start "The Mote In God's Eye" by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle when I am done. Also, I am about half way through "The historian".

blondieblue227

The Time Traveler’s Wife. I can’t put it down.

PEARL JAM IS MENTIONED ON PAGE 204 of the hardcover

righteousbabe

Bluebeard by Vonnegut for the second time.

rrivers

Restless Soul wrote:

I liked the story and the writing. It's really vividly written, and the characters are well-drawn.

I did find a big chunk in the middle a bit tedious though. If the story was a bit more tightened up the pace could have been a lot stronger. But that's just my opinion.

Hope you enjoy it!

Restless Soul,

I have to say that I agree with you about The Historian. I am on page 340 and it has really gotten tedious. It is extremely well-written but it does get bogged down in the characters just looking through old texts.

I actually picked up "This Book Will Save Your Life" by AM Homes and finished it while still reading The Historian. I am now working on "The Kite Runner". It is great so far! I still read a few pages of The Historian every day. Hopefully it will pick up again.

Collin

Fear and Loathing in America - Hunter S. Thompson
For Whom the Bell Tolls - Hemingway
Strike the Father Dead - John Wain

Ms. Haiku

Reading Lolita in Tehran - Azar Nafisi (I'm almost done)
Reading Like a Writer - Francine Prose (I just started)

I need a list of incredible books non-fiction/fiction what have you published in 2000 or later. Any ideas?

AmentsChick

Ms. Haiku wrote:

Reading Lolita in Tehran - Azar Nafisi (I'm almost done)
Reading Like a Writer - Francine Prose (I just started)

I need a list of incredible books non-fiction/fiction what have you published in 2000 or later. Any ideas?

I mentioned this in a seperate thread, but I read My Friend Leonard (by James Frey) over the weekend (IN TWO DAYS)! One of the best books I've ever read...seriously, honestly, un-putdown-able.

macgyver06

any books out there like angels and demons??

this was the greatest book ever!

Ms. Haiku

AmentsChick wrote:

I mentioned this in a seperate thread, but I read My Friend Leonard (by James Frey) over the weekend (IN TWO DAYS)! One of the best books I've ever read...seriously, honestly, un-putdown-able.

I'm a little leary of James Frey. If the writing is incredible then that would be worth it. A good story is a good story even if fiction is marketed as memoir. My understanding of James Frey memoirs is that they are created as opposed to spilled.

Is it because of the word choice, the language that it is good, or is it because it is supposedly a true story?

Restless Soul

rrivers wrote:

Restless Soul,

I have to say that I agree with you about The Historian. I am on page 340 and it has really gotten tedious. It is extremely well-written but it does get bogged down in the characters just looking through old texts.

I actually picked up "This Book Will Save Your Life" by AM Homes and finished it while still reading The Historian. I am now working on "The Kite Runner". It is great so far! I still read a few pages of The Historian every day. Hopefully it will pick up again.

The kite runner is fab! i'm looking forward to getting his second book, just out now. Can't remember the title. Shame about the historian - I can see it could make a really good movie one day - it' just depends on whether any director will choose to plough through it!


Persoanlly I've just finished Shantaram, which is brilliant btw, and onto Lucky You by Carl Hiasson, which is really funny.

AmentsChick

Ms. Haiku wrote:

I'm a little leary of James Frey. If the writing is incredible then that would be worth it. A good story is a good story even if fiction is marketed as memoir. My understanding of James Frey memoirs is that they are created as opposed to spilled.

Is it because of the word choice, the language that it is good, or is it because it is supposedly a true story?

This is SUCH a misnomer. It (AMLP) is not a complete fiction that he tried to pull off as an autobiography. The majority of it is truth with some facts changed (i.e. the amount of time he spent in jail). You can look it up for yourself on http://www.thesmokinggun.com. In spite of it, though...you really should check him out. His writing style is amazing...truly one of the best authors I've ever read....seriously.

AmentsChick

Restless Soul wrote:

The kite runner is fab! i'm looking forward to getting his second book, just out now. Can't remember the title. Shame about the historian - I can see it could make a really good movie one day - it' just depends on whether any director will choose to plough through it!


Persoanlly I've just finished Shantaram, which is brilliant btw, and onto Lucky You by Carl Hiasson, which is really funny.

Yeah, The Kite Runner is AMAZING!! And, ironically, I'm on amazon right now ordering the new one!

Ms. Haiku

I wasn't a big fan of The Kite Runner. The first part is good, and the last part is good, but the time in the US is like a desert of thought between two areas of actions. It just kindof goes bland. That may reflect how the author wanted us to view the life of the main character and his dad; that the excitement was in their home country. In the US they had to start anew, but all the action up to that point just drained them, and all of the challenges in the new country added to the depression.

He wrote the events in the US as downtime, and that's what it read like.

rrivers

AmentsChick wrote:

I mentioned this in a seperate thread, but I read My Friend Leonard (by James Frey) over the weekend (IN TWO DAYS)! One of the best books I've ever read...seriously, honestly, un-putdown-able.

I enjoyed A Million Little Pieces.

Ms. haiku, I also started "Reading Like a Writer". It was interesting but I moved on to some fiction. I will get back to it.

crittables

I'm reading "the road to hell" the ravaging effects of foreign aid and international charity" bye micahel maren and it's actually quite good. i picked it up to use for a paper i'm writing, didn't think i'd actually want to read the entire thing.

and i'm trying to finish up "tortilla flat" by steinbeck but i haven't had much time to pick it up lately

i just read "a long way gone" by ishmael beah. true story of the author and the time he spent as a child soldier in sierra leone. great book. i recommend it.

vmfury

This Book Will Save Your Life ~ A.M. Homes

The Science of Mind ~ Ernest Holmes