What book are you reading?

JOEJOEJOE

Flying to Cleveland from Los Angeles tomorrow.....going to read:

Under the Big Black Sun: A Personal History of L.A. Punk

By John Doe of X

jerparker20

Going Clear by Lawrence Wright

Scientology... interesting read.

brianlux

Nathaniel West, Day of the Locust

HOLY CRAP!  Two or three times I've gone back to the front of the book to check the copyright date.  Yep, 1939.  It blows my mind that West was writing this stuff in 1939!!  He was miles ahead of his time.  It's no wonder (and very sad) that this book barely sold at all when it came out and was viciously attacked by reviewers at the time.  But it's gone on (and rightfully so) to become a long-standing classic of American literature.  Bold, daring, different.  Highly recommended.

F Me In The Brain

brianlux said:

Nathaniel West, Day of the Locust

HOLY CRAP!  Two or three times I've gone back to the front of the book to check the copyright date.  Yep, 1939.  It blows my mind that West was writing this stuff in 1939!!  He was miles ahead of his time.  It's no wonder (and very sad) that this book barely sold at all when it came out and was viciously attacked by reviewers at the time.  But it's gone on (and rightfully so) to become a long-standing classic of American literature.  Bold, daring, different.  Highly recommended.

Out of print, it looks like.  Will have to check with a local bookseller...sounds interesting and although I know of the title I had not looked closely at it previously.

dankind

F Me In The Brain said:

brianlux said:

Nathaniel West, Day of the Locust

HOLY CRAP!  Two or three times I've gone back to the front of the book to check the copyright date.  Yep, 1939.  It blows my mind that West was writing this stuff in 1939!!  He was miles ahead of his time.  It's no wonder (and very sad) that this book barely sold at all when it came out and was viciously attacked by reviewers at the time.  But it's gone on (and rightfully so) to become a long-standing classic of American literature.  Bold, daring, different.  Highly recommended.

Out of print, it looks like.  Will have to check with a local bookseller...sounds interesting and although I know of the title I had not looked closely at it previously.

This can't be out of print. If it is, I'll send you my copy. It's sometimes paired with West's Miss Lonelyhearts. That's the version I have.

F Me In The Brain

dankind said:

F Me In The Brain said:

brianlux said:

Nathaniel West, Day of the Locust

HOLY CRAP!  Two or three times I've gone back to the front of the book to check the copyright date.  Yep, 1939.  It blows my mind that West was writing this stuff in 1939!!  He was miles ahead of his time.  It's no wonder (and very sad) that this book barely sold at all when it came out and was viciously attacked by reviewers at the time.  But it's gone on (and rightfully so) to become a long-standing classic of American literature.  Bold, daring, different.  Highly recommended.

Out of print, it looks like.  Will have to check with a local bookseller...sounds interesting and although I know of the title I had not looked closely at it previously.

This can't be out of print. If it is, I'll send you my copy. It's sometimes paired with West's Miss Lonelyhearts. That's the version I have.

Thanks, I will check again.  The items I saw for sale as a solo had a number of reviews saying it was photocopied dreck and tough to read.  Combo or complete works will be checked now....

F Me In The Brain

Good call, found from an offsite seller with the combo.

dankind

One of my undergrad senior theses was on the aesthetics of sex and violence and how that applied to gender roles in the LA sleaze subgenre, and The Day of the Locust was deconstructed over many pages. The chaos at the end of that book is just fantastic.

F Me In The Brain

LA sleaze subgenre
I wish I could erase my mind and go back and read Ellroy's stuff again.  He deals with some real LA sleaze.  I love-love-love-love-love American Tabloid. 

Ms. Haiku

Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson

riotgrl

The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George

Wobbie

I'll have to read that, F'me.

I am reading the last Grisham....the whistler...and it is a page turner.

Wobbie

just finished this...can't recommend this guy highly enough....great plots plus great insight of northern ireland's "troubles"

next up, the new dennis lehane.

F Me In The Brain

Wobbie said:

just finished this...can't recommend this guy highly enough....great plots plus great insight of northern ireland's "troubles"

next up, the new dennis lehane.

Dont need to read earlier book(s) in the Sean Duffy series first?

Let us know on the Lehane, I loved the trilogy that Affleck hacked up in the movies.

23scidoo

oftenreading

https://www.google.ca/search?q=claire+north+the+end+of+the+day&client=safari&channel=iphone_bm&prmd=ivn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiyseKEquvUAhWBLmMKHXT1AGQQ_AUICSgB&biw=320&bih=460#imgrc=rv6mnWWo1XC5uM:

Claire North's The End of the Day, a story about Charlie, The Harbinger of Death. Well worth a read, though the last 5% is a tough read. 

oftenreading

Sorry - thought I was posting a pic above, not a link. 

Ms. Haiku

Finally finished John Adams by David McCullough. Very good. I would recommend it as others recommended it in this thread.

Pap

bluegrace

About to read The Universe At Your Hand by a French, Christophe Galfard. About dark matter, dark energy, all that stuff.