What book are you reading?

Digital Twilight · January 2014

Slaughterhouse 5 is a great read. It's the only Vonnegut book I've read unfortunately but I've had my eye on Cat's Cradle for a while.

So it goes...

vant0037 · January 2014

Black Diamond said:

Great book, great author. I saw him read from this. I highly recommend The Adventures of Cavalier and Klay. Fantastic book.

vant0037 · January 2014

backseatLover12 · January 2014

vant0037 said:

I absolutely loved that book!

he.who.forgets · January 2014

Desolation Angels - Kerouac

wasa1971 · January 2014

I got This is your Brain on Music for Christmas, I hope to start it soon.

weddingparade · January 2014

No Woman No Cry: My Life with Bob Marley

jlaustin · January 2014

Who Princess said:
Who Princess" said:

I've gotten halfway through this and I'm giving up. It's kind of an interesting story (Henry Ford was a weird guy :? ) but this guy's writing is making me crazy. Besides excessive details that I can't keep track of, his sentences have so many clauses that I have to reread some of them to figure out what he's saying.

Talking about the Amazon River:

And unlike the delta of the Mississippi, which over the last two centuries has been reduced from a patchwork of barely navigable bayous, islands, shifting sandbars, and estuaries into a rationalized sluice, the Amazon's terminus remains democratic, with many metamorphosing paths in and out.

Sheesh, you don't have to stick to simple sentences but the entire book reads like that. :crazy:

You got further than me! I gave up about 50 pages in... Being from Michigan, I was interested in this, but the author's writing style made it way more work than I was interested in doing! @-)

Empty Glass · January 2014

Lone Survivor. Saw the movie, had to read the book.

I am not a reader. I usually read a page, page and a half and my mind wonders and I end up having to go back and re-read. Not this book. This thing has me hooked. Great read in my mind.

F Me In The Brain · January 2014

Empty Glass said:
Lone Survivor. Saw the movie, had to read the book.

I am not a reader. I usually read a page, page and a half and my mind wonders and I end up having to go back and re-read. Not this book. This thing has me hooked. Great read in my mind.

Excellent book, read that a long while ago and thought it was fascinating.

kw18 · January 2014

Empty Glass said:
Lone Survivor. Saw the movie, had to read the book.

I am not a reader. I usually read a page, page and a half and my mind wonders and I end up having to go back and re-read. Not this book. This thing has me hooked. Great read in my mind.

Could be the books you're reading. I've found that if a book can't keep my attention for more than a couple pages, it's not worth my time to continue reading. Sounds like you found a good one, though.

twisted thoughts · January 2014

Love books? Love art? Have fingers?
This is pretty cool. Figured this was a good place to share

Send a list of your favorite books, and a fingerprint, and she'll turn it into custom art.
etsy.com/listing/160253675/new-size-custom-portrait-for-the-book?ref=shop_home_active_6

F Me In The Brain · January 2014

^^ That is pretty cool. I would like to do w/music also...which she indicates she will do. Top 100 PJ songs!

riotgrl · January 2014

Currently focusing on some classic reading/writers that I've missed. Just about finished with Steinbeck's To a God Unknown. Really love his take on the relationship between man and the land.

Ms. Haiku · January 2014

River of Doubt by Candace Millard

Bentleyspop · January 2014

The Double
George Pelecanos

Another awesome read from the great G.P.
Also known for writing some episodes of The Wire and Treme.

gunter1976 · January 2014

Bentleyspop said:
The Double
George Pelecanos

Another awesome read from the great G.P.
Also known for writing some episodes of The Wire and Treme.

Now there's an author I have been wanting to read, thanks for reminding me.

For now, my next stop is a contemporary American writer I am somewhat familiar with, a "laureate of American lowlife". The book being The Post Office, the man Charles Bukowski. It'll give me something to ponder and chew on as I approach middle age myself.

"It began as a mistake." By middle age, Henry Chinaski has lost more than twelve years of his life to the U.S. Postal Service. In a world where his three true, bitter pleasures are women, booze, and racetrack betting, he somehow drags his hangover out of bed every dawn to lug waterlogged mailbags up mud-soaked mountains, outsmart vicious guard dogs, and pray to survive the day-to-day trials of sadistic bosses and certifiable coworkers. This classic 1971 novel—the one that catapulted its author to national fame—is the perfect introduction to the grimly hysterical world of legendary writer, poet, and Dirty Old Man Charles Bukowski and his fictional alter ego, Chinaski.

riotgrl · February 2014

Just started The Awakening by Kate Chopin.

Set in New Orleans and the Southern Louisiana coast at the end of the nineteenth century, the plot centers on Edna Pontellier and her struggle to reconcile her increasingly unorthodox views on femininity and motherhood with the prevailing social attitudes of the turn-of-the-century South. It is one of the earliest American novels that focuses on women's issues without condescension. It is also widely seen as a landmark work of early feminism, generating mixed reaction from contemporary readers and criticism.

gunter1976 · February 2014

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the story of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. In a perfectly crafted story, which won for Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature, is a unique and timeless vision of the beauty and grief of man's challenge to the elements in which he lives.

EdsonNascimento · February 2014

Bully Pulpit

Theodore Roosevelt rules. This country needs another of him to lead us pronto.

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