What are you reading? (May version)

Dusty Chalk · **Posted:** Fri May 13, 2005 1:41 am

Dusty Chalk Wrote:

I believe my answer is the same as is it would have been last May, as it seems to be taking forever for me to finish this book, but I really am almost finished: The Confusion by Neal Stephenson.

Follow-up: yay! I finished it!

Quote:

On deck: Laurell K. Hamilton's new one. I need a break from all that fancy prozac...erm...prosaic language.

Started.

duckyboy · **Posted:** Fri May 13, 2005 2:16 am

Recently finished:

Nicholson Baker: The Fermata. Couple of chapters could have been cut out of that one.

Currently reading:

Nicholas Basbanes--A Gentle Madness
Charles Squire--Celtic Myth and Legend

ptrck · **Joined:** Wed Oct 27, 2004 10:55 pm **Posts:** 5568

Chabon's "Kavalier and Clay"

Also reading "Naked" by David Sedaris...off an on.

ptrck · **Joined:** Wed Oct 27, 2004 10:55 pm **Posts:** 5568

Chuck D Wrote:

Michael Chabon - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

Aha!

Quite good.

Mick · **Posted:** Fri May 13, 2005 5:39 am

Bad Seed - The Biography of Nick Cave

by Ian Johnstone or Johnson or Jonestown

Dunwoody Dude · **Joined:** Wed Nov 03, 2004 11:20 am **Posts:** 2869

Idiopathic Wrote:

Chuck D Wrote:

Michael Chabon - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

Aha!

Quite good.

Particularly if you are at all a fan of the golden age of comic books.

Steve

Black Magic Putin · **Posted:** Fri May 13, 2005 11:27 am

DunwoodyDude Wrote:

Particularly if you are at all a fan of Chabon's lazy ass using homosexuality to confer alienation in every single book that he's written.

Steve

Dunwoody Dude · **Joined:** Wed Nov 03, 2004 11:20 am **Posts:** 2869

chase Wrote:

DunwoodyDude Wrote:

Particularly if you are at all a fan of Chabon's lazy ass using homosexuality to confer alienation in every single book that he's written.

As if being a Jew wasn't enough.

Steve

Billzebub · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 10:26 pm **Posts:** 6459

Idiopathic Wrote:

Chabon's "Kavalier and Clay"

Also reading "Naked" by David Sedaris...off an on.

I've picked this up and put it down about 15 times on various trips to the book store. I'm sure I'll get to it eventually.

Fryxell · **Posted:** Sat May 14, 2005 11:52 am

Recently finished: A Prayer For The Dying by Stewart O'Nan (excellent)
Tiger In A Trance by Max Ludington (good)
Currently reading: Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin

Grape Ripple · **Posted:** Sat May 14, 2005 1:54 pm

"American Gods" by Neil Gaiman. Very good. At least the first 100 pages. Elements of Stephen King and Clive Barker, but still very original.

daystar · **Joined:** Sun Apr 17, 2005 10:14 pm **Posts:** 3298

i'm in between books at the moment.....

but i'm hoping to pick up one of the following in the next day or so.....

hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy (which i've owned for years and have yet to read. i kinda want to see the movie. but think i should read the book first.)

the davinci code

siddhartha

re-reading the chronicles of narnia

i'm obsessed with books. my biggest problem is, though, that lately i don't take the time to read. i keep buying books at the 1/2 priced book store...yet don't get around to reading them in a timely manner. i'm trying to change that.

Z · **Joined:** Sat Oct 23, 2004 1:38 pm **Posts:** 7979

i just finished brave new world, a handful of dust, and confessions of a master jewel thief in the last month. i went on a little tear.

my next might be the pecking order or something baseball-related. that sonic alchemy seems pretty good too. i may look around for it. (oh! only one copy available in the chicago public library system.)

tkyd · **Posted:** Sat May 14, 2005 4:45 pm

Z Wrote:

i just finished brave new world, a handful of dust, and confessions of a master jewel thief in the last month. i went on a little tear.

my next might be the pecking order or something baseball-related. that sonic alchemy seems pretty good too. i may look around for it. (oh! only one copy available in the chicago public library system.)

How is Confessions? I almost picked that up awhile back.

Aural Fixation · **Posted:** Sat May 14, 2005 4:47 pm

I just started "V" -- Thomas Pynchon.

Z · **Joined:** Sat Oct 23, 2004 1:38 pm **Posts:** 7979

tkyd Wrote:

Z Wrote:

i just finished brave new world, a handful of dust, and confessions of a master jewel thief in the last month. i went on a little tear.

How is Confessions? I almost picked that up awhile back.

it's pretty entertaining, but the guy's ego is enormous! and i wouldn't really mind if it was just about the thefts because he gets big ups for how be broke into some of those places without being caught, but every other thing in the book is about how he's so best. it quickly became annoying. if you can deal with that, though, it's well worth some time.

hot. wax. · **Joined:** Mon Jan 24, 2005 11:04 pm **Posts:** 251

My Body and I, by Rene Crevel;
Model Homes, by Wayne Koestenbaum;

and that book by that hot-shot writer from Brooklyn. You know, the golden boy that sells a lot of copies. Jonathan Safran Foer. That's it, that's it.

Watermelon Gun · **Posted:** Sun May 15, 2005 12:34 am

chase Wrote:

DunwoodyDude Wrote:

Particularly if you are at all a fan of Chabon's lazy ass using homosexuality to confer alienation in every single book that he's written.

Steve

Cut him some fucking slack. Okay, sure, he's got some recurring themes, but who doesn't. And he's young and only getting better.

Anyway, I'm reading this pretty awesome surreal sci-fi book by Steve Erickson called Rubicon Beach. Anyone heard of this guy? He's good.

Cotton · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 6:12 pm **Posts:** 17155

Erickson is definitely one of the more interesting guys i've ever checked out. Amneisascope remains a fucking classic top-shelf book in my collection. Days Between Stations is also worth checking out.

splates · **Posted:** Sun May 15, 2005 12:50 am

polly six Wrote:

This looks interesting

Read this month:

Plus my Physiology and Biology text books

Evil Dr. K · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:51 am **Posts:** 6327

I just read about the same seven books over and over again now.

'Neo-Classicism' by Hugh Honour, 'The Greeks' by H. D. F. Kitto, 'Notes From Underground' by Fjodor Doestoevsky, 'Heresies Against Progress' by John Gray, 'The Scottish Enlightenment' by Arthur Herman...

I ordered 'The Sorrows of Young Werther' off the internet so I'm hoping that will come on Monday.

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