What Are You Reading? (Part Deux)

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

I'm useless in bookshops. I take leave of my senses. Even more so that record shops. Yesterday, despite having little money, I went to Borders to pick out a book and ended up buying a pile of them, including 'Heart of Darkness' which I already have but I wanted the new edition. Uggh!

Anyway, the first one of the top of the pile was John Buchan's 'Thirty Nine Steps' which I should be able to finish fairly quickly (It's only just over 100 pages) and then I will re-read Jospeh Conrad's 'Heat of Darkness' (again quite short, should read through it during the weekend) before embarking on a longer novel, Vladimir Nabokov's 'Bend Sinister'.

As well as reading all these novels, I'm being a bit of a swat by doing some University study before time and ploughing through Thucydides 'History of the Pelopennesian War' again but this time making extensives notes as I go.

Huzzah for books!

Sketch · **Posted:** Thu Jul 28, 2005 8:17 am

A lot of the Jung/Myers-Briggs personality stuff (recent tests put me in INFJ/INFP land, and INFJ resonates just a little bit more). So yeah a few of the Paul D. Tieger / Barbara Barron-Tieger books: Just Your Type, Nurture by Nature, etc.

Will probably start Harry Potter 6 tomorrow afternoon.

Got yet another gnostic scriptures book over the weekend, so all of that's still in the queue along with the Orscon Scott Card novel.

mutty · **Posted:** Thu Jul 28, 2005 8:45 am

Really weird - I just picked up Bend Sinister last week. Haven't read it yet though.

Right now I'm reading Flann O'Brien - The Dalkey Archive

OD: Allen Kurzweil - A Case of Curiosities

neuroboy · **Posted:** Thu Jul 28, 2005 9:12 am

currently: harry potter,wired magazine
next: independent people (laxness), the fabric of the cosmos (greene), you shall know our velocity (eggers)

mutty · **Posted:** Thu Jul 28, 2005 9:19 am

I read the new Harry Potter on Saturday - I thought it was better than the last one.

shaMoxie · **Posted:** Thu Jul 28, 2005 10:00 am

Thomas Frank's What's the Matter With Kansas
new Harper's

jsh · **Posted:** Thu Jul 28, 2005 10:00 am

neuroboy Wrote:

you shall know our velocity (eggers)

Oy, this is the only the book I've read that was so bad it made me cry.

I'm currently reading "Middlesex" by Jeffrey Eugenides. S'about a hermaphrodite with a brother named Chapter Eleven.

paper · **Posted:** Thu Jul 28, 2005 10:10 am

I'm the slowest reader int he world...still reading Crossing California.

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

papertiger Wrote:

I'm the slowest reader int he world...still reading Crossing California.

I'd be a slow reader too if I let myself revert to natural conditions.

What I do is make myself read at least 50 pages a day and I never stop until I've finished a chapter. That way you can read most books inside a week.

I also think the bigger the chunks you read, the more you enjoy it. If your putting it down every 20 pages you don't really get into it as much.

mutty · **Posted:** Thu Jul 28, 2005 10:27 am

Bonor Obnerst Wrote:

I'm currently reading "Middlesex" by Jeffrey Eugenides. S'about a hermaphrodite with a brother named Chapter Eleven.

That is tied with Jonathan Lethem's Motherless Brooklyn for my "Favorite Book of the Early Oughts" award.

Twilightkid · **Posted:** Thu Jul 28, 2005 11:07 am

Fletch's Fortune (my 4th Fletch book read. 8 to go)

DIY - Rise of the Lo-Fi Culture

wenchlette · **Posted:** Thu Jul 28, 2005 11:12 am

I've decided to finally read the Harry Potter books. So I'm starting the first one today.

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

Just finished: Christopher Moore "Coyote Blue"
Just started: Nigel Tranter " The Islesman"

Charli · **Posted:** Thu Jul 28, 2005 11:16 am

Working on Taltos by Anne Rice. It's the third and final book in her Witching Hour series. I've never been a fan of her vampire chronicles. I like this series and a couple of the funkier, weird books she did under different names.

Next up: Marianne Faithfull's bio. Starting that in a couple days. Needed something fun for my plane ride to and from New Hampshire next week.

jsh · **Posted:** Thu Jul 28, 2005 11:16 am

Max Wrote:

Bonor Obnerst Wrote:

Early Oughts

What are the Early Oughts? I wouldn't have awarded "Motherless Brooklyn" with anything, but it was good.

zeke the moody drifter · **Joined:** Tue Jul 19, 2005 9:24 pm **Posts:** 557

finished - 'So What' biography of Miles Davis

just bought david foster wallace 'brief interviews with hideous men'
i'm not sure why i continue to buy his books.

NeZ · **Posted:** Thu Jul 28, 2005 11:40 am

I'm currently reading Cormac McCarthy's "All the Pretty Horses." I read it about 6 years ago and liked it a lot so I'm interested to see how it holds up on a second read.

Senator LooGAR · **Posted:** Thu Jul 28, 2005 11:42 am

konstantinl Wrote:

papertiger Wrote:

IWhat I do is make myself read at least 50 pages a day and I never stop until I've finished a chapter. That way you can read most books inside a week.

I also think the bigger the chunks you read, the more you enjoy it. If your putting it down every 20 pages you don't really get into it as much.

This is so true...I have been creeping through like 10 books, and I need to just do this and knock em on out. The main offender being "They Marched into Sunlight" by David Maraniss...such a good book, I have no idea why I haven't finished it.

Moxie Wrote:

Thomas Frank's What's the Matter With Kansas

This guy is on my punch in the face list.

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

Billzebub Wrote:

Just finished: Christopher Moore "Coyote Blue"

Just started this yesterday. After that I will have read all his books other than his most recent.

Steve

mutty · **Posted:** Thu Jul 28, 2005 11:46 am

Bonor Obnerst Wrote:

Max Wrote:

Bonor Obnerst Wrote:

Early Oughts

What are the Early Oughts? I wouldn't have awarded "Motherless Brooklyn" with anything, but it was good.

I just meant the early 2000's

I thought Motherless Brooklyn was quite excellent - a fresh take on the mystery/detective book.

ayah · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 12:03 pm **Posts:** 6402

NeZ Wrote:

I'm currently reading Cormac McCarthy's "All the Pretty Horses."

there's an article on him in the latest new yorker. i haven't read it yet but it might be worth checking out. it's online and i don't think you have to register to read it.

just finishing love in the time of cholera.
next up is harry potter or the periodic table by primo levi

mutty · **Posted:** Thu Jul 28, 2005 11:51 am

ayah Wrote:

next up is harry potter or the periodic table by primo levi

Let me know what you think of this one... it has been on my read-list for a while, but have yet to find a copy.

Old Kentucky · **Posted:** Thu Jul 28, 2005 12:01 pm

Catching up my pop trash thanks to the books my girl has lying around. "Still Life with Woodpecker" and "Da Vinci Code".

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

same 4 books i was reading the last time this thread came around. and some more raymond chandler.

i am so behind on my reading.

rogneeb · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:07 pm **Posts:** 12618

Sketch Wrote:

A lot of the Jung/Myers-Briggs personality stuff (recent tests put me in INFJ/INFP land, and INFJ resonates just a little bit more). So yeah a few of the Paul D. Tieger / Barbara Barron-Tieger books: Just Your Type, Nurture by Nature, etc.

Will probably start Harry Potter 6 tomorrow afternoon.

Got yet another gnostic scriptures book over the weekend, so all of that's still in the queue along with the Orscon Scott Card novel.

i rock the infp as well - pretty rare for men to have that one, oh well.

I haven't been reading all that much lately to be honest except my friend gave me the David Foster Wallace book on infinity.

What Are You Reading? (Part Deux)

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