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Post by Eric Tice on May 24, 2010 19:18:30 GMT -5
Hey all you readers out there. This is basically the same as the ever popular "what have you been listening to lately?" I hope we can keep this thread going for awhile just to see what others have been reading, your opinions on the book, and just discussions of other books to read. etc etc.
So unless you are indeed Kanye West and would never read a book because "authors be all wordy and self indulgent", you should let us hear what you've read lately.
I recently finished:
"A Scanner Darkly" by Phillip K. Dick
"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" by Hunter S. Thompson
"The Room" by Hubert Selby Jr.
"The Stranger" by Albert Camus
Reading next:
"Dearly Devoted Dexter" by Jeff Lindsay
"Tropic of Cancer" by Henry Miller
"Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov
"Nausea" by Jean-Paul Sartre
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Post by Hunter Thomison on May 24, 2010 23:02:47 GMT -5
Sweet thread.
Recent finish:
"Leviathan" by Paul Auster
"The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" by Tom Wolfe
"Everything is Illuminated" by Jonathan Safran Foer
"Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov
Current or tentative:
"In Watermelon Sugar" by Richard Brautigan
"On the Road" Jack Kerouac
Along with assorted poems from Brautigan and short stories from various authors, that is my basic summer reading schedule.
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Post by Eric Tice on May 24, 2010 23:06:03 GMT -5
how is Everything is Illuminated? I've been meaning to pick that one up.
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Post by Hunter Thomison on May 24, 2010 23:57:36 GMT -5
I started re-reading the first couple chapters, they were extremely hard for me to get in to on the first read. Riddled with Yiddish and Jewish folk-lore, it's difficult to relate. It spirals in to a amazing comedic tale in which the movie can't compare with.
Oh yeah, I just finished Eating Animals in December, that isn't so recent though.
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Post by Scott Nelson on May 25, 2010 0:27:40 GMT -5
I fully support this thread.
I'm just about to finish "The Sirens of Titan" by Kurt Vonnegut
Up next for me are going to be "The Shining" by Stephen King and "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" by Seth Grahame-Smith
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Post by CJ Kjolhede on May 25, 2010 7:40:01 GMT -5
I'm just finishing re-reading the enitre Harry Potter series, which I hadn't read in 3 years.
Up next-Dreamcatcher by Stephen King.
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Post by Eric Tice on May 25, 2010 16:21:10 GMT -5
Yeah, the shining is one of my next to read as well. I've heard they focus more on Jack Torrance's alcoholism than the Kubrick film does.
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Post by CJ Kjolhede on May 26, 2010 7:59:31 GMT -5
The Shining is one of many King books I still haven't read, but I like to think I'll read it someday, and I'd also like to thik I'll read It someday. Also, the Langoliers.
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Post by James Radick on May 27, 2010 1:05:37 GMT -5
I'm trying to read a bunch of classics I never read in high school because I was too much of a dweeb. I'm reading "Catcher in the Rye" right now.
I've been reading a lot of graphic novels lately. I recently finished "Blankets" by Craig Thompson, "Kick-Ass" by Mark Millar and John Romita, Jr., and "Y: The Last Man" by Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra. Any other comic nerds?
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Post by coreyboborey on May 27, 2010 1:42:19 GMT -5
I, too, have been trying to catch up on classics. Given my field of study, it's embarrassing the amount of classics I haven't read.
I just started reading Freakonomics, which is fascinating to me. Economics interest me. Probably a silly amount.
Also, James, I love comic books. I have a few hundred. I'm not much on graphic novels, but I have read some. I LOVE the Kevin Smith Daredevil's. They're really well done in my opinion. Admittedly, I'm biased. Daredevil is my fave. I really want to read Blankets, though.
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Post by Eric Tice on Jun 1, 2010 22:07:00 GMT -5
lost my copy of 1984 and about to sit back to down to read the rest of it. Anyone big fans of the book?
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Post by CJ Kjolhede on Jun 2, 2010 7:27:24 GMT -5
lost my copy of 1984 and about to sit back to down to read the rest of it. Anyone big fans of the book? I read it for the first time somewhat recently. Either the fall or winter. It was incredible, but a little too dark for me to return to so soon. |
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Post by Connor LaRowe on Jun 2, 2010 10:52:16 GMT -5
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho.
This is a book about being happy.
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Post by Josh Talo on Jun 2, 2010 12:00:41 GMT -5
I love 1984.
Scott, I finished The Sirens of Titan a few months ago. I love everything he's written.
Currently in the midst of reading Parallel Worlds by Michio Kaku. I've been really into learning about the universe and how shit came to be the way shit came to be lately.
Also, I started the autobiography of Malcom X, but haven't gotten around to finishing it just yet.
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Post by Scott Nelson on Jun 7, 2010 22:48:23 GMT -5
Just finished Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. It was surprisingly well written. The author definitely did his homework.
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