what are you reading today?

[C0C0]

just finished...

hopefully will finish this week...

and starting this next week

[Tisswat]

^ Are you reading that in Italian?

[redgrail]

I read this, liked it enough. The characters were interesting and dialogue was sharp. Liked the new york vibe.

But, right before I read this I was reading a lot of greek plays, and I always feel like when I've been reading classical stuff and then jump to modern fiction it feels too new. I don't want to say too easy, but maybe.

I know exactly what you mean, but sometimes you've got to rebel against your own snobbery, na'am sayin ma du?

[salaryman]

yeah definitely, in any case there are tons of great modern writers,

plus I'm not going to pretend I spend most of my spare time reading ancient literature and am too good for new stuff, it just so happened when I read that book.

[sunkenshoes]

Reading a couple books from Leon the Winter right now. I finished God's Gym the other day. Thought it was pretty good.

[jeepster]

reading The Sun Also Rises and Collected Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald, gonna start this one soon:

[domdomdomdom]

[DJ_Flame]

[C0C0]

^ Are you reading that in Italian?

yeah it's the first "real" italian book i'm reading....the italian books i've read in the past were ones i've already read translated in english

[mpcec]

[culturalmulatto]

A must read for anyone who enjoyed Foucault's History of Sexuality series.

People instantly make assumptions whenever they see me read this book as if it were 1,200 pages of lewd sexual acts. In fact, the (albeit jaw-dropping) sexual episodes are sprinkled in between these long dissertations on certain characters' philosophies which range from the legal system to religion to cultural norms.

[pieiskewl]

[Baeyer-Drewson]

About a dozen recent reviews on the use of the fluorine-18 radioisotope in PET imaging so that I can co-author my own review with a guy in France that I have never met, to potentially impress some future employers, who probably won't even care when and if my potential employment eventuates... *sigh*

I'd much rather be finishing off Empire of the Sun...

[Tisswat]

Starting my second Murakami today:

Hope it won't disappoint!

[newaesthetic]

i like that cover a lot more than the one we get.

took a break out of Infinite Jest, since I found this for cheap:

So far I've been enjoying it, almost half way through.

[kicks79]

Lush life is ill. Just reading clockers right now. Richard price is such a gifted writer. His characters are so real. Every time i read one his books it takes me back to NYC.

[C0C0]

i read clockers a couple of weeks ago...and it pained me to finish reading the book. not sure if lush life might be better or what but i was expecting so much more

[ericdw]

took a break out of Infinite Jest

about to start this. never read a fiction book with footnotes and endnotes... summer reading?

[automaton]

Just finished this.

[Guest bambam]

Starting my second Murakami today:

Hope it won't disappoint!

this was dope as usual. not my favorite of murakami's novels (as opposed to short stories i mean) but it definitely won't disappoint. come to think of it though, i've liked every book and story of his i've read.

I'm reading:

[ericdw]

how close to that is the movie? i hate reading books after i've already seen the movie, but that still interests me. worth it?

[Guest bambam]

so worth it. even without the wonderfully gruesome murder/torture scenes they couldn't have realistically included, there are so many more great scenes/character developments that are left out that i really enjoyed in the book. definitely recommended

[Yardsale]

anyone got a kindle? I don't, but I just got kindle for the iphone app and I dunno, kinda nice to be able to have a database of books to read anywhere you are

[Baeyer-Drewson]

how close to that is the movie? i hate reading books after i've already seen the movie, but that still interests me. worth it?

The book is sooo much better than the movie, as is usually the case. Obviously the movie had to have a certain level of self-imposed censorship because the book is much less comic than the film. You should check it out if you even remotely liked the film, Bret Easton Ellis is pretty good.

Here's what I'm into at the moment:

Loving it. And I don't even usually like war novels. It has a nice hallucinogenic unreality about it.

[CBM]

[kaws&effect]

[hahaquestionmark]

makes me want to be in paris during the time period so so badly

[Biff15]

[salaryman]

how close to that is the movie? i hate reading books after i've already seen the movie, but that still interests me. worth it?

hmm. I almost always prefer the book to the movie, but in this case I thought the movie was just more to the point.

book was still good though.

[Yardsale]

yesssssssssss