what are you reading today?

[ericdw]

Finished it. Fantastic read!

reading it too, but taking forever b/c work is crazy.

first fiction book i've read in years, too some getting used to.

[jeepster]

[newaesthetic]

A bit of variation, my two christmas gift novels, just wrapped up the second one last night:

It gave me a new-found appreciation of the film. Not only for still being the only movie to really terrify me, but for being so close to the book. Though I'm glad they didn't make the spiderwalk scene exactly like the book. Fuck that noise.

[polishmike]

reading it too, but taking forever b/c work is crazy.

first fiction book i've read in years, too some getting used to.

don't give up. the first part about the critics is a little dry and boring but it gets going later on. easily the best book of 2008 for me.

[denimdestroyedmylife]

i finished Wind Up Bird Chronicle and I liked it enough

:shrug:

he just doesn't light my fire----his prose is like an oxycontin stupor or like the dreams after a drinking binge

not a bad space to float around in i guess

:shrug again:

[domdomdomdom]

i finished Wind Up Bird Chronicle and I liked it enough

:shrug:

he just doesn't light my fire----his prose is like an oxycontin stupor or like the dreams after a drinking binge

not a bad space to float around in i guess

:shrug again:

read most but never finished never finished this... i was probably around page 500ish. I left the book on top of my car one time leaving school, probably high, and i suppose i never noticed it fall

[domdomdomdom]

i finished Wind Up Bird Chronicle and I liked it enough

:shrug:

he just doesn't light my fire----his prose is like an oxycontin stupor or like the dreams after a drinking binge

not a bad space to float around in i guess

:shrug again:

read most but never finished never finished this... I left the book on top of my car one time leaving school, probably high, and i suppose i never noticed it fall

[jyoni]

It's got a "look inside" link. This dude is Thom Jones level hard-ass. Except gumshoe.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0394735587/ref=sib_dp_pt#reader-link

[mpcec]

[denimdestroyedmylife]

i have been meaning to reread the whole run of sandman

it has been soooooooo long

i will probably get more out of it on the other side of adolescence

i started reading both Murakami's What I Talk About When I Talk About Running and The Parade's Gone By----an (interview-based) account of the Silent Era of film

juggling three books is unusual for me but the subject matter is disparate enough

[Brienneoftarth]

i"m almost finished with 2666. absolutely amazing. any one reading it?

[denimdestroyedmylife]

^ there's a few in this thread that are.

i was just leafing through it an hour ago in the bookstore.

i want to read it so badly but i've got a lot on my plate and on deck.

[mpcec]

i have been meaning to reread the whole run of sandman

it has been soooooooo long

i will probably get more out of it on the other side of adolescence

This is my first read through and I'm really enjoying it. I love the storyline with hob and the sandman. (Guy he meets every 100 years in the tavern.) Any recommendations for other Neil Gaiman comics/books worth reading?

[larry3]

Iris Murdoch - the sea the sea

Finished The accidental by ali smith early in the week.

[larry3]

i finished Wind Up Bird Chronicle and I liked it enough

:shrug:

he just doesn't light my fire----his prose is like an oxycontin stupor or like the dreams after a drinking binge

not a bad space to float around in i guess

:shrug again:

I read alot of murakamai books in a row a while back and they are all just one blur. Found them enjoyable and think are really just kids stories for adults. Thought the one about the guy who was living in two worlds, with the bone reading would make a great manga film.

[denimdestroyedmylife]

This is my first read through and I'm really enjoying it. I love the storyline with hob and the sandman. (Guy he meets every 100 years in the tavern.) Any recommendations for other Neil Gaiman comics/books worth reading?

i cant say it gets any better than sandman. black orchid is okay but forgettable. miracleman was good, i guess, though again, not as epic as sandman. i havent read any of his post SM work.

as far as his novels go, i only read Good Omens, which was a riot, but it reads more like Terry Pratchett (with whom he cowrote the book) than NG.

[jeepster]

http://library.wagner.edu/ereserves/HungART291View.pdf

[semper]

nice...

I've had the luck to have seen quite a few of those in real life. Not the ones in America.

lol, very practical that this writer gives so many examples of works in the US, in order to please his (predominantly??) American readers.

[Yardsale]

Blonde Roots is the story of a young girl, captured by slave traders and transported to a life of barely credible savagery in the New World. Slavery has been documented in minute detail and the floggings, rapes and amputations suffered by runaways are well known. But Doris is blonde and English, her new masters black and African, and 400 years of history are presented in a new and disconcerting guise.

http://www.youmightfindyourself.com/post/68816639/blond-roots

[charlesleoiv]

[Corbin Law]

finished 2666 a week or so ago and since then i have become entrenched in

Pulls you in like a motherfucker

comparable to Pillars of the Earth and The lord of the Rings.

[Baeyer-Drewson]

Really good shit here;

[polishmike]

finished 2666 a week or so ago

I loved 2666 so I just got 5 books by Bolano. I also got like 5 soccer books for christmas so I'm knocking them out right now.

[polishmike]

ups dude just dropped some more

[automaton]

Been reading this for the past week or so. It's very in depth and quite interesting, it's also huge, 1350 pages.

If your interested in the Middle East and politics at all I highly recommend it.

[domdomdomdom]

Got anathem for something like $5, have yet to start it but looks to be a good story

[wchien]

Conrad, Heart of Darkness

[benriya]

haruki murakami - wind up bird chronicle

[Baeyer-Drewson]

Currently reading this. Something different, alright so far. Biography of both the man and the science.

[Corbin Law]

Conrad, Heart of Darkness

just picked that up too

senior english?