what are you reading today?

[ryogrif]

 

been ripping through this lately/listening along.

[jayrock]

Still only a little more than half way through One Flew Over, keep getting distracted. Really wanna finish it up asap so I can watch the movie, will try to power through this weekend. Anyway, very enjoyable so far, being much funnier than I anticipated.

[xchen]

Luke, suggest a book and let's get sufu book club v2 goin

[Lukenstein]

I was gonna say one flew over the cuckoos nest.

 

I am open to anything and also want to get started

[muiduag]

My throwaway suggestion for the bookclub is Neuromancer since I have an unread copy of it on my desk.. most of you guys have probably read it though.

[xchen]

I'll vote for neuromancer too

[SuE]

How about new Gibson? Are 'graphic novels' allowed for the book club?

[xchen]

Fine with me if anyone else is down. I don't see us having a big turnout

[Archival]

I haven't read Neuromancer yet, it's been on my list for awhile. I'm down for anything tho.

[Lukenstein]

I have read six William Gibson books in the last two years.......but i will if i have to

[xchen]

I think it's best to make a list of everyone wanting to get in on this and each person can nominate their book choice. I'd suggest a max length of 300 or 350 pages to keep everyone on board. In a week from today I will put the names and books on a spreadsheet and randomize the schedule for the first couple months. If anyone wants to tell other members that might not check in on the thread please do so.

[thefuture]

just started part 8 of malazan book of the fallen. incredible, going to hate finishing it honestly. would love to join in the book club 

[jayrock]

I'm on board with neuromancer, very much in line with all the other dystopian novels I've been reading lately

[bfan]

 

 

 

 

 

highly recommend all of these

[xchen]

If you want to get in on book club please reply with your suggestion. I'll retrieve any replies by end of week an will announce the first title soon.

[jayrock]

Finally finished One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, highly recommended.

that was quite the whirlwind ending. Poor Billy Bibbit, that head nurse was a real queen bitch.

Re: book club, seems like Neuromancer has the vote for the first one. My book I'd like to add to the list is All Quiet on the Western Front, have had it for awhile now but with too many other things in the queue ahead to start just yet

Edited June 7, 2016 by jayrock

[denimdestroyedmylife]

i just read The Loser by Thomas Bernhard

fantastic readabout Glenn Gould's friends/classmates who were crushed by his piano virtuosity

the style is very much Notes From Underground, with a bit of Kafka and Beckett thrown in

 

now i'm reading Italo Calvino's Collection of Sand

ekphrastic essays by I.C. - amazing to view art through his lens

a very thoughtful and meditative writer

 

also reading a translation of Don Quixote 

i've read fragments of it in english and spanish but it has been a while

enjoying it more than is reasonable, probably

[denimdestroyedmylife]

i already read neuromancer

i'd be down for book club if it was something i haven't read

i suggest the illuminatus! trilogy

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Illuminatus!_Trilogy

 

i got this from the library one time but didn't get very far before i had to return it

give me an excuse to try again!

[Lukenstein]

Yes lets do that trilogy!

[jbanger]

[conqueror]

 

also picked up the abortion by r brautigan for under $5 at a used bookstore, not an OG print but still from the 70s.

[xerrox]

[exhaust fumes]

 

This is a good book that will give you ammo on explaining why a movie/show is complete shit. A++ Read it all.

[jayrock]

http://people.uncw.edu/kozloffm/glubb.pdf

[bocaburgler]

[bfan]

[llobey]

copt a diffo translation of meditations (hays)

 

wanna get another angle on it

[Lukenstein]

[jayrock]

Neuromancer is weird as shit and hard to follow, the writing bounces all over the place and leaves a lot to the imagination. Coffins and cobras like what the fuck is even going on. Barely even into it but we'll see how this goes

besides that here's what I've finished lately:

The Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek

On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

The Rider of Lost Creek by Louis L'Amour

 

Currently working on:

Technopoly by Neil Postman (about half way through)

Austerity by Mark Blyth (only about 1/4 way)

 

gave up on:

How To Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big by Scott Adams - just a little too self-helpy and I keep trying to power through but I've lost interest

Will probably try to incorporate some more fiction as I bounce back and forth between the non-fictional stuff. Gonna stick with Neuromancer for now, but it hasn't really grabbed my attention yet, too busy trying to wade through all the sci-fi mumbo jumbo

have also come to the realization that paper books are superior to kindle. Personal preference obviously, but there's just something about leafing through actual pages that adds to the overall experience

[xchen]

I prefer paper books too, and started getting them from the library rather than purchasing. Can't always find the next book I wanted, but can get something from my list. Also, they'll hold books from all the libraries in the county (~15) and deliver them to the branch a mile from my house. 

Finishing up Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Murakami today, and starting a sci-fi book called Saturn Run I picked up on a whim next.