what are you reading today?

[aziz]

Latest issue of Bass Player magazine..

[Decoy]

I have "A Moveable Feast" for summer reading I need to dive into

[ordo]

Under the category of What SHOULD I be reading today - William Gibson's Spook Country - except I just got off the phone with Chapters and they don't have any at all in any of their stores (including all affiliates). WTF!

[domdomdomdom]

JPod by Douglas Coupland

[the_state]

i read the snows of kilimanjaro today, and i think im going to switch to kerouc tomorrow. i guess ill finally read on the road.

i just finished this up a few weeks ago. it's everything they say it is.

[pantheist]

no one deserves to be here more than you

[hawkeye]

I just finnished Dune, so now Im gonna start either Shogun or Last of the Mohicans...

[Larry Bird]

the cover of The Meaning of Night looks beautiful, clopek...and with that quote about the oysters ive just written it down for when i hit the bookstore up next.

[ordo]

OK so my wife picked this up for me today - what a gal

[feather]

Nice, looking forward to feedback on Spook Country. That or Robin Hobb's Forest Mage or Chris Anderson's The Long Tail is next on my list.

I'm still grappling with Reaper's Gale, this instalment is moving very slowly and prone to some pontification.

[jeepster]

wakefield/the birthmark/rappacini's daughter - nathaniel hawthorne

hardball - chris matthews

on the road - jack keruoac

some essays by john winthorp

all that except on the road for some classes next year.

[redheadmafia]

I was browsing some of the local thrift stores & resale shops... while I didn't spot any good deals on anything else, I was able to score these books - for $1 each:

-The Boys from Brazil

-Into Thin Air [read Under the Banner of Heaven earlier this summer - it was awesome]

-The Alienist

I read the Boys from Brazil this afternoon/evening all in one shot, it was that interesting and surprisingly well written (even tho I already knew the basic plot). Only 200pg, nice summertime reading.

[Larry Bird]

pretty intresting book

pretty hottttt cover as well.

[tweeds]

question: does anyone read poetry anymore

[Bona Drag]

i've started to again

it sounds bad, but i find i don't have the patience for books, especially fiction, that i used to

i blame the internets

[tweeds]

i blame the internets indeed.

i used to come home and read my head off

what po'try are you reading, Bona Drag?

[RobbertJan]

Torday- Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

just finished that, really witty and a nice satire of Blair era politics (especially Alastair Campbell) mixed with a nice and simple message about faith.

have read past weeks:

Delillo-Underworld (not completely finished yet)

Kafka-Metamorphosis

Dostoyevsky-Notes from Underground

Easton Ellis- Glamorama

Harry Potter and Deadly Hallows

and various short stories (Frank Sinatra has a cold; The Kentucky derby is decadent and depraved; Snow of the Kilimanjaro; and some more)

Now starting with Nietsche's Thus spoke Zarathustra and finishing Underworld

[Agent Orange]

interesting as hell:D

[denimdestroyedmylife]

^ seconded

anyone else been reading gibson's SPOOK COUNTRY

convinced that mr. gibson is superfuturistic

all this talk of APC, Red Wing boots and such

good stuff so far (just a few chapters in)

[sidneylo]

Thanks Diddy for the recommendation... I'm reading PATTERN RECOGNITION right now. About to hit up SPOOK COUNTRY a bit after I'm done.

Kind of going back into the old David Sedaris shit too--random but yeah.

[ordo]

convinced that mr. gibson is superfuturistic

all this talk of APC, Red Wing boots and such

His interests run to the realms of the superfuture - he has written in his blog about the glories of Loopwheeler, has his own signature Buzz Ricksons jacket and he is currently travelling with the Acronym 3A-1 Einsatztasche messenger bag (the bastard!). I have a friend in Boulder who is going to try to grab it for me this weekend.

[ordo]

Aside from working on Spook Country, I was given this yesterday:

[tweeds]

just started on

waiting for the barbarians

j.m.coetzee

[arevalo]

About 3/4 done with

Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Murakami

Highly recommended.

[grapz]

Just finished One hundred years of solitude.

starting the 7th harry potter

[schmoses]

carressed jT leroy's book sarah this morning but ultimately chose other things

i-D archive-bedroom issue-aug 01

summerland, michael chabon

killbrack, jamie o'neill

[FUCK]

Just finished house of leaves by danielewski

reading the odyssey by homer

and knowledge/power by foucault

[RobbertJan]

put nietsche on hold for a couple days and am reading atm:

Blood Meridian-Cormac Mccarthy and bought border trilogy as well. Really like these novels.

and on a side note, anyone watch the trailer for new Coen's adaption of No Country For Old Men? looks very interesting!

[red]

right now, im reading the name of the rose by eco.

[superBobo]

damn, I didnt know a new Gibson novel was out! thats a must for me... althouh Pattern Recognition isnt my favourite of his, his writing style seems to improve. My favourites are probably Virtual Light/idoru/all tomorrows parties - triology.

The promise of esoteric red wing mentions is promising though.