what are you reading today?

[redheadmafia]

Never Drank the Kool-Aid by Toure (sp?)

Collected essays as hip-hop, etc. Pretty good so far.

[JayIvory]

Slaughter House-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

[tangerine]

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

[Guest Mayhem]

the big sleep right now.

[tweeds]

just started on notes from the underground by dostoyevsky today

[dsholmes1]

Good to Great by Jim Collins

[RobbertJan]

re-reading on the road for the 4th time because i cannot really get through underworld atm. it has a lot of beautiful passages but there's to many times where you kind of lose it in the huge amount of people that play a small role in it as well as you mix up the different time periods easily which is confusing...

[the owl]

'a field guide to getting lost' by rebecca solnit

and

'open systems: rethinking art' by donna desalvo

[jayrock]

Walden by Henry David Thoreau.

A Million Little Pieces wasn't that great. The writing style was interesting, but other than that... meh.

[JRE48675]

The Intelligent Invester by Benjamin Graham, then finishing up Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

[hazel]

re-reading on the road for the 4th time ...

I'm reading on the road, too, for the first time though. Hopefully I will finish it tomorrow and start with Dostoevskji's the idiot.

[Larry Bird]

literary outlaw : the life and times of william s. burroughs

picked it up today at half price books for $5.

[Decoy]

school time again

[FUCK]

The heart is a lonely hunter + infinite jest. Mccullers will take me a few days, wallace will take me a few weeks if i'm lucky/motivated.

[aziz]

The Count of Monte Christo for the third time.....I think.

[MyAcademy]

I'm having a pretty good time re-reading Tipping Point by Gladwell. On deck is The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman! ...never DID get around to reading it for my HCI class. Whoops!

[sistersuzie]

the 120 days of Sodome, by Marquis de Sade

[cosmicflop]

Rumours of a Hurricane - Tim Lott. Riveting stuff. A book about ordinary people living in London throughout the turbulence of the eighties it's funny and tragic; a very moving book.

[RobbertJan]

Almost finished on the road, but went back to Underworld. Read a lot in a couple hours, my faith in the book completely restored. I love love love it now. I found that it's easier to just start reading and sort of let yourself get swept up with the pace of the narrative. It's a great experience, once you start thinking oh who's that exactly again you get lost, but if you just get on with it, it has some of the best passages that i've ever read.

[FUCK]

Carson McCullers-The Heart is a lonely hunter

Love it.

[tweeds]

nine horses, a poetry collection by billy collins

random reading material in between notes from underground

bought it partly because i like billy collins' work

and partly because i wanted to support this excellent little local bookstore.

[brightbill]

Recently finished Harry Potter & the Sorcerer' Stone....

Along with school things, next book will depend on which comes first - a thrift store run, a delivery from half.com, or my friend paying off the fines he ran up on my library card.

[tweeds]

more random reading material

David Oyelowo writing about performing the titular role Henry VI (Part I) with the RSC in his second season, part of a series titled Actors on Shakespeare

great personal insight into the craft, if only merely superficial and a little narrative.

still, for $0.50 it's good reading fodder

[denimdestroyedmylife]

i just read murakami's hardboiled wonderland and the end of the world (which takes us full circle to the first post in this thread); i liked it quite a lot. i mean, c'mon, UNICORN SKULLS FTW!

now i am nearly done with JG BALLARD's CRASH; i had read many excerpts before, and having seen the movie, none of it is a surprise. nice bit of prurient reading. makes me fear less about suffering bodily injury.

what to read next?

dunno.

i guess i will browse this thread.........

[Lucas0607]

Just finishing "god is not great" by hitchens

and next book i look forward to reading is "perks of being a wallflower" by Chbosky

[seraphim]

yesterday: michel foucault - madness and civilisation

today: plato - the republic and the odd wonder woman comic

tomorrow: either richard yates - revolution road or maybe jean-paul sartre - what is literature? for the umpteenth time

[pantheist]

seperate peace

[whizkit]

Rabelais and His World

mikhail bakhtin

[denimdestroyedmylife]

i am just starting A HAPPY DEATH by Camus

it feels like THE STRANGER, but less refined.

[polishmike]

whiz, are you reading Bakhtin for school or for your own pleasure? That's some heavy reading.