what are you reading today?

[hughsd]

over and over again..

[denimdestroyedmylife]

just finished Dostoyevsky's THE IDIOT

^ fantastic

now i am attempting Don Delillo's LIBRA again after making an abortive attempt a couple years ago (only got 138 pages into it, then lost track of the characters)

i am thinking i will go back to reading Proust after this, or try Gogol or Tolstoy

anyone read knut hamsun? i have only read THE HUNGER, and loved it. curious about his other novels

also, anyone a member of librarything? i have poked around on there a bit. kinda fun. be funner if other superfuturians were on there. i am ddml.

[Corbin Law]

surely you must be joking mr. feynman by richard feynman

on photography by susan sontag

and for english i am reading huck finn by mark twain.

plus yet to make a dent in the death of artemio cruz.

too many books at once.

[viv1984viv]

ddml - Havent read "the idiot" yet, but ive just started in "Brothers Karamazov"....

the librarything looks interesting but im scared of what the Masons will do knowing whats in my library, no doubt its linked to Paypal and Myspace somehow, another stealth snoop.... UC Berkley's Cyberpunk Lectures are making me paranoid.

I recently read "song of the silent snow" by Hubert Selby jr - god I love this guy, not many more books of his left for me now, shame, hes incredible, innovative, absorbing... if anyone wants to start with him id recommend "the room", brace yourself.

Also read Oryx and Crake by Atwood, amazing. Best Sci Fi ive read for ages...

Im also reading Takayuki Tatsumi's "Full Metal Apache", its brilliant and so SuFu relevant.. all about post war japanese occidentalism and western orientalism and the osmosis of misconstrued notions between the two. Really great theory book.

Guys- check out my so far abysmally unsuccessful thread in SuperFashion called "fashion books" id like some good suggestions for fashion books. I have The Fourth Sex by Bonami and Simons but id like something more theoretical, or maybe just more specific..... yknow? Amerkaji, Gothninja lables, yknow???

http://www.superfuture.com/supertalk/showthread.php?t=42832

[Yardsale]

going to go pick this up today if I can find it

[mrjuby]

good so far. finished hard boiled wonderland and the end of the world by murakami before this.

[jeepster]

J.D. Salinger's son/grandson live in my town. his grandson has some weird neurological disorder.

i haven't been reading much of consequence lately. lots of comics, dug out my old MtG novels - which are pretty bitchin - and random things here and there.

the only serious thing im reading right now is Hamlet.

[alexryb]

Goethe's Faust

Kesey's One Flew Over the Cookoo's Nest

Murakami's The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

I think I've been reading that last one for about four months now.

Pathetic, I know.

[dino might]

camus' the stranger which is the first book ive enjoyed as much as i do in a very long time. im a horrible reader.

dead emcee scrolls is up next

[ktothe]

[bee hee]

ooh yes, I liked this.

for school, I just finished this:

for fun I'm reading this:

[ihurduliekme]

Kesey's One Flew Over the Cookoo's Nest

I think I've been reading that last one for about four months now.

Pathetic, I know.

this book is fucking bomb

[mpcec]

Lately I've been in a reading rut, I was huge into Tolstoy over the summer, read Anna Karenina and some short stories and loved them all, then I read some Murakami and liked that alot, and now I've been trying to get into Dostoyevsky but I hate feeling like I'm forcing myself, I've read the first 100 pages of The Adolescent and The Brothers K and just stopped.

Can anyone reccomend me a good book, kind of sappy and sad, about relationships, maybe I just need another Murakami? I read Wind Up Bird and Norwegian Wood so far, so if you were gonna suggest him again where would you go next.

[tweeds]

kingsley amis' the green man

do we have any amis fans here? i've only briefly read some of his son, martin's, work. and it is highly entertaining, witty and satirical stuff. so far the green man has proven to be a very sharp, intelligent read.

[ruach]

The Book of Jade by David Park Barnitz. I have been wanting to read this forever and was very happy to find it on Google Books. Although it turned out the poems were available too on http://www.bookofjade.com which is a great website in its own right.

[xSIRCHx]

i just finished the catcher and the rye, i dont really read a lot of books but it was ok.

[e0d9n0b5]

Just finished The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins, and am starting American Pastoral by Phillip Roth.

[dino might]

i just finished the catcher and the rye, i dont really read a lot of books but it was ok.

its my friends favorite, he raves about it, i still havent gotten around to reading it

should i, superfuture?

[viv1984viv]

Im not exactly the biggest fan of "catcher"- but I think you should read it just so you could say that you have. Its important for anything "youth" related - yknow? Also I find the strong paralelle between Ellis's "less than zero" and "catcher"..... meh

[enatoka]

currently reading David Hume's "An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding" for my final philosophy test on tuesday. i read about half the book and now im going to go onto sparknotes so i can get a summary of half the shit i didn't understand.

i need to pass this test bad.

[GoSurface]

Nov 07 Art in America.

[mpcec]

its my friends favorite, he raves about it, i still havent gotten around to reading it

should i, superfuture?

I thought it was alright, it's so short and a quick read too so you could knock it out in a week tops, even if you are a slow reader.

[5-4=Unity]

[ihurduliekme]

catch 22 was a good fucking book, it made me laugh. i highly recommend, if it hasnt been already.

[denimdestroyedmylife]

dino: if you were really into the stranger, try a happy death, what reads as camus' unpublished first attempt at the book. not as good, obviously, but gives the reader a deeper understanding of the undertones in the published work

i just breezed Murakami's After Dark. underwhelming. it felt like murakami was setting up all the pieces but elected not play the game.

back to reading Delillo's Libra (which i am enjoying quite a lot); anyone know any good non-fiction about the Bay of Pigs?

[ordo]

Just got this as an early Christmas present. I have the original first editions of the comics but never touch them. It is nice to read the entire story arc without concern for soiling the book.

[Biff15]

Just finished Slash's autibiography. Almost through with Mr. Untouchable - Nicky Barnes' autobio... Next up will probably be Kitchen Confidential...

[xSIRCHx]

its my friends favorite, he raves about it, i still havent gotten around to reading it

should i, superfuture?

go for it, its pretty short. like a week book.

i found it to be pretty funny.

[Lab]

I don't really know much about Africa, aside from what I learned in my Ancient Art History course of the continent. I also want to pick of Meredith's Mugabe biography.

The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri

Haven't read this yet...I need to, though. I recommend picking up the latest New Yorker, which features a Lahhiri short story.

[Lab]

I don't really know much about Africa, aside from what I learned in my Ancient Art History course of the continent. I also want to pick of Meredith's Mugabe biography.

The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri

Haven't read this yet...I need to, though. I recommend picking up the latest New Yorker, which features a Lahhiri short story.