what are you reading today?

[Corbin Law]

anything by richard feynman

hes my hero.

[bernt]

Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell

and

Drop zone by Michael Salazar

[chantheman]

[jeepster]

the great gatsby

i'm on an iconic american book peel right now... considering the american icon is dead, and i need inspiration to write.

[spunkey]

I'm a SK nerd

[tweeds]

[persephone]

ATLAS SHRUGGED by Ayn Rand

got as a grad present

[geekbonchic]

the great gatsby

i'm on an iconic american book peel right now... considering the american icon is dead, and i need inspiration to write.

I just did that a week or so ago. I hit up some Whitman, Harper Lee, and am planning on doing Billy Budd when I get some time to breathe.

[tweeds]

it's a funny term to use, the "iconic american book"--

does anyone know where to find harper lee's essays and misc writing?

[automaton]

Beloved-- by Toni Morrison. It won a Pulitzer and a Nobel (although Kissinger has one too so I'm not too sure what that's worth) it's a pretty heavy book, but good.

[OptimaDies]

&

[Darkeside]

read I am Legend last week before I watched the film, great book but i think i'd have enjoyed the film more if I hadn't read it.

need something new.

[francojean23]

slow going on the portable atheist

[OptimaDies]

^^ I was reading tidbits of it at the bookstore, on a related note, I picked up The God Delusion since it just came out in paperback. Neo-atheism is weird. It's often entangled in the swirling combative front against the atrocities of organized religious bodies and less about the actual belief in a God.

[francojean23]

actually the god delusion is on my list as well...you should check out god is not great, if you haven't read it already...

[OptimaDies]

I have not checked it out yet, I was actually supposed to start with Sam Harris stuff

but working in a bookstore gets you quite a collection of books-that-need-to-be-read-before-buying-new-books. I just special ordered Underground by Murakami, American Pastoral (my first Roth book), and three books by Calvino. Oddly, I seem somewhat at ease with this selection in this particular thread, despite the last books mentioned being modern, or post-post modern. The Tale of Genji is just lurking the threads of my distracted subconscious.

[Yardsale]

[docnbhd]

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov... Amazing read...

[jeepster]

just started:

assorted short stories - edgar allen poe

bartleby, the scriviner - melville

scarlett letter - hawthorne

all for american lit class :\ sorta boring, but i'm enjoying the melville and the poe so far. hawthorne's short stories are much more in tune with poe, but i think scarlett letter is gonna be a bit boring.

[weirdnjfan1]

So far one of the best autobiographies that I've ever read.

[superBobo]

im on a sci fi revival:

God- Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert

its pretty nice, but the first two parts of the Dune series were far more ambitious style wise.

[geekbonchic]

Comp. Lit 41A: Forms of the Epic

[MrTambourine]

I've just started to read "Två Städer" (in english "Two cities") by Charles Dickens. It's a real classic about the French Revolution.

[Yardsale]

bought this today. at first I thought eggers was overrated when I was reading staggering genius, but as I got past the mid-way point of it I really liked it.

[OptimaDies]

^^Let me know how it is. AHWOSG was a cool read, but a book that I never felt compelled to get through, I just picked it up here and there and just read when I so happened to do so. I was introduced to Voxtrot when reading that book, and ever since then the mental pairing remains :confused:.

[sushijerk]

^^Let me know how it is. AHWOSG was a cool read, but a book that I never felt compelled to get through, I just picked it up here and there and just read when I so happened to do so. I was introduced to Voxtrot when reading that book, and ever since then the mental pairing remains :confused:.

I actually found AHWOSG riveting but did not enjoy his 2nd novel nearly as much. The tone is very Dave Eggers, but I just found Velocity kind of jumbled and insincere. Although what I read was the first edition and from what I understand he editted it very heavily for the paperback release.

What is the What was very enjoyable.

[whizkit]

[RobbertJan]

past week:

The Great Gatsby

Portrait of the artist as a young man

The Crossing

Bob Dylan: Chronicles volume one

[NESK]

last night i finished appointment in samara and i thought it was brilliant.

how are people reading books on atheism? that rediculous. how does a system of belief that objects to dogma create its own dogma? thats fucking silly. its such a reactionary niche market of people who arent concerned about whats more relevant to their lives, but are instead obsessed with complaining about how other people are missing the point. fuck that shit. im not religious by any means but i would never need a book to explain to me that god didnt create the universe in a week out of thin air. ef them books.

[napoleon]

ATLAS SHRUGGED by Ayn Rand

got as a grad present

One of the most annoying books I've ever read. Managed to get as far as the monologue and gave up. That book is about as subtle as a sledge hammer. It's only the second book I never bothered to finish.