what are you reading today?

[klutz]

A Million Little Pieces

-James Frey

[fatgecko]

Just finished vol 2 Outlaws Of The Marshes by Shi Nai'An, Guanzhong Luo, and Sidney Shapiro.

[jo3 b]

unbearable lightness of being by milan kundera.

this book imo is worlds better than the book of laughter and forgetting.

[teome]

[colin]

[themars2112]

[S3lf1shly3mpty]

I just finished Less Than Zero by Ellis and I'm about 175pgs. into The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles by Murakami

[Awake]

by Dr. David R. Hawkins

life changing....

[jizzimmy]

I finished Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami recently. I liked it a lot so I decided to start reading Hard Boiled Fantasy and the End of the World.

[alexryb]

Just picked this up. Apparently the author is/was a writer for

The New Yorker, so hopefully it'll be somewhat entertaining and insightful.

Paris to the Moon

by Adam Gopnik

[lucky_cloud]

I finished Donald Barthelme's Overnight to Many Distant Cities (it was kind of a re-read since more than half of it is in books of his that I've read before), and I just started London Fields, by Martin Amis.

[youngluc]

working through "the sound and the fury"

[surfed57]

The God Dillusion by Richard Dawkins

A Tidewater Morning by William Styron

[eightynine]

finished The Kite Runner last night, thought it was one of the best books i've ever read. highly recommended! also last night i picked up The Road and began that. McCarthy is truly an original writer. i read No Country For Old Men last year and this book seems like it's written in a completely different style. no comparative trademarks whatsoever. despite this, i am enjoying it so far.

next up:

Watership Down

[alexryb]

The Kite Runner?

Yuck.

Great read if you know nothing about Afghanistan,

horrible if you want a decent plot.

[polishmike]

Great read if you know nothing about Afghanistan,

nope. still horrible

[alexryb]

You can learn things about the country from the book.

But, yes, in general it is horrible.

Avoid the movie like the plague.

[eightynine]

The Kite Runner?

Yuck.

Great read if you know nothing about Afghanistan,

horrible if you want a decent plot.

hmm weird how do you explain the fact that it got #1 new york times bestseller and won a book of the year award if it has such a terrible plot? every major book review and highly regarded journal thinks otherwise of your opinion.

[alexryb]

I'd like to see these "highly regarded" journals' reviews of Hosseini's attempt at a culturally enlightening novel. It was written as a blockbuster novel; it was written to sell, just like all the shitty romantic comedies, teen-gag flicks, and action movies that come out every weekend.

polishmike & I are completely right.

[Handlethevibe]

hmm weird how do you explain the fact that it got #1 new york times bestseller

Is that supposed to mean something?

[Boredom]

Just started Lolita.

[jo3 b]

of love and other demons by gabriel garcia marquez

[selbsttatig]

Dwell. I just got the new issue in the mail today.

[MGC3]

selected non-fictions of Jorge Luis Borges

[chido31]

amazing book...

[RFKorp]

[sal paradise]

what's tristessa like/about?

i finished on the road and the dharma bums a while ago and am aching to get a copy of the subterraneans but it's hard to find nice old editions here in sunny south africa

[Roflcopterpwnsyou]

[mellowbonsai]

[Yardsale]