what are you reading today?

[jakie]

[sixfive]

[pwnzj00]

George Soros

The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What It Means

[sidneylo]

[duck sauce]

jane eyre/air/err/e'er/ayer/heir/her

[nuuro]

haruki murakami - wind up bird chronicle

great book

[Ichigo100%]

Not this version, I couldnt find the cover for the one im reading...

[zerofuture]

http://www.newsociety.com/bookid/3965

[Brienneoftarth]

Finished 2666 a few weeks back. absolutely spellbinding.

[sunkenshoes]

Has someone read the work of Mishima? Any recommendations?

[ollir]

[RAISED BY WOLVES]

Rereading "Clockers" by Richard Price. I'm amazed by the amount of shit Price jacked out of his own novel when consulting and writing teleplays for season 3 of the wire.

[Yardsale]

Has someone read the work of Mishima? Any recommendations?

Runaway Horses

[NESK]

Rereading "Clockers" by Richard Price. I'm amazed by the amount of shit Price jacked out of his own novel when consulting and writing teleplays for season 3 of the wire.

as soon as your done rereading clockers, jump into lush life. i went back and reread clockers right after i finished lush life just cause i was loving prices shit way too much. i loved the film for clockers too, but i try to seperate the book and film because i think they were on different levels. the book gave rocco way more depth, but spike lee really nailed the film and snuck in alot of his own little polemic and themes.

[sunkenshoes]

Runaway Horses

can't rep you, but thanks!

[weirdnjfan1]

Just started it last night in between classes. So far, it's different than most of the stuff that I read,but still it seems good.

[tmadd]

I just finished this, and while I wouldn't consider it DeLillo at his best, it was still definitely worth a read. This book was a weird read for me in the sense that it was the first piece of post-9/11 literature I have read in which 9/11 itself was the central focus...and while I understand the difficulty in writing something that isn't consumed with "post-9/11 America" I think that addressing it so directly is a little ham-handed and uninspired...not to say DeLillo didn't do as good a job as could be done.

[dopefresh]

Can't believe I hadn't already read this.

[Baeyer-Drewson]

This thread has some great suggested reading. On that note, given how impressive Blood Meridian was, I'm currently reading:

Hopefully get it done in a sitting or two. Amazing so far.

[esoteric]

a very fun and humorous read. very light and easy too, seeing that it's broken up into 18 topics. some nice quotables.

[ericdw]

love klosterman. +rep

[domdomdomdom]

should read IV if you like that one

[tmadd]

This is my second book by Gibson, the first being Pattern Recognition.

I'm about 20% in...I am pretty sure I won't be reading other fiction until I finish everything Gibson has published.

[RAISED BY WOLVES]

as soon as your done rereading clockers, jump into lush life. i went back and reread clockers right after i finished lush life just cause i was loving prices shit way too much. i loved the film for clockers too, but i try to seperate the book and film because i think they were on different levels. the book gave rocco way more depth, but spike lee really nailed the film and snuck in alot of his own little polemic and themes.

Funny you said this.

I was just reading back through this thread, and that's actually just what I've done. Finished Clockers 2 nights ago, and jumped right into Lush Life. I gave it a shot when it came out, but only got 50 pages in. I'm halfway through as of now, and I'm enjoying it, though it feels a little hollow to me. Like, perhaps in "inventing" Dempsy, New Jersey, Price avoided some of what i feel are the pit-falls of writing about a contemporary LES that i'm so familiar with.

I don't know. This is probably better discussed elsewhere, but I've got some issues with Price in general, though i think he's a pretty excellent writer.

[enatoka]

[sunkenshoes]

Just finished "Life of Pi". Was actually a pretty good book.

[femelle]

Currently reading Burroughs's Naked Lunch, the second time around. I decided to give it another shot, because the first time I wasn't really dedicated to it, I guess. It was just something I read on the airplane, a time filler. But now, the second time I'm with it and I can hardly get through it! It's sickening and totally consuming.

[Handlethevibe]

Just finished One Hundreds Years of Solitude, now I'm reading Dune Messiah!

[Citizen]

Currently reading Burroughs's Naked Lunch, the second time around. I decided to give it another shot, because the first time I wasn't really dedicated to it, I guess. It was just something I read on the airplane, a time filler. But now, the second time I'm with it and I can hardly get through it! It's sickening and totally consuming.

If this is what it is, have you ever seen the movie?

WOW is all I can say. BTW another Chicagoan says HI

[domdomdomdom]