What are you reading?

Treefingers · Post by **Treefingers** » Thu Apr 19, 2012 12:49 pm

saurus wrote:Taking on Infinite Jest and I have no idea what to expect

I'm quite interested in that, myself. Looks like even more of a beast than Gravity's Rainbow so best of luck!

fujee · Post by **fujee** » Thu Apr 19, 2012 10:51 pm

I've said it so many times on this board, but Infinite Jest is one of the best novels ever written.

aged sea · Post by **aged sea** » Thu Aug 30, 2012 9:49 pm

Anyone out there own or read Carl Jung's The Red Book ???

I kinda want to buy it.

Mexicola · Post by **Mexicola** » Thu Aug 30, 2012 10:23 pm

A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891-1924by Orlando Figes. Having just finished the superb Red Plenty by Francis Spufford, my love affair with Russian history has drawn me in deeper..

Also The Snowman by Jo Nesbo for my light lunchtime disengage-brain, Scandinavian surly detective / gorefest reading needs.

saturdayindex · Post by **saturdayindex** » Fri Aug 31, 2012 2:25 am

textbooks on semantics, sociolinguistics, and the history of english.

interesting stuff.

Treefingers · Post by **Treefingers** » Fri Aug 31, 2012 1:03 pm

1Q84

Liking it a lot! Just about to start book three.

Cryabetes · Post by **Cryabetes** » Fri Aug 31, 2012 1:19 pm

Treefingers wrote:1Q84

Liking it a lot! Just about to start book three.

I have to read this yet. In the thick of Wild Sheep Chase right now.

Magrathea · Post by **Magrathea** » Sat Sep 01, 2012 4:34 am

Classic stuff, in French, of course

saurus · Post by **saurus** » Sat Sep 01, 2012 4:36 am

your mother

2020k · Post by **2020k** » Sat Sep 01, 2012 7:18 pm

I just finished reading "Let's Pretend This Never Happened" by Jenny Lawson (The Bloggess). Loved every single word.

Torn between continuing The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo or a Chuck Palahniuk book.

Waterbagel · Post by **Waterbagel** » Sat Sep 01, 2012 9:22 pm

Just finished re-reading 1984, almost done with Fahrenheit 451, and I'm about to start Carl Sagan's Cosmos.

It's been a while since I've read for fun.. just getting back into it! :oops:

Lens Larque · Post by **Lens Larque** » Sat Sep 01, 2012 10:32 pm

Jim Holt - Why Does the World Exist

Nice bedside stuff, plenty of entry. Hear about it on Peter Woits blog which is interesting to me:
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/

pianoforte · Post by **pianoforte** » Mon Sep 03, 2012 5:09 am

i spend waaaaaaay too much time on the computer and not enough time behind a good book. i need to get back into reading.

unfortunately, the last used book shop within a comfortable distance of the center of town has been kicked out of the building it has occupied for the past age to make way for a cheese shop which will pay higher rent. fuck.

on the other hand: libraries! <3

fujee · Post by **fujee** » Thu Sep 06, 2012 1:42 pm

Mexicola wrote:A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891-1924by Orlando Figes. Having just finished the superb Red Plenty by Francis Spufford, my love affair with Russian history has drawn me in deeper..

Also The Snowman by Jo Nesbo for my light lunchtime disengage-brain, Scandinavian surly detective / gorefest reading needs.

A Peoples Tradegy is SO awesome !

Great looking book too, I bought it for my birthday, great buy.

Mexicola · Post by **Mexicola** » Thu Sep 06, 2012 7:33 pm

fujee wrote:Great looking book too, I bought it for my birthday, great buy.

It certainly is! It's also so heavy I could commit murder with it. Seriously, it's a bugger to read in bed - the damn thing weighs a tonne!! :lol:

Just bought Siberian Dreams by Andy Home too, which looks at a modern Siberian mining town, drawing (not so) oblique parallels between life there now and life in the Gulag. Looks good, just waiting for it to arrive.

fujee · Post by **fujee** » Sat Sep 29, 2012 10:08 pm

I just finished White Teeth by Zadie Smith. Pretty good debut (I know I am 12 years late, but whatever)

I think I am going to buy "How Life Imitates Chess" by Gary Kasparov, looks interesting.

Becoming increasingly interested in Chess in general actually.

A_Northern_Soul · Post by **A_Northern_Soul** » Sat Sep 29, 2012 10:18 pm

Eric Clapton's autobiography:

Great guitarist

Knew some very cool people

Bit of a tit.

In summary.

Torn n Frayed · Post by **Torn n Frayed** » Sat Sep 29, 2012 10:34 pm

Feeding Back-Conversations with Alternative Guitarists from Proto-Punk to Post-Rock by David Todd. Has interviews with Thompson, Marr, Frusciante, Verlaine, Kramer, Ranaldo ect.

Blackjwell · Post by **Blackjwell** » Sun Sep 30, 2012 12:23 am

Decided to get into the classics recently.

Am currently reading Ulysses by James Joyce. It is mind boggling.

Half the time I am completely lost and the other half I am completely blown away.

pianoforte · Post by **pianoforte** » Sun Sep 30, 2012 3:38 am

I recently recognized the fact that I spend a bit too much time on my computer, absorbed in my cyber-world. I decided to get back into reading; I love the idea of books, but rarely made time to read.

Ironically, one of these first things I did after realizing this was to join Goodreads. :roll:

Anyway, I went to my local bookshop and purchased the following this past weekend:

The Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector, and Selected Stories
by Nikolai Gogol (Translated by Ronald Wilks)

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami (Translated by Jay Rubin)

and one other book which I can't remember the title of just now.