What are you reading?

[Stazy]

War and Peace

 

[snake]

^Nice. Been meaning to pick up Hadji Murat.

 

[johnapril]

Moby Dick

 

[appolyon]

Zen and the art of motorcylce maintenance - about a third of the way through and thoroughly enjoying it.

 

[GQgeek]

Anna Karenina

It's long as ****. i'm enjoying it though. I'm reading on my iphone to/from work. starting to think about a kindle again...

 

[Working Stiff]

Originally Posted by GQgeek

Anna Karenina

It's long as ****. i'm enjoying it though. I'm reading on my iphone to/from work. starting to think about a kindle again...

This sounds like Hell. Go spend $15 and buy a paperback.

 

[Peak and Pine]

What Are You Reading?

Any damn thing I want to. My Kindle arrived today! Color me giddy.

 

[Working Stiff]

Originally Posted by johnapril

Moby Dick

Greatest novel ever written? I think maybe.

 

[GQgeek]

Originally Posted by Working Stiff

This sounds like Hell. Go spend $15 and buy a paperback.

Honestly, I like reading on the phone in some respects. I'm using stanza and using black background and white text, and i turn the brightness down to read. I would much sooner get a kindle than a paperback. You eventually get used to the frequent page-turns. The most annoying thing is the glare, but since the device is small, it's not so hard to angle it to reduce glare. with the larger screen of an ipad, i'd go crazy though. The nice thing about reading on the phone is that i don't have to carry anything extra around with me, and I always have it. When i go to lunch, i just set it on the table and can read without having to hold the book open, which is kinda hard to do while eating, obviously.

 

[Working Stiff]

Originally Posted by GQgeek

Honestly, I like reading on the phone in some respects. I'm using stanza and using black background and white text, and i turn the brightness down to read. I would much sooner get a kindle than a paperback. You eventually get used to the frequent page-turns. The most annoying thing is the glare, but since the device is small, it's not so hard to angle it to reduce glare. with the larger screen of an ipad, i'd go crazy though. The nice thing about reading on the phone is that i don't have to carry anything extra around with me, and I always have it. When i go to lunch, i just set it on the table and can read without having to hold the book open, which is kinda hard to do while eating, obviously.

To tell the truth, I have an irrational attachment to books as objects. As a corollary, I view the new reader technologies with anger, fear, and resentment. What you say may be true, but I'm not yet ready to listen.

 

[Jerome]

Originally Posted by Stazy

War and Peace
Have you noticed how those 19th century chabbies seem to like those titles with 'something' AND 'something' else? War and Peace, Pride and Prejudice etc...le rouge et le noir...

 

[clockwise]

Originally Posted by Jerome

Have you noticed how those 19th century chabbies seem to like those titles with 'something' AND 'something' else? War and Peace, Pride and Prejudice etc...le rouge et le noir...

Moby and dick etc.

 

[clockwise]

Anna Karenina is one of my all-time best reads. Fantastic stuff on what happens if you pursue happiness rather than "do the right thing". Tragic since it's just so. War and Peace has so far been too much for me. I've tried and it puts me to sleep around page 50. Guess I didn't try hard enough.

 

[why]

Originally Posted by Jerome

Have you noticed how those 19th century chabbies seem to like those titles with 'something' AND 'something' else? War and Peace, Pride and Prejudice etc...le rouge et le noir...
That's more of a Jane Austen convention, and the antithetical War and Peace is a lot different from the comparitive Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Love and Freindship, etc. titles Austen enjoyed. I can't think of any other English novelist who regularly titled their works in such a way. Besides, Tolstoy was probably too giddy for Dickens' next serial to know much about Jane Austen. Honest question: What's with the adoration of golden age Russian authors in translation? It's so cheap. You're not more intelligent for abutting Anna Karenina (A New Barnes and Noble Edition) to Who Moved My Cheese? on your Ikea bookshelf. You just look like a pretentious goon. If Stalin and Kruschev didn't confound Americans for decades the esoterism of Russian authors would've never preceded their merit as much as it has.

 

[clockwise]

Originally Posted by why

That's more of a Jane Austen convention, and the antithetical War and Peace is a lot different from the comparitive Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Love and Freindship, etc. titles Austen enjoyed. I can't think of any other English novelist who regularly titled their works in such a way.

Besides, Tolstoy was probably too giddy for Dickens' next serial to know much about Jane Austen.

Honest question: What's with the adoration of golden age Russian authors in translation? It's so cheap. You're not more intelligent for abutting Anna Karenina (A New Barnes and Noble Edition) to Who Moved My Cheese? on your Ikea bookshelf. You just look like a pretentious goon. If Stalin and Kruschev didn't confound Americans for decades the esoterism of Russian authors would've never preceded their merit as much as it has.

Didn't know IKEA was popular in America too.