What are you reading?

[King Francis]

Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano
Rainer Maria Rilke, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (Michael Hulse translation; love his translations of Sebald)
Poems of the Late T'ang (edited by A. C. Graham)
Bruno Schulz, The Street of Crocodiles and Other Stories

And for work:

Archon Fung and Erik Olin Wright (with others), Deepening Democracy
Leonard Sax, Boys Adrift

 

[james_timothy]

Speakable and Unspeakable in Quantum Mechanics, by John Bell, of Bell's inequalities fame.

His attitude is great. At one point he's talking about observables, recasting them as "beables" (be-ables),
but takes time to consider and dismiss the terms "being" and "beer".

Beer. I'm sure he did that colloquiums, too. Gotta love that man.

 

[phreak]

Originally Posted by Matt

WTF!!?!

How can you read this ****? I couldn't make it past 25 pages

 

[Mildly Consumptive]

Tom Watson has reduced the fundamentals of golf to a coffee table book. Probably the clearest, and most helpful golf instruction book I've ever read.

 

[blahman]

Because I'm a masochist.

 

[Reynard369]

Currently reading Mistborn: The Final Empire. It's the first book in Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn series. He's the author who took over writing the Wheel of Time series after Robert Jordan's death, so I was a little hesitant, but Sanderson is a much better writer and so far it's been a pretty enjoyable read.

 

[King Francis]

Originally Posted by Reynard369

Currently reading Mistborn: The Final Empire. It's the first book in Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn series. He's the author who took over writing the Wheel of Time series after Robert Jordan's death, so I was a little hesitant, but Sanderson is a much better writer and so far it's been a pretty enjoyable read.

 

[Reynard369]

Originally Posted by King Francis

Yeah. Wheel of Time sucks.

 

[sartorialism]

Originally Posted by blahman

Because I'm a masochist.

I loved the book.

 

[blahman]

Originally Posted by sartorialism

I loved the book.

Challenging stuff to read though I have to say, but I did enjoy much of it. The Judgment is pretty intense. In the Penal Colony is

. As is A Country Doctor. The Rejection is worth a chuckle. The Trees, The Sudden Walk and Children on the Country Road got me into a little bit of a reflective mood.

Anyway new book!

 

[Makeshift_Robot]

blahman have you read the DFW essay "On Kafka's Funniness?"

Just finished my class reading for the semester so I get to read for pleasure again, gonna go back over Siddhartha and then finish the new DFW hopefully in the short term.

 

[MetroStyles]

What a strange book. Enjoying it so far.

 

[imatlas]

Originally Posted by MetroStyles

What a strange book. Enjoying it so far.

Calvino:

Have you read any Borges?

 

[MetroStyles]

Originally Posted by imatlas

Calvino:

Have you read any Borges?

I've picked through a few of the short stories in Labyrinths while still in college. Really liked them. I have to go find a few of his books - can't believe I am so woefully under-read when it comes to Borges.

 

[imatlas]

Originally Posted by MetroStyles

I've picked through a few of the short stories in Labyrinths while still in college. Really liked them. I have to go find a few of his books - can't believe I am so woefully under-read when it comes to Borges.

I went on a massive "magical realism" kick in college and read a ton of Marquez, Calvino, Borges and Cortazar. Great writers.