What are you reading?

[dwyhajlo]

I'm currently reading Locus Solus by Raymond Roussel.

 

[Reynard369]

Originally Posted by imatlas

Such a great series of books (I think it's up to 5 books plus assorted short stories). Compared to LeGuin's work, Harry Potter is drivel.

I just finished the first book, A Wizard of Earthsea, and I have to say I was not that impressed. The writing was not bad, but it was sometimes difficult for me to get through as her particular style is reminiscent of an earlier era. The story was not that captivating. The first 20 percent of the book, where Ged discovers his powers, meets Ogion, and goes to Roke was the most interesting part of the novel. After that, it was rather boring. I don't think I'll end up reading further in the series.

LeGuin may be a better writer than Rowling (you could argue either way), but I enjoyed HP more than I did the first Earthsea novel.

 

[lawyerdad]

Just finished Freedom. All Franzen hating/fetishization aside, it was ok. I mostly enjoyed it, although I found it far less rich than The Corrections, which I thought was excellent. Moreover, Freedom suffers from a major structural flaw, inasmuch as Franzen introduces the framing device of a potentially unreliable first-person narrative, never does much with it, and at times appears to have completely forgotten about it and meandered into omniscient third-person narrator mode. Then he'll suddenly go "oh, ****!" and insert some distractingly obtrusive reminder that the Patty is, in fact, supposedly the narrator. It's as though he had this concept of the book he wanted to write, realized it wasn't working out, and just decided, "screw it, I've sunk all this work into it I might as well just try to finish it somehow."

 

[mellow]

 

[javyn]

 

[imatlas]

Originally Posted by javyn

An excellent book. Along similar lines I recommend the Raj Quartet by Paul Scott.

 

[Valor]

Didn't like Passage to India at all.

Currently reading Collected Fictions by Borges

 

[javyn]

Originally Posted by imatlas

An excellent book. Along similar lines I recommend the Raj Quartet by Paul Scott.

I generally love East Indians and dislike the British, so....I figured this would be a good read for me.

 

[imatlas]

Originally Posted by javyn

I generally love East Indians and dislike the British, so....I figured this would be a good read for me.

Do you love them enough to stop calling them East Indians?

 

[javyn]

Absolutely not

 

[linkinwayne]

Got a bunch of fashion-related books recently and I'm going through them. 'Fashion at the edge' is particularly interesting.

 

[Brian SD]

About to tackle these two:

Looking forward very much to both

 

[RSS]

Hav by Jan Morris

 

[bioactive]

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris

 

[imatlas]

The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments by George Johnson