What are you reading?

[LabelKing]



Nathanael West's "The Day of the Locust".

The film adaptation is actually rather good. It captures that grotesquely surreal atmosphere.

 

[dragon8]

Reading "This Town" by Mark Liebovich

 

[lawyerdad]

Finished Shantaram. Liked it a lot, although the last 25% or so slipped a bit. But a strong thumbs-up overall.
Also read

I don't know that I enjoyed it quite as much as Devil In The White City, but it was still good.
Next up: House of the Locust (my daughter's summer reading assignment), Red Sorghum (arrived yesterday), and/or Sweet Tooth (Ian McEwan's latest).

 

[Joffrey]



Reading "This Town" by Mark Liebovich

I thought the only people interested in this lived in DC. Is it as juicy as the DC press is making it out to be?

 

[Matt]



Finished Shantaram. Liked it a lot, although the last 25% or so slipped a bit.

yup, this is the correct answer. Really everything after the Afghanistan business is a waste of paper.

 

[lawyerdad]



yup, this is the correct answer. Really everything after the Afghanistan business is a waste of paper.

Agreed. There's a sense of "damn, I'm at 900 pages, I better find a place to land this thing!" Still an excellent read, though.

 

[Infrasonic]

 

[enjoiii]



Read that one last year as part of the 50-books-challenge and I really liked it. Have to admit I am a bit of a romantic. You too obviously.

Just finished this book on based on both your comments, any similar books you would reccomend that I might enjoy?

 

[i10casual]

Interesting and fun.

 

[javyn]

Loving this. I made a good pick for getting into comics.

Another one I'm enjoying.

 

[GraphicNovelty]

Finished Hitchhiker's guide. I thought it was well done, but personally I found it a bit tiresome.

Readng China Meiville's The Scar next.

 

[Geoffrey Firmin]



Finished Hitchhiker's guide. I thought it was well done, but personally I found it a bit tiresome.

Saw some aging hippe reading it on the bus yesterday, the radio series was better than the book.

Struggling through Liber Novus The Red Book by Jung, its so dense and complex a text, read for a couple of hours then pause for thought.

 

[aravenel]

Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson. I'm about a quarter way through so far and loving it. A lot of the humor in it reminds me of Catch 22, which is a good thing.

 

[Steve Smith]



Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson. I'm about a quarter way through so far and loving it. A lot of the humor in it reminds me of Catch 22, which is a good thing.

I put many place markers in my copy of Cryptonomicon just so I could revisit particularly well-crafted passages. Stephenson is a genius.

 

[aravenel]



I put many place markers in my copy of Cryptonomicon just so I could revisit particularly well-crafted passages. Stephenson is a genius.

There have been several spots where I didn't spot the joke, or the brilliance of a passage, until several pages later, whereupon I went back and reread the passage and greatly enjoyed it. It's an extremely well written book so far. Like I said, only a quarter of the way through, but I am loving it.