What are you reading?

[Fade to Black]

right now about halfway through Tom Wolfe's I Am Charlotte Simmons...it's a mindless page turner and painfully awkward in a much older author's recreation of the reality of college life...but I bought this book after stalling for a couple years out of sheer curiosity in reading about a portrayal of Duke (which Dupont is apparently heavily borrowed from...the descriptions of architecture pretty much can't be mistaken for anywhere else), as I remember applying to there ED, getting deferred and ultimately rejected.

Have also recently finished The Sexual Life of Catherine M....don't really have much to say about it except the way sexuality is explored by the author's autobiographical accounts feels so awfully...French, for lack of a better word.

 

[Fade to Black]

Originally Posted by denimdestroyedmylife

On page one of Infinite Jest.

I remember buying this book as a kid, about 50 pages in unable to follow what was going on (i think i was only in middle school at the time) and gave up. Might revisit it one of these days...

 

[unpainted huffheinz]

I read 'Quantum of Solace' in the bookstore while waiting for some glasses to be made. It's one of the better bits of Fleming I've read, but he is still a mediocre at best writer in my opinion.

 

[ceaton]

Snakes in Suits.

Recognizing some behavior patterns. Feeling a little uncomfortable.

 

[Jerome]

I read this already a couple of years ago but I am loving it, so I would like to recommend this work: it's simply one of the best:

Dostoyevsky: Notes from the Underground

Read IT!:

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/600/600-h/600-h.htm

But apart from that, I recently haven't read that much, only "The Drinker" by Fallada (look it up on amazon; a new edition is due in march 2009) it was actually quite good; and yeah: I haven't forgotten about Pynchon, Lawyerdad, will check Grav's Rainbow at some time, too...

 

[Toiletduck]

Asian Godfathers: Money and Power in HKG & S.E. Asia

 

[globetrotter]

I am reading Graham Greene's "the shipwreck". really fantastic

 

[johnapril]

Cambodia 1975-1982, by Michael Vickery

Just the first couple chapters are worth checking out

 

[alexei]

Jung: A Biography by Deirdre Bair (2004)

 

[Kevin]

Rob Roy

 

[lawyerdad]

Originally Posted by Fade to Black

I remember buying this book as a kid, about 50 pages in unable to follow what was going on (i think i was only in middle school at the time) and gave up. Might revisit it one of these days...

Worth it. It's one of those books where you just have to let go and let its flow carry you along.

 

[robbie]

still reading Sedaris'newest.

 

[TheIdler]

Originally Posted by Journeyman

As LawyerDad said, GR is difficult. I'd tend to read "The Crying of Lot 49" and "Vineland" first as they are enjoyable to read and much more approachable. Frankly, after the first few chapters, I really found much of Gravity's Rainbow to be quite a chore.

Heh--I'm on like page 120 of GR now, and I'm still not sure if I love it or hate it yet.

 

[Diem]

Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

 

[Nouveau Pauvre]

Originally Posted by robbie

still reading Sedaris'newest.
I've heard really mixed reviews. what do you think of it? I remember reading the smoking piece and finding it very good.