What are you reading?

[Sartorian]

Originally Posted by lawyerdad

Worth it. It's one of those books where you just have to let go and let its flow carry you along.
(re: Infinite Jest) Totally agree. Read the footnotes as you go along, you'll find yourself laughing aloud more than you have in a long time. Don't look at it as something to be finished, just enjoy every time you delve into it; at a certain point, you'll get so involved, you won't care whether it ends. But it isworth it to see it through to the end--or rather, to the last page.

 

[kakemono]

Just finished Gang Leader for a Day by Sudhir Venkatesh. I read all 270 pages in one sitting. It is about a sociology student at U of Chicago who walks into the Robert Taylor Homes (projects) in Chicago with a survey to give the people... ends up becoming friends with the college graduate gang leader and learns about life where there even the police won't go.

Currently reading: Revolution by Ron Paul. Very interesting.

 

[eg1]

Freakonomics

A little old now, perhaps, but interesting.

 

[johnapril]

Three Cups of Tea

 

[Saucemaster]

Originally Posted by denimdestroyedmylife

Wellville was good. On page one of Infinite Jest.

I'm on page one, too! It's a re-read for me.

Originally Posted by lawyerdad

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

+1. I've also always found DFW to be very easy to read--I burned through Infinite Jest very quickly (relative to its heft, anyway).

And, of course, RIP.

Anyone want to give me any recs on good recent fiction by new or upcoming authors? I haven't been reading a lot of new fiction in the past few years, for whatever reason.

 

[clarity]

Getting closer to the end of the Dark Tower series still.

 

[why]

Originally Posted by IUtoSLU

Fathers and Sons by Turgenev

Amazing book.

 

[kakemono]

Originally Posted by kakemono

Just finished Gang Leader for a Day by Sudhir Venkatesh. I read all 270 pages in one sitting. It is about a sociology student at U of Chicago who walks into the Robert Taylor Homes (projects) in Chicago with a survey to give the people... ends up becoming friends with the college graduate gang leader and learns about life where there even the police won't go.

Currently reading: Revolution by Ron Paul. Very interesting.


Done with that one. Good read. A little questionable in some aspects, but it a book I connect with one a large majority of issues.

Next up: Don't Start the Revolution Without Me - Jesse Ventura


I am glad I tuned into this thread as I am finding some interesting sounding books and have made a little text file on my desktop with a list of books to read. It is getting long, fast.

 

[Clemson]

Originally Posted by tsloop

Sperm Wars by Robin Baker

That book is fascinating - I felt cheated by health class after reading it.

 

[rdawson808]

Just starting All Quiet On The Western Front.

 

[Renault78law]

Just finished The History of Love, by Nicole Krauss. Hate the title, but it is an exceptional book.

 

[AntiHero84]

Tucker's Marx-Engels Reader (for class)

 

[lawyerdad]

Edwin Millhouse

Waiting on my nightstand:
Best American Essays 2008
Best American Short Stories 2008
Best American Mystery Stories 2008
(it's that time of year)
The Omnivore's Dilemma
Bleak House

 

[itsstillmatt]

Originally Posted by lawyerdad

The Omnivore's Dilemma

Didn't you already do time in Berkeley?

 

[lawyerdad]

Originally Posted by iammatt

Didn't you already do time in Berkeley?

Honestly, I know very little about the book except that it was enthusiastically recommended by two different friends whose tastes often align with mine.