What are you reading?

[Bradford]

Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History by Ted Sorensen

A birthday present I received a few weeks ago, a good read so far.

 

[X-It]

Godverdomse dagen op een godverdomse bol -- Dimitri Verhulst

 

[rents]

Shake Hands with the Devil by Romeo Delaire

 

[Hard2Fit]

The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism

 

[shellshock]

Unconquerable World by Jonathan Schell for class assignment.

BORING so far.

 

[whacked]

Alan Greenspan's The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World


Hating on Greenspan has become so popular these days, I just thought it'd be a good idea to read up on the man. So far, so good. Quite interesting, actually.

 

[Jerome]

Ramsey Dukes (Uncle Ramsey's Little Book of Demons); I would recommend this to the one guy who posted here and who was a stage magician and had claimed that "magic doesn't *really* exist"...(also- and moreso: Monsters and Magical Sticks by Steven Heller, btw)...

Also something more conventionally palatable that I have been reading on and off are the (at times) really excellent aphorisms by Nicolás Gómez Dávila whose trenchant, reactionary critique of the modern world is very refreshing and on point; and in the tradition of Nietzsche in his untimeliness ("Unzeitgemäßheit")...

 

[dopey]

Originally Posted by dopey

I Married A Communist, by Phillip Roth

Finished. Also nearly finished Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, which I've been reading since it came out.

 

[chiral]

Despair, by Vladimir Nabokov. Only four chapters in so far, and quite good. I'm hopelessly addicted to Nabokovs' way with prose. EDIT- As a sidenote, whoever created the covers for the Vintage International printings of some of Nabokovs' earlier stuff is an idiot. The art and direction makes them look like pre-teen romance novels.

 

[Haqq]

The Game

Neil Struass

 

[kakemono]

Originally Posted by whacked

Alan Greenspan's The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World


Hating on Greenspan has become so popular these days, I just thought it'd be a good idea to read up on the man. So far, so good. Quite interesting, actually.
I saw this book today and though about buying it. Please tell if you end up liking it after you are done...

Originally Posted by kakemono

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

Finished it. He certainly is a straight shooter it seems. Very honest. I liked the autobiography told in conjunction with his road trip.

Ventura is pretty self-centered and the end of this book proved it. I could have done without reading the last 5 pages - it ruined it. It seems he takes everything from a uninformed view and applies common sense to it - which is sometimes refreshing, but sometimes a little too naive.


Currently Reading: Freakanomics

 

[LabelKing]

Snuff by Chuck Paluhnik.

 

[Britalian]

A landmark year deserves a landmark book: In Search Of Lost Time.

 

[zipp]

pandora in the congo by Albert Sánchez Piñol

 

[Fade to Black]

Finished Tom Wolfe's I Am Charlotte Simmons finally, i must say it was a readable, but not very good book. Stereotypical characters, obvious hints of a writer very much out of touch with his times... Just finished Woody Allen's Mere Anarchy...while I am generally not a fan of high-brow comedy in literature or film as I often find it very 'hard to get,' bordering on pretentious, this collection of short stories was side-splittingly hilarious. Am reading The Rules of Attraction, the writing is not great but it's an easy read, as Simmons was ... and despite being published nearly 2 decades earlier, it comes across as a much more realistic, if slightly hyperbolic and maniacal, portrayal of modern youth and college.....