what are you reading right now?

[Parnelio]

wasn't wittgenstein a pillow-bitter?

[Pnin]

back and forth between these two right now

[deadwolfbones]

Just finished:



Now finishing:



Will soon start:

[mites]

he's just talking about osama now so I am no longer interested really




its great when other people are all like full of awesome books

[Kuboaa]

Finishing:

On Deck:

[barbara_h]

finished:

i really loved all the stories but the way they were put together left me a bit perplexed. I remember enjoying Ghostwritten a bit more.

which was far from being as good as i thought it would be

now reading:

great so far

[parapet]

[accidentswillhappen]

Miwon Kwon - One Place After Another
Michel Houellebecq - Possibility Of An Island
Joan Didion - Slouching Towards Bethlehem
W.G. Sebald - Vertigo

[SERIOUSLY GUYS]

finished:

i really loved all the stories but the way they were put together left me a bit perplexed. I remember enjoying Ghostwritten a bit more.

about 1/3 way through this and finally feel like it's starting to pick up steam...actually really like the way it's put together and am looking forward to the way the stories 'unwind'

[No Good Advice]

moby dick

[Permafrost]

Just about finished with this:


Going to move onto this:

Here's hoping it's better than More Die of Heartbreak.

hey what's the best Raymond Chandler, I'm making my xmas list right now

You can't go wrong with The Lady In The Lake. It's got it all.

[Luke]

Finished:

[AJNemz]

[asphalt]

[barbara_h]

finished:

i really loved all the stories but the way they were put together left me a bit perplexed. I remember enjoying Ghostwritten a bit more.

about 1/3 way through this and finally feel like it's starting to pick up steam...actually really like the way it's put together and am looking forward to the way the stories 'unwind'

don't misunderstand : it's great. it's just that I think i would probably have liked it more if each story had not been split in two.

[barbara_h]

hey what's the best Raymond Chandler, I'm making my xmas list right now

You can't go wrong with The Lady In The Lake. It's got it all.

Yes. I really like The Long Goodbye too.

[beausoleil]

Again.

[ruiner]

pretty awesome so far. also working on jeffrey eugenides' middlesex, but this one's grabbing me a bit more than eugenides.

[Genius Sir]

Finished a while back:



At the mo:


And I just picked up (which is awesome)

[street cleaner]

yow

[mickdagger]

Finishing up:


Gonna tackle either:
or

[ruiner]

how's that Godard book? i'm just now getting into more french new wave stuff (blame not having access to decent movies/etc. until i moved to L.A.) and could stand to read some more on the movement.

[ho bag brown]

I'm slowly reading Colin MacCabe's Godard: A Portrait of the Artist at 70. It's fun, though it mostly reads like a list of Godard's relationships mixed with a memoir of MacCabe's career.

[ho bag brown]

[Zwischenzug]

Finishing:
On Deck:

The best book I have read in a long time. I am reading his first book now, the last book in the trilogy is going to come out in the near future.

[Duplo]

man, 'a personal matter' is one of the most crushing books i've ever read. great though. i also highly recommend 'the silent cry'

about finished with savage detectives and the source family biography. also started 'haiku' by andrew vachss.

[Tuesdays with Morrissey]

Barbara: Great as it is, it's tough for me to see "Ghostwritten" (other than the Mongolia story/chapter) as anything other than the threshing out of techniques that he puts to better use in "Cloud Atlas." If some of the gimmickier devices are interrupting the flow for you, maybe check out "Black Swan Green," which is similarly great and more cohesive, if less ambitious.

[G_S]

started Under the Volcano but it hasn't grabbed me so I knocked it off for


which is the best new book I've read in a long time

can't decide if I should go back to Lowry or try again some other time

[Rempty]

[good news]