what are you reading right now?

by **chowder julius** » Sun Mar 17, 2019 11:55 am

that's Jeff bezos favorite book

by **nosebleeds** » Sun Mar 17, 2019 12:01 pm

It was a reread. I'm Jeff Bezos and you're welcome.

by **chowder julius** » Sun Mar 17, 2019 12:03 pm

i read it this time last year and enjoyed it but hated the other ishiguro I read after, never let me go. the voice was too similar in a way that bored me

by **nosebleeds** » Sun Mar 17, 2019 12:03 pm

It was 1990 and I wanted to sell books with dignity.

by **nosebleeds** » Sun Mar 17, 2019 12:05 pm

chowder julius wrote:i read it this time last year and enjoyed it but hated the other ishiguro I read after, never let me go. the voice was too similar in a way that bored me

I like Never Let Me Go as well. My favorite of his is The Unconsoled. Apparently, that one is divisive.

by **nosebleeds** » Sun Mar 17, 2019 12:09 pm

Should I start Plague of Doves by Louise Erditch or The Lime Twig by John Hawkes?

by **shizaam** » Sun Mar 17, 2019 1:06 pm

dvr wrote:
shizaam wrote:just started

Oh interesting. Children of Time wasn't my favorite but it wasn't terrible either. I'm curious how this pans out. The author's biology background is a huge draw for me.

Edit: I guess Zoology background technically

Edit2: how'd you get a copy of this?

weird, i _definitely_ grabbed the children of time jpg from amazon; somehow it changed. def haven't gotten to children of ruin yet.

by **chowder julius** » Sun Mar 17, 2019 4:15 pm

chowder julius wrote:i would like to get halfway thru the magic mountain this weekend but that means reading 200 more pages today. wish me luck!

i've read 110 pages so far. i'm about 60 pages away from the long ass letter which will end at exactly the 50% mark. these last few chapters have been creepy. his weirdness about the painting and now the reverie where he's basically imagining her naked but like ~literarily~ are... weird!

by **incoherent grunting** » Sun Mar 17, 2019 5:16 pm

The Idiot was funny

by **reversemigraine** » Sun Mar 17, 2019 6:26 pm

New Charlie Jane Anders piece from TPR on LHoD at 50.

by **chowder julius** » Sun Mar 17, 2019 6:39 pm

thank you for this! might finally whip my ass into shape and finish reading this. I've started it and made it at least halfway thru twice but for some reason never finished it, but it's been years since I gave it a go

by **tea preacher** » Sun Mar 17, 2019 7:29 pm

Just finished

by **reversemigraine** » Sun Mar 17, 2019 8:09 pm

tea preacher wrote:Just finished

Part of me really wants to read this and the other part is afraid it'll ruin my love for Wolf Hall.

The NYRB review from a few issues back made it sound really good.

by **reversemigraine** » Sun Mar 17, 2019 8:10 pm

I guess that's what the cover blurb is for.

by **chowder julius** » Sun Mar 17, 2019 8:14 pm

finally halfway thru the magic mountain, read something like 330 pages of it this weekend. something very... tarkovskian in the way that time moves here. i feel like i have been reading this book forever

by **Sobieski** » Mon Mar 18, 2019 12:16 am

by **shizaam** » Mon Mar 18, 2019 11:04 am

oh man that cover

by **gauchebag** » Mon Mar 18, 2019 11:25 am

finally reading the copy i've had for years

pretty good so far, down on his luck guy being brought out of rut by old war buddy he meets by chance in paris while down to his last 5 bucks. nice descriptions of people and the apprehensiveness of the main character comes across very well through the first 3 chapters

by **Sobieski** » Mon Mar 18, 2019 12:30 pm

shizaam wrote:oh man that cover

haha

by **Slamwich Artist** » Mon Mar 18, 2019 1:04 pm

enjoying this a lot. really accessible and engaging for like a work of academic sociology. recommend it especially if you've spent much time in hyde park or chicago generally

by **shizaam** » Mon Mar 18, 2019 5:00 pm

started this weekend

by **fakename** » Mon Mar 18, 2019 5:47 pm

Sobieski wrote:
shizaam wrote:oh man that cover

haha

by **Riverchrist** » Mon Mar 18, 2019 7:55 pm

number none wrote:
Riverchrist wrote:Reboot fever insists on fucking with me.

I cannot imagine reading something like this when there are like fifty Wodehouse books I still have to get around to

Wodehouse's last few Jeeves books already tended towards fan service, so maybe I shouldn't have bristled at this (also I've learned someone else wrote a Jeeves book in 2013).

But this one is... really quite good! It is worthy.

by **dvr** » Mon Mar 18, 2019 8:05 pm

shizaam wrote:started this weekend

Ah nice, I've had that and Beak of the Finch high up on my to-read list for a while

by **incoherent grunting** » Mon Mar 18, 2019 9:04 pm

blessed to be starting this, very pleased and excited

by **theta** » Mon Mar 18, 2019 9:10 pm

i fuckin love pat cadigan

she deserves better cover art

by **Riverchrist** » Mon Mar 18, 2019 9:30 pm

I love her story "It Was the Heat" but don't know anything else about her work.

by **alaska** » Tue Mar 19, 2019 12:20 am

fakename wrote:
Sobieski wrote:
shizaam wrote:oh man that cover

haha

holy shit

by **alaska** » Tue Mar 19, 2019 12:21 am

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

by **tawny frogmouth** » Tue Mar 19, 2019 6:35 am

thinking of taking a dive into the divine comedy and wondering if there are any suggestions for a good translation

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