What have you been reading?

#321

i work as a sign holder advertising a local tanning place. hence i have a lot of time to read. since i started i’ve read naked lunch by william s burroughs, last night of the earth poems & open all night by charles bukowski, 30 second philosophies by barry lower, i hope they serve beer in hell by tucker max (fucking hated it), the tomb and other tales, supernatural horror in literature, the road to madness & the call of cthulu and other tales by hp lovecraft, the time machine by hg wells, diary by chuck palahniuk, the road by cormac mccarthy, the tempest by shakespeare .

i’m pretty sure there’s a few i’ve missed because i’ve been averaging about a book a day. right now i’m working on kafka on the shore by haruki murakami. after that i’ve got my eye on the will to power by nietzsche, moby dick by herman melville, schindler’s list by thomas keneally, and the complete short stories of earnest hemingway. i’ve also got a compendium of treasure island by robert stevenson, david copperfield by charles dickens, call of the wild by jack london and madame curie by eve curie all in one volume, but i’m not sure how i feel about this.

just looked through my book collection. i think i have enough to open a library.

#322

It really depends on your patience levels. I rather like Atlas Shrugged- it’s fantastic as a work of philosophy and as a critique of socialism, but as a novel it’s hamfisted. The dialog for characters frequently reaches paragraph length, which isn’t always a bad thing, but her occasionally flowery prose makes the book feel longer than it needs to be.

That said, this isn’t anywhere near as painful to read as “Cry, The Beloved Country.” That book made me want to tear off the nearest chair-leg and rip out my own eyeballs with it. The flowery prose about environments went on for pages, dialog was done with unmarked hyphens so you had no idea who the fuck was speaking, and it was on the whole a boring and pretentious story begging to be adapted into Oscar bait.

In fact, it’s been adapted twice but it didn’t get Oscars either time. Which is good. Because it’s boring.

#323

Hesse - Steppenwolf.

#324

I read Boneshaker by Cherie Priest, a steampunk alt-history/scifi sort of deal. It was really good. The writing maybe could have been a bit smoother, but the story managed to avoid the obvious and predictable outcome. I’m looking forward to reading some more of her novels. In the meantime, I’m still re-reading Discworl; I’m on Moving Pictures, which is much better than I remember it being.

#325

Just read 1984 for the first time a few weeks ago. Crazy shit. Now I keep realizing I’m using doublethink.

#326

I just finished Compendium 1 of “The Walking Dead.” Holy damn this is a good comic. Can’t wait for the next volume. (Sure, I could buy individual issues, but I prefer mainlining it all at once in bigger chunks.)

#327

Gonna read 魔物娘図鑑ワールドガイドⅠ 堕落の乙女達

#328

That looks very interesting.

#329

Read a whole load of Pratchett (basically the whole arc with the city watch. But from now on: my immunobiology textbook.

#330

1984 is good.

#331

The painted man - Awesome.

And now the sequel The Desert Spear

#332
#333

Tom Clancy - Red Storm Rising

Good read.

#334

Onto Reaper Man. I picked up a bunch of books at Borders’ going-out-of-business sale, so I’ll have some reading to do between the Pratchett.

#335

Just finished Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card and started Speaker for the Dead such good books.

#336

I still haven’t read those. I keep meaning to… I finished Reaper Man and Witches Abroad and am now into Small Gods, one of my favourite books of all time. After this, I plan to take a brief break from Discworld and read Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman.

#337

Finished The Desert Spear by Peter V. Brett.

Not as good as the first one, but really awesome. Can’t wait for the third one.

#338

Just got the book from Japan, nippon, nippon, nippon. :smiley:

#339

Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

#340

Star Wars: The Mandalorian’s Armor

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