Official What Are You Reading Thread:

[Robrecht]

Go back and reread the first chapter when you finish it, man. And yeah, I took the news pretty hard. It took me a while to actually start The Pale King because it's sort of all over after that one, you know?

Oh, I will. Right now I want to reread all of it. It's a lot to take in in one reading, especially since English isn't my first language, plus I just don't want to leave that world. I just bought The Broom of the system and A supposedly fun thing too, so either way I'll be going on a Wallace binge.

Your reluctance to start with The Pale King is very recognisable. I have the same thing with Nabokov: there isn't much left by him that I haven't read twice. The Original of Laura was a nice treat but it made me even sadder to know there will never be any truly new work.

 

[Ralyks]

Just started Fear And Loathing on The Campaign Trail '72 before I left for work. Had the book for a while, now time to actually, y'know, read it

 

[Mexi]

Thoroughly enjoyed Blood Meridian and I'm really just enjoying Cormac McCarthy's work so I'm starting up his Border Trilogy with All the Pretty Horses.

 

[technomancer]

Steven Erikson - Memories of Ice

 

[dedsouth333]

Just finished The Complete H. P. Lovecraft Collection. The last story was Winged Death

 

[Mexi]

Re-reading The Road. such a hauntingly beautiful book

 

[wheresthefbomb]

I used to restrict myself to reading one book at a time. What little wisdom I've gained in the years since then has led me to abandon this silly practice entirely.

Pedagogy of the Oppressed - Freire
Markets Not Capitalsim - eds. Chartier and Johnson
Language and Problems of Knowledge (Managua Lecture series) - Chomsky
my own post

 

[Robrecht]

Re-reading The Road. such a hauntingly beautiful book

It is. I started reading the first page of The Road while I was brushing my teeth early one night. By the time I got to the last page, it was morning and I was still standing stark naked in the middle of a cold, fluorescent-lit bathroom. So yeah, definitely an engrossing read.

 

[LudoCluedo]

American Gods by Neil Gaiman.

SUCH a good book, you're in for a treat! Saying that, anything by Gaiman is worth reading.

 

[texshred777]

The Bourne Identity.

 

[Basti]

A Clockwork Orange. I'm starting to viddy things in like, a new light my brothers.

I asked for The Road but no library seems to have it. I may tuck into some Aldous Huxley after this, I've got The Island and something else lying around.

edit: they have McCarthy's The Road!! I grinned a lot when I found it

 

[TheDivineWing22]

Just finished The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Tonight I'll start the Resaurant at the End of the Universe.

 

[lawizeg]

Ayn Rand's magnum opus, Atlas Shrugged.

 

[pink freud]

Just finished A Dance With Dragons. Now the waiting truly begins.

 

[Basti]

Just finished The Road (WOW. I mean...wow) so I might start on some Oliver Sachs...but I want fiction!
Suggestions?

 

[MFB]

Just finished A Dance With Dragons. Now the waiting truly begins.

I'm halfway through AFfC and I fear the day I finish ADwD because I know book six still won't be out by then

 

[SeanSan]

Currently reading a bunch of HP Lovecraft stories

I also just finished "The 100 year old man who climbed out the window and disappeared"

^^ I highly recommend this for people who appreciate quirky humour. The title kinda got me going already! Check it out!

 

[Basti]

Just got started on Brave New World.

 

[Mexi]

Finished up Child of God and continuing on with my McCarthy binge with The Orchard Keeper

 

[Basti]

First book I ever picked up based on a first impression, The Left Hand of God. Really good so far.