Now reading...or great books you've recently read?
 

I need suggestions

The Hunger Games

there is already a thread for this

but read ian mcewan

start with saturday, then read on chesil beach.

the best author i've come across that has written anything in the last sixty years or so.

are you being serious or 'ironic?'

someone squash this upstart rebel thread

Hunger, Knut Hampsun. Grim. Highly recommended.

Actually right now you're reading this.

By duovamp.

is he similar to Milan Kundera?

Hmm, I think I might read Hunger Games for some easy reading and then get into Eulogy's fella

Too fat to fish

ok jk jk

haha, that's not a bad idea. I have it but never read it:erm:

I'm currently plodding through Steinbeck's masterwork East of Eden

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy is the best book I've ever read and a film adaptation is coming in the next few years I believe.

I'm reading God is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens and The Heart of Christianity by Marcus Borg right now but I recently finished The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work and The Aechitecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton and The Bible by Karen Armstrong.

i don't know who that is

but mcewan is the only modern author i've found i can get behind. vehemently.

Milan Kundera was Jackie from the 70s show

ok gonna read Wonder by R. J. Palacio

I hate this thread, mods please delete

The Road - Cormac McCarthy

Late to this but christ, it is unrelenting and amazing

also In Cold Blood - Truman Capote

The Music of Chance - Paul Auster

Penthouse Letters - The story of Elvis The Fat Years.

I liked Ian McEwan's In Between the Sheets and The Comfort of Strangers. Both were exxcellent.

I just got done w Pulp by Bukowski which was really funny. Now I'm just reading this big book about the Beatles before bed/when the kid is asleep.

I'm reading On the Road, by Jack Kerouac, before the movie comes out.

Just finished reading "A Universe From Nothing" by Lawrence Krauss

right now, in the middle of "Starship Troopers"

Ok, changed my mind, will read this.

i started the road but didn't get very far

don't even remember what i thought about it.

I don't think you're gonna get paid for your reviews anytime soon

Super choice

you need to read at least one cormac mccarthy book if you don't want to look like a shithead

i suggest no country for old men, even if you've seen the movie 10 times it's different.

mccarthy is a master of the modern form, definitely not something that is considered breaking or hip as far as current trends go (but that mostly seems to bes smartass cynical shitbags with MLA degrees so i could care less), but certainly a timeless master of form and language.

if there's anything worse for american fiction than requiring a masters degree to write it i'm not sure what it is

mccarthy dropped out of tennessee
delilo majored in communications at fordham
i know that heller and faulkner also were not particularly good students
even Franzen says MLAs in creative writing is a motherfucking joke that's killing american fiction and i think he's one of the beneficiaries of it

like why the shit do you need a degree in "creative" writing from a college seriously major in english, read a lot and write something i don't want to hear that you were schooled in creative writing so you could get hooked up with a publisher that kind of thing makes me PUKE

SORRY I'M DRUNK AND I CARE ABOUT BOOKS

i've been listening to lots of amateur audiobooks lately:

life of charlemagne by einhard
life of charlemagne by notker the stammerer
the story of my misfortunes by abaelard
history of the britons by nennius
nibelungenlied by THE GERMAN NATION

now: the story of the decline and fall of the roman empire by edward gibbon

^___^

i thought the no country movie was one of the most exact literal adaptations i've ever seen
i guess it's been almost five years since i saw it and watched the book though

i remember one of the coens making a joke about that when they won the adapted screenplay oscar though

i've really got to finish the crossing but i have to start it over at this point
i thought i'd really read a lot with my vyvanse focus but i've mostly just been playing jRPGs

so far i've read the road no country and all the pretty horses but i can't read anything else because of my neurosis that says i have to read the entire border trilogy before the rest of his books now that i read the first one
i hate being me

i don't know how to read.

my new buddy at work told me 'the devil in the white city' is good.

i've heard a lot about that devil in white city. it's in my humongous pile of "to-read"

there are a few differences and also the fact that chigurr is never described any further than having blue eyes makes his presence even more dark and mysterious, like he's a force of nature

and no spoilers, the big undisclosed moment in the book re: Llewellyns death, unlike the movie, is a lot more satisfying.