Rolling "Books Recently Read" Thread

[slunken]

Just finished the Nile Rodgers biography. I wish he talked about music more or his time in Chic. It wasnt very good and he never went into much detail about anything.

[TuralyonW3]

2/3 through this, really enjoying it. An occult mystery about the hunt for a Kubrick/Argento like recluse director

[D.]

Oh man forgot about this thread.

So, I did this project last October where I took all my journals (spread out through a variety of mediums - paper, online, etc) and re-wrote them into new paper journals. It was really rewarding but it also took me MONTHS and I just got done at the end of May. Anyway, it's taken me a bit to get back into the swing of reading since I basically stopped reading for a couple of months so I could get the journal project done.

This year my favorite reads have been:

Rudolfo Anaya - Bless Me Ultima
Ray Bradbury - Martian Chronicles
Jack Finney - About Time: 12 Short Stories
John Bowers - Love In Tennessee
Truman Capote - Breakfast at Tiffany's & Three Stories
Truman Capote - In Cold Blood
Roald Dahl - My Uncle Oswald
Rudolfo Anaya - Jalamanta

Finally finished that first volume of the Beatles biography, Tune In. I had started it in December and finished it in June. That thing was huuuuge.

Stephen King's new book was really good. Also, The House on Mango Street was pretty good.

[D.]

Next up is

- Americana by Don DeLillo
- Where Angels Fear to Tread by EM Forster
- The Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis
- The Beautiful and the Damned by Fitzgerald
- A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
- Soldier's Pay by Faulkner

Still haven't read Confederacy of Dunces.

[The exploding boy]

I'm such a bad reader. I have like a 1000 books but read maybe 4 a year. And that's best case scenario. I have to be stuck with no other options to read. Otherwise i'm stupid and like will do anything else for entertainment. so i tend to read when i go visit my family (cause it lacks in entertainment) or actually when i go on medical trials, though since i got a laptop i also tend to find other options...

[bignothing]

Just started this. I was ehh about it, but a friend recommended it very highly and I like it so far (haven't seen the movie).

[slunken]

Originally Posted by The exploding boy

I'm such a bad reader. I have like a 1000 books but read maybe 4 a year.

digital problems. it also makes you a bad music listener.

[The exploding boy]

My books aren't digital though........that's pretty much the only use the living room has, storing these books. (well that and recording/playing music)


Don't get me started on how i feel about vinyls please...this would not end well considering your obviously opposing views on them (i'm talking sound wise, because i actually can understand why people might want to own physical things...like for example i can't see myself going digital with books)

[Shallowed]

I recently got a sudden got the urge to do something about never being well-read.

These last few weeks I've read:

Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
Poison Pill - Glenn Kaplan
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
How Late It Was, How Late - James Kelman

Currently reading Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh

[Elphenor]

Brave New World is such a trip

[Shallowed]

It wasn't what I was expecting, that's for sure. I want to re-read it again some time soon so I won't be swayed by those expectations

Based on what I'd heard of the premises, I found myself a lot more attracted to BNW than 1984 (since they're eternally compared and contrasted) and I naively thought that the world of BNW sounded like a rather pleasant place to be.

[D.]

Cool. This topic. This year so far all the stuff I've read has been at least good, some great. I've read about, I dunno, 15 so far but my faves were:

Steve Abee - Johnny Future
Margaret Atwood - Oryx and Crake
Nicholson Baker - A Box of Matches
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum - Ms Hempel Chronicles
Kate Chopin - The Awakening
JL Carr - A Month in the Country
Joan Didion - Play It As It Lays
Patrick DeWitt - Ablutions

And my in between/bedside book is the 2001 Best American Travel Writing compilation edited by Paul Theroux.

[bignothing]

Read this this afternoon. Simple narrative but very moving. Nothing like child abuse to get me to cry until dehydrated. I think it's "My Sweet Orange Tree" in English.

[yo soy el mejor]

Originally Posted by TuralyonW3

Devil in the White City

my coworker recommended this to me. is it a novel o que?

>_>

[slunken]

i'm in the middle of graham nash's autobio

[yo soy el mejor]

i'm in the middle of reading Zealot and An American Tragedy. actually, i think my bro borrowed Zealot over the weekend. I'll get back to The Elegant Universe to fill my non-fiction hole.

[reprise85]

it's a true crime book written like a novel. devil in the white city. about h. h. holmes. aka one of the most fucked up serial killers ever.

[D.]

I loved devil in the white city

[Elijah Moon]

Earlier I picked up three books in a charity shop for next to nothing. They're all ones I've read but don't own anymore. Crime & Punishment, Brave New World, and Sophie's World. At the moment I'm re-reading 'Everything', Simon Price's excellent 1999 (?) biography of the Manic Street Preachers

[Elijah Moon]

Today I bought 'A Clockwork Orange' in a charity shop, which is again one I once owned but wanted again for my collection. I also picked up 'Emma' by Jane Austen, just to give it a go, having never read any Austen.

I am terrible at actually finishing books these days, though; my room is full of books bookmarked at various places.

[Trotskilicious]

i cant read

[Shallowed]

Trots' dying words

[FoolofaTook]

Can't get enough of this series:

[FoolofaTook]

Originally Posted by Elijah Moon

Crime & Punishment

Have you read Demons (aka Devils or The Possessed)? That and the Gambler are two of Dostoevsky's big five that I haven't read yet. I really need to, since I haven't read a word by that dude that didn't blow me away. White Nights is SENESCENT.

[The exploding boy]

i started the Aubrey-Maturin series last year with Master and Commander and to show how much of a bad reader i am despite really liking the book i still stopped reading it 1/3 through. Realistically i rarely finish books unless im forced to not be home. At home i tend to do anything else.

[Elijah Moon]

Originally Posted by FoolofaTook

Have you read Demons (aka Devils or The Possessed)? That and the Gambler are two of Dostoevsky's big five that I haven't read yet. I really need to, since I haven't read a word by that dude that didn't blow me away. White Nights is SENESCENT.

Nope, C & P is the only work of his I've read. I think I'll try The Idiot when I get around to it

[wHATcOLOR]

ive been reading the Dune series again, just finished #2

every time i read this (will be my 3rd time through) - changes my perspective, really worthwhile

just bought 'the power of habit', have not yet started it

i kind of miss having physical books to have around the house, as much as i like the kindle

don't have much time for reading unfortunately, but what a luxury when i'm able! love it

[FoolofaTook]

Originally Posted by The exploding boy

i started the Aubrey-Maturin series last year with Master and Commander and to show how much of a bad reader i am despite really liking the book i still stopped reading it 1/3 through. Realistically i rarely finish books unless im forced to not be home. At home i tend to do anything else.

it took me three tries to get into and finish master & commander. after that i was hooked. all the technical shit about sails and wind can be bewildering at first.

[FoolofaTook]

Originally Posted by wHATcOLOR

ive been reading the Dune series again, just finished #2

every time i read this (will be my 3rd time through) - changes my perspective, really worthwhile

Dune is fucking incredible. Especially the first two books. But then the last ones, when he becomes a worm/god are mindfucks. God I love that series.

[FoolofaTook]

Originally Posted by Elijah Moon

Nope, C & P is the only work of his I've read. I think I'll try The Idiot when I get around to it

My heart bleeds for you.

Brother's Karamazov is like Anna Karenina level stuff.

Notes From Underground is essential. And short.

The House of the Dead is hardcore. It's about Fyodor's time in a prison camp in Siberia.