What are you reading?

morange · Post by **morange** » Thu Mar 26, 2015 12:48 am

cloudscapes wrote:Check out House of Suns by the same author. As much as I liked Revelation Space, HoS was so so much better.

Yeah I definitely will, I liked this one enough.

facelessfx · Post by **facelessfx** » Thu Mar 26, 2015 3:51 pm

UglyCasanova wrote:

Not as good as To the Lighthouse, but because that's one of my all time favourite books I might have set my expectations too high. She just hadn't perfected her style/the form yet in Mrs. Dalloway, in my opinion.

Thanks

That's next.

Just about to finish Slaughterhouse 5.

UglyCasanova · Post by **UglyCasanova** » Thu Mar 26, 2015 8:43 pm

Vonnegut is so good! I keep giving Breakfast of Champions to people for their birthdays. My cousin even got it two years in a row.

Let me know what ou think of Woolf.

facelessfx · Post by **facelessfx** » Fri Mar 27, 2015 6:43 am

UglyCasanova wrote:Vonnegut is so good! I keep giving Breakfast of Champions to people for their birthdays. My cousin even got it two years in a row.

Let me know what ou think of Woolf.

To The Lighthouse is on its way.

While I'm waiting I'll try to skim through a couple of other books I half read when I thought I couldn't read books.

facelessfx · Post by **facelessfx** » Thu Apr 02, 2015 4:38 pm

UglyCasanova wrote: Not as good as To the Lighthouse, but because that's one of my all time favourite books I might have set my expectations too high. She just hadn't perfected her style/the form yet in Mrs. Dalloway, in my opinion.

Just started To The Lighthouse. I read the Unbearable Lightness Of Being while I was waiting for it to arrive.

Virginia Woolf liked long sentences didn't she?

futuresailors · Post by **futuresailors** » Thu Apr 02, 2015 4:50 pm

I like the one about the mark on the wall.

facelessfx · Post by **facelessfx** » Sun Apr 12, 2015 2:18 pm

UglyCasanova wrote:Vonnegut is so good! I keep giving Breakfast of Champions to people for their birthdays. My cousin even got it two years in a row.

Let me know what ou think of Woolf.

Finished To the Lighthouse.

I enjoyed it. It's a different style of writing. Huge half-page long sentences within sentences. Recursion of thoughts.

100 pages covering the evening of one day. Then about ten pages covering about ten years. Then a final short part to bring it together.

I thought it was very good. So there.

jfrey · Post by **jfrey** » Mon Apr 13, 2015 2:02 pm

Just finished The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind.

facelessfx · Post by **facelessfx** » Mon Apr 13, 2015 3:54 pm

Read The Old Man and the Sea yesterday and have today started another Russell Hoban - The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz.

Books. I suddenly can't get enough.

D.o.S. · Post by **D.o.S.** » Mon Apr 13, 2015 3:56 pm

That's good. I don't have nearly as much time to read as I'd like, and it kills me.

UglyCasanova · Post by **UglyCasanova** » Mon Apr 13, 2015 8:31 pm

facelessfx wrote:Finished To the Lighthouse.

I enjoyed it. It's a different style of writing. Huge half-page long sentences within sentences. Recursion of thoughts.

100 pages covering the evening of one day. Then about ten pages covering about ten years. Then a final short part to bring it together.

I thought it was very good. So there.

I'm glad you read it and enjoyed it!

I'm halfway through this, and I'm actually getting some Woolf vibes from her, if perhaps a more Austen-social-criticism theme and atmosphere. Liking it more than I thought I would.

Question: Is Wharton still a known/much read writer in the US?

sears · Post by **sears** » Mon Apr 13, 2015 11:35 pm

The Demolished Man by Bester
and Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King

facelessfx · Post by **facelessfx** » Wed Apr 15, 2015 4:38 pm

UglyCasanova wrote:
facelessfx wrote:Finished To the Lighthouse.

I enjoyed it. It's a different style of writing. Huge half-page long sentences within sentences. Recursion of thoughts.

100 pages covering the evening of one day. Then about ten pages covering about ten years. Then a final short part to bring it together.

I thought it was very good. So there.

I'm glad you read it and enjoyed it!

I'm halfway through this, and I'm actually getting some Woolf vibes from her, if perhaps a more Austen-social-criticism theme and atmosphere. Liking it more than I thought I would.

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Question: Is Wharton still a known/much read writer in the US?

Wouldn't know. I'm in the UK. I'd heard of her but couldn't name any of her books.

facelessfx · Post by **facelessfx** » Sat Apr 18, 2015 11:40 am

I'm gonna keep bumping this even if nobody else does!

Just finished 'The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz' by Russell Hoban.

Nice story. Not as brainy as Riddley Walker, but still a nice bit of philosophy hanging off some mythology and a story of life, death, and love.

I'll read more of his books.

Next = Ubik

UglyCasanova · Post by **UglyCasanova** » Sat Apr 18, 2015 9:18 pm

Fanny Price: Best character Austen ever wrote? Quite possible!

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