What are you reading?

My name is Mudd · Post by **My name is Mudd** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 11:46 am

"Action' Philosophers...nice! I can picture Nietzsche in a cape and tights battling the Evil Forces Against Existentialist Thinking.

D.o.S. · Post by **D.o.S.** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 11:51 am

In the pile/in progress (I bounce from book to book depending on time & level of intoxication):

behndy · Post by **behndy** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 11:53 am

i have such bad luck with the Thommy Coevenah series. i've brought the trilogy to three different parts of Asia on three separate times so far, on each i lose the 2nd book in the first trilogy. and it wrecks my whole readong strategy. l

i might erase them off my Kindle before i go back. just to protect it.

unownunown · Post by **unownunown** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 5:06 pm

lately, just hella donald barthelme.

i have to read steven johnson's the ghost map too, but i haven't cracked it open. it seems boring.

phantasmagorovich · Post by **phantasmagorovich** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 5:44 pm

unownunown wrote:lately, just hella donald barthelme.

I've only read two of his, but I loved both. Hard to come across his stuff over here. Most book salesmen haven't even heard of the dude.

bigchiefbc · Post by **bigchiefbc** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 11:19 pm

Astrophysics is a huge interest of mine and I kicked it's ass in college, but man, the math in some of these chapters is fucking intense.

StudioShutIn · Post by **StudioShutIn** » Sat Jul 30, 2011 1:35 pm

As of last week, I've been re-reading Great Expectations by Dickens...I didn't realize it was such a long book :erm:

The writing is really small and the pages are little, so it makes it seem like it's gonna be short...but noooooo! :facepalm:

I still like it though :yay:

Fuzzy Fred · Post by **Fuzzy Fred** » Mon Aug 01, 2011 5:48 pm

Working on the Wilco book "Learning How to Die", pretty cool. I'm a Wilco nerd, so its pretty sweet.

Also working on 1984

unownunown · Post by **unownunown** » Tue Aug 02, 2011 12:28 pm

phantasmagorovich wrote:
unownunown wrote:lately, just hella donald barthelme.

I've only read two of his, but I loved both. Hard to come across his stuff over here. Most book salesmen haven't even heard of the dude.

definitely. i went to a bookstore the other day that had his biography but none of his actual writing. :cry:

what have you read of his?

My name is Mudd · Post by **My name is Mudd** » Tue Aug 02, 2011 12:42 pm

I've just discovered Jeff Smith's 'Bone'...I found the first book, 'Out From Boneville,' at a used bookstore over the weekend and now I want the rest.

phantasmagorovich · Post by **phantasmagorovich** » Tue Aug 02, 2011 6:44 pm

unownunown wrote:
phantasmagorovich wrote:
unownunown wrote:lately, just hella donald barthelme.

I've only read two of his, but I loved both. Hard to come across his stuff over here. Most book salesmen haven't even heard of the dude.

definitely. i went to a bookstore the other day that had his biography but none of his actual writing. what have you read of his?

The Dead Father and Overnight to Many Distant Cities. I really liked the dead father, that is a cool book in how it seems to reference freudian thought but never really does. Or if it does it's in such a weird way that it's hard to grasp. There are many moments when it seems like it would go the obvious way and take a freudian turn but in the next page something completely out of this freudian universe happens and that's cool. Overnight is actually so fractured that I only have vague memories of what it was about but I remember that I liked it. I might have to track down another.

Gunner Recall · Post by **Gunner Recall** » Tue Aug 02, 2011 6:55 pm

Just finished this:

Really dig his work...I read Perdido Street Station on a whim earlier this summer and have been hooked ever since.
I picked up Kraken this afternoon, can't wait to start it :drool:

phantasmagorovich · Post by **phantasmagorovich** » Tue Aug 02, 2011 7:04 pm

Gunner Recall wrote:Just finished this:

Really dig his work...I read Perdido Street Station on a whim earlier this summer and have been hooked ever since.
I picked up Kraken this afternoon, can't wait to start it

Kraken was a slight disappointment for me. Don't get me wrong, it's still a great book, but not as good as his other stuff. Also I really like the feel of the New Crobuzon world. Have you read the Iron Council already? That's my favourite of his.

Steam67 · Post by **Steam67** » Tue Aug 02, 2011 10:36 pm

Your Brain On Music in the Kindle. The Waste Lands (third book in the Dark Tower series by Stephen King) in paperback for my upcoming vacation.

Gunner Recall · Post by **Gunner Recall** » Tue Aug 02, 2011 10:39 pm

phantasmagorovich wrote:Kraken was a slight disappointment for me. Don't get me wrong, it's still a great book, but not as good as his other stuff. Also I really like the feel of the New Crobuzon world. Have you read the Iron Council already? That's my favourite of his.

I was tempted to go straight into iron council but I felt I needed a break from Bas-Lag...too much of a good thing and all that :lol:

Something to look foward to :snax:

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