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dewce

dewce

I'm lost
April 2005

MAR 12, 2009 07:18 PM

To anybody out there who likes to settle down with a good book....

what are you reading now....
and what is next on your list?


I just finished Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts, which is a book about the life of an ex-con who has escaped from jail and smuggles his way into Bombay. Great book, and cool to search up this guy on YouTube and see what he is really like. Quite fitting.

Next on the list: Ishmael by Daniel Quinn. I have heard quite good things about this book, so I am pretty stoked on it.

LimoWreck

LimoWreck

I'm lost
October 2007

MAR 12, 2009 07:20 PM

Reading Mystic River by Dennis Lehane.

Next on the list is 1984 by George Orwell.

ChocolateJesus

ChocolateJesus

I'm lost
January 2005

MAR 12, 2009 11:11 PM

I'm on a non-fiction kick, so I've been reading:
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and, honestly, it's so good that I think its follow-up, Day of Battle is next.zoom image

piggybankcowboy

piggybankcowboy

Macomb, MI
February 2009

MAR 12, 2009 11:52 PM

World War Z by Max Brooks

Next up:

Dandy In The Underworld by Sebastian Horsley

Maurauder

Maurauder

I'm lost
August 2003

MAR 13, 2009 12:11 AM

Now: The China Study (aaaaaah so good)

Next: The Creative Habit

Mocha

Mocha

New Orleans, LA
April 2006

MAR 13, 2009 12:52 AM

now: various geology texts frown

spring break: another roadside attraction by tom robbins, again.

SomethingStupid

SomethingStupid

North Hollywood, CA
March 2004

MAR 13, 2009 12:57 AM

Lush Life by Richard Price. I actually just picked it up in the library on a whim and man is it gripping.

ElizaTheTroll

ElizaTheTroll

Australia
January 2006

MAR 13, 2009 01:32 AM

Triton by Samuel R. Delany.
Next on the list is Anathem by Neal Stephenson

Kinda_Ambiguous

Kinda_Ambiguous

Taylorville, IL
April 2004

MAR 13, 2009 01:44 AM

Sci-fi kick lately

RECENTLY: Richard Powers' ]I]Galatea 2.2
NOW: Matt Browne's The Future Happens Twice

Hunkpapa

Hunkpapa

United Kingdom
June 2004

MAR 13, 2009 01:52 AM

now: Reading the Rocks: The Autobiography of the Earth by Marcia Bjornerud.
next: not sure yet. maybe David Simon's Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets, but I've got lots of unread stuff older than that, so that might change.

piggybankcowboy

piggybankcowboy

Macomb, MI
February 2009

MAR 14, 2009 11:36 PM

This thread almost has my next paycheck spent.

TheFuckOffKid

TheFuckOffKid

NEWSWIRE

Australia

MAR 15, 2009 02:54 AM

Right now, squeezed in between much non-discretionary reading, is American Tabloid.

crashderby

crashderby

Australia
February 2009

MAR 15, 2009 03:28 AM

Currently doing a reread of You Shall Know Our Velocity by Dave Eggers. And next? I think it will be getting stuck into Middlemarch by George Eliot. I try to balance out classics with newer stuff, so that'll be read at the same time as World War Z. Zombies and provincial English drama, it's a match made in crack heaven.

cabaretic

cabaretic

Birmingham, AL
March 2005

MAR 15, 2009 03:24 PM

I just finished The Reader after picking up a cheap copy at an airport, waiting to board. I was impressed with the book more so than the movie, like usual.

I've been meaning to finish a collection of short stories by Chekhov. I'm on kind of a classics kick these days.

ChocolateJesus

ChocolateJesus

I'm lost
January 2005

MAR 15, 2009 05:20 PM

TheFuckOffKid said:
Right now, squeezed in between much non-discretionary reading, is American Tabloid.



Ellroy is one of my favorite authors, but I constantly forget about him. That being said, "American Tabloid" is excellent.

Liaison

Liaison

Hallowell, ME
March 2009

MAR 16, 2009 01:39 PM

Just finished reading The Defense by Vladimir Nabokov. It's about an obsessive chess grandmaster.

I have no idea what I'm going to start next... A Gentle Madness, a book about bibliophiles and book thieves, is most likely.

PointBlank

PointBlank

New York, NY
November 2004

MAR 16, 2009 01:45 PM

Reading: The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins

Next: Mildred Pierce, James M Cain

AnnaLee

AnnaLee

SUICIDEGIRL

I'm lost

MAR 16, 2009 01:51 PM

Liaison said:I have no idea what I'm going to start next... A Gentle Madness, a book about bibliophiles and book thieves, is most likely.


I looked this up and I was amazed that I had never thought about there being so many books about books.

I have a bad habit of reading several books at once, I just finished Mary by Nabokov and right now I'm reading First Love by Turgenev which I'll finish in about an hour, Proust was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer which is a slightly silly title but is really very interesting, The Chronicles of Clovis by Saki and also reading essays by Montaigne. You would not want me to list what is next, I have the biggest pile of books by my bed and think I am addicted.

Cash

Cash

USA
OLD SKOOL

MAR 16, 2009 02:08 PM

I recently finished The Final Fire by Dennis Smith. I liked it a lot, but it's more like industry-themed porn for firemen. It's a fictionalized account of the FDNY in the 60's during the height of corruption, arson & riots.

I plan on starting The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs. It's the guy who spent an entire year living as close to the laws of the bible as legally possible in the US.

ReverendBenzo

ReverendBenzo

Savannah, GA
September 2003

MAR 16, 2009 06:36 PM

Right now I'm reading The Great Derangement by Matt Taibbi.

Next up is Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age by Steve Knopper

_Erica_

_Erica_

Ottawa, ON
July 2004

MAR 17, 2009 03:02 PM

Just finished: Everyone Worth Knowing by Lauren Weisberger

On my bedside table: Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult

Coyotemike

Coyotemike

USA
May 2006

MAR 17, 2009 04:06 PM

I'm reading Eve by Elissa Elliott. Pretty good, takes a new look at the Genesis story, and throws some extra info into the mix (like where did the people Adam and Eve ran into out of the Garden come from?).

I'm also teaching (for one more week) The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon. Damn fine book.

J24U

J24U

Danvers, MA
February 2006

MAR 17, 2009 04:49 PM

Cash said:

I plan on starting The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs. It's the guy who spent an entire year living as close to the laws of the bible as legally possible in the US.



JennyLou just finished this recently, she said it was great.

Kavana

Kavana

Ramah, NM
March 2009

MAR 17, 2009 07:27 PM

After spending awhile hitchhiking, I've been told so many times to read Kerouac's On the Road that I've finally picked it up. In love with the vivacity of the narrative

Ascanius

Ascanius

USA
October 2006

MAR 18, 2009 12:58 AM

In between case books I've been sneaking House of Leaves. It's not perfect, but it's interesting.
After that it's the either Anansi Boys or American Pastoral by Phillip Roth (who, shockingly, sold less than 30,000 copies of his last book I hear.)

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