What are you reading?

[Jigsaw9 6783]

I kinda ditched the Neal Stephenson book I was reading, and began the latest Chuck Palahniuk novel Doomed. I'm like 20something pages in and it's sooo gooood yesss.

[Tokage 5930]

Finished reading Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 this morning. Now I'm once again reading a Philip K. Dick book in preparation for my BA thesis.. This time it's The Zap Gun.

[kai_desu 340]

[Scarlet Obsidian 383]

Just finished Mockingjay (the 3rd book of The Hunger Games Saga) and now I'm reading Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

[injectcandy 67]

Currently in the middle of reading 2 books: Doomed by Chuck Palahniuk and Under the Dome by Stephen King.

[Flash-Fab-Supernova 88]

Currently reading Margaret Atwood's MaddAdam~. 8D

[Jigsaw9 6783]

Currently in the middle of reading 2 books: Doomed by Chuck Palahniuk and Under the Dome by Stephen King.

 

I've just finished Doomed today, how do you like it? I thought it was quite nice, good continuation to Damned with some fun twists and turns. Can't wait for the final book in the trilogy!

 

Also I began reading Paul Auster's autobiographical book called Winter Journal. It's a pretty non-linear affair, but very easy and enjoyable to read. I guess I'll have a go at his Report from the Interior next, since that seems to be something like a companion piece to this volume (the former one focusing on physicality and the latter on mental/spiritual development).

[injectcandy 67]

I've just finished Doomed today, how do you like it? I thought it was quite nice, good continuation to Damned with some fun twists and turns. Can't wait for the final book in the trilogy!

 

Love it! It's hilarious. I got to go to a book reading with Chuck Palahniuk and got my book autographed. I definitely agree it's a nice continuation. It's a pretty funny story. Definitely looking forward to the 3rd as well!

[hiroki 5521]

Re-reading Doris Lessing's essays and other non-fiction - she only passed away 2 months ago and I miss her already ;_;

 

Also, reading some of Ralph Waldo Emerson's writings..

[Tokage 5930]

William Gibson's Pattern Recognition. It's weird to see him tackle a more contemporary setting after reading his Sprawl trilogy, but he still manages to somewhat keep the sci-fi feel even though the novel is set in 'our' 2002. Took me a while to get into the book, maybe because I was expecting something more cyberpunk, but now I'm really digging it.

[Furik 832]

Dexter's Final Cut

[Flash-Fab-Supernova 88]

Furik has bad taste.

 

Currently reading a collection of four novels by Ernest Hemingway.

[hiroki 5521]

Started reading Patrick Fermor's A Time of Gifts since my friend was swooning over how great a travel writer he is.

 

From what I've read so far, I highly recommend it!

 

 

Some of the reviews on Amazon are brilliant too - check them out: http://www.amazon.com/Time-Gifts-Constantinople-Holland-Classics/dp/1590171659

[greeeeen 49]

Done re-reading John Green's Looking For Alaska and now I'm in the beginning of Yasunari Kawabata's Snow Country.

 

I should be working on my thesis instead.

[Jigsaw9 6783]

I ditched Paul Auster's Book of Illusions for the 2nd time, I just can't get into it at all.

 

Began reading The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart by Jesse Bullington which, on the other hand, has proven to be really fun! I think the popular description for it goes something like "Tarantino in medieval times," which encapsulates it pretty accurately so far.

[Gaz 1097]

some time ago finished Franz Kafka's The Trial. it was a great read overall but i have to admit some parts were boring for my taste(or maybe there were just way too many law terms?). although i really liked the general idea of this novel that no matter how hard you are trying to fight against the absurdness of the social system you will either fail in the end or become a part of the system yourself. so yeah highly recommend this for everyone.

 

and started reading Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov. wanted to try this for quite a long time but its length has always scared me lol. well now i'm fine since i have all summer ahead. 

[Nightmares4ever 34]

i just started reading World War Z by Max Brooks 

i don't have an opinion of it yet

[Ito 2438]

I just finished The Fault in Our Stars

 

...I just feel a kind of deep sadness now. Despite the incredibly fast pacing (too fast imo) and it being unapologetically written for teenagers, the thoughts that it offers are just as powerful...I am going to need a day to dwell on it.

[CAT5 9075]

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

 

Very interesting and enlightening so far..

[Jigsaw9 6783]

Went to the press screening of Seth MacFarlane's A Million Ways to Die in the West and got the novel version for free - so reading that at the moment. Surprisingly decent and funny stuff. He managed to translate some jokes well into written form (I mean those that were purely visual gags).

[hiroki 5521]

Oe Kenzaburo's The Silent Cry.

 

This book is an intensely personal account of postwar Japan revolving around a family, and at the same time an epic vision of history that asks (but doesn't directly answer) large questions of interpretation, narrative, memory, the past. Oh and there's a lot of sex and disturbing scenes.

[Justacyborg 8]

The last novel I read was Nabokov's Lolita. It's a great read despite the content. Every description is absurdly detailed, it makes you forget it's about an older man falling in love with a twelve year old. But I've been reading tons of short story collections from authors such as Chekhov, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Flannery O'Connor. Among others.  

[Tokage 5930]

Recently finished Kurt Vonnegut's Timequake. It's okay, it's funny in the usual Vonnegut way. It's the final book he ever wrote in his life and it sort of shows as there's a sort of prevailing theme of time and death throughout. 

 

Currently also reading Jeff Vandermeer's City of Saints and Madmen, the first part of his Ambergris trilogy. I'd already read the second and third parts, which were great (though nothing alike in terms of structure / style). Amazing worldbuilding at work here. Highly rec the entire trilogy for those of you who are into New Weird / Sci-Fi type stuff in the vein of China Mieville and such. 

[Ito 2438]

Just finished reading The Demon of Undoing. Was recommend it by a friend as something that was on the short read side of things. It had its ups and downs but over all it was just an alright book, not sure if I would ever recommend it to someone.

[Jigsaw9 6783]

Currently reading John Dies at the End by David Wong. It started out as a funny/amusing horror comedy but it ran out of steam around 2/3 of the way and I'm pretty much struggling on the last 80-ish pages now... the whole thing is longer than necessary imo (it's ~460 pages in total, lol).

 

Not sure what I'm gonna read next but I have plenty of candidates..