What are you reading?

rustyblade · Post by **rustyblade** » Thu Jan 27, 2011 6:16 pm

Yasunari Kawabata - The Master of Go

jthomas60506 · Post by **jthomas60506** » Thu Jan 27, 2011 6:27 pm

rustyblade wrote:Yasunari Kawabata - The Master of Go

Excellent book. I'm reading Kawabata's 'The Snow Country' this winter. My 10-year-old daughter and I have been reading all things Japan lately. (She picked up the interest from her teacher who had spent time in Japan.) We're reading a lot of Lafcadio Hearn together.

jt

rustyblade · Post by **rustyblade** » Thu Jan 27, 2011 6:49 pm

jthomas60506 wrote:
rustyblade wrote:Yasunari Kawabata - The Master of Go
Excellent book. I'm reading Kawabata's 'The Snow Country' this winter. My 10-year-old daughter and I have been reading all things Japan lately. (She picked up the interest from her teacher who had spent time in Japan.) We're reading a lot of Lafcadio Hearn together.

jt

I'm on a Japanese Literature kick also. I picked up Naomi by Junichiro Tanizaki the other day.

Dale · Post by **Dale** » Thu Jan 27, 2011 7:42 pm

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. This is the book that inspired Leo Tolstoy to become a novelist.

Kyle76 · Post by **Kyle76** » Thu Jan 27, 2011 7:58 pm

Our Kind of Traitor by John LeCarre'. Perhaps his best work since the end of the Cold War kind of took away his stock in trade.

rustyblade · Post by **rustyblade** » Fri Jan 28, 2011 8:14 am

Also just picked up the graphic novel "Watchmen" by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. I've never read a graphic novel before, or even read that many comics, but I'm looking forward to this change of gears.

rustyblade · Post by **rustyblade** » Sun Jan 30, 2011 7:01 pm

The Inimitable Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse

rsp1202 · Post by **rsp1202** » Sun Jan 30, 2011 8:31 pm

Thumbs up on anything Jeeves.

rustyblade wrote:Also just picked up the graphic novel "Watchmen" by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. I've never read a graphic novel before, or even read that many comics, but I'm looking forward to this change of gears.

It ain't a kid's comic book, that's for sure. But a masterpiece of the genre. Another clever idea by Moore is "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen." Don't go by (or buy) the movie, which was awful.

Squire · Post by **Squire** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 3:53 pm

Listening to The Thirteen Gun Salute by Patrick O'Brian.

Messa · Post by **Messa** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 10:39 pm

just finished the fall by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan, bit of different spin on vampires. Just started reading Consider Phlebas by Iain M Banks

infotech · Post by **infotech** » Tue Feb 01, 2011 8:27 am

Just finished Into the Wild by Jon Krauker and am starting Into the Air by the same author.

Books · Post by **Books** » Wed Feb 02, 2011 3:19 am

Lately I can't seem to stick with one book, I've been reading a bit and setting it down and moving on.
Tonight for work I started Drood by Dan Simmons.

rustyblade · Post by **rustyblade** » Wed Feb 02, 2011 6:39 am

Books wrote:Lately I can't seem to stick with one book, I've been reading a bit and setting it down and moving on.
Tonight for work I started Drood by Dan Simmons.

Have you read Hyperion? That is on my list.

Books · Post by **Books** » Wed Feb 02, 2011 8:02 am

Love Hyperion.. If you like Sci-Fi it's a must read.

Messa · Post by **Messa** » Wed Feb 02, 2011 10:21 am

Keep looking at Hyperion will have to read it now

rustyblade · Post by **rustyblade** » Thu Feb 03, 2011 7:50 pm

Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Fri Feb 04, 2011 11:18 am

Hooray for SF! I just finished Decision Points by W. Informative and very funny in some parts. After finishing DP, I started an SF novel called The Founder by Christopher Rowley. I'm on page 124 now and it's pretty darn good.

Kyle76 · Post by **Kyle76** » Fri Feb 04, 2011 12:26 pm

I'm now reading Alone, the second installment in William Manchester's planned triptych on the life of Winston Churchill, titled The Last Lion. I've read many Churchill books, and this series is the best, IMO. Unfortunately, Manchester died before writing the third book. This one only takes the reader up to 1940.

jww · Post by **jww** » Fri Feb 04, 2011 1:28 pm

Kyle76 wrote:I'm now reading Alone, the second installment in William Manchester's planned triptych on the life of Winston Churchill, titled The Last Lion. I've read many Churchill books, and this series is the best, IMO. Unfortunately, Manchester died before writing the third book. This one only takes the reader up to 1940.

+1. That was the last book I read before picking up Winter Solstice (my annual Christmas read) and then moving onto Tony Blair's "A Journey ...." which I am still enjoying immensely. It reads in such an open and folksy way, I am convinced that he didn't use much of a ghost writer. It is just like listening to him talk.

Rufus · Post by **Rufus** » Fri Feb 04, 2011 2:19 pm

jww wrote:
Kyle76 wrote:I'm now reading Alone, the second installment in William Manchester's planned triptych on the life of Winston Churchill, titled The Last Lion. I've read many Churchill books, and this series is the best, IMO. Unfortunately, Manchester died before writing the third book. This one only takes the reader up to 1940.
+1. That was the last book I read before picking up Winter Solstice (my annual Christmas read) and then moving onto Tony Blair's "A Journey ...." which I am still enjoying immensely. It reads in such an open and folksy way, I am convinced that he didn't use much of a ghost writer. It is just like listening to him talk.

Interesting how people's taste vary, Wendell. I'm labouring through "A Journey" after having put it aside for a few weeks. I keep getting bogged down by the minutiae. As we like to say on SMF, YMWV.