What are you reading?
- rustyblade
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What are you reading?
Last read: Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
Currently Reading: House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski, Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follet
Plan to read next: Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
Currently Reading: House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski, Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follet
Plan to read next: Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
Richard
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Just on the last of the twelve novels of Anthony Powell's Dance to the Music of Time. Wonderful if one is a Brit, and possibly rather pointless if one is not. The first novel sequence since Simon Raven's Alms for Oblivion that makes me wish I had someone to bounce lit crit ideas off.
Chris
Chris
"Je n'ai pas besoin de cette hypothèse."
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halfway through a historical look at FDR and primarily the new deal. Book at the office, so I will look it up and post. At home, halfway through Rome 1960, a 2008 book looking back at the times and societal era of the 1960 Olympics, the cold-war, the issue of Taiwan not being able to compete under the China name, etc.
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I usually have more than one going at a time.
Recently completed: The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler and Star Island by Carl Hiassen.
Now reading: The Ninth Directive by Adam Hall (the second Quiller story) and Boston Blackie by Jack Boyle.
Anyone old enough to remember Blackie?
Recently completed: The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler and Star Island by Carl Hiassen.
Now reading: The Ninth Directive by Adam Hall (the second Quiller story) and Boston Blackie by Jack Boyle.
Anyone old enough to remember Blackie?
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I remember seeing the reruns of the old BB TV series starring Kent Taylor. Years later I found out about the preceding movies.
Current reads: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay and The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon. I think Tom Robbins' early works call for a reread about now.
Current reads: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay and The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon. I think Tom Robbins' early works call for a reread about now.
Ron
There must be something in the (shaving) water - I just brought The 9th Directive upstairs to read, dogeared to pick up where I left off last nightGA Russell wrote:I usually have more than one going at a time.
Recently completed: The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler and Star Island by Carl Hiassen.
Now reading: The Ninth Directive by Adam Hall (the second Quiller story) and Boston Blackie by Jack Boyle.
Anyone old enough to remember Blackie?
Regards,
Mike
Mike
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THE NAPOLEON OF NOTTING HILL by G.K. Chesterton
Residents of a London Suburb declare their independance from the U.K.
A terribly under appreciated writer. I just discovered an american society www.chesterton.org with almost all of his works in reprints. I've been reading him piecemeal as I find older editions for 30 years.
Residents of a London Suburb declare their independance from the U.K.
A terribly under appreciated writer. I just discovered an american society www.chesterton.org with almost all of his works in reprints. I've been reading him piecemeal as I find older editions for 30 years.
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I've been fooling around with the letters of Seneca and the meditations of Marcus Aurelius. They're a hard-nosed bunch, those Stoics. So you lost your wife? Get over it! So the emperor has ordered you to drink poison? Remember Socrates and man up!
I'm working on a paperback edition of Richard Dawkins' "The Ancestor's Tale," a large book on evolutionary biology. The narrative loosely follows the structure of the Canterbury Tales, hence the title.
I'm working on a paperback edition of Richard Dawkins' "The Ancestor's Tale," a large book on evolutionary biology. The narrative loosely follows the structure of the Canterbury Tales, hence the title.
Porter
On Basilisk Station - I'm about 100 pages in, so far so good. Never read a Weber book before. Got this one as a free ebook from Baen.
http://www.amazon.com/Basilisk-Station- ... 0743435710
http://www.webscription.net/p-304-on-ba ... ation.aspx (Get the freebie ebook here.)
http://www.amazon.com/Basilisk-Station- ... 0743435710
http://www.webscription.net/p-304-on-ba ... ation.aspx (Get the freebie ebook here.)
i'm currently reading "far from the madding crowd" by thomas hardy.
it's my second time reading it. last time round was around 18 years ago.
"A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight"
it's my second time reading it. last time round was around 18 years ago.
"A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight"
Remember: this is all just wasted time and lives talking nonsense to strangers about pieces of metal, hair and chemical compounds.
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I read ADTTMOT for the 3rd time last year- so wonderful.drmoss_ca wrote:Just on the last of the twelve novels of Anthony Powell's Dance to the Music of Time. Wonderful if one is a Brit, and possibly rather pointless if one is not. The first novel sequence since Simon Raven's Alms for Oblivion that makes me wish I had someone to bounce lit crit ideas off.
Chris
Currently on the third "Rabbit" book by Updike. Just finished "Super Sad True Love Story" by Gary Shteyngart- also can highly recommend.
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Mike, it never occurred to me that anyone would be familiar with The Ninth Directive! I'm enjoying it too.maskaggs wrote:There must be something in the (shaving) water - I just brought The 9th Directive upstairs to read, dogeared to pick up where I left off last nightGA Russell wrote:I usually have more than one going at a time.
Recently completed: The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler and Star Island by Carl Hiassen.
Now reading: The Ninth Directive by Adam Hall (the second Quiller story) and Boston Blackie by Jack Boyle.
Anyone old enough to remember Blackie?
I forgot to mention that I also recently finished my first John Grisham - The Firm. It was fairly enjoyable, but I won't be reading another of his for a long while, I don't think.
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Finished G.K. last night and am rereading Brian O'Nolan, nome de plum Flann O'Brian and Myles na Gopaleen's THE THIRD POLICEMAN. I devoured all his work in college and wrote a thesis for my minor on him. My Lit prof had never heard of him and gave me an A for the course after reading A BASH IN A TUNNEL.
O'Nolan mastered old gaelic, a language that has defeated many fine linquists. He wrote a paper in college in it. His profs had a vague idea it was totally obscene ( by irish standards) but again were to embaressed to admit they couldn't fully decypher O.G.
O'Nolan mastered old gaelic, a language that has defeated many fine linquists. He wrote a paper in college in it. His profs had a vague idea it was totally obscene ( by irish standards) but again were to embaressed to admit they couldn't fully decypher O.G.
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Currently reading The Fellowship of the Ring -J. R. R. Tolkien, then will continue with the trilogy.
Recently finished...in last 12 months or so: The Hobbit -Tolkien, The Anti-Christ -Friedrich Nietzsche, The Bartimaeus Trilogy: The Amulet of Samarkand,The Golem's Eye,Ptolemy's Gate -Jonathan Stroud
Recently finished...in last 12 months or so: The Hobbit -Tolkien, The Anti-Christ -Friedrich Nietzsche, The Bartimaeus Trilogy: The Amulet of Samarkand,The Golem's Eye,Ptolemy's Gate -Jonathan Stroud
Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic