What Are You Reading?

[Houdini116]

I just got Colin Wilson's The Outsider. Liking it so far.


So...what are you reading?

[Scruffie]

Just finishing up Day of the Triffids and then i'm on to A Clockwork Orange or The Wasp Factory... Then i'm thinking of something by H.P. Lovecraft, anyone got a suggestion for his work? I know the well known things but I have no idea what's best.

[Houdini116]

Just finishing up Day of the Triffids and then i'm on to A Clockwork Orange or The Wasp Factory... Then i'm thinking of something by H.P. Lovecraft, anyone got a suggestion for his work? I know the well known things but I have no idea what's best.

Clockwork Orange was a tough read for me due to the difficulty in understanding that damn language/slang! (Nadsat or whatever that was)

It's funny that you ask about Lovecraft because I got an anthology of his called Bloodcurdling Talge of Horror and The Macabre. It containes two of his most famous works like The Call of Cthulhu, The Dunwich Horror. I really liked the Dunwich Horror and The Outsider. Check it out, pretty good stuff.

[Scruffie]

Haha, ah yes, i've already read part of A Clockwork Orange, after seeing the film & living in England... I can quite honestly say i'm still confused! but i'll manage.

That book sounds like a good one, someone reccomended the Necronomicon but that's more short stories as far as I know, i'll check that out, cheers for the reccomendation

[RossCanyonsofstatic]

just finished farwell to arms by hemmingway...just started cloud atlas by david mitchell..
I would recommend 2666 by roberto bolano----actually anything by roberto bolano is great.

[tuffteef]

the dummies guide to electronics

[theavondon]

I'm quite a fan of For Whom the Bell Tolls by Hemingway, as a matter of fact.

[Mudfuzz]

I don't read books anymore [ok I try not too]. I tend to get obsessive about things... and I kind of lived in Si-Fi/Fantasy books for a few years I'm the kind of person that can sit down with a big book and then look up and go "shit it's tomorrow already"

So now all I read is manga anymore, it's a faster [simpler] read and I can read it all on line so I don't have books piling up EVERYWHERE... And I don't get as involved [most of the time...] as I did with books...

[Big Mon]

Most recent reads for me were Milton's Paradise Lost and I re-read Dante Alighieri's Inferno.

[Jenesis]

I'm in the middle of Stephen King's "Hearts In Atlantis", haven't read any of it (or anything else) for about a year.

[the raytownian]

Currently in the crapper (the only place I read):

The Day of the Locust

The Wasp Factory

The Good Old Days: The Holocaust as Seen by Its Perpetrators and Bystanders

Also, MAD Magazine.

[smile_man]

Gravity's rainbow...

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Island In The Sea Of Time



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Island In The Sea Of Time Part

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[Monkey]

just finished farwell to arms by hemmingway...just started cloud atlas by david mitchell..
I would recommend 2666 by roberto bolano----actually anything by roberto bolano is great.

have just read Cloud Atlas....v.good, have got to finish Popco by Scarlet Thomas(The end of mr Y was fantastic) before moving on to 2666.