What are you reading?

[D.o.S.]

Just started trying to read House of Leaves. Wish me luck.

It's never too late to stop doing bad things.

[futuresailors]

And you're Irish! Home of probably the only Great Writer of the past century.

James Joyce is rad, but 1913-2013 has a whole host of Great Writers.

Lots of great writers for sure, but i think the criteria for getting them caps is influencing the course of literature . Alright, and I guess Faulkner makes the cut.

[terminator]

Just started trying to read House of Leaves. Wish me luck.

It's never too late to stop doing bad things.

I enjoyed it when I was 20. if you wanna go all footnotes, go infinite jest.

[AngryGoldfish]

And you're Irish! Home of probably the only Great Writer of the past century.

I don't think I've read any James Joyce since my high school days, or the Irish equivalent. My ex-girlfriend loved Irish literature. I met her when she was visiting my home town of Sligo where Yeats was buried.

[Achtane]

Let us not forget James Joyce's crazy-ass love letters.
http://loveletters.tribe.net/thread/fce ... fa6ac7142d
Her name was Barnacle...she had to be down for some dirty stuff.

[kbit]

So I finally finished The Road. The last paragraph is so beautifully crafted.

Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery.

[Achtane]

That book smashed me.

[D.o.S.]

[jfrey]

Reading the Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series by Tad Williams. Halfway through book 2 so far. It's good but has frustratingly long slow parts.

[Twangasaurus]

Reading the Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series by Tad Williams. Halfway through book 2 so far. It's good but has frustratingly long slow parts.

Yeah, I kind of felt the same about the Otherland series.

[jfrey]

Reading the Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series by Tad Williams. Halfway through book 2 so far. It's good but has frustratingly long slow parts.

Yeah, I kind of felt the same about the Otherland series.

I really liked the Otherland series, but I didn't finish it and now I can't remember where I am, so I would probably have to start it over.

[LaoWiz]

So I finally finished The Road. The last paragraph is so beautifully crafted.

Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery.

God, that book is awesome. I read a bunch of his others. There's always some passages that are so beautifully astounding. There's some shit in Blood Meridian that is mesmerising.

Reading Lunar Park by Brett Easton Ellis for the second time.

[Dogbrainz]

I'm reading Rant by Chuck Palahniuk for the 3rd time. Twisted stuff.

Other recommendations:

And The Ass Saw The Angel - Nick Cave
House of Leaves - Mark Danielewski
Jasper Jones - Craig Silvey

[dubkitty]

A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman, a history book about life in the "disastrous" 14th century when plague, war and all forms of awfulness were at a peak. i've read it before, and it always makes me feel better about my current circumstances.

[phantasmagorovich]

A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman, a history book about life in the "disastrous" 14th century when plague, war and all forms of awfulness were at a peak. i've read it before, and it always makes me feel better about my current circumstances.

Sounds like it should be mandatory reading for all those idiots that glorify the medieval age.

I hope there is a translation.