What are you reading?

grindonomicon · Post by **grindonomicon** » Mon Oct 10, 2011 12:11 pm

Re-reading Donald E. Westlake's (writing as Richard Stark) Parker books. Killer short noir heist fiction. Only takes a couple hours to read one.

I got the latest Walking Dead graphic novel the library had, and I'm kinda scared the series just humpity-jumped the ole' shark. Oh well, Kirkwood had to fuck it up sooner or later. Season two of the tv show should be fun.

DarkAxel · Post by **DarkAxel** » Mon Oct 10, 2011 12:33 pm

my Frankenstein reading has been totally slowed down by reading essays, poems and shit for school

but... yeah, Frankenstein

unownunown · Post by **unownunown** » Mon Oct 10, 2011 2:11 pm

just finished both mrs and mr bridge for a social theory class. even though they were class required readings, i really liked them. very easy to read. almost deceptively simple, it's really easy to miss a lot of the depth.

i'm also kind of half heartedly reading tao lin's richard yates. i got it free on the condition that i write an amazon review.

also bubstance, i will say it again and again but murakami is the shit. i fucking love him.

behndy · Post by **behndy** » Mon Oct 10, 2011 2:50 pm

Murakami rokks.

i just went through all Rochard K. Morgans cyberpunk stuff again. always meant to read Confederacy Of Dunces, just started that.

CaptainWampum · Post by **CaptainWampum** » Mon Oct 10, 2011 2:52 pm

A Seperate Reality - Carlos Castaneda

The Quark and the Jaguar - Murray Gell-Mann

Dearly Devoted Dexter - Jeff Lindsay

Our Band Could Be Your Life - Michael Azerrad.

I like to read a bunch of books at once. :idk:

D.o.S. · Post by **D.o.S.** » Mon Oct 10, 2011 2:54 pm

Confederacy is ok.

I've always had a nagging feeling I should like it a whole lot more than I do.

I just got sent a copy of a literary magazine so I'm browsing through that right now. So far this dude Ace Boggess is really impressing me.

grindonomicon · Post by **grindonomicon** » Mon Oct 10, 2011 6:45 pm

behndy wrote:Murakami rokks.

i just went through all Rochard K. Morgans cyberpunk stuff again. always meant to read Confederacy Of Dunces, just started that.

I LUV me some Altered Carbon, I keep a copy in my vehicle, but wasn't wowed by the other two books in that 'series'. The Steel Remains was pretty kick ass S&S if you like the genre, Morgan writes it really well. Little too gay for me, but oh well, it's a book. :idk:

the_carl · Post by **the_carl** » Mon Oct 10, 2011 7:15 pm

I hate my liiiiiiife.

Last not-for-school thing I read was Anthony Kiedis' autobiography thingy that I picked up at an airport 'cause I had nothing else to do. It was surprisingly entertaining. Dude's crazy.

behndy · Post by **behndy** » Mon Oct 10, 2011 8:33 pm

grindonomicon wrote:
behndy wrote:Murakami rokks.

i just went through all Rochard K. Morgans cyberpunk stuff again. always meant to read Confederacy Of Dunces, just started that.

I LUV me some Altered Carbon, I keep a copy in my vehicle, but wasn't wowed by the other two books in that 'series'. The Steel Remains was pretty kick ass S&S if you like the genre, Morgan writes it really well. Little too gay for me, but oh well, it's a book.

lol. a LITTLE gay? i've read slash-fic that was almost cuddly in comparison. he always has a few extrememly explicit sex scenes, cool that he didn't shy away just cause it was doods.

yeah, Altered Carbo is by far the best of the trilogy. i just liked the character a lot. Market Forces was fun, not stellar. 13 is a better than average sci fi book but a lot of the character is taken from Kovacs. i liked the Steel Remains a lot, i hope the series stays strong.

reminds me of Stephenson. Snow Crash is one of my favorite EVAH books, but i didna love anything else he did until a Lady's Illustrated Primer.

jfrey · Post by **jfrey** » Tue Oct 11, 2011 12:45 am

Going back and forth between Freakonomics and various manga. Just started reading Blood Blockade Battlefront. The name turns me off a lot but I figured I'd give it a shot since I liked Trigun. So far though the plot seems kind of haphazard and the dialogue is kind of fragmented at times.

Gearmond · Post by **Gearmond** » Tue Oct 11, 2011 12:56 am

also the recently acquired Best American Comics 2011.

recently finished that i dont think i posted here: Impressions of Africa by Raymond Roussel, and Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

D.o.S. · Post by **D.o.S.** » Tue Oct 11, 2011 1:01 am

I think my favorite Murakami will always be his short story: The Kidney Shaped Stone That Moved Every Day.

It's almost too cutting for me to believe it's a translation.

fiddelerselbow · Post by **fiddelerselbow** » Tue Oct 11, 2011 5:36 am

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.

Bassus Sanguinis · Post by **Bassus Sanguinis** » Tue Oct 11, 2011 6:39 am

the new edition of J.V. Snellman collected works pt 2, part On the Academic Studies

DarkAxel · Post by **DarkAxel** » Tue Oct 11, 2011 7:06 am

and most recently...

The Unfinished Nation. A Concise History of the American People

by Alan Brinkley

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