I like it although some of the diologue seems a bit unconvincing.

You?

REDFEATHERS said:

How does it compare to the the 'Curious Incident...'?

JDINTERACTIVE said:

Completely different but very readable..

i needed something light after all the political stuff i've read lately. it's cute, but i doubt i'd want to read the whole series.

I like it. A very good read. Sadly enough I'm having a very high fever at the moment (first time in 10 years). I can't even read.
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just finished this one. i was kinda late to catch on to the hype lol.
but it's a wonderful wonderful book, written with such craft. superb.




and just started this one. first thing i read by him was "blindness",
which was very good indeed. then i read "the stone raft" which was an
awful lot better still and after that i was dumbstruck by some of the
poetic beauty in his "the gospel according to jesus christ". so this
is one of those author's whose new novel i just buy without even one
thought as to what the book is about. i know that i will cherish it a
long time to come for the individual sentences that will jump at me
and stay with me forever.

Eragon in English.

And this, which I will be reading for the better part of a year:

IstenSzek said:

Anyway, I'm reading Bruno Schulz's The Street of Crocodiles.



It is a novel. Or a memoir. Or some feverish delerium. Apparently Schulz composed these pieces as letters about his life, and was only later to publish them as a book.

It is about his life growing up in small town now in Ukraine (then part of Poland). And it is about his father; his father, who is at times a Demiurge, a shaggy-headed old testament prophet, who rules over his household not with power but with a charming psychosis; and who is at other times a silly old man who is often constipated and who disappears for days on end into the dark corners of their small apartment.

Schulz was shot by the Gestapo in like 1942.
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I love this lady's books. She is amazing at making history come alive.

i'm also reading dale peck's 'law of enclosures'....actually, RE-reading, though i didn't finish it the first time around, years ago.

it's an interesting way of telling a story - each chapter features different characters and different settings, but the main characters have the same name and the same relationship, and each chapter pushes one overall story along.

seeing 'inland empire' this weekend reminded me of this book...i see there is a movie of 'law of enclosures' now, but i don't want to think about that.

Anx said:

I love Hatchet Jobs!

2the9s said:

have you seen the christina ricci "prozac nation" film? MASTERPIECE.

jessica lange turns in a fantastic performance in that film as someone pretending to be faye dunaway in the second half of 'mommie dearest'. plus if i remember, christina shows a little bit of pink. SHEER ART

I am finishing up:



And I've already started, but will be moving on to next:

CarrieMpls said:

i really enjoyed this book.

Anx said:

It was recommended by Stax. I've never studied much philosophy, so I'm interested, but I admit I'm a bit skeptical too. There's a reason I haven't studied philosophy.

CarrieMpls said:

And what reason is that? You think it would be boring?

retina said:

To borrow a phrase from someone else, I think it's mostly pretentious hooey.
But maybe I'll be wrong.

CarrieMpls said:

i don't think it really crams anything specific down your throat, nor is the 'educational' stuff terribly overwhelming. one reason i loved this book was because it did give a great overview of the history of philosophy, but the 'tutorials' were a fun read. i think you'll enjoy it.

CarrieMpls said:

Some of it is for sure (just listen to novabrkr ) but a lot of it is very interesting and even useful. I studied "The history of ideas" at the university, which was a course that took you through the minds of the thinkers that had actually affected history with their ideas. I don't regret it for a second.

Boven Is Het Stil [It's Quiet Upstairs] by Gerbrand Bakker.

I normally stay away from Dutch 'literature', just cuz writing is OR pretentious OR it is really tacky. People who know the name Kluun or Reve know what I mean, except that Reve at least wrote ONE good book.

But this book, with it's beautiful sentences, beautiful descriptions and amazing repressed emotion has got me enthousiastic about a Dutch writer for the first time in ages.

Dutchies, please pick up this book cuz it is beautiful.

HamsterHuey said:

That's interesting, those are all Swedish words that mean "The crook ice hot style" in English. Pretty catchy title.

REDFEATHERS said:

I love Mark Haddon. I am definately going to pick that up.

John Grisham-The Broker.