been a while since we had one of these threads.

here's what i'm reading right now:



it's a bunch of short stories about the music industry. very funny - i'm wondering just how fictional some of it is.

on the back cover, tori amos calls it "brilliant! just brilliant!" but you should read it anyway.

I am re-reading a book that Istenszek recommended to me a while ago (2years?).

I don't know why, but it's a book that stayed with me and I picked it up again the other day.

Mark Danielewski's House of Leaves.

A real mind bender. Absolutely fascinating and brilliantly written.

Please, somebody else read this.

I'm "in between books."

I just finished all three of David Mitchell's novels... Cloud Atlas, Number9Dream and wtf ever the other one was called...

BLAH! I can't remember. And it was my favorite one, too. David Mitchell kicks ass.

I plan to start a book called "Aztec" next, I think. Though I mean to get back to my book by the GLick guy on Chaos Theory and I've got some more Mika Waltari coming to me on inter-library loan.

Mount Dragon by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child (authors of Relic, Reliquary, Brimstone. . .)

just finished Therapy by Jonathon Kellerman

?

Why are there 5 repsonses but 3 posts?

Cause I'm haunted....




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Divinely Decadent

FREAK

Autbiography of Mrs. Jane Pittman

sadly since i've been in school, i haven't read anything...how ironic

i'm gonna read this. haven't cracked it open yet.


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I'm very slowly ploughing throught Sting's autobiography. seems he got stuck with the name sting for wearing a stripy jumper to band practise.

100 Bullets #60

The Cat in the Hat

heybaby said:

Good book

2the9s said:

I am a late bloomer to Augusten Burrough's work. I read "Running with Scissors" in Amsterdam, then "Magical Thinking" as soon as I got back. A couple of days ago I finished "Dry." Wow. I want more of his memoirs stat!!!

Anyway... I have now started:

An Unquiet Mind : A Memoir of Moods and Madness by KAY REDFIELD JAMISON

The author is a professor of psychiatry who is manic-depressive. I'm reading it as research for a project. Having a hard time getting into it so far....

2the9s said:

Sorry 9s - and Isten - but I read maybe 30 pages of this and had to put it down. And I'll have to politely disagree with you, 9s, because I found it to be exceptionally poorly written (how's that for a kicker!!) The premise sounded cool and everyone raved about it but I was disappointed. Does it eventually get better? Should I give it another try? Because right now I'm all Then again you do love Wyndham Lewis so maybe I shouldn't trust your taste.



I'm in the middle of reading a lot of books but the two that spring to mind are I'm a Stranger Here Myself by Bill Bryson and Fake House by Linh Dinh. Bryson's book is interesting, content wise, but also poorly written - he's a journalist and it's a collection of articles so maybe that's why I'm not too impressed. But OHMYGOD I am masturbating myself over Dinh's book. He's my absolute new favorite author. His other book, Blood & Soap, is equally as brilliant. I highly recommend him.

Natsume said:

given that it's meant to be "written" by several authors, each of whom have
their own style of writing and their own way of telling the story and put a
footnote etc, I think it was very well written.

sure, I know that in the scheme of world literature, after reading Brontë
Austen, Dickens, Conrad, Nabokov, Dostoyevski, Gogol and others, this is
primarily a book of it's time, writen with language and pictures (!) of the
time we live in right now.

but you have to realise that it's not meant to be just a book, it's meant
as a movie, but not exactly, and as a journal, but not in the strict sense
of the word. as an observation on madness and psychic phenomena, but not in
any way you could categorise. it's a descent into the absurd, and a log of
what happens, kept by many different voices and appearances.

oh fuck, it's got me hooked again as well. just ordered a new english
version of it online.

magnificentpentatonic said:

MrTee said:

have you run out of Mr Tee pictures?

Pure, unadulterated summer crap:

RipHer2Shreds said:

sometimes summercrap fucking rocks

IstenSzek said:

And next year this will be summer movie crap

Natsume said:

Pick it up again, Ass!

madartista said:

ooh, i have to pick up "magical thinking" - i devoured his other books. did you like it?

I am still reading the Da Vinci Code!!
its been a month now, i'm only at Chapter 31
(must stop reading here at the porg )

I'm reading Wicked by Gregory Maguire. Very entertaining and quite a good read too.

kisscamille said:

good book - a very addictive read. i recommend maguire's other books too, especially if you like fairy tales.

Anxiety said:

To be honest, I'm not a fairy tale kind of gal, but this book was recommended by a friend and because I also love the Wizard of Oz, I decided to read it. I'm really enjoying it so far. His other books look good too, so I may give them a read. Thanks!